The Star Wars pack wouldn't be so out of place if they added actual alien types to the game. Otherwise, I'd might kind of like it...
Agree!! More alien types and a force-sensitive occult state with customisable trees for both Jedi and Sith. Just so many missed opportunities.
Give our Vampires back their fangs!!! Reverse the Nerf!!! Occult simmers should not be shoved aside for the "realism players"! It's time Occult lovers/players started to demand equal treatment. #JusticeForOccults
I don't view the Sims 4 as a sandbox and/or simulation game.
Interesting. What do you view it as?
Dollhouse genre and RPG.
This interview is interesting they didn't consult experts when developing. They didn't initially want to bring all aspects of life, but the reality tv version or Barbie Doll effect. You set a stage, set their outfits, yet you can't change the set fully like sandbox, or simulate life like a simulation game does. They went for less simulation and saying a reduction of life and more about optimistic drama. So yeah think it is hard for the Sims 4 to stray from its roots and it was initially going to be a MMORPG game thus why babies were designed as objects and toddlers were not in right away because the focus was going to be mainly for YA and Adult ages only. They used Youtube to design the game. They talk about the time during Will Wright being sandbox simulation.
Houses on the gallery that have smoking chimneys should also have a fireplace somewhere inside. I consider this an unpopular opinion because fireplace-less chimneys that magically smoke seem very popular.
Houses on the gallery that have smoking chimneys should also have a fireplace somewhere inside. I consider this an unpopular opinion because fireplace-less chimneys that magically smoke seem very popular.
While I do agree that fireplaces are awesome and houses with chimneys should have them more, but irl, our chimney is our exhaust for our furnace. (our house is relatively old for being in the US suburbs.) We have a fake fireplace, but not a real one.
Of course, Sims don't have utility rooms, so there's no reason to have a chimney if you don't have a fireplace.
I hate child life stage. I don't know what to do with them. Does anybody have any fun recommendations?
What packs do you have and how long is that age span for you? I always feel like it goes by pretty quickly and think of other things to do with my kid sims, but it's already time for them to age up.
After seeing several comments recently on this topic I get the impression a lot of simmers on this forum are computer snobs. Not all of us can afford fancy gaming computers or laptops and have to make do with what we have.
Another unpopular opinion is I hate so many bug threads and most are mod or cc related maybe don’t play with so many cc and mods and your game won’t break.
After seeing several comments recently on this topic I get the impression a lot of simmers on this forum are computer snobs. Not all of us can afford fancy gaming computers or laptops and have to make do with what we have.
Another unpopular opinion is I hate so many bug threads and most are mod or cc related maybe don’t play with so many cc and mods and your game won’t break.
I mean it is cheaper to build a computer. Being a laptop owner myself in the past I saved more money on not buying coolers and adapters and batteries playing the Sims than what I would have spent on a decent desktop computer which I have now. Sims does have cheaper gaming options with console or the two mobile versions. I actually found the opposite that majority of forums aren't computer snobs or tech savvy but cell phone snobs instead unlike everywhere else in the Sims community. Most people I come across don't know the basics of games of following basic two sentences computer recommendations. They tend to ignore it as much as IKEA instructions I have noticed. Modthesims is where the computer snobs of CC artists and modders like to hang out. EA help is great place too for finding them. Forums I do find are DLC snobs of wanting every pack regardless if they can afford to play it or not. Like buying Xbox games for a PlayStation, capacity will never work. You would think people would learn not to crash their systems with the Sims 3 but nope. Sims 4 history repeating itself but harder to uninstall packs with the Sims 4. It is just sad to see again.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
I hate child life stage. I don't know what to do with them. Does anybody have any fun recommendations?
honestly i usually just set a challenge for myself to max as many skills as I can as children haha I think there's 11 they can max if you have all the packs
ETA the Unpopular Opinion part: I think Oliana Ngata and Leila Illes have a bad relationship and I always feel like splitting them up. I'll explain why.
I was playing a new save in Sulani and my sims made friends with Oliana Ngata and Leila Illes but something has always bugged me about their relationship and I finally figured out what it was that bugged me, the jealousy trait on Oliana makes her seem abusive to me. One minute they're lovey-dovey and the next Oliana is being aggressive or scolding and Leila is cringing back. Red flag. It happens a lot with them too and I have never liked that.
Since it's my game my rules I went into MCCC and edited Oliana's jealousy trait out of her and gave her family-oriented instead. It seems to be better now and maybe I won't feel like breaking them up for being an abusive relationship.
@Catzilla that's so strange since Akira from CL also has the jealous trait and he is as sweey as can be to his partners, great partner, just always wants to share his insecurities lol. I'll have to watch Oliana more carefully and see what happens
The Sims has currently lost its identity. Bring it back for TS5
I agree. It is sooooo easy to play it is ridiculous. And my Sims pretty much always die of old age. I remember back in the days of the first gen when the game was so hard. And you feared fixing anything or interacting with anything unknown in the game for fear of death or some other mysterious insanity happening. Not that I want it to be quite as difficult as it was then. But it feels like there are no surprises, and there is no challenge to it anymore at all.
Features I'd like brought back from the dead.
| Picture in Picture mode | Custom Paintings | Preset scenarios for resident sims | Placing my own lots |
| Saving my own Buy Mode collections! | Saving an outfit in CAS | CaSt. Smaller is ok | Open World |
@Catzilla that's so strange since Akira from CL also has the jealous trait and he is as sweey as can be to his partners, great partner, just always wants to share his insecurities lol. I'll have to watch Oliana more carefully and see what happens
@Catzilla in my game Akira kind of flips out whenever his wife TALKS to anyone else. And when she goes to the bathroom, he gets a tense moodlet because he doesn't know where she is and who she's with.
@Catzilla in my game Akira kind of flips out whenever his wife TALKS to anyone else. And when she goes to the bathroom, he gets a tense moodlet because he doesn't know where she is and who she's with.
Yuck. I kind of remember that about him which is why my sims don't date or make friends with him anymore.
A bunch of players freaked over alien abduction but they aren't bothered by abusive jealous relationships, go figure.
I don’t want to have any royal themed expansion inspired by Disney princesses or something like that. In my opinion it is so stereotypical and flat. If EA wants to introduce royality into TS4 I want to see something inspired by the reality. I much more prefere to play a royals with a tones of skills and responsibilities. I want to have this profession challenging and difficult to play if we ever get a royals in the game.
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Agree!! More alien types and a force-sensitive occult state with customisable trees for both Jedi and Sith. Just so many missed opportunities.
This interview is interesting they didn't consult experts when developing. They didn't initially want to bring all aspects of life, but the reality tv version or Barbie Doll effect. You set a stage, set their outfits, yet you can't change the set fully like sandbox, or simulate life like a simulation game does. They went for less simulation and saying a reduction of life and more about optimistic drama. So yeah think it is hard for the Sims 4 to stray from its roots and it was initially going to be a MMORPG game thus why babies were designed as objects and toddlers were not in right away because the focus was going to be mainly for YA and Adult ages only. They used Youtube to design the game. They talk about the time during Will Wright being sandbox simulation.
Sims 4 original idea:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_Olympus
Tales From The Myst
The Blue Moon Jukebox
While I do agree that fireplaces are awesome and houses with chimneys should have them more, but irl, our chimney is our exhaust for our furnace. (our house is relatively old for being in the US suburbs.) We have a fake fireplace, but not a real one.
Of course, Sims don't have utility rooms, so there's no reason to have a chimney if you don't have a fireplace.
Sometimes it feels like its too long though lmao.
Another unpopular opinion is I hate so many bug threads and most are mod or cc related maybe don’t play with so many cc and mods and your game won’t break.
honestly i usually just set a challenge for myself to max as many skills as I can as children haha I think there's 11 they can max if you have all the packs
I was playing a new save in Sulani and my sims made friends with Oliana Ngata and Leila Illes but something has always bugged me about their relationship and I finally figured out what it was that bugged me, the jealousy trait on Oliana makes her seem abusive to me. One minute they're lovey-dovey and the next Oliana is being aggressive or scolding and Leila is cringing back. Red flag. It happens a lot with them too and I have never liked that.
Since it's my game my rules I went into MCCC and edited Oliana's jealousy trait out of her and gave her family-oriented instead. It seems to be better now and maybe I won't feel like breaking them up for being an abusive relationship.
Same here.
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I agree. It is sooooo easy to play it is ridiculous. And my Sims pretty much always die of old age. I remember back in the days of the first gen when the game was so hard. And you feared fixing anything or interacting with anything unknown in the game for fear of death or some other mysterious insanity happening. Not that I want it to be quite as difficult as it was then. But it feels like there are no surprises, and there is no challenge to it anymore at all.
| Picture in Picture mode | Custom Paintings | Preset scenarios for resident sims | Placing my own lots |
| Saving my own Buy Mode collections! | Saving an outfit in CAS | CaSt. Smaller is ok | Open World |
@Catzilla in my game Akira kind of flips out whenever his wife TALKS to anyone else. And when she goes to the bathroom, he gets a tense moodlet because he doesn't know where she is and who she's with.
Yuck. I kind of remember that about him which is why my sims don't date or make friends with him anymore.
A bunch of players freaked over alien abduction but they aren't bothered by abusive jealous relationships, go figure.