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Has The Sims 4: City Living Encourage You To The Sims 2: Apartment Life?
DegrassiGen
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This has been the worst pre-release Sim days in the history of The Sims in my personal experience. Even when my story telling gameplay using the memory system was butchered to a huge mess in the December 2015 I still played the game hoping things would change. And forgave EA entirely when they released the best gender breaking patch ever to be released which won my faith in the series back only to be pushed back down when not only am I told I can't build my own apartments, I can't even move them to another world, with the news getting worst with elevators only a part of the apartment shell and not part of the build mode catalog, and roommates are simply people that aren't related to you instead of being NPC's that live with you but are not controllable. My heart broke so fast it's like I took my own heart out to put on the track before an INDY 500 race and encouraged a driver to "Drive here drive here!".
My point is it was the lack of features that should have been in the game due to common sense that help me bring me back to a time where "apartment life mattered". So I'm now living with a brand new Sim named "Doggie Treats" with his dog named "Fruit-Bowl Treats" in a trailer park where I can live how I want with him wanting to run his own pet store. But my thing is shouldn't a new expansion pack keep me in The Sims 4 rather then go back to an earlier game that had full gameplay towards it's theme and no limitations (for it's time anyway)...I don't know but the thoughts of limitations made over nearly a year of development time is truly making me believe The Sims 4 is the end of the franchise and it's heartbreaking. So thoughts...did the bad news make you want to go back to The Sims 2: Apartment Life or will you remain faithful to City Living?
My point is it was the lack of features that should have been in the game due to common sense that help me bring me back to a time where "apartment life mattered". So I'm now living with a brand new Sim named "Doggie Treats" with his dog named "Fruit-Bowl Treats" in a trailer park where I can live how I want with him wanting to run his own pet store. But my thing is shouldn't a new expansion pack keep me in The Sims 4 rather then go back to an earlier game that had full gameplay towards it's theme and no limitations (for it's time anyway)...I don't know but the thoughts of limitations made over nearly a year of development time is truly making me believe The Sims 4 is the end of the franchise and it's heartbreaking. So thoughts...did the bad news make you want to go back to The Sims 2: Apartment Life or will you remain faithful to City Living?
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when i think back now, after TS3 didn't deliver apartments, hotels, restaurants & retail really functioning & after TS4 delivers them just half baked i am missing OFB & AL very much
i would be playing TS2 if there wouldn't be its CAS
TS2 CAS is causing me what TS3's build mode is causing - i am cursing when i have to use it, every time
but since i am usually spending waaaay more time in CAS than in build mode so i don't play TS2 but prefer TS3
currently none of the sims game is really "my game", every of them contains gamebreaking things
at the moment after CLs apartment desaster i am trying to calm myself with TSMedieval, it helps a little
TS4 is so disappointing
it could have been so great & is so disappointing
Repose en paix mamie tu va me manquer :
1923-2016 mamie
Same here! Can't wait to run my own pet store. This is something I never done yet so it's new gameplay for me!
Now, if you ask me if Sims 4 is starting making me go back towards Sims 3, then I would answer yes...
ETA: However, I'm willing to give City Living a chance, since I'm not a builder, and there are other features I am interested in seeing more details about.
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The Sims 4 ins't "better" than The Sims 2, but it has things that The Sims 2 doesn't, the CAS alone always prevents me from deleting the game.
I like this direction, they aren't trying to remake The Sims 2, because The Sims 2 already exists and aged quite well actually, the graphics aren't awful for a 2004 game, they are trying to make The Sims 4 different.
I wouldn't go back to The Sims 3 either, but more because I've played it so much for so long ever since it was released that I don't want to back to play the same old things again.
However, I will still buy the pack because of the features it brings that I adore the sound of, I don't need to list them as they already have been mentioned.
I'm glad that you are able to, but I can't get back into the Sims 2, because I miss all of the features such as semi/open world and CAS from the Sims 4, although it is heavenly to walk around in the Sims 2 rain - so that's what I do when ever I do open the game (Instead of actually playing it)
This was the sims 4 chance to give players something that they really wanted (apartments), yet they have botched it up, by limiting apartments, one of the main features.
Builders don't get the option to build apartments (or even build shells in other worlds), which is super sad. In the sims 2 it was easy to build apartments, you just needed to make rooms, use a certain door, and then change the lot to apartment with a cheat. This could easily be done in the sims 4, while still keeping the shell apartments as well. To minimize lag, you could black out the rooms of the other apartment complexes, so the sims inside don't have to be simulated unless your sims visits them or they come outside to the common area (or to visit your apartment).
For people who enjoy gameplay, apartments are a step up from the sims 3, but there is still a lot of limitation (or unanswered questions) that cause distress and worry people. I like how your sim now has neighbors again, and that they seem to be more active (hopefully) in that they utilize the common area and occasionally visit your sims apartment complex. However, this would have been a great time to add npc roommates that you don't control who help pay the rent. Furthermore, while I understand that you have loading screens between apartment complexes we still haven't got a clear answer on whether you can put multiple families (that you have created) in a single apartment building (but in different apartment complexes) and choose to play a different family each time (like in the sims 2... again).
I know that apartments aren't the only feature of this pack, but if it is suppose to be as big a feature as I think it is, then the sims team should really delay the pack and add some features (like they did with get together). Get together looked pretty bad, but the sims team made some great improvements by delaying it (club hangout spots, at least 3 new interactive objects, [darts, diving board, don't wake llama] and made it into a pack which I really enjoy.
Again I still like the sims 4, but it is sad how they are not appealing to a wider audience especially when making expansion packs. I know that these packs were suppose to enhance the sims 4 game as a whole, but that doesn't mean that the features they include should be less in detail than a game pack especially when they cost $40. I think that two game packs is a much better value than the expansion packs especially because these packs seem to have quality to them. I think when the sims team focuses on a single aspect/theme (or a few themes), then they can really craft something great (like they did with the dine out game pack).
Terrific Family Play
Too fun
The sims 2 forever
Go back, no, because I never stopped playing the Sims 2, or the Sims 3. I will still get City Life, as I haven't seen enough that I don't like to prevent it. I do enjoy the Sims 4, even if it isn't my favorite in the franchise.
I plan to play both when City Living comes out. I have the best of both worlds.
The aging isn't perfect, but if you play rotationally (say a week/uni year or season/uni semester in each house), and age up townie friends when your sims have birthdays, then most sims age together.
That's still too much work to me. I hate rotational gameplay, but thanks for the suggestion.
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I am sorry you do not like City Life because of the way apartments was handled in this version of the sims. We all have different play styles, and different opinions. Just kind of the way it goes sometimes. I hear all the time how much people loved sims 3's open world, when it was something I disliked lol.