Opinions on emotions?

I enjoy them, for the most part. I like that for a lot of activities, my Sim will do that activity differently depending on the emotion they're in. I find that engaging - it's a lot of why I now play mostly on speed 1 after spending most of my Sims 3 years on speed 2. It thought I'd have moved on to speed 2 by now, but only occasionally.

For me, the only drawback is that Sims are oversensitive to their environment. I tend to play with a mod installed that removes/lessens the effect of decor buffs - mostly I've pulled it in and out depending on my own mood, but I've been lazy about that recently. That said, I've heard from Simmers who don't have the mod that the decor buffs have less impact than they used to, so I probably ought to really try pulling the mod back out for a while.

I've seen a lot of newer-to-the-forums Simmers posting recently that the emotions are one of the draws of Sims 4 for them, so just putting a word in for those among them here who might not feel like posting after a lot of "emotions? nope!" posts. ;)

It's a shame that what EA marketed as this huge feature is the number one thing disliked by everyone on the forums, and all Sims players.

Personally, I like this emotion system better than the mood meter of Sims 1-3. If a Sim was sad, they'd actually LOOK sad! Same with looking angry, embarrassed, and uncomfortable, and the pee-pee walk is hilarious to me when they gotta "go/"

I honestly have no idea where the "clone" opinion comes from. They act like they always have, just a bit more exaggerated, and I think it's better that way, as it makes it more like "The Sims" in my opinion.

I enjoy the emotions but think they need a few changes.
The most pressing ones being a stack of happy moodlets over-riding a sudden death of a loved one. The grief/sad moodlet should always over-ride a stack of happy positive moodlets.... always, even if only for 4 hours. It's different if after the death the player directs the grieving sim to do specific things to reduce the sad moodlet but watching your sim smile while standing over the urn of their just-dead soul mate is wrong.
I also think a flirty sim should not flirt with just anyone if they are married and they should not get a whim to woohoo with 'someone'. The whim should have the spouses name on it.

I like the different ways sim will do things depending on their current emotions, such as eating. The sad eating animation is actually pretty cute. The stressed/tense sim that slams the fridge door always makes me jump, but that's good. I like it when my sims 'act up'.

I also like how certain emotions will give quite substantial skill boosts. A 40% skill boost for being very happy while chatting to yourself in the mirror to raise charisma skill... yep, I'll take that! Good thing is I can also ignore the moods/skills boost of I want to play a different way.

I already talked about this too much, emotions are only a way to manipulate the game for me. And are the reason I don't play the game anymore, they make all too easy. Sims 2 made the emotions better and they weren't even a selling point.

I don't like environment having such a big impact on happiness.
Happiness should be driven by having their needs met (which the game does), and living up to their traits.

I really don't like the focus being on emotions.
I want my sims personality to take center stage. These emotions makes all of the sims feel the same since they all go through them. Also, I may be playing out a scenario and I have to deal with emotions which aren't helpful for how I want to play my sim.

No, I don't like the weird RPG emotions buffing thing, either. I prefer the emotions of the older previous 3 games (1, 2, and 3), including more traits and Turn-ones and Turn-offs, etc.

Emotions irritate me to no end. The music when it changes irritates me - especially when it changes five times in quick succession. I hate that they make everything so predictable (when apparently that was exactly what they're there to prevent?) and that they make my sims behave in ways I don't want them to and make it less about the characters I want to create. Just make what was already there better. If it weren't for the multitasking I would have thought TS4 made literally everything about how the sims themselves behave worse.

If EA had not focused so much on ''emotions'', then I think Toddlers would've been in base game!

"CK213;14858212" wrote:
I don't like environment having such a big impact on happiness.
Happiness should be driven by having their needs met (which the game does), and living up to their traits.

I really don't like the focus being on emotions.
I want my sims personality to take center stage. These emotions makes all of the sims feel the same since they all go through them. Also, I may be playing out a scenario and I have to deal with emotions which aren't helpful for how I want to play my sim.

This! To me it seems like the emotions makes all Sims behave and feel the same. I feel like my Sims have lost their uniqueness. I want traits to matter more and not just give my Sims trait related interactions. I want autonomous behaviour based on traits more than emotions. The idea is good though, but it needs some tweaking! I wish emotions were more connected to the traits. I tnink that would really make my Sims unique!

I like emotions and I use them to enable promotions for Sims. I like having emotional auras for objects but I wish the game was consistent in letting you read what the emotional aura on an object is - I think I have conflicting auras in rooms. I really like objects that influence the emotion like the showers - I wish more objects had that function.