LoveStruck Negative Thread 2.0

Lately I've been feeling like expansion packs have been extremely disappointing. For me, I think that GRO was the last pack that I felt was a pack I couldn't play without. It has so many small things that just add to the game. I've always wanted a customized tree-house.. where you'd build it and even better.. build it together. Kids learning how to ride a bike, losing a tooth, tooth fairy, family dynamics, the puzzles, etc.

While I am very excited about the relationship dynamics because I think that they did really well with the family dynamics.. it does feel a little.. copy/paste. However, I'm still intrigued about it and look forward to seeing how relationships work now and how Sims will behave. I'm also looking forward to the new interactions/skill. Turn ons and Offs.. are great and I'm looking forward to them, but I wish they'd stop ignoring occults. I also wish they would have added more and color of clothing is rather pointless and I more than likely won't be using it.

I think what I am really disappointed about with this pack is that they missed the opportunity to finally add double-dating, I thought for sure, we'd get a new system like that that we've never gotten before in previous iterations of this game.... but they disappointed.

Instead, you can bring one Sim along.. like either as best friend date.. or third wheeling. Which is great and all... but where's the double dating? Where's the ability to call/text for an SOS? (I mean another Sim calling them to sos to get them out of the date. I know that the Sim can pretend call or something like that, from the trailer..) Where's the consequences of said dates.. I wanted a system that would allow for the dates to be "rated"... leading to either a good date, a great date, or a stale date, or bad date.. kind of thing. 

And depending on how things were going, let's say, it went badly.. where is the animations of a bad date? They're not vibing, then maybe the other Sim is bored, or not finding things too interesting from the other Sim.. or the other Sim said something awful.. so what would they do? Throw their drink at them, or pour it on their head, etc. do something. : (

They're so afraid to add consequences to this game... while of course, I want the happily ever after. They could easily add the Sims quirkiness to it.. without it being "too much". 

And I'm tired of these lists. "Talk about x this many times". Do this x amount of times. 

where  are the activities ? The moment I saw that the Gym was a place to go on a date.. I knew that there would be nothing new. Why is there nothing new to do on a date.. just going to a gym and talking/working out? Why is there no new REAL festivals? You know with actual things to do.  While I like the food stalls and gift shops/souvenirs, it's not fun adding them to festivals and nothing else.  How about mini games and prizes? Carnival games would have been great here! It makes me miss Sims 3 soooo badly. Yet, there's so many systems in Sims 4 that I love and I absolutely love the toddler and infant stages in Sims 4 too much as well as the calendar to go back to Sims 3. : (

I am a family player.. and find so many of these new systems that we've not really had before in the other games.. essential for my game-play.. yes.. they do need some quality of life updates/tweaks. But I still enjoy them, or at least the idea of them and that makes it so difficult to go back to Sims 3 + it's optimization isn't the best.. and I'm having graphical issues for some reason so I had to uninstall it. 

WHERE is the kissing booth!??!? This would have been PERFECT. Sigh. I'm so bummed about this. 

The festivals in Sims 4 are so boring and it's one of my favorite features that I wish they would fix and EXPAND upon and they missed the nail entirely.