Sims Four Live Mode is Lacking
While I LOVE the aesthetics of the game and how it looks, actually PLAYING it is tedious and repetitive and boring. I don't know what it is. Is it the lot types and how the game codes them to play...
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I agree a lot with what your saying. Like we're getting all these packs and new gameplay, but does it actually make the game more fun? I don't feel like it does. However I bought Seasons yesterday and I have played like 10 hours in live mode ever since. It really adds a lot to the lives of the Sims and it gives you a sense of time
But before this pack I couldn't play at all. First there are so many bugs. The time not going right, Sims standing still, Sims walking through eachother, time management is very off, etc. I didn't have these problems with TS3. I could play in live mode for hours with only the base game in that iteration. Second I feel like for a fourth iteration the game misses many core elements. No vehicles, no regular NPC's, completely closed off worlds, no movie theatre, no shopping streets, no deep family ties, etc. I still don't feel like there is much to do outside of your lot, and I don't feel keen to go to another lot because I would be leaving other Sims behind. Idk I think that in the end when I have played all the Seasons I will be bored again. The game really has taken a few steps back in some areas where it should have taken ten steps forward.
I also don't really feel like The Sims Team wants to give us more options, better gameplay and needed bug fixes. They keep throwing packs at us and patches with stuff that should have already been in the game in the first place, which are also often riddled with bugs. But nothing of this actually fixes the core gameplay. I'm not surprised, but I don see myself being invested in live mode for another three years. That's why I spend most of my time building (which also needs way more attention).
But before this pack I couldn't play at all. First there are so many bugs. The time not going right, Sims standing still, Sims walking through eachother, time management is very off, etc. I didn't have these problems with TS3. I could play in live mode for hours with only the base game in that iteration. Second I feel like for a fourth iteration the game misses many core elements. No vehicles, no regular NPC's, completely closed off worlds, no movie theatre, no shopping streets, no deep family ties, etc. I still don't feel like there is much to do outside of your lot, and I don't feel keen to go to another lot because I would be leaving other Sims behind. Idk I think that in the end when I have played all the Seasons I will be bored again. The game really has taken a few steps back in some areas where it should have taken ten steps forward.
I also don't really feel like The Sims Team wants to give us more options, better gameplay and needed bug fixes. They keep throwing packs at us and patches with stuff that should have already been in the game in the first place, which are also often riddled with bugs. But nothing of this actually fixes the core gameplay. I'm not surprised, but I don see myself being invested in live mode for another three years. That's why I spend most of my time building (which also needs way more attention).
