Let's have some positivity!

Thanks for this thread, OP.

I have grown horribly attached to some of the premades. I used to play Sims 3 extensively, but I can't go back anymore. My love for Sims 4 came slowly, but it has become rock-steady over time. I love that we still get plenty of new things. I'm like a kid before Christmas every time something new is announced. The absolute freedom to play by any or no rules is probably my number one favorite feature.

Something that is completely overlooked or disregarded in the current threads of complaints is that Sims 4 is a gigantic outlet for creative people. The sheer amount of mods and custom content for Sims 4 is insane. There are people more or less making a living creating things for it thanks to donations, because other people think their skills are awesome and want more pretty and/or crazy stuff for their favorite game. A huge thanks and applaud to everyone who spends a great deal of their precious time to create this additional enjoyment which we wouldn't have if it wasn't for The Sims 4 game regardless of the opinions of its state.

The Sims 4 is also so much more than just a simple game. Because it is cheerful, comical, and not overly complicated, I bet it's helping disabled and sick people (including kids) everywhere brighten their days and spicing up their lives and challenging their imagination and skills in managing and coordination. It is pretty and dreamy to slip into when there is little but pain and hardship in real life.

I have only reason to smile at all the good this game does, and on so much more than a personal level. We choose what to focus on here in life and what we will allow to fill us, so why not take in all the good stuff and reject the negative as much as we possibly can?

To put it shortly..

Yes there is lot of negativity unfortunately, I tend to avoid those threads and comments because there is RARELY anything to get out of those or something that I completely agree with.. But there definitely are also many people who truly like this game and lot of positive/neutral threads too, so keep on looking for those and ignore those that you don't like. :)

I can say for sure that this game has won over TS2 for me now. I enjoy playing this game and see so much pontential what could be still added to it. There are many new features in this game that were not in previous games that I like and have used a lot!

Where do I start...

Ah yes, build mode.

- I love the way build mode not only keeps surprising me with the things I can build, but how it's being continually improved with time
- the ability to save rooms for use in other builds and also share them with others
- no auto-roof. While it's sometimes a struggle to figure out roofing, it's better than leaving it to the code.

The worlds are so beautiful in the game. I don't know if I'll ever get to the point of having explored every nook and cranny of the worlds we have because no matter how much I play, there are always little spots that I discover or see in someone else's video or screenshot that I haven't seen before. With the addition of Seasons, it's all the more fun to see them in different weather conditions.

The Sims themselves. When I first started playing, I thought I'd find it easy to keep aging on and just go through legacies and generations, but I've found myself attached to the Sims so much that even aging them up is hard.
Especially the toddler stage. Those are immeasurably fun to play and so adorable that it's hard to let go. I love how the longer you play a Sim, the more they veer toward things that match their traits (active Sims love their gym equipment, outdoorsy Sims keep heading to the garden, etc). I love seeing the genetics in families and how the features transfer to children.

The graphics. I play on an older Macbook so I kept my graphics low for the longest time. Only recently have I decided to go medium, trying to see if the Mac could manage it. Sure, it heats up but there's no lag and the reflections, the lighting, the detail on things like floor and wall tiles and wood, the shadowing and different ways lights work are just amazing. (and make me want to invest into a computer that can handle the higher settings so I can fully enjoy those details. Then again, I might just end up staring at those instead of building lol)

Thank you for this thread, OP.

I bought the original Sims game in March 2000 and played its sequel, The Sims 2, all the way up to 2018. That's when I decided to take a chance on The Sims 4 , which quickly won me over in a way that TS3 never approached. What do I love most about it? Its effortless controls, for one thing: I love how easy it is to work with the camera, and being able to use a hand tool in live mode is something I've wished for since the original game came out. I can open a fridge and put food out for a toddler, or quickly shift things from sims' inventories to others'. Building, too, is so much easier. I MUCH prefer TS4's art style to that of Sims 3's. And then there's CAS! Where to begin with it? :D

The Sims 4 for me is the best iteration so far. It has it's faults but they are far out weighed by the amount of enjoyment I get from playing.

1. The CAS and the build mode are the best we've ever had. They're so easy and fun to mess around with.
2. I love the art style of TS4, both the sims and the worlds.
3. The club system from Get Together and the calendar from Seasons are awesome.
4. I love how well optimized this game is, unlike TS3, which was a laggy mess most of the time (at least for me)
5. I think TS4 is in general more user friendly: you can delete and add household with ease, change between them, travel to other worlds, play with optimized build mode... everything is so much quicker and easier.

Wow what a great thread...

Things I love mentioned before
* toddlers
* *CAS
* buildmode
* gorgeous scenery
* art style
* clubs which bring townies alive in background
* camera and movement controls
* ease of travel
* depth of vampire and spellcasters detail
* pets (cats usually - so realistic!)

Tjings I slso like
* the gender update that made clothing / hair freely available to all sims. I am able to create a range of looks and lifestyles and non gender specific sims.
* photography that came with Moschino. Its so complex and it is one of the more complex user skills to develop and challenge yourself
* the ease of sandbox play. I especially like that character bios are not fully set but suggedtive - eg. I have seen so many stories about how and why Johnny Zest is related to the Landgraabs and what the backstory might be. It makes everything so replayable. I can have and play out multiple theories and storylines with sims
* diverse couples like Brant and Brent
* freelancer careers (as well as active ones) I like having a career that fits around my sims life and not vica versa
* festivals in city living
* the specisl lots in Windenburg - the Bluffs and the ruins and the huge estate are so large and detailed plus the amount of world not on lots which you can walk in and explore in Brindleton Bay

I love CAS, I like the build mode capabilities (even if I suck at building), I really like some of the packs, I like the general art style.

"AbraKadabra;c-17498806" wrote:

4. I love how well optimized this game is, unlike TS3, which was a laggy mess most of the time (at least for me)

This. While I did like many things about TS3, this is my main gripe with it, so I'm glad TS4 did not repeat that at least.

The art style is everything I could dream of! Not too cartoony and yet not to realistic in terms of the sims themselves. I have created every character for my novel I'm writing, as well as the scenes just for fun and to put my story into visual. Plus when I'm just doing regular game play it's just so much fun to use those same characters because it really feels like I know them. So CAS character making is definitely superior IMO. I can't do that with TS3

I don't know what else to say because apart from the things that may annoy or frustrate me about this game I love it to death and can get lost in it for hours!

Oh, one of my favorite things about it is how easy it is to play rotational, favorite households, delete non essential sims, or sims you no longer want like it's nothing. And nothing is badly corrupted as a result. That's one reason I worry how things such as memories and story progression would effect this.

The ease of saving rooms, lots, uploading to gallery, downloading in other places etc. has been a wonderful experience for me! I use those features in almost every play and as someone who is not a good builder, the gallery does not get enough praise. :D

Whenever someone talks about mermaid it's to talk about how lacking they are. Although I do wish they got an underwater lot I feel like they don't get enough credit. I love them alot and use tons of mermaids. They are so fun as easy to customize in CAS and I love all of their interactions with water. Island living is still one of my top packs. <3 Great game.

This is a nice thread to see and a breath of fresh air to me...

I love the create a sim tool, the face modifier is amazing...

I also simply love the pets and create a pet, and how easy it is to open the gallery and find extra sims made by others and pull them down into the household I am making ...

I also love that university is in a world where I can have sims living in at the same time as I play others and play their families and it doesn't feel so closed off vacation like...

I also love the calendar, even and clubs...the clubs are great...

I also really dig that they eat and talk at the same time...

And the fame system is incredible... how I can make them famous for anything really... and they don't only get positive things for it but also the quicks that make it seem more real, like the hate being touched quick ...
I really love that I can make a famous writer, surgeon or cook in the game... yes it is hard...but it Is possible...