Things I like about TS4

The calendar and customizable holidays. I do wish there was more depth to them tho, but I enjoy them as is. I hope the team will consider adding more traditions and decorations in the future.

I have a like/dislike relationship with toddlers. On one hand, I dislike how independent they are and how the way they are portrayed seems like a weird mesh of several different developmental stages that don't really make sense. But I do like how they are the only life stage that feels truly unique instead of just a more limited version of young adults. I didn't play until after they were added, but I sure as heck know that I could never play without them.

The gallery cuz I can't build.

1. I absolutely LOVE the toddlers! I, at times, like how independent they can be, (like how they eventually get the ability to climb stairs) but I also like how they still need help with things ( like when they are level two potty and they can try to go themselves but still need guidance from their parents and or caregivers and have the chance of having an accident).
2. CAS and how some things are, IMO, more organized than previous games. I love the idea of pushing and pulling directly on the sims.
3. The build/buy mode. I find it easier to build in this game and I love how one can utilize the Shift+Alt button to maneuver objects in spaces beyond the grid (A feature that came from 3 I believe).
4. The fact that you can search for objects in Build/Buy. I cannot tell you how freaking frustrated I am when I play 2 and 3 and I know what object I want to use but cannot find it for the life of me lol.
5. How hats are separate accessories.
6. All of the different types of foods that come from different ethnic backgrounds. So more options for all sorts of different types of restaurants.
7. Some of the things from the club system from GT. I like how you can create a club look and how sims interact with each other and others in the area based on dos and donts.
8. Though it has its issues and I wish there was also rabbit whole career attached to it, I do have a soft spot for the veterinarian career from C&D.
9. The calendar and how you can customize holidays.

These are the only features I think they got right.

- Toddlers
- Clubs
- Calendar
- Being able to move rooms
- CAS though there are things I hate about it as well such as beards not being separated from stubble and no body hair
- How the Sims look huge improvement over pudding
- Parenting
- Yoga

There are so many things that I like, love or appreciate. I can't list them all, sometimes I can't remember them until they are in my face and it's like pow there it is and it makes me grin, so my most recent appreciations or things I'm thinking of at the moment.

The way you can build on any basically any lot while on your played sim (with cheats pretty much anywhere). Want to set up a icecream party in the park? There it is! You can do it without going back and forth out of your current played household. I do things like this frequently. If my sim needs to sleep or go to the bathroom and I don't want to send them home, never fear everything you need is here.

Not needing mods or cc to enjoy my game. This is me it doesn't pertain to others. I actively don't want in my game what the biggest mod provides. I just don't need mods in general to tweak needs or cc to add in clothing/furniture because I can always find something that works for me. I do sometimes use mods so next..

The extreme ease of mod placement and use when I want to see what's out there to enhance gameplay (usually I go for stuff that would never be in the sims).

I love how focused nearly every theme that is released or is in the game actually is. I have so many examples but most recently photography is really drawing me in. I'm just going out and taking landscape shots, sim pictures ect and it's a lot of fun. I like how involved the animations are surrounding it. Especially using the tripod. Just going jogging even, jogging with your pet... the way they notice others and even objects when they pass it's all lovely and immersive to me due to the animation focus. Yoga was another big one for me... many, many fluid realistic poses and animations, the ability to have classes ect. Dining out... I could go on and on.

The music and sounds in the game. I always have them on. Sounds of whatever seems to fit in the world you are in (I won't give examples because I'd be going on for a bit) or even the sounds the sims make when walking over different surfaces.

The gallery although I have a love/hate relationship with it because I want more tags to narrow my search. I love browsing there when I'm building a themed save I can usually find what I need or something that comes close. I love how easy it is to drop the house and how safe I feel because I'm not searching unknown sites to get this stuff.

The settings. There are so many options to me now especially since I have all the packs. I can have that weird dusty creepy area in Strangerville. I can have the lovely warmth of Sulani. I can have the impressive views in Del Sol Valley. It helps me tell the stories of my sims.

A positive thread about the good things in this game is a great idea, it gives Maxis feedback on what we want added in the next one (if there is one). After all while the game is missing some features the game isn't poison being pumped down my throat, they generally had great ideas with this game.

1.Builder friendly:
It's so much better that we can now go "Hmm I want a foundation for my house click" compared to having to tear down the entire house to add or remove one. Also roof placements are easier. I don't know about any of you but I hated placing roofs in past games, it's better here.

2.Mod and CC friendly:
Just click a button in options and you can turn off/on your mods, it's that easy.

3.Nice art style:
While this one is more opinion oriented I enjoy the look of the game, definitely the more pleasant looking in the series.

4.Emotions:
Sims express themselves better. Also the emotional deaths are funny.

5.Wearing whatever whenever:
While it made sense to have to choose swimwear for water related activities I like the ability to just say nah and dress my sim up like Darth Vader or Noctis (wish we could get the others outfits). Also while I don't use the ability to crossdress alot I appreciate being able to use chick hair on a dude and vice versa, after all it's just hair

I'm sure I'm missing more, but this is all I can think of right now.

I love being able to make my sim a vampire/Alien/Mermaid all rolled into one. I love the different roof designs in build mode. I love the better graphics than Sims 3.

Things I like:
CAS
Build mode improvements (all hail drag-and-drop room resizing)
UI feels better compared to TS3
Mod/CC community
Not as laggy as TS3
Career unlocks (instead of just money and sporadic outfits on promotion)

> @nerdfashion said:
> I love CAS and Vampires, and Mermaids (though I know I'm in the minority on that last one), Seasons, pets, and so much more! Course, it probably helps that I can't compare it to past iterations of the game, having never played them.

Another mermaid lover here. Sulani is stunning, I'm adoring it.

Other things I like about Sims 4 include little things like drinking a coffee while you do something else. I really enjoy CAS, though most of my sims look the same (it's in the nose), the way you can push and pull the face is excellent. I love the clothes and the colours of them.

The landscaping items are awesome too, and I love that you can overlap some plants to get a fuller, more lush look.

Seasons is so much fun, I've stretched mine out to 14 days instead of 7 so I can really bask in Autumn and Spring. I do get *over* the snow, but that means Spring is even more fun when it arrives.

I also love going and hanging out with random sims who call me to party or have dinner.

I also love silly random things like having the Grim Reaper pose for photos, the cowplant and the clumsy trait.

And doggos :smiley:

Thanks @DragonCat159 for this lovely thread :smile:

Things I like:

super fast loading compared to TS3
not lagging even tho I have all packs by now
the options in CAS are great!
all the worlds are connected (imo even better than open world in TS3)

and probably more I just can't think of right now :)

Things I like about Sims 4 in terms of I hope they’ll use that in a next iteration (my only interest):

• some of the building tools (moving rooms, adjusting windows, roof placing)
  
• turning the camera with your right mouse button
  
• the ability to put up walls in tab
  
• some CAS tools
  
• toddlers (though I do find those too independent)
  

That’s really about it for me. Graphics and smooth animations I expect from a newer game anyway, that comes down to improved technology.

P.s. in the past I praised the gallery, but when they’ll add CASt again (?) I won’t need the gallery, plus for me this whole sharing and popularity contest side of that feature, Maxis highlighting accounts based on I-have-no-idea (and the fights over ‘stealing’) aren’t really what I need at all.