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Toddlers make their return - the Sims 4 cure all?
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> gaming4life568 It is for real. On this forum when they ban people they don't delete posts. That destroys the discussion. The avatar is changed to the one with the red background and says user banned carry on when a poster is banned.
Thanks for the heads up on that. I didn't know. Haven't been in forums too much in the last 5 yrs or so lol. So, as you can see....I am a newbie :wink:
ETA: The smilies don't work either??
They do work. You can select from the ones on the dropdown or type in the : and a menu will pop up. If you type in a letter after the colon the selections will change.
ETA: At least I don't think you have to graduate from new member to member for them to work...
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It would however make the game better than it is now.
Edit to add: For some people toddlers will add the one thing they need to make the game perfect. That's fine and I'm happy for them. I just don't think it will make the game perfect for everyone, or even most people.
Personally, I think Maxis and EA have done an outstanding job on TS4. I enjoy the emotions/facial expressions, don't like the loading screens, and seriously miss the toddlers. All in all, it's still a good game and I hope to see a "Generations" EP with toddlers in the near future!
And maybe I'm weird but I always liked how much work you have to put into toddlers.
But still I agree, for a life simulator to remove a life stage is weird. EA tried to change the game from a town-wide family micro management dynamic, to a young adults chilling together and not doing anything much other than chatting with emotions dynamic. And we have Olympus to blame for this.
Also, imagine the new adorable outfits and hairstyles they would have. Yeah, I know.
Overall, I don't really mind what happens to toddlers in the future. I've gotten used to not having them now, as I said, but I still miss that life stage.
> For me toddlers complete the family dynamic for sure. I think they added some reality to simulating family life and a bit of a challenge which can make things interesting. Toddlers beat the heck out of the creepy bassinet babies to me anyway...
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> As for me the game won't be worth anything until AT LEAST an open world is brought back and there's story progression. The world is too restrictive and the constant loading screens take away from immersion. Despite the sims being loaded into a venue when you arrive to one the fact that they just age up and die makes them lifeless devoid of purpose. It's bizarre and also breaks immersion because it makes it clear that nothing is alive in the world except for you. That's the reality of the situation but still story progression at least made it feel you were part of a living and breathing sim world. So for me it's not just toddlers that's an issue...but it would be good to bring them back.
THANK YOU.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A MORE ACCURATE REPLY TO THE SIMS' LACK OF TODDLERS.
and i've read a pretty big amount of forums about is
Far from my only issues others being missing NPCs the Sims lack of awareness of other Sims around them and bassinet babies but these things I can live with if they never got fixed.
If you like to play families to completion yes missing toddlers destroys the gameplay.
On the other hand, if you like to play single Sims then no it doesn't
It's all according to what type of way the Simmer likes to play.
Gallery link - I wish Toddlers, Weather, Pets… in Sims 4
I think the issue here is that toddlers are something visible and material: if they're added in we can SEE them, and people can point to it and go "There! Look, the game is better! Huzzah!". My main issues with Sims 4, however, are all under the hood: no open world, lack of detail in the setting (especially the main menu), concern that adding Seasons is going to be an issue, the awkwardness of skill building, the nagging suspicion that what we actually have is a game where a great deal of time and effort was spent on making it online-multiplayer, only for them to realise that was a terrible idea... but releasing the game anyway without replacing the multiplayer with something more appropriate and just leaving those multiplayer functions lying around like the human appendix (i.e. doing nothing but randomly trying to kill you).
Fixing those problem is an impossibility at this stage in the game: we've been told "It's a closed world, it's never going to be an open world, deal with it." It can't be fixed without a total overhaul. But toddlers? Toddlers are possible. They're EA's chance to go from villain to hero overnight. And I think there's a certain pragmatism in that way of thinking: I am never going to like the basic design of the game, but if you give me enough good content, I'll put up with it. Okay, so the fact that I either have to lug the whole household around with me like reluctant teenagers on a family holiday (when Sims 3 let me leave someone skill building at home while someone else was off on a jaunt), or basically play favourites and dump most of the household in favour of getting my Scientist a promotion, is always going to rankle.
...but hand over elemental Sims, give me back my unicorns, revisit diving and let my Sim become a teacher, and I guarantee that I would complain a lot less. I might not be interested in toddlers, but the only difference between me and the Toddlerites is differing interest. We want content in our game that can let us forget how dissatisfied we are with the mechanics, because those mechanics aren't likely to be fixed.
I do favour toddlers, only because I thoroughly enjoy making a family tree (which I thank the Sims 4 for bringing that feature back in this game.,) and also, I love seeing my Sim family to grow. I do believe the Sims 4 has a strong resemblance of the first Sims, sorely due to the fact of the creators focussing strongly on their careers rather than the family itself.
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hi I'm from Brazil and again in forums come from other countries to read opinions and etc ... and found your topic ...
here in Brazil who plays the more so, are: mothers, aunts, parents and grandmother (yes she plays) but anyway I also.
and they like to look after the family and remember even the children even when small .. and sales of the yes 4 here do not give right !!!
the toldders would make a big difference for us here, it would be up to something ... to make fans of Brazil vibrate of emotion !!!
sorry I do not speak the English fluently and used the google translator obriigada. :)
and even kisses.