What Makes Sims (4) stand out as a video game to you?

I love this question! When I saw the title I thought I knew what my answer was going to be, but now that it's time to type I was hit with a wave of things I love about the game and that makes it stand out. I think @simgirl1010 said it best, there's something for everyone and for every sort of story you can imagine. I love the freedom we have to create LGBTQIA sims and tell their stories. I love that we're not bound to strictly real world scenarios and sims, we can make them fantastical, they can be anything. Vampires and witches and werewolves, oh my! The game doesn't put players in a box and only give them a narrow framework to play in. And if I get burned out on gameplay I can go play around in build mode or CAS. I've never had a moment in 14 years of simming where I've been bored for more than a day or two at most. 

I'm a ride or die simmer.❤️ I haven't played any other games in years and I don't see that changing anytime soon, not anything that would take me away from The Sims for more than an hour or two here and there anyway.

@DaniRose2143I'm so happy you like my question! That's such a great prospective! That really is an awesome part of the game😎! I also never get bored for very long either because I love to play, build and makes Sims in CAS, too! Also, it's great when we get a new pack to spice the game up once we've played through all the packs that have been released until that point😎!

It is great that there are a variety of ways to play the game and live out the lives of our sims @DaniRose2143 🙂 

It is lovely that you have been playing for fourteen years. You would have lots of fun and enjoyable simming days over the years 🙂
There is always something new to discover in the game.

New packs are great! @coolsim9999999 🙂 They add new features and items to the game, and can also complement well with activities or build or cas items that we already have in the game. It is fun to discover all the features or items in the packs.

Like "Calgon" the Sims 4 takes me away,  Literally. With 4 I can afford to travel without spending, well my simself can. Not to mention the adventures and getting to marry a rancher. Life long dream that one.  😉

The views from my windows even though we can't travel to them all they all add so much to my alter life ( I mean my game).  And of course the horses of which I carried over my favorites, Baldy & Maxis from Sims 3 

I do play a lot of other games but Sims 4 leads the pack for stayability for me. Sims the beginning and though  I do still dabble in 2 & 3 its 4 that is my mainstay. I actually do have The Sims still but it doesn't play nice on Win11.  

Great Question/Topic by the way.

It is great that we can enjoy doing things in the game that we can’t do in real life or visit places that we would not be able to visit @Bluegayle 🙂 For simmers who have health problems and need to remain at home, it is a lovely way of being outdoors. 

I love the way that the game encourages creativity. I've always been into home design and fashion and it allows me to create homes and Sims that are all totally different. I do really miss the Sims 3 Colour Wheel though as I used to love creating fabric designs too and wallpaper patterns.

I love that we can create a diverse and inclusive game by taking one step forward at a time, like the recent vitiligo addition or when it added hearing aids and glucose monitors and when we got customisable pronouns and a wide variety of scars. I've got some serious scars myself and just to add that to a game can make someone feel less self conscious about their own scars. It's also available to anyone who wants to use it or if they don't want to use it they don't have to. It's what you choose to make of it.

In gaming terms the best thing about Sims 4 is that all downloadable content is available to console players at the same time as PC players. After having to switch from PC to console because of my disability (and because I kept burning out laptops by overheating them, oops) I missed out on a lot of content that just wasn't released on console. So I love that we all get everything at the same time with Sims 4, even though we didn't get the actual base game at the same time. I understood the delay.

As @rosemow mentioned in an earlier post it is great for those of us that have to spend a lot of time at home. I have to rest a back problem every afternoon and I'd climb the walls with boredom if I didn't have Sims. During the pandemic lockdown I honestly don't know how non Sims playing humans coped without it lol. 

I like platform games too but I like that Sims is a change of pace. I play Sims on an afternoon and play Nintendo on an evening (once I've stopped talking about the Sims lol) but a platform game isn't the same type of experience. It doesn't take long to finish a platform game but with the Sims you just keep on building it.

I do not like the bugs 🐜! But I do really like that we get to work collaboratively to help find fixes and solutions for them and when something isn't working properly we know exactly where we need to go for help with it.

I like it best on my Xbox Series X because I had a lot of reliability problems on previous consoles, once I got this console it was just joy. It loads faster, it plays better and it looks better. Yay! 🎮

I send  many hugs to you with your back problem @simsplayer818 ❤️ Simming is a special way of helping us when we are going through pain, illnesses, tiredness and health concerns. It doesn’t take away the pain, but supports us through it.

The additions of scars, vitiligo,hearing aids,and glucose monitors, as you said, was a very lovely and caring addition. It showed support for those people who have or use them, and allows them to include them in their sims family. 

@simsplayer818 

I agree with you about how creative TS4 lets us be! ❤️ You have some awesome points! 😎

@Bluegayle 

Yes! Sims 4 adds a ton to our lives! 😎 ❤️