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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Nothing matters in TS4 in my opinion. If a Sim has low motives and or in a bad mood none of that matters if your Sim is running a store in TS4. It matters a lot in TS2. Customers will get mad lose interest in a product, complain to the owner (your Sim) about the employees, lose a star and leave mad at the business and your Sim. Your Sim won't be able to do a successful sell, ring up customers fast enough without them storming out (even with good cashier skills) and the business loses stars that lower it's reputation that immediately cause it to get less customers. Emotional buffs do very little for real gameplay consequences in TS4.
What else that won't happen in TS4 are consequences to other relationships or meetings. Sims will still engage with other Sims (even in a bad mood) the other Sims will listen, smile, talk and joke etc. None of the crossing the arms or sticking their fingers in their ears they don't want to hear it, and or turning away from a conversation they don't want to know about. Nor even a bored response. TS4 Sims are pretty much open to anyone and everything, no matter how good or bad a mood your own Sim is in and or displaying. Sims in other games can't successfully encourage other Sims to do anything, because the mood is not high enough, their job performance suffers and no they won't be getting a promotion if they go to work in a bad mood or very low motives. They just might get fired and or demoted. Or even lose a skill point. There are consequences for not going to work happy and fullfilled. It won't matter in TS4 even if your Sim is in the 'red' and needs to eat at work..they aren't going to die at work. They might in TS2 if there are other motives that also need to be filled. It's why you can sometimes see 'Died on Another Lot'.
What does it matter if a kid or anyone in the family goes hides in the bed, or to cry it out, and or to hide the embarrassment, no one in that household even cares. No one goes to encourage or comfort them. It's like oh, look, how cute, but no point in it if the other Sims are so unaware.
TS4 Sims are not going to look up at you and state' No, can't you see I'm upset, I don't feel like it.' So, it really doesn't matter how much you think you have accomplished something in the game with getting your Sim to the next level of an aspiration, and or a career or new skill or whtatever, you could have done that in any game, any game, what is supposed to matter is the Sim knows and remembers how hard it was for 'them' and not about you but them. TS4 will never be about the actual Sim, it's all been a false promise from day one.
What else that won't happen in TS4 are consequences to other relationships or meetings. Sims will still engage with other Sims (even in a bad mood) the other Sims will listen, smile, talk and joke etc. None of the crossing the arms or sticking their fingers in their ears they don't want to hear it, and or turning away from a conversation they don't want to know about. Nor even a bored response. TS4 Sims are pretty much open to anyone and everything, no matter how good or bad a mood your own Sim is in and or displaying. Sims in other games can't successfully encourage other Sims to do anything, because the mood is not high enough, their job performance suffers and no they won't be getting a promotion if they go to work in a bad mood or very low motives. They just might get fired and or demoted. Or even lose a skill point. There are consequences for not going to work happy and fullfilled. It won't matter in TS4 even if your Sim is in the 'red' and needs to eat at work..they aren't going to die at work. They might in TS2 if there are other motives that also need to be filled. It's why you can sometimes see 'Died on Another Lot'.
What does it matter if a kid or anyone in the family goes hides in the bed, or to cry it out, and or to hide the embarrassment, no one in that household even cares. No one goes to encourage or comfort them. It's like oh, look, how cute, but no point in it if the other Sims are so unaware.
TS4 Sims are not going to look up at you and state' No, can't you see I'm upset, I don't feel like it.' So, it really doesn't matter how much you think you have accomplished something in the game with getting your Sim to the next level of an aspiration, and or a career or new skill or whtatever, you could have done that in any game, any game, what is supposed to matter is the Sim knows and remembers how hard it was for 'them' and not about you but them. TS4 will never be about the actual Sim, it's all been a false promise from day one.
