I don't hate them, there are some cute interactions, but serious improvements do need to be made. Being able to actually take them out of the house with you would be a good start Also more choices of bassinet and maybe being able to change them at a changing table?
I don't hate them, there are some cute interactions, but serious improvements do need to be made. Being able to actually take them out of the house with you would be a good start Also more choices of bassinet and maybe being able to change them at a changing table?
Being able to do those things would be fine, but if they were to make us do them, well... I guess I'd just have to give up playing any families at that point, that's all.
FYI: Just because you can see my signature, don't assume that I can see yours.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
Babies and toddlers are my least favorite as they are so needy and annoying really. Even if they fixed them, it just means more work caring for them as no matter what game, I am just going to age them up anyways.
I completely agree. I also find babies annoying as well. At least we can age babies up to toddlers, though. But yeah, toddlers and babies are too needy.
I don't hate them, there are some cute interactions, but serious improvements do need to be made. Being able to actually take them out of the house with you would be a good start Also more choices of bassinet and maybe being able to change them at a changing table?
Being able to do those things would be fine, but if they were to make us do them, well... I guess I'd just have to give up playing any families at that point, that's all.
Fair enough. Pretty much how I feel about real life babies.
I imagine the bassinets are the way they are because the game spawns them with the baby, if you don't have any in the house / amount matching the number of them born(like twins).
They are just ’meh’ for me. I dislike how they are treated like objects in TS4 but I actually do like the fact that I can’t see their needs. Introduces some much needed challenge… and annoyance but I kind of occasionally want annoyance in this game to spice it all up. I unintentionally had 4 babies at once on my very first TS4 family. The couple just had a girl and I thought "Well, let's get her a sibling." Then the game was like "Trolololo triplets incoming!" Gotta admit the babies crying in like this endless loop was preeeetty aggravating but at least the parents gained parenting skill like woah (I guess it'd have been more annoying if I didn't have the Parenthood pack). I actually quite enjoyed the chaos (especially once they were toddlers) but this was a pretty uncommon situation I'd imagine. In most cases I'd just find them as 'meh' and the only thing making them even a little bit engaging is the lack of seeing their needs.
I'd like them to fix the baby skin tone glitch. I'm glad that they updated the skin tones for more players & I'd like them to add more eye and hair colors in a similar way. That said, they need to fix baby skin tones that glitched after the update. I can deal with it while they're correcting it but I hope that is soon.
While babies aren't my main focus and my playstyle combines various themes including some family play and some that definitely is not, if they update the babies I'll roll with it. I'd get a kit or pack that updates more options for the babies. I play with all life stages in kind of a miscellaneous style.
I don't hate our sims 4 babies, I just wish they were more like our sims 2 babies, so they feel apart of the family with genetics and so on. Hopefully one day in the future a little change will happen for our babies to make them more part of the family. Until then I will use Purplebex's awesome skintones and my baby outfits to make them just a little more appealing while they cry for food and diaper changes
I don't like the looks of the Sims4 babies that much, but I'm fine with how they function. I'm super glad they can get fed at the bassinet rather than have to be carried to the fridge for a bottle, and that they no longer get left on the floor.
I would not object to having the option to move them to a swing, carrier, floor mat, etc, as long as no more work was required on the part of the parents or the player to keep them content and healthy. I do not want to have to teach them to crawl or really anything that is involuntary work on my part. The one thing I would like is strollers, mostly because there is no invite household button so I would like to be able to take my babies to visit relatives so they could know each other. But I would want the stroller to function like the current bassinet, just on a different lot.
I liked sims 2 babies for their appearance and animations accompanying them, like bathing them in the sink and using the changing table. You could also get a peek at their genetics by looking at their eyes and eyebrows! They weren't so needy that your sim parents couldn't do anything, but they had the challenge of not being able to see their needs without studying parenting (a must-have imo).
Sims 3 babies were... interesting... little burribundles of joy. I ignored them and cheated up their needs for a bit
Sims 4 babies somehow manage to not only be objects, but are arguably uglier than Sims 3 babies.
> @manicobsessive said: > I don't hate them, there are some cute interactions, but serious improvements do need to be made. Being able to actually take them out of the house with you would be a good start :# Also more choices of bassinet and maybe being able to change them at a changing table?
Same. I would like the babies to improved to be on par with the babies from the sims 2. As you have stated, I will also like to see more choices of bassinets and the ability to use a changing table. They should also bring back the ability to bathe the babies in the sink or changing table, the activity mat from the sims 2 and the swing from sims 3. These changes will significantly improve gameplay.
I hate babies in TS4 as they are now. I want them to be free, to be an actual life stage. People saying they're only a baby for like 1 day anyway lol, but I play with aging off or I use custom lifestage durations with MCC. I want freed babies, and so does a ton of other people. I want that for us, and I have been wanting it since 2014
Edit: Also, I never fully understood those who think babies are boring so they age them up anyway, and that they don't need improvements becase they're boring... They're boring because they need improvements XD If there was a ton more stuff to do with them, chances are you wouldn't be AS bored (not stating facts or anything, just my opinion).
Imagine walking a little bebe in a stroller or having actual cribs, sims walkin' around holding their bebes and stuff
Edit: Also, I never fully understood those who think babies are boring so they age them up anyway, and that they don't need improvements becase they're boring... They're boring because they need improvements XD If there was a ton more stuff to do with them, chances are you wouldn't be AS bored (not stating facts or anything, just my opinion).
Imagine walking a little bebe in a stroller or having actual cribs, sims walkin' around holding their bebes and stuff
That's a perfectly valid opinion. Of course, it only really works if we assume that everyone else thinks babies are fun in the first place. Some of us don't. I tend to find things in the game fun if I like doing them in real life (or if I wish I could do them) or if they're entertaining in an otherwise unrealistic but me-finding-it-fun kind of way. Babies aren't on that list of things for me.
FYI: Just because you can see my signature, don't assume that I can see yours.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
I don't HATE them, It's just the process of interacting with them that can be quite annoying...When a real baby cries, i pick them up and tend to them...but when sim babies cry sometimes it takes an act of congress just to get the adult sim to the baby to tend to them...and sometimes while in the process of going to the baby, something cancels out the action and the adult sim autonomously does something else...
For example... One time my baby sim was crying so I sent the mother sim to tend to the baby, while she was doing that I had the father sim go to the kitchen to make breakfast...so he's cooking breakfast, and the mom sim walks by and gets on the computer to play games. So, I'm thinking, that was kind of fast...a few seconds later i get a nasty message from the game telling me how i was a terrible parent lol...so I check on the sim baby again, and they're still crying. So I used a cheat to check the baby's needs. Turns out the mother sim didn't do a thing.
Comments
Being able to do those things would be fine, but if they were to make us do them, well... I guess I'd just have to give up playing any families at that point, that's all.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
I completely agree. I also find babies annoying as well. At least we can age babies up to toddlers, though. But yeah, toddlers and babies are too needy.
I age them up quickly. At least my 'bratty' Todds are more interesting
They go well with the rest of the furniture.
lol
But then I can't stand babies IRL either.
While babies aren't my main focus and my playstyle combines various themes including some family play and some that definitely is not, if they update the babies I'll roll with it. I'd get a kit or pack that updates more options for the babies. I play with all life stages in kind of a miscellaneous style.
They could just use their brains and program it so babies won't be left on the floor.
#freethebabies
Hold SHIFT while using the FRIEZE tool to apply it to a single wall, and not an entire room!
** SailorCeti's Builds **
If you download one of my builds, by all means, leave me a message and tell me what you did and did not like about it.
I would not object to having the option to move them to a swing, carrier, floor mat, etc, as long as no more work was required on the part of the parents or the player to keep them content and healthy. I do not want to have to teach them to crawl or really anything that is involuntary work on my part. The one thing I would like is strollers, mostly because there is no invite household button so I would like to be able to take my babies to visit relatives so they could know each other. But I would want the stroller to function like the current bassinet, just on a different lot.
Sims 3 babies were... interesting... little burri bundles of joy. I ignored them and cheated up their needs for a bit
Sims 4 babies somehow manage to not only be objects, but are arguably uglier than Sims 3 babies.
Gave you an Awesome just for the Eraserhead mention.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
> I don't hate them, there are some cute interactions, but serious improvements do need to be made. Being able to actually take them out of the house with you would be a good start :# Also more choices of bassinet and maybe being able to change them at a changing table?
Same. I would like the babies to improved to be on par with the babies from the sims 2. As you have stated, I will also like to see more choices of bassinets and the ability to use a changing table. They should also bring back the ability to bathe the babies in the sink or changing table, the activity mat from the sims 2 and the swing from sims 3. These changes will significantly improve gameplay.
I hate babies in TS4 as they are now. I want them to be free, to be an actual life stage. People saying they're only a baby for like 1 day anyway lol, but I play with aging off or I use custom lifestage durations with MCC. I want freed babies, and so does a ton of other people. I want that for us, and I have been wanting it since 2014
Edit: Also, I never fully understood those who think babies are boring so they age them up anyway, and that they don't need improvements becase they're boring... They're boring because they need improvements XD If there was a ton more stuff to do with them, chances are you wouldn't be AS bored (not stating facts or anything, just my opinion).
Imagine walking a little bebe in a stroller or having actual cribs, sims walkin' around holding their bebes and stuff
That's a perfectly valid opinion. Of course, it only really works if we assume that everyone else thinks babies are fun in the first place. Some of us don't. I tend to find things in the game fun if I like doing them in real life (or if I wish I could do them) or if they're entertaining in an otherwise unrealistic but me-finding-it-fun kind of way. Babies aren't on that list of things for me.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
For example... One time my baby sim was crying so I sent the mother sim to tend to the baby, while she was doing that I had the father sim go to the kitchen to make breakfast...so he's cooking breakfast, and the mom sim walks by and gets on the computer to play games. So, I'm thinking, that was kind of fast...a few seconds later i get a nasty message from the game telling me how i was a terrible parent lol...so I check on the sim baby again, and they're still crying. So I used a cheat to check the baby's needs. Turns out the mother sim didn't do a thing.