Sims 4 Not So Happy Play Thread & Neutral , No Bashing just your thought's

"Gruffman;14865886" wrote:
I wish there were more negative emotions ... or maybe the negative emotions were stronger.

I don't fully understand the hates children trait. While I don't expect a sim to be mean to his own child ... i don't think he should also just go around auto-hugging, cuddling and spontaneous acts of love. He gets tense around the friends of the child ... he loves to smash the dollhouse and make the kids cry ... but here champ, have a hug.

My insane sim isn't really insane ... sure he talks to himself a lot ... but if that is the definition of insanity then I am insane as well. And sure, his moods can quickly change ... but thats about it. Let him be obsessive ... let him do something crazy, let him decide its a good time to go jogging outside naked ... but no. He is insane cause a box says he is insane.

I wish they would just push the limits on the negative side. Let your hot-headed sims want to fight everything that passes by on the street when they are angry and not just angry walk all over the house. Let the gloomy sims stay all sad and gloomy and mope around and make others be miserable with them. Let the evil sims be evil ...

Let the darker sides out to play some.

Thank you for sharing Gruffman, I agree, the emotions of the sims needs to be fixed, so they can actually act the way they are suppose to.

"Cabelle1863;14865972" wrote:
I wish when I switch households (because I like to play rotationally), my sims would be where they need to be (work, school, etc.) instead of all standing in front of their house.

I wish I didn't have to deal with random romances with my played sims when I change households. If I wanted them to have a specific romance, I would initiate it. I don't like it when the game takes that choice from me.

I wish I had at least double the room in the worlds. I like to play a large variety of sims over multiple generations. In Sims 2, I bounce around from household to household and I really enjoy being able to play all the sims in my world.

I wish instead of culling (and relationship culling) being a thing that "works as intended" that it didn't exist at all. When I decided to play the Sims, I chose to upgrade and improve my computer as needed so that I could have the best gaming experience possible. I would rather continue to have that responsibility than a downgraded game.

I wish that the family tree worked correctly, and I wish we had community cemeteries so that I can see and enjoy for myself how my Sims world grows over time. The multi-generational history of my families and the town they live in is a big deal to me.

I wish the traits worked properly. Many of them seem to be just a name tag, not really impacting the gameplay. Emotions kind of take over and shunt any "personality" the sim is supposed to have to the side. It's frustrating, and it makes all my sims seem the same.

Yes they all seem to want to act the same way, and I agree, that can be annoying at times, thank you for sharing, :)

"thegummybear13;14865991" wrote:
I'm not happy because there's still no toddlers. Things have gotten so desperate that story tellers are phototshopping sims 2 babies and toddlers into their stories.Sad

Yes I have noticed that myself, that the baby & toddler pics are from previous games, none of the baby pics are from Sims 4, so yup that is sad indeed, thank you for your post.

"SiliClone;14866269" wrote:
Another thing I dislike A LOT, the "wants to flirt with"... another post made me think about this. I had a sim who married a childhood friend, and they where living at his parent house for a couple of days because I wanted his elder parents to know their daughter in law. Suddenly his father rolled the wish to flirt with his son's fiancée... over and over again, because he was "friend" with her. I found it disgusting, she was always playing at his house as a child and he was already an adult at that time.. "flirt with" just because they are friend is something I don't understand, especially for married Sims.

Ya that would of upset me as well, I like to play my sims to be faithful and loving to only their spouses, it makes me wonder just why they made it so the sims would act like this, it is not fun when you can not control what your sims are doing, yup.
PS thank you for your post as well, :)

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We are not here to tell the Guru's ,EA or Maxis anything, so they do not have to listen or do anything, this thread is for those of us Who need to vent and just talk bout what is bothering them with the games, I made this thread to help other's like Myself, who get so frustrated with no where to go and vent, again as long as we keep this civil and no bashing, then there should be no reason to take this thread down, thank you for your post.

I'm so happy I have the Sims 3.
I feel bad for simmers who couldn't play Sims 3 due to technical difficulties. Missing out man.
Pity.

The Sims 4 is really boring to me. There's not a lot to do. At least interesting things for me to do. The half baked features ruin it to me. Aspirations are not fun..."purchase 30 columns"..yay, fun. :| Whims are dumb too .."Buy a toy"..when Sim "A" clearly doesn't have children...mmhmm, smarter sims. :|

I like how we have rocket ships, yet no cars. I also like how the slogan is "You Rule"..yet, when I play rotational my inactive sims have love interests with the whole town.

"There's more sims walking the neighborhoods" they say. Yeah, because a parade of sims walking through suburbia makes perfect sense. "There's no lag" they say. Yeah, given that everything is stripped from the game there shouldn't be. But ya know, I sure love dem bugs! Five stars to the Sims 4 Tester team. :|

I want to rant more but what's the point? We spoon feed the team improvements but nothing significant changes. Feedback here is as useless as a glass hammer this time around.

In all IMO, The Sims 4 is the "Special Fred" of the franchise.

"To7m;14866837" wrote:

"BlueBlack007;14866795" wrote:

"To7m;14866465" wrote:
Don't have a problem with the thread. Sick and tired of telling who ever (EA, Maxis, Guru's)* what is wrong with this game and getting no where. But you know what, a company can only listen for so long without action before there will be consequences.

Not really much else to say.

--T

ETA: *

We are not here to tell the Guru's ,EA or Maxis anything, so they do not have to listen or do anything, this thread is for those of us Who need to vent and just talk bout what is bothering them with the games, I made this thread to help other's like Myself, who get so frustrated with no where to go and vent, again as long as we keep this civil and no bashing, then there should be no reason to take this thread down, thank you for your post.

Did you miss the part where I agreed there was no problem with this thread?

Well, I don't know about you, but EA, Maxis and the Gurus are *exactly* who we need to be talking to if you want to see *any* kind of improvement in this game. Just venting for the sake of it gets nobody anywhere and there are plenty of negative places to post on this site, trust me, I've probably commented on them lol.

--T

Really? I have not seen any other post's of late to be able to vent on, the only one's I have seen is for Happy people, I did post once on another post My feelings about some of the stuff in the game, and was attacked for it, So I think on My post, many will be able to vent and not be judged or attacked for it, cause that is what this post is for , to vent out your frustrations about the game, and what problems you are having with it, so maybe other's can help, and as far as talking to the Guru's and EA and Maxis, I am sure if they see the problem's others are having with game on this post, they will be able to work on fixing it, We can only hope anyway.

"meeoun;14866864" wrote:
I'm so happy I have the Sims 3.
I feel bad for simmers who couldn't play Sims 3 due to technical difficulties. Missing out man.
Pity.

The Sims 4 is really boring to me. There's not a lot to do. At least interesting things for me to do. The half baked features ruin it to me. Aspirations are not fun..."purchase 30 columns"..yay, fun. :| Whims are dumb too .."Buy a toy"..when Sim "A" clearly doesn't have children...mmhmm, smarter sims. :|

I like how we have rocket ships, yet no cars. I also like how the slogan is "You Rule"..yet, when I play rotational my inactive sims have love interests with the whole town.

"There's more sims walking the neighborhoods" they say. Yeah, because a parade of sims walking through suburbia makes perfect sense. "There's no lag" they say. Yeah, given that everything is stripped from the game there shouldn't be. But ya know, I sure love dem bugs! Five stars to the Sims 4 Tester team. :|

I want to rant more but what's the point? We spoon feed the team improvements but nothing significant changes. Feedback here is as useless as a glass hammer this time around.

In all IMO, The Sims 4 is the "Special Fred" of the franchise.

Yes Sims 4 has a lot of problem's that need to be fixed, thank you for your post.

Haven't got much to add to this topic relating to the content, but I do belong here. Unfortunately.

I am kind of neutral, kind of not so happy, a little of both I guess. I think I do have a lot of problems with the game though so maybe I am a not so happy simmer more than neutral. I was excited about Dine Out but the more info I get about features I'm starting to realize that the people making the game are not going the extra mile with small details and depth overall. Like not being able to work every position when running a restaurant, that's incredibly lazy imo and should have been a detail that was added. What are we supposed to do when running a restaurant as a manager? Just sit there and watch npc's basically run it for us. I get that we can hire/fire/set menu etc but after that it just seems like we will sit there and what talk to people eating there or stand around? It's not out yet though so I should probably wait and see how it works before I'm to critical.

The lack of cohesion between packs is what I'm having a problem with(minus Dine out.) For example, with Get To Work they added retail and active careers, why did it stop there after that pack? Why not with Spa Day, you can own a spa now as a new type of business, that's expanding game play, features, meshing ep's/gp's together. Why wasn't I able to own a club, a coffee shop when Get Together came out? It's like everything that comes out is a stand alone game with all new features and completely makes the last thing you bought irrelevant. A new ep comes out it's like ok it's time to move on to the new content and the past content is now just unimportant because it has nothing to do with or it does not work with the new content. I'm not talking about clubs/groups whatever, ya they were a nice idea but I'm talking about adding in new venue types and not expanding on the features from the previous expansion(which would be owning and running a venue.)

On top of that why no new careers when Get Together came out? They put in active careers so why wasn't that expanded? Careers in general how many have we gotten since the base game was released? Just look and you'll see, it's not a lot and that's bs. The careers we do have well some of them are great but some of them are silly. Why the hell have we not gotten many new careers? How am I supposed to create a diverse neighborhood and stories when all of my sims have the same careers(because I'm not interested in having a bunch of secret agents or villainous bad guys, I'm not 12.) I don't consider retail anything but one option for a career(which is a broken mess of a system anyways) and just because I can run different types of shops doesn't change that it's just one feature. Where is the expansion of careers? I don't want every career to be active, although it would make sense for them to make more active careers and continue to expand on that but just MORE careers to create a community of sims that have different types of lives.

How many new aspirations have we gotten, in almost 2 years? How many new skills have we gotten, in almost 2 years? How many new traits have we gotten, in almost 2 years? Not a lot, how do they expect their players to be invested in the game when there isn't that much stuff to be invested in? When beyond the features of the base game there has been minimal expansion on basic features. It's like after a couple weeks of something new coming out you've explored all of it and you're right back here on the forums saying "when can we get more content?" How long is it going to take to actually fill the voids of the base game, you'd think by now there has been a lot of time to fill in those things but nope it's still going in the same direction it started out with, shallow, lackluster and with no longevity of entertaining features. Why is it that I was completely content waiting on expansions in the other sims games? I felt there were many ways to play and many new things to do, my game play was always expanded on, there was longevity in every new ep. Now it's like ok I played this for a week and I think I've done everything so when is the next thing coming out to entertain me for a week.

I don't like the whole approach to this iteration of the franchise. The whole "completely new ideas" thing is just untrue, I haven't seen any new ideas really, where are they? Is active careers a new idea? No(Ambitions.) Is owning a business a new idea? No(Open For Business.) Is clubs a new idea? Could be considered one but I'd say it was more of an expanded idea upon the original idea of jock/nerd/rebel. Are careers a new idea? No, careers are in every game. Is Outdoor Retreat a new idea? No and at least in the past with a vacation it was a lot more fleshed out. Spa day? well we've had a spa before, now we can go there and do a few things, woohoo, except own and run one or work at one(boooo.) There are no new ideas here, it's still the same sim stuff, it's just in the past there were details and depth and now they just scratch the surface and hand out a watered down version of the past ideas. I don't have a problem with new ideas if they're actually new, what I do have a problem with is taking features from previous games that everyone loved and only doing them half as good as they did before.

My opinion of what overall is really wrong with the game is that they spent just way to much time with the emotions crap(that is almost completely irrelevant for me because I've come to realize it has no real actual impact on my game or it's just completely broken.) They spent a lot of time on the sims themselves(which is great) and neglected the environment our sims live and thrive in(not so great and that's where the void is.) I'm not talking about open world or any crap like that, I'm talking about the lives we build for our sims and the interaction between sims through their every day lives: i.e, careers/families/diverse communities(because of careers/environments they live in, not everyone lives in a pretty little suburb), lack of space to build communities and have community lots for our sims to interact on, lack of places to have interesting and meaningful interactions to build stories(why can't my sim go to the hospital if they are sick and meet that doctor working there that just so happens to be my other sim and form a relationship/story, why can't my sim go to a retail lot and meet my other sim that owns it and create a meaningful relationship etc.) The sims is about making stories/creating something, it's not a rpg, a mmo, a moba, a rts, a fps, it's a life simulator and when I'm being given limited tools to really create that life then well that's just not what it is anymore.

I understand some may not agree with me and that's fine but this is my opinion and well I'm not going to argue about it because you may not feel the same, that's kind of what an opinion is.