This is why I cannot play this game anymore.....

While it's fresh in my memory, here's a prime example of why The Sims 4 is a real mess of a game. To set the scene I was playing as Cassandra Goth and had her about to marry Don Lothario when I had Don bail out on the wedding. (A trip down nostalgia Lane.) Cassandra was as expected very angry at this. She stomps around for a few minutes then randomly starts making spaghetti. OK so I also turn to food in times of emotional distress so I get it girl, but I kinda wanted some drama. So I get Don to make out with another sim literally right in front of cassandra and she doesn't bat an eye lid. Her angry moodlet has been over ridden with a happy one (I guess because of the spaghetti? Which to be fair I can also relate to) but that's not realistic! I cancel all actions on Cassandra and get Don to make out with the other sim again and still nothing. Cassandra goes off to dance....Don is not fazed. He's living his best life. So I go to start an argument. I select mean interactions between Don and Cassandra but they just cancel out! Don and Cassandra just start random group conversations with other sims and all my commands are just cancelled out as soon as I select them. Then they sit there happily chatting to each other as if nothing has happened! What is going on with this game?! So an hour or so goes by (sims time) Don and Cassandra happily co existing, Cassandra is even dancing with Don's side chick like she has total amnesia then all of a sudden back comes the angry moodlet followed by some angry stomping around. So I think yay let's start an argument again. I select a mean interaction and poof! Action cancelled and moodlet is gone, replaced with happy again. I honestly give up! I wanted to love this game, (good lord I've spent enough money on it) but it's fundamental gameplay mechanics ruled by emotion buffs is just so beyond repair I just find myself quitting in frustration and loading either Sims 2 or 3 up for my sims fix. Please tell me Sims 5 is in the works and if it is, please tell me the devs have used sims 4 programming as an example of "what not to do!" Use the Sims 2 gameplay mechanics. That worked. Thanks.
*note* I do not and never have, used mods or CC in my Sims 4 game.

90 Replies

timurjr96
6 years ago
The reason ? 'sAfe sPaCe wHere wE aLL cAn lEaRn aNd gRow'
kremesch
6 years ago
Hehe. I see nothing's changed. The sims 4 is still playing the player.
OldeSimsFan
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Why I still play TS2!
Pegasyms
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Add mods. Only way to fix it.
atriawand
6 years ago
yeah, just get some mods that add a bunch of more realistic - or not - chaos. it mkaes it a lot more enjoyable for your money.
fjb792
6 years ago
This was basically what made me stop playing as well. There's a lack consequences that just makes the game bland and boring. That and the sims are happy all the time. The happy environment buffs are way too strong and overpower every other mood. It's very annoying. When I do play, I have to use mods to make the game interesting. And, unfortunately, the fact that I have to rely on mods to make the game entertaining, makes me not want to play at all! I haven't played the game in months!
We've been complaining to them for years, but all they do is add more shallow gameplay and set dressings, nothing that impacts the core gameplay. I'm tired and bored of it
KendiMyers
6 years ago
Amen!!!!
KendiMyers
6 years ago
The only way I make my game fun is to just get a load of sims and make them kill each other until I can get them to woohoo with the ghost and then I usually just make big houses and kidnap people until the whole world is either ghosts or in my house pregnant and woohooing with their parents or siblings.
InuMiroLover
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I remember one time I decided to see what would happen if I had a couple argue right in front of their child.

Nothing. Nothing happened. Despite his parents yelling about how much they hated each other, the child is still smiling as if all is still right in the world. Who cares if his parents are divorcing and are about to beat each other up? That picture in the room is making everything just dandy! How is that realistic? These sims are so superficial. Hardly anything gets them down, and when something does it doesnt last for long. And they immediately go back to happy happy joy joy. Even sooner if they live in a nice house! Its such a struggle to have sims just not be happy for one dang minute. If I break 2 sims up, I dont want them having a nice conversation about the weather immediately after as if the past 5 minutes of them fighting never happened.
Drbigt
6 years ago
The emotions are superficial at best in this game.

You can take angry poop, proud poop, inspired poop, flirty poop or energized poop. It makes no difference either way and kinda summarizes the whole emotion system in a nutshell.

I think one of the most annoying things about the whole superficiality of it all occured when I was playing an evil character had to go around mean interactions, I went to Bob Pancake's house and saw they had a baby, while Bob was away I began to do all sorts of lengthy interactions so that Eliza who was my rival couldn't feed the baby in hopes that the baby would be taken away from them. Despite me even receiving a notification that the baby needed food, nothing happened in the numerous Sim hours of my character stopping Eliza by going and telling her knock knock jokes and using hand buzzer on her until eventually Bob came home to home full of Eliza's pee puddles (because she couldn't go to the toilet with my character telling knock knock jokes) and went to play Sims forever on computer instead of feeding the baby, then they just kinda went to do their own thing like nothing had happened despite the fact that Eliza was complete and utter mess at this point for having been prevented to fulfill her moodlets.