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The little things
swcheppes
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For me it's the little added touches that makes me smile while playing sims. In sims 4 my favorite thing is my sims singing in the shower!
What are some of the little things that put a smile on your face while playkng?
What are some of the little things that put a smile on your face while playkng?
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The scenery around the game is amazing especially in Outdoor Retreat.
Love the Sims 4 and looking forward to its future.
I love the "did anyone notice that?" look when Sims just had too much franks & beans.
I love listening to the natural sounds in Granite Falls and out in the Science Lab grounds.
The aliens' voices are sweet and haunting.
The bad-cooking animations still make me laugh.
Sims who can't just sit on the toilet, they need to check their phones, that makes me laugh because it's so real.
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When the sims come and randomly hug their children or vice versa. I couldn't tell you the amount of times I've given my daughter a hug just because she happens to be in the same room as me. Far less than she comes and hugs me because I'm in the same room as her, but I get told "I love you" all the time, which to me is more or less the same thing.
One of my sims was reading a book earlier. She needed the bathroom. I clicked on the toilet as the sim herself was too engrossed in the book to notice. I thought she'd put the book down. She took it with her and carried on reading. As a bookworm, I understood being that engrossed in the book.
That my sims always find ways to spend time with each other always makes me smile.
The emotional walks. I don't mean the different walks that they've put in CAS, but the same book engrossed sim from earlier, is a musician. She works from 5-11pm, sim time. She'd gotten up too early that morning, so when she came in at 11pm from work she was exhausted. I had her get a bowl of chips because she was peckish, then sent her to the bathroom and to bed. Everytime they do that walk that says "I'm tired" my heart goes out to them and I feel like a terrible sim overseer.
It always makes me smile at how badly they play instruments when they first get them.
I also like that they are kind of layered, so that despite being tired, it can be a happy kind of tired. My sim was tired, but she had a great night out.
The sun
Oh my God, same! It's so beautiful and very well done cuz the rays change when you position your camera some place else.
For me, I like everything about the emotions. I know a lot of simmers (especially the ones who are very attached to TS2 and TS3) keep on making fun of the emotions in TS4 and how the sims in the previous games had more emotions. I'm not hating on those simmers; I love TS2 too but I just feel that overall, TS4 has a bit more expression. I kinda agree with the other simmers sometimes, like the TS4 sims don't really care so much when there is a fight going on, etc. Only good sims react to fights. Unlike in TS2, where they would cheer which was kinda amusing! XD
But I like their emotions cuz it even affects the way they speak. And I think that's really cool. For example, when my sim is sad or embarrassed and I ask them to take a picture with another sim, the sad sim would sound less cheerful while saying 'cheese'. The way they sleep is also different depending on their mood before they go to bed. There are so many more examples I can think of but I guess these are the little things that make it look more realistic at times.
I love when they take a plate of food and a glass to drink of at the same time.
I love when my sim gets a call to go somewhere on the moment I'm starting to feel bored.
I love their faces. Looking at them while they chat makes me feel like I want to know them better.
I love visiting a household with a baby and watch the parents to look after it.
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I agree with you the more detailed emotions idea is great, I only regret they did it in an over the top manner and forgot about details that are better in the other games.
A detail I love in Sims 4 is how the body of a pregnant sim changes in a permanent way.
I also had a Sim go break down the boarded up mineshaft in the park in Oasis Springs so he could go to the hidden lot there. I followed him as he walked and I love that the sound underfoot changes - I'd not noticed that before. When he's walking on the sandy parts, its sounds softly crunchy, but when he's walking along the dried up river bed, the sound changes as if he's walking on rocks. I love these little thoughtful touches.
They sing the same song and it annoys me xD
I like the thing one of my couples do just before woohoo:
One is all "mmmHm! *brushes hair confidently sort of thing"
And the other is like "oooooh *flirty excitement wriggle of some degree*"
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I love that there are varying styles there though that you can put in your homes depending on taste and the look/color scheme you want.
There are so many things I love about this game
There are so many nice little things about this game. When your sim sleeps on a cheap bed and gets the sore back moodlet that makes him uncomfortable the sim actually keeps touching his own back and moaning ah oh ah. lol
I've actually heard 2 songs! I didn't look to see if maybe they sang different songs according to their emotion.