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The Sims 4 seems much more impressive now!
florathorns
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Is it just me or is TS4 so much more appealing now more than before? I mean, the game itself seems fleshed out within the last 2 months. I feel like its finally a complete game. SO much stuff has been added, from being gender inclusive to the toddler update to pools and ghosts, eta. I've been along for the ride since the game's launch, and it's appeal wasn't very strong for me until like a month ago. Along with the City and Vampire packs, I've been spending hours upon hours in the game and am STILL not bored! Not too long ago I was pretty irritated with the devs and all the money I had to spend to make the game somewhat enjoyable, but now... I feel like everything has turned 180 degrees. Is anyone else feeling like this oml 
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I love toddlers but toddlers can't redeem the game. And in a lot of ways the excellent A.I and gameplay of toddlers shows how weak other life stages are. Teens I'm looking at you.
City living I was hugely hyped for and I defended it on this forum prior to release but it just feels empty, it's all style and no substance in my opinion. Once you have done everything once, there's no real need to do it again. I miss a real city background, not fake FX backgrounds and so many other things.
That being said, I'm glad the game has turned around for you and got you playing again. I wish I felt the same. Ironically the pack I was most excited about is the pack that made me want to hit the uninstall button in origin.
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week 102. still no open-world, pets or seasons expansion pack.
I think just the fact that they sprung toddlers on us out of the blue for free went a very long way to mending fences for me
I am genuinely once again excited and curious to where Sims 4 will take me next
*puts back on his fanboy Tshirt*
Don't get me wrong. TS4 has by far the best Toddler life stage out of the three games that have them, CAS is just amazing as far as the levels of realism or caricaturization we can apply to our sims' appearances (when you can make male sims that look like Zangief and Comicbook Guy and female sims that look like Jessica Rabbit and Dexter's Mom, you know you've arrived), Not having to demolish walls to change room sizes and having the ability to pick up and move rooms in Build Mode is cool, the hidden areas are fun, and the fact that Child sims can be left home alone without worrying about that meddling busy-body social worker barging in to moralize at you and abduct them is one of my favorite things about this game. However, the emotion system is still unbalanced (mostly due to Uncomfortable being used for everything from sore muscles to fear and way too many furniture items with built-in Happy environmental moodlets), Generic lots are still broken, sim AI needs some fine tuning in certain areas (such as visitors ditching your sim to play on their computer, sims not waiting for food when someone is cooking a group meal, going to bed when energy is 50%, auto-multitasking with listening to the radio all the time...), and a desperate need for more base game traits (They added Kleptomaniac and Jealous for free in patches, but what about some more like Brave or Slow Learner or Stoic or Loyal?). Not to mention that when they added relationship decay to inactive households, they basically forced my hand in terms of installing a script mod (Culling homeless sims? Sure. Culling relationships with low ratings? I could live with that. Draining the relationship levels of my inactive households? Homie don't play dat.).
So, as many things about this game impress me, there are just as many that I look at and say, "Come on, guys. You can do better than that."
Even though a lot has been added..... There's not much replayability.. as mentioned, the festivals (even if my sim is a gamer I don't bother with geekcon, foodies don't both with spice festival, not after the first visit at least) vampires are okay, but how many times are people going to want to work to get Grand Master (I got bored half way through master, killed her by sunlight because it was taking waaaay to long) maybe even toddlers, although I find them super fun.
Idk, I have a lot of animosity towards this game but I still play it regularly.
Pools and ghosts should have came with the game honestly.
And things are constantly overlooked. Children getting invited to bars? Invites in general being wacky. No step or in-law relations in the panel (not just the family tree) lack of careers, traits and aspirations in packs they really should have been (movie lover for movie stuff, wellness aspiration or trait for spa day, and more). There's more, but I'm at work and my thoughts keep getting cut short!!
I do sometimes feel like you, op, but that feeling doesn't last very long... I did feel super excited when I first played through city living, but once is enough. And same with vampires, it came with awesome stuff, and leveling up and gaining powers were fun... But it took so long! Like I said I gave up
But hey! If you're having fun, good for you
Truth be told, every iteration goes through this.
As more content is added the game becomes more appealing to a larger number of people.
Only makes sense right?
They didn't do themselve's any favors by leaving out things that were included in other base games...that's where they really dropped the ball here. They would have been much better off delaying launch like they did with TS3 than to roll the game out without Pools and Toddlers
I'm predicting by the end of the year everything in TS4 land will be right as rain.
No, it's not just you.
I'm glad that you're enjoying it now, though.
I love toddlers and what they have done with the vampires. I am sticking it out for now hoping they clean up some of the bugs and make the game a bit more enjoyable. Bugs can really suck the enjoyment out of a game.
The fact that it has that stuff now and didn't still makes it better? It not being as good in the first place doesn't mean it can't get better. And saying it's better doesn't mean that that stuff shouldn't have been in in the first place (toddlers for sure should have been! nonetheless, the game is better now that it has them)
Exactly. Doesn't matter now when we got that stuff. All that matters now is that we have it. Like SimGuruDrake said, there is an expiration on some complaints.
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