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I'm starting to notice the details
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I am playing a lot. I'm loving it a lot. I am starting to slow down on they way I control the sims b/c they are doing so many cute things on their own. Like blowing kisses at each other. Talking together while one is fixing dinner, the other is sitting at the counter chatting with him. If I send one to go grab something out of the refrigerator to eat, one of the others who is hungry will also go and get something, then the two will eat together without my help.
I've been noticing a lot of things like this, now I wish I wrote them down b/c I can't remember them all so we can talk about them. What little details are you noticing that you either hadn't seen in a sims game before, or for a long time? (as in not since t2). The more I play this new game, the more I appreciate all the complaining I and many others did about t3 and how it fell short to our expectations, b/c I'm seeing many of the things fixed that we were unhappy with in 3.
Thank you maxis! You really are doing a really great job.
Just needed to say that....and toddlers? Like in t2?
I've been noticing a lot of things like this, now I wish I wrote them down b/c I can't remember them all so we can talk about them. What little details are you noticing that you either hadn't seen in a sims game before, or for a long time? (as in not since t2). The more I play this new game, the more I appreciate all the complaining I and many others did about t3 and how it fell short to our expectations, b/c I'm seeing many of the things fixed that we were unhappy with in 3.
Thank you maxis! You really are doing a really great job.
Just needed to say that....and toddlers? Like in t2?
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But yeah, I've actually been pleased with Maxis' efforts, and not quite as pleased with EA's forcing their hand on release dates and such. If Maxis had the kind of budget EA had to dedicate to the game on their own and could split off of EA... I can only imagine the kind of gaming experience we would have.
HEY! DarkSlayer! I didn't recognize you with your new avi! Hi! Oh! Can you imagine if EA wasn't pressing them so badly!? What a game we'd have. To each his own about toddlers, lol. You know, I never really cared about them one way or the other once the initial "newness" wore off back in t2. In t3 I rushed through them b/c they were not at all fun. But now that we don't have them at all? Well suddenly I'm all about toddlers, lol. Go figure.
Another couple has a huge family and the kids and teens love to chat with each other and goof around with each other. The mother and father are adorable with the way they interact with eachother and the family. I really do feel they did do a good job with this game. It's the most entertaining Sims game I've played so far.
Some things I don't love, like how Bro Sims will create drinks at bars every chance they get and then leave them, or how visitors will use the observatory until it breaks. But the best moments outweigh the bad.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I saw that the first time I ever played, but haven't seen it since...but then I don't make them eat salad too often either, maybe that's why.
You might have the wrong Darkslayer. Only because I've had this avatar up since I started posting on the forums here, and there is a "Darkslayer" on these forums too. But I was on the forums for TS3, although I never really was on anywhere near as much as I am on these ones.
Anyhow, yes, I've noticed that even in games we take certain things for granted and don't pay much attention to them, until a new installment comes that doesn't have that in it. I think a lot of people who were against the seamless world game play in TS3 wound up suddenly finding themselves practically horrified that it wasn't implemented in TS4! Funny how things go from being a "negative" to a "positive" when it's no longer there. xD
I can say that's how I am too. I didn't realize how important the sim behavior was to me until this new game covered all the basis for me. For me, the way they made this game's neighborhood is more open than t2, less than 3. So I'm finding it a good compromise. My loading screens are lightning fast, so they really aren't too intrusive over all. I guess it's something you get used to the more you play it. Plus focusing on the good positive stuff opposed to the negative. That probably has something to do with things too.
People who think Sims 4 doesn't have an open world -- it does, in its own way. The lots are huge. When you visit the art museum, there is also a garden and a waterside picnic area and walking paths. It isn't just the museum. And there are lots of Sims everywhere to interact with. There are so many wonderful details in the game based around socialization. It is fun that other Sims will walk up and join your Sims' conversation (though it would be nice to be able to dismiss them sometimes). I do miss non-verbal socialization options from Sims 2 that could raise fun, like scissors-paper-rock etc. But what is in the game outweighs what's missing.
I found the humour options and the goof around and such for children in S4 raise their fun.
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I agree! Base games usually are just that basic and bland without much to do. I have been playing everyday for 3 weeks and haven't done a quarter of what can be done in this game. Really enjoying it and can't wait to see where they go with the EP's!!
I had to do a double take and was all "did they just. ...really??" and had to laugh. I really like when my Sims flirt like when you do "be enticing" and the other sim blushes and fans their self.
Yes to the TS2 toddlers! Maybe even better this time.
I've noticed this too. I've completely changed the way I play. This is the first sims game that I have a tendency to play on speed 1. It's also the first one I stay zoomed in on them with. I always played zoomed out so I could manage the entire lot/household. Now I zoom in, watch them, and keep things at an even pace.
one of my teen sims was having a bath when her little brother decided to go sit on the loo with his dinner and have a chat, hilarious. She didn't jump out the bath and tell him to go away, she waited until her bath was finished and went and hid under her blankets in shame. lol He wasn't bothered.
I can go wash up or even take a shower knowing my sims aren't going to starve to death, they may pee on the floor, but they wont starve.lol
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starting to realize these sims are like siri, the more you train them to do something the more they do it on their own without being told. kinda creepy when you think about it but im curious to see what happens when you max a sims 4 brain. i observe them more than i control them.
finding many new interactions based on how far with what ever emotion your sim is expriencing. the romance option to "ask about love life" & "gush about partner" when a townie was trying to make my sim cheat on ONE of his girlfriends, [while she lay in the same room asleep] was surprising.