The Sims 4 Feedback Thread - come share yours

To be honest I had planned on waiting to buy TS4. Before release I really wasn't feeling it at all and figured I'd wait to see what happens when EPs started to get released. Then after the game launched everyone and their cousin was playing and I watched quite a few YouTube game plays and I decided I had to have it. I played practically nonstop for the first 2 days. Kept making new households and starting new games just to play around with different options. But I haven't touched it since day 2.

There's a lot of stuff I love but there's also stuff that I don't. I'm not going to sit here and go through 40+ pages of comments to see if I'm repeating anything but then again I guess that should be the point to see the number of people who do and don't like this or that.

What I like:

1. Emotions - For the most part that is. Sad, Tense and Angry cracked me up the first time I came across them. My child Sim came home from school very angry for having to miss recess to retake a test. I thought it was hilarious watching her stomp around. It was really hard to get her out of the mood though. Still pretty entertaining.

2. CAS - This is both a like and dislike. Coloring options could be improved. It kinda sucks being stuck with just a few options. I miss being able to use the sliders. Bring back the color wheel!! :)

3. I love being able to move rooms around in build mode.

4. Being able to adjust the position of windows and wall hangings. Loving this for the windows. It's so easy!

5. Being able to click on the bassinet and automatically age up an infant right after birth. No messing around with the cake! (I've not yet played past young adult phase so I have no idea how the rest of the ages work but just in case I do still want the option of buying a cake and having a party at other ages.)

6. Being able to "Change appearance" or "Plain outfit" first of all AT THE SAME TIME with ONE OPTION YAY! But not only that being able to do EVERYONE in the household at once. Love, love, love this.

7. I love that you have a lot more details about your Sim now. Like my pregnant Sim, it told me how long until the next trimester etc. Things like that.

8. Which reminds me of being able to click on the toilet and take a pregnancy test! How cool is that?! Love it!

9. It's pretty cool to have to accomplish actions in order to earn a promotion or raise instead of just shipping them off to work and calling it good. Definitely a bonus.

10. MULTITASKING!!! Need I say more?

11. Even though there are a lot I love how short the loading screens are right now.



What I DON'T like:

1. Group conversations - From what I can tell from the first page of comments I seem to be kind of alone in this. I'd love the option to turn this off. It's was highly annoying to have my Sims trying to talk to someone only to have 3 others randomly walk up and get in on the chitchat. I double checked, confused, thinking maybe I really didn't turn free will off...but alas it was.

2. Similar to above, if I do have the option turned off my Sims still seem to decide to do certain interactions on their own. If I don't VERY QUICKLY set up a line of actions myself they just jump in and immediately start doing something on their own. At least with TS3 they would just stand there and look around until you gave them something to do. I almost feel like asking why do we even have the option to turn autonomy on or off?

3. So. Many. Loading Screens! - I had my Sims walk ACROSS THE STREET to visit their neighbors and had to go through a loading screen. IT WAS ACROSS THE STREET!

4. I feel like I don't have enough time in the day to keep my Sims happy, fed, showered, etc. The amount of time it takes a Sim to shower and eat is just crazy. Then you throw in the fact that they come home from work and school and they're tense or sad or angry and it just gets ridiculous. Don't get me wrong from above I love the emotions that are now involved but it starts to suck the fun out of it and make it feel more like a chore. I'd almost rather try to have them sleep off the mood instead of jumping through hoops in the limited time before they need sleep to start the next day again.

5. Camera angles. I only normally used the birds eye view when building and I miss not having it. I realize I can go into options and switch it to TS3 camera mode but it's just a hassle going back and forth now that I'm used to this one.

6. Toddlers - I actually loved having toddlers doing the whole teach to walk, talk and potty train. Those were fun for me.

7. Mom not having time off after popping out a kid. One of my Sims literally went into labor when she was supposed to leave for work. Immediately after getting home with the twins BAM the kids are poofed to daycare and she's off to work. It was just weird I didn't even have a second to age them up. (I hate the infant stage) Weird not to like but it just bugged me.

8. Closed world - I hate this so much. I'm not sure how easy it'll be for me to get past this one. If at all.

9. How come when my Sim married a townie neither one had a name change? Just a weird observation.


Basically it's not enough to hold my interest at this point. I'm already bored with it and I was never like that with TS3 base game before all the EPs were out. Part of me wishes I would have waited like my gut told me to before release but the other part is happy that I've at least tried it. I did have fun ooing and ahhing those first couple days discovering everything but it was sadly short lived. I feel like I've probably forgotten quite a bit of my likes and dislikes and probably some big ones. But I'm sure someone in these 40ish pages has mentioned them at least once or twice. I haven't written the game off completely yet. Hopefully when things exapand with EPs and SPs and store stuff I'll find my Sims 4 groove. *Fingers crossed*

Truly it's a good start! Just not enough to keep my attention yet.

Weight isn't an issue in this game. I have several sims who only gain a lot of weight if I constantly have them eating unhealthy food and never exercise. It's very easy to make them slim again. Please don't punish the rest of us because some players are having problems keeping their sims' weight down. I was finally happy to have this in the game as well as many others.

One issue is how easily they gain muscle, now that's something that should be looked into!

I'm also not sure if their relationships are decaying a bit too quickly? Because I keep almost losing my sims' friends if I don't constantly hang out with them. :(

In my opinion the game has regressed.

The game how it is now would have been PERFECT for after TS1 since it introduces somewhat of a free roam (you can visit your immediate neighbors and go for jogs). TBH I think TS1 had more options of community lots to go to than TS4. The sims 2 gave more towns and even introduced Aliens AND toddlers. Sims 2 was the start of being able to change hairstyles and clothes (remember in TS1 that was impossible!) Community lots were awesome because there were many to choose from (not just 4). You can visit town hall, work for the military, be a cop, etc... Sims 3 came along and BUILT OFF of TS2 it didn't CUT anything out, it made it better by adding cars, more jobs (Ambition allows you to go follow your sim to work for some careers!), and of course by adding the open world, which made sim play better. Don't even get me started on how awesome family trees are!

Along came TS4 and they got rid of most of those things. There are no longer burglars, firemen, mailmen, cops. Even the job options have dwindled. Cars are gone. Toddlers and swimming pools. POOF gone. Family trees... what's that? New Step-mom? Nah you're just a roommate... The IDEA behind TS4 was good, but the deliverance was subpar.

Whats the point in having emotionally advanced sims when you can't go out and interact in the world? Deaths, divorce, fires, burglaries, remarriages, births... those all would have a huge effect on Sims and the emotional outcome would be a nice game play, but they don't exist in TS4 like they did in TS1, TS2, and TS3 (not talking about the emotion aspect, but the interaction of death, fires, birth, etc...) The developers said that the sims had great memory in TS4, but in my experience, after a couple of days they forget people they just met! Whereas in the previous games you never forgot them, you just didn't have any sort of relationship with them.

Yes, TS3 had a lot of bugs, but 4 has bugs as well and as soon as more expansion packs are added there will be more bugs too. No one can say there are more bugs than the other because all there is to compare is the base game that came out a week and a half ago and like 11 expansion packs for TS3. And most of us had all or close to all of the expansion packs (therefore would have more bugs).

The point is, EA should have expanded on TS3 base game. They should have kept Open Worlds, more colors to chose from (than just red, green, brown, and blue), toddlers, aliens, swimming pools, jobs, firemen, cops, and mailmen (the BASICS of TS3 base game) and added the AWESOME stuff that is in TS4 like the emotions/interactions (which are kind of buggy atm), the secret grottos, and obviously the new items that came with the game.

That is what they should have done. I'm disappointed because that is what I expected since they always outdid themselves in the next games that came out (TS
In my 35+ hours of game play i haven't gotten excited(obsessed) to play the game as I have for it's predecessors. If anything it should have been called Sims 2.5 since it has taken out 98% of what TS3 introduced and reverted back to TS1 and TS2.

BUT I do have to say I really do like the facial expressions they make and the walking styles.

I wish the jealous emotion worked more than just 10% of the time (finally got a jealous reaction after 35 hours of playing and countless sims cheating on one another in open).

Town hall, restaurants, book stores, and open worlds NEED to come back.

Stir crazy was a new emotion introduced in TS3 when sims wouldn't leave their house. Well I'm getting stir crazy just watching them in their house.

I discovered what I'd call a bug today but am unsure if anyone else has found this out yet.

If you play Willow Creek and send your Sims to the library it is next to a BBQ/Park area.

Sims that BBQ in the park area cannot dispose of their trash because there is no bin in that area.

There is a bin just across the footpath and no one can use it to clean up mess from the park.

The other problem is that the park area appears to be a non buildable lot so I cannot add a bin to it so my Sims can clean up after themselves.
They pick up the trash when you tell them to throw it away but dump it on the ground since there is no bin in that area.

I really loved the New Tools, to make every sim more unique. But I reaaly miss the bigger neighbourhoods from TS2 and T3. Well, I could ist up alot of Things I miss TS4, who was in TS2 and TS3. So to make it short, TS4 wont stay on my computer anylonger. I'm back on TS3, and will stay With that for now. Either to there are made huge changes in TS4 or til TS5 may arrive in a few years.

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! i am actually playing and having soo much fun oppose to spending all my time rigging the game just to get things to work!!!

Honestly, i am happy that EA listened to all the complaints and decided this time around they were going to scrap what doesn't work and design a game based on things that do. If i want a game full of things i want yet don't actually work and plagued with headaches then i can always go play TS3 and pop some aspirin and waste my time trying to get things i want to work to actually work. I do think many things that didn't work in previous versions will likely be replaced with a better and more creative way of doing it that will work in future EP's. I welcome the ideology of out with the old and in with the new!!!! Yahoo!!

With TS4 it's looking like those days are over and omg thank you thank you thank you EA for changing course!!!

Why so many loading screens? I understand that people want conrtol several families at the same time and in a same world with no stupid parallel worlds. I hate Sims 3 because of this parallel worlds nonsense but you could keep open world at least to a certain degree. Instead created two world Willow Creek and Oasis Springs that both just lack in number of private lots and have many separate public buildings like gym and bar (many loading screens and almost no place for your familiys) you need TO CREATE WORLD THAT HAVE ONE HUGE PULIC LOT, LARGE ENOUGH THAT CAN CONTAIN ALL PUBLIC SPACES LIKE GYM, PARK, BAR ETC… ALL ON ONE SINGLE LOT. THUS YOU GAIN SOME SORT OF OPEN WORLD AND KEEP CIRCULAR GAMEPLAY WITH SEVERAL FAMILIES WITHOUT BASIC ENGINE CHANGES and with significantly reducing the number of loading screens on the other hand you can have Willow Creek and Oasis Springs purley as area with homes for sims and familiys and without lack of spaces for familiys. When EP come you just offer new world with new buildings or just simply allow players to build new building or better both.

I will not buy game until toddlers, familiy tree and appropriate emotional responses to death will not be in the game and with NO BUGS. Although I love option for my Sims to cheat (like in sims2) and I am completely in love with the idea of friends with benefits I also wish to see jealousy in my married sim when she/he is deceived in front of here/him own eyes.

Sorry for my poor English and grammar but English is not my native language.

There is so much to love about Sims 4. And so much not to love. First, the love:

1. I think the graphics are gorgeous. I especially love the parks.
2. I love the Sim interactions. There is much more depth to how they relate to each other.
3. Some of the new build options are amazing: the roofing, the curved fences and walls, the wall height, the foundation tool
4. Great clutter items! Love them, they were well thought out. Now if we only had the ability to place them where we wanted (more about that later.)
5. The ability to resize build items is fabulous.
6. Love the soundtrack, especially in build mode. I have to admit (and yes, I know I could have changed it, too lazy) but the S3 music in build mode made me hit the mute every time.
7. My Sims laugh in their sleep and that makes me laugh every time.

Ok, now for the not loves:

1. No MOO. This one is HUGE. Ok, really, I am not mentioning (well, I guess I am mentioning it) the no CASt thing which I can only say WTF were you guys thinking when you took that out? Seriously, dudes, that was one of the most creative tools in S3 and you blew it off so Sims could get super embarrassed when someone walked in on them on the potty? Really? But then, no MOO on top of that? Cut off us creative builders at the knees, why don't ya?
2. No toddlers. I miss my toddlers. Face it, the babies in S4 are creepy little buggers whose only interactions are crying, waving their bug like appendages around and having smelly diapers. And then, bang, they are children. Toddlers in S3 were cute, super cute and fun to have grow up in the game. I want my toddlers back.
3. No terrain tools. Because we all know the world is flat.
4. Lack of available building lots. Cramps a builder's style.
5. Did I mention that leaving out CASt was a really bad idea?
6. ETA: What is up with stuff not matching? If you are going to limit us to premade pallettes, at least those pallettes should match!

Well, those are my initial impressions. Thanks for listening!

The game runs smoothly. After a few hours, it's the most boring game after Solitaire. There is no depth, no substance and only so much you can do before realizing that you've been screwed out of $70 to help EA pay programmers create DLC.

I'm just as disappointed as I was after the release of Sim City 2013. The pre-EA Maxis was beautiful. I guess EA must be shooting for the most hated company three-years in a row.

I'm trying not to be biased here (Sims3 will always be my baby), however, I was extremely disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the CAS and the multitasking. I do like how you can visit the different neighborhoods,the emotions are awesome as well. But, I miss the open neighborhood, toddlers(it's the cutest thing), pools, cars, and rabbit holes. It gave this sense of society, I like that. I want to like the game, I really do. I just can't. It's like the game is just a fancier version of the Sims 2.