"GrumpyGlowfish;c-18222767" wrote:
I think The Sims as a whole gets repetitive after a while. I haven't played the game normally in months, I just keep creating new families and moving them into new houses with new backstories in mind that I hope will somehow make the gameplay more interesting, but they don't. Sooner or later, my sims all end up doing the same things anyway, and I get bored. Active careers with checklists to work through are the places where the repetitiveness shines brightest, so I definitely don't disagree with the criticism of those and similar gameplay elements. I wouldn't say they go against what The Sims is supposed to be, though.
I agree with you that eventually things become repetitive no matter what the sims' career is. That's why I think it's important that the career and general gameplay allow for enough flexibility where you can chose to do something else that seems more fun to you as a player and in doing so you can avoid feeling the grind. With active careers you could sneak in other activities that are not career related but you want your sim to pursue. You need to come up with interesting and varied storylines for your sims, give them hobbies and likes that make sense and give them a unique something that makes them different from your other sims. If you play two doctors, give them different hobbies and lifestyles, if you play two gardeners, give them different garden plants.
