"Anthonydyer;c-17409662" wrote:
There are a lot of issues with Sims 4, and I am worried this may happen again if there is a sims 5. I have seen the same thing happen between Simcity 4 and Simcity 2013. First off, a lot of this has to do with the closed world. I have made a return to The Sims 3 and it has a strong sense of community. You can send sims to a neighbor's house while another sim goes to the park. There is more going on than just one lot at a time. You go to work and you see the coworkers going in. They go somewhere other than disappearing at the edge of the lot. In open worlds, you are allowed to explore and there are thousands of possibilities of where you can go. In the sims 4, you go to a lot and you are restricted to the lot and that community space within it.
Another big one is the emotion system. I find it overpowers the game. Sims rapidly cycle between varying emotions based on moodlets. I've said this many times and I will say it again. In the sims 4, sims are controlled by emotions and not personality. The personality system in the sims 4 is very weak and typically revolves around making a sim susceptible to certain emotions. It usually does not influence behaviors. In the sims 3, a neurotic person may feel nervous about the stove, can check it, and then receive a positive moodlet. Kind of like a little reward. Light sleepers will wake up fast when a burglar shows up. These things are rather small, but there is a lot of them. I've seen many simmers upset about TS4 becoming boring and I must be sympathetic with them.
Sims 4 seems to be rather soft compared to previous versions. There were things that were slightly chaotic, but in the end you could laugh at it. For example, burglars and repomen. Your house would be robbed/things taken and having these features made us take measures to prevent this. It adds a little chaos to the game, but isn't devastating nor irreversible. In the sims 4, your power goes out and then you just pay the bill, not much of a consequence. Also, I am noticing some political undertones & virtue signaling sneaking into the sims series. I strongly encourage an end to this. The sims is a good place to escape the poison of our society. Let's keep it out of our game. Please accept these points I mentioned as some constructive criticism.
Playing Sims 3 yesterday again this fact struck me. I wanted my sim to have a landlady so I ordered for a female roommate. Next morning at 9 this young, lovely girl arrived and since here appearance wasn't exactly what I had in mind for a landlady, I took her into CAS, aged her, changed her looks, removed all of her traits and changed them into different ones. Grumpy, hates this, hates that, that was the idea I was going for.
When I returned to live mode, her facial expression obviously was the way I had left her: friendly, with a slight smile. I pressed play and within seconds her facial expression changed.
https://i.imgur.com/VYdHi8h.png
No matter how awesome the room was for her or whatever takes their fancy in Sims 4, in Sims 3 traits immediately take over. Which is the way I want it. After shaking hands I sent my sim up to his apartment and minutes later I found her in her own apartment downstairs, scolding the furniture. Exactly the way I wanted her to be. In Sims 4 they would never.
