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Sthenastia
New Spectator
5 years ago

Lets talk about kitchens

Ok. It is my another topic but I can not understend some things. The SIms 4 has a lot of possibilities which previous Sims games couldn't have. On every post EA team tell us how this game is carrefuly develop and how SimsGurus are trying to create awesome game ect. Tell me please why kitchen stuff is so bad than? Ugly swatches, lack of matching cabinets, no possibility to split heating plate and oven, wrong island counters texture, no built-in fridges, ovens ect. (really popular in Europe), lack of some popular items. For me EA really simplified the kitchen stuff and created something only american inspired. I do not like it. Especially as as builder and as console player who can not download any recolors or cc. Anyway I do not think that cc should fill the lack of ingame content.

How to fix existing content?

We need some new swatches, textures and matching cabinets (as community created):

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yEclproRLfA/Vl_wcirx-hI/AAAAAAAABwI/YVP3eLxJXis/s1600/kitchenrecolours-styles.png

https://64.media.tumblr.com/1add4c7df431fe6e1319025345234b3b/tumblr_onq6j6WAKM1ut7dbdo3_1280.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/2013ebbc7b9fd32733a13e9ac3fc1f9b/tumblr_onq6j6WAKM1ut7dbdo4_1280.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/9c0abd285354b2dd210110c0b20fdcbb/tumblr_pdt5h7Q8D11uke3lzo1_r2_1280.png


https://64.media.tumblr.com/ccf081c7832e2376d2e4cf88e3db7530/a4ae74c33d2c8ad1-66/s1280x1920/c7399bb77898d07e11bd645c59e0cb4b8b489b75.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/c263e399430de3f2903ea26e726392c6/tumblr_pzjziaSAmj1s3phxwo1_1280.jpg

What about new content?

If EA will ever add matching and better swatches (as above), new counters will not be needed so dramatically as currently, but some objects will not be in game still.

Lets look how kitchen in Europe looks like (IKEA):
https://www.ikea.com/images/6f/56/6f56fea2f1ea24213735c7955d0a8405.jpg?f=xs

https://www.ikea.com/images/95/9a/959aa65ad8d7de0a2c9eff4fc393cb52.jpg?f=xxxl

https://www.ikea.com/images/8f/fa/8ffad1f7dadd9f1db470ffdefdebe742.jpg?f=xxxl

https://www.ikea.com/images/61/d1/61d18c57679cba74e11a77b8b84a0a2d.jpg?f=xxxl

As you can see, our kithens are smaller and are organized a little different that american. What we need to recreate them in The Sims 4?

Whole built-in items as:
- fridge
- oven
- heating plate (induction cooktop!)
- dishwasher
- coffee machine

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/41/81/8f41811ba985595eb7f16332b0c5c2a7.jpg

Also I do not know why kettle is not exist in TS4...

https://digitalcontent.api.tesco.com/v2/media/ghs/13d33817-82ec-40f9-9855-4a331dd3600d/snapshotimagehandler_1611133544.jpeg?h=540&w=540

Dear EA, can you kindly fix the kitchen stuff please? I think that more people think that this room has the worst stuff and it is really hard to create something other than traditional country-style kitchen.



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  • WolfFox90's avatar
    WolfFox90
    New Spectator
    4 years ago
    I think a Color Wheel would just fix that issue so we can recolor everything including wood grains, i suggested going with a Rectangular Color Wheel though to make it easy to slide the circle around the colors and find one manually that way along with being able to enter HTML or CSS Color Codes, the circular ones are always harder to navigate in any software i've used to far. It will look so so much better if we can match the colors of anything though even the Stone and Siding doesn't match with a lot it's ridiculous and so limited even for people with all the Packs.

    I think they need to do something with Ikea again too they've been doing some cool promo deals with brands so i think they should with them and put in some of the cheaper sleek items to help create that sleek and modern look, the Base Game has the best items but no doubt we need a bit more variety for that, they haven't done that well with the Packs trying to match it to a theme so at this point none of it matches anyway... so they might as well just add it to Base Game. They should be items like you've shown so it looks good any color and already we've got Kitchen Cabinets that we can flexibly recolor.
  • crocobaura's avatar
    crocobaura
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    I would like for the counters and kitchen wall units to function as storage boxes, with separate inventories. We place them anyway and as they already take a lot of space, I think it would be good if we could use them to store the various ingredients we collect.
  • itsjuliabee's avatar
    itsjuliabee
    4 years ago
    The day that we get the ability to customise counters and countertops individually is the day my soul can finally rest. @BohoFlower I totally agree with the idea of an Ikea Collaboration. I love the Ikea style of interior design, its so sleek and homey at the same time. Built-ins would fit perfectly to be introduced in a pack like that.

    The one thing I'm really hoping for is for them to give us some breakfast nook items. I have a breakfast nook in my kitchen and it is one of my favorite places in the house. I think it's totally obtainable as well since we have those (ugly and horribly colored) booths from Dine Out. They could totally take the code/functionality from those and make a nicer looking design for breakfast nooks.
    https://i.imgur.com/SXoZxEJ.jpg
    https://i.imgur.com/a6mecnB.jpg

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