I have very mixed emotions about the sims 4. I sticked with the sims 4 ever since it was released because of the ease with witch sims could interact and communicate with each other.In the sims 3 it was a constant frustration to watch sims move around for an hour to find a place to have a group conversation, and then decide that it couldn't be done, even if there was plenty of room.
Unfortunately everything in the sims 4 is that easy. Writing a book in an hour, really?
On the other hand I'm a big fan of sims multitasking witch makes things even more easy.
An other frustration in the sims 3 was getting invited, driving for six hours to get there only to find that nobody is home. In the sims 4 there is still nobody home but at least it isn't an entire day wasted. I fell in love with the open world of sims 3 but I got irritated by it as well. Sims 4 gives us a compromise with small explorable pieces in stead of one giant one. (although there doesn't seem to be much to explore). That might have worked for me but why, WHY can't we build or own? Of all the sims games sims 4 is the least adjustable one and that bothers me greatly. For me makeability has always been the greatest attraction of the sims and now that seems to be sacrificed for looks. No CAS,no world builder,no building your own apartments. The city is beautiful but I would gladly settle for less good looking but more being able to build my own thing.
I actually like the emotions in sims 4. It gives me much pleasure to watch sims faces when they talk to each other. I even like the walks, but why are some of them so incredibly slow? Even at full speed it takes for ever to walk out of a neighborhood when a sim has to pee. It seems to me that playability is considered less important than the way things look. But at the same time objects, especially in base game are crude and ugly. Some look like the high poly lod is missing all together.
Now I do prefer playing games that look good but there has to be some substance as well and after playing the sims 4 for a long time now I get more and more annoyed by the fact that everything seems to be just about looks. When you choose a character trait you may get an other line to use in conversations or maybe your sim may get to take a "lazy" nap in stead of just a nap or something like that but it is just different words, it doesn't change a thing.
It seems to me that there isn't really any gameplay that is connected solely to a specific character trait. There is just the illusion of difference and that just isn't enough.
