This is a positive thread.
There are many things about what we like about TS4. There are many threads about what we don't like or what we felt missed the mark and could have been done differently (in our opinions).
However, name the one thing that doesn't disappoint you in TS4. Fun! right? Don't weigh any thing against your most favorite things or EP or GP etc. but whatever is the first thing that pops into your head. Name only one. Just one.
I will start, because this is the first thing that popped into my head at this moment in time.
The music from the Vampire pack. It hits the mark and I love it right up there with the tunes from Makin' Magic from TS1. I really love the songs/music in that pack. Perfect. Especially when building. Thank you to the producer or whomever it was that ok-ed the music in Vampires' pack.
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@Cinebar I like the music from Vampires too.
I'm ok with no vaulted ceilings without mods or spiral staircases but I would like to believe eventually we'll have them in the game for the builders out there
Another that came to my mind was the holiday and calendar features that came with Seasons. I love being able to schedule events and make holidays, and just generally see the weather that's coming up. It's also nice to be able to see birthdays and my sims' work schedules.
I also like the Hookup interaction, where you can suggest a sim start dating another sim, and then they will start dating.
Anything that adds more drama in my game
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
I even preordered the deluxe version of 4.
ETA: There's so much more I'm not disappointed with but toddlers top the list.
Also, when my save has come together and my current sims run into other sims of mine resulting in new & quirky gameplay, it's great.
CAS and Build/Buy have also spoiled me. ^-^ It's always an adjustment when I go back to 2 and 3.
I personally find it difficult to be disappointed about anything in Sims 4 because I didn't go into it with any certain hopes or expectations in the first place. That doesn't mean I think this game is perfect (far from it), but I don't think I can claim to be disappointed by it if I'm still playing it beyond the first couple years or after I got it.
There are a lot of things I don't like, and a lot of things I do like. Too many to mention on both sides. But one thing that never fails to charm me is the animations used for hand gestures during conversations. I don't know why, precisely. Maybe I'm just very familiar and comfortable with people who gesticulate in similar ways while they talk.
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Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
Love that the option is in the game and that they gave some options with building them.
(I'm been redoing my gallery stuff so bear with me. FYI: I never use CC on my gallery builds. I rarely use MOO.) I am usually more pleased with my room builds than my lot builds.
“I have never met such weird yet serious and earnest people.” ― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
My Families Via PlumTree App
With the semi-open neighborhood I can enjoy collecting, following my sims when they walk the dog etc., but not at the price of messing up my town.
Tales From The Myst
The Blue Moon Jukebox
Favorites: San Myshuno, Willow Creek & Windenburg.
Most beautiful: Sulani
It really sets the stage for the households I'm rotating through. A senior retiring to Oasis, Goths moving to Forgotten Hollow or a single sim living their best life in San Myshuno. Going full Autonomy is also a breeze when the background is so pretty. Maybe renovating another mega super mansion for that Del Sol Valley view or design the ideal neighborhood layout in Willow Creek to match the aesthetic & lush greenery.
And remember this above all. Our Roman gods are watching. Make sure they are not ashamed!
My NBA site, Pace and Space
May sound silly, but I was in awe how good those looked. Anyone who has played TS2 knows how bad lot imposters look in that game, and after almost everything can now be downloaded as default replacements, terrain, roads, trees, sky, water, but still nobody has managed really to mod those . ( I did not play TS3, so, cannot say how those look in that)
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Sims 4 Toddlers are a delight.
I'll expand this and say "Family Play".
Let me explain why: I was slow to take up child-raising in TS3 for various reasons, but one large factor was that for the couples I played, the only available course was adoption. I could mod my game to include same-sex pregnancy options, and eventually I did so, but for a long time I was wary of 3rd party content. Adopting never satisfied me - I abandoned those saves and reverted to earlier ones. Once I had bio offspring, however, I enjoyed it.
I waited a good while before migrating to TS4, and by the time I got here, Toddlers had been added, as had the custom gender settings. I had re-created my original and longest-played TS3 couple, minus their Supernatural life-states (as yet unsupported in TS4) and their personalities translated remarkably well. But without the occult elements, I needed another focus for them.
And, just as they each were wrapping up their initial Aspirations and newly married, the game handed me one when both popped up a Whim to Try for Baby together. Okay, then! I purchased Parenthood (my second Game Pack, after Spa Day) and away I went. That couple became the highly successful founders of my legacy save. The family life I didn't give them as perpetual Young Adults in TS3 turned out to be the extremely rewarding core of my play in TS4.
I also really like the search option in Build/Buy! It’s so useful.
Visiting different worlds is fun, too. It’s nice being able to go to the beach in Sulani in summer if you don’t live there. And you can grow up in one world and move to a different one.