Positive things about The Sims 4

- I can't stress enough how much do I love that Manage Households feature. It not only allows me to split and merge households, move them into lots etc, but also I can change the household's sims there! From changing sims' outfits to adding or removing new sims. With that, I can create relatives and pets even after the household is created and played with.

- I like the relationship options CAS presents. Sure, we can't make sims dating or engaged there, but we have more options. For example, we can make a child an elder's child, make a married couple so that only one of them is one of the children's parent, make an elder other elder's parent etc. It's much more easily moldable than in previous games.

- Clubs. I like clubs. It's an awesome feature from Get Together (I think it's one of the best packs). Sims that gather together to do the things they like. Clubs can have requirements. Clubs can have their own activities, rules, outfits, and more.

Toddlers. They may have come late but they're so much fun to play that I have a hard time letting them go every time.

Pets. I'm one of the people who likes that they're not controllable because it makes the gameplay more realistic (I say as I'm wishing that my cat would *tell me* what she wants when she's meowing at me lol)

You've already mentioned build mode so I'm just adding my vote to that. I can spend hours recreating houses, figuring out how to convert a real life house plan into the Sims, etc. And it keeps being improved which is great too.

The abilities/perks trees for fame and occults. It would've been easy to just make it a skill or a simple leveling system but this way it's so flexible!

It took me a long time to dive into it but the Club system is a lot of fun to use, whether it's with families or for skilling up.

(thank you for starting this thread :D)

A lot of my favourite features in Sims 4 have already been mentioned: build mode, the household manager, toddlers and pets. Very well done, all of them!

I'ld add the gallery. It's just great to be able to look for and add a lot or a household in a few clicks and very few time.

Vampires are in depht sims! I think they're the best occults ever made to the game (considering i dont own RoM, so i just can't compare spellcasters).

Semi-active careers (work from home). Those are my favourite careers and i wish they could expand all rabbit hole careers into this scheme. Working from home my sims can explore their career track by doing stuff and have more time left for other things in their life. And they can always opt to work normally if that's what you need in a specific day.

The calendar. Being able to plan an event days before is great.

Holidays and traditions. Very nice that we can plan anual holidays at our own liking. I also like to see that little heart telling us what traditions that specific sim likes to do. And i absolutelly love how at new years eve you can set a resolution. And decorating the christmas tree is really lovely!

I would have a lot more to add, there are a lot of very well done things in sims 4. And while im also someone who talks around about stuff that i don't like in the game, i apreciate this kind of threads cause we also need to let the devs know what they're done incredibly well in this version of the game.

Being able to restore an dream destination island as opposed to colonise it, and not having any 'material' reward for it is a concept I personally adore. Go baby turtles!

I find foosball game hilarious, even to this day, thanks to the absolute lack of sportmanship and team spirit of the sims playing it.

The Hot-headed trait, and the mischief skill lvl 5. Worst combination ever, but again, still so fun over the years.

I like the aesthetics very much. CAS is the best with so many clothing options and hairs. Build mode is also quite easy to use to crate decent looking lots for non builders like me.

I do like how easy it is to call your friends to hang out. The club system is even better.

And most importantly it is quite stable ! I have this save file I have been playing for like 5-6 generations and it hasn’t exploded yet like it would have in sims 3. :)

Nice thread :)
As mentioned, I love the club system. I think it's by far the best addition made because I have been able to se up clubs for sims with similar interests and hobbies, family groups, friendship groups etc. It's quite limitless and I really enjoy the NPC meetings. Overall, a very nice, vibrant addition to the game.

Possibly an unpopular opinion but I feel like the family gameplay has improved. I was talking about this to a friend the other day and I thought of eleven improvements off the top of my head:
1) The school projects. Adults can help and the children/teens are building skills too. This feels more real to me because most parents would help a child or teenager with their projects and I love the thought that they can work together on something. It feels like the parents have some influence over their education.
2) Watching movies together. I like being able to do family movie nights, with popcorn! It's also nice that there's the variety of movies (about 10, I believe), so some of the family will enjoy them, others won't.
3) Building blocks together at the table. Not only can the family get involved in this together, but the result can then be played with by toddlers and upwards. Much more inclusive than the block building from previous generations, in my opinion.
4) Snowmen and sand sculptures can be built with a toddler. To me, this is huge. Finally, my toddlers can play in the sand and snow properly!
5) The Voidcritters. I love this feature for the children. Swapping cards, receiving some as gifts for Christmas, battling them. Lovely!
6) Puppet shows. Not only can the children put these on but the whole family can sit and watch, including the toddlers. I love that so much. I often do this in parks and it's great to see.
7) The play gyms (pirate ship and space ship) because not only do you get about 4 children playing together but you can get teens+ to join in too.
8) The club system. This is something I use all the time but for children, I can set up clubs for children with similar interests and hobbies. Thus they can forge long-term friendships. See above.
9) The craft table. I love getting the children drawing, then putting those up on the walls. Plus, on the craft tables, doing the seasonal crafts. They look great, especially if you decorate the house for various holidays. I feel this was a big improvement from previous generations.
10) The actual parenting aspect of Parenthood. I feel like the parents actually get involved and influence their children. How the parent disciplines the child actually has an impact and will not only affect additional traits (behavioural) in later life, but also the relationship between parent and child.
11) Childhood Phases. Much more realistic, children have various phases that change behaviours.

As also mentioned, the Create A Sim and Build Mode are definitely lovely features and vast improvements.

I'm also a fan of the neighbourhoods (another unpopular opinion). They feel more like real towns to me, towns with a background, a history. They're relatable and lively. <3

I like the food options, particularly the breakfast ones. The Sims 3 breakfasts (that you actually made, as opposed to quick-meal cereal) were all rather sweet - pancakes, waffles, fruit parfait. I like that you can get things like scrambled eggs and eggs and toast.

I love that toddlers can help themselves to a portion of "adult" food as opposed to just eating mush like in Sims 2 and 3. It's so convenient!!

I like the holidays too, like being able to create our own, and the random ones popping up like Skill Day, Lottery, Neighbourhood Brawl :D

Other stuff too. I've had a couple of my Sims own restaurants, but I want to experiment with it more.

I really have to second the manage household feature that egonVM mentioned. It's the number one used feature for my playstyle. I play as if I would be writing a novel with different households and I swap sims and transfer money and everything like 20 times each play. Totally love that feature.

Another feature mentioned already but greatly used is how easy it is to gender swap rather it's clothes, sims, hair whatever! Anything goes! And allows me to get so creative with the options.

Teens!!! People may see not having shorter teens as a negative but it's a positive for me. The fact that teens can do and wear almost everything adults can makes them not feel incomplete or lacking as a life state. Now sure they could use more teen focused content but I'm only talking about positives here. I play teens most of all so I love the options we have.

Love the calendar. I use it more than anything to get free days, weeks or even months off school and work ?? and there is no forced cerfew for teens you can set your own.

Mermaids are so visually stunning and I just love how easy it is to make or become one and customize their tails and everything! A lot of people think they are lacking but I personally think they were greatly improved and I have fun with tons of them. If they had an underwater lot it would be perfect.

Search function in build mode anyone??

Everything else was pretty much mentioned too. Clubs,cas, build, etc.

Sims 4 really doesn't get enough credit for the positives. Everyone is just looking at the glass half empty. And there is more to come! So I'm sure many more positive features are coming too!
A big thank you to the team!! ??????

I'm sure there is much more to mention but there are so many things I haven't even done yet so can't comment on it.

It is a BEAUTIFUL game. I think its art style is the best in any iteration. CAS is amazing with the drag features! Every part of the game is so pretty. I also love the updated to pregnancy, especially breastfeeding and being sad if you arent pregnant. This is the first game that made me care about toddlers because its fun to play them! Any other game i have no interest in toddlers.

> @AlexSimmerman said:
> So I see a lot of negativity about Sims 4
> (often justified) however, there are also some really good parts of Sims 4 too, let’s discuss:
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> - The Sims 4 really excels in Build Mode. I’m not really an active builder but it seems near perfect?
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> - Another thing we need to give the Sims 4 credit for is the pregnancy improvements and how they can now wear all clothing. I hated being restricted to those ugly maternity clothes in previous games
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> - Sims 4 deserves credit for CAS. The element of ‘shaping’ Sims’ features instead of sliders is definitely an improvement.
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> - The addition of the Gender options to be more inclusive for the Trans community was a gamechanger!
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> - Visually, the game is actually stunning! The graphics and art of the game is breathtaking!

I agree, it'd just be great if they could make the male to female trans bodies more aesthetic. Its been a major turn off for me, but I still try to create trans sims. Plus it provides a nice storyline in my head to goin into CAS and change them into "full" females lol