Why does everyone hate city living?

"Neia;15630001" wrote:


https://www.thesims.com/media/cache/full/content/dam/ea/www-thesims/news_images/2017/JAN/ts4-17-anniversary-simmer-spotlight/Simanite.jpg

would have loved to see the expression on the toddler's face. their expressions are often absolutely priceless. :)

"aob;914019" wrote:
I see so much negativity and hate towards cl but honestly, I love it. (If you don't like city living, I'm not bashing you or saying you are wrong, just expressing my opinion). Personally, i think it added so much excitement and fun to the game and I can't imagine my game without it. What are your thoughts?

yes and no i agree with you but i also do not. city living to me adds things i actually am starting to enjoy to a point but and there is a but at the same time i feel like it did not reach its full potinatioal and actually slight reminds me of limited the sims 4 kind of is. i feel trapped in my appartment since i see stuff going on outside my window but know that i cant interact with it. and this is a porblem with the sims 4 overall since some of the game was made with backgrounds that are window dressing but what i personally can not accept about the game itself is how you can not build or own your own appartments. living in appartments is cool though i just wish i could custumize them more rather then just being able to build rooms in them. i wish you could set up your own traits to an appartment or own them and set your own rent but oddly enough i hear those things sounds a bit unrealastic.

"brendhan21;15640219" wrote:

"aob;914019" wrote:
I see so much negativity and hate towards cl but honestly, I love it. (If you don't like city living, I'm not bashing you or saying you are wrong, just expressing my opinion). Personally, i think it added so much excitement and fun to the game and I can't imagine my game without it. What are your thoughts?

yes and no i agree with you but i also do not. city living to me adds things i actually am starting to enjoy to a point but and there is a but at the same time i feel like it did not reach its full potinatioal and actually slight reminds me of limited the sims 4 kind of is. i feel trapped in my appartment since i see stuff going on outside my window but know that i cant interact with it. and this is a porblem with the sims 4 overall since some of the game was made with backgrounds that are window dressing but what i personally can not accept about the game itself is how you can not build or own your own appartments. living in appartments is cool though i just wish i could custumize them more rather then just being able to build rooms in them. i wish you could set up your own traits to an appartment or own them and set your own rent but oddly enough i hear those things sounds a bit unrealastic.

I agree with you however, I do not buy into the rumor that something sounds unrealistic especially if it has never been tried.

I only recently got it, & don't like or dislike it. I do have a couple of beefs with the apartments-I wish they had a buy option instead of having to rent most of them, and I don't like that you can't change the lot traits in them-please tell me there's a cheat for that, I'm tired of my sims chasing rats every night.

The new furniture & clothing haven't really wowed me, but I do like the festivals & new food. And I like that we can actually have real neighbors in the apartments, instead of just random NPCs vanishing into black holes like in TS3. But my San Myshuno family seems the most disconnected from the rest of my sims. I have 7 families, one based in each town, and they frequently run into each other at community lots & the open spaces, but I seldom see this family out & about and my other sims seldom visit SM while I'm playing them. (though last night their daughter finally appeared at the play area in Magnolia Promenade while my current family's kids were playing there).

So I'd say my feelings on CL are pretty neutral. But it always takes a while for me to warm up to new content, so you never know, I could come back a few months from now & proclaim this EP my favorite one ever!

"Proteus42;15625215" wrote:
Regarding shopping:
If you want to have shopping, you should better play Sims 2.

It was the last Sims that had true shopping (as actually having to go to a shop in order to buy things) incorporated into its gameplay.
Since Sims 3 all shopping has become rather meaningless props, as everything you can buy in shops in the game world is either available for free (clothes, via the magic wardrobe) or can easier be bought from home (directly via the fridge and bookshelf)
(well, actually a little bit of shopping was reintroduced in the Sims 4 city, via te food stalls and the festival merchandise, that you cannot buy elsewhere ... but this all pales compared to the shopping in Sims 2 ;) )

Yeah, I've converted Magnolia Promenade into a residential area, keeping only the biggest store, just to have a place for teens to go mall-ratting in. Plus, hopefully, less stores means less needless NPCs spawned.

It's disappointing and it made me sad
Besides the inability to build apartments, the pack is empty. I love the items and activities but...

-I hate the key system. Just because I give someone a key to my apaprtment doesn't mean they have to show up all the time. What's worse is that they ALL show up, drink my water, and leave a mess

-Apartments were the selling point, or at least were supposed to be.. they were kind of a let down
-There's only one landlord for all the apartment buildings.. that makes no sense.

-I love the idea for the festivals but they could have been better...

-And I know despite being in an apartment your sim can venture outside and have fun but every now and then my camera won't go too far.. even for festivals. For example I can't follow my sim up close to the guru or while they play basketball but other times it's fine. This only occurs in San Myshuno.. I'm fine in Windenburg

There are things I love about City Living but the pack feels like it's missing something. I have it, I enjoy what I can, I don't hate the pack, I just hate that it could've been more but it isn't.

I love City Living, it's added so much spice into my game. I can wake up every morning and I can make all these new recipes, then dart outside for a jog around the hectic festivals to grab a latte, and then get ready for a flea to purchase some great deals! There's not many complaints I can think of, here's two:
1. We can't build our own apartments, I always thought we would have the ability to do this. I found it disappointing that we couldn't.
2. There seems to be a lack of family play, which I was expecting with a city, but it feels impossible to have one child in them apartments! They always seem to be rather small and rather loud, with neighbours constantly bashing on the doors for no reason. There is hardly any children nearby or any children aspects that I'm fond of.

i like CL.. my biggest issue with it is that it seems like it introduced time distortion (which seems far worse in san myshuno than anywhere else)

I wonder if they will ever give us the abillity to build our own apartments. I would happily pay for that. I get bored very quickly of the premade ones also,
I want working elevators with animation and woohoo,apartments that are not in a shell like ts2 i mean you just get teleported to the secobd floor. Even sims 3 had shells where you still had working doors,elevators and multiple floors.
I just find it so strange how ts2 a game thats like 15 years old or something could make amazing diverse apartments and sims 4 can’t.

A lot of people revise their opinion after some time has passed and a lot change from haters to ok'ers and then lovers of. I never take any notice of the negative reviews that come out immediately after release. It's now part of my game and I enjoy it, especially as my nerd managed to fly a spaceship in one of the festivals. Got accused by the police of being part of a conspiracy though. :)