Sims 4 Today vs. 2014-2017

I have been playing the sims since sims 1 and sims 3 - i find a huuuge improvement throughout the 3 games. I find the sims have emotions/feelings/likes and needs and can multitask - like they are sad/cold/upset/angry - makes more realistic and fun.

Also love the new world and weather makes it realistic and with holidays they have or make your own

I mostly play legacy type game - where there is family with grandparents and few generations - and have legacy house - so sims 4 is perfect for that and some good expansion packs

the only downfall no drums yet and cant make an offical band that im sad about, hope they bring them back

I feel they have a come along way from sims 1 - alot of changes and improvements - the packs are not perfect like sims 3 - could be bit better or add similar careers or items like bring them back

I've never been one to compare the different versions. I've appreciated each version for it's own strengths and if I had the time I'd still be playing the previous three versions.

I was happy with the The Sims 4 from the beginning and a lot has been added since then which has kept me interested. I was still playing The Sims 2 when I bought The Sims 4. Felt it was a welcomed change. For me the biggest improvements compared to The Sims 2 were being able to visit other households, additions like manage worlds and having surroundings around the lot to explore. The first two especially I find very useful for my playstyle (rotational).

I didn't have any gripes back then. I do now.

The good news: the missing core features like toddlers and pools have been added, more packs since then so more places to go and things to do.

The where did they go?: The special events such as Day of the Dead around Halloween, the plant sim thing, the do good things event, the concert they did a couple of years ago. They were fun and gave us and our sims something special to do.

The less than good news: was a bugfest then, is a bugfest now. Only more so thanks to packs that were shipped broken, 'enhancements' that have only made player lives more stressful when playing, patches and updates that have broken things that used to work properly, the bugged and broken things that have remained unfixed for years - especially the big ones like reverting to dirt plants, the EA app that seems to be universally loathed, it's still the same old not intended for the purpose engine at the bottom of it and which is becoming increasingly overloaded.

I never had many gripes with ts4 back then. I always loved it BUT I found it to be empty. I decided to take a break until more content was released. When I came back around the time of island living I fell in love with it. Had a lot of fun. Fast forward to today and I'm blown away by what the sims team have brought to this game and how it only keeps getting better and better. To be honest ts4 has loads of content, plenty I haven't done yet but at the same time I feel like it still needs more. More worlds, more objects, more interactions, more packs, more occults, more socials, more traits, more togetherness, more kid content etc. It's getting there but needs more ?

I went back and brought and played sims 3 some time ago because everyone was praising it so hard.
It was a GREAT game and I'm not a fan of comparing games. Every game is unique and nice for it's own reasons and there is no wrong one to love. But I just liked pretty much loved *almost* everything better about ts4. It just feels like the perfect game for me. If i had to choose the only thing I liked better about ts3 was pets, (omg it's a blast to control them) tons of traits, and the open world was an interesting experience. But that definitely wasn't enough to keep me from dropping it for ts4 again. And in my opinion when they do bring out things in ts4 it's the best version ever. Best infants, best toddlers, best werewolves, best vampires, and other things. Even the new dynamics and relationships are becoming the best. Multi tasking is a MUST. I don't feel like I could play a sims game without it now. I love it.

I also feel like the team has learned so much since the start of the game and everything is constantly improving. I rarely ever had bugs and still don't. The few I get is nothing extraordinary for a complex game and never diminishes my fun. Excited to see where ts4 keeps going from here! ???????

Sims 4 now feels like a much better game than it was at launch. As someone who loved to play sims 2, there were too many features missing at release to call the sims 4 a complete game at that point. I had no interest in that version of the game. Toddlers were the tuning point for me. When I found out that toddlers were added, I started playing Sims 4.

When it comes to content, I think the sims 4 has enough to be an enjoyable game. What sims 4 still lacks is freedom in certain areas. We can't edit the world. We can't choose lot placement. We can't change the climate of worlds. We can't edit the length of lifestages separately. We don't have a color wheel. The build mode swatch don't allow multiple channels like in the sims 2 (for example choosing bed sheets separate from bedframes) Sims 4 started strong with clubs we can edit but gives no options to change student clubs, werewolf packs,... . These are just a few examples where sims 4 feels very rigid compared to it's predecessors. The 'you rule' slogan from the launch is not that important anymore.

"simgirl1010;c-18244944" wrote:
I've never been one to compare the different versions. I've appreciated each version for it's own strengths and if I had the time I'd still be playing the previous three versions.

I have a good point there. Each version has it's own strengths and weaknesses. I do compare them at occasion but in general I try to enjoy sims 4 for it's own game. The transition from Sims 1 to 2 and from Sims 2 to 3 felt like an improvement. Sims 4 did not at launch but now it has reached a point where it feels like it is starting to reach it's potential.

The Sims 4 launched with an extremely weak base game.
They have slowly added back content that should have been there since the get-go.

I am behind in playing Growing Together, but what I have seen so far helps a lot for what I have felt the game needed.
All I need now to complete compatibility is an attraction system.

-Toddlers
-Infants
-Parenthood
-High school Years
-University
-Growing Together
-Sentiments

Have improved the game for me.
What remains is fixing game play mechanics that are broken, poorly implemented, or poorly conceived.

I want to cancel wants/wishes that I feel don't relate to my sim.
I want conquered fears to remain conquered, not return the next day or two.

There are still a few things I want:
-A modeling Career
-Hotels/BnB
-Bands (multiple music genres)
-Fairies
-Cars (don't care if compromises have to be made)
-Future Technology and time travel, even to the past
-Attraction to go along with compatibility

The game is feeling just about complete now.
With Life By You, Paralives, and Alterlife, entering into the ring, I feel EA really needs to fix the remaining issues simmmers are finding lacking or annoying in TS4, or they may find too many of their customers moving on to these other games instead of moving on to Project Rene.

I still have a lot of the same complaints I did back then. Some things have been fixed mainly toddlers infants and teens were finally made to feel more teen as well as elders finally have some gameplay of their own but many things remain the same.

- Worlds are still small overly stylized and uneditable so the player can't make them their own or truly build what they want because the team that created the world decided what was best for us instead of the player
- Retail is still a total joke
- Most expansions hardly expand anything beyond the new world they come with. Eco Living trash effects one world, apartments locked to City Living unless they decide to make them somewhere else not player choice, strays in only one world as well as High School and so on
- Sims still have little to no awareness of Sims and the world around them
- No real consequences Sims are always happy and best friends made a married couple fight and divorce seconds later they were chatting it up best buddies. Did I not just make them hate each other...
- We still have no cars
- Children have no game play not tied to an object or they can do in groups larger than 2 like ride bikes together play tag or macro polo.

I do compare all versions especially when the newest version has evolved from the previous version which incorporates old and new features which Sims 4 has not done. So, my gripes will continue to exist because Sims 4 was not built ground up and only exist because of a cancelled project in which they used those same assets from that project. In doing so may have placed some limitations on how EA/Maxis can use them, and this is what I got today a limitation on "I rule" and how creative I can be. Also, Ea/Maxis took away apps and features that was once available to its customers free of charge and in this version now charge its customers or put it behind a paywall and too date can't make a neighborhood, add lots or go beyond the primary colors. Another gripe is not allowing my systems to scale up and use my specs accordingly. EA/Maxis feels there should be one level of bells and whistles regardless of what the system has so my system cannot scale to what I am using. So those will always be my gripe and now the wait is on for seeing how they do Sims 5.