The latest update for The Sims 4 is now live. Click
here to read the latest notes.
Its time for the final screenshot thread! Show us what ya got
here!
Forum Announcement,
Click Here to Read More From EA_Cade.
I'm starting to notice the details
Return to top
Comments
Hi
What kind of Drama are they getting into on their own? I'm very curious because I'm such a control freak player....
Exactly!! The sims learn and improve everyday doing more and more on their own.
I think it is really sad those who only tried the game for 24 hrs and demanded a refund. I was very frustrated the first 24 hrs working on learning the new controls not to mention the tutorial.
I just don't see how anyone could judge this game in 24 hrs. I see why EA wouldn't let reviewers have it. IMHO It was because you have to play for at lest 2-3 days to actually see how in-depth your sims are!
LOL Mine isn't right. The patch before last reset my counter to 3 hrs and it has been wrong ever since. It could be because I never play online I am not sure! I do know that I have played for at least 5 days a week 4-8 hrs a day for the last 3 1/2 weeks at least.
Hey! I'm still trying to train myself not to be such a control freak. As I said, I'm slowing down with it, lol, but certainly not giving it all to them.
You know? the other day I was playing one of my sims and had to go let my dogs out (RL) when I came back my sim and Mortimer Goth had the hots for each other, both guys. I was surprised b/c I had my sim sleeszing around town having lots of girlfriends. It just struck me as funny and totally unexpected, lol. My plan was to get Bella with child by my sim and watch the drama unfold. I never did get that far, I felt guilty and deleted the family that he had gotten involved with. The other one was a townie and I couldn't reach her, as she had no house to live in. But later found her on the "Manage households" thing. So I plunked her down with her baby in a small house and played the two here and there. Now I learned how....Thank you Graham for the twitch the other day....to split up the mother and son. So now the boy lives with his Dad and my avi. They just had a baby too! Boy is she ever beautiful. So, I now have two couples, sims that started out as singles and I played them that way for quite a while.
This game is much more like The Sims 2, at least the way I play it, then it is 3, in that the way the sims act and the way the whole thing plays out.
As time goes on and I learn how to let them be themselves, I'll let you know about the drama that rolls around
Where can I find this info? I didn't know we could see how many hours we've played.
All the sims err'day
Hi!
I don't play fast to begin with so that wouldn't be a problem. The problem is I don't actually want to watch my Sims lead their lives. I much rather play The Sims then watch the Sims play. I can't watch Let's Plays because it annoys me too much.
I think you have me wrong... I don't not want to be a control freak. It's the way I like to play. I don't mind a twist or a surprise but I don't want the game to play my Sims. It's one reason I didn't like TS3 game play and why I never played rotation in TS3.
If this game is about them doing their thing then it's not going to ever be a game for me.
Open your origin, hover your mouse over the t4 game icon...and there you go!
It is pretty cool to see them chatting away. It's even nicer to see an old couple flirt with each other even though neither is feeling flirtatious. It makes it feel like they remember they love one another. The gym is another place that can be a lot of fun because of the little interactions. They even talk a lot in the library. I keep expecting some monster of a librarian to come along and shush them.
It's not really. It's the little things inbetween your commands. Like ts2 was..same thing. I'm telling my sim to go eat, then before I can press the button she blows her husband a kiss. That kind of thing. If you let them go? You just don't know what will happen, lol. So I guess you have to be diligent about the pause button.
You don't have to watch them. I think we're basically saying we no longer feel the need to control them as much as we did in the past. We're actually finding them entertaining. That's how I feel about it. When I first played, I controlled everything. It's very possible to play that way too. I go a little back and forth with how I play with them. I have 4 families in rotation right now.
Thanks for that. I've only logged 123 hours so far. I think I may not be playing enough.
Yes, I'm zooming in more, and not just for screenshots. I watched my main sim and her daughter (a child) play chess together, and it was very entertaining. The little girl was still grieving from seeing her grandmother die, but she was also really into the chess game, so she had the animations for both. She'd make a move, putting the piece down gingerly like she was afraid it would get taken, and then she'd look sad, but then her mother would make a move, and the little girl would ponder her options. At one point she picked up a piece and hit it against her head. I'm playing an ISBI challenge, and I'm so glad I decided to do that because it gives me the opportunity to see what the sims do on their own (although I still control one). Alexander Goth is my sim's spouse, and while she was pregnant, he decided to gather up all the dishes and do them, even though he had the slob trait. He had the biggest stack I've seen in game yet, and I thought that was so sweet.
Daily Deals Rotation Thread
Love kids stuff? Check this out!
Cascades & Daily Deals-Get the best bang for your simpoints
LOL Took my sims to the Blue Velvet club and had them dancing when a sim came in mad. My sims were happily dancing but the mad sim had a target and went right up to another sim and looked like they were chatting when all of the sudden a drink was thrown in the mad sims face!
At home drama is my sims will do allot of things autonomously, spouse/partner blowing kisses and each other, parents going and helping kids with homework, parent just get up and going to hug other family member, so much more that I can't remember at the moment. TS2 was my favorite as you know @Rflong7. I will have to say that they have gotten very close to TS2 awareness if not surpassed it with the new emotion driven engine. Where our sims in TS2 had a semblance of emotion as in the would refuse to do something if pushed to far etc... these sims will drop a que when they are not of a mind to do something and surprisingly it isn't that irritating as I thought it would be. More as if they learn and have a mind of their own. Not in the silly repetitive way that the sims have been in previous games have been, they actually will go get a skill book and read it on their own. They tend to do things that are productive not aggravatingly repetitive like playing the guitar until they are exhausted and about to pee themselves. Some are upset with the goal driven jobs and Aspirations but so far in my game 1) they are easy to fill in the course of general gameplay and 2) they do help to guide me to do something I wouldn't normally have done, which helps to help me experience something I might not have gotten to because of the way I play. As far as fulfilling the whims I don't really worry about that for they are only used for satisfaction points but it does again guide you to do something you normally wouldn't in the course of gameplay.
Some tend to forget that not everyone has been playing the sims since the beginning so guidance is a good thing, even though it isn't required for you to do.
I really think you would enjoy TS4 @Rflong7!! I haven't really missed anything for I am so engrossed in my sim family and all we have yet to do I don't notice it. I can't wait for the EP that will add dinning out, weather etc... but am very happy so far!
When you go to Origin My Games hover over TS4 icon and it will tell you how many hours it thinks
oops already answered!
It's funny you say that. I completely forget they're there. I like that there is no consequence for doing so.
I believe I am guilty of thinking you liked the sims being more autonomous. I did let my sims do their own thing at first either. No No Sims run Amok!! EA had trained me well LOL! But I will say it is the little private moment that are loving with either spouse or child that is so fun to watch. The being drawn to each other and enjoying said draw. If mine are spending more time talking than eating you betcha I x out conversation. Yep still some control freak in me!
I also love when my teen Sim annoys/play fights with his little sister. The looks their on faces are priceless. Sometimes, if she starts to mad at him he will hug her afterward kind of like a "no hard feelings" thing.
Wow, now that you mention it, didn't they say before release that the quivering lip would be in the game? I had forgotten all about that. Now I'm going to specifically watch for that if/when my sims get sad. Thanks for the reminder!
I don't remember hearing anything about it before the launch. They probably did say something though. It's so darn cute that you just want to give the little guys a hug lol.