Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

"Naus;c-17625346" wrote:
The Sims 4 lacks in every department. The only things they somewhat got right is CAS and Build Mode, but they had to sacrifice Create-A-Style or even a basic color wheel (or slider for skin tones). So even the good aspects have some negatives and downgrades.

Gameplay is just a BOREFEST. It's not just the lack of long term gameplay, that's an issue too. But what makes this game practically unplayable for me and many other simmers is how INSULTINGLY bad AI is, how deeply flawed and poorly designed the emotions system is, and how traits do next to nothing to make each Sim unique. The fact the world is extremely static is also a huge let-down.

It honestly doesn't feel like you're playing a game. It feels like a toy, like a doll house, and everything rellies on your imagination. The game doesn't do ANYTHING to make your gameplay interesting. On top of that, the game reeks of cheapness. Be it for the fake 2D backdrops, the extremely low poly critters, the fake vehicles and fake people everywhere in the background, etc. I just don't feel like I'm playing a game, like I said. It feels like a play and I have to do all the work. I have to write the script, I have to add the conflict, I have to switch to other households to make them progress in any way. Playing is not fun. It's a CHORE.

I'm also sick and tired of this fake narrative that The Sims 3 runs really bad for everyone. I have played it on 12 different gaming PCs over the years, and I never had MAJOR lag or performance issues except in Isla Paradiso or using Create-a-Style. But even CASt runs smoothly on my new gaming PC. But the game run just fine even on my old i5 750 (from 2009) with a GTX 960 GPU (VIDEO). So I honestly don't understand on what PCs are playing people who claim the game to be unplayable due to lag. It's really frustrating.

I agree wholeheartly, gimping the game had not helped even if Sims may run well as there is hardly any features that stress the performance of the game. When someone claim that Sims 3 was unplayable on their system and if it did I just point out the dev and publisher. How does this put EA/Maxis in an good light when they do not tweak their own game regularly. Sims 3 ran fine on my system and the only pack that gave me problems was IP which was problems caused by Developers coding and was never fixed and nothing to do with my systems as I owned 7 systems.