The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

> @SimGuruHydra said:
> Happy The Sims 4 Launch week!
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> For Simmers who are playing TS4 - we invite you to share your feedback in this sticky.
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> Share: * What you liked
> * What you didn't like
> * Suggestions?
> * Overall thoughts?
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What I didn't like?

Well, I didn't like the fact there is no pools, no toddlers, I can't really do much with my baby like in sims 3, no garages, no auto roof (unless I am missing it) the towns seem to small, I can't see businesses, schools, etc. It really just makes everything feel so empty. Oh, and I've been playing since 11 AM..my sims has yet to meet another teen / child sim..

Suggestions?

Please add in those things..they are what made Sims 3 enjoyable. Toddlers should have been there, as well as the pools and garages..

Overall Thoughts?

Seems like a large downgrade from Sims 3 to me, with losing most of what I will enjoy. I honestly wish I had waited to spend 80$ for it..I was not expecting a lot of stuff to be cut like that (especially the small towns...looking at Willow Creek right now and I see 13 prebuilt houses and three lots. No school, one large park, no town hall)

The game really just feels empty right now, and I hope you can bring that stuff back..

Overall I am loving The Sims 4...

What I like...

- Create a Sim is awesome and we have some really good clothing choices
- It runs so smoothly on my computer and loading and save times are quick as well
- Love the new build mode
- I love how the counters and upper cabinets are working now
- I love the gallery

What I like but could probably be tweaked a bit...

- I like the ideas of the neighborhoods, I just wish there were more towns than just Oasis Springs and Willow Creek.. I guess maybe down the road in an expansion or store download that might happen (if there is a store type thing)
- I like how sims gain weight if they don't eat healthy but its a little drastic and hard to get their weight back to normal.


What I do not like ...
- Where are the dishwashers?
- Lack of pools of course (broken record I'm sure)
- I miss vehicles... or at least vehicles that are decorative for in our yards (expansion?)
- I miss pets (expansion?)
- I miss weather (expansion?)
- The lack of jobs... where are the police, medical, science, military, education, musician career tracks (probably others I miss too but those are just a few)?

"KittyRobbie;12560497" wrote:

"MsHoneyluv21;12557125" wrote:
I cant edge scroll down and I noticed im not the only one.

I had this problem too but the trick is to not move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen. If you hover the mouse just above the thin little bar part of the UI at the bottom, it should turn in to the magnifying glass or whatever it is, and then let the edge scrolling begin.

Thank you for that! It was driving me crazy :s It will be odd having to be precise on mouse placement on that one edge, but I guess I can see why they did it given that's where the UI controls are as well. Although I don't remember having to do that in Sims 3...

Anyway - my first thoughts on TS4... I've only had the game about 2 1/2 hours and really only "played" for about 20 minutes - mostly tutorial stuff and exploring the small public space in the neighborhood where my house is. The rest of the time I was trying to fool around with build/buy mode. But, here are my first impressions:

*While outside of my house (even in my own yard) I was approached by multiple sims; however, the neighborhood public space was not "full of people" as has been stated by official EA demos and elsewhere. I could see one or two sims around at any given time. Not that much different from Sims 3 for me. Most of the people were nice to talk to, but one approached just to make an insulting comment which was annoying. My sim started to get riled up in return, and I had to re-direct her before her mood went south. (EMOTIONS!)
*The world is really lovely to look at. I like the details on the plants. Probably more than I liked the early Sims 3 plants. Not a huge fan of the terrain paints though. Need some more variety (less neon) there. And some lower cost plants would be nice, too. Missing my $1 hydrangea for starter homes :D
*Excited to get into the building tools. (will have to be after work tomorrow *cry*) The extra details on the buildings like roof trims and friezes are much appreciated. From what I can see, the EA basic in-game houses are MUCH improved over Sims 3.
*Nice variety of decor items in the base game, and on first glance they look much nicer than the base game decor items we had in Sims 3. Unfortunately, the prices are even more unrealistic than in TS3 - $50 for a toilet paper roll. Really? And the prices only go up from there.
*In CAS - the clothes for kids are SO cute! HUGE improvement over Sims 3.
*Fishing is weird - you click on a fishing sign not on the water to fish. Small detail, but an odd game design choice IMO. I've done farming/fishing legacies in Sims 3, so this was not an insignificant detail to me.
*My sim wants to garden as an aspiration, but there were no obvious seed collectibles around the neighborhood, and, of course, no market to buy plants from; so not really sure how that's going to work as of yet. I guess I'll figure it out eventually unless a helpful tutorial pops up soon.
*I was pleasantly surprised by the number of design options on SOME of the build items. Some are still rather limited, and CASt is dearly missed despite having 15-20 color combos to pick on one dining chair I saw.
*The annoying white outline around sims and objects when you mouse over them is not as bad as I thought it would be from viewing the demos. I still would like the option to turn it off, but it's not terrible. The same with the interface noises. The "click" sounded irritating on the demos, but it didn't seem as noticeable when I was controlling it.
*"Worlds" are VERY small. There's no getting around that fact. Even with the options of the two "worlds" together... still seems VERY small compared to just Sunset Valley in Sims 3.
*Somehow, this does not really feel like a PC game to me. I don't know if it's the graphics or the UI or the world structure... but it's something. I'm strictly a PC gamer - no consoles. Ever. But I have played some Facebook/online games. TS4 just doesn't have the same PC feel I'm used to. Call me crazy, but when I pay $60 for a PC game, I don't want it to feel like a casual game or console game interface. And I really think it does, just a little bit.

Overall so far - 6/10. I think it has potential for enjoyable game play. I'm a big RPG fan, too; so some of the mini-goals actually appeal to me. As long as they are truly optional and don't affect my sim's EMOTIONS, that is. I haven't left my house or public space neighborhood yet in true gameplay, so I'm still not sure how I'll feel about the loading screens when I'm immersed in a family. Reserving judgement on that. And I've not tried to design my own house from scratch, so reserving judgement on the full build/buy options as well (which is a HUGE part of how I enjoy The Sims).

I'll post more after I've played more :smiley:

> @renzilla said:
> lizcardoso You can switch between Sims in different lots.

Not what I meant. I wanted to switch between sims in the same household. For example when one goes to the gym, the other is grayed out and it gives options like, "Take care of self" or something similar.

I feel like this is going to be a repeat of a lot of people's opinions, but I want to throw mine out there after playing for 6+ hours now.

I dislike:
- the lack of toddler; I know a lot of people find them to be annoying but I feel as though removing them completely from the game removes a certain amount of realism that I've come to love. It is just odd to start out as an infant and then suddenly become a child one day.
- lack of pools; not a HUGE issue for me, personally I didn't use pools often with my sims but it was a nice option to add aesthetics to a build.
- The inability to control sims once you send one sim to a different location
- The lack of cars and dishwashers; these are things also are mainly used for aesthetic purposes but I do miss them. I will be very annoyed if future EPs include any of the above mentioned items because I feel as though these should be things included in the base game.
- Too many graphics issues; I myself am getting mutated babies along with HUNDREDS (if not more) of other people. I could understand if a small percentage of people where having graphics card issues but the vast majority are and I think this is something that should have been caught in the game development phase. Especially since a lot of people with newer cards/computers are experiencing the problems.
-I feel as though too much time is being spent on basic function; every time I turn around I feel like I'm feeding my sims or sending it to the bathroom. This goes back to what other's have said... that time is moving too quickly and thus you just do not have a lot of time in a day to accomplish much. My sims that work spend their work days working, and are lucky to eat and relieve themselves before bed.
- Inability to customize; I feel like a HUGE step has been taken back removing the ability to choose whichever color/pattern I'd like to use on an item, as well as hair/makeup. It feels too pre-set at static. It has a feeling of playing a game on my iphone which I do not like at all
- Lack of content; I feel as though Sims 4 released with the least amount of in game content. Whether it be hair/clothes/items.

What I like:
- Multitasking; not much to say here... its a great ingratiation and something I've been looking forward to for years.
- Pregnancy; I am SO glad that we can finally allow our sims to wear their everyday clothes whilst pregnant, and that we can even change their clothes while being pregnant. This is a fantastic incorporation. I also love being able to take a pregnancy test to find out if my Sim is pregnant, and the moodlet which tells me what trimester my sim is currently in.
- Babies; I haven't spent much time with them (because of the bugs) but I do enjoy the option to breast feed and the various other interactions included. From what I can see sims babies are quite cute again, unlike the pod-like babies from Sims 3. I'm excited to play with them when I finally resolve the issue with my babies in game.
- Smoothness/ease of playing; As a simmer who has been playing Sims games for 14+ years I have become very use to the way that Sims games are played. Sitting down with the Sims 4 was a little hit or miss at first, but I found after playing for a few hours that everything is very intuitive. From building homes to controlling sims. My game runs beautifully, with very little loading times.
- New Buy/Build mode; like I said before, it took me a while to get use to the new format, but now that I am I can see that everything is easy to find and use. I haven't had any issues with either modes thus far.
- CAS; I feel as though this is everyone's genuinely happy with the changes made in CAS.

Conclusion: I would see that I am happy with my purchase, but bitter about quite a few thing. I feel as though maybe I should have waited a few months for bugs to get worked out before buying the game. I feel as though there is a lot of work to be done, and that the overall game seemed a bit rushed. I feel as though as players we gave up a lot of content in order to have a smoother game. Which, I am okay with so long as the things we are missing are later integrated back into the game. I would recommend Sims 4 to my friend that have not played any Sims games before, as I think they would enjoy it greatly. However my friends that know and love the franchise, I perhaps wouldn't. It is the first game in the series that feels like something new entirely.

What I like - The overall look of the game. I always liked it, I didn't have to warm up to it
The fact that maternity wear is no more!
I also like how lots are populated now, and doesn't feel so empty.
To me it seems like the relationships between parents and their children is more in-depth this time around, which I love.
I'm very pleased with the base game's clothing, it's very up to date & cute.
Building a house is very easy now, which I was never a builder so this makes me pretty happy.

What I dislike - No toddlers, which I'm only saying because I am typically a legacy player.
The closed world, in all honesty it's very annoying seeing a loading screen every time I send my sim somewhere.
Having to go through CAS before getting into the game, if anyone knows another way, please let me know.

Overall thoughts - It's a very good game, and I hope that with patches and EPs/SP it will become an amazing new generation for the Sims.

So far this game seems like a rehashed Sims 2. Very disappointing to see this game as it is. Especially since it cost $70.00 We asked for open worlds a long long time ago. Now its back to the old sims stile. No shopping no bookstore, no restaurants, just a couple hangout spots. I do like the way the Sims communicate and such, much better where that is concerned.

I pretty well agree with most of the other user comments. I really like the game so far, its been a little confusing to get the hang of it but I have a lot of the controls pretty well sorted out. I really enjoy the whole realism to it etc.
What I would like is a semi open world.. where you can go to your neighbours and there wont be a loading screen etc. But to travel to venues there could be. I miss carpool, cars, bus' also. Toddlers is by far one of the things I miss the most though. They were one of my favourite life stages as I play mostly to make families, and along with the toddler I really miss the family tree. I never realized how much I checked it until it was gone. Pools I am okay with but would be happy for their return somewhere down the line. I really dislike having so many kids at once, one or 2 would be fine at one time and then to have a toddler and baby sibling. I hope all this will make a return soon.
I would also like to see a pre-teen life stage added.
Overall I really enjoy the game but I can tell I will be bored quickly. Do I regret the purchase though? No.

I love a lot of things so far, building, CAS, I found the style tool in the building mode also, what I don't like is the fact that when I build a diagonal room, and try to place counters against the wall. They DO NOT connect together. Ive tried multiple times and its very frustrating. I don't like how I cant resize my plot and that there are only a few in the town, and the town area is so small I feel like I just stick to my own little house and do really nothing. I don't like how there arnt any cars but its not that giant of a deal. I don't like how I cant tilt the camera view, if we can then I just haven't found it, no family trees.

Hi SimGuruHydra! I LOVE Sims 4! I'm having lots of fun playing and I love the new emotions system. Very innovative and intricately designed - keeps me on my toes. I played for 8 hrs. today with only a short break for dinner. I am pleased to find that there's a lot more here than first meets the eye.

The emotions are my favorite thing. I knew they would be. This feature really rounds out Sims' personalities and makes them much more interesting and meaningful to play. Sims used to just cover their ears when they heard bad musicians. Now they get tense and irritable and their plumbbob turns yellow. Lol. Yet, the bad moods can be simple to rectify if you know how. I had a gloomy Sim that was sad, but she quickly snapped out of it when her friend told her a joke about bananas and gave her a hug autonomously. Too bad it didn't last long, as Miss Gloom and Doom then caught on fire when she tried to cook scrambled eggs for the first time. No Reaper though, she made it through okay, but just barely! :p All the new animations are refreshing and hilarious! I also like the variety of goals and achievements we can work toward.

I did have to switch over to the Sims 3 camera controls, after giving the Sims 4 one an honest try. It felt awkward, so I'm glad there was an alternative. For now, I have no real gripes or suggestions - I'm just enjoying this game immensely.