"Loanet;c-17869206" wrote:
First of all, you've got to ask, what parts of Generations aren't already in Sims 4. We got Toddlers and Parenthood, and Discover University. We will probably get a pack dedicated to babies when babies are unlocked.
We have a lot of the stuff from Generations, but it's spread out over multiple packs.
No, it's not, there is a lot missing that made TS3 Generations great, e.g. more playground equipment (we have less than in TS2 and TS3 and I really miss the mary-go-round, the seesaw, slides and those little thingies for toddlers), teaching your teenager how to drive, slumber parties, canes for elders, school dances, prom night, graduation ceremony, bachelor/bachelorette parties, boarding school, more after school acitivites (we only have like 2 so far!), costume chest, strollers, tree houses (I loved those so much), midlife crisis, field trips, spiral stairs (yes, they came with TS3 Generations), a daycare profession and also body hair came with TS3 Generations!
We are far away from having all of these features "spread out over multiple packs". The only things we have that came with TS3 Generations: slip'n'slides, bunk beds (which came in an update only recently), wedding arches & cakes, dating, the entertainer for parties and woohooing in the shower.
So there really isn't a lot. Also I would really like to see the best babies TS series ever had for TS4. I love the toddlers they made, I think they can do even better with making babies similar to TS Freeplay.
And let's not forget we miss group activities for our Sims and that lots of great activities we got in TS4 are tied to one world or are only be done with 2 Sims only (not more). We miss real soccer matches for it being an activity for more than 2 Sims, hiking in every world, swimming in open waters in every world, skiing/sledding on slopes and hills in every world, board games for more than 4 sims that are dragable and not tied to a table.
Then we also miss
- a beach ball / volley ball net
- the pool table
- a trampoline
- a ballet bar (I could even pretend ballet classes if they gave us an interaction to teach ballet)
- an activity table for toddlers where they can play and interact with each other (I would love two options: one for drawing and one for building blocks)
- balls Sims can just throw to each other like they could in TS3
- games like marco polo Sims can play in the pool
- we miss specific interactions for kids and teens in the pool (play together like kids and teens would play and tease each other)
- we miss an attraction system (which is romantic, but romantic relationships are the root for all family gameplay so we need more romantic gameplay!)
- and wants & fears (I hope the latter come with growing pains we read about in one of the surveys)
- I also would like a "daycare career" for toddlers (comparable to the one KawaiiStacie made, unfortunately she's very slow updating it out of personal reasons, so you can't use it all the time)
- and more instruments (I always loved to play music families like The Kelly Family and have my family make music together)
- I also would like instruments for toddlers even though we never really had those.
- hopscotches
I hope toddlers are not excluded when we get a music pack at some point. We also miss singing around the campfire - why can't you use the guitar sitting in front of the campfire anymore? I miss it. :(
I also really miss the hobby system we got in TS2. I know some people found it annoying, but I think it's fun and there should be an option to toggle it off.
If we get most of these things and perhaps even preteens, then I'm as happy as I can be and will stop complaining about TS4 missing family gameplay because there will be nothing to complain about anymore. This could be a really great game for family gameplay. But it isn't so far.
