When Sims act and do very human like things or reactions - not common in many games - it gives me the warm fuzzies. I like the fact there are no other games quite like the Sims no matter how hard their makers try to make them like the Sims - I can see they are in the end failing at reaching that same feeling inside.
I also ask myself how would any competition actually reach in the player that same plateau seeing the most they can hope for is try and reach some of the way that made the Sims so unique and not feel like a copy cat? Personally i don't see the need for competition if the game I have already meet the emotional quota i need and i will always be far more critical over copycats as nothing one can do in the Sims will ever feel right or natural in a copy cat that i can see. Sims has already reached way more plateaus and covered things so well they cannot even duplicate theirselves in new Sims games so how is a competitor ever going to offer more or anything better? Sims has done it already so what is the point - just to be a copy cat? And also never doing it as well as it was done before. Even present sims is often said not to do something as well as it was done before. I will always get the warmest fuzzies from previous experiences of an instance in the Sims. I think that is why we often see people complain - well such and such did it better. That is always going to be an issue of a copy cat game - in my opinion even if they did not do it better in those games it may seem that way because that is the way it first happened. First impressions are always difficult to reach in any memory.
In Sims 4 I have to say adding the calendar was a fabulous idea and planning any holiday real or made up is a way to make some of our own warm fuzzies if we want to.
