"PHOEBESMOM601;14798355" wrote:
"drake_mccarty;14798315" wrote:
I think they just nerfed death all together. I wouldn't necessarily say I kill all of my sims, but I do enjoy when some of them come to an unfortunate end. Unfortunately, The Sims 4 doesn't even allow that.
Pretty much any and all deaths in TS4 require the player to put in a significant amount of effort and time just to get their sim to die. We know they nerfed emotional deaths, which are now incredibly tedious to execute in game (literally I have never been able to kill a sim by emotion, and I've tried several times). I've never had a sim even be electrocuted, let alone killed by electricity. Starvation takes FOREVER, even once their hunger bar is severely low.
Elder deaths are the worst. If we know they'll die from strenuous activity, why on earth should the options to continue doing those activities be greyed out? Should I not have complete control? Should I not be able to force them into death? Apparently not, the developers claim to love the deviant side to the game but at the same time they made keeping your sims alive so unbelievably easy, and removed challenging aspects to make it even easier.
Death was so unpredictable in previous games, and that was fun. It was also devastating, but it was fun at the same time. Now we don't have these deaths that change the game, you have to pretty much initiate the death yourself which pretty much loses all appeal it previously had.
I'm not a serial Sim killer either....well not unless I've created a private detective who's trying to track down the Black Widow of Oasis Springs or something.
I'm just so tired of removing all the things that make the game unpredictable and for some of us fun.
I bought GTW for the aliens and the alien abductions....so now I've had one Sim abducted and no alien pregnancies. The game didn't come with a cemetery and I created my own....then came the empty graves. I like the unpredictability of all kind of things happening. I'm not a micro manager, I'm not obsessive about controlling every freaking little thing these Sims do and I just want some consequences!
Agree 100%! I want variation, and The Sims 4 is way too streamlined and predictable. I was very angry with what they did to aliens, as that was one of the reasons I bought GTW. Clearly Maxis is still under the mindset of "if it doesn't work right, let's botch it". This is eerily similar to what they did with SimCity but on a much larger scale, and it absolutely tarnishes this game. If they can't design these new features to work in an acceptable way, then they need new management. There are SO many way they could have changed aliens while still keeping their full functionality, but as usual it was so much easier to just remove their functionality all together.
