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"JoAnne65;c-16264709" wrote:"Scobre;c-16264391" wrote:
To me it is live mode is gameplay for all the ages. Little details like with the newest pack seeing kids do laundry or toddlers playing in the wash tub matter to me. I also love seeing toddlers do cute interactions with the cats and dogs too. It is those little sweet interactions between more than one Sim being that I love about the Sims and make the game feel like for the Sims rather than a single Sim so a bit closer to the Sims roots. I also love when unexpected events happen in live mode like with the idle streams Eliza Pancakes catching on fire with the dryer or Boozy playing play with the toy car in a surprising manner or the roomba DJ Suck Suck breaking and spewing trash all over the house. I just love when chaos happens.
Must confess I’m much more where @RnM92 is coming from. An animation is an animation, not gameplay. I have the same thing with autonomous behaviour. That’s not playing a game, that’s me watching a ‘game’. Someone playing play with a toy car or breaking and spewing trash is nice to look at once, maybe twice. Then it gets old, predictable, annoying even sometimes. Like @DeservedCriticism says: “They just sit there, poop on your couch and the new "gameplay" is you get to clean it up. Wow, real exciting.” That’s exactly it for me. And the reason I never buy washing machines in Sims 3. The piles of laundry everywhere where there’s not a basket is just annoying and nothing else.
True. I think one of the best surprises I got was in the Sims 2 when I had a double wedding a fire started making the cake for it and somehow the fire reached the limo and killed all the Sims in the household except for the alien toddler. I don't know I kind of like when unexpected things happen on their own without my control like that. I think Sims games should always both expected and unexpected accidents and chaos. It makes it less predictable for me when chaos happens without my control sometimes. Yeah that is one thing I do like that was changed with the Sims 4 is a hamper will work for more than one room. I think as far as gameplay the Sims 4 is pretty limited in design in that it focuses and country and suburbia modern styles so much with everything and nothing else. It really needs to expand its gameplay and build design beyond just those two styles. Vampire and City Living started releasing more run down furniture and design which was a nice change. I think when I want more gameplay I want things that are beyond the lifestyle that is portrayed in Hollywood, in politics, and basically with the rich and famous. That isn't the lifestyle I live, so why should my Sims be forced to live it? It isn't realistic, it is a fantasy for most people. I think it is badly needed especially when Simmers say they can't afford a new computer, then the Sims should be portray the life of a Simmer too. If anything the Sims 4 lacks as far as gameplay are consequences. Everything is too perfect it ends up being less of a simulation game and more like I'm watching Sims in a set like the Truman Show. It is like bring the life back into the simulation with the Sims.
I also want more balance with the emotional system. Like I really enjoy how Zerbu using the uncomfortable moodlet to boost the negative emotions with the mod. It makes emotions feel more realistic and meaningful. I would love to see a fear emotion too. Sims 4 just needs more negative emotions in general to balance the game out more.
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