I’ve been complaining about game play for years and nothing has improved. Honestly the gameplayin sims 4 needs serious overhaul. It is simply put the worst sims version. Build mode is probably best, but game play is atrocious. Simply put it’s not fun when things just spontaneously appear in inventory or your sim can do anything from a computer. It’s a game where is the game play? Lack of animation and interactions are a huge problem. Second issue is the robotic nature of the sims. They are emotionally trippy happy robots. I really hoped that sentiments and lifestyles would have added more depth, but once again they are superficial and limited to a blurb under a profile and do not diversify sim by much. Lifestyles also were created without any regard to previous expansions. So doctors, cops or any sim in active career or freelancer is constantly slapped with people person just because they do interactions that are required to complete the tasks. Sentiments disregard nap events like for example ‘roughhousing encouraged’ and animation that follows. The animation shows one thing and the sentiment has an opposite effect. Anything aspect missing is long term impact. Relationships are fleeting at best, family member nearly non existent. For anyone that likes to create stories it’s simply marginally possible and that is only if you imagine it. Generational play is literally limited to genetics. Sentiments are often assigned and I as a player do not know why. Maybe because animation is missing and so are notifications. So why does my sim have a grudge? No clue. Also, because game play is reduced to very basic animate repetitive actions when ever creators make an actual animation they overload it. So Murphy beds kill at an alarming rate, vending machines get stuck so often it seams more like a glitch then a feature and thinking about family member occurs almost as a daily task. There are no likes, dislikes, meaningful relationships (long lasting effects), attractions or impactful reputations. Whims are limited to just buy stuff. So a frugal sims want a hot tub? Once a family member, ex etc disappears from lot, it’s like they are no longer important. Unless you want to read some profiles. Emotions have one update in 6 years. So traits, as limited as they are, are also useless. You can change aspiration but there isn’t that much to choose from. I’d like for the creators to add some depth. That would be my priority.
Sorry for the long post. This game is just so lacking. It’s one sided, it disregards other expansions that should be utilized, it has no game play depth. Lacks animation and makes everything lacking in challenge. When they add a feature they overload the repetitiveness of the action you have to shut it off. Dusting kits made play impossible. All my sim was doing was vacuuming. Turned it off. Vending machines are always stuck. Naps were destroying game play. Turned that off. My sims still can’t finish college because they don’t go two exams. My sim cook even if there is food already. I can list so many issue and on top of all that there is the fact that game plain is put simply BORING. All sims are happy emotionally trippy clones. They removed half the animations and now things just spawn in inventory and your sim does everything from a computer. In ea view that’s exiting game play. I don’t want a new shade of lipstick I want this game to fix glitches (and since modders do it, it’s clearly fixable), tune the actions which are frustrating (push-ups at weddings, changing into workout clothes in winter to play basketball but never changing back to only freeze to death, having sims move constantly, up down sit, talk to everyone without allowing players to remove sims from conversations or telling them to move out of the way etc), and make this game more interesting. Emotions overshadow everything, reputations are shallow, simplistic and have no impact. There are no likes, dislikes, attractions, and traits don’t matter. My evil sim has almost the same reactions as my good sim. Relationships exist in a blurb in a profile. When one of the kids came home from college to visit and wanted to bake some cookies they were thrown out for misbehaving like any stranger. While strangers roam the house without invitation. This game is soooooo bad. I like you love build mode and graphics, but can’t play it because I’m either board or frustrated. Previous sim games were better. No story progression. Addition of groups hmm great except there isn’t much they can do together and when they gather they scatter like roaches. I tell my sim to eat because they are starving they immediately cancel and some stupid shit. Every time they add a feature, I pay for it just to turn it off because it’s designed badly without regard to the entire game. One emotion in 6 years that all we got but you can new Mac makeup. And when you ask people what they want they post a million pictures of clothes providing no depth or resolution to piling stack of issues. Well I guess what people want is a glitchy better dressed clone.
