This is what Sims 4 is lacking

"BrittanyChick22;c-17414565" wrote:

"Grynn;c-17412327" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17412244" wrote:
He could make another one with another 50 interactions and animations not in the others. He barely scratched the surface. I played TS2 because of the Sims. I think someone on a thread said we play this franchise because of the Sim. I have to agree. TS2's Sims are the best. TS4 made some improvements like watching TV while sitting on a couch while eating, but for everything gained in TS4 look how much they lost.

I think there is a difference in which generational players are playing today's games, and it matters. I never played live mode on ultra speed but to only speed up a walk to the end of a very long drive to the portal to go somewhere, and or to speed up the slow walk sometimes of university Sims. (to get to class). Used it just for a second now and then.
I think today's players play their games on ultra and don't really care about detail at all. I was shocked one time here to see a poll (long time ago) which asked how many play on ultra, some of us who like all the details and personality differnces never or rarely played on ultra speed. Maxis has no need to add in all the details again, if everyone is playing on ultra they would never see it anyway. :/

Playing on Ultra is a bad habit I got starting from The Sims 3.
Long travel times, rabbit holes, all the long nights while Sims sleep... most of the time spent while playing The Sims 3 was definitely not quality gameplay, but rather waiting for something to end, in a sense that was way worse than loading screens, instead of Sims disappearing at the border of the screen, I had to watch my Sim go all the way to the place and then still disappear.

Now while playing The Sims 4 I relearned to play on normal speed again, the game got way more fun since then.

But that's what you're still doing in sims 4 as well. You wait for them to finish sleeping, before get to work your sim just vanishes off the lot and you wait for them to come back. Whenever you want leave the lot you see a loading screen evertime regardless if they are longer and shorter...so why is that acceptable in 4 but not 3?

It's not more acceptable now, I should've specified that, I just learned to force myself to play in Speed 1 and that's for The Sims games in general, if I realize I'm speeding through everything and not really enjoying stuff I just quit the game, helps prevent getting burned out, which is a thing that is inevitable in the end.