The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

In some future-but-soon-patch, could you please make the sim hold still when I am trying to choose makeup? During makeup and earrings it seems that they move their faces and change expressions ten times more than any other sim-creation movements. It is pretty frustrating.

Thanks for asking for feedback, and thank you for all your hard work to make this game come alive.

No option to adopt???? My sims are lesbians, and I used to could adopt. Do not see an option for that. At least make a fertility clinic!! And where's the map? I can't see the whole town to let my sims go anywhere. All I can see is their poor house.

I was nervous at first, but this game is pretty great! No bugs, no lag,took less than 20 minutes to download, and it doesn't take much space.
My only gripe is with the town map, other than that this is a cool game! There are a lot of side functions that make for great game play ! Another plus is that the menu is exactly the same as SimCity's!

What you liked
◊ Multitasking
◊ Emotions/Feeling: I also like that certain emotions unlock different interactions
◊ Build Mode: Still getting used to it, but I think it's a major improvement over Sims 3
◊ Buy Mode: Again, still getting used to it, but I like the overall design better
◊ Graphics
◊ Landscaping Looks Awesome in Willow Creek (haven't played Oasis Spring yet)
◊ Sims' Animation
◊ CAS
◊ Higher Customization of Voices & Sims' bodies
◊ Sims 1-3 Characters Return
◊ Moodlets Remain
◊ Memory system MUCH better than it was in Sims 3
◊ Adjustments to Athletic Skill (Push Ups, Etc)

What you didn't like
◊ No toddlers
◊ No cars, bus, carpool
◊ Neighbors' houses require loading screen -- albeit, the loading time was really short for me
◊ Careers somewhat limited -- miss the medical career
◊ Baby stays in the bassinet, would like to be able to do more with the baby with an expansion pack (i.e. take strolls, hold in rocking chair, be able to carry it around with you with one of those strap on baby carriers)
◊ Limited color options in buy mode

Suggestions?
◊ Nothing that I don't think will likely come with an expansion pack in the future.

Overall thoughts?
◊ Amazing, I really love the new features and the updated graphics. My Sims truly feel like individuals now and I love how easy it is to customize your Sims this time around. It takes a little getting used to, but it was worth it to me. I can tell a lot of work went into this and I was amazed at how much landscaping was done in the areas between the houses. I just love the views around my Sims' houses and really look forward to seeing more as I continue to explore the game.

So, Im in my 30's and have been playing Sims since I was a kid. I am a loyal fan, but not once have I ever felt my complaint bothered me enough to go on the forums and write about it. Not until Sims 4, that is. I have had the game for one day and am so disappointed with it that Im considering not continuing with it since the Sims 3 is so much better.

Things I like:
More styles, better graphics, more options on changing features of the people, and a few other minor things I cant really remember because they were not that much better then anything in Sims 3. Not really much else really hit my radar.

Things I dislike (GREATLY):
No toddlers. Why? It was one of the best features of the game. If your going to give us the "age up" option then keep the option to go through the toddler stage. Whomever decided to cut out the toddler stage should be fired immediately.

Who else needs to be fired? Whoever came up with the idea to scrap the family tree. WHY??? I sat scratching my head for a full twenty minutes, ticked off and baffled by the missing genealogy tree. Why in the world would you decide to scrap that when the whole game is about creating people and families?? There are so many reasons why I liked the family tree that it would take me too long to type it up, but that was a horrible decision to scrap that. Fire someone. Immediately.

Now the next think that ticked me off was the fact that you got rid of the option to move or kick someone out. I can promise you that NO ONE wants to go to an edit screen to move someone out. Why complicate it like that when you had it perfected in Sims 3?? WHY?? Fire someone for that. it's terribly annoying.

The neighborhood is the next thing I hate. I can also promise you that NO ONE wants to go to a loading screen, when in the past you could just scroll around the neighborhood. That change (along with a million others in the game that were changed to make things more complicated) blows my mind. It's terrible. The neighborhood is small and I spend a large amount of time staring at a loading screen. BORING!!!!

I feel like their is no point to making families anymore, since you can't really keep track of them like you could with the family tree. I hate also that babies don't have personalities. Why have you guys not perfected this by now?

My main complaint is that I feel like Sims 4 should have been an improvement from Sims 3, and it's not. It's like the time I bought Sims Medieval, MAJORLY disappointing. You have very few improvements, and a lot of things that you just went completely backwards on. You should have taken the improvements that were made on Sims 3, and then made Sims 4 even better by adding MORE improvements. That's the way the Sims games have always been made. The next edition out is better then the last.

Last thing that stinks (there were a HUGE amount of things that should be minor but because I was used to them improving the game so much in Sims 3 and miss them, they are now major problems for me) was that the scroll doesn't work when you try to go down. Every other direction, but not down. Then, I have ALWAYS hated birds eye view and have NEVER played in I. Now I have no other option. You took a LARGE number of play options away, and that was a bad decision.

Now that I have to wait for the town to load whenever I want to go anywhere I find that I am no longer going anywhere, and I am so bored. Ive only have the game for one day. I feel like the game makers decided to just completely scrap everything positive they did in Sims 3 and just start over. I get that this is a base game, but why is it so much LESS then what we got with the Sims 3 base game? It's like the people who made this game decided they gave us too much with the Sim 3 game, so they decided to go back and create a Sims base game that is more like Sims 2. I just can't get over how boring the game is. There is pretty much nothing to do in it.

I agree with the other commenters who said it feels like the meters go down a lot faster. I have no time to do anything other then shower, pee, eat, and sleep. You can't ask people to pay $60 for a base game that gives less then the previous version's base game. That is INSANITY and makes me feel like the makers have gotten greedy. Why take away so many of the careers, objects ( I am sick of washing dishes), life stages, and extras that made the game more user friendly and fun. I feel like I got completely ripped off, and I am editing this because after another day of playing I a even more angry and frustrated. This version of the Sims game is complete RUBISH.

My biggest question? WHAT HAPPENED??? I feel like the makers of this game just didn't give a care about anything that the buyers wanted or cared about. Biggest disappointment ever. Even worse then Sims Medieval, and that was a major bomb.

Dear Makers: Do everyone a favor and LISTEN to the people who write on the forums and take your surveys. We are telling you EXACTLY what we want, and it's pretty much the same requests being asked over and over.

What I liked:
Gameplay feels solid, I genuinely enjoy this game. (Looking at reviews it makes me think those reviewers never actually played the game) don't trust metacritic guys.
Graphics are nice, and game is smooth. (sims 3 was smooth for me though, so not much of a change)
Building has been improved greatly, feels great (reminds me of spore actually)
The UI is stellar once you get used to it.

What I didnt Like:
To Be honest the 2 things that gripe me about this game is a: The aspirations are far too easy to accomplish, took me two days to fulfill my sims aspiration..... (in game) seriously, only 2 days. In the sims 3 it took your sims entire life. It doesnt feel liek a real accomplishment.
And the removal of ghosts, why did you remove ghosts they were such a cool story aspect (especially in sims 2, in sims 3 they felt tacked on)

Overall Thoughts: Its a good game, but it could be improved...quite a bit.

I played for about 2 hours last night, and today for about 4. I have the same issues with the camera noted by others; when my Sim was fishing, I couldn't zoom in on her to see what she caught. Game play is smoother, and I like that you don't spend so much time waiting for them to finish doing something that you don't have time for your Sims to actually have fun. There's less wasted time in that there's no driving to work, but after work the Sims come right home, whereas in Sims 3 you had the option to stay in town and eat at a restaurant or catch a movie. I still don't get how the Sims leave their neighborhood....there's no World View button to choose a venue or destination - what am I missing? I got pretty bored just playing in the neighborhood area around my Sim's home, but didn't know how to go anywhere else. There's a lot more Sim interaction, which is great for game play. I also like the new CAS, so much easier.....but all of the Sims look the same after a while because of the limited hair and clothing options...take a look at the Sims in the Gallery and you'll see what I mean. I'm not thrilled with their cartoony look. I miss CASt dearly! I loved all of the creative options and making patterns that could be utilized in game. :'( On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest, after my limited initial game play, I'd have to give it a 7. Hopefully that will improve as I learn how to navigate in the game and visit venues and other neighborhoods.

What you liked:

Better graphics, sims look more alive than in 3. They creeped me out in sims 3.

CAS is better than ever in terms of making sims look like real people.

I like the interactions with other sims more and house building is rather amazing.

The load times seem way better than sims 2, but maybe that's because I had so much CC.

There are a lot of new decorations and I haven't even had a chance to see it all yet.

The multitasking really is awesome though and had to LOL when my sim ordered pizza on the toilet.


What you didn't like:

The new baby interactions while interesting made the baby seem more like an object rather than a family member. It's tied to it's crib and you can't carry it around with you or taking the baby on walks from what I can tell. I don't like that there are no toddlers, I find the family aspect of this game greatly lacking, there should have been MORE stages of life, not less.

I can't stand that there are no pools, swimming, or water interactions. And I guess there is no weather in this game either. I would like to see some thunderstorms and property damage from extreme weather conditions.

And where is the gardener? Watering all my plants alone is time consuming. My sim would like a bicycle if there are to be no cars, would be nice to see her leave the property rather than just vanishing. I also can't find the option to send my sim to work, though they have been good at sending themselves.

I am not sure I like how when you purchase books they are in your inventory and have to be manually put into the bookshelf. Maybe I am missing something here but it seems way to time consuming.


Suggestions?:

Um, they really need to go back to sims 2 in terms of family dynamics and aging. New versions of the sims should have more family options, not less, they need to make children part of the family again and not try to skip over that part as many of us enjoy the idea of babies and spending time teaching our toddlers skills.

I always felt there should be MORE life stages (10 stages) baby, toddler, young child, child, preteen, teen, young adult, adult, middle age, and elderly. To me that would be a more realistic age range and I am very disappointed at the execution of this in Sims 4. The teens are the same height as adults *facedesks*, they really need to figure out height adjustment for sims.


Overall thoughts?

I think that graphics wise this is much better than I expected. I want to see the expansions address all the issues I listed above so I can have the experiences I had in Sims 2 which, sadly, this game falls short of its predecessor in many aspects. I think this is a good baseline, but they should not have released the game without the family aspect being much more rich and in depth than what I am experiencing.

What's up with the search function in the gallery? Always comes up empty! When I click the #thesims4lb on the home page in trending topics, I should see the #thesims4lb content but it comes up empty and I KNOW that stuff is there, so what gives?

OK it's because it defaults to Maxis instead of "All" - you should fix that :)

I have been a simmer since day one and I feel like I just paid $70 for the original game.
Okay, first the good news. I do like the multi-tasking and how they handle Sims pregnancies...no more stupid ugly maternity clothes.
I like the fact that kids can start learning skills early.

That's it on the good stuff so far...I have played about 11 hours.

My biggest beefs are the lack of customization. In Sims3 I re-colored everything. Not only is there no color wheel to custom blend colors and fabrics, there are only a couple of color choices and none of them are to my liking.
The filters in CAS are annoying.
The edge rolling is obnoxious and difficult, you can't tilt the scene...only get 2 view choices.
No pools...no swimming whatsoever.
No toddlers.
No dishwasher or trash compactor, and my Sim refuses to use the front door. They only go out the back door, and they also refuse to clean their dishes in the kitchen...they only take the dishes to the bathroom.
No repair person...option only is to repair yourself or replace.
The lots are all too small, I usually only build in minimum 30x40, but prefer 64x64.
Can't change ground elevation.
No town. No bookstore, no grocery store, no City Hall.
No political career.
The eyelashes on all the Sims, especially long lashes are fugly. Nothing but heavy solid lines.
All of the reward items for being a loyal Sims player and buying all their expansion packs in the last version are cheap and cheesy. I feel cheated.
The plants mature too quickly, and you can't eat them raw.
No Mod file...I haven't found any way to put custom music into the game yet and I really don't like the Sims music.

I realize this is a base game, but the base Sims3 was ten times better, and about $30 less.
I feel cheated. Truly, seriously cheated.