It isn't the developers, it is the management. You can tell the developers care, but they can't just add things without approval and EA isn't going to pay them to work on things that won't directly make them money.
They rather disable the features, just like they did to Whims, were they never cared or knew how to fix them or improve them, they rather just disabled the feature for you (yes you can activate them, but they are broken)
Fixing things, the sims team? They don't do that. They downgraded the textures from 2k to 1k to 'fix' lag issues, they clearly don't care about TS4 anymore.
I think whims are a great concept... potentially. if they were thought out properly or maybe conveyed anything resembling an individual personality of a sim, even just randomly assigned, that would be great. but instead everysim just wants a bee box and a pool and a tv, if you don't have one.
I recently discovered that the sims 4 has an achievement for living through 26 generations. Bold of EA to assume that their game could capture my attention for that long. Because spoiler, it can’t - even with hundreds of $ of DLC installed
There is one for 100 generations and a hidden 400 babies one, as well. They aren't adding new achievements anymore, so they probably don't care at all, just like with whims.
But Carl, once they have your money, EA has no motivation to improve the content. Let’s face it. They DON’T EVEN PLAY TEST. They release broken features in every pack. (Like Eco Footprint!)
YES! It is SO blatantly obvious noone over at EA Corp has even set foot in the game. You download a patch with a new feature, try it and EXCEPTIONS everywhere (seen with MCCC) and the features doesn't even do what they are supposed to. They go "We have fixed skintones" and then all of us has to report all the bugs like only white babies, only warm skintone babies and THE BLOTCHINESS that never goes away!!! Plus all the simulation lag that renders the game virtually unplayable and won't even start for some. If they have play testers, they do a good job of ignoring their reports.
They also don't optimize. TS3 is very laggy, mostly because of how it is coded, and the more expansions, the more lag. They took out many features for TS4 to be less laggy, and yet, with more expansion, it is becoming laggy and buggy. They could have had an open world, story progression, and a color wheel if they actually worked on their code. This is proved by all the awesome models who so far made open worlds and story progression mods. As you said, as long as they have money in their pockets they couldn't care less about the state of the game
My issue with the Sims 4 is it’s lack to expand on the franchise in any way. Outside of just better coding because of newer technology, the Sims 4 hasn’t done anything innovative or tried to expand upon the already existing features from the Sims 3. If anything, they went backwards.
@@TheOG-GG Yeah. Seems like they focused all their RnD and funds on CAS and buy/build mode that they sorta abandoned improvements on live mode gameplay. Still remember when everyone went crazy on the new CAS and buy/build mode, and to be expected since that is where they expanded the feature the most, and then it all collapsed when people got to live mode.
@@TheOG-GG I've never really enjoyed building houses and usually just redecorate gallery houses (or use cc ones) so I often forget how much the building system has improved. Before Sims 4, I used to spend about 20% of my time making sims and the rest of the time I was actually playing in the world. In Sims 4, I spend about 80-90% of my time in CAS (which is pretty good) and then attempt to play the game with the sims I created, but they are always incredibly boring and have the same personality as every other sim. I guess the Sims 4 would be an okay game if it was marketed as a house building and character designing game instead of a life simulator. Now, I don't play the sims 4 at all because I have about 50 GB of mods to make the game enjoyable, but they break with every patch and I don't have the time, energy, or desire to do that every couple of weeks.
With holding content makes you $. Not you know innovating. I have had, played every vs of the Sims since 2000. Since the star wars pack, I packed in. I will never purchase any more. They don't care and will not change.
When I was playing the university pack, I saw that a game was going on at the stadium. My Sims had low fun so I thought it would be a good way to entertain them. Paid 90 Simoleons for 2 tickets. Little did I know, attending a sports game grants 0 fun regen to Sims. So you're just paying to have your Sims' need decay for a few hours. It made me sad thinking about how things like this just don't get updated in Sims 4. They make a DLC, release it without extensive play-testing, and then... that's it. They never tune the content or modify the scripting, and we end up with stockpiles of unusable (or downright aggravating) features.
It's pretty much the same with TS4 and the community: You pay a lot of money and end up getting bored. I ended up voting with my wallet and I instead get a lot of entertainment by reading the community's comments.
@@davidkonevky7372 Heck, I don't think skiing or snowboarding even grants much fun. I had my family ski all day and their fun was still in the yellow. Guess they should have just stayed at the rental and watched TV?
@@merchantfan This is absolutely true. And these aren't the only examples of broken Fun tuning. Sulani ocean sports are another big offender. It's actually crazy how few activities there are that Sims actually enjoy. I really don't like being "forced" through game mechanics to have every Sim and every family own TVs and computers in order to keep my Sims entertained.
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@@LawdyGawd YES that drives me absolutely wild. I've taken to using the damn free earbuds to help their fun along so that I can do things that SHOULD be fun and make it seem like they actually are in game 🤦
Dude, Its EA, so i'm 99% sure that they not only are going to ignore nearly every game issue, but also implement lootboxes for clothes, money, skintone and skills :^P
Yeah, it's just as likely it will be "we heard you found teens and elders boring so now it's just kids and adults! also some of you said toddlers were too hard so now they're 'turned off' and we'll never consider them"
I'm glad to see someone else bring this up. I don't read them myself but sometimes one of the simmers I watch will put out a video of patch notes and read through them and I just think they are soooo patronizing and unprofessional. It's insulting like they're making fun of players almost? Ugh. lol
The biggest issue with Sims 4 is the design philosophy behind it, and mark my words, Sims 5 WILL inherit that philosophy, and likely an even more destructive iteration of it. Anyone clamoring for Sims 5 at this point expecting it to be better seriously needs to work on their pattern recognition. EA doesn't care, because they can afford not to care. In fact, this is just a conspiracy theory of mine, but I think Sims 4 was an experiment to see just how much they could get away with. And what they have gotten away with so far includes but is not limited to: - Excluding colour wheels, very likely so that stuff packs will become more appealing (There is even an insulting number of items that are just different palettes of the same items, spread out across different DLC) - Getting rid of open worlds while still offering a tiny amount of lots despite no longer having the excuse that they must all be loaded at once. - Dev-built houses that are downright infantile, to the point that they went so far as to hire private individuals to do their job for them. - Broken AI that is still Alpha-quality six years later, with sims acting like ADHD-riddled children with short-term memory loss and no sense of priority management. - Not including basic features like pools, dishwashers, or even TODDLERS at launch, and getting people to THANK them for adding those in for free months or years later. - Using CLEARLY rigged polls (Seriously, they managed to funnel "eco stuff" down to "laundry stuff", and the Star Wars thing was at the bottom of players' priorities) to get people to think that THEY asked for whatever useless pack they put out, ensuring that they blame each other and shift focus away from the actual culprits. - Actually, unironically making DLC for DLC. And with the game continuing to be successful and with the playerbase continuing to be loyal, I'd say they've gotten away with it. This sets a very worrying precedent for Sims 5. Nobody should be excited for it, nobody should buy it at launch let alone preorder it. Everyone should be very, very skeptical. But they won't be. EA knows that. Which is why I am completely confident that it's all downhill from here.
that said if Paralivs comes out we might see EA take a big look at sims 5. because if Paralivs success and they dont need to EA level of success but just not fail then EA will have to face the fact that The sims is no longer alone and have a monopole on the Live sim genera. and if that happen then Sims 5 might actually turn around. remember when Xbox and Sony anonsed that PS4 and Xbox 360 would have no indie devs deal or some really stupid restrictions and how when Ouya started to get tossed around (yee it failed at the end) but how Sony and microsoft both backed down on there stand on the indie devs.
I feel you. I've been simming for almost 20 years and I'm afraid of what Sims 5 base game will look like. Sims 4 original base game literally made me cry. I was disappointed with the lack of EVERYTHING. 😭
Same here. Started with Sims 1. But I haven’t bought Sims stuff in over a year and I won’t be buying Sims 5 unless they start making a real effort to put out QUALITY games, not pure cashgrabs.
Same here, I held out hope for the Sims four pets pack because Sims three pets got deleted for me for No reason And then I got crushed stone down in that internally and it was too late to put it back
They do not integrate packs well. We've had cats and dogs for quite a while, but rarely do they integrate for cats and dogs in the new packs. Example, we got the ability to have roommates, but when you put an extra bed in for a roommate while having a cat or dog, it says not enough beds, because the pet is considered a sim so you have to have an EXTRA extra bed if you have a pet in order to have a roommate. We've had simbots for a while now, biggest flaw? Cannot get waterproof, no reward for it, no update for it, cannot happen big flaw. They added toddlers late, but we have had them for quite a while, however they rarely include toddlers in new packs. To be fair on that one, they rarely include children and just throw teens in with young adults. They updated decor to be functional for books but only some of them and they didn't continue the trend. Outdoor living has no real point unless you want to do herbalism, and even then now that they made those plants seasonal, unless you go four times a year to get those plants, its kinda pointless. You can camp anywhere, my sims do, if your tent will fit, you can camp there, so what is the point of a world for camping? And so many many many things feel half-assed. Sooooo much clutter you can't put on a shelf, it looks like you can, it looks small enough, but unless you use move objects cheat, it has to go on a table or cabinet. Whats the point of all these things you can't put anywhere???? MySim trophies, it was a big thing in basegame, but the one update we could DO something with them, ironically the Realm of Magic pack, it only did it with ONE of them and we go nothing else. We got all this STUFF, most of which looks like would go well together, but you can't because the colors clash and some things go with NOTHING. We finally get a cabinet with shelving that can put some of the clutter, but it will only take a very limited amount of that clutter. The whole point of the University pack is to GO to University, but it works better going from a lot in another neighborhood because otherwise its almost impossible to get to class on time, then you can't take the advantages of going to university like the free food because if you get there during the specific times to eat, the 'vendor' or 'server' isn't there so the food isn't ready by the time it is its no longer within the times to eat. Ok, I kinda rambled there, but there is sooo much that just doesn't work RIGHT and never really did. Unless you are playing pack specific many things just don't work well together. I don't do that, does anyone do that? We only do that while a pack is new, after that we want to play with multiple packs together and it just doesn't work. The lifestyles are just annoying, I notice there was not a new lifestyle with the new paranormal pack so thats not being updated. So again, whats the point? Instead of taking things out of the box, they put everything in a box, and that box stays small despite updates or packs. EDIT: I've said I've been playing sims3, a good example of the difference is the sculpting compared to the woodworking table. I've been freaked out by all the stuff my sim "scuplts" whereas the woodworking table has never been updated and everything comes in that ONE color of wood, except the barstools those are just the one as well. It's the limitations they give us compared to other sims games that drive us crazy.
I just want playable high chairs for toddlers. Threading the tiniest needle known to mankind would be less frustrating than trying to feed a toddler in a high chair in TS4.
Seriously- the whole gardening system was wrecked by Seasons. You're supposed to go around the worlds and collect new plants, but now there's nothing to harvest. Also you never have to water plants anymore? And yes, the lack of new reward things is super noticeable. I still don't get why the weather machine is just a regular build buy objects instead of a reward object like 3 or an unlockable object with a certain career or skill. Why no "no shock" reward for University to help with the inventing skill? Or one or two for Snowy Escape etc? They didn't even add a "earn fame faster" reward for Get Famous
@@tajneafoster2836 omg, I so agree , dad puts kid in mom takes kid out, dad puts kid in...kids is starving. I cancel everything pull food out of the fridge and order the kid to eat. Good gosh, terrible!
Same. Oof, I really wouldnt mind paying EA (ugh, stEAl) $300 for a sims 3 remastered. It is actually worth it, unlike s4. Greed ruined this once great franchise.
I laughed way back when the base sims 4 came out and they tried to defend the loading screens, showing how fast they were loading. I was like, "I'm not stupid. After a couple of years, the loading screens will take forever and no one would want to visit a neighbor because it would take too long to load." Here we are...
Someone bitched saying that "The Sims will work better for you if you stop being cheap and buy a good gaming laptop." So I replied to her telling her to buy us all $1,000+ gaming laptops or shut up. She didn't want to do either. So, I stopped replying to her. This was back when the seasons DLC for TS4 came out.
I honestly don't hate the loading screens, as the sims 2 had them and the game was A BLAST to play, but we all know that the sims 4 is no sims 2, it is a waste of the time and money
@@davidkonevky7372 Exactly- and it makes it even more questionable why things are so much more bare bones than in Sims 3. In Sims 3, exploring meant a ton of puzzles and levels you did yourself *in an open world*. In 4, it's mostly pop up boxes.
I have a good laptop, the game loads in seconds for me even with mods and custom content and I still cannot stand loading screens. Like I can SEE the lot next to mine, why can’t I just go there? Why doesn’t everything have to load again?
@@merchantfan This. I remember getting seasons and I played less than an hour because I got bored so quickly. I didn't want to visit my neighbor because I didn't want to wait for a loading screen. I had a business lot right next to my home lot and I couldn't just walk to it without a loading screen. When they first advertised open neighborhoods, I thought they meant the neighborhood was all loaded. I understand loading screens when visiting other neighborhoods within the same world, but loading screens to visit the lot next to you? I don't care that sims 2 had loading screens, we shouldn't have to go back to that with the tech we have available today.
"EA needs to understand the mistakes they've made with the Sims 4." ~nervously eyes their second attempt at an online game after the Frankenstein monster that became Sims 4~
@Izex They require a subscription, and I won't touch it with a 10 ft pole. That coming from a consumer who's bought most of their Sims 4 releases at full price. Maybe I'm in the minority though; who knows.
@@SymeonPhronema I don’t think you are because I’m definitely just like you. I enjoy the Sims 4 but the Sims 5 possibly being online and subscription based is infuriating and I won’t be getting it.
I'm still baffled how the gurus still like to answer with "it's too hard" when the community asks for fixes or some improvements. yet they have the source code... O_o they had 6 years and the way to modify the sims to do anything else using the same assets. and they say it's hard? injecting code via mod is harder and some modders add more life alteration gameplay thanthe gurus lol
Ikr?? They act like its magic when modders do it all the time! Plus EA has more than enough resources and I'm positive modders would be more than happy to help if they asked them!
Especially when those requested features were mainstays in previous entries. We're supposed to believe that building larger worlds is too much for them when you could have nearly limitless worlds connected to your main neighborhood in TS2.
It's not that it is too hard, the more correct answer would be "EA won't approve us spending so much time and money working on this but I can't just say that or my boss will get mad so I'll just say it's hard to do."
I've honestly had enough with the Sims team, they obviously don't care anymore. All they care about is releasing half assed packs that aren't even play tested and selling it you. The amount of bugs and how broken these packs release in is proof that they don't care. It's gotten so bad to the point where I dread a new pack being announced because I know it's going to break the game even more.
They usually stop caring when a new game in the franchise is being released, like how they took down the ability to buy TS1 when TS2 released, and TS2 when TS3 released. They also released a final 'update' for TS3 that made it a laggy buggy crashing mess so that people would buy TS4. It's just scummy EA tactics, break the game so people will buy the new one.
@@nedrane297 Are you saying they never cared, even at the beginning? Could explain why they released TS4 without toddlers, pools, ect, staple sims stuff.
This is just one of those little things that aggravates people that has gone completely ignored for 6 years because their eyes are not on fixing this type of issue! It's like they think they got it right the first time, in all cases.
That's something that probably should have a variable time frame depending on the meal in question. Can things take a while to eat? Well I can bolt sandwiches in minutes, but two cans of soup as a single meal takes an hour or so even when I'm not distracted by things. That said, in Sims 3 the whole base alarm is an hour before you're due in work if that was a pain in the arse just for if you're RPing properly, because it can take more than that to do a morning routine, especially any time said routine involves full shower and full meal.
Not to mention the time it takes to eat when your sims forget what they were doing, or get up from a chair because they have to hug their spouse hi before being able to engage in dinner conversation with them, or get up to play a violin that's not in their inventory using a skill they don't have.
@@loupblanc7944 Oh, no. They messed that one up. I had a sim that was vegetarian, he grew his own food and ate it straight from inventory after picking from the vine. Sounds like what a vegetarian should do right? Nope, now he gets stomach issues and has to potty a lot.
Honestly, I've played ALL the sims games, bought a ton of the DLC for both Sims3 and Sims4. I feel really disappointed at this point though, because they don't put effort into the game. It's a lot less fun to play than Sims3 was. Feels old, repetitive.
Ikr, I can't even play TS4 base game no dlcs for longer than 10 minutes, theirs just nothing to do in it. And the dlcs are too small, and seemingly had no effort put into them with them constantly reusing animations and other assets
I tried to make a base game, vainilla legacy. I couldn't last. Even with installed DLCs it gets super boring, and I'm just playing Sims 2 and 3 instead. I only come back to The Sims 4 whenever a mod I really like gets a new feature. PS: Pirating EA is always right.
I see how new players think that sims 4 is the greatest thing ever, and I think the is who EA is catering to. Those of us who played from the beginning of the franchise, or even just sims 3, see all the glaring flaws. It’s going to take a lot, and I mean a lot, for me to even try sims 5.
Well yeah it's super interesting when you look at the horizon and the vast ocean before you, but then you go for a swim and the water reaches your ankles. I think they really are relying on new blood vs the veterans to keep TS4 going. Their marketing game is very strong.
I've played since the beginning and Sims 4 is not any more "flawed" than the other 3 games in terms of gameplay. In fact Sims 4 runs the smoothest of the 4 Sims games.
I think they're catering to the young crowd, their attention span is that of an ant, they'll play for an hour and off to Fortnite or minecraft..I'm 50 been playing Sims since the first one. Usually have generations of Sims. I just can't in 4. I went back to S3, it was so refreshing to see them read a book on their own or paint. Seek out their spouse or children to talk to instead of computer or plants
@@warzshadow9701 I know, I’ve been playing for 17 years. I stopped playing S3 a couple of years ago but got roped into S4 during quarantine with the 95% off sale. It’s pretty, but that’s it. I tried playing S3 a few weeks ago but after a couple of sim days it starts to lag so much it’s unplayable. 😢 I’ll have to fix it because I miss quality.
When I compare Sims 3 and Sims 4, I always have the feeling that they developed Sims 3 thinking in having fun and made every expansion with the previous content they had on mind. The expansions or stuff packs just added spice to a game that was already good and the expansions worked perfectly with the other content. I remember to create an adventurer (WA) that got pregnant by the aliens the first night (Seasons) and his alien daughter's lifetime wish was to adopt a unicorn! (Pets). And all of that made sense and was really fun to play! In the other hand, Sims 4 has all those expansions and so little content! It makes me feel like they created the game focused on the looks of the sims or the stetics of the world, not on the gameplay itself. If they have a "playable" feature is limited to the expansion pack and it's really difficult to make it match with the rest of the content. I recently watched a video from Pleasant Sims where she said that let's plays were over and I think she's right! I've found more Sims 4 builds than gameplays, while with Sims 3 is the opposite, and I think it's because of this difference. If Sims 5 wants to be a better game, they have to focus more on the gameplay and less in how it looks.
I keep saying that! They keep saying in their livestreams "It looks so cool" and I'm like "but then what?" Does anyone else remember when Graham did livestreams for the new packs in Sims3? You could tell he was EXCITED, he really wanted to share the fun stuff they did. Not just put it out there and say "it looks so cool" with nothing else to show for it.
I feel like the sims 2 and 3 have a better philosophy when making a pack. They ask, which part of life would be cool to expand on? And how would it fit in a normal playthrough of the game? While the sims 4 asks: which aestethic should we choose to give the furniture and cas so simmers forget that the pack is shallow af?
@@davidkonevky7372 And even doing that, sometimes they gave us the same furniture in different colour! Or a stuff pack that needs an expansion to work...
Yeah Sims 4 expansions and packs basically feel like they were designed to look good when people play it the first time for let's plays/reviews and then no depth is included past that bc then they'll have your money so who cares
I remember a behind the scenes video at Maxis during the TS2 days, they had a team of people who's job it was to play the game and give feed back on the gameplay, that was their full time job. I can't believe they do that now, with TS4.
Back in Sims 2 days once they released a game that was it. They couldn't patch fixes into the games so they playtested them much more thouroughly than they do now. It's a problem with the gaming industry in general.
The fact is: why fix something people are buying regardless? The source of income: DLCs. Even if they are forgotten, they are still bought as long as they are felt "new content" when released. That matters for a company. So why stop? -EA Ps. Your animations are GREAT
Exaclty my thought! All the people complaining still buy all the dlcs and will buy sims 5 when it comes out. All that matters is profit, you think EA cares about the art of making a good videogame?
There's an argument to be made that if the sims were, like, good, more people would buy it, and they'd make more money. I haven't bought a sims 4 dlc in years, because none of them fix any of the actual core gameplay problems the sims 4 has. I just keep circling back to the sims 3, because at least that had gameplay. If the sims 4 were better, I'd spend money on it! I'm pretty sure there's a not-insignificant chunk of the market that would do the same, that EA is failing to capture because they keep repainting the walls of a house that's falling apart.
And when people starting complaining about lag, they didn't fix the issue either, they instead downgraded the textures from 2k to 1k. EA Doesn't do fixes when they don't have to
@@sockpuppetqueen Counter-argument: most of the sells they do are not aimed at the community but at random people who see "sims" in the name and pay. And just say they were aimed at us: they "focus" on the bare minimum and that is enough to please for the next month most of the community. Just see bonehilda: a reused skin (even badly, since switching to her bathwear you see a young redhead lady) sold a pack even more, everyone on the internet saying "BONEHILDA IS THE REASON I BUY THIS", and we are indeed a minority. See journey to batuu/skintones instead: a mass neglect made the devs do their jobs because they were damaging those random sells and those people who don't like to think a lot about a pack or wait a month to see how it aged. But people forget easily.
I'm proud to say that I bought Sims 4 ON RELEASE and never bought any DLC. I've never been more disappointed while playing it for the first time. The DLCs started to be launched and I was like, WTF?! Some of them have a good potential, but they are so badly executed that, now, six years later I've never bought ONE Sims 4 pack lol. Every year since 2014 I try at least once a year to play the game, it's just not fun and i rather play something else. I mean I love the franchise and I love watching videos about it and reading news and stuff, but let's be honest, at this point sims 4 is just a build simulator, and if you pay attention most famous simmers in youtube don't actually play the game just build on it.. It's not a fun game.
stardew valley it's so good, a game from a small company, great updates, when the game has bugs the creator fixes it hours later, he communicates with the community, honestly ea could never be at that level. throwing my money at concerned ape was the best decision ever 🥰
Even better, ConcernedApe isn't a "small company", he's just one person. ONE PERSON is more passionate and attentive to his game and its players than a AAA company with more than enough funds to do literally anything they want with theirs.
I still enjoy the sims 3 more tbh.. even tho some stuff are weaker in TS3 like celebrity and vampires feels kinda meh but still TS3 has the world adventure and it's really amazing
World Adventures was awesome, actually. I loved that you could make friends in China and have them come visit you when you got home. Ambitions was also a sweet pack. Really added to the game.
Sims 4 is an amazing building simulator, with pretty scenery. Meanwhile, I started playing Sims 3 again recently and can't pull myself away because my Sims have actual personalities again so I'm not bored once creating them and their house is done.
I’m not even gonna buy The Sims 5, they lost my loyalty a long time ago. And the The Sims 4 packs are all shallow and forgettable and add a million new bugs to the game. The Sims 4 is only good for building but it’s a LIFE simulator not a build simulator. Almost all Sims RUclipsrs have become builders because there’s just nothing else to do in The Sims 4. (edited for typos)
If I ever buy the sims 5, it will NOT be at launch, I will wait for a year and see if the game actually compares to the other ones, and if it seems plausible, I will buy the base game. And if the base game is wack, I will leave the game entirely.
I'd love some nice couples dances. How hard would it be to give us one proper ballroom dance? All their dances are silly and if you want to have a fancy party any of your guest dancing ruins the feel of the event because they all dance like teenagers.
Again, mods are the only way to go. There is a slow dance mod out there. EA/Origins is too lazy to do anything. Modders have done all the heavy lifting.
I'm reminded of the thing that made me stick to this channel at the very start when the editing wasn't here yet, it's the likely drunk sounding narration! My favourite image is just a dude yelling about Sims. But then you check the channel name and it's not just a dude but THE Carl of the website that supports your little completionist heart and dreams. I love this channel so so much
Exactly right @@carlalussini I absolutely love this channel! It's my second favourite Sims channel (after lilsimsie who I've known since 2017ish and have a psudosocial love for)
I skipped TS4 after 30 hours of play and reinstalled Sims2 on my old laptop. I do keep up with the news and hope for a good TS5. But I am not optimistic.
Looking back, I have only ONE gripe with the Sims 2 - Time. If it passed the same regardless of where 'you' were, then it probably doesn't get much better from a standard point of view concerning game play. I stopped with the Sims 3 which has a heavy investment in time and Ep's. Love the open world and CAST. But it too lost something which 2 had in abundance - Soul.
@@terrylandess6072 When a sim dies in Sims2 it is a significant event on par with loosing a pet goldfish. Of course you can choose not to loose them, but sometimes some of them has to go, to make space for next generation.
Previous sims games felt like a life simulation. Sims 4 feels like a shallow doll house simulation. It's not realistic (object babies, no cars, only cats and dogs for pets as if those are the only pets in the world that exist), expansions provide singular things to do one time and never do again (Strangerville, Jungle Adventure), and emotions flip flop all over the place (Dad just died from a fire but GEE WILLIKERS, THIS ROOM IS NICELY DECORATED!)
You and your detailed guides are too good for this game and EA in general. Your guides have been in my browser bookmarks for years and my gameplay wouldn't be as fun without them. I wish they would actually listen to people like you who truly want the franchise to succeed.
I haven't bought a new pack since the Knitting one, but before that I had them all. I keep reflecting on how much money has been spent specifically on TS4 and it's crazy. While playing the game, I have to rely muchly on my own imagination rather than actual gameplay to steer me along. It's truly sad that they haven't expounded upon the things that we already have going on. TS4 is super disappointing, I hate to say it. I was one of those who was optimistic that they could turn it all around. TBH, I'm just tired of playing a young adult simulator and would be much more willing to purchase the latest packs if it offered more than a few hours of curious run through. Shame really, it could be such a great game. The layout is there, they just need to get it together. I'd be curious how many Sim Gurus themselves are bored to death by their own work. Anyway, great video. Spot on as usual, Carl.
@@lapislarka yes I have been thinking that too, there should be a voidcritter/gaming aspiration, they could have added a scouts aspiration with Seasons. I basically ignore aspirations for child sims now because doing the same four aspirations over and over is so boring.
Playing with kids without imaginary friends is a huge turn-off to me, specially when you think about the grinding and the monster under the bed waking up the entire household
@@vatzfu You know about the lamp that stops that? and the dreameater wall decor? and the owl night lamp? I ask because I know a lot of players don't know.
It's crazy to me they joked about the missing toilets in the Get Famous house or missing doors in Glimmerbrook but cannot fix them??? In their own game?
I would like more autonomy based on traits, moods, and needs. I shouldn't have to constantly instruct my sims to do everything, especially not for basic things like eating and using the bathroom. I have played games on my cell phone that have had more autonomy. We should be able to set traits and watch the sims interact accordingly. That is at the heart of why it is becoming boring for me to play Sims4. Sims3 had way more autonomy and spontaneity.
I hate how sims feel like the same person. In the sims 2, your aspirations and personality dictated how you would move, react to being told to do certain actions, what wants you would have, what fears you would have, which person you are the most attracted to, etc. While the sims 4 traits barely do anything
@@davidkonevky7372 I agree. Thank goodness for the dedicated Sims4 modder community. Without them, I would not have continued to play this game. EA should improve Sims4 before trying to do Sims5. I have invested way too much $$$ in this game.
TS3 is just so superior. I could go on and on but the ability diary after you reach level 10 and the photography ability were everything to me. In TS4 you spend half an hour, master the ability, get a reward that doesn't make a difference in the gameplay and never use it again. I'm so done with this game, for real.
@@mcjouble8883 I'm not sure if it's the computer. Mine is but a couple of months old (less than half a year) and it works fine. However, I've been using mods to fix the packs not working properly when several of them are installed at the same time. EA never cared about that and added the option to disable packs instead of fixing the issues, but luckily, there was an amazing modding community ready to help.
Oh man, i feel you on that one. Even on PC it feels like modders are relied upon heavily to solve issues but on console you really are stuck. I hope things get better with this franchise.
DUUUUDE! you hit is out of the park. Yes, I would love love love if they would IMPROVE the things that are already in the game. What this game lacks is DEPTH. From your lips to EA's EARS.
Jumping back to the sims 3 and 2 was one of my best decisions. Nowadays I only use the sims 4 to make sims and make houses, but I don't buy packs for furniture, I just download CC as it's WAY more useful and free. The sims from the last 2 games feel like they are actual people, I just love it
The thing I hate the most about the Sims 4 is: why the heck does my lazy sim autonomously clean the house??? The traits just don't have any impact which is really sad...
and how about they stop hiding 1 cool feature/improvement of life in a shitty pack that no one wants. unfair and insulting not just adding certain features in base game, especially to loyal day 1 players.
Yes! When I found out they buried story progression type phone calls in eoc lifstyle I was so mad! I'm not buying that buggy pack just so my sims neighborhood can finally have some kind of life without my interference. That should've been in the base game!
Agreed. It's like the difference between eating at someone's family restaurant vs. a chain franchise like Denny's or something; one has their name on everything they present and really cares about the consumer, while the other is just a money making machine that serves you frozen garbage at big prices and then expects a tip afterwards. EA has become the Denny's of videogames.
Was excited for the new pack- the idea of seances and noises. The "She's coming!" lot event excited me so much- I was expecting some kind of banshee or unique skinned interactable NPC. Was so disappointed to see it was just an angry ghost sprite...
Using that amazing update for stardew that Eric just gave out for free next to the Sims 4 kind of makes you look at EA like a money grabbing yikes moment huh?
I thought it was a bit of an unfair comparison. Even by indie standards, Barone's updates are unusually generous. Half the indie games would make the larger updates paid DLC. Plus we're comparing a clustermuck of marketing, art and programming teams to the dedicated effort of a one-man production.
@@BonaparteBardithion Of course it's entirely different, but while barone stands out as hard working (unusually so) and dedicated as a one person efforts you'll note he is one man. EA has 100s of staff members and probably a lot more times his budget to work with and yet seemingly less a fraction of the work ethic or interest in making a game. So yes it's an unbalanced comparison, but also by logic alone the Sims 4 still should be a much more fleshed out game compared to stardew valley 😊
Out of all the packs I wish they could improve is pets, I get it they wanted you to feel like you had a normal pet that you can control but still even in games that were striving for it like the Sims two they still like she did allowed you to control your pet, the pets can be stupidly annoying and bug out and I have no way to fix them or figure out what’s wrong because they bugged out and I can’t interact with them and or do anything with them end it feels more like your pet is just kind of a burden instead of something fun or just something you can play with in the sandbox game.
I was looking forward to the pets expansion so I could have my cat in the game like I did with the other 3, but when I heard you can not control your pet, I decided not to get it.
Thank you so much. I'm so tired of people saying "forget Sims 4, just make Sims 5 already" like it's not the same EA with the same mistakes who's gonna make it. Fix Sims 4 first. It's a very expensive game and some people (like me) genuinely like it. We deserve a proper game for this money and Sims 4 deserve to be a proper game.
Yes. Had this type of work been done over the 100+ patches we had, with a little interest in making things better, then this would not be in such a bad place right now. If we do this same thing, Sims 5 is DOOMED.
Things I want to see in The Sims, number 1 and 2 I want the most: 1) Ownership of multiple properties: I want to be able to buy other houses, then rent them out to NPCs for passive income. There could even be a random expenses that come up, like water pipes breaking, fire damage, tenants not paying rent etc. to make gameplay more fun. The more properties your sim owns, the more frequent the problems can pop up. 2) School: a person gets the option to hire a tutor, let the kids do online school, teach the kids at home, send kids to public school or send them to private school. They could even throw Boarding School into the mix where the kids disappear during the week, and show up at home on Friday afternoon for the weekend. Personally I want the homeschool option the most, but the whole kit would be great. 3) Farming/Homesteading : specifically a Chicken Run, Pig Pen, Sheep and cows. You could have a "rabbit hole" shed (like a closet) for harvesting meat from various animals. The animals can have babies by using a similar shed. Cows give milk and meat, sheep give wool (hello Nifty Knitting) and meat, chickens give eggs and meat. Pigs could be fed spoiled food, and they give meat. 4) play music as a band
downgrading from a beautiful open world in sims 3 and personalities that affect gameplay to..... three slots for shallow traits and a loading screen to enter the park 10m next to your house? that literally still breaks my heart
their development team definitely lacks creativity, modders come up with more impactful ideas than the sims 4 team does. I'm almost sure they don't even play their own game, it's just business.
I think it's not the development team's fault ENTIRELY, I think EA makes most of the choices and the sims team has to make the packs even if they don't want to
@@davidkonevky7372 whoever is the creative director in there doesn't understand that the core gameplay and the depth and the unpredictability is the core of a simulation game which sims is supposed to be.
A lot of gurus have made comments that suggested they rarely played the game. Such as saying "Oh that's cool, I didn't know about that" for features that have been present for 6 years
If ParaLives is involved in its game development and evolution, I;m dropping The Sims in a heart beat. Too much money spent on a game that doesn't care what its players want.
your totally right, I mean, if they launch let's say a "get to work update" (trash ep btw) obviously it's less work than an entire new EP, but it would probably encourage people to buy the old expansion if they don't have it AND ALSO make people who already have it HAPPIER cuz it's new features bro!!!
This! I remember buying get to work as I thought it would fix my lack of fun with the sims 4, but I just realized it doesn't fix anything. Not only are the jobs themselves not fun, but it made me realize how leaving your sims go to work by themselves is such an IMPORTANT part of this game. When your sims go away to work or school, it's almost like a temporal escape from your sims, it lets you relax for a moment entirely, but get to work removes that and now you have to take care of your useless sims for 24 hours straight and go to a work that is not even fun in the first place. If they made a more entertaining hospital, MAYBE I would like it, but the pace of everything in that place is just SO slow. I want my sims to have to do emergency surgeries, I want my sims to help others give birth, I want to have coworkers that actually do something, etc. And don't get me started on the other two professions, those are just straight up unplayable.
@@davidkonevky7372 the doctor career is laughable, it doesn't make any sense. You can keep cleaning puddles and socializing with coworkers and still got a gold medal even if you didn't do any actual doctor activity. Btw I hate these challenge objectives that tells you what to do: it's way to easy! Making a date work in sims 2 or even getting into private school was way funnier and challenging
Why is EVERY ADULT terrified of thunderstorms? I cheat my way to get the trait Storm Chaser which nullifies the scared emotion (at least in my game). Also I cheat for the Naturalist trait because I'm beyond (at this point) annoyed by the constant getting set on fire when they use the toilet. Even when I don't use the Eco pack. Forgot to tie this into the topic.... Anyway, I will wait for Paralives. Even if it's not at all like it's being anticipated. Sims bit the hand that fed them and now they have competition. If I do happen to get sims 5, it'll be because my computer would finally give sims 4 the f-you it deserves and it wouldn't be full price.
I'm so glad Paralives is coming out. Some competition will hopefully really help push more quality than quantity. I'm honestly so tired of expansions that just add stuff but not really improve on the gameplay which is needed to keep the Sims interesting.
Agree with you as always Carl! One of my fave things you ever said is how they seem to focus on the many builders / CAS fans (and they do this well) but forget that some people actually want to...PLAY the game..?! I actually love both equally... and we shouldn't have to pick!? HOWEVER.. I am shook at how good the new 'stuff pack' is. Now to be fair, there is a low bar here for good (that vintage party pack or whatever it was LOL). But I enjoy the haunted gameplay changes and appreciate that they at least worked harder on it. (I also love my Sims flailing around the house and the funny way they run about when terrified)
Well they claimed to fix the lag, by downgrading the textures from 2k to 1k.... Other than that, well, sucks for you they don't care about actually fixing the issue.
@@giomks9046 Well that depends on what you play TS3 on, most people get it on steam since that didn't receive the final update that nearly everyone claims broke TS3. Also, TS3 runs a lot smoother on mac since that version has a 64 bit version of TS3, windows 10 has the 32 bit version.
Until now I watch videos about details on TS2 - things like "sims with high yoga skills can climb on coffee tables" - these details that make game more alive and more interesting and TS4 never even tried to do...
The deck floors in Sulani beach builds still disappear when you’re zoomed in too close. If that doesn’t summarize how little they care about dlc once it’s out, idk what would.
I really love the hiking in Snowy Escape, and I feel like it was such a gigantic missed opportunity to not fix old worlds to allow you to hike in them. They are so close with the dog-walking, like why can't Sims just take a hike or meditative walk around their neighbourhood? Why can't we hike in Oasis Springs? Or Brindleton Bay? What an awesome hike it would be around the lighthouse, or to the ruins.
Totally. Almost all of the last packs have felt like they should have been included in a previous pack. Fame in City Living, skiing in Seasons, eco-footprint in Island Living, etc.
@@sophie8939 yes, i feel like they water down the packs on purpouse just so they could have various packs. Tbh, the whole "stuff, Game and expansión" packs are scummy
@@HinaryLuna00 Yes, game packs are an unnecessary addition. All the game packs that exist could have been a stuff pack or mixed together to make an expansion pack. The difference between a game pack and an expansion are so vague, I don’t think EA even knows.
@@sophie8939 yes, just look at paranormal stuff, that is more than a Game pack than a stuff one. I'm pretty sure the team is capable of a good completed game, but EA is just focused on profit. The Sims 5 being multiplayer just makes me feel like they are trying to do a sims mobile on pc (can you imagine, sims with gacha mechanics like genshin impact?) even if It comes with singleplayer. Sigh, sorry, i'm just perpetualy dissapointed
Not if they don't add new content, but instead polish out the existing content and add toggles so we can customise our gameplay better to our individual liking.
It really hits home. Gosh I remember a poll the Sims team released about what you would tell new players your favorite part about Sims is (paraphrasing). They had making Sims, making houses, and storytelling. Not gameplay. :/ Goes hand in hand with what Carl says here. It’s like gameplay isn’t important.
After playing TS4 for years I’m getting very bored and I tend to not play as often anymore, just for the fact that I have done everything and nothing is exiting and fun. And it seems like they know that after a pack has been out for a while it’s boring. So that’s why they release new pack so often.
It's not just the Sims that does it, alot of modern games have the width of an ocean but the depth of a puddle. (Especially Fortnite, Apex: Legends, COD, Battlefield, etc). It's the same repetitive gameplay, but then they release new skins or characters who behave exactly like the others, or weapons which behave like any other weapon. Meanwhile, games like Demon Souls, Morrowind, Dark Souls, Oblivion, Bloodborne, Skyrim, Sekiro, Fallout, etc. emphasise on replayability, where if you play the game again in a different way, you'll get a different experience.
What I couldn't believe was the jungle pack. They just get in the place and we have to read a little message instead of solving the puzzles. Ts3 world adventures i believe? Was my favorite! It was so rich and after years of playing i never finished every tomb! The ts4 jungle one does have a beautiful place, but 0 content. It is like just a pretty book with no story inside
My fear is that if Paralives is great, EA is going to try to brutally crush them and steal all of their mechanics, using their power to get back on top.
These are such good points, and honestly I feel like bug fixes for DLC aren't even featured that much...Like, Laundry day has been bugged for me over 6 months now where the dryers in game wont work :/ (also genuinely, wheeeen will we get a baby update?)
We are being called complainers and get the “well if you don’t like it don’t buy it” excuse. I’m sick of it. And the Sims team writes and speaks about the patch notes and such like they’re talking to children (which I guess is what they’re hoping).
1. It’s when my family attempts to have a grand breakfast to celebrate, they have to each stand up and hug before eating, that did it for me. 2. It’s the fact that when i load my largest lots, items are missing inside and outside my home, that did it for me. 3. It’s the fact that sims that don’t live in my “world” seem to always be in my neighborhood, that did it for me. 4. It’s the slow game speed and load screens that did it for me. 5. It’s the lack of response to requests for vehicles and transportation that did it for me...bikes and boats? FOH 6. Again, LOAD SCREENS 7. It’s the fact that i can’t take a sim to brunch at a restaurant without possibly starving from not receiving my food or exhausted because the whole ordeal sucked up half a day, that did it for me. 8. It’s the fact that my kid sims have absolutely nothing to do off our home lot (after school program, sports team, after school suspension...hell, I’ll even love a hired tutor! 9. It’s the fact that my maid seems to come on days she feels, repairmen arrive when they feel so i usually end up hiring 2, i can hire a nanny while on vacation for the weekend yet when i return she only charges $60 bucks, that did it for me. 10. It’s the overall lack of effort that did it for me. Never again! What happened to the simple realism of the game. We have a jail but no burglars, can’t be arrested or fined, or go to the jail to pay tickets or bail out anyone. You can be a doctor but can’t prescribe medicine to other sims, can’t visit the hospital if your sim is sick. Your gardener is useless unless you built a farm. Realistic bills would be nice (service providers). If you can create a botched university, you can create a mall. Lastly, if you want to offer rewards and achievements for users that play a sim for generations, do this by allowing them to create savings accounts, have second homes, and wills!!!!!!
I jumped straight from the first Sims game, which I played from release on and off until 2015 when my computer that supported the disc crapped out. Then I got The Sims 4 in 2018. Having missed 2 & 3 and having no context for those comparisons...I think TS4 is an enjoyable game. I played base game only for a while to see what I thought before sinking anymore money into it, and I was pleased. I have almost all of the packs at this point, and I have to say I think your point about updating the DLC is a great one. It was frustrating to go back and look at guides and videos from simmers about pack releases and come across the same issues and complaints that they had in my gameplay. I also wish that they made the packs play nicely with each other. For example, I had a sim go to university and live in the dorms, but she was constantly freezing because there isn't a thermostat in the place. I get that they don't want to have something in a build that people might not have the pack for, but when I can't access build mode without completely exiting live mode and going back in build only.. that's ridiculous. Shouldn't there be something that detects other packs and makes adjustments on what's installed already? Also, one of the biggest missed opportunities I saw in a pack was the lack of a new athletic aspiration or a career based on the wellness trait. I also haven't played much with snowy escape yet, but am already frustrated that the new lifestyles don't have enough variety to reflect older packs. If the goal is to make more money by having people buy all the packs, it would be cool if they worked together better.
You mentioned SV, Minecraft and Terraria as examples of sandbox games that do good in free patch updates, but they're not even the only ones who know how to add good things. Take Cities Skylines for example, they have a bunch of DLC, but the base game is complete, and the DLCs themselves ADD to the game. Honestly, even The Sims 3 DLCs did that! It's shocking to me how a game that came out in 2009, in the middle of an economic recession didn't only have open world and a new trait system, but it also included giant ammounts of stuff on the DLCs. If you compare the features of EPs in TS3 and 4, one single TS3 EP could fit a TS4 EP, two GPs and a bunch of SPs. How did they let this happen to the sims 4? More importantly: how did *we* see this happen and kept buying the game?? The Sims needs competition ASAP. By the way, amazing video. You, LGR and AmandaBB are pretty much the only simmers that tackle extremely important issues in the games that no one ever talks about for some reason.
This is so true. I’m a player who plays only for playing with the lives of sims. And I loved the sims 1,2 and 3. Sims 4 has been lacking for so long that I haven’t touched my game for close to a year now.. Can’t wait for paralives though. Because they seem to listen.
I'm glad you mentioned balancing features. I reinstalled The Sims 2 recently and the reason it's so much more fun than The Sims 4 isn't because of certain features, it's because the gameplay is balanced so much better. I can spend hours just keeping my sims needs up and that alone is FUN in The Sims 2, because it's balanced well. Every micro-management sim needs this to be top priority.
Great video Carl. You've made many great points. I feel if the Gurus don't address these issues now they many lose a lot of potential sales when TS5 comes out. I'm sure that folks will look at the problems that TS4 has in smooth gameplay and assume that E.A. doesn't care about game quality only quantity. I also hope that before the E.A. firmly decides what TS5 should be before investing a lot of time writing code only to realize the game should have been something else and then try to change it. I agree that games and pack could be improved after release, but I feel that's an issue with the upper management at E.A. who worry about the bottom line. E.A. really needs to improve their reputation stat or lose out to the competition.
But seriously, I just started playing both batuu , snowy escape and nifty knitting, all 3 are riddled with bugs, batuu is mostly just blackhole quests you need stats for, snowy escape does add a lot of content but most if not all of them have issues. I've read so many bug reports where the devs act like they can't recreate is but I encounter all of the bugs. It's almost as if they just don't care.
They really need to add more ways to experience your sims lives... like how about instead of just constantly pointing and clicking feeling disconnected from the world, why not just add a way to play as your sim directly? Ex: The Sims 2 on console and handheld would let you have direct control over your sim.
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Sims 4 with all of it's expansions is like a sea with the depth of a puddle
Poetic.
😂😂 Couldn't have said it any better! 👏🏻
Indeed
Well said
That... Is astoundingly accurate. Like good simile man
i was thinking to myself: for the sims 5, they need to hire people who love sims but absolutely hated sims 4
Part of me hopes they can hire modders for specific areas. Some of them are doing stuff that The Sims Team said was impossible.
The people working on TS4 hate it aswell. They're all to busy playing the sims 2 and 3 to actually care about ts4
They should bring back Will Wright for gameplay and Jerry Martin for the soundtrack
It isn't the developers, it is the management. You can tell the developers care, but they can't just add things without approval and EA isn't going to pay them to work on things that won't directly make them money.
@@diy1367 I agree. The music in Sims 1 and 2 was AMAZING.
They rather disable the features, just like they did to Whims, were they never cared or knew how to fix them or improve them, they rather just disabled the feature for you (yes you can activate them, but they are broken)
Look at you , dropping in one of my biggest pet peeves and a point that belonged in this video.
@@CarlsSimGuides How big must a pet peeve get before it becomes a proper grudge?
Fixing things, the sims team? They don't do that. They downgraded the textures from 2k to 1k to 'fix' lag issues, they clearly don't care about TS4 anymore.
I think whims are a great concept... potentially. if they were thought out properly or maybe conveyed anything resembling an individual personality of a sim, even just randomly assigned, that would be great. but instead everysim just wants a bee box and a pool and a tv, if you don't have one.
@@pyratehyena1312 Even if you already have one the want another one
I recently discovered that the sims 4 has an achievement for living through 26 generations. Bold of EA to assume that their game could capture my attention for that long. Because spoiler, it can’t - even with hundreds of $ of DLC installed
There is one for 100 generations and a hidden 400 babies one, as well. They aren't adding new achievements anymore, so they probably don't care at all, just like with whims.
I struggle to get through 1 lmao
i recently started a new game with the intent of a legacy save file, but i got bored within the original family
Well, when I get bored I reform the family by making one young member leave and I go with him.
But Carl, once they have your money, EA has no motivation to improve the content.
Let’s face it. They DON’T EVEN PLAY TEST. They release broken features in every pack. (Like Eco Footprint!)
YES! It is SO blatantly obvious noone over at EA Corp has even set foot in the game. You download a patch with a new feature, try it and EXCEPTIONS everywhere (seen with MCCC) and the features doesn't even do what they are supposed to. They go "We have fixed skintones" and then all of us has to report all the bugs like only white babies, only warm skintone babies and THE BLOTCHINESS that never goes away!!! Plus all the simulation lag that renders the game virtually unplayable and won't even start for some.
If they have play testers, they do a good job of ignoring their reports.
They also don't optimize. TS3 is very laggy, mostly because of how it is coded, and the more expansions, the more lag. They took out many features for TS4 to be less laggy, and yet, with more expansion, it is becoming laggy and buggy. They could have had an open world, story progression, and a color wheel if they actually worked on their code. This is proved by all the awesome models who so far made open worlds and story progression mods. As you said, as long as they have money in their pockets they couldn't care less about the state of the game
or the break features and never fix them. like the free movement with tripods they added with mosquito stuff but broke it a few patches later.
My issue with the Sims 4 is it’s lack to expand on the franchise in any way. Outside of just better coding because of newer technology, the Sims 4 hasn’t done anything innovative or tried to expand upon the already existing features from the Sims 3. If anything, they went backwards.
in CAS and build mode they expanded a lot!
@@TheOG-GG Yeah. Seems like they focused all their RnD and funds on CAS and buy/build mode that they sorta abandoned improvements on live mode gameplay. Still remember when everyone went crazy on the new CAS and buy/build mode, and to be expected since that is where they expanded the feature the most, and then it all collapsed when people got to live mode.
@@TheOG-GG I've never really enjoyed building houses and usually just redecorate gallery houses (or use cc ones) so I often forget how much the building system has improved.
Before Sims 4, I used to spend about 20% of my time making sims and the rest of the time I was actually playing in the world.
In Sims 4, I spend about 80-90% of my time in CAS (which is pretty good) and then attempt to play the game with the sims I created, but they are always incredibly boring and have the same personality as every other sim.
I guess the Sims 4 would be an okay game if it was marketed as a house building and character designing game instead of a life simulator.
Now, I don't play the sims 4 at all because I have about 50 GB of mods to make the game enjoyable, but they break with every patch and I don't have the time, energy, or desire to do that every couple of weeks.
@@TheOG-GG yes but CAS and build mode and gameplay are very different things. They have definitely gone backwards with gameplay.
With holding content makes you $. Not you know innovating. I have had, played every vs of the Sims since 2000. Since the star wars pack, I packed in. I will never purchase any more. They don't care and will not change.
When I was playing the university pack, I saw that a game was going on at the stadium. My Sims had low fun so I thought it would be a good way to entertain them. Paid 90 Simoleons for 2 tickets. Little did I know, attending a sports game grants 0 fun regen to Sims. So you're just paying to have your Sims' need decay for a few hours.
It made me sad thinking about how things like this just don't get updated in Sims 4. They make a DLC, release it without extensive play-testing, and then... that's it. They never tune the content or modify the scripting, and we end up with stockpiles of unusable (or downright aggravating) features.
It's pretty much the same with TS4 and the community: You pay a lot of money and end up getting bored.
I ended up voting with my wallet and I instead get a lot of entertainment by reading the community's comments.
that's the laziest thing I have ever seen, that's like such a basic thing that they didn't even think about
@@davidkonevky7372 Heck, I don't think skiing or snowboarding even grants much fun. I had my family ski all day and their fun was still in the yellow. Guess they should have just stayed at the rental and watched TV?
@@merchantfan This is absolutely true. And these aren't the only examples of broken Fun tuning. Sulani ocean sports are another big offender. It's actually crazy how few activities there are that Sims actually enjoy.
I really don't like being "forced" through game mechanics to have every Sim and every family own TVs and computers in order to keep my Sims entertained.
@@LawdyGawd YES that drives me absolutely wild. I've taken to using the damn free earbuds to help their fun along so that I can do things that SHOULD be fun and make it seem like they actually are in game 🤦
Dude, Its EA, so i'm 99% sure that they not only are going to ignore nearly every game issue, but also implement lootboxes for clothes, money, skintone and skills :^P
The fact that I can imagine that extremely easily makes me very sad
There are talks that Sims5 will have advertisements between loading screens they did it with Madden
Yeah, it's just as likely it will be "we heard you found teens and elders boring so now it's just kids and adults! also some of you said toddlers were too hard so now they're 'turned off' and we'll never consider them"
AKA: Sims 3. Spend money to buy monthly clothes/hair/objects/worlds.
I hate lootboxes. It's gambling. ... My Sims playing the lottery on the other hand i like.
I hate reading the patch notes, the tone they write them in and the small number of fixes being made is just frustrating.
Yeah, it's all jokes about 'bug that shouldn't happen'.
@@CarlsSimGuides It's so unprofessional and sometimes patronizing.
I'm glad to see someone else bring this up. I don't read them myself but sometimes one of the simmers I watch will put out a video of patch notes and read through them and I just think they are soooo patronizing and unprofessional. It's insulting like they're making fun of players almost? Ugh. lol
Fr. I get sooooo irritated. Why are you joking about something that SHOULDN'T be happening
@@thestellarelite "Tee hee, we had a biggie wiggy buggy that broke people's computers haha, we're so quirky and special, la la la la"
The Sims 4 is the Disney Live Action remake of the Sims franchise
Yes. Disappointing and unnecessary cash-grabs.
I love this comment, it is so true. You could never have said it better.
and I am pretty sure the The Sims 5 will be the Netflix adaptation of The Sims 4
OMG yes!!!
Yessss that's it lmao
If you listen closely you can hear Carl slowly losing his sanity
The biggest issue with Sims 4 is the design philosophy behind it, and mark my words, Sims 5 WILL inherit that philosophy, and likely an even more destructive iteration of it. Anyone clamoring for Sims 5 at this point expecting it to be better seriously needs to work on their pattern recognition. EA doesn't care, because they can afford not to care. In fact, this is just a conspiracy theory of mine, but I think Sims 4 was an experiment to see just how much they could get away with. And what they have gotten away with so far includes but is not limited to:
- Excluding colour wheels, very likely so that stuff packs will become more appealing (There is even an insulting number of items that are just different palettes of the same items, spread out across different DLC)
- Getting rid of open worlds while still offering a tiny amount of lots despite no longer having the excuse that they must all be loaded at once.
- Dev-built houses that are downright infantile, to the point that they went so far as to hire private individuals to do their job for them.
- Broken AI that is still Alpha-quality six years later, with sims acting like ADHD-riddled children with short-term memory loss and no sense of priority management.
- Not including basic features like pools, dishwashers, or even TODDLERS at launch, and getting people to THANK them for adding those in for free months or years later.
- Using CLEARLY rigged polls (Seriously, they managed to funnel "eco stuff" down to "laundry stuff", and the Star Wars thing was at the bottom of players' priorities) to get people to think that THEY asked for whatever useless pack they put out, ensuring that they blame each other and shift focus away from the actual culprits.
- Actually, unironically making DLC for DLC.
And with the game continuing to be successful and with the playerbase continuing to be loyal, I'd say they've gotten away with it. This sets a very worrying precedent for Sims 5. Nobody should be excited for it, nobody should buy it at launch let alone preorder it. Everyone should be very, very skeptical. But they won't be. EA knows that. Which is why I am completely confident that it's all downhill from here.
Oh my god, PREACH. Very well spoken.
that said if Paralivs comes out we might see EA take a big look at sims 5. because if Paralivs success and they dont need to EA level of success but just not fail then EA will have to face the fact that The sims is no longer alone and have a monopole on the Live sim genera.
and if that happen then Sims 5 might actually turn around.
remember when Xbox and Sony anonsed that PS4 and Xbox 360 would have no indie devs deal or some really stupid restrictions and how when Ouya started to get tossed around (yee it failed at the end) but how Sony and microsoft both backed down on there stand on the indie devs.
I'm actually more hyped for paralives than TS5 cause I know it's gonna be pure crap
EXACTLY you are right. Everyone hates TS4 but everyone pays for it. EA doesn't care if we hate it as long as they get their money
@@alegria1813 Everyone pays for it because its almost litarly the only Sims game on the market. (hopefully Paralivs will change that).
I feel you. I've been simming for almost 20 years and I'm afraid of what Sims 5 base game will look like. Sims 4 original base game literally made me cry. I was disappointed with the lack of EVERYTHING. 😭
I wound up returning it, then succumbing and buying it later. Haven't kept up with all the expansions, so a small vicitory (and money saved).
Same here. Started with Sims 1. But I haven’t bought Sims stuff in over a year and I won’t be buying Sims 5 unless they start making a real effort to put out QUALITY games, not pure cashgrabs.
It happens to me too. And I tried to go back to sims 3 but the camera just kills me now that Im used to the one in sims 4
Same here, I held out hope for the Sims four pets pack because Sims three pets got deleted for me for No reason And then I got crushed stone down in that internally and it was too late to put it back
i just got sims 2 because sims 4 didn't look fun to play
They do not integrate packs well. We've had cats and dogs for quite a while, but rarely do they integrate for cats and dogs in the new packs. Example, we got the ability to have roommates, but when you put an extra bed in for a roommate while having a cat or dog, it says not enough beds, because the pet is considered a sim so you have to have an EXTRA extra bed if you have a pet in order to have a roommate. We've had simbots for a while now, biggest flaw? Cannot get waterproof, no reward for it, no update for it, cannot happen big flaw. They added toddlers late, but we have had them for quite a while, however they rarely include toddlers in new packs. To be fair on that one, they rarely include children and just throw teens in with young adults. They updated decor to be functional for books but only some of them and they didn't continue the trend. Outdoor living has no real point unless you want to do herbalism, and even then now that they made those plants seasonal, unless you go four times a year to get those plants, its kinda pointless. You can camp anywhere, my sims do, if your tent will fit, you can camp there, so what is the point of a world for camping? And so many many many things feel half-assed. Sooooo much clutter you can't put on a shelf, it looks like you can, it looks small enough, but unless you use move objects cheat, it has to go on a table or cabinet. Whats the point of all these things you can't put anywhere???? MySim trophies, it was a big thing in basegame, but the one update we could DO something with them, ironically the Realm of Magic pack, it only did it with ONE of them and we go nothing else. We got all this STUFF, most of which looks like would go well together, but you can't because the colors clash and some things go with NOTHING. We finally get a cabinet with shelving that can put some of the clutter, but it will only take a very limited amount of that clutter. The whole point of the University pack is to GO to University, but it works better going from a lot in another neighborhood because otherwise its almost impossible to get to class on time, then you can't take the advantages of going to university like the free food because if you get there during the specific times to eat, the 'vendor' or 'server' isn't there so the food isn't ready by the time it is its no longer within the times to eat.
Ok, I kinda rambled there, but there is sooo much that just doesn't work RIGHT and never really did. Unless you are playing pack specific many things just don't work well together. I don't do that, does anyone do that? We only do that while a pack is new, after that we want to play with multiple packs together and it just doesn't work. The lifestyles are just annoying, I notice there was not a new lifestyle with the new paranormal pack so thats not being updated. So again, whats the point? Instead of taking things out of the box, they put everything in a box, and that box stays small despite updates or packs.
EDIT: I've said I've been playing sims3, a good example of the difference is the sculpting compared to the woodworking table. I've been freaked out by all the stuff my sim "scuplts" whereas the woodworking table has never been updated and everything comes in that ONE color of wood, except the barstools those are just the one as well. It's the limitations they give us compared to other sims games that drive us crazy.
Indeed. Toddler table.
Totally agree with every word.
I just want playable high chairs for toddlers. Threading the tiniest needle known to mankind would be less frustrating than trying to feed a toddler in a high chair in TS4.
Seriously- the whole gardening system was wrecked by Seasons. You're supposed to go around the worlds and collect new plants, but now there's nothing to harvest. Also you never have to water plants anymore?
And yes, the lack of new reward things is super noticeable. I still don't get why the weather machine is just a regular build buy objects instead of a reward object like 3 or an unlockable object with a certain career or skill. Why no "no shock" reward for University to help with the inventing skill? Or one or two for Snowy Escape etc? They didn't even add a "earn fame faster" reward for Get Famous
@@tajneafoster2836 omg, I so agree , dad puts kid in mom takes kid out, dad puts kid in...kids is starving. I cancel everything pull food out of the fridge and order the kid to eat. Good gosh, terrible!
id be happy if they just remastered the sims 3 and re-released it with better graphics
Saaaaaaaame I want 64 bit for windows so much. Think they're too scared to do it because too many players might jump back to it? lol
Same. Oof, I really wouldnt mind paying EA (ugh, stEAl) $300 for a sims 3 remastered. It is actually worth it, unlike s4. Greed ruined this once great franchise.
I 100% agree with this. Sims 3 remastered.
Just drop the new CAS into the sims 3 and call it a day; it's the only improvement the sims 4 really made, as far as I'm concerned.
i would love if they do that with sims 2 OMG, the details, animations omg
but i guess the code must be a hot pile of garbage idk
I laughed way back when the base sims 4 came out and they tried to defend the loading screens, showing how fast they were loading. I was like, "I'm not stupid. After a couple of years, the loading screens will take forever and no one would want to visit a neighbor because it would take too long to load." Here we are...
Someone bitched saying that "The Sims will work better for you if you stop being cheap and buy a good gaming laptop." So I replied to her telling her to buy us all $1,000+ gaming laptops or shut up. She didn't want to do either. So, I stopped replying to her. This was back when the seasons DLC for TS4 came out.
I honestly don't hate the loading screens, as the sims 2 had them and the game was A BLAST to play, but we all know that the sims 4 is no sims 2, it is a waste of the time and money
@@davidkonevky7372 Exactly- and it makes it even more questionable why things are so much more bare bones than in Sims 3. In Sims 3, exploring meant a ton of puzzles and levels you did yourself *in an open world*. In 4, it's mostly pop up boxes.
I have a good laptop, the game loads in seconds for me even with mods and custom content and I still cannot stand loading screens. Like I can SEE the lot next to mine, why can’t I just go there? Why doesn’t everything have to load again?
@@merchantfan This. I remember getting seasons and I played less than an hour because I got bored so quickly. I didn't want to visit my neighbor because I didn't want to wait for a loading screen. I had a business lot right next to my home lot and I couldn't just walk to it without a loading screen. When they first advertised open neighborhoods, I thought they meant the neighborhood was all loaded. I understand loading screens when visiting other neighborhoods within the same world, but loading screens to visit the lot next to you? I don't care that sims 2 had loading screens, we shouldn't have to go back to that with the tech we have available today.
"EA needs to understand the mistakes they've made with the Sims 4." ~nervously eyes their second attempt at an online game after the Frankenstein monster that became Sims 4~
wait, what? they are launching yet another online Sims game? FB or another phone app one?
just let it go, EA... SERIOUSLY
@Izex They require a subscription, and I won't touch it with a 10 ft pole. That coming from a consumer who's bought most of their Sims 4 releases at full price. Maybe I'm in the minority though; who knows.
Oh wow! It's Gigi! Hi!
They just don't learn, do they?
@@SymeonPhronema I don’t think you are because I’m definitely just like you. I enjoy the Sims 4 but the Sims 5 possibly being online and subscription based is infuriating and I won’t be getting it.
This game doesn’t even function on consoles once you have most packs, maybe they should sort that out.
never realized how much slower it loaded until I seen my friend play on their base game.
pain.
It is absolutely frustrating that everyone is just like oh that sucks so sorry.
I honestly think that they don't care about console players. They still didn't even fix darker skintones blotchiness 🤦🏻♀️
I think they have a stupid toggle to turn off DLC like they did with Sims 3. So you don't load all of them.
Yup I purposely stopped buying packs it’s crazy
I'm still baffled how the gurus still like to answer with "it's too hard" when the community asks for fixes or some improvements.
yet they have the source code... O_o
they had 6 years and the way to modify the sims to do anything else using the same assets. and they say it's hard?
injecting code via mod is harder and some modders add more life alteration gameplay thanthe gurus lol
Ikr?? They act like its magic when modders do it all the time! Plus EA has more than enough resources and I'm positive modders would be more than happy to help if they asked them!
Especially when those requested features were mainstays in previous entries. We're supposed to believe that building larger worlds is too much for them when you could have nearly limitless worlds connected to your main neighborhood in TS2.
It's not that it is too hard, the more correct answer would be "EA won't approve us spending so much time and money working on this but I can't just say that or my boss will get mad so I'll just say it's hard to do."
When have they said it’s too hard?
I've honestly had enough with the Sims team, they obviously don't care anymore. All they care about is releasing half assed packs that aren't even play tested and selling it you. The amount of bugs and how broken these packs release in is proof that they don't care. It's gotten so bad to the point where I dread a new pack being announced because I know it's going to break the game even more.
They usually stop caring when a new game in the franchise is being released, like how they took down the ability to buy TS1 when TS2 released, and TS2 when TS3 released. They also released a final 'update' for TS3 that made it a laggy buggy crashing mess so that people would buy TS4. It's just scummy EA tactics, break the game so people will buy the new one.
I agree! Fire the current sims team and hire the Mods and CC creators that we love and DO what the sims team is SUPPOSE to be doing and giving us!
@Amelia thiis
@@reeceyb505 Gosh, then whats the excuse for all those packs in the beginning that sucked then still suck now?
@@nedrane297 Are you saying they never cared, even at the beginning? Could explain why they released TS4 without toddlers, pools, ect, staple sims stuff.
It still surprises me how long it takes a Sims to eat, not to mention adding in things to give Sims lives
This is just one of those little things that aggravates people that has gone completely ignored for 6 years because their eyes are not on fixing this type of issue! It's like they think they got it right the first time, in all cases.
Yes, i dont know why the damn sim take an hour to eat something. Its better to just eat fruits from the inventory.
That's something that probably should have a variable time frame depending on the meal in question. Can things take a while to eat? Well I can bolt sandwiches in minutes, but two cans of soup as a single meal takes an hour or so even when I'm not distracted by things.
That said, in Sims 3 the whole base alarm is an hour before you're due in work if that was a pain in the arse just for if you're RPing properly, because it can take more than that to do a morning routine, especially any time said routine involves full shower and full meal.
Not to mention the time it takes to eat when your sims forget what they were doing, or get up from a chair because they have to hug their spouse hi before being able to engage in dinner conversation with them, or get up to play a violin that's not in their inventory using a skill they don't have.
@@loupblanc7944 Oh, no. They messed that one up. I had a sim that was vegetarian, he grew his own food and ate it straight from inventory after picking from the vine. Sounds like what a vegetarian should do right? Nope, now he gets stomach issues and has to potty a lot.
Honestly, I've played ALL the sims games, bought a ton of the DLC for both Sims3 and Sims4. I feel really disappointed at this point though, because they don't put effort into the game. It's a lot less fun to play than Sims3 was. Feels old, repetitive.
Ikr, I can't even play TS4 base game no dlcs for longer than 10 minutes, theirs just nothing to do in it. And the dlcs are too small, and seemingly had no effort put into them with them constantly reusing animations and other assets
My kid hit the nail on the head. Said it was "gamified" more than previous versions, a lot of small "make work" instead of real gameplay.
You are better up just modding it and pirating everything. Its obvious the company itself dont know how to make the game good.
I tried to make a base game, vainilla legacy. I couldn't last. Even with installed DLCs it gets super boring, and I'm just playing Sims 2 and 3 instead. I only come back to The Sims 4 whenever a mod I really like gets a new feature.
PS: Pirating EA is always right.
@@LucyLerma Yea TS4 is so bland compared to sims 2 and 3, I doubt TS5 will be any better. It might even be worse than TS4.
I see how new players think that sims 4 is the greatest thing ever, and I think the is who EA is catering to. Those of us who played from the beginning of the franchise, or even just sims 3, see all the glaring flaws. It’s going to take a lot, and I mean a lot, for me to even try sims 5.
Well yeah it's super interesting when you look at the horizon and the vast ocean before you, but then you go for a swim and the water reaches your ankles. I think they really are relying on new blood vs the veterans to keep TS4 going. Their marketing game is very strong.
@@CarlsSimGuides If I'm not mistaken Maxis got the BioWare treatment and don't have any veterans left. Could be a good or bad thing for TS5.
I've played since the beginning and Sims 4 is not any more "flawed" than the other 3 games in terms of gameplay. In fact Sims 4 runs the smoothest of the 4 Sims games.
I think they're catering to the young crowd, their attention span is that of an ant, they'll play for an hour and off to Fortnite or minecraft..I'm 50 been playing Sims since the first one. Usually have generations of Sims. I just can't in 4. I went back to S3, it was so refreshing to see them read a book on their own or paint. Seek out their spouse or children to talk to instead of computer or plants
@@warzshadow9701 I know, I’ve been playing for 17 years. I stopped playing S3 a couple of years ago but got roped into S4 during quarantine with the 95% off sale. It’s pretty, but that’s it. I tried playing S3 a few weeks ago but after a couple of sim days it starts to lag so much it’s unplayable. 😢 I’ll have to fix it because I miss quality.
When I compare Sims 3 and Sims 4, I always have the feeling that they developed Sims 3 thinking in having fun and made every expansion with the previous content they had on mind. The expansions or stuff packs just added spice to a game that was already good and the expansions worked perfectly with the other content. I remember to create an adventurer (WA) that got pregnant by the aliens the first night (Seasons) and his alien daughter's lifetime wish was to adopt a unicorn! (Pets). And all of that made sense and was really fun to play!
In the other hand, Sims 4 has all those expansions and so little content! It makes me feel like they created the game focused on the looks of the sims or the stetics of the world, not on the gameplay itself. If they have a "playable" feature is limited to the expansion pack and it's really difficult to make it match with the rest of the content. I recently watched a video from Pleasant Sims where she said that let's plays were over and I think she's right! I've found more Sims 4 builds than gameplays, while with Sims 3 is the opposite, and I think it's because of this difference.
If Sims 5 wants to be a better game, they have to focus more on the gameplay and less in how it looks.
I keep saying that! They keep saying in their livestreams "It looks so cool" and I'm like "but then what?" Does anyone else remember when Graham did livestreams for the new packs in Sims3? You could tell he was EXCITED, he really wanted to share the fun stuff they did. Not just put it out there and say "it looks so cool" with nothing else to show for it.
@@nedrane297 So true! Or sometimes they sound insecure on livestreams, like they're not convinced of the game they've created!
I feel like the sims 2 and 3 have a better philosophy when making a pack. They ask, which part of life would be cool to expand on? And how would it fit in a normal playthrough of the game? While the sims 4 asks: which aestethic should we choose to give the furniture and cas so simmers forget that the pack is shallow af?
@@davidkonevky7372 And even doing that, sometimes they gave us the same furniture in different colour! Or a stuff pack that needs an expansion to work...
Yeah Sims 4 expansions and packs basically feel like they were designed to look good when people play it the first time for let's plays/reviews and then no depth is included past that bc then they'll have your money so who cares
I remember a behind the scenes video at Maxis during the TS2 days, they had a team of people who's job it was to play the game and give feed back on the gameplay, that was their full time job. I can't believe they do that now, with TS4.
Back in Sims 2 days once they released a game that was it. They couldn't patch fixes into the games so they playtested them much more thouroughly than they do now. It's a problem with the gaming industry in general.
My dad was one of those people with the sims online. They put a lot of work into making the game Amazing. It’s so sad they put no effort in now
The fact is: why fix something people are buying regardless? The source of income: DLCs. Even if they are forgotten, they are still bought as long as they are felt "new content" when released. That matters for a company. So why stop?
-EA
Ps. Your animations are GREAT
Exaclty my thought! All the people complaining still buy all the dlcs and will buy sims 5 when it comes out. All that matters is profit, you think EA cares about the art of making a good videogame?
There's an argument to be made that if the sims were, like, good, more people would buy it, and they'd make more money. I haven't bought a sims 4 dlc in years, because none of them fix any of the actual core gameplay problems the sims 4 has. I just keep circling back to the sims 3, because at least that had gameplay. If the sims 4 were better, I'd spend money on it! I'm pretty sure there's a not-insignificant chunk of the market that would do the same, that EA is failing to capture because they keep repainting the walls of a house that's falling apart.
And when people starting complaining about lag, they didn't fix the issue either, they instead downgraded the textures from 2k to 1k. EA Doesn't do fixes when they don't have to
@@sockpuppetqueen Counter-argument: most of the sells they do are not aimed at the community but at random people who see "sims" in the name and pay. And just say they were aimed at us: they "focus" on the bare minimum and that is enough to please for the next month most of the community. Just see bonehilda: a reused skin (even badly, since switching to her bathwear you see a young redhead lady) sold a pack even more, everyone on the internet saying "BONEHILDA IS THE REASON I BUY THIS", and we are indeed a minority. See journey to batuu/skintones instead: a mass neglect made the devs do their jobs because they were damaging those random sells and those people who don't like to think a lot about a pack or wait a month to see how it aged. But people forget easily.
I'm proud to say that I bought Sims 4 ON RELEASE and never bought any DLC. I've never been more disappointed while playing it for the first time. The DLCs started to be launched and I was like, WTF?! Some of them have a good potential, but they are so badly executed that, now, six years later I've never bought ONE Sims 4 pack lol. Every year since 2014 I try at least once a year to play the game, it's just not fun and i rather play something else. I mean I love the franchise and I love watching videos about it and reading news and stuff, but let's be honest, at this point sims 4 is just a build simulator, and if you pay attention most famous simmers in youtube don't actually play the game just build on it.. It's not a fun game.
Alternative title: Carl flexing his editing and blender skills for 5 minutes straight.
I think fixing previous features AND making a solid base game both need to happen to have a good Sims 5.
I'm not even going down the sims 5 road. They lost my loyalty at TS4......
stardew valley it's so good, a game from a small company, great updates, when the game has bugs the creator fixes it hours later, he communicates with the community, honestly ea could never be at that level. throwing my money at concerned ape was the best decision ever 🥰
Even better, ConcernedApe isn't a "small company", he's just one person. ONE PERSON is more passionate and attentive to his game and its players than a AAA company with more than enough funds to do literally anything they want with theirs.
I still enjoy the sims 3 more tbh.. even tho some stuff are weaker in TS3 like celebrity and vampires feels kinda meh but still TS3 has the world adventure and it's really amazing
The way the sims interact, and the level of storytelling you can get from TS3 is way way better
I didn’t even have TS3 on PC. I had it on console & I still feel that it’s better than TS4 which I have on pc with loads of cc & mods!
I enjoy world adventures but stop playing for a while when the game would keep crashing.
World Adventures was awesome, actually. I loved that you could make friends in China and have them come visit you when you got home. Ambitions was also a sweet pack. Really added to the game.
@@Yumi_Jay I would have stopped too if it wasn't for mods hehe, still playable but idk about crashes
Sims 4 is an amazing building simulator, with pretty scenery.
Meanwhile, I started playing Sims 3 again recently and can't pull myself away because my Sims have actual personalities again so I'm not bored once creating them and their house is done.
Well said, I've done the same as well and can reach the same conclusion
I’m not even gonna buy The Sims 5, they lost my loyalty a long time ago. And the The Sims 4 packs are all shallow and forgettable and add a million new bugs to the game. The Sims 4 is only good for building but it’s a LIFE simulator not a build simulator. Almost all Sims RUclipsrs have become builders because there’s just nothing else to do in The Sims 4.
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If I ever buy the sims 5, it will NOT be at launch, I will wait for a year and see if the game actually compares to the other ones, and if it seems plausible, I will buy the base game. And if the base game is wack, I will leave the game entirely.
Sims patches are like my kids,
while one mess is being cleaned, three more are being made
Dang. My sims woohoo all the time. Ea over there shaking their head.
Over here skewing the data all by yourself.
@@CarlsSimGuides The data is me.
Do they know about my wicked whims? 😳🤭
Play offline.
I'm been waiting for slow dancing for 6 years lm tired if the dances they have. They are not for weddings and romantic dates.
I'd love some nice couples dances. How hard would it be to give us one proper ballroom dance? All their dances are silly and if you want to have a fancy party any of your guest dancing ruins the feel of the event because they all dance like teenagers.
Again, mods are the only way to go. There is a slow dance mod out there. EA/Origins is too lazy to do anything. Modders have done all the heavy lifting.
@@skepticalobserver2135 Thanks for letting know I will look for it.
@@QueenViolet5Making them dance AND face eachother is a challenge to me
@@lindawilliams1933 it's by sacrificial mods
Carl is 99% jaded on the franchise and 1% optimism
That’s 1% of more optimism than I have for EA.
Justifiably so.
I'm reminded of the thing that made me stick to this channel at the very start when the editing wasn't here yet, it's the likely drunk sounding narration! My favourite image is just a dude yelling about Sims. But then you check the channel name and it's not just a dude but THE Carl of the website that supports your little completionist heart and dreams. I love this channel so so much
Right????
Exactly right @@carlalussini I absolutely love this channel! It's my second favourite Sims channel (after lilsimsie who I've known since 2017ish and have a psudosocial love for)
I skipped TS4 after 30 hours of play and reinstalled Sims2 on my old laptop. I do keep up with the news and hope for a good TS5. But I am not optimistic.
Looking back, I have only ONE gripe with the Sims 2 - Time. If it passed the same regardless of where 'you' were, then it probably doesn't get much better from a standard point of view concerning game play. I stopped with the Sims 3 which has a heavy investment in time and Ep's. Love the open world and CAST. But it too lost something which 2 had in abundance - Soul.
@@terrylandess6072 When a sim dies in Sims2 it is a significant event on par with loosing a pet goldfish. Of course you can choose not to loose them, but sometimes some of them has to go, to make space for next generation.
Previous sims games felt like a life simulation. Sims 4 feels like a shallow doll house simulation. It's not realistic (object babies, no cars, only cats and dogs for pets as if those are the only pets in the world that exist), expansions provide singular things to do one time and never do again (Strangerville, Jungle Adventure), and emotions flip flop all over the place (Dad just died from a fire but GEE WILLIKERS, THIS ROOM IS NICELY DECORATED!)
they never even fixed the skintone issue, some sims still look spotty as hell
and on console they are absolutely terrible!
They have given up I reckon
Yeah on console you can literally see the pixels on my Sims skin and face it's really bad
Not to mention that sims with really dark skintones look frickin green, and this wasnt even an issue before the skintones update.
@@rocraft6160 yup
You and your detailed guides are too good for this game and EA in general. Your guides have been in my browser bookmarks for years and my gameplay wouldn't be as fun without them. I wish they would actually listen to people like you who truly want the franchise to succeed.
I haven't bought a new pack since the Knitting one, but before that I had them all. I keep reflecting on how much money has been spent specifically on TS4 and it's crazy. While playing the game, I have to rely muchly on my own imagination rather than actual gameplay to steer me along. It's truly sad that they haven't expounded upon the things that we already have going on. TS4 is super disappointing, I hate to say it. I was one of those who was optimistic that they could turn it all around. TBH, I'm just tired of playing a young adult simulator and would be much more willing to purchase the latest packs if it offered more than a few hours of curious run through. Shame really, it could be such a great game. The layout is there, they just need to get it together. I'd be curious how many Sim Gurus themselves are bored to death by their own work.
Anyway, great video. Spot on as usual, Carl.
We 👏 need 👏 more 👏 traits. 👏
Omg and especially kid aspirations. These poor kids still have the same 4 aspersions 6 years later.
Not just more traits, traits that actually impact the game and the sims’ lives. All the traits do is give them a mood buff.
They missed such an opportunity with Kid's Room Stuff. It was tailor made for the collection to be a childhood master tamer aspiration.
@@lapislarka yes I have been thinking that too, there should be a voidcritter/gaming aspiration, they could have added a scouts aspiration with Seasons. I basically ignore aspirations for child sims now because doing the same four aspirations over and over is so boring.
Playing with kids without imaginary friends is a huge turn-off to me, specially when you think about the grinding and the monster under the bed waking up the entire household
@@vatzfu You know about the lamp that stops that? and the dreameater wall decor? and the owl night lamp? I ask because I know a lot of players don't know.
It's crazy to me they joked about the missing toilets in the Get Famous house or missing doors in Glimmerbrook but cannot fix them??? In their own game?
"Lazy" is a key word at EA/Origins
I would like more autonomy based on traits, moods, and needs. I shouldn't have to constantly instruct my sims to do everything, especially not for basic things like eating and using the bathroom. I have played games on my cell phone that have had more autonomy. We should be able to set traits and watch the sims interact accordingly. That is at the heart of why it is becoming boring for me to play Sims4. Sims3 had way more autonomy and spontaneity.
I hate how sims feel like the same person. In the sims 2, your aspirations and personality dictated how you would move, react to being told to do certain actions, what wants you would have, what fears you would have, which person you are the most attracted to, etc. While the sims 4 traits barely do anything
@@davidkonevky7372 I agree. Thank goodness for the dedicated Sims4 modder community. Without them, I would not have continued to play this game. EA should improve Sims4 before trying to do Sims5. I have invested way too much $$$ in this game.
I still haven't fully grasped TS4. I'm just barely getting into it after playing TS3 for years now.
TS3 is just so superior. I could go on and on but the ability diary after you reach level 10 and the photography ability were everything to me. In TS4 you spend half an hour, master the ability, get a reward that doesn't make a difference in the gameplay and never use it again. I'm so done with this game, for real.
I wish I could play the sims 3. A lot of newer computers can't handle it.
@@mcjouble8883 Aren't there compatibility modes though? I'm on Windows 8.1 and it runs fine.
@@racermigs1 on Windows 10 it struggles. Ive tried so many fixes as have many other people to no success.
@@mcjouble8883 I'm not sure if it's the computer. Mine is but a couple of months old (less than half a year) and it works fine. However, I've been using mods to fix the packs not working properly when several of them are installed at the same time. EA never cared about that and added the option to disable packs instead of fixing the issues, but luckily, there was an amazing modding community ready to help.
sims 3 gang rise up
WHO HAS SUMMONED THE ANCIENT ONE
I have sims 3 opened rn
Sims 2 gang rise up
you are so right. this is why I continue to watch you. I’m a console player so I don’t even have mods to enhance. so many lost opportunities.
Oh man, i feel you on that one. Even on PC it feels like modders are relied upon heavily to solve issues but on console you really are stuck. I hope things get better with this franchise.
@@CarlsSimGuides We can only hope. Pls don’t stop what/how you’re doing your videos. I count on you 😊
DUUUUDE! you hit is out of the park. Yes, I would love love love if they would IMPROVE the things that are already in the game. What this game lacks is DEPTH. From your lips to EA's EARS.
Sims 4 really is a useless edition to the franchise
Your custom animations are a super nice touch to your videos. I also always enjoy your sarcasm-soaked, yet insightful, reviews/analyses
"Sims 4 needs to fix XYZ"
Me:**looks up from Sims 2** "yeah, I gave up on EA four packs ago"
Yeah, Eco Lifestyle was the last of their pack of lies I bought, and I am not starting buying packs again until... well Paralives, probably
@@viddeliten I genuinely wish I jumped off the ship then, I think I waited until the Journey to Batuu announcement before I walked away.
Jumping back to the sims 3 and 2 was one of my best decisions. Nowadays I only use the sims 4 to make sims and make houses, but I don't buy packs for furniture, I just download CC as it's WAY more useful and free. The sims from the last 2 games feel like they are actual people, I just love it
The thing I hate the most about the Sims 4 is: why the heck does my lazy sim autonomously clean the house??? The traits just don't have any impact which is really sad...
Yes, they only give you modlets with buffs or debuffs if you do something they like or hate, thanks to the lame emotion system
and how about they stop hiding 1 cool feature/improvement of life in a shitty pack that no one wants. unfair and insulting not just adding certain features in base game, especially to loyal day 1 players.
Yes! When I found out they buried story progression type phone calls in eoc lifstyle I was so mad! I'm not buying that buggy pack just so my sims neighborhood can finally have some kind of life without my interference. That should've been in the base game!
At this point I stopped caring about most AAA games. I have way more trust in indie games
Agreed. It's like the difference between eating at someone's family restaurant vs. a chain franchise like Denny's or something; one has their name on everything they present and really cares about the consumer, while the other is just a money making machine that serves you frozen garbage at big prices and then expects a tip afterwards. EA has become the Denny's of videogames.
Was excited for the new pack- the idea of seances and noises. The "She's coming!" lot event excited me so much- I was expecting some kind of banshee or unique skinned interactable NPC. Was so disappointed to see it was just an angry ghost sprite...
Using that amazing update for stardew that Eric just gave out for free next to the Sims 4 kind of makes you look at EA like a money grabbing yikes moment huh?
I thought it was a bit of an unfair comparison. Even by indie standards, Barone's updates are unusually generous. Half the indie games would make the larger updates paid DLC. Plus we're comparing a clustermuck of marketing, art and programming teams to the dedicated effort of a one-man production.
@@BonaparteBardithion Of course it's entirely different, but while barone stands out as hard working (unusually so) and dedicated as a one person efforts you'll note he is one man. EA has 100s of staff members and probably a lot more times his budget to work with and yet seemingly less a fraction of the work ethic or interest in making a game. So yes it's an unbalanced comparison, but also by logic alone the Sims 4 still should be a much more fleshed out game compared to stardew valley 😊
Out of all the packs I wish they could improve is pets, I get it they wanted you to feel like you had a normal pet that you can control but still even in games that were striving for it like the Sims two they still like she did allowed you to control your pet, the pets can be stupidly annoying and bug out and I have no way to fix them or figure out what’s wrong because they bugged out and I can’t interact with them and or do anything with them end it feels more like your pet is just kind of a burden instead of something fun or just something you can play with in the sandbox game.
I was looking forward to the pets expansion so I could have my cat in the game like I did with the other 3, but when I heard you can not control your pet, I decided not to get it.
Thank you so much. I'm so tired of people saying "forget Sims 4, just make Sims 5 already" like it's not the same EA with the same mistakes who's gonna make it. Fix Sims 4 first. It's a very expensive game and some people (like me) genuinely like it. We deserve a proper game for this money and Sims 4 deserve to be a proper game.
Yes. Had this type of work been done over the 100+ patches we had, with a little interest in making things better, then this would not be in such a bad place right now. If we do this same thing, Sims 5 is DOOMED.
Till this day we can’t do a single thing about klepto Sims stealing from your retail lot or sell to celebrity Sims. 🙄
No, hun, they made that worse. "Sharing is Caring" and your entire store is gone in minutes.
Things I want to see in The Sims, number 1 and 2 I want the most:
1) Ownership of multiple properties: I want to be able to buy other houses, then rent them out to NPCs for passive income. There could even be a random expenses that come up, like water pipes breaking, fire damage, tenants not paying rent etc. to make gameplay more fun. The more properties your sim owns, the more frequent the problems can pop up.
2) School: a person gets the option to hire a tutor, let the kids do online school, teach the kids at home, send kids to public school or send them to private school. They could even throw Boarding School into the mix where the kids disappear during the week, and show up at home on Friday afternoon for the weekend. Personally I want the homeschool option the most, but the whole kit would be great.
3) Farming/Homesteading : specifically a Chicken Run, Pig Pen, Sheep and cows. You could have a "rabbit hole" shed (like a closet) for harvesting meat from various animals. The animals can have babies by using a similar shed. Cows give milk and meat, sheep give wool (hello Nifty Knitting) and meat, chickens give eggs and meat. Pigs could be fed spoiled food, and they give meat.
4) play music as a band
downgrading from a beautiful open world in sims 3 and personalities that affect gameplay to..... three slots for shallow traits and a loading screen to enter the park 10m next to your house? that literally still breaks my heart
their development team definitely lacks creativity, modders come up with more impactful ideas than the sims 4 team does.
I'm almost sure they don't even play their own game, it's just business.
I think it's not the development team's fault ENTIRELY, I think EA makes most of the choices and the sims team has to make the packs even if they don't want to
@@davidkonevky7372 whoever is the creative director in there doesn't understand that the core gameplay and the depth and the unpredictability is the core of a simulation game which sims is supposed to be.
A lot of gurus have made comments that suggested they rarely played the game. Such as saying "Oh that's cool, I didn't know about that" for features that have been present for 6 years
Are you eventually going to make some of your awesome guides for Paralives then?? :)
Most likely, yep!
If ParaLives is involved in its game development and evolution, I;m dropping The Sims in a heart beat. Too much money spent on a game that doesn't care what its players want.
Yup, good decision.
your totally right, I mean, if they launch let's say a "get to work update" (trash ep btw) obviously it's less work than an entire new EP, but it would probably encourage people to buy the old expansion if they don't have it AND ALSO make people who already have it HAPPIER cuz it's new features bro!!!
This! I remember buying get to work as I thought it would fix my lack of fun with the sims 4, but I just realized it doesn't fix anything. Not only are the jobs themselves not fun, but it made me realize how leaving your sims go to work by themselves is such an IMPORTANT part of this game. When your sims go away to work or school, it's almost like a temporal escape from your sims, it lets you relax for a moment entirely, but get to work removes that and now you have to take care of your useless sims for 24 hours straight and go to a work that is not even fun in the first place. If they made a more entertaining hospital, MAYBE I would like it, but the pace of everything in that place is just SO slow. I want my sims to have to do emergency surgeries, I want my sims to help others give birth, I want to have coworkers that actually do something, etc. And don't get me started on the other two professions, those are just straight up unplayable.
@@davidkonevky7372 the doctor career is laughable, it doesn't make any sense. You can keep cleaning puddles and socializing with coworkers and still got a gold medal even if you didn't do any actual doctor activity. Btw I hate these challenge objectives that tells you what to do: it's way to easy! Making a date work in sims 2 or even getting into private school was way funnier and challenging
Why is EVERY ADULT terrified of thunderstorms? I cheat my way to get the trait Storm Chaser which nullifies the scared emotion (at least in my game). Also I cheat for the Naturalist trait because I'm beyond (at this point) annoyed by the constant getting set on fire when they use the toilet. Even when I don't use the Eco pack. Forgot to tie this into the topic.... Anyway, I will wait for Paralives. Even if it's not at all like it's being anticipated. Sims bit the hand that fed them and now they have competition. If I do happen to get sims 5, it'll be because my computer would finally give sims 4 the f-you it deserves and it wouldn't be full price.
I'm so glad Paralives is coming out. Some competition will hopefully really help push more quality than quantity. I'm honestly so tired of expansions that just add stuff but not really improve on the gameplay which is needed to keep the Sims interesting.
Agree with you as always Carl! One of my fave things you ever said is how they seem to focus on the many builders / CAS fans (and they do this well) but forget that some people actually want to...PLAY the game..?! I actually love both equally... and we shouldn't have to pick!? HOWEVER.. I am shook at how good the new 'stuff pack' is. Now to be fair, there is a low bar here for good (that vintage party pack or whatever it was LOL). But I enjoy the haunted gameplay changes and appreciate that they at least worked harder on it. (I also love my Sims flailing around the house and the funny way they run about when terrified)
I just wish the game wasn't so incredibly laggy. I don't play with mods and it's such a slow game.
Well they claimed to fix the lag, by downgrading the textures from 2k to 1k.... Other than that, well, sucks for you they don't care about actually fixing the issue.
r u talking about sims 4 or 3?
@@giomks9046 TS4
@@reeceyb505 i feel like Sims 4 is so smooth... Sims 3 was way worse imo
@@giomks9046 Well that depends on what you play TS3 on, most people get it on steam since that didn't receive the final update that nearly everyone claims broke TS3. Also, TS3 runs a lot smoother on mac since that version has a 64 bit version of TS3, windows 10 has the 32 bit version.
I just want long term goals and quests, like Sims medieval!!
Medieval was a solid game. I played it so much!
Have a 100% alien born with the Father Winter's Baby trait. If you have the packs there's a long term goal, and yes it can be done.
Don't ask questions, just buy product and get excited for next product.
Not the last update making strangers enter my house , drink water AND WET THE FLOOR, HUH? HUH????????🙄🔫
Personally, I would like different-sized Sims, especially Teens, who only look like skinny adults.
Go with mods. Modders have made Sims 4 playable. EA/Origins are too lazy to do anything worthwhile.
Until now I watch videos about details on TS2 - things like "sims with high yoga skills can climb on coffee tables" - these details that make game more alive and more interesting and TS4 never even tried to do...
The deck floors in Sulani beach builds still disappear when you’re zoomed in too close. If that doesn’t summarize how little they care about dlc once it’s out, idk what would.
I really love the hiking in Snowy Escape, and I feel like it was such a gigantic missed opportunity to not fix old worlds to allow you to hike in them. They are so close with the dog-walking, like why can't Sims just take a hike or meditative walk around their neighbourhood? Why can't we hike in Oasis Springs? Or Brindleton Bay? What an awesome hike it would be around the lighthouse, or to the ruins.
The thing is, if they went and improved the dlcs after release, they would run out of content for more dlcs
Totally. Almost all of the last packs have felt like they should have been included in a previous pack. Fame in City Living, skiing in Seasons, eco-footprint in Island Living, etc.
@@sophie8939 yes, i feel like they water down the packs on purpouse just so they could have various packs. Tbh, the whole "stuff, Game and expansión" packs are scummy
@@HinaryLuna00 Yes, game packs are an unnecessary addition. All the game packs that exist could have been a stuff pack or mixed together to make an expansion pack. The difference between a game pack and an expansion are so vague, I don’t think EA even knows.
@@sophie8939 yes, just look at paranormal stuff, that is more than a Game pack than a stuff one. I'm pretty sure the team is capable of a good completed game, but EA is just focused on profit. The Sims 5 being multiplayer just makes me feel like they are trying to do a sims mobile on pc (can you imagine, sims with gacha mechanics like genshin impact?) even if It comes with singleplayer. Sigh, sorry, i'm just perpetualy dissapointed
Not if they don't add new content, but instead polish out the existing content and add toggles so we can customise our gameplay better to our individual liking.
It really hits home. Gosh I remember a poll the Sims team released about what you would tell new players your favorite part about Sims is (paraphrasing). They had making Sims, making houses, and storytelling. Not gameplay. :/ Goes hand in hand with what Carl says here. It’s like gameplay isn’t important.
After playing TS4 for years I’m getting very bored and I tend to not play as often anymore, just for the fact that I have done everything and nothing is exiting and fun. And it seems like they know that after a pack has been out for a while it’s boring. So that’s why they release new pack so often.
It's not just the Sims that does it, alot of modern games have the width of an ocean but the depth of a puddle. (Especially Fortnite, Apex: Legends, COD, Battlefield, etc). It's the same repetitive gameplay, but then they release new skins or characters who behave exactly like the others, or weapons which behave like any other weapon. Meanwhile, games like Demon Souls, Morrowind, Dark Souls, Oblivion, Bloodborne, Skyrim, Sekiro, Fallout, etc. emphasise on replayability, where if you play the game again in a different way, you'll get a different experience.
What I couldn't believe was the jungle pack. They just get in the place and we have to read a little message instead of solving the puzzles. Ts3 world adventures i believe? Was my favorite! It was so rich and after years of playing i never finished every tomb!
The ts4 jungle one does have a beautiful place, but 0 content. It is like just a pretty book with no story inside
My fear is that if Paralives is great, EA is going to try to brutally crush them and steal all of their mechanics, using their power to get back on top.
These are such good points, and honestly I feel like bug fixes for DLC aren't even featured that much...Like, Laundry day has been bugged for me over 6 months now where the dryers in game wont work :/
(also genuinely, wheeeen will we get a baby update?)
We are being called complainers and get the “well if you don’t like it don’t buy it” excuse. I’m sick of it. And the Sims team writes and speaks about the patch notes and such like they’re talking to children (which I guess is what they’re hoping).
1. It’s when my family attempts to have a grand breakfast to celebrate, they have to each stand up and hug before eating, that did it for me.
2. It’s the fact that when i load my largest lots, items are missing inside and outside my home, that did it for me.
3. It’s the fact that sims that don’t live in my “world” seem to always be in my neighborhood, that did it for me.
4. It’s the slow game speed and load screens that did it for me.
5. It’s the lack of response to requests for vehicles and transportation that did it for me...bikes and boats? FOH
6. Again, LOAD SCREENS
7. It’s the fact that i can’t take a sim to brunch at a restaurant without possibly starving from not receiving my food or exhausted because the whole ordeal sucked up half a day, that did it for me.
8. It’s the fact that my kid sims have absolutely nothing to do off our home lot (after school program, sports team, after school suspension...hell, I’ll even love a hired tutor!
9. It’s the fact that my maid seems to come on days she feels, repairmen arrive when they feel so i usually end up hiring 2, i can hire a nanny while on vacation for the weekend yet when i return she only charges $60 bucks, that did it for me.
10. It’s the overall lack of effort that did it for me. Never again! What happened to the simple realism of the game. We have a jail but no burglars, can’t be arrested or fined, or go to the jail to pay tickets or bail out anyone. You can be a doctor but can’t prescribe medicine to other sims, can’t visit the hospital if your sim is sick. Your gardener is useless unless you built a farm. Realistic bills would be nice (service providers). If you can create a botched university, you can create a mall. Lastly, if you want to offer rewards and achievements for users that play a sim for generations, do this by allowing them to create savings accounts, have second homes, and wills!!!!!!
Thank you very much for saying about Terraria. It's incredible how the FREE updates have changed the game.
I jumped straight from the first Sims game, which I played from release on and off until 2015 when my computer that supported the disc crapped out. Then I got The Sims 4 in 2018. Having missed 2 & 3 and having no context for those comparisons...I think TS4 is an enjoyable game. I played base game only for a while to see what I thought before sinking anymore money into it, and I was pleased. I have almost all of the packs at this point, and I have to say I think your point about updating the DLC is a great one. It was frustrating to go back and look at guides and videos from simmers about pack releases and come across the same issues and complaints that they had in my gameplay. I also wish that they made the packs play nicely with each other. For example, I had a sim go to university and live in the dorms, but she was constantly freezing because there isn't a thermostat in the place. I get that they don't want to have something in a build that people might not have the pack for, but when I can't access build mode without completely exiting live mode and going back in build only.. that's ridiculous. Shouldn't there be something that detects other packs and makes adjustments on what's installed already? Also, one of the biggest missed opportunities I saw in a pack was the lack of a new athletic aspiration or a career based on the wellness trait. I also haven't played much with snowy escape yet, but am already frustrated that the new lifestyles don't have enough variety to reflect older packs. If the goal is to make more money by having people buy all the packs, it would be cool if they worked together better.
I finally uninstalled my sims 4 and, origin today. I'm just tired of it all at this point.
You mentioned SV, Minecraft and Terraria as examples of sandbox games that do good in free patch updates, but they're not even the only ones who know how to add good things. Take Cities Skylines for example, they have a bunch of DLC, but the base game is complete, and the DLCs themselves ADD to the game. Honestly, even The Sims 3 DLCs did that! It's shocking to me how a game that came out in 2009, in the middle of an economic recession didn't only have open world and a new trait system, but it also included giant ammounts of stuff on the DLCs. If you compare the features of EPs in TS3 and 4, one single TS3 EP could fit a TS4 EP, two GPs and a bunch of SPs. How did they let this happen to the sims 4? More importantly: how did *we* see this happen and kept buying the game?? The Sims needs competition ASAP.
By the way, amazing video. You, LGR and AmandaBB are pretty much the only simmers that tackle extremely important issues in the games that no one ever talks about for some reason.
True! I got it from a giveaway at the end of 2020 and dang, that game was done right!
If its not like a better Sims 3 I probably wont get the game.
This is so true. I’m a player who plays only for playing with the lives of sims. And I loved the sims 1,2 and 3. Sims 4 has been lacking for so long that I haven’t touched my game for close to a year now.. Can’t wait for paralives though. Because they seem to listen.
At this point Sims 5 need to be a real life simulation I can personally enter myself
I'm glad you mentioned balancing features. I reinstalled The Sims 2 recently and the reason it's so much more fun than The Sims 4 isn't because of certain features, it's because the gameplay is balanced so much better. I can spend hours just keeping my sims needs up and that alone is FUN in The Sims 2, because it's balanced well. Every micro-management sim needs this to be top priority.
If the sims 5 doesn't deliver, watch the name of this channel change to "Carl's Paralives Guides" 😭
It does say "Sim Guides" instead "Sims Guides". It'd be easy enough to rebrand out to the broader simulation genre.
Great video Carl. You've made many great points. I feel if the Gurus don't address these issues now they many lose a lot of potential sales when TS5 comes out. I'm sure that folks will look at the problems that TS4 has in smooth gameplay and assume that E.A. doesn't care about game quality only quantity. I also hope that before the E.A. firmly decides what TS5 should be before investing a lot of time writing code only to realize the game should have been something else and then try to change it. I agree that games and pack could be improved after release, but I feel that's an issue with the upper management at E.A. who worry about the bottom line. E.A. really needs to improve their reputation stat or lose out to the competition.
WE LOVE YOU CARL
Amen! Carl has been my go to knight for years!!
But seriously, I just started playing both batuu , snowy escape and nifty knitting, all 3 are riddled with bugs, batuu is mostly just blackhole quests you need stats for, snowy escape does add a lot of content but most if not all of them have issues. I've read so many bug reports where the devs act like they can't recreate is but I encounter all of the bugs. It's almost as if they just don't care.
Yup, they fail to do one thing to test the issues reported : open the game and play
EA should hire you... 'nuff said! 😁👍
They really need to add more ways to experience your sims lives... like how about instead of just constantly pointing and clicking feeling disconnected from the world, why not just add a way to play as your sim directly? Ex: The Sims 2 on console and handheld would let you have direct control over your sim.