Silence is annoying

"JoAnne65;c-16451312" wrote:

"jackjack_k;c-16450825" wrote:

"@bixters;c-16450820" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-16450811" wrote:

The Sims has never been a finished game not from conception. If that is what you are looking for - then the Sims really isn't your game. I like the way sims is and how it slowly builds - been here since the beginning and I would never expect or enjoy a finished Sims game when each one came out. It's part of what makes it the game it is.

Really? I've been playing the Sims since the Sims 1, so I don't think you're in any position to tell me the Sims isn't "my type of game." I think each of the base games, Sims 1-Sims3, have been more or less a complete games. In other words, people could enjoy them with or without the extra content provided from EPs, SPs and GPs. The Sims 4, however, was the very first base game to receive mixed to negative reviews from both fans and critics alike. It was so stripped completely of content that there is still content missing from the Sims 4 (with all the SPs,GPs and EPs) that was originally in the base games of the Sims 1-3. That is what I mean by a FINISHED GAME. Waiting was bearable in other games because they had a FINISHED base game. Unfortunately, that is not the case in The Sims 4, and people are getting sick of it. You may enjoy waiting, but most people do not.

I think people look back through rose tinted glasses.

The Sims 3 base game is very bare. People complained because there was almost no family content, and most venues were Rabbit holes. The only non-rabbit hole venues behaved no different to houses (Park, Pool, Library, Gym). There were only a small handful of hobbies (Painting, Guitar, Gardening, Fishing, Writing).

It's a decent base, but a complete game it is not.

I don't think there was anyone who be happy with just the Sims 1 base game either. There was next to nothing in that game, just a concept.

The Sims 2 base game is probably the most full, and the only base game where I could see people being happy for a long time without DLC.

Speaking as a Sims 3 fan: yes it’s complete. In the meaning that it made total sense when they announced the successor (and that was even before they released the last two EP’s). Nobody went “nooooo, how can they, there’s still so much we haven’t got yet!!” like I hear Sims 4 fans saying whenever someone mentions a Sims 5. Of course it’s always possible to continue piling up other content to the experience, but it’s complete alright.

(you keep forgetting by the way lots of people aren’t “looking back”, the old games are what they are playing)