I have always felt the (many) task based things in the game are there to give players something to do when the game itself isn’t enough. I don’t focus my attention on those things for the most part so my boredom doesn’t stem from being overwhelmed by the tasks, but more a general blandness from the game. I find a lot of it to be repetitive and predictable, and at it’s core I think it’s just a very easy game. The other games, I feel, required more of my input and attention than Sims 4. Sims 4 is more casual, you just make Sims, build their perfect house, and go interact with Sims/objects. It sounds simple and for it is that simple. There’s really no depth to any of those activities, at least I don’t think so. As a game, Sims 4 fails for me. As a program to take screenshots and tell stories it works pretty well, but that’s not what I ever played Sims for.
