It's official- No snow depth

"Sk8rblaze;c-16503191" wrote:

"Zeldaboy180;c-16503176" wrote:

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"Zeldaboy180;c-16503128" wrote:

"06Bon06;c-16503097" wrote:

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"aws200;c-16502606" wrote:
Wow what a TERRIBLE 'expansion' pack so far. lol

Spoiler

-No Festivals
-No sun burns
-No tanning
-No tanning booths
-No snow depth
-No life state
-No diving board
-No swimming in bodies of water
-No pool floats
-No ability to choose what seasons you want
-No ability to disable certain types of weather
-No kissing booth
-No haunted house
-No eating contest
-No soccer net
-No picnic basket
-No ice staking on frozen bodies of water
-You're the only one who can throw parties still so so much for relatives and friends inviting your Sims over for the holidays
-The weather is just a screen effect and not 3D like Sims 3 had and is like Sims 2 fake weather
-Snow mounds are just for pointless collectibles (lame!)
-Snow is a plain white texture and not real snow (Sims 3 did it better)
-Pets don't get anything to wear for the weather (it doesn't affect them)
-Leaves don't decay or fall off the trees its all fake effects to fool you into thinking its Fall

Man Sims 4 continues to be a failure and makes even Sims 2 look good. lol
Go buy Sims 2 and Sims 2 Seasons, thank me later. Much better experience and that game is over 10 years old!

When they added pet clothes on a stuff pack people complain about DLC for DLC, now after you are complaining that pets don't get anything from the weather?

Also each sims game and expansion packs are supposed to be different. If Seasons in Sims 3 was about going out and exploring with your friends to different seasonal festivals then Sims 4 is different, it emphasizes about holidays, and gardening. I would rather have new things than rehash of the past experiences.

But the sims 4 seasons is a rehash of past experiences. Everything we have seen except the thermostat and the kiddy pool was in the sims 2 or 3. Ice skating, snow angels, building snow men, snowball fights, being struck by lightning, gardening, holidays have all been done before which is fine as it wouldn't be winter without the above activities as an example. But the more I read, it appears we lose things more than we gain.

This is how I feel. I don't see that what has been given up, snow and a new world is worth what we got. I was happy to give up an new world in sims 3 because we got nearly 20 activities and that doesn't include the holidays, parties and all that. We got amazing seasons with that and aliens that I prefer to the annoying gtw ones. Sims 4 leaves me feeling we keep losing stuff to gain little.

Are we REALLY forgetting the fact that the community was rioting on the forums because they said greenhouses weren't in sims 3 but in a separate store bundle released around the same time?

That was quite annoying too, and really shows TS4's tactics were a build up of many years of similar strategies.

Miss the days of The Sims 2 where we would get original content in a pack that was just amazing and totally worth the price. Think about it -- seasons was a franchise first concept, and now it, like nearly every other pack TS2 provides, is used as a benchmark of measuring content.

There's a common belief that fans just spend too much time comparing the newer Sims packs to the old, and get themselves disappointed when things aren't there, but I feel it's more so whatever they compensate those lacking features for does not hit the mark. Number one thing on my mind right now is retail features, which were shoehorned in a career pack, and were severely limited. Their excuse was the focus was on the 3 careers, which I felt to be the most restrictive, hand-holding, anti-player experience the franchise has ever given us.

Retail was pretty pathetic. It blew sims 3's retail out of the water for sure, but Sims 2 still stands on top.

I definitely agree with you. I was upset about the lack of greenhouses since I loved gardening in sims 2, but I was okay with it over all since the Seasons were beautifully well done. Gradual rain, fog on the windows etc. It was very immersive.

Deep snow however isn't a necessity to me, it often annoyed me that things would become buried in the snow.

If it bothers some though, I encourage them to speak up and possibly get it changed.

Agreed.

Snow depth in TS2 didn't bother me too much, as if you had it set to the higher end of its settings, it included a new feature that showed underneath the snow with your cursor.

Either way, I'm not too bothered by the lack of snow depth, but it is a genuine question of how the pack is going to be better without it. I really hope the pack's features make up for it, as this pack theme has probably the most potential of gaining back fans that have left this iteration.