The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

> @sims2amyblue

Thank you so much for not whining about no Open World. Seriously Simmers that grinded the game on high end computers. I do hope to see the cut content improved greatly. Maybe pools can have addons like water slides, diving boards, high dive, Pool toys, Kiddie pools, Prebuilt Pools, Pool interactions like water games and splashing. Toddler could be the same too, and lastly if cars are going to return lets get back Sims 2 cars. I hate micromachine cars in Sims 3 XD

Please, make it so you can be friends with coworkers and school mates when you are at work. Please make it so they fall in love and have at least one or two kids so that my sim family has potential mates before the town turns to dust cause everyone died.

Things I like:
*The added options in CAS in making Sims, the slider for body shapes is great.
*some new career choices and character traits.
* the smoothness of the game play over the Sims3 is so much better.
*once I played it for a few days the speed of screen & game loading is so nice.
* the building and buy mode I like how you have the option of category or by room to find items. The new build changes take some getting used to but the more I use them the easier it gets (and the more I like them).
*I love the new interactions between parents and children, Sim & Sim there are so many new ways to interact
*love the option to age up with a cake at anytime.
*multi tasking is great, my sim drank juice on the toilet LOL

Things I don't like:
*teens and adults look exactly the same. My one couples girl looks like and old woman???? her features are way to mature for you to think she's a teen.
*with all the great things you can do in CAS why are they all the same height?? there should have been a height option, like on walls short / medium / tall would have solved this.
* No ability to choose our own color options on clothes and furnishings??? WHY??? you should have at minimum given us the SAME LIMITED choices in all items. Some people like things to actually go together.
*No family tree???? WHY? I thought from all the video releases leading up to this talking about how The Sims4 was more sim based there would have been better advancements and less steps backward.
* toddlers are a love hate thing but I do miss the option of teaching them.
*clothes options are terrible, very old looking.
** time goes too fast and all I'm dong it working skills/cooking/eating/bathroom stuff not enough time to do anything else.
***hair options are terrible, all the years that I've played since the sims1 I have never understood why so many fan sites can do such a better job at hair then the creators of the game. You give and then continue to create the most terrible hair styles, shame on you for $70

Game glitch
*I have had 2 families that I played for hours just Disappear, the game says the household is there but no people in it. The same thing happened in the 1 or 2 before you fixed it.
* no name change when getting married.
*dishes stuck in hands.
* when eating and talking (multi tasking) they tend to stop eating and it takes too long for them to finish.

overall some of the changes are or could be good but it feels short changed. I understand it's different then 1,2 & 3 but on many levels I feel,
I PAID WAY TO MUCH FOR FAR LESS base items in game. I understand this is a business and looking at my shelves of all the sims 1,2 & 3 games and the total cost over the years for all the custom content you should not have put this out with sooo many shortages!

***** you need to patch some of the major stuff to us without any additional cost, we paid a lot already *******

"janvel831;12656854" wrote:
As great as the Sims 3 was in concept the truth is it never worked.

There it is, in just a few words. Brilliantly said. I am glad at least to have a game that doesn't require mods just to be playable. Everything else is gravy.

The game does not feel right without open world anymore, that is a HUGE step back and it was my favorite thing in the Sims3, it felt so real and lively. But now its gone and I am really disappointed with The Sims4.

"sayler04;12658093" wrote:
So I just found the deal breaker. It's stupid, I know, but here it is. I've been forcing myself to play, trying hard to like it, and all this time I've been looking at the locked objects and psyching myself up for unlocking them and finding out what they do. I was playing an astronaut specifically because the mission control console looked like it was something really cool that would do some awesome stuff. Unlocking that console, I knew, would finally show me something cool and fun that might give me hope for 4.



Just now I got promoted to level 6 in the astronaut career. With barely contained glee, I went to the inventory, placed the console without even bothering to build it a place of honor, and returned to live mode. Trembling slightly, I clicked the console. The action wheel popped up, and there were 2 options:



ADMIRE NEW POSSESSION

ENABLE EMOTIONAL AURA.



With that, I'm done. ...

I snipped the rest of the quote, but this was EASILY the greatest review of TS4 ever.

Suggestion - Add some kind of icon to the interations that indicate that it is an multitasking action. Can I listen to music and read a book at the same time? Yes, but it's not really easily shown that this is always the case for certain actions.

Let me start off by saying that I am a die hard Simmer. I have been playing this game since The Sims 1 and I have gone through this stage of feeling like the game is empty and not as fun as the last two times before this. With every game it is a shock to go back to a completely basic level. So this review is based on the bones of the game.

What I liked:

1. I really do enjoy the emotions and how they affect the interactions the Sim can have around them (I really enjoy my Sim working out when they are angry!). I like the new depth the emotions add to how the Sims interact.

2. I like how the Careers are set up and how the Aspirations are attained. They give my Sims new objects to do which I would not normally try. I always love completing checklists so it is fun to see my Sims get the little check mark when they complete a requirement. Careers are now more challenging. I actually had to use an aging potion because my Sims were not at the top of their careers yet which I never had to do in the older games (top of career by end of young adult in Sims 3).

3. I actually enjoy the simplification of Build Mode and Create-A-Sim clothes. I always got overwhelmed with all the options to choose from. Though I understand how many people are disappointed with the omission of such a tool.

4. I hated toddlers. Personally, they were just a nuisance between baby and child. (However, I can understand how people could miss them)

5. I like all the interactions the Sims can have with one another. In previous base games I remember the disappointment of having so few options to start with (especially with Romantic type interactions). I love all the options this game has to start with and I hope they continue to add more!

6. I like how fast the game loads. Honestly, the game has just as many bugs as my Sims 3 game, which at the end became completely unplayable on my computer. I can play on all High settings without any lag. (Okay, I did just get a new computer but yey!)

7. Love, love, love multitasking! That is the main feature which really enhances the game from previous versions.

8. Love all the new Skills. They will give my Sims a lot of options to try and master new things.

9. Though some people would not agree, I love how the new Sims looks!

10. I like how the new Sims are smarter and like to do activities based on their personalities. I really feel that I could leave my Sims unattended and I wouldn't come back to find one fallen asleep on the ground and the other peeing on the floor.

What I didn't like and Suggestions:

1. What happened to Story Progression??? I really took this feature in the Sims 3 for granted! I understand how this could really slow up the game, but honestly, Maxis should not have taken this extremely important element out of the game. I was completely disappointed because I thought that the game was going to expand on Story Progression even more, allowing the Sims to grow families, careers, and their skills when you are not playing them. Instead the families in the other houses just die off and get replaced by just a few Sims with no connection to one another besides being roommates. It is unacceptable that the only solution is for me to plop new families in there and watch as those families get old and die, never even starting a career or working on their skills.

2. I wish you could customize the length of each Sim Lifespan. I feel like the Medium is too short and the Long is just too long for the Child and Teen phase.

3. I've been playing the game for over 50 hours now and I am still getting tutorial pop-up boxes! There really should be a way to turn these off.

4. I miss completely random events that happen to the Sims. That was one of the best part of the old Sims! You are just sitting there waiting for your Sim to wake up and suddenly you see a bear eating out of your trash can! What happened to all those funny little things that were completely random but so funny when they happened?

5. The maps are so small with very few lots! I miss having the large and beautiful maps where I would meticulously decide where to place my house based on the best view. It doesn't really feel like a large neighborhood anymore.

6. But seriously, no Story Progression???

Overall thoughts?

This is just a base game and I think so many Simmers forgotten how it feels to start completely from scratch. I remember feeling the same way when Sims 3 came out and actually almost stopped playing. However, after a few EPs came out I began to love the game. I really hope EA gives us more DLC for our money though. The prices for the items for Sims 3 are ridiculous. If Maxis brings back the option for Story Progression and DLC becomes reasonably priced I will continue to be a die hard Simmer!

so here's my thoughts. i have being playing the sims for what seems like forever and this sims game is nothing like i thought it would be.

what i like?: i like that you can build and move rooms much easier. the game also runs pretty fast which is awesome. i like how you made the object choices. like how you have the kitchen window and from there you choose the type of counter you need. the game seems to be much cleaner than the other sims games.

what i don't like?: i don't like that there are only a few choices when building. it feels so limited. i love to build more than anything and now i only have a few color options. for instance, the doors are nice but there are few doors that have color change options, and even then the colors seem so basic. the same goes for the walls and floors. why are there only 2 styles of carpet with 8 basic colors to choose from? and what really annoys me is that some of the objects are locked even when your in neighborhood build mode. oh and i forgot about the load screen when sending my sims to a lot. this seems more like the sims freeplay which also kind of sucks as it takes forever to get anywhere. i feel like i'm stuck in my house 24/7!!!

i know that this is just the base game and that more things will come, but i paid $70.00 for a game that is worth $40.00 at best. i just hope that you really use our feedback to help make the game more interesting. i will continue to play though and work with what i have for now.

This is my second posting, because I was so upset on the first posting. I bought the Sims 4 back in Jan, in digital form. So as soon as midnight hit my area on the release date, I was able to download and play the game. I was so extremely disappointed, that I didn't play it again for a week after its release, and only after posting several bad comments on my Sims 3 site, concerning the game and reading several comment in the forums. Did I in fact force myself to go back and play it, after I had calmed down, to give it another try.

What I like:

Sims:
I honestly like everything about the Sims themselves, from creation to play style, they do have more realistic inter action within the game.
I never liked any of the hair styles in Sims 3 until they came out with the Paradise Island expansion, then I notice much better hair styles finally making its way into the game. An I hated all those premade hats and hair styles. I love the fact the children can do more, like playing instruments. And the babies are beautiful, but you can't walk around with them, or sit and nurse them. I don't believe I ever stood and nursed any of my 8 kids, nursing was a bonding experience to share with the little loved ones, it was a relaxing time, sitting loving and enjoying your new blessing. All of my 6 girls have also nursed their little blessings.

Building:
I love the new play style and easy of the building tools with rounded porches, and counters, and the upper cabinets. The moving and duplication of rooms or moving of a whole house. And the new roof tools, as a creator, I can build in half the time as before. I also love the texture of some things in the game, but not all, the walls are ok, the floors not so good, especially the carpet its the worse.

Emotions and multitashing:
I am getting use to all the new emotions, but love multitasking. The game does play very smoothly on my computer, however, so does Sims 3 if I don't let any CC's into my game.

What I don't like:

Playing:
Sims 4 is no longer a creative medium for creative players, it feels like just a game that you don't want to play for long because, taking care of bodily functions can get old and boring in any game, and there isn't a lot more to do than that.

If your Sims has a job there isn't enough time in the day to do anything good. Its hard to lvl any skills with a working Sims. Their lives are way to short. Sims should be able to do everything we wish we could do in a day, to make your dreams come true, not to make reality a game.
Working hours should be no more that 4 hours and they should make an awesome amount of money from work. To buy cool things, they should be about to have more time to lvl up skills before dyeing. Sims should be able to have the life we wish we had, to be able to do all the things we wish we had done, but life got in our way. It shouldn't be limited to reality, but offer us a wild adventure with possibilities on what life could be like.

Creative Player:
Without a color palate CAS creative players that like to create stylish clothing, walls, flooring and furniture have just been told they don't count any more.

Building:
I hate the limitations on building and no cheats:(moveobjects or constrainfloorelevation). Not being about to build L or U shape stairs, limited floor lvls 3 really, or to change the landscape levels. I could of at lease given the effect of a basement with ground lvling tool. An lit bit of living space on a little bit of a lot not able to landscape much here.

When building homes there is way to limited furniture, furniture styles and colors, I know this is a base game, and I know a lot of changes where made to make this a smoother playing game for many. But when you take away so much, EA should have made up for that in other areas of the game. Like lots sizes, furniture or clothing line to chose from. Especially since the game cost $70. I love Sims so much that I was willing to spend thousands of dollars to build the most advance computer to play it. But Sims 4 went backwards for me.

Cost:
This game is way to expensive for what you get. If I had bought an MMO game, for $70. I would have gotten crafting skills to lvls, gathering skills, adventure with a quest line, an amazing world to explore, with small cities, to call home, plus endless hours of playing. Difference races and the option to have little people and yes size does matter. No height options with the sims, is a big disappointment. Being able to make a drawf or little person would be nice, since in real life I know some. So here I feel, EA is thinking ahead of how to milk us for more money, and right now if they don't offer something else for the $70 already spent on this game I am not sure I for one will be spending any more money on Sims 4, and I am one of the Sims 3 player that bought thousands of dollars worst of expansion, stuff and worlds. So if EA doesn't want to make a Sims 5, because they feel they lost interested players in Sims 4, it's their fault. I for one will get my real life back and will be saving thousands of dollars up the road. If this game fails it's because the research department of EA didn't do much research into what the players where doing on Sims 3. There are way more creative players that keep the game going than there are players just playing sims. And creative players are looking for newer mediums and styles to improve their crafting skills, and styles. These are the players willing to spend thousands of dollars on a gaming experience we have come to love and enjoy.

World:
The world is the biggest disappointment in the game for me, there are some things I like, but most I don't. As a creative player I hate the limited lots and their sizes. I like the train effects in the back ground, I like the height effect of the sidewalks from the road. I hate not being able to walk around the world to exploring it. I hate not being able to walk up to a neighbors home without a load screen. I do however love all the NPC moving about and coming to visit.

Play style:
I was a big CAW player and love developing worlds, homes and business. I also never let any of my Sims age or dye, with the exception of the babies and children. They have been with me since the first day of Sims3. Why, because I loved lvling their skills meeting new sims, going on an adventure and letting them have a life, that wasn't possible for me, due to work, family reasons or money. And because I could feel I know them, corny right. But I have been around for 61 years. Why would I want any lease for my sims? They are a fix set of my game that I look forward to playing every day on Sims 3. I just switch between families and lvl up their skills and relationship. And I love moving all my lovely friends and families into a new world I've created, with new homes, and new neighbors to meet, and share experiences with them. So here Sims 4 has failed me big time.

The launcher and Sims Community Site:
I can't find any of the 4 homes I've posted or any of the 5 families I've posted on the Sims 4 community site, I only see the same homes and families that are always there. What is up with not having our own Page, to check on our creations, and friends creations, if you didn't want to create a new Sims Community Page then at least let us post our creations on the Sims 3 page. If there are creative programmers out their creating CC, I should be able to open a launcher and be able to monitor any unwanted CC's that will make my game glitch up the road. I am scare to download anything from the Community site because of this. Having to go thru the forums and endless communications, including my own is to time consuming, to get the answers I am looking for. If I had a problem in the past I posted it on my page, and one or more of my wonderful friends on my list could help me, and there it was the answer right under my question. I don't know how to go about seeing which of my friends have the Sims 4 to befriend as a result of this. And I am not able to make new friends, I have a facebook account but its only for family use. My Sims site is for friends with a share interest in gaming. So frustrated here.

I hope with all my heart if EA would like more of my money, they will right the wrongs, and lesson to the players, I hope they are paying someone to have to read all these community posting and having to report them to the heads of EA. I hope in the future for Sims players they do more research before designing any more expansions, stuff or worlds, what we expect in a game that we have come to love and make a big part of our lives. Sims was originally designed to be an building tool. And EA needs to touch base with the original design of the game and players.

I am a terrible writer and speller, so for that I am sorry if my grammar is terrible here. I am an artist at heart.