How do you feel, about this iteration of our beloved Sims?

I agree 10000%. I miss sleepovers but I also miss the random vacation parent sims would get which would allow teen sims to throw a "teen party." I miss the way parties went in the sims 3. I miss the roommate system sims 2 and 3 offered. I miss the way families actually meant something and that they weren't just strangers who shared a house (for example, step-parents had a title, grandmothers, great-grandparents, brother/sister-in-laws, etc).

I mean, even a few of the items. I miss cars, lounge chairs, relaxing on a bed with a loved one, bunk beds, picnics, swing sets, taking a class to learn a skill, the memory system, rocking chairs, slow dancing with a loved one, among many other things. (Man, talking about it makes me miss Sims 3 a whole lot).

The little things definitely matter and the Sims 4 missed the ball with this. I love the new content they put out, don't get me wrong. I'm glad they've been becoming more inclusive, but game-play wise, it's just lacking.

I think what I'm really frustrated by is that while I like Sims 4, it's very apparent that they took all the good from Sims 2 and built on that with Sims 3. They didn't do that with Sims 4 imo.

There's already a trending thread about this exact thing though.

I just brush it off and work around it. I did just turn my game off because I got annoyed with how my sim went to her daughter's house to meet her new grandson and cook dinner for the new parents when her daughter walked up to her and I got that negative red mark with the pop up its inappropriate behavior to do this.
Really? She can't go to her daughter's house and cook for her... OOOk.... moving on

"EnjoyfulSimmer;c-17107155" wrote:
There's already a trending thread about this exact thing though.

Okay, you can go enjoy that thread then? You don’t have to be here.

I love it, just about as much as I love Sims 2. I don't think it lacks depth at all, but I've barely scratched the surface so far. Don't really miss anything from Sims 2, besides maybe being able to create my own town/world. Of course, different playstyles are going to enjoy different things.

I have no issues or limitations.
The only thing I have a small problem with is my pets are always scared. Makes me feel like I'm not fulfilling their needs when really I am. It's just a glitch I hear.
I have never had the need for a sleepover so. Would be fun though. I remember in previous games I basically had a homeless sim with lots of friends and they'd stay over at friends' houses to sleep in a bed :D

The «always welcome» trait is the first one my sims get. Makes it so much easier to visit and sleepover :smile: I love this game a lot and feel like I can be really creatove though..

I love it. I really don't understand the issue people have with it when they say it lacks depth. I've played all the previous iterations and I can't think of many things that felt that different. I don't spend my time in build mode or cas though so maybe that's where it's lacking for others?

I miss the Sims 2 memory system and personalities could really be improved on but that's pretty much the only things I think is wrong with the Sims 4 currently. I'm still enjoying the game a lot despite these two things.

Oh I do love the attention to detail, don't believe The Sims 4 has not a lot of it but they did a few like seeing a male sim's urine into the toilet but The Sims 2 certainly did a lot with the weed growing in your backyard and their hair animates a little and the sims' personality was different, it was easy to make friends with some and some are difficult to make friends based on personality

@Kerem93 - I totally understand where you're coming from. I think for me, it's hard to pinpoint exactly where the game is lacking. But I will try to describe what I mean: TS4 everything is 'happy, happy' all the time. There's no real challenge in making friends, or even falling in love. In TS2, it was not easy to make friends and you couldn't just walk up to someone and have a romantic conversation if they weren't attracted to you. I miss random things happening, like in TS3, I recall a meteor falling out the sky and killing my Sim's child. I was literally shook, as it was totally unexpected. This type of stuff doesn't happen in TS4....again, it's so 'happy, happy' all the time. & then there's the emotions. TS4's selling point was emotions when it first was released. TS2 Sims had way more emotion than TS4 Sims do. If my Sims are angry, I want them to stay angry....not be angry for 2 seconds and then flip back to happy because of some moodlet. If my Sim's spouse cheated, I don't want them to be able to hug right in that moment. If someone died, I want them to be sad and stay sad for a bit (if it was someone they had a relationship with). If two Sims fight, I want them to be mad, not just hug it out 2 seconds later.

The stuff I mentioned above is what I mean when I say that this game lacks 'depth'. I enjoy TS4....I play it, sometimes I find myself getting lost in my gameplay. I do like how the Sims look, and the graphics and how the game runs on my machine. But I do not play this game without mods. I play a heavily modded game in order for me to enjoy it. TS2 & TS3 I didn't ever need mods. But I think what's challenging is that with each iteration, I think the Devs will have more of a challenge to come up with new content + old. It's finding that balance as players want both. It was probably easier going from The Sims 1 to The Sims 2, as you only had 1 version to compare to, so TS2 was a major improvement. But I think as time goes on and you have all this content to compare/contrast to, it's always going to be this major challenge to make the next iteration bigger and better......where the benefits outweigh what doesn't carry over from the previous version. I think that's where TS4 missed....there were no major benefits in the base game to outweigh everything that didn't carry over from TS3, so it just felt like this huge hole where things are missing. I think has gotten better since it was first released, but IMO, this is why I feel the game is lacking.