The title says it all!
They are so boring in this game. There is hardly anything for them to do.
All they have is:
1. Activity Table
2. Monkey Bars/ Jungle Gym
3. Toybox
4. Stuffed Animal
5. Violin
6. Computer games
And when they're not doing those things, all they do is CLEAN. Mopping up puddles, washing the dishes, taking out the trash. The kids literally are so bored they're cleaning.
Can we please get some more content for kids?
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I'm glad they are adding things for thing in New packs like kids being able to dance but at this point they really just need a whole dedicated pack.
I always wanted to my kids running around chasing eachother, jumping on couches and beds, hiding under tables and stuff for hide n seek, food fights, fighting over toys (actually tugging it back and forth) building forts, building cardboard box houses, tree houses, drawing on walls,(when I was a kid my favorite was drawing on walls under the table and blaming it on my sister lol)
pillow fights.
I also want to see them being taught how to ride bikes and roller blade with good animations! Not just parents standing there pointing.
And I can go on and on.
In addition I would love to see more affection too. The cuddling option is one of my favorites. It's sooooooo sweet. Would love for parents to be able to walk holding their hand, carry them, sit on the parents lap and watch TV etc.
But my kids are like mini adults. They clean all the time and sit around talking or playing with a toy hitting themselves in the head over and over.....😑
BTW I hope they don't leave childish sims out if kids ever get more things.
8. Karaoke
9. Puppet Theatre
10. Piano/Keyboard/Pipe Organ
11. Knitting
12. Cross Stitching
13. Fishing
14. Skating
15. Skiing
16. Snowboarding
17. Sledding
19. Video console
17. Foosball
18. Basketball
19. Soccer
20. Chess
21. Reading/Being read to
22. Dollhouse
23. Write Dollhouse Stories
24. Gardening
25. Yoga/Meditation
26. Group Cooking
27. Collections
28. Blow Bubbles
29. Swingset
30. Play Sprinkler
31. Swimming
32. Snorkeling
33. Caged pets
34. Train dogs
35. Waterballon/Snowball fight
36. Face Masks
37. Carve pumpkins
38. Slow dancing
39. Play in sand/snow
40. Medium Skill Activities
41. Teach toddlers building Blocks
42. Acting after school activity
43. Scouting
44. Write/Sneak in diary
45. Motion gaming rig
46. Become Partners in crime
47. Play cards
48. Play wake the lama
49. Doctor playset
50. Play with globe bar
45. Care for cottage animals
46. Play in pond
47. Play in bathtub
48. Mold clay
49. Play horsehoe
Anyhow, I'm always all in for more stuff for kids.
Most of the activities you listed aren't unique to kids, or have very limited gameplay & animations.
Take Play in Pond, do you consider watching a sim wave their arms and stomp in a pond for 3 seconds to be riveting gameplay?
I'd like activities that are unique for kids, not just activities any other sim can do. Something that would make that life stage more interesting to play.
Activities like:
1. playing tag
2. hopscotch
3. board games
4. trampolines
5. RIDE BIKES
6. playing with jump ropes
7. having slumber parties
8. unique kids' social events
9. playing soccer
10. marbles
11. Ball Pits (for kids, not just toddlers)
12. hula hoop
13. hide-and-seek
14. pillow fights
.....And many more, many of which were in the Sims 2 and 3 and are not in the Sims 4.
I would like child bikes, strollers, and child wagons / trailers for adult bicycles in the game.
Totally agree, I'd love some more group interactions for kids in the game!
Most of the actions on Bienchen's list are actions all sims can do in game. And the ones that are unique for kids often reuse animations or just aren't very interesting.
I'd like more interactions and objects that just kids can participate in.
That's a great list of unique interactions and special activities for kids!
I also agree that kids just feel like mini adults, there's nothing unique about them. They don't even behave like normal kids, going around cleaning the house rather than having fun or using their imaginations.
Yes, but the fact thall ALL Sims can do an interaction is not a weakness, it's a strength of the game. Players always complain if children can't do certain things and Maxis has improved a lot in this respect. Instead of having unique child actions I would rather love if all age groups could play voidcritters or if children could immediately start to learn piano playing instead of going through ten senseless "unique" child creativity levels first. And I would of course like children to ride bikes (but not with the current routing).
But if all life-stages can do the same things, what makes those life-stages unique? Specific life-stages, in my opinion, should have unique interactions, abilities, and objects. If they don't, then it makes the game bland.
It's just the way you put your post that wasn't clear.
That being said, there are quite some activities to choose from with that list in mind - it's not that they're all just boring. And yes, I do use all of them in my day to day gameplay and do not get bored with my Sim kids.
I also don't think you don't have a proper understanding for what it takes to convert an interaction to be available for children. It's not just EA snipping with their fingers.
@alanmichael1: Exactly.
Sure children have many activities they can do they can stomp in the pond as someone mentioned or go swimming and do many other things like wear face masks or cross stitch but these are not the type of activates many are asking for when we speak of improving children.
I for one am looking for game play multiple children can do together not always content developed for adults given to children which is usually tied to an object. Let my kids play Marco Polo in the pool or play a game of tag with other children or hide n seek, why can't children ride bikes in the first place I'd love to watch kids ride their bikes around the neighborhood, play in a clubhouse, play super heroes or a game baseball they are mini adults now named children who drop paint on the floor.
You should try Sims2! The kids have so much, I was astounded. They play cops and robbers, tag, toss a football, play catch, play Marco Polo in the pool, families can not only hug but give 'kiss (family)', tell stories, be read to, I've seen parents spontaneously go past their sleeping teen and smoothe the covers over them and lean down and kiss their cheek.
I ended up adopting 6 kids because I didn't realize I could use a reward item to change my sim's aspiration so I didn't have to slog through getting 6 kids all the way to married, and I really don't want to play that many kids, lesson learned: but I also learned that Sims2 is so much deeper and better than any other Sims game, it's incredible, you don't even need mods to add anything (except certain ones to correct some built-in game corruption issues that were there from the start).
I saw one of my dads riding one of their sons around on his feet, both of them laughing. The teens noogie each other, start water balloon fights, get into it with the "bubble machine", they can choose to sneak out at night, though I haven't tried that yet.
When they get an A+ report card, they come running into the house yelling with excitement and go get their parents and show them, and the parents whoop with joy too!
And there are SOOOO many TOYS!
Including RC cars and an RC helicopter.
And teens (and adults) can work on fixing up a junker car, doing engine work and body work, sitting there with the grinder working on rust and minor dings (get after it with the body filler when the suction cups aren't an option LOL), throwing sparks, revving the motor...ahhh memories! Good times!
Watching teens and adults around the working pool table or playing poker, shuffling, pushing chips, having a great time, it all feels so real.
And I haven't even played babies or toddlers yet, as I adopted all these kids as school-age kids but I see the enormous amount of stuff for babies and toddlers in build/buy mode, plus an aspiration award is this bottle warmer full of "special toddler milk" to help your toddler gain skills a lot faster.
So while I do not want to be neck-deep in 6 kids ever again, I'm blown away by the depth, and how great the animations are, and how many things kids and teens can do, and how they just take life and run with it, rather than stand around doing nothing unless you make them.
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This isn't about toddlers, but toddlers sometimes use their imaginations when playing with adults. We can only see their thoughts when we have them selected.
So frustrating.
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