Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

The Sims 4 is the only one of the games that can kind of be referred to as a story telling game. You almost have to play it that way for it to be enjoyable. When I played the other games I didn’t load the game with any idea of what I wanted to happen, who I was going to be playing, etc. Those story telling elements were just inherently there and natural from how the simulation worked. There was never a need for me to explicitly create a story; I could alter the course of what was happening, but even without my input the game would craft a story on it’s own using a mixture of game mechanics and my input (like traits, or personalities).

Sims 4 is such a lifeless game you have to create an entire narrative before you load into it and then basically use the game to animate that story. Some people can appreciate that, but I’m only willing to disassociate the gameplay so much to fit a story. Most of the time the story I think up just doesn’t translate into fun gameplay. Probably because I don’t daydream the kind of content this game actually has. The game being geared toward storytelling isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but this game does an awful job of it. You’re given a limited selection of tools, and a fairly unappealing assortment of content which leads to this game only being good at telling generic stereotype stories.