What exactly is 'Generations'?

"Sharonia;c-17713708" wrote:

"APotts;c-17713701" wrote:

"elelunicy;c-17713504" wrote:

"@So_Money;c-17713482" wrote:

"TamakiSakura84;c-17713477" wrote:
Generations is a family player's dream pack.

Some of things included:

• imaginary friends
  
• prom
  
• daycare active career
  
• slumber parties
  
• bachelor/bachelorette parties
  
• teaching teens to drive
  
• canes for elders
  
• midlife crisis
  
• boarding school
  
• strollers
  
• treehouses
  
• weddings
  

? Wow. I didn’t play much TS3 but this list really puts in perspective how lacking TS4 and its expansions have been.

Lol TS3 was a game in which you needed to buy Generations just to have wedding cakes and wedding arches, something TS4 had in the base game since day 1.

LOL don't think we want a discussion about what TS4 had and didn't have in the base game, because I think that could get pretty ugly. Still recall the huge list of missing features that kept me from buying in the beginning.

I know right?

At least the Sims 3 released with all it's life stages in the base game unlike the Sims 4 which had missing toddlers at the release and for a long time afterwards. The only reason we got this life stage at all in TS4 was cause so many people were upset about it and I'm still salty about it.

Yes, and if you want to get technical, Sims 4 children are basically smaller adults, and teens are barely distinguishable from adults.

"elelunicy;c-17713504" wrote:

"@So_Money;c-17713482" wrote:

"TamakiSakura84;c-17713477" wrote:
Generations is a family player's dream pack.

Some of things included:

• imaginary friends
  
• prom
  
• daycare active career
  
• slumber parties
  
• bachelor/bachelorette parties
  
• teaching teens to drive
  
• canes for elders
  
• midlife crisis
  
• boarding school
  
• strollers
  
• treehouses
  
• weddings
  

? Wow. I didn’t play much TS3 but this list really puts in perspective how lacking TS4 and its expansions have been.

Lol TS3 was a game in which you needed to buy Generations just to have wedding cakes and wedding arches, something TS4 had in the base game since day 1.

Yeah well, TS3 had personality from day 1....and open world and a color wheel for skin tones, and toddlers, and garages, and pools, and ghosts and family trees, etc...so....don't really try and mock TS3 when 4 is an even bigger disgrace.

Teens are pretty well fleshed out Sims 4 with parenthood and while they seem like adults if you control them directly, they'll act markedly different if you let them do their own thing. I think babies and elders do need some attention though. I'd like elders to have a lot more unique conditions like old age quirks like bad back(walking with a cane helps) or joints ache when it rains, etc. Right now, they're just fragile sims that you just more or less leave alone or else they'll get exhausted.

"TamakiSakura84;c-17713477" wrote:
Generations is a family player's dream pack.

Some of things included:

• imaginary friends
  
• prom
  
• daycare active career
  
• slumber parties
  
• bachelor/bachelorette parties
  
• teaching teens to drive
  
• canes for elders
  
• midlife crisis
  
• boarding school
  
• strollers
  
• treehouses
  
• weddings
  

ALSO, it had sim video cameras, which enabled you to record moments, save them to a sim hardrive and put on sim's TVs for them to watch, sand boxes, hopscotch, see-saws, pranks, bunk beds, the teacher career and body hair. Dates also came with Generations for TS3 after they introduced group gatherings on Late Night as well as personal sim bios, the reputation system and memories. Some of these were patched.

I miss the boarding school.

"catmando830;c-17713855" wrote:
I miss the boarding school.

Was that not a rabbit hole?

"crocobaura;c-17713859" wrote:

"catmando830;c-17713855" wrote:
I miss the boarding school.

Was that not a rabbit hole?

Yes, but it was still fun to role play as a strict parent and send your teen kid to a military school. Plus, it was a way to avoid their teen dramas, although they'd get a bit pissed about it.

That's a really good question. People have these big dreams of a Generations pack fixing all kinds of those deep problems in The Sims 4, but... You have got to get down to reality and remember The Sims 3 Generations. While what it added was pretty neat, it was a tiny EP that did not add a whole lot and most certainly wasn't worth the asking price. Now if you realize that content amount in each pack has decreased versus The Sims 3, you should not get your hopes up for Generations at all.

"crocobaura;c-17713859" wrote:

"catmando830;c-17713855" wrote:
I miss the boarding school.

Was that not a rabbit hole?

That was fine with me, it was the only way I could deal with the kids and school.

"Sigzy05;c-17713864" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17713859" wrote:

"catmando830;c-17713855" wrote:
I miss the boarding school.

Was that not a rabbit hole?

Yes, but it was still fun to role play as a strict parent and send your teen kid to a military school. Plus, it was a way to avoid their teen dramas, although they'd get a bit ???? about it.

Lol, that's not very funny. You could still make a military school if you want and move your sim child out of the household for a while. I think Strangerville has a lot big enough for a school. :)