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 can imagine how boring it gets for rotational players.
I only control one household through generations of the same family and I somehow manage to make each heir distinct and unique. Every heir gets the world remodeled for them, every heir does something different for a living, lives in a different house, they have drastically different stories, motivations. That's only because playing one household makes the gameplay slower and you don't end up discovering every single gameplay aspect too quickly, having 60 different saves and 500 households. I also have autonomy off so I don't really witness the robotic go-to actions people report, like using the computer all the time. Almost 4 years in and I still have things to try out in this game but I don't kid myself that it's not strictly because of my specific playstyle. Playing like I see other people do would make me uninstall TS4 in 2015 and Id never purchase any DLC after GTW.
I want to try rotating sometimes, control the whole town like I used to do in TS2, but I just know it wouldn't work out. My excitement would fizzle out so quickly that spending hours and hours setting everything up wouldn't even be worth it.
Which is sad, because even though I do my best to keep my gameplay interesting and my sims unique, I do get bored of them sometimes. And I find myself wanting to create another save, only to ask myself "what for, though? To get more of what you just got bored of?"
Luckily TS2, with a little bit of effort, can still be played today. That's the game I get the most satisfaction out of like you @fullspiral .
I've accepted this franchise is done. I believe they really haven't started any work on TS5.
I only control one household through generations of the same family and I somehow manage to make each heir distinct and unique. Every heir gets the world remodeled for them, every heir does something different for a living, lives in a different house, they have drastically different stories, motivations. That's only because playing one household makes the gameplay slower and you don't end up discovering every single gameplay aspect too quickly, having 60 different saves and 500 households. I also have autonomy off so I don't really witness the robotic go-to actions people report, like using the computer all the time. Almost 4 years in and I still have things to try out in this game but I don't kid myself that it's not strictly because of my specific playstyle. Playing like I see other people do would make me uninstall TS4 in 2015 and Id never purchase any DLC after GTW.
I want to try rotating sometimes, control the whole town like I used to do in TS2, but I just know it wouldn't work out. My excitement would fizzle out so quickly that spending hours and hours setting everything up wouldn't even be worth it.
Which is sad, because even though I do my best to keep my gameplay interesting and my sims unique, I do get bored of them sometimes. And I find myself wanting to create another save, only to ask myself "what for, though? To get more of what you just got bored of?"
Luckily TS2, with a little bit of effort, can still be played today. That's the game I get the most satisfaction out of like you @fullspiral .
I've accepted this franchise is done. I believe they really haven't started any work on TS5.
