I was so happy when I found out the other day that EA was making a Sims 4. I have been playing the Sims ever since the very beginning so I bought it this morning and could hardly wait until I got home to play it. When it finally finished installing I nearly jumped out of my seat because I was so excited. The moment it installed I created my person, I absolutely love the way you can shape your characters, but I was VERY sad that you couldn't customize your hair, eye color, clothes or anything! After I finished making my person I went to pick a house, only to find out that the open world I had come to know and love was no longer there. You only had about a handful of different houses to pick from and there are only about 4 community lots, an art museum, a club, the gym, a park and that's it.....SUPER disappointed! Then the different careers are also a let down, as soon as it is time for your character to go to work they disappear into oblivion until it is time for them to come home, and when they do come home their mood is completely depressed. Interactions between the many Sims of the world have improved, the multi-tasking is great! I really wish I would have bought this game digitally through the Origin store that way I could have returned it before my 24 hour window was up, but looks like I am stuck with this game and until they make MAJOR improvements I will be playing TS3 for the foreseeable future. So save yourself some money if you are debating buying this game because it is not work the money. Thanks EA for completely ruining this game for me.
Sincerely, a disappointed customer.
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Mylita
Sorry for ranting, I am just so disappointed
Now we all know that the open world and story progression would be the single hardest things to put in the game, so they were the first on the chopping block, and the ones that make us all feel the game has regressed as a result,
Other things like Create a Style, toddlers, pools, basements, and sculpting terrain will certainly make an appearnace again, in time, but they never should have been cut to begin with.
As for me, I am keeping my Sims 4. Mainly because as Luturna1313 said, "Unless you were nearly unable to play Sims 3 due to lag..." well, my machine can run Bioshock Infnite on ultra high setting, but for some reason due to courrupt saves and memory leaks, it won't run Sims 3, so I am kind of out of options unless I want to play Sims 2. While it is a good game, I feel it has not aged well so I will stick with 4.
We dont talk about the sims online... EVER... In fact we pretend like it never happened
That's the corporate world for you.
Not that I am saying the amn is a fool, I am merely using him as example of the EA mindset recently and the problems it created.
The trick is to not compare, it's like kids, they are all different, but wonderful in their own way. We all know this one will grow, just as all the others have.
I love that it feels a little like Sims 2, Sims 2 was always my favourite.
For a base game, I think it's beautiful, and I love the simplicity, 3 or 4 expansion packs in, it starts getting so busy. If I wanted everything that was in Sims 3 and it's expansions.... I would just play Sims 3.
I see alot of people on gamesites that i look at hype up for this game now (it comes out tomorrow here).
But the only thing that made it to said news sites is the "no toddlers/pools" thing, So i feel like alot of them aren't knowing what they'll buy (maybe some do but still like the idea of it, i saw 1 person saying she had watched LP's yesterday during the american release and loved the look of it), but i'm sure that doesn't go for everyone in that comment section...
I really felt tempted to make a comment and post that they should research before buying, but then i thought it might be too rude or i'd be viewed as a "hater" because i said something negetive about it, I'm sure those sites will end up giving shining reviews too though,
most of the reviewers there aren't heavy simmers but love RPG's/grinding stuff, and from what i have seen the sims 4 seems to take abit more from that now then actuall simulation so idk... .
I followed this release closely, I wonnit to check if people got what they wished for in this game, many of you seem to be happy (wich is great) but it seems that there's also alot of people upset about this game, It makes me kinda happy i decided early on not to get my hopes up on this game (cause it wouldn't be my cup of tea either sadly)
yer would be a big kick to the balls if you didn't read up on the game
Now you see, I have problem with your post because all you have mentioned are the things 'missing' from the game which many of us knew prior to release. Considering you have bought the game and tried it, how come you haven't mentioned anything about the new gameplay ..... at all? Not a single word!
Sorry, but for me to take your post even a little seriously I would need more detailed information, unless you truly ARE a newcomer to the forum who apparently wasn't interested in learning anything at all about the new game they were intending to purchase and download from Origin.
Iffy..............sorry
TS4 seems incredibly simple, but I am sure the more I play it I will discover more and more about it that I will love. Right now I am wondering how to skill up my Sim in her job. It was so easy in TS2 and TS3...I am sure it is just a matter of learning on my part. Yes, it is out of my comfort zone. But that is why we buy games, no? One of the first things I did was try to go to city view in this game to see what was there (like I am prone to constantly do in TS3). I couldn't find it. Ah well. Is it there? I dunno.
I am in for the long haul. TS2 and TS3 are still installed on my machine...I have story lines going in both of those games that I certainly will not abandon. I will just fire up which ever version of the Sims I feel like playing when I sit down after my busy day is over and it is time to relax.
*ASimWen climbs off her soapbox*
TaTa for now, and have fun everyone. :smiley:
Also it sounds like you were expecting to see sims 3. It's not sims 3... it's sims 4.
Why did you even bother to reply with your snarky comment if you couldn't take my post seriously? You want my post to include things about the actual game play? Fine here it is. Yes the build mode is slightly better, it is easier to re-position rooms and such but the controls are rather frustrating to learn and takes the fun out of building something. The camera options are horrible, with TS3 you could easily maneuver around and switch to a different angle, on TS4 you can't do that as easily. On TS3 all of the controls were nice and compact, now they are spread all over the place and I often find myself pausing in order to do something simple before resuming. Social interactions between Sims is neat with the multi-tasking but I find my sim trying to have conversations with everyone that is around her and it is hard to have a conversation with one person. The other parts of the multi-tasking are great, but that is only a small portion of the game that I actually liked. Going back to the build mode, I find it difficult to decorate my house because simple things, such as a towel rack, always want to end up near the ceiling and look ridiculous. Having windows at different heights seems a little silly, and not something that really contributes to the greatness that should have been TS4. One of the things I loved about TS3 was the open world, you could explore everything, however with TS4 you are strictly limited. Yeah when an EP comes out there will be more places, but why should I have to shell out even more cash for that when it came with the base game for TS3? To my TS4 wasn't very well thought out and I would have gladly waited longer to have a more well thought out game that didn't regress back to the stone age instead of progressing into the future.