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magnolia1122

I got sims 4 get to work and sims 4 for Christmas and so I was playing for awhile and then I stopped. The only thing that was fun about this game was the houses and challenges I realized all that I was doing was taking sim then marring of that sim reproducing and that was it. After that it got boring each time again and again. So I was wondering I have been watching Koffe a simer on you tube and she does all these challenges so I tried to do them on my own but it just gets boring after awhile or I end up killing my sims. Does anyone know and good challenges?

Simpkin

everything gets boring after a while.
Try legacy with every career and aspiration.

Mizz_Creative48

I get bored easily with sims 4 too and there aren't enough mods out to help with that. I have Get to Work, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, and Get Together btw

PHOEBESMOM601

magnolia1122 wrote: »

I got sims 4 get to work and sims 4 for Christmas and so I was playing for awhile and then I stopped. The only thing that was fun about this game was the houses and challenges I realized all that I was doing was taking sim then marring of that sim reproducing and that was it. After that it got boring each time again and again. So I was wondering I have been watching Koffe a simer on you tube and she does all these challenges so I tried to do them on my own but it just gets boring after awhile or I end up killing my sims. Does anyone know and good challenges?

Try the asylum challenge playing TS2. That's a lot of fun.

Sujabes

Sims 3 was able to entertain me better, than the Sims 3 does. There was so much to do on the older game.

Illiyea

Theres a whole list of creative challenges to complete in the creative section. When traditional game play gets stale try one of those. It incorporates a new spin and you can do several at a time to avoid getting bored of one.

Sigzy05

I think the problems with this game are:

1- The sims themselves

Sims, all of them, they behave all the same way. There is nothing special about that sim or that other sim or the other sim that lives far away in another neighborhood from your sim. They are all the same, no matter what forced story you put yourself down the throat to make the game more...."entertaining". There is a huge behaviour issue and I'm sure it's connected to the irrelevant traits or just the way they made sim's personalities or perhaps to the social interactions themselves.

2-Whims

Whims don't work, they just don't work. They are like a...cheaper if not lame washed version of wants and fears or even wishes, with very little variety and many times they aren't even related to what is happening in a sim's life.

3-Too many goals

There are too many goals in this game, from party events, to career events, to aspirations etc. They need to be cleaned up. I'd say remove goals from parties and careers entirely. For parties make a system like in TS1, TS2 and TS3 where the game would recognize based on sims's needs/mood etc if the party was good or not. For careers just tag objects and/or interactions that are good and bad for work and give the player somnething basic like "you can do this and this, now do what you want", the unlockable interactions could still be unlocked the higher you go in the careers, ofc, but you don't have goals telling you what to do.

4-Lack of family play

This one...I'm guessing we all know.

rosey1579

You have to spend money to have fun.

DominicLaurence

I would say cause it's too easy, after a very brief time you'll have accomplished all you wanted in this game.

imhappy

Sigzy05 wrote: »

I think the problems with this game are:

1- The sims themselves

Sims, all of them, they behave all the same way. There is nothing special about that sim or that other sim or the other sim that lives far away in another neighborhood from your sim. They are all the same, no matter what forced story you put yourself down the throat to make the game more...."entertaining". There is a huge behaviour issue and I'm sure it's connected to the irrelevant traits or just the way they made sim's personalities or perhaps to the social interactions themselves.

2-Whims

Whims don't work, they just don't work. They are like a...cheaper if not lame washed version of wants and fears or even wishes, with very little variety and many times they aren't even related to what is happening in a sim's life.

3-Too many goals

There are too many goals in this game, from party events, to career events, to aspirations etc. They need to be cleaned up. I'd say remove goals from parties and careers entirely. For parties make a system like in TS1, TS2 and TS3 where the game would recognize based on sims's needs/mood etc if the party was good or not. For careers just tag objects and/or interactions that are good and bad for work and give the player somnething basic like "you can do this and this, now do what you want", the unlockable interactions could still be unlocked the higher you go in the careers, ofc, but you don't have goals telling you what to do.

4-Lack of family play

This one...I'm guessing we all know.

Yes for 1 and Yes for 2! I completely ignore whims. As far as #3, the problem for me is that they don't get promoted fast enough. Cassandra Goth is on level 4 of her career, but has maxed out on piano and violin and has level 8 for guitar. However, I'm not bored yet.

Marti_Stern

I always get bored of the game, no matter what iteration it is. But that's normal, I play for a few hours and then get bored. Then either I come back after some hours, maybe the next day or I don't play the game for months. It's the cycle for me, and it happens with every Sims game.

ijustlikesims

I honestly think a main issue is no open world, or at least open neighborhood sections. While the Sims 4 sims have the ability to multi-tsk well, we as players do not. Coming from TS3, you could send one sim to a bar to make friends then instantly take another friend to a park to go pick flowers and another could be throwing a party at home or on another lot. That allowed for so much game play and multiple stimuli that when you switch over to TS4, there's nothing really for you to do like that, you can't send one sim somewhere they need to be (like when "work out at the gym" whim comes up ) while controlling another sim on another lot. I like playing with large families in TS3 and that was a huge part of my gameplay and TS4, it's just not possible so when you only can focus on one sim or a few at a time while ignoring the needs of other sims, things can get kind of stale.

DiamondsR4ever

I rarely get bored, I just get sleepy and pause and fall asleep lol. But I usually just start changing up their style and I downloaded tons of cc and the designer flowerchambers poses and start taking cute pics in cute outfits. But I know a lot of people rent into cc and mods here. I can always find something to do though. But that's just me.

taigoesrawr

ijustlikesims wrote: »

I honestly think a main issue is no open world, or at least open neighborhood sections. While the Sims 4 sims have the ability to multi-tsk well, we as players do not. Coming from TS3, you could send one sim to a bar to make friends then instantly take another friend to a park to go pick flowers and another could be throwing a party at home or on another lot. That allowed for so much game play and multiple stimuli that when you switch over to TS4, there's nothing really for you to do like that, you can't send one sim somewhere they need to be (like when "work out at the gym" whim comes up ) while controlling another sim on another lot. I like playing with large families in TS3 and that was a huge part of my gameplay and TS4, it's just not possible so when you only can focus on one sim or a few at a time while ignoring the needs of other sims, things can get kind of stale.

I'm responding to the bolded part of what you said. ^^ (or at least what I think you're talking about?.. anyways)

Actually, you can control sims in your household on different lots.

You can send Sim A to go workout at the gym (just use "travel" on the phone) and when they arrive there have them start their workout routine.

While they're doing that you can go back to Sim B who's (perhaps..) currently at the park playing chess. Just click on the (corner?) of the sim's portrait and you'll get options to either bring them to the current lot (which would be where Sim A is) or switch control to Sim B.

Sure you can't oversee both at once like in TS3. You have to go through loading screens..but that's besides the point I think.

You can have Sim A work out at the gym, Sim B play chess at the park, and Sim C throw a party while Sim A and B are not present. The only difference is you have to go through loading screens when switching control to a different sim.

<< I hope what I said made sense and if you already knew this then I apologize. XD haha.

ijustlikesims

taigoesrawr wrote: »

ijustlikesims wrote: »

I honestly think a main issue is no open world, or at least open neighborhood sections. While the Sims 4 sims have the ability to multi-tsk well, we as players do not. Coming from TS3, you could send one sim to a bar to make friends then instantly take another friend to a park to go pick flowers and another could be throwing a party at home or on another lot. That allowed for so much game play and multiple stimuli that when you switch over to TS4, there's nothing really for you to do like that, you can't send one sim somewhere they need to be (like when "work out at the gym" whim comes up ) while controlling another sim on another lot. I like playing with large families in TS3 and that was a huge part of my gameplay and TS4, it's just not possible so when you only can focus on one sim or a few at a time while ignoring the needs of other sims, things can get kind of stale.

I'm responding to the bolded part of what you said. ^^ (or at least what I think you're talking about?.. anyways)

Actually, you can control sims in your household on different lots.

You can send Sim A to go workout at the gym (just use "travel" on the phone) and when they arrive there have them start their workout routine.

While they're doing that you can go back to Sim B who's (perhaps..) currently at the park playing chess. Just click on the (corner?) of the sim's portrait and you'll get options to either bring them to the current lot (which would be where Sim A is) or switch control to Sim B.

Sure you can't oversee both at once like in TS3. You have to go through loading screens..but that's besides the point I think.

You can have Sim A work out at the gym, Sim B play chess at the park, and Sim C throw a party while Sim A and B are not present. The only difference is you have to go through loading screens when switching control to a different sim.

<< I hope what I said made sense and if you already knew this then I apologize. XD haha.

But the loading screen and not being able to control your sims in tandem is my point and one of my main issues with the game

mrnhmath

Sigzy05 wrote: »

I think the problems with this game are:

1- The sims themselves

Sims, all of them, they behave all the same way. There is nothing special about that sim or that other sim or the other sim that lives far away in another neighborhood from your sim. They are all the same, no matter what forced story you put yourself down the throat to make the game more...."entertaining". There is a huge behaviour issue and I'm sure it's connected to the irrelevant traits or just the way they made sim's personalities or perhaps to the social interactions themselves.

2-Whims

Whims don't work, they just don't work. They are like a...cheaper if not lame washed version of wants and fears or even wishes, with very little variety and many times they aren't even related to what is happening in a sim's life.

3-Too many goals

There are too many goals in this game, from party events, to career events, to aspirations etc. They need to be cleaned up. I'd say remove goals from parties and careers entirely. For parties make a system like in TS1, TS2 and TS3 where the game would recognize based on sims's needs/mood etc if the party was good or not. For careers just tag objects and/or interactions that are good and bad for work and give the player somnething basic like "you can do this and this, now do what you want", the unlockable interactions could still be unlocked the higher you go in the careers, ofc, but you don't have goals telling you what to do.

4-Lack of family play

This one...I'm guessing we all know.

Basically this.

Piperbird

ijustlikesims wrote: »

taigoesrawr wrote: »

ijustlikesims wrote: »

I honestly think a main issue is no open world, or at least open neighborhood sections. While the Sims 4 sims have the ability to multi-tsk well, we as players do not. Coming from TS3, you could send one sim to a bar to make friends then instantly take another friend to a park to go pick flowers and another could be throwing a party at home or on another lot. That allowed for so much game play and multiple stimuli that when you switch over to TS4, there's nothing really for you to do like that, you can't send one sim somewhere they need to be (like when "work out at the gym" whim comes up ) while controlling another sim on another lot. I like playing with large families in TS3 and that was a huge part of my gameplay and TS4, it's just not possible so when you only can focus on one sim or a few at a time while ignoring the needs of other sims, things can get kind of stale.

I'm responding to the bolded part of what you said. ^^ (or at least what I think you're talking about?.. anyways)

Actually, you can control sims in your household on different lots.

You can send Sim A to go workout at the gym (just use "travel" on the phone) and when they arrive there have them start their workout routine.

While they're doing that you can go back to Sim B who's (perhaps..) currently at the park playing chess. Just click on the (corner?) of the sim's portrait and you'll get options to either bring them to the current lot (which would be where Sim A is) or switch control to Sim B.

Sure you can't oversee both at once like in TS3. You have to go through loading screens..but that's besides the point I think.

You can have Sim A work out at the gym, Sim B play chess at the park, and Sim C throw a party while Sim A and B are not present. The only difference is you have to go through loading screens when switching control to a different sim.

<< I hope what I said made sense and if you already knew this then I apologize. XD haha.

But the loading screen and not being able to control your sims in tandem is my point and one of my main issues with the game

Same for me. I don't want to wait 20 or 30 seconds just to flip home to make sure homework is being done (because, I can tell you, it isn't being done), and then another 20 or 30 seconds to flip back and find my first Sim is no longer doing what I told them to do. My Sims rarely leave the house, and I am certainly not sitting through a loading screen to go next door. Or to go to a venue to fulfill a whim that will change the moment they get there anyway. Those loading screens are 100% a game killer for me.

After that, the game gets boring for me because Sims have zero depth. Every single Sim, no matter what traits you give them, are exactly the same. They all want the exact same whims (usually the 1x1 pool for some reason, no matter how large a pool they already have), they all Troll teh Forums the second you take your eyes off them, they all quit doing whatever you wanted them to do so they can stare off into space and text. I can't connect with them at all. I can't bring myself to care about them at all. And they all look like freaks. Who grins all the time? This is what every TS4 Sim looks like to me:





Quit it! YOU ARE STANDING OVER YOUR DEAD SPOUSES' BODY!! WHY ARE YOU GRINNING!?!?!?!

My play style has been eliminated from this version, so I've tried new styles, and challenges, but just get bored so fast. Everywhere I turn, this game is telling me I'm playing it wrong. I just never last on a new save for more than a week or two.

Ugg. Give me TS4 build mode in TS3, I'd be the happiest Simmer ever.

drake_mccarty

Because the game was originally designed to be an online multiplayer game, with an added story mode. Nothing about TS4 represents what the others have, because their vision for the game originally was something completely different that nobody was asking for.

IMO there are too many downgrades compared to The Sims 3. We were sold this game while being given the impression that it truly was a great successor, and as far as I'm concerned it falls flat. Everything is a grind, and it's super repetitive. CAS and Build mode are the only real improvements to me. Gameplay is incredibly over the top, boring, and the game operates in ways that truly put me off from playing.

Several of my simmer friends irl want nothing to do with 4, because it's subpar compared to what the other games offer. They stick with Sims 2 & 3.

luthienrising

It doesn't.

Honestly, personal experience varies. The game gets boring for some people, and not for others. The reasons for that are going to vary too. Some people just get bored of anything after a while (which is perfectly okay); some people are engaged by different things from other people.

halimali1980

To me The Sims 3 got so boring the second day itself, not to forget how I was shocked the first day of how ugly and similar the sims looked.

Sims 4 is keeping me entertained. I think after Get Together my like for the game has increased. A good expansion is able to do it. Unfortunately all the nice elements that I hoped would make the sims 3 better made them worse. For example, I love pets but I was so disappointed to see that we had to control them!! Another example was the apartments, I thought that once we get apartments things would get better but apartments in Sims 3 were a big big joke. The celebrity thing I thought it would add some nice game play but it turned out to be another version of the epidemic flu from TS2!

It is all a matter of preference. To me TS4 is way more entertaining than TS3.
I just hope this year we get better EPs

Gabe_oz

halimali1980 wrote: »

To me The Sims 3 got so boring the second day itself, not to forget how I was shocked the first day of how ugly and similar the sims looked.

Sims 4 is keeping me entertained. I think after Get Together my like for the game has increased. A good expansion is able to do it. Unfortunately all the nice elements that I hoped would make the sims 3 better made them worse. For example, I love pets but I was so disappointed to see that we had to control them!! Another example was the apartments, I thought that once we get apartments things would get better but apartments in Sims 3 were a big big joke. The celebrity thing I thought it would add some nice game play but it turned out to be another version of the epidemic flu from TS2!

It is all a matter of preference. To me TS4 is way more entertaining than TS3.
I just hope this year we get better EPs

Same for me too. I enjoyed Sims 3 while it lasted, but I was ready to move on. The apartments in 3 were non existent and the celebrity system was a joke. Your sims could be doing nothing and they gain celebrity status. It was more of an annoyance, all it did was make a group of paparazzi show up on your lawn and spread false rumors. Sims 4 keeps me entertained (along with the other 10 games I play, but Sims 4 is one of the primaries) and Get Together adds so much for gameplay, and was really well implemented.

Simfan923

I'm trying to recall if I've ever gotten bored with TS3 but honestly I can't for the life of me. I remember just playing for hours and hours. I do remember PEPS happening fairly often because content was usually announced ahead of time. (I'll leave that last part alone) but with TS4 you honestly just have to make your own fun and get even more creative. Like just the other day one in one of my many saves I had this one family and the kids invited their friends over for a sleepover. They all watched movies on the projector screen in the backyard and just had a campfire and slept in the tents. Then the mom made breakfast since it was a weekend and then the friends all went home after that.

simgirl1010

luthienrising wrote: »

It doesn't.

Honestly, personal experience varies. The game gets boring for some people, and not for others. The reasons for that are going to vary too. Some people just get bored of anything after a while (which is perfectly okay); some people are engaged by different things from other people.

I've been playing most of the entire day and can't believe how the time has passed. Right now I'm running a retail shop, a wedding boutique, and am so exhausted it feels as if I've been running my own real life shop, lol. I've discovered that employees are totally useless so I'm adding two sims to the household to help me run the shop. That way I'll be able to control them. Thank goodness I'm off again tomorrow.

Rflong7

I liked TS3 apartments.
I never liked groups in TS2 and don't see how having a bunch of followers would make the game better for me... so, I have no use for GT.

There's still a long way to go with TS4 game, I'll wait and see how it ends up and just use the base game if I want.

*I always used the codes in TS2 to control the pets and in TS3 we didn't'' have to, they took good care of themselves.

simgirl1010

Rflong7 wrote: »

I liked TS3 apartments.
I never liked groups in TS2 and don't see how having a bunch of followers would make the game better for me... so, I have no use for GT.

There's still a long way to go with TS4 game, I'll wait and see how it ends up and just use the base game if I want.

*I always used the codes in TS2 to control the pets and in TS3 we didn't'' have to, they took good care of themselves.

Not sure what you mean by that. I have only one group so far and it is composed of family members that live in separate households. Makes it easy to get them all together for family fun and outings.

MikeAM91

Sigzy05 wrote: »

I think the problems with this game are:

1- The sims themselves

Sims, all of them, they behave all the same way. There is nothing special about that sim or that other sim or the other sim that lives far away in another neighborhood from your sim. They are all the same, no matter what forced story you put yourself down the throat to make the game more...."entertaining". There is a huge behaviour issue and I'm sure it's connected to the irrelevant traits or just the way they made sim's personalities or perhaps to the social interactions themselves.

2-Whims

Whims don't work, they just don't work. They are like a...cheaper if not lame washed version of wants and fears or even wishes, with very little variety and many times they aren't even related to what is happening in a sim's life.

3-Too many goals

There are too many goals in this game, from party events, to career events, to aspirations etc. They need to be cleaned up. I'd say remove goals from parties and careers entirely. For parties make a system like in TS1, TS2 and TS3 where the game would recognize based on sims's needs/mood etc if the party was good or not. For careers just tag objects and/or interactions that are good and bad for work and give the player somnething basic like "you can do this and this, now do what you want", the unlockable interactions could still be unlocked the higher you go in the careers, ofc, but you don't have goals telling you what to do.

4-Lack of family play

This one...I'm guessing we all know.

This!

Piperbird wrote: »

ijustlikesims wrote: »

taigoesrawr wrote: »

ijustlikesims wrote: »

I honestly think a main issue is no open world, or at least open neighborhood sections. While the Sims 4 sims have the ability to multi-tsk well, we as players do not. Coming from TS3, you could send one sim to a bar to make friends then instantly take another friend to a park to go pick flowers and another could be throwing a party at home or on another lot. That allowed for so much game play and multiple stimuli that when you switch over to TS4, there's nothing really for you to do like that, you can't send one sim somewhere they need to be (like when "work out at the gym" whim comes up ) while controlling another sim on another lot. I like playing with large families in TS3 and that was a huge part of my gameplay and TS4, it's just not possible so when you only can focus on one sim or a few at a time while ignoring the needs of other sims, things can get kind of stale.

I'm responding to the bolded part of what you said. ^^ (or at least what I think you're talking about?.. anyways)

Actually, you can control sims in your household on different lots.

You can send Sim A to go workout at the gym (just use "travel" on the phone) and when they arrive there have them start their workout routine.

While they're doing that you can go back to Sim B who's (perhaps..) currently at the park playing chess. Just click on the (corner?) of the sim's portrait and you'll get options to either bring them to the current lot (which would be where Sim A is) or switch control to Sim B.

Sure you can't oversee both at once like in TS3. You have to go through loading screens..but that's besides the point I think.

You can have Sim A work out at the gym, Sim B play chess at the park, and Sim C throw a party while Sim A and B are not present. The only difference is you have to go through loading screens when switching control to a different sim.

<< I hope what I said made sense and if you already knew this then I apologize. XD haha.

But the loading screen and not being able to control your sims in tandem is my point and one of my main issues with the game

Same for me. I don't want to wait 20 or 30 seconds just to flip home to make sure homework is being done (because, I can tell you, it isn't being done), and then another 20 or 30 seconds to flip back and find my first Sim is no longer doing what I told them to do. My Sims rarely leave the house, and I am certainly not sitting through a loading screen to go next door. Or to go to a venue to fulfill a whim that will change the moment they get there anyway. Those loading screens are 100% a game killer for me.

After that, the game gets boring for me because Sims have zero depth. Every single Sim, no matter what traits you give them, are exactly the same. They all want the exact same whims (usually the 1x1 pool for some reason, no matter how large a pool they already have), they all Troll teh Forums the second you take your eyes off them, they all quit doing whatever you wanted them to do so they can stare off into space and text. I can't connect with them at all. I can't bring myself to care about them at all. And they all look like freaks. Who grins all the time? This is what every TS4 Sim looks like to me:





Quit it! YOU ARE STANDING OVER YOUR DEAD SPOUSES' BODY!! WHY ARE YOU GRINNING!?!?!?!

My play style has been eliminated from this version, so I've tried new styles, and challenges, but just get bored so fast. Everywhere I turn, this game is telling me I'm playing it wrong. I just never last on a new save for more than a week or two.

Ugg. Give me TS4 build mode in TS3, I'd be the happiest Simmer ever.

This!

drake_mccarty wrote: »

Because the game was originally designed to be an online multiplayer game, with an added story mode. Nothing about TS4 represents what the others have, because their vision for the game originally was something completely different that nobody was asking for.

IMO there are too many downgrades compared to The Sims 3. We were sold this game while being given the impression that it truly was a great successor, and as far as I'm concerned it falls flat. Everything is a grind, and it's super repetitive. CAS and Build mode are the only real improvements to me. Gameplay is incredibly over the top, boring, and the game operates in ways that truly put me off from playing.

Several of my simmer friends irl want nothing to do with 4, because it's subpar compared to what the other games offer. They stick with Sims 2 & 3.

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