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Worth it?
vswinehart
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I've read a lot of reviews, both good and bad, about The Sims 4. I have all of The Sims 3 expansion packs and stuff packs and I love them! I was wondering if you guys think it's worth the buy or not?
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Buy standard or limited edition on at least -25% discount. You can always upgrade it on deluxe if you like what you see.
The game is well worth it and it's initial price was IMO overblown to epic proportions for no real reason.
Do not, and I mean this, do not buy GP or deluxe before you play the main game for a while. There is a chance you simply won't like the game and $30 ($10 deluxe upgrade, $20 GP) is not an ignorable sum to risk, I mean you can buy complete Mass Effect series for that cash!
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Wait, but Sims 4 is already -33% on Origin! I suggest buying it directly on Origin, unless your store offers a better bargain.
I loved The Sims 3 and had all the expacs too. I don't find the actual sim game play in the Sims 4 fun; it bores me to tears. The sims do not appear to be as intelligent as the ones in 3. For example, at the gym my sim went to the toilet and 4 - yes 4! - other sims came into the bathroom as he was doing his business and they all started having a conversation. And what did my sim do? Nothing!
In The Sims 3 he would have shouted at them to get out.
I made a sim with the traits glutton, slob and lazy, and added her to the town as an npc. Low and behold who is running on a treadmill at the gym when I go there? Her! Why would a sim who is a lazy, glutton, slob go to the gym unless directed by the player? The AI in The Sims 4 is incredibly poor and the traits do not seem to affect the sims' behaviour much at all.
On the plus side, the CAS is brilliant and the build mode is incredibly fun. At the moment all I do is make sims and build houses. I'm hoping they fix the game to a point where it becomes, for me, fun to play.
My advice: buy with caution and informed knowledge of what you are letting yourself in for. You may hate the game or be bitterly disappointed.
It doesn't really matter how many opinions you read, you can only decide properly by trying it yourself. So that's what I did.
I didn't get it through Origin, so I couldn't do the 24 hr return thing. But I don't mind all that much, it's ok and I do play it for short times now and again. It would be much improved with the addition of toddlers so we would no longer have babies leaping out of cribs and turning into children, and there are plenty of other things that could do with changing/improving. But it's not the worst game I've ever played
I won't be buying any more sims 4 add-ons/EPs/GPs etc until it improves to my liking, so - like Joxer said - it might be wise for you to try out the base game before splashing out any further.
If you don't mind taking a chance, you could get it cheaper elsewhere - depending on which country you are in. Eg. cdkeys has it for £28, or £30 for the Limited Edition (that's the one I bought).
Actually I had once the "Embarassed"-Emotion appear for 2 Sims because (at a house party) the one went to the toilet when the other already was in.
But that was only once ... I had also cases where the Sim immediately left and caes where the Sim didn´t care for the other (not family) Sim in the toilet.
What I dislike more is the fact that your Sims don´t seem to care all too much for the deaths of friends.
It can very well happen that at one day you look at your relationship list and have to discover that half of your friends turned to ghosts ... their deaths went by totally unnoticed by the Sim or myself ... no emotional reaction.
Similarly a Sim can stand next to her dying parent and be totally unmoved ... even after she has pleaded for the parents life and Death has declined the wish.
TS 4 may have the potential to become a good part of the Sims-Series ... at the moment however it still seems to me like there is a lot of workj in progress. But as others said ... it would be best to just try it out ... aside from the WIP-parts, it also has its good sides ... for example the Multitasking
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> I loved The Sims 3 and had all the expacs too. I don't find the actual sim game play in the Sims 4 fun; it bores me to tears. The sims do not appear to be as intelligent as the ones in 3. For example, at the gym my sim went to the toilet and 4 - yes 4! - other sims came into the bathroom as he was doing his business and stated having a conversation. And what did my sim do? Nothing!
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> Actually I had once the "Embarassed"-Emotion appear for 2 Sims because (at a house party) the one went to the toilet when the other already was in.
> But that was only once ... I had also cases where the Sim immediately left and caes where the Sim didn´t care for the other (not family) Sim in the toilet.
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> What I dislike more is the fact that your Sims don´t seem to care all too much for the deaths of friends.
> It can very well happen that at one day you look at your relationship list and have to discover that half of your friends turned to ghosts ... their deaths went by totally unnoticed by the Sim or myself ... no emotional reaction.
> Similarly a Sim can stand next to her dying parent and be totally unmoved ... even after she has pleaded for the parents life and Death has declined the wish.
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> TS 4 may have the potential to become a good part of the Sims-Series ... at the moment however it still seems to me like there is a lot of workj in progress. But as others said ... it would be best to just try it out ... aside from the WIP-parts, it also has its good sides ... for example the Multitasking
That alone makes me so upset. I want my sims to feel a certain way when tragic things are happening, not not caring at all D:
Happy simming!
I never forget that *other people* found it boring, because five years later they're still mad
OP, I deeply regret buying the sims 4 personally. I just feel like for the 4th in the series and for the prices they charged, it wasn't worth it. I thought it would be a major step forward like 2 and 3 were but it was more like The Sims 1.5 - I played it for more than 100 hours, and the entire time I was thinking, this can't be *it,* can it
But that's my opinion 100%. Check out reviews, forum threads, videos. Some people don't miss what's... um... missing. Other people love the graphics and the style much more than previous versions. I would say that the reception hasn't been good, especially compared to previous games - just try to get the best idea possible of what you're getting and not getting so you don't end up totally blindsided like those of us who preordered.
I'm sorry but... Count me out of that group. It actually wasn't boring for me.
Then again I came from Gothic and TES games where you learn how to explore openworlds and have fun just from exploration. I didn't buy Sims 3 and expect Open For Business - I bought it to experience more exploration.
Sadly, Sims 4 is... Not explorable in such way.
It was super boring considering I played the base game for 2 1/2 years before I got an EP...
> It seems people forget how dreadfully boring the sims 3 base game was.
I agree, it was boring but it also gave me a good feel about how the rest of the game was going to play out (with expansions and basic functions)
The thing is with Sims 3, CASt is just huge for me. Not having a million loading screens is also pretty major as I often feel stuck on my home lot once those loading screens start getting longer in Sims 4.
I loved going to the park in Sims 3. I never had the issue of the park being empty. What neighborhood I lived in make a huge difference as well -- since travel was a factor, where I lived, what parks I visited, what clubs I went to, all of these were important decisions. I actually didn't like the insta-travel devices that were in the game. I liked the travel. I liked being able to cut down that travel time with nicer and nicer cars as my sims got richer.
It's the little details that I really liked in Sims 3 and that I miss in Sims 4.