Is TS4 Cats & Dogs worth it?
I just wanted to know whether it's worth buying- what can you do with the pets, is it worth it?
Forum Discussion
I voted No for the very obvious reason that is the expansion, if you can even call it that, is drastically unfinished.
From just opening the game and having it running for twenty minutes, you can figure out this is not worthy of being called an expansion as it lacks a variety of features, gameplay and such. You can just call it a gamepack as it introduces a new element to the sims lives however it does not really affect or change anything as pets did in the sims 2 and 3.
For me, these are dumbed down, glorified NPC’s without the ability to make them playable as you can regular humanoid townies.
I purchased this game on the over commercialization, gifs and videos of pets being portrayed as more than animated clutter, which they are with all due respect. I do enjoy the company, instead of it being my sim alone in their house or bothered by other sims, they can wander around their apartment as they please and still have some presence of low maintenance company.
If I may say this and plenty of people will sigh at the mere mention, but this feels like what we should have received in terms of interaction with baby sims, by that I mean being able to pick them up and walk around and do more than feed them, give them a quick cuddle and then put said baby back into the crib where it stays an object until toddlerhood. It feels like that, however instead of realising a patch freeing them from the confines of a cheap bassinet (that is the correct word, right?), EA have decided to apply this feature to a completely different creature and make us pay for it, rather than do the obvious.
Yes it sounds off topic but just consider the fact you cannot control pets, all you can do with them is interact and carry them around, speak to them, train them, instruct this and that, it clearly isn’t enough gameplay for an animal and feels very out of place.
This is why I bring up baby sims because again it seems like rather than simply throwing these features in a patch, EA have said to each other about constructing an expansion with these said abilities and gone backwards instead of forwards.
Next to that, the lack of dog content, I’ve only played for a few hours and already it feels more like CATS than cats and dogs, there is more for your cat than there is for your dog and that is infuriating as a dog person because I want equal items and feature gameplay for both animal species, instead of one being the main priority whilst the other sits and rots.
With clothes and hair and the color wheel, it’s evident a lot of attention has been placed on these things, for the first time I can say I am happy with the collection of wearables and hair styles instead of quietly seethe from the lack of variety, however that is where I believe a lot of the developers time and effort went instead of being placed into the actual main feature. I know, many of us are as excited for new fashion as we are for new gameplay and creatures, but when it’s shown they put more time into a shirt than the animation and interactions of a dog, then I take issue.
Don’t get me wrong, the styles and such are fabulous, I cannot find fault with any of the clothes this expansion, however the fact my animals are basically walking items does grind my plumbob.
Moving into the vet career.
Today I had to run my cat Mayor Whiskers to the vet to deal with his epic case of dry mouth, the one vet up and left the moment I entered my cat into the computer and then a dialogue bar appeared saying they were asleep, leaving myself and Angry neighbors to head home. I had to squeeze all of the medical machines into my tiny apartment and preform surgery myself because the vet option was utterly useless. It made the overall experience of the game unpleasant and I’m already regretting spending the 30 pounds on a pack that was advertised to be exciting and new, for once I believed sims 4 was on track and again I was disappointed.
These are all reasons I vote no on the expansion, or overpriced gamepack.
If this expansion is to be redeemed it’s going to take many large patches repairing features as well as adding them, even then it will take time and real effort to repair the damage the lackluster result has caused.
I will always be a fan of the sims but as for this generation, it’s gone downhill at a rapid pace.
From just opening the game and having it running for twenty minutes, you can figure out this is not worthy of being called an expansion as it lacks a variety of features, gameplay and such. You can just call it a gamepack as it introduces a new element to the sims lives however it does not really affect or change anything as pets did in the sims 2 and 3.
For me, these are dumbed down, glorified NPC’s without the ability to make them playable as you can regular humanoid townies.
I purchased this game on the over commercialization, gifs and videos of pets being portrayed as more than animated clutter, which they are with all due respect. I do enjoy the company, instead of it being my sim alone in their house or bothered by other sims, they can wander around their apartment as they please and still have some presence of low maintenance company.
If I may say this and plenty of people will sigh at the mere mention, but this feels like what we should have received in terms of interaction with baby sims, by that I mean being able to pick them up and walk around and do more than feed them, give them a quick cuddle and then put said baby back into the crib where it stays an object until toddlerhood. It feels like that, however instead of realising a patch freeing them from the confines of a cheap bassinet (that is the correct word, right?), EA have decided to apply this feature to a completely different creature and make us pay for it, rather than do the obvious.
Yes it sounds off topic but just consider the fact you cannot control pets, all you can do with them is interact and carry them around, speak to them, train them, instruct this and that, it clearly isn’t enough gameplay for an animal and feels very out of place.
This is why I bring up baby sims because again it seems like rather than simply throwing these features in a patch, EA have said to each other about constructing an expansion with these said abilities and gone backwards instead of forwards.
Next to that, the lack of dog content, I’ve only played for a few hours and already it feels more like CATS than cats and dogs, there is more for your cat than there is for your dog and that is infuriating as a dog person because I want equal items and feature gameplay for both animal species, instead of one being the main priority whilst the other sits and rots.
With clothes and hair and the color wheel, it’s evident a lot of attention has been placed on these things, for the first time I can say I am happy with the collection of wearables and hair styles instead of quietly seethe from the lack of variety, however that is where I believe a lot of the developers time and effort went instead of being placed into the actual main feature. I know, many of us are as excited for new fashion as we are for new gameplay and creatures, but when it’s shown they put more time into a shirt than the animation and interactions of a dog, then I take issue.
Don’t get me wrong, the styles and such are fabulous, I cannot find fault with any of the clothes this expansion, however the fact my animals are basically walking items does grind my plumbob.
Moving into the vet career.
Today I had to run my cat Mayor Whiskers to the vet to deal with his epic case of dry mouth, the one vet up and left the moment I entered my cat into the computer and then a dialogue bar appeared saying they were asleep, leaving myself and Angry neighbors to head home. I had to squeeze all of the medical machines into my tiny apartment and preform surgery myself because the vet option was utterly useless. It made the overall experience of the game unpleasant and I’m already regretting spending the 30 pounds on a pack that was advertised to be exciting and new, for once I believed sims 4 was on track and again I was disappointed.
These are all reasons I vote no on the expansion, or overpriced gamepack.
If this expansion is to be redeemed it’s going to take many large patches repairing features as well as adding them, even then it will take time and real effort to repair the damage the lackluster result has caused.
I will always be a fan of the sims but as for this generation, it’s gone downhill at a rapid pace.
