"Cinebar;c-18063549" wrote:
At some point I feel TS4 will have too much content (packs) for someone to actually enjoy every thing in every pack and though Maxis believes all this would keep a game 'fresh' and 'new' it's more like code upon code and people not really enjoying what they already have. And or no room or time to refresh the main features of the older packs and add new experiences to those features. Such as the club system may get some updates from other packs but not as much as was promised and or expected.
I personally think the game has aged particularly well as compared to it's predecessors, especially visually, due to the stylized art style, but also the gameplay. I'm a lot like Simgirl1010 in that regard, in that I do just still use the majority of the gameplay features from all the packs on and off.
But that said, I agree with this bit quoted above 110%. They have done far too little to fully mesh the packs. They haven't taken enough steps to not just add content, but integrate them with each other. Your example of club activities is a really good one. So much new stuff has been added in new packs without them making club activities for those things.
The same goes for Holidays and not making traditions that make sense from new game elements. And so many missed opportunities for adding aspirations that utilize elements of multiple game/expansion packs with elements that just would go well together for an aspiration.
I could go on and on and on listing all of the missed opportunities for better pack integration and combination.
I have mods, lots and lots of mods, that do a lot of those things, but I shouldn't
need to use mods for them.
