I just want open neighborhoods so badly. I think that would make the game so much more fun and feel so alive since I could visit neighbors quickly or go to the park and get ice cream or to the local cafe and bookstore and read. I could send a single sim in my household to each of those places and still be able to control all of them and tell stories in a more dynamic way. I want my kids biking around the neighborhood collecting rocks and cards while my teen sims skate around for fun.I've started playing mostly in San Myshuno because the festivals and neighbors walking around make me feel less trapped than the other worlds, but even then it's not realistic, I can't visit my neighbors and I can't set up the festivals. It's not enough.Why oh, why is ts4 like this. Like, Ts2 was closed lot, too, and no one liked the loading screens so they took them away and gave us an open world in 3, but then that introduced a lot of lag, so why on earth didn't they just compromise in those two aspects and give us the best of both worlds???? Small neighborhoods with ~5-7 lots that were fully open. It'd be less to load than in ts3, while not feeling trapped like in ts2.No. This game just doesn't progress on it's predecessors. And it makes me SO SAD because I've invested so much money and time and I LOVE my sims, but I can't enjoy the game fully because of the way it's been designed.I know that we've been told that open neighborhoods are not on the table since they'd require a rework of the way lots work, but I think it would BE WORTH IT BECAUSE A BETTER GAME WOULD SELL BETTER. I am just disappointed.

I know people have said not to hope for it, but I really hope there will be a Sims 5 and they will bring back open world. I don't think it could happen on TS4, but maybe they'll take the best from TS3 and TS4 and make TS5. Keeping my fingers crossed but not holding my breath.

Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.

"marsh;c-16787843" wrote:Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.Exactly. These are the "big 3" disappointments for me and the reason I am not playing Sims 4. I wanted to move on from Sims 3 but Sims 4 went backward, way too far backward. I was quite happy in Sims 2, where I could edit the town and make my own malls and trailer parks and things like that. It may not have had an open world or create-a-style but it had more than 4 does. Then Sims 3 came along with what I was missing in Sims 2. I expected that to continue on with 4. I expected improvements on what we had in 3. I didn't get that.

I'm hoping for more openness in sims5, maybe open sections. But what I don't want is error 12. This would happen when it got too full and was more than the game could take. At least that is what it seemed to me. I do like I don't get that with sims4.

"nickibitsward;c-16787846" wrote:"marsh;c-16787843" wrote:Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.Exactly. These are the "big 3" disappointments for me and the reason I am not playing Sims 4. I wanted to move on from Sims 3 but Sims 4 went backward, way too far backward. I was quite happy in Sims 2, where I could edit the town and make my own malls and trailer parks and things like that. It may not have had an open world or create-a-style but it had more than 4 does. Then Sims 3 came along with what I was missing in Sims 2. I expected that to continue on with 4. I expected improvements on what we had in 3. I didn't get that.Yep. And they're exactly why I'm having such a hard time getting into sims 4. No matter what I do, I always end up going back to 3 (and 2 when I'm in the mood for it) It's frustrating. I feel like I'm one of the only people who can't get into it. The only upside is that it's easier for me to create custom content than it was in 3. Honestly I could do without the open world if they would just bring back neighorhood editing. It gave me much better control of my game. And there are such pretty lots available for downloading, too, but it's a pain to place them. You only get a few empty lots in the neighborhoods and as far as I know, you can't put new empty lots down.

I want open neighborhoods so badly

MissBlackwood
6 years ago
I know people have said not to hope for it, but I really hope there will be a Sims 5 and they will bring back open world. I don't think it could happen on TS4, but maybe they'll take the best from TS3 and TS4 and make TS5. Keeping my fingers crossed but not holding my breath.
MarshJV
6 years ago
Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.
LiniSim
6 years ago
"marsh;c-16787843" wrote:
Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.

Exactly. These are the "big 3" disappointments for me and the reason I am not playing Sims 4. I wanted to move on from Sims 3 but Sims 4 went backward, way too far backward. I was quite happy in Sims 2, where I could edit the town and make my own malls and trailer parks and things like that. It may not have had an open world or create-a-style but it had more than 4 does. Then Sims 3 came along with what I was missing in Sims 2. I expected that to continue on with 4. I expected improvements on what we had in 3. I didn't get that.
catitude5
6 years ago
I'm hoping for more openness in sims5, maybe open sections. But what I don't want is error 12. This would happen when it got too full and was more than the game could take. At least that is what it seemed to me. I do like I don't get that with sims4.
MarshJV
6 years ago
"nickibitsward;c-16787846" wrote:
"marsh;c-16787843" wrote:
Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.

Exactly. These are the "big 3" disappointments for me and the reason I am not playing Sims 4. I wanted to move on from Sims 3 but Sims 4 went backward, way too far backward. I was quite happy in Sims 2, where I could edit the town and make my own malls and trailer parks and things like that. It may not have had an open world or create-a-style but it had more than 4 does. Then Sims 3 came along with what I was missing in Sims 2. I expected that to continue on with 4. I expected improvements on what we had in 3. I didn't get that.

Yep.

And they're exactly why I'm having such a hard time getting into sims 4. No matter what I do, I always end up going back to 3 (and 2 when I'm in the mood for it) It's frustrating. I feel like I'm one of the only people who can't get into it. The only upside is that it's easier for me to create custom content than it was in 3.

Honestly I could do without the open world if they would just bring back neighorhood editing. It gave me much better control of my game. And there are such pretty lots available for downloading, too, but it's a pain to place them. You only get a few empty lots in the neighborhoods and as far as I know, you can't put new empty lots down.
DreamaDove
6 years ago
"marsh;c-16788006" wrote:
"nickibitsward;c-16787846" wrote:
"marsh;c-16787843" wrote:
Open world and neighborhood editing and create-a-style are what I miss most about the sims 3. I'm not sure why they got rid of open world but EA would definitely get my money if they brought it back.

Exactly. These are the "big 3" disappointments for me and the reason I am not playing Sims 4. I wanted to move on from Sims 3 but Sims 4 went backward, way too far backward. I was quite happy in Sims 2, where I could edit the town and make my own malls and trailer parks and things like that. It may not have had an open world or create-a-style but it had more than 4 does. Then Sims 3 came along with what I was missing in Sims 2. I expected that to continue on with 4. I expected improvements on what we had in 3. I didn't get that.

Yep.

And they're exactly why I'm having such a hard time getting into sims 4. No matter what I do, I always end up going back to 3 (and 2 when I'm in the mood for it) It's frustrating. I feel like I'm one of the only people who can't get into it. The only upside is that it's easier for me to create custom content than it was in 3.

Honestly I could do without the open world if they would just bring back neighorhood editing. It gave me much better control of my game. And there are such pretty lots available for downloading, too, but it's a pain to place them. You only get a few empty lots in the neighborhoods and as far as I know, you can't put new empty lots down.

Right, I don't want open worlds, I just want open neighborhoods. I bare minimum I want to be able to visit other lots without loading screens. And yeah, it sucks how limited you are when placing builds down because there's few large lots. And it annoys me because there's many lots that have a lot of room AROUND the editable portion of the lot, but they chose to place a small there?? Like in Forgotten Hollow there's tons of empty space around the 4 sole lots (aside from the one on the hill) and I wish WISH I could build more there since it's my favorite world.

ideally I'd like to also be able to create neighborhoods, edit neighborhoods, place lots downs, adjust lot sizes.
MarshJV
6 years ago
"DreamaDove;c-16788049" wrote:

Right, I don't want open worlds, I just want open neighborhoods. I bare minimum I want to be able to visit other lots without loading screens. And yeah, it plum how limited you are when placing builds down because there's few large lots. And it annoys me because there's many lots that have a lot of room AROUND the editable portion of the lot, but they chose to place a small there?? Like in Forgotten Hollow there's tons of empty space around the 4 sole lots (aside from the one on the hill) and I wish WISH I could build more there since it's my favorite world.

ideally I'd like to also be able to create neighborhoods, edit neighborhoods, place lots downs, adjust lot sizes.

YES. Forgotten Hollow is my favorite as well. I'd put all my sims there if I could. In ts2 and ts3 the neighborhoods were huge and you could fit a ton of sims in them. With ts4 you're limited. I miss the ability to make neighborhoos like in ts2, too. Though that might be hard with an open world. Modders were able to create custom neighborhoods in ts3 though. It was just more difficult and there was no in-game way to do it like in ts2.

Creating neighborhoods/placing lots is more important to me than open-world though I think. But both would be amazing.

Ideally I'd like to see a sims game that's a combination of ts2 and ts3.
MarshJV
6 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-16788069" wrote:
Every chance they get they remind us that they do not plan on making The Sims 4 open world. So at this point, you can desire it all you like but it is never coming.

If that’s what you want, you can either play The Sims 3 or hold out hope that it’s on their list for when they make The Sims 5.

Oh I know. It would be impossible to implement at this point anyway. I don't expect them to add it. (I can still hope for werewolves though!) I meant in a future game, open world id something I'd like to see return. Sorry I didn't make that clear ^^;
DreamaDove
6 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-16788069" wrote:
Every chance they get they remind us that they do not plan on making The Sims 4 open world. So at this point, you can desire it all you like but it is never coming.

If that’s what you want, you can either play The Sims 3 or hold out hope that it’s on their list for when they make The Sims 5.

well, that's why I made this thread. It's feedback. I want to remind them that that's something that's important to me and I want back. Hopefully in ts4, but definitely in ts5.
DreamaDove
6 years ago
And hey, we all thought terrain tools were out of the question for ts4, no?