Ever since TS4 came out there's been a lot of talking about how bad its engine is. I think the amount of recycling going on is yet another sign of that. They're limited in how many new things they can implement, so they stick to what's already part of the game and just tweak it. Vampires was something fresh, and oddly enough, it came out around the time TS4's sales were in a rather poor condition... Looks to me like they gave us something so good just to get on good terms with players who turned their back on them, and then it was back to the usual. This just makes me angrier because we've been sampled the actual potential of 4 and nothing came out of it. No more brand new concepts and ideas, only re-skins sold in a pretty packaging. That's also why EPs lack features so much.
I don't mind rehashing objects, it's the animations that bug me the most. No sims game has made me bored so quickly before. You get sick of watching the same old thing over and over. The same socials, dancing, I see parts of animations I recognize from base game times in the new ones we're getting... Unacceptable AND boring. Games are fueled by animations and they're skimping out on them so much it makes TS4 forgettable and annoying in the long run. I'm not able to play it in long session and I typically have to take month long breaks just so I don't get too irritated with how little there's actually in it. And mind you this game is 4 years old.
