Talking Teenagers
Hey Simmers, Wow, it's been literally 3 years since I was on the forums, no lie. I've just been getting back into The Sims 4 over the past few days, and I have a serious question for you all... ...
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"Camkat;c-17376821" wrote:
I LOVE the legacy challenges. I'm actually on generation 7 of another legacy in TS3 and it's so much fun. I'm FINALLY starting to get a decent house.
I'm also doing a legacy challenge in TS4. I've got a mansion with every (major) skill up item available on the lot. 4 collections are complete. I've finished quite a few aspirations and there's over 1 million in the bank. I'm on generation 3... With the teens and children lacking game play, and millionaires with no wants for anything, I'm struggling to find a reason to go to generation 10 here.
I've currently gone 4 generations further in TS3 than TS4 to get to the same stage. Something feels broken with that.
The families themselves too feel so different. I am quite attached to my TS3 family. They feel dynamic and the characters are quirky. The kids and teens act like kids and teens. My TS4 family I'm pretty *meh*. They have no personalities and nothing really to different about any of them despite having very different traits and being different ages.
I'll probably quit my TS4 family now, or play it less. I'm nowhere near generation 10 but anything I do now is just excessive. It would be a different story I'm sure if I was attached to the characters and I'm just don't. I don't care about them because they don't make me want to care about them. *shrugs* I care about my family in TS3 though and can't wait to see what happens next with them.
I love legacy challenges too!! The furthest I ever got was about Generation 5 in a Sims 3 legacy I think... wow, that's really sad when you think about it hahaha. I need to do better XD But I always found that in TS3 the save files would get too corrupted :( I've started a legacy challenge in Sims 2 and Sims 4 before that went to gen 2 or 3, but again... I get distracted hahaha.
I find that the Sims 4 is better suited to short term "challenges", like the "rags to riches" movement or the "100 baby challenge" or the "black widow challenge" or things like that, than ongoing generational gameplay. And I think it is because after a long while of playing, the Sims honestly are just too similar, and it gets too repetitive. That's why I feel like deeper personalities (more traits / deeper traits, interests & hobbies, proper wants and fears etc) would really add so much to the game.
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