List Your Sims 4 Pros and Cons
Every game has its glowing virtues and horrible sins, and TS4 is no exception. This thread is a place to name our most favorite and most despised aspects of The Sims 4. My list?: Pros 1. The ...
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I'll try to keep it short.
Pros:
- The art work is beautiful
- How intuitive Build mode is (apart from roofs: con)
- CAS is great (apart from the lack of a colour wheel: con, and not enough relationship options: another con)
- Animations are smooth
- Sound is great (Spa Day calms me like if I was in a spa myself)
- Being able to choose what households age, with plenty of options
- Toddlers
- Hats on any hairstyle
- The club system introduced with Get Together
- The character traits that Parenthood introduced
- The gallery
- GPs are all well worth the money
- You can travel to all the worlds in the same save and move around
Cons:
- There are barely consequences to anything that happens
- Sims barely react to things unless they are extremely close to the action and sometimes not even then
- Sims don't have memory and would for example interact with someone they just had a fight with like if nothing happened
- The emotions system
- Lack of NPCs: burglars, police, firefighters, etc
- That having a smartphone is MANDATORY and the lack of a home phone
- The very small choice regarding careers and jobs (no part time jobs for YA+, no self-employment, not enough normal rabbit hole jobs)
- The ridiculous size of many of the objects (telescope, cupcake machine, microscope, etc)
- No terrain tool
- Hard to match furniture and colours/not enough colour swatches
- Inconsistent window/door combinations
- Traits are almost meaningless and all they get you are basically moodlets
- Sims are probably the least intelligent Sims ever (also emotionally)
- Musical chairs
- Not enough EPs, too many SPs + EPs have all been shallow and lacking
- No CAW (specially not being able to move lots around or make lots bigger/smaller or turn them around)
- Worlds are too small
- If feels very restrictive in many aspects (for example: apartments are unbelievable frustrating)
- It is extremely scripted
- Teens are not teens
- Babies are objects that don't even have a changing station
- Autonomous flirting is out of control
- Loading screens to visit others in same neighborhood
- No ability to choose how many days each life stage should last
I am going to stop here since I promised I'd keep it short but I could keep going with the cons.
Pros:
- The art work is beautiful
- How intuitive Build mode is (apart from roofs: con)
- CAS is great (apart from the lack of a colour wheel: con, and not enough relationship options: another con)
- Animations are smooth
- Sound is great (Spa Day calms me like if I was in a spa myself)
- Being able to choose what households age, with plenty of options
- Toddlers
- Hats on any hairstyle
- The club system introduced with Get Together
- The character traits that Parenthood introduced
- The gallery
- GPs are all well worth the money
- You can travel to all the worlds in the same save and move around
Cons:
- There are barely consequences to anything that happens
- Sims barely react to things unless they are extremely close to the action and sometimes not even then
- Sims don't have memory and would for example interact with someone they just had a fight with like if nothing happened
- The emotions system
- Lack of NPCs: burglars, police, firefighters, etc
- That having a smartphone is MANDATORY and the lack of a home phone
- The very small choice regarding careers and jobs (no part time jobs for YA+, no self-employment, not enough normal rabbit hole jobs)
- The ridiculous size of many of the objects (telescope, cupcake machine, microscope, etc)
- No terrain tool
- Hard to match furniture and colours/not enough colour swatches
- Inconsistent window/door combinations
- Traits are almost meaningless and all they get you are basically moodlets
- Sims are probably the least intelligent Sims ever (also emotionally)
- Musical chairs
- Not enough EPs, too many SPs + EPs have all been shallow and lacking
- No CAW (specially not being able to move lots around or make lots bigger/smaller or turn them around)
- Worlds are too small
- If feels very restrictive in many aspects (for example: apartments are unbelievable frustrating)
- It is extremely scripted
- Teens are not teens
- Babies are objects that don't even have a changing station
- Autonomous flirting is out of control
- Loading screens to visit others in same neighborhood
- No ability to choose how many days each life stage should last
I am going to stop here since I promised I'd keep it short but I could keep going with the cons.
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