The Sims 4 Horse ranch negative discussion.

Yeah after seeing the trailer I dont see how this is any different from Cottage Living. Its just horses instead of cows to raise and yet another desert world. It seems so dull.

I dont think I'll be any hurry to buy. Certainly not going to be using my whole wallet for this and since its release is a few days after my birthday I'll probably just ask that this be my birthday present. Plus no sign of unicorns because occult content bad I guess so once again I'll be looking for mods to make it happen.

Its just such a specific theme isnt it? With Growing Together it was easy as the pack intergrated with all kinds of Sims but this one is really just 'pretend you're a cowboy'.
Not a fan of the CAS and the BB might be too themed as well. Horses are.....ok I guess.
I do like the mini sheep/goats though and the idea of a hireable ranch hand.

Aside from horses and the animals it looks underwhelming, I’ll wait for a sale

I feel like we didn't get enough about the horses in this trailer. What makes them an upgrade from Sims 3, aside from deeper customization and some different training tools? We saw training for literally five seconds, but didn't get to see anything about the actual competition(s.)

No sign of unicorns.

"Gordy;c-18279536" wrote:
I feel like we didn't get enough about the horses in this trailer. What makes them an upgrade from Sims 3, aside from deeper customization and some different training tools? We saw training for literally five seconds, but didn't get to see anything about the actual competition(s.)

No sign of unicorns.

I'm almost willing to bet that's where the "upgrades" begin and end. Nothing I've seen, from the trailer to the leaked pack description, suggests these horses will be all that different from the ones in TS3. Except kids can ride them now....So there's one big plus I suppose.

"Simmerville;c-18279454" wrote:
I'm not totally happy with another desert world, I could probably be more excited over another environment as I guess it would contain more variety.

That said, I guess they choose a desert world for horses as such a world might have less animations with less animated trees etc, while horses will probably take up some extra resources. Plus, it mnight look more natural with more open spaces where horses can roam about, than in a more lush world. So, my thought is that I prefer this kind of world if it can prevent lag.

Of the current worlds we have, with some minor lot changes, Hanford-on-Bagley, and with some serious lot changes/rebuilding, Tartosa could become decent green worlds to ride around. Though the “training arena” might not be able to fit.

They surprisingly didn't show the horses themselves as much as I expected, the mini-animals took way more screentime than they should have for a pack called 'horse ranch'.

I'm very unimpressed, it really does feel like 'here's a 1/3 of Sims 3 Pets with one skill from World Adventures, enjoy.'

"Aquarius94;c-18279540" wrote:

"Gordy;c-18279536" wrote:
I feel like we didn't get enough about the horses in this trailer. What makes them an upgrade from Sims 3, aside from deeper customization and some different training tools? We saw training for literally five seconds, but didn't get to see anything about the actual competition(s.)

No sign of unicorns.

I'm almost willing to bet that's where the "upgrades" begin and end. Nothing I've seen, from the trailer to the leaked pack description, suggests these horses will be all that different from the ones in TS3. Except kids can ride them now....So there's one big plus I suppose.

On the plus side, the official guided tour thingy makes them sound better.

https://www.ea.com/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/the-sims-4-horse-ranch-guided-tour

I know they can only show so much in a reveal trailer, and gameplay details are kept to gameplay trailers. But imo, it's super weird to barely show horses in the Horse Ranch pack trailer, and keep most of the relevant information to a blog post a fraction of fans will see. They could have easily hinted at some of these, instead of having so many shots of sims sitting and talking. But that's more of a trailer complaint than a gameplay complaint.

In the trailer as far as I saw they only showed western style saddles for the horses (the kind of saddle that has a horn at the front). To be able to move horses out of the US west an english style saddle and tack for jumping competition/dressage/etc is needed or it would be pretty immersion breaking for horse folks. Hopefully there will be a variety of styles available I just haven't seen yet. Something I liked about sims 3 is that we got both.

Not going to lie. I was and am excited about the pack but the trailer definitely was underwhelming.