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The Base Game Needs More
coldplay2233
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This is coming from a player who still only owns the base game*
I appreciate many of the added features since release such as ghosts, pools, the tragic clown, and the numerous other quality of life changes to the base game. But I'm still finding the base game incredibly lacking in a lot of areas. In particular, family play is not as fleshed out as I'd like it to be and I believe the life stages need some more attention from the developers.
I also think gardening and woodcrafting are among some of the features that seem very under utilized. My sim has a level 8 handyman skill, but can only craft 4 furniture pieces on the woodwork table? I was hoping he would furnish more of his lot than that.
The expansions & game packs look okay, in particular outdoor retreat and some of Get to Work. But not only do I think they don't justify the cost ($40 to buy outdoor retreat in my country, Australia), I also don't feel good about spending that kind of money just to give my sims a single new activity to do. My gut feeling tells me I should be getting more out of my base game FIRST, before I drop money to have additional experiences. NOT to complete an unfinished game.
I get it, the Sims to a lot of people is more than a game. It's a phenomenon. A lot of people will buy, because it's the sims, and the performance is great, it can be run on most machines. But I don't think that gives it a pass to have such inflated prices for additional, should-be-optional content. I could buy an entire new game for that price. Please tell me, does the content in these game packs match up to the amount of content in an entirely new game?
Sorry for the long post, and thank you for reading.
I appreciate many of the added features since release such as ghosts, pools, the tragic clown, and the numerous other quality of life changes to the base game. But I'm still finding the base game incredibly lacking in a lot of areas. In particular, family play is not as fleshed out as I'd like it to be and I believe the life stages need some more attention from the developers.
I also think gardening and woodcrafting are among some of the features that seem very under utilized. My sim has a level 8 handyman skill, but can only craft 4 furniture pieces on the woodwork table? I was hoping he would furnish more of his lot than that.
The expansions & game packs look okay, in particular outdoor retreat and some of Get to Work. But not only do I think they don't justify the cost ($40 to buy outdoor retreat in my country, Australia), I also don't feel good about spending that kind of money just to give my sims a single new activity to do. My gut feeling tells me I should be getting more out of my base game FIRST, before I drop money to have additional experiences. NOT to complete an unfinished game.
I get it, the Sims to a lot of people is more than a game. It's a phenomenon. A lot of people will buy, because it's the sims, and the performance is great, it can be run on most machines. But I don't think that gives it a pass to have such inflated prices for additional, should-be-optional content. I could buy an entire new game for that price. Please tell me, does the content in these game packs match up to the amount of content in an entirely new game?
Sorry for the long post, and thank you for reading.
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I honestly wanted to like this one. When I played a while and realized it wasn't as much fun to me, I switched to building. I entertained myself with that for a while, and then in the hopes I could really enjoy it, I went back in and starting playing a rotational game. That lasted a week or so, and now I'm doing nothing but reading the forums.
Playing Sims games has been my major hobby for the past fifteen years, and I never regretted purchasing anything Sims-related until TS4. Of what I've bought for this series, Get Together has been the one I've gotten the most use out of and the one I would say expanded my gameplay the most.
ETA: I wanted to add, the very reason I've stopped buying new content for TS4 is because of the features I feel are missing. It's like you said, it feels like an unfinished game and throwing more money into it probably won't finish it for me and just doesn't make sense.
That really is the core of the game, to me. The system just does not feel important at all, and it's boring/grindy. I really wish for a pack that overhauls that entire area of the game to be more fun, interesting, and important in our Sims' lives.
I feel like the base game still is lacking in a few areas, but I feel like activity wise, it's has the most of any base game.
In some areas it deliverers more than I would expect, and some it doesn't nearly at all.
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