This is what Sims 4 is lacking

"Grynn;c-17414151" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-17414137" wrote:

Also that is a difference in playing style (though I do prefer my sim has to really go to a store to get it; if they order on the phone I'd at least want to see someone delivering it, that would be fine by me). I think I might be less interested in 'daily routine' stuff for my sims? Considering how I play? Right now a guy who inherited a houseboat, went scuba diving, discovered islands, met a mermaid, turned into one, then became a drifter with a dog and yesterday he tried to befriend a unicorn. I don't plan most of that, it happens. I just really don't miss the fact I can't go shopping with him. Though actually I did do that to some extent, when I made him buy his furniture in a mall I had built myself and made him do his laundry there, that was fun. But for me that's an on-the-side thing, not what the game's about. I've never had a problem to fill my sims' days and my sim doesn't have a washing machine. I think Sims 2 indeed has more of a 'domestic' approach and will appeal to simmers who like doing that the most?

Well, yeah, I get you.

The Sims 3 had a different focus from The Sims 2, it really felt like a sandbox RPG at times, it had random quests, had those random "missions" for you to do, since the selling point of that game was the open world, they could skip over the more mundane things, after all, the whole point of The Sims 3 is to make your Sim leave their houses and wander.
And it delivered on that playstyle, that's why people still play it to this day.

At the end of the day, even if The Sims 3 had plenty of things inferior to The Sims 2, it also offered a completely different experience that The Sims 2 never could, it's a different, NEW, game, not just a sequel.

Yes, exactly. And especially in the beginning it totally lacked in the domestic department I think. For me everything was new, but I can fully understand how Sims 3 basegame was a huge step back from Sims 2. Because the predecessor did domestic life better plus there were no expansions yet (for me everything was new, I doubt that I'd enjoy just Sims 3's basegame nowadays). I really like that touch of RPG, but I do need it to be sandbox. I'm not a gamer ;) I think I'm mostly charmed by what happens to my sims when they're outdoors, encountering 'situations'. I liked that in Sims 2 as well by the way. I think it's my biggest problem with Sims 4 actually, that going somewhere doesn't really come with surprises and unexpected events.