How needed are mods for TS4 compared to other sims 4 games?/Your Favorite Mods (2019)

Well I personally have used mods/cc for every single game and I wouldn't play without them. I guess that could mean I need them but I like to think of them as enhancements and modifications to further my enjoyment of the game.

I do however think Sims 4 takes the cake for "stop doing that annoying thing" mods or "fix this bug" mods.

That really quite heavily depends on what you're looking to get out of the game. If we're talking performance-wise I don't think the game is quite to the point where it's literally unplayable without mods. We're getting there though : )

I wouldn't even try to play TS2 without mods, for example, given all the many different ways the game gets corrupted

It really depends on your play style. I don't use mods because, no matter how easy or interesting they make the game at first, I always run into issues with them. Unless you really want to cheat things into the game that can't be achieved without mods, I think it is definitely reasonable to live without them. The bugs that are present usually aren't so bad that the game is unplayable without a fix. Obviously, what works for you is always best, but I personally find them to get overwhelming.

I've been using mods and CC on every sim iteration I played since sims 1

"Trashmagic;c-17075913" wrote:
Well I personally have used mods/cc for every single game and I wouldn't play without them. I guess that could mean I need them but I like to think of them as enhancements and modifications to further my enjoyment of the game.

I do however think Sims 4 takes the cake for "stop doing that annoying thing" mods or "fix this bug" mods.

Bolded for emphasis because, truuue. "No more hissing vampires in CAS" mod, "no 'that's inappropriate'" mod, "reduced townie generating" mod, "disabled event outfits" mod "removed 'nicely decorated' moodlet" mod. There is no end to the list of Sims 4 things that are annoying enough to inspire new mods to fix them.

Because there are so many things lacking and bugs left unfixed for so long, and some mods can eliminate most of the problems, currently there is annoying bug that sim get debuff from the trait he/she doesnt own and littlemssam has the mod that fixed it. So I would say it is highly needed in sims 4 to install for those who have the problems and are not opposed to the mod.

I hadn't used mods until Sims 3, and some Sims 4 mods I feel are vital, but vital for my gameplay, not necessarily for the game.

I do have an entire folder in my mods folder titled "BugFix", so those I feel are required.

I do play vanilla after a patch, and I'm always more than ready to go back to my nodded folder (which usually consists of more mods than I started with cause I find all kinds of new ones I want when I'm updating).

For me, mods are necessary.

In Sims 2 I had 2 mods (no mosaic and no friends needed for career). In Sims 4 I get along pretty well without mods.
For me mods are not necessary.

I have MCCC for housekeeping, and as a bonus I learned it lets pregnant sims age, which prevents the issue where the age gap between two parents widens

Also, I love the meaningful stories mod. Roburky, its creator, advertised it on reddit and I decided to try it out. It stabilizes your sim's emotions and makes their emotions more meaningful. This is how emotions should've been done

I've used lots of mods and an incredible amount of cc in 1, 2 and 3. I've played 4 vanilla for about 5 years. Last month Ive decided to try some mods for 4. I've installed 7 mods, one of them being Mccc. I've had bugs during this time more than I had for the entire 5 years of the game. I've ended uninstalling them one by one and only kept Mccc, that actually seems to make my game flow much better. I use this mod for a lot of things, like setting the percentage of children, teens, adults and elders that are generated (always thought that there were too many elders and few children and teens), for story progression (seeing all npcs actually having a life, having kids, getting married, breaking up, filling the houses in all neighborhoods...)... By now I think I could play vanilla again (did it before, had fun and never had big issues) but it wouldn't be the same...