The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

Firstly thank you for posting this thread :)

Sims 4 is not completely what I expected in that it surpassed my expectations in some ways and not so much in others that I am very happy to share.

I love the emotions but also the change to gameplay, including how the career ladders are made. It feels like a different game and I hope maxis continues to build upon the new game structure they have made.

I love how aspirations and goals work. I like having goals to complete for anything like parties, weddings, work and hobbies. I love that structure as well as the achievements feel more satisfying now.

I LOVE the cartoony style!!!

What I donèt like is the lack of many things being stripped from the game, such as weather and supernatural things :P I understand it IS a base but I would have loved to have some rain in my game for my sims to interact with. Perhaps having a trait for sims who love water and rain.

There are a lack of things to do when you visit venues except for the gym. There are just a bunch of chairs and music.

I would like for children to be able to have more things to do like, such as play the guitar or piano.

Overall I am excited to see what maxis has in store for the sims 4!....please no more 20 dollar venues and towns. PLEASE.

What I like: Emotions. Multitasking. Group conversations. Graphics. CAS. Build/Buy mode.

What I dont like: No cars, No Open world. No pools. No toddlers. Teens are same height as adult. Elders look too young. Not able to place lots. Town is too small. Too many loading screens. No story progression.

dislikes:
load screens take a minute to a minute and a half.
he ask for me to buy him an easel he has 3 already.
Make friends for me cheat is gone. There is no way I can get promoted. he is half way to adult and has not made 1 friend.
chatting on tablet does not seam to increase friendship levels.
no Vulcan type ears in CAS
not a lot of choices in content, tell me we are getting DLC
town to small.
for all the money I spent in packs and DLC all I got was a couple of lamps.
I come back to the park a week later and the food I made is still there, and not spoiled. Really?

Likes:
the spaceship
graphics are good
the displays for emotions and that are good.

need:
a display for collectables ("my sims" figures are all over the house)
faster way to make friends.

thanks

I am not necessarily unhappy with this game but I am not happy either and here's why:

The Good:
1. Ease of create a sim
-easy to understand controls
-simple
2. Ability to adjust existing rooms
-changing walls to fences or deleting them altogether in one motion is genius
-love that we can move the entire house or just one room with the click of a button
3. Fantastic background scenery
-love that it blurs in the distance
-flowers and trees are lovely (resizing cheat makes these especially fun)
-love that we can change the color of the flowers on most plants
-also love being able to choose between three colors for rocks
4. Detail of wall covering and flooring
-flooring- especially the wood and tiles- have a lot of depth
5. Bills are spaced out further which is nice when playing
6. Interactions between Sims are more rewarding and quirky
7. Dates and events have special rewards and requirements
8. Death is more interesting
-dying from laughter was my first experience with death
-glad to see that family members can still beg for your life
9. Children are more interesting to play
10. Babies are better in some ways
-love that you can breast feed
-love that caring for a baby is no longer as time consuming for Sims
11. Ability to manually select counter and cabinet type
12. Roofing system is fantastic
-love being able to select roof styles for each roof section
-love new intuitive pitch control and ability to remove overhang- or extend it
13. Emotions have interesting effects on gameplay

The Bad:
1. Color swatches
-IMO there are not enough choices- I understand not having CAStyle, it was heavy but what we have now is way too limited
2. Choices for wallpapers and flooring do not mesh well with many of the furniture objects
3. Choices for curtains and rugs either clash with furniture or wallpaper or both
4. Hate having mismatched rooms.
5. Hate having mismatched clothes.
6. No moveobjects cheat ***that I know of***
7. Windows and doors clash with wallpapers
8. Glitchy party system
-Sims will leave their wedding to go to work without warning
-Don't like being able to plan ahead for big events
9. Lack of lots
-inability to add lots

Build mode overall- 7/10
Buy mode overall- 6/10
Live mode overall- 8/10

Overall my experience had been favorable, however I feel that I MOST DEFINITELY did not get my money's worth. I primarily enjoy building and sharing with other players- so the restrictions placed on style is crippling to me in the way that I like to play. I am not saying that we should have create-a-style even though I lament the fact that it was left out. I fail to see the need to limit the pallets as much as they have been. I feel that build/buy has been set back unnecessarily because of these limitations. What good are fantastic Sims who live interesting lives who live in gaudy surroundings that look like they were planned out by the toddlers who are missing from the game.

I hate having to rely on mods to get the experience that I have come to expect from this franchise. It is unfortunate.

Suggestions:
1. Have more color options for build/buy and CAS in the future
(Consider how people will match up these items and think about what looks good together style wise)
2. Force Sims who are getting married to have off the day of the wedding- give Sims 2 days off after the wedding to adjust to new life.
3. Make goals of party events clearer
4. Work on CAW if possible- I would love to see this happen
5. Add move objects cheat if possible
6. Would like to be able to make half walls

As you can see most of my unhappiness with the game is centered around aesthetics- simply giving us more options would clear this up and make for a much more enjoyable game.

Thanks!

What I like:

- The game runs really smoothly and looks great. I'm on holidays and am currently playing it on my laptop on the lowest graphic settings, but it's still great. Can't wait to play it on my pc.
- CAS
- No toddlers. It may sound mean, but I prefer it this way. I play with multiple families and usually 'breed' my Sims. I'm really glad I don't have to go through that phase with each of them. I hope there won't be any EPs that will include 'obligatory' toddlers.
- I actually don't mind the closed world. It seems that there are much more Sims on the public lots.
- It's much easier to play with multiple families than in the Sims 3. I prefer to do my own story progression. It's great that I can age the non-playing Sims as well.
- Multitasking and group conversations.
- Styled rooms. I love to build, but sometimes I can't be bothered, so it's nice that I can just quickly use one.

What I don't like:

- Yes, I know it's the base game, but there is really not much to do. The most disappointing are the public places. I made my own, but there's not much to work with.
- The romance options are so tame as if the game was rated PG. I particularly miss the different 'Make out' options. Currently it's some pecks on the cheek while sitting on the sofa. The new love life of the Sims is really boring (especially as we had much more exciting ones in the Sims 1&2&3. Please don't say it's because the age rating has been lowered; that's doesn't comfort me :) ).
- No colour wheel.
- No family tree.
- No memories. (In a way it's a good thing that they don't have thousands of them, but at it would be nice if they had a few about the major events in their lives.)
- I'm not very happy with the Gallery. I love to share my stuff, I have created thousands of things in the Sims 3. Now, if you don't get favorited by Maxis, you might as well bin your creations. I would also prefer to have the option of uploading individual Sims, rather than households.
- The Sims 4 profile. It doesn't show my friends or creations; there's no studio any more. It's a bit impractical that they are showcased on the Origin profile. I had over a thousand friends on the Sims 3, it would be nice to have them back. The whole thing with the multiple profiles is a bit confusing. Merging the Sims 3&4 profiles would be most helpful.

Overall, I do like the game and won't start moaning about stuff that's not in there yet. I'm sure that the pools, hot tubs and more exciting things will come soon.

I love the game. I have a couple negatives and a lot of positives.

The negative:
1. No custom color options. I really liked this about Sims 3 and would love to see it back.
2. The load screens. I dislike them in most games. And for visiting the house across the street, I get two per complete visit. Ack!3.
3. Wall objects seem to block floor objects. Understandable to a degree, but odd when the floor objects is tiny and the picture still have to be over normal height.

The positives:
1. Love the emotions. Even angry and sad people are fun.
2. The customizable cupboards and counters.
3. The towns. I thought they were too small, but in fact have come to the realization that they are perfectly sized.
4. The neighborhoods. Wonderful addition to the game and so very real.
5. The CAS is so wonderful. It's not easy in the beginning, but it's lovely.
6. The home building. I love being able to move an entire room rather than clear it out and start over. And I cannot begin to praise the move stairs, walls and roofs. Too amazing.
7. The circular decks.
8. The variable walls heights, as well as the windows that fit them.

Suggestions: *shrug, my two cents*

1. Preteens (tweens) would be a cool addtion.
2. Circular rooms. I know we have circular decks and I love them. Can we please have rooms too?
3. A resize object option that doesn't need to be a cheat?
4. Flowers that hang on fences. Fence flowerboxes?

Well back to simming...have a happy day and thank you for another amazing Sim game.

I have been playing the sims since the very 1st game, and in a way i am a little put off by this new release. I don't hate it to say the least but i am not in love either. The sims was released back in 2000, and at that time i was in high school. I thought this game was so lame when my cousin installed it to my mom's hewlett packard that i told him as much. Well, ya live and ya learn. I got caught up so fast into that lame little game that i didn't even realize it. Looking back at the graphics then and now, wow the sims has come a long way, but with the sims 4 it also felt like you guys stepped back 14 years in some aspects. So before i ramble on with my childhood musing let me get to the point and congratulate the wins while sulking at the losses.

The Wins:

1. No more lame outfits when pregnant--YAY! if anything was more annoying than seeing your sims look busted in a raggedy sweatpants when you had awesome clothes in her wardrobe.
2. Multi-tasking-- Oh yeah, no more just talking to one sims you can do almost everything simultaneously, almost.
3. Create-a-sim-- Love, hate relationship. The way its setup in terms of creating a sim is really fantastic but we'll get into this one a little later on.
4. Dating and Weddings-- The way it was put together to give the players the opportunity to make it legendary or an epic fail is pretty sweet, and if somehow it did fail i would say the player decided the sims were not meant to be.
5. Trophy and aspirations-- I get bored easily so it gives me a sense of purpose when playing, I don't only have to focus on wealth, murder,mayhem and babies.

The Losses:

1. Open world--This is the stepping back part that i don't quite get. Sims 3 introduced it, as buggy as it was, the open world was way better than 'this'. We could interact with the neighbors house, ride bikes, drive cars or jog to the park.
2. Loading screens-- Wow! really in this day and age and following sims 3. Did you guys face planted into the keyboard when you programmed this in. Again a step back. I would have understood if it were a couple loading screens, but for every community lot that you travel to.
3. Create-a-sim-- The love, hate i feel is real, It is limited compared. Limited because, why do i have to choose a set color palette, where is the full customization capabilities not just with creating the features of my sims, but also with choosing the colors i desire. I see a hair with multi-color highlights, why am i not able to choose the different colors to be reflected in these highlights. That's not the idea that was advertised to me.
4. No swimming pool--I feel insulted, come on! I can't even describe how annoyed i was to find out that my sims won't be swimming until an ep, or possible sim store item. I see dollar signs...unnecessary dollar signs.
5. User Interface-- I don't really like that i have to click on an icons to see the visual cues, like hygiene,bladder,energy, etc. I get that the idea was probably to make the interface more open for those of us who enjoy making movies with our sims, but quite frankly to me its the opposite. Its a nuisance opening it up to look at the cues, and it takes up more space than the previous user interfaces.

After Thoughts:

To many this might just be a rant, but i honestly think the creators overlooked many aspects of the previous games that should have been included in this base game regardless of how the game was constructed. Maybe sims 3 was overly buggy because they tried to incorporate too many things at once, however this game doesn't have half those things and am sure an actual openworld wouldn't break my computer. So maybe you guys could fix that, at least in the next expansion pack. Wishful thinking, i know.

Its still too soon to brush this game under the rug, maybe the Eps can rectify a few shortcomings, I hope. There might be more issues with the game itself but as for me i love the sims it gives me some creative freedom to destroy lives on a daily basis without jail time(lol). Hopefully one day all the creators and programmers will get it right, but till then thank you for the efforts that were placed in the creation of the sims past, present and future.

•Overall thoughts?First of all, I'm a huge Sims 3 fan-All EPs/SPs/Store stuff/extra simpoint bundle extras complete(starfish, hairs, ect.). I'm also one of the people who bought KPST and like it. I posted regularly in the ideas section and probably will soon take that up again. Also, strayed into the store forums a bunch. I congratulate and thank those who worked on Sims 4. Even though there are features that I loved that was left out, overall, I'm impressed. o:)

Share: •What you liked- CAS- Love so much the x feature in CAS on hats & accessories ect. and requested this several times in Sims 3. CAS & Building is a dream. Also love that you can switch from build to buy right in the same area and it is super quick, no loading. Switching from outfit to outfit in CAS is super fast. I use to get so tired from making sims in #3 that at times I didn't play after making one or a family. I've not played a kid long yet although I had a sim give birth, so not sure about their clothes yet, but the adult clothes are really nice and some of them are fabulous. Love the neat/classic hairs for men. Females also have some great hairstyles. Not played a kid long yet. Love the pitch in the voices. Some of the walks are neat. Although I don't use them much, I'm impressed with the tattoos. Thanks for the afros. Was surprised at the variety of things in the basegame as in some things there were specific to EPs in the Sims 3. :D Also like how fast game is to save and how fast it is to exit. Nearly no wait time for either.

World-Was pleasantly surprised that switching neighborhoods is way faster than going to WA and Uni. Love how you can see who is at home by just mousing their house without going there(characters not at home are greyed out). Love the Lg. variety of things to harvest. Really coming around to loving the neighborhood idea and really excited to see worlds/EPs added and see how that works.

Gameplay- Love the pregnancy test ;) ; love the woohoo session :p ; love the way more interactions;


•What you didn't like
I wish the makeout option showed up more; at times I level them all the way up to woohoo and never see it.
I don't like that the load button(for saved games) isn't there all the time when in CAS, just in case I want to switch.
I don't like that I can't send my sims out to the gym ect. and stay home with the sim who is at home;or at least it didn't let me in a game I played.
Really hate that my sims can't eat fruits ect. I really relied on those in the Sims 3. :'(
No grocery store to buy things. Can't buy fruits. Some games, I don't want to hunt for harvestables, but want them. :'(
Don't like during weddings that I pay for entertainers, caterers, ect. and they don't do their job. No buttons to request they do it or fire them.
Don't really like having to unlock items by moving up in professions. What if I don't want to play a profession, then that items is lost to me.
I wish there was a stand and talk option. Sometimes, they sit down too much, especially when I'm trying to level them up.
Wish the come here option was more available. In huge houses, it says that they are not close enough.
Forgot to mention didn't like sim having to leave wedding to go to work. Hard to meet goals when one sim is missing.

Not sure if this goes in the don't like section, but worried about some basegame lots being so small that it would be hard to add parking spaces later.

I don't like that there are not more colors on the clothes. Some clothes/shoes don't even have a black and white option or Lt. pink for women. I wish that there were many color options for each piece, since the color wheel isn't present.

•Suggestions? All primary colors on clothes and Lt. pink on female clothes in CAS.
Ability to send out sims and stay home with one sim or sims.
Ability to eat fruits/harvestables. Not able to eat pears?
Request to do job when hiring someone for weddings, maid, ect.
unlock items or have an opt out in game option section.
Ability to have someone farther away come to you.
o:) ;)
Please add: Toddlers, vampires, belly chains, belly diamond, anklet if able to, And why no dolls??? No dolls in Sims 3 or 4. Would love fat baby dolls and porcelain types. Also, the dreads pulled back hairstyle from Sims 3. Would love to have the hammock I heavily requested from IP, the store, ect. When, Christmas comes(just said the real name because even countries that don't have it benefit from it's huge sales), please have Santa like in the Sims 2. I've never heard of anyone saying anything about it, but many who would love the feature. Even a holidays EP would be neat to round them all out. Cars, car woohoo, and shower woohoo would be nice. If at all possible, please make lifeforms CASable. At least make them easier to get. I've had Sims 3 forever and still haven't been able to nab that unicorn and many couldn't get the alien or the certain sex of their choice in aliens. Also, please don't add farm animals to pets, but make a separate EP for them and perhaps Mystical Creatures. Also, please allow us to breed animals and sell them as people do on farms ect. People also sell cat/dog babies all the time and many people get animals that way. Return of the pet store? Consider doing a religions EP. As many things that can be put in an EP, you could cover a huge amount of them and add many clothes, items, interactions that would make the game richer. Even an atheist one could be added. Please add Gardner for hire, nanny, babysitter, butler, ect. Consider doing many WA worlds to travel to, as well as, a cruise ship holiday. Please also add an adoption agency where sims can get to know kids'(and not all day and have to fill up half a bar)traits and see them and pick out the kid that is right for them instead of getting rainbow families(nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't happen that way in real life; people chose the child they feel comfortable with adding to their family.).

I forgot to ask for adolescents. Please add them when adding toddlers and in a way that both can get more stuff when EPs come out. If looking for the difference, then we all know what teens and kids do. Adolescents play board games, pogo stick, ride 4 wheelers, explore more, read more, skill up more, improve relationships more, play mommy with younger siblings, daydream a bunch, dream of the future, dream of getting married, dream of a family, dream of "said" sim, ect. In Sims 3, my kids played and did homework and my teens had part-time jobs, did homework, had relationships, learned to drive, ect. and all of them didn't have time to skill up or improve relationships, so this stage is needed.

Add a grocery store where you can buy all fruits ect. if you are not interested in harvesting them.

I like how you have a save draft on here. :D

Recent issue.. Am I the only one sometimes being able to use keys 1, 2, & 3 as time controls? Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.

i just noticed that the town and the landscape looks cartoony. like i said before this game looks like a giant app for a cell phone... loading to go one place to the next..

bring back open world it looks like you built this game for people with tablets and smart phones... you should have made it for people with PC's..
and then made a tablet version of the game

when people want a new game in a sequel they want game that looks more real more vast then the games before it...

you heard of 2 steps forward 1 step back....... TS3 steps forward TS4 steps back


(I see a bad future for games,, soon they will all want to sell you in game currency.. short on simoleons buy 1,000,000 for $99..)