How Do You Have Fun in The Sims 4?

I'm a storyteller player I've been one so long that not just the sims but games become more fun with something to focus on I treat the sims like characters and either I make more of moodlets or I don't. It depends on the character. Then again it's fun to just play with nonsense and have sims pop out kids though either way, it's fun to share what I've done sometimes you just have to try out different things and see what works. Can't say much on challenges those are sometimes more fun to just watch for me while several others prefer them.

I try to vary my game play -- sometimes I'll do a single Sim, sometimes I start with a couple. One of my favorites is to take a single teen, move them into an apartment then see if they can get through school before they run out of the starting 20K; they'll pick up extra money scouring for collectibles and such (sometimes I'll start them out with the Curator aspiration). I also tend to have multiple played households in my save; if I get bored with one I'll go play another for a bit. Main save I have the current generation of the O'Dourke household, then I have a son who is living with his wife and dog in Windenburg and working on his music career, and a daughter in Willow Creek who married an alien and they're raising their first child.

For me rotational play is the way to go. I've tried some challenges, but usually don't get far because most of them involve playing the same sims/household. What makes you bored with your sims? For me I don't like if their house becomes too nice and there's not enough room for improvements and I don't like if they get too much skills or reach top of their career. I play without cheats on normal lifespan to make sure they never reach perfection. If a family bores me I will play their neighbour or someone in completely different world. Eventually it will feel nice returning to the family I was bored with. My rotational save is huge though and the process is very slow. I've been playing for years and the longest chain of generations is four. If you want the genrations to go by quicker it would be good to have a well manageable amount of households to play with.

For the first 4 years of Sims 4, I had a very clearly spoken love/hate relationship (more hate than love). Toddlers helped, pets, helped, seasons helped. Each one individually probably wouldn't have been enough, but all three together make this game easily competing as a plum good game.

I no longer have a love/hate relationship with it. I just love it.

I love building (even though I'm not very good at it), I love decorating (again, not that good at it), and I love playing. I play challenges. But I've recently gotten into Rotational, and I'll easily say it's my favorite way to play. When you have 8 families, that all know and hang out with one another and come over for holidays and birthday's and party's. It's just amazing. If you've never played rotational, create about 3 families, move them in the same neighborhood, and play each family only one week each rotation. Have them all meet.

I'm currently on House 008 of the drifter challenge with a fellow friend and simmer, but when me and her are not playing, I'm playing a breed out the ugly that will be a rotation (I'll follow all the kids and grandkids and so on).

My play style has been the same for the last three versions. I don't rotate but play one main family through several generations but always concentrate on the original couple. The kids grow up, move out, start their own families. Everyone stays in touch, gets together regularly with family members for outings, vacations, etc. My original couple usually completes all the careers, aspirations, etc. Time and aging make no sense in my game because some of the kids are as old as their adult parents.

Wow, you all have very different play styles than I do! I awesomed every reply. I think maybe I just have to be more lenient and let go of the rules I have set up for myself.

Rotational play, storytelling, and varying the households I play helps. I like to have a Google Docs file where I write down what's happening in the save. Sometimes the sims dictate where the story goes. Sometimes the story dictates what the sims do. I also enjoy playing premades.

If I'm not playing rotational play I use short life span options only. (for rotational I use normal life span so that I don't completely miss their lives while I'm away in another house) It makes everything more urgent and a lot less, "Watch them sleep, pee, eat, work, repeat" Also, I do a lot lot LOT of challenges. They've (challenges that is) caused me to find things in the game that I've never thought to try before to be quite entertaining like the collector aspiration which I wouldn't have attempted at all without a legacy or another challenge that causes you to try different things. I also make up back stories, and create life stories for my families. I don't tend to 'invent' story stuff for the life stories because I feel like if they wouldn't do it in game they probably wouldn't do it at all or like I'm doing something against their will which is probably an odd outlook but its how I feel.

I have the same problem as you sometimes. Sometimes it can be really hard to get into the second or third generation without getting bored. Something that I think helps me, is that if I start getting bored of a certain family, I go into CAS and create a whole new save and play them for a while. After playing them for a while, I tend to go back to my old save because I either got inspiration or I missed the old family.

Sometimes I just keep them making nooboos until I get one that's either interesting or not annoying :) There is a save on my computer where the 1st generation's children live in many many other sims households. It almost got to the point where I had to start culling them so that there were non-related sims to marry my family >:)