The I'm Bored Thread

"SimTrippy;c-17255780" wrote:
Hmmm I think I've always had this in spurs with every sims game. There comes a time where I just really don't feel like telling any stories or building anything, so I move on to other games entirely. And sometimes I get burned out on playing games altogether and just read books for a few weeks to months instead until I get back into one or another game and the whole thing starts over again. Personally, I do believe it's normal to get kinda bored with something you do all the time.

Now, do I think TS4 is as innovative as TS2 was? No, neither was TS3 for me. I think TS3 took the franchise in interesting directions though, and was certainly bolder and more daring and inspired in its attempt than TS4, but I think with the emotion system you either like it or you don't. I still think it has the potential to be exciting, the problem is that EA/the devs constantly seem to forget it exists or that it was supposed to be a selling point. They should've given us many, many more negative emotions, and less positive buffs (or just very short-lasting ones) for things like decor or a fireplace. RoM suffers from this too - brilliant pack, really enjoying it, but I don't quite get why there are so few negative buffs from a sim using a negative spell on you or your spells failing altogether. TS4's biggest problem appears to be that they don't really think anything through. TS3 occasionally had that problem too, tbh, TS2 for me never did.

But I still burned out on TS2 as well, because sooner or later, you've just kinda done the same things over and over again. There are parts to the simulation that just won't ever interest me - just like some things IRL won't ever interest me. So that they're there and exist is great, but they just won't have a lasting effect on the way I play. Meaning I'll eventually keep going back to the same styles and stories and activities. I think when that happens, it's fine to go do or play or learn or see something else in life. And when you eventually get carried back to playing TS, it will be that much more rewarding, because you didn't try to force yourself playing it.

Yes this is very much how I feel. I'm having a lot of fun in the last few days with Sims 4. But then I had taken a break before ROM came out. It all comes and goes. When it comes I am very into it; when it goes, it's gone. I can have a lot of fun but there are lots of ways I think the Sims 4 can improve in terms of depth and gameplay.

However I think after playing anything for X00-X,000 hours boredom and burnout is a given. Even though I think Sims 2 was the best in terms of gameplay, because I played it so much, I can't go back and play it for any length of time.

I love simulation and building games and I doubt this will change. Just which games I play. For example I found this little indie title called "This Grand Life" which has been scratching a sim itch lately. Not creative, and kind of grindy, but in-depth in a way that would never be possible in the Sims. After that maybe I'll go back to Minecraft. My stepson tells me a lot has changed since the 4+ years I have played it. And in the midst of all this University will be released and I'll definitely be playing that for a while.