Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4
This video from Carl's Sims 4 guides explains the topic very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk06dk_G8bI It is very true that there isn't really much to do with your money besides build a...
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I'm not going to blame parents for the lack of long term interest and gameplay in the TS4 but those who continue to buy it. Most who love this game are eager to get a new 'world' and move their Sims there or start a new save. Very little interest in a long term goal for their existing Sims. Can't blame that on parenting but the boredom of TS4. Compared to anyone who did play TS2 or TS3 and still do many still are playing the save they had back when those games were first released (16+ years later) not to say they never started a new game or 'themed' world and or played in different hoods, most of the players I know of the older games still have their saves they played for years and years. They may take a break from that save and do other things in those games, but they never let that save go.
TS4 players may also have a save and play it today however, they are quick to start new saves, move their Sims and uproot their story to a different 'town' and theme etc. There is very little replay value about TS4 in my opinion.
It's been six years since I wrote a feedback article expressing how all Sims in this game are the same....nothing at all has been done about it. Nothing.
I'll start with other problems that make very little replay value: Though claimed to be best of the best of gameplay....
Let's be honest Maxis, gender patch doesn't really address any wants or fears of transgenders, in gameplay, nor thoughts, desires, or Sim wishes/wants or struggles or whatever. It's just fluff patch, all for show and no depth. I don't use gender patch so it was nothing to me to have it added, however, many others do and what they got was not 'gameplay' but just more adjustments to body types, clothes choices etc. That's not gameplay. It's all CAS assets.
Traits are still hampered by all Sims having the same emotions no matter their traits, and so overlappng with skills (even six years later) that a Sim who is inspired will want to cook a perfect meal, but so will Sim B and Sim C who have a trait (perfectionist) and or a Sim who has a cooking skill. Did they fix wants/wishes to make it more diverse? No..and just decided to hide wants/wishes, instead. Six years ago I went into depth about this..and it's still the same way today..nothing new under the sun.
New worlds are no better than an old world. Why even bother to add a new world for your Sim to visit and or live in when they are all the same. What will be there? A museum, a bar, a gym (like the game needs more), and possibly a new library....wow, new backdrops with the same old buildings reused and reused.
Did it matter at all that in one of the worlds like WB there was all that space spent on those docks that ran out into the water when No Sim at all ever takes a stroll out there? What a waste. Did it matter that in WB in the 'town square' it's never filled with any Sims unless you actually move a Sim into that area where the big clock is located there won't hardly ever be Sims there. Then people who love TS4 want to dis TS3 (not might favorite, either) for having empty spaces in open worlds... not filled with Sims..hello.
Look at the ideas they have been pushing out..how much replay value they don't have. SV is a good example, then there is IL, a snooze fest, also the magic pack reused assets (for emotions etc.) already in game as 'new' potions, big fat eyeroll, because that was like overkill in what was already in game to influence emotions and or moods... Then there is EL which can't even hold a theme such as Industrial and or Eco Green or whatever...and bugged to the hilt. There are many other packs that offer very little replay or value for the money. Some swear story progression would help this game. Are you kidding me? lol. This game can't even offer a different want other than the same for all Sims of all stripes of life, what makes anyone think story progression could keep up with every Sim in the game, and not require culling again. It's a big fat joke to me.
Diversity is non existant when it doesn't take into consideration the differences of those Sims and why you see one Sim who probably would never wear a turban and or one Sim wearing a scarf who probably wouldn't be wearing one, there is nothing about so called 'gameplay' that actually bring any one people's traits, and or traditions to the game or gameplay other than more food to cook...wow, that's some exciting gameplay right there.
As far as graphics and 'it runs good' that is no longer a thing is it? I see many complaints every where about the freezing, crashing and or more an more bugs. I don't know, I think it should have been retired last year, but what do I know. Money is the name of the game and as long as they can milk it and people who are so bored with it that they keep buying more of it, hoping this time it will be fun! lol, this thing will keep going until we all have finally seen the truth about it. This is the plan to sell very little for more money and keep dangling the carrot the next pack will be better etc. etc. it's the same old song and dance.
TS4 players may also have a save and play it today however, they are quick to start new saves, move their Sims and uproot their story to a different 'town' and theme etc. There is very little replay value about TS4 in my opinion.
It's been six years since I wrote a feedback article expressing how all Sims in this game are the same....nothing at all has been done about it. Nothing.
I'll start with other problems that make very little replay value: Though claimed to be best of the best of gameplay....
Let's be honest Maxis, gender patch doesn't really address any wants or fears of transgenders, in gameplay, nor thoughts, desires, or Sim wishes/wants or struggles or whatever. It's just fluff patch, all for show and no depth. I don't use gender patch so it was nothing to me to have it added, however, many others do and what they got was not 'gameplay' but just more adjustments to body types, clothes choices etc. That's not gameplay. It's all CAS assets.
Traits are still hampered by all Sims having the same emotions no matter their traits, and so overlappng with skills (even six years later) that a Sim who is inspired will want to cook a perfect meal, but so will Sim B and Sim C who have a trait (perfectionist) and or a Sim who has a cooking skill. Did they fix wants/wishes to make it more diverse? No..and just decided to hide wants/wishes, instead. Six years ago I went into depth about this..and it's still the same way today..nothing new under the sun.
New worlds are no better than an old world. Why even bother to add a new world for your Sim to visit and or live in when they are all the same. What will be there? A museum, a bar, a gym (like the game needs more), and possibly a new library....wow, new backdrops with the same old buildings reused and reused.
Did it matter at all that in one of the worlds like WB there was all that space spent on those docks that ran out into the water when No Sim at all ever takes a stroll out there? What a waste. Did it matter that in WB in the 'town square' it's never filled with any Sims unless you actually move a Sim into that area where the big clock is located there won't hardly ever be Sims there. Then people who love TS4 want to dis TS3 (not might favorite, either) for having empty spaces in open worlds... not filled with Sims..hello.
Look at the ideas they have been pushing out..how much replay value they don't have. SV is a good example, then there is IL, a snooze fest, also the magic pack reused assets (for emotions etc.) already in game as 'new' potions, big fat eyeroll, because that was like overkill in what was already in game to influence emotions and or moods... Then there is EL which can't even hold a theme such as Industrial and or Eco Green or whatever...and bugged to the hilt. There are many other packs that offer very little replay or value for the money. Some swear story progression would help this game. Are you kidding me? lol. This game can't even offer a different want other than the same for all Sims of all stripes of life, what makes anyone think story progression could keep up with every Sim in the game, and not require culling again. It's a big fat joke to me.
Diversity is non existant when it doesn't take into consideration the differences of those Sims and why you see one Sim who probably would never wear a turban and or one Sim wearing a scarf who probably wouldn't be wearing one, there is nothing about so called 'gameplay' that actually bring any one people's traits, and or traditions to the game or gameplay other than more food to cook...wow, that's some exciting gameplay right there.
As far as graphics and 'it runs good' that is no longer a thing is it? I see many complaints every where about the freezing, crashing and or more an more bugs. I don't know, I think it should have been retired last year, but what do I know. Money is the name of the game and as long as they can milk it and people who are so bored with it that they keep buying more of it, hoping this time it will be fun! lol, this thing will keep going until we all have finally seen the truth about it. This is the plan to sell very little for more money and keep dangling the carrot the next pack will be better etc. etc. it's the same old song and dance.
