Positive Gameplay Experiences

There's also this nice discussion: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17453996#Comment_17453996

But positive gameplay? Hmm... I do have them, but I don't remember them all.
Currently, I'm setting up a game. With manage households, I can create more and more relatives to my sims over time with Manage Households. In the previous gamesm you'll have to do that straight away. But in The Sims 4, I can take my time. And I really enjoy that!

I decided to try my hand at a building challenge and am finding I really enjoy it. I created a random sim to test out the lots I was building and before I knew it I had adopted 3 children and become a freelance writer. I'm thinking I'll play her like a foster mom adopting and raising kids and giving them a good home. I might even turn off aging which I don't usually do so I can have her raise a few generations of kids.

My Mum and I are currently playing with the same Sim, side by side. It’s quite a lot of fun.
In my game, our doctor (named Melody) is engaged and has a baby on the way. Both Melody and her fiancé are starting to do well in their jobs. It was sad when their dog died, but he has come back as a ghost, so I’ve had my first ghost pet, a new experience.

I’m just now trying to decide about how/when they will get married. It’s a blast.

My Vampires have recently captured Bella Goth and turned her into a Vampire queen and then took her out to dine on the Bjergsens. It was all out of vengeance for the results of the Sims 4 Tournament Madness votes.

I had a lot of fun with it though, even if I did actually start to feel a teeny tiny bit of reluctant sympathy for the Bjergsens, lol.

So I don’t know if it counts as a positive experience but I find it kind of funny. I made this sim who has the good trait and jealous trait who is also business savy. Well she has the worst luck of any sim I’ve ever played and I don’t know why. No other sim likes her I’ve tried to make friends for her. Most sims have a negative reaction to her. I sent her to college made her study do term papers and homework and she still got horrible grades and got kicked out. She’s now in a home that she’s about to lose because she can’t get promoted and afford it. Her neighbors dislike her automatically. I noticed after barely meeting a few other sim,. There was red bars under the relationship status. Her flirting with other sims always go bad. I’ve never seen her get jealous even though I gave her the jealous trait. I think she is good which is a trait I did give her but she is a mess. Anyway just thought I’d share. Don’t know how she has such bad luck or such a hard time especially when I’ve tried to make things go right for her. Lol.

It's refreshing to see this discussion show up. Nice one, @simlicious2015.
My favorite things about The Sims 4 are usually the little things or the little asides that happen in-game, like when one spouse comes home and autonomously kisses the other spouse's cheek in greeting (awww!) or digging that finger in the ear when making their first green salad (that still makes me laugh). The other night my non-alien male scientist finally! got abducted and turned up pregnant (I find this highly entertaining). To my surprise and delight, he had a lovely, full alien daughter. Their older daughter is currently courting Caleb Vatore and not having an easy go of it. He's' usually so amiable. lol

It's the little things. Some people say the sims don't have much personality of their own, but the following story makes me believe they do:

I had a sim named Rose Thorndell a while back who lived in Windenburg. She was so pretty and she had a great group of friends, but I thought something was still missing. So, I created a guy for her and placed him in a house in Willow Creek. The very next day, without me having to do anything, she invited him home after school. They were both in a flirty mood. They really seemed to hit it off, as if it was just meant to be. What's even cooler was that they didn't immediately flirt, either. They sort of just told each other jokes that day and got to know each other like how it goes in real life. All in all, it was super cute and definitely reminds me how interesting TS4 can really be. ☺️

The other day, I was playing in San Myshuno and saw a Sim in a raccoon suit digging through the trash can in the background...
I laughed out loud!
I didn't know that had been included, and it reminded me of all the cute & quirky little details that the series has had over all.

"prettyprettyplumbob;c-17460420" wrote:
The other day, I was playing in San Myshuno and saw a Sim in a raccoon suit digging through the trash can in the background...
I laughed out loud!
I didn't know that had been included, and it reminded me of all the cute & quirky little details that the series has had over all.

I love sending my city sims to go talk to the racoon people ?

The game I am playing now I would say is positive. L and Simeon had twins. My sim who is a spellcaster had twins too. I hooked Simeon and L's kids up with my sims kids who are also spellcasters. I plan on playing this game until at least 10 generations have come about. It's a challenge because I normally don't do generational games, large households, legacy challenges or the 100 baby challenge. I usually give myself challenges or come up with random scenarios to inflict upon my sims. Sometimes I don't want my sims having kids but that is because the household is almost at full capacity and I'm not used to playing large households or I would rather have my sims focus on learning something new. It's not a negative thing rather a change to how I want to play the game from that point on. I play with as much autonomy as possible.