I think the best feature of sims 4 is that it is a stable game. My main save started in 2014, and though I do a re-save or back up save several times a year, I have played that same save since 2014.
I also like that they continually update the game bring out new things. Though I do wish they would make things like lifestyles where you could choose the ones that you want, like you do traits and lot traits. I hate certain life styles being forced on my sims. I enjoyed whims better than wants and fears too, as I could just use them to get points for potions and things when I felt like it, and I hate all my sims feeling like they have dead end jobs when I want some of them to stay in certain positions. I don’t want everyone at the top of their career, and I don’t want all of my older sims to fear death. I wish EA let us choose sentiments, lifestyles, wants and fears for each of our sims, or at least offer us the option to easily get rid of ones we don’t want our sims to experience, without having turn the whole system on or off. Many times they just don’t fit the way I want to play certain sims.
I love that they added toddlers and that they are adding infants. I hope they add cars and children being able to do things like tag and cops and robbers. It looks like we may be getting more things for children, toddlers and elders in upcoming packs which I like. I like that they added ponds and terrain tools. I like the addition of lot traits, and the addition of clubs. I also like that most world have swimming areas, I hope they change all the old worlds to have swimming areas too.
I like that you can live in and visit any world with all households and move around to any of them, except a couple of the travel worlds which I hope they make livable in the future. It makes it great for playing rotational games, which is another good feature. All my sims have the use of all worlds.
I like that sims can multitask like watching tv and eating. But, they shouldn’t have shortened eating time. It was better the way it used to be.
I like that there are few rabbit holes, but I do wish they would get rid of some that that they do have, like scouts, and going to a concert, I would rather they be real events, or at least let us make them real events that we can choose to send our sims to. Example. I wish we had a scout lot that we can send our scouts to on Saturdays instead of the rabbit hole, I made a scout lot I would rather send my scouts to than the rabbit hole scout function on Saturdays.
I like that they have several active careers. I think it would be nice to make them all have the possibility to be active, and all have an active playable lot that we change like the High School I also like the freelancer careers, and the odd jobs and such. Jobs that are playable if we want to follow our sims.
I like that sims don’t get stuck very often, unless it’s a bug.
I like that we have outfit categories for different events and seasons and such, but I wish we had a simple clothing lot trait where we had to buy each piece of the outfit in CAS) per household ( besides hair and eyes ). I want my sims to be able to buy individual pieces and have them added to their household. Pants, dresses, glasses, jewelry items, shoes, tattoo’s etc., and have them open them up in CAS for that household. I also want a costume category so sims will show up to costume events in the outfit I chose whether they are sims I play or sims I don’t, and so we can use any CAS item we want to use, for a costume like we can any of the other categories. I really like that they added the simple loving lot trait for food, now I want them to do the same for CAS items ( for played households ). It should be be voluntary just like the simple living lot trait ).
I also like that we can place clutter items on many surfaces. I do wish they would open them up to all surfaces though.
I love the amount of fruits, herbs, vegetables and flowers we can buy and grow, however I would rather have a system that is not quite so complicated as it seems to have caused some terrible glitches. And I would love to be able to turn off seasonal growing, so that my sims can grow plants any season that I want them to ( that I think has caused glitches too ).
Like someone else mentioned that I had not thought of till reading their post, I like that bars, nightclubs, vet clinics, retail, parks etc. are lively with people, doing what you do at those places.
Although I rarely play supernatural packs ( maybe I will make a supernatural save someday ), I do like that they gave them their own packs and fleshed out the details. I do buy the supernatural packs mostly for the build buy and CAS. I’m glad that the occults are not that intrusive in a realistic game. Even when I played witches in the sims 2, I preferred that they were rather hidden as I preferred for them to be few, as to make them more special.
I like the variety of packs that sis 4 has. Expansions, game packs, stuff packs and yes even kits. I do wish they would come out with more stuff packs like they used to, as I really miss them, even the less complicated ones, I liked the special item and all the build buy, clothing, jewelry, hair styles and such that we got in them. I would love to see world packs …. I can never get enough worlds.
Overall, I think the sims 4 has been a good game, even though a few of the bugs have started to bother me lately ( I don’t use mods or CC ). I might start using mods and CC if they bring in a new system for CC and mods that makes them easy to add and are prescreened for problems and they are already updated before patches go out.
Sims 4 is the only game I have bought all the packs for. I gave up on sims 3 early because of all the rabbit holes it started out with. Sims 2 I loved, even though I didn’t have all the packs. I shared that game with other family members……. Sims 4 is all mine…. Lol.
