i have the game and every dlc because i hate myself (best looking sims game but i would like to not have to pay 40 euros for horses or animals or careers or aliens or to go to highschool or to take care of infants or to go to the countryside or to have SEASONS or to live in a flat or---- anyway, to much content split into many dlcs that could have been regrouped into only one dlc (horses, cats and dogs and werewolf...... etc).
This is really tricky to rate, because everything is brought down by the inherent predatory nature of EA's microtransactions and pricing tactics.
The base game itself is hollow, soulless, and corporate. Basic content that was always available in earlier games is now parceled out in sectioned DLC and 'kits' that cost extortionate amounts of money and will only give you a piece of each previously-complete category of content - for instance, Sims 3 gave you Pets (which included cats, dogs, horses, foxes, small animals like hamsters, all of the furniture and items for pets, etc). In comparison, Sims 4 gives you Cats & Dogs, then a separate DLC for Horses, THEN a separate Stuff Pack for My First Pets Stuff for furniture and items. They sell a DLC for their fucking DLC.
If you download a ton of custom content, creating Sims is as fun as ever. The graphics are a step up, and it makes it (unfortunately) difficult to return to older Sims games after getting accustomed to this one, but everything else is a huge step back.
Once you've created your Sim, it's pretty much just empty repetition. You have to make your own fun via legacy challenges, mods, etcetera.
So: my rating is not for what the game can be with your own additions and downloaded custom content, because then it's what you make of it. I am rating it as it is vanilla, which is, frankly, barely anything at all.
Pirate it. Genuinely. At this point, pirating EA games is almost less ethically questionable than funding them and allowing their practices to be worth continuing. If they don't get their shit together, I can absolutely see the Sims franchise being run into the ground, which would be a sincere shame.
The base game itself is hollow, soulless, and corporate. Basic content that was always available in earlier games is now parceled out in sectioned DLC and 'kits' that cost extortionate amounts of money and will only give you a piece of each previously-complete category of content - for instance, Sims 3 gave you Pets (which included cats, dogs, horses, foxes, small animals like hamsters, all of the furniture and items for pets, etc). In comparison, Sims 4 gives you Cats & Dogs, then a separate DLC for Horses, THEN a separate Stuff Pack for My First Pets Stuff for furniture and items. They sell a DLC for their fucking DLC.
If you download a ton of custom content, creating Sims is as fun as ever. The graphics are a step up, and it makes it (unfortunately) difficult to return to older Sims games after getting accustomed to this one, but everything else is a huge step back.
Once you've created your Sim, it's pretty much just empty repetition. You have to make your own fun via legacy challenges, mods, etcetera.
So: my rating is not for what the game can be with your own additions and downloaded custom content, because then it's what you make of it. I am rating it as it is vanilla, which is, frankly, barely anything at all.
Pirate it. Genuinely. At this point, pirating EA games is almost less ethically questionable than funding them and allowing their practices to be worth continuing. If they don't get their shit together, I can absolutely see the Sims franchise being run into the ground, which would be a sincere shame.
When I was a kid and a teenager I had The Sims fever. I loved the franchise and was addicted to the game-play. That kinda made me buy the fourth one (it wasn't cheap by the way and I got a bundle with The City Living and Cats and Dogs).
I was addicted in the first days but then my interest moved to other things... The characters look very cartoony, which is something I don't like and it's not as fun as TS2, for example. I think EA got lazy...
I was addicted in the first days but then my interest moved to other things... The characters look very cartoony, which is something I don't like and it's not as fun as TS2, for example. I think EA got lazy...
I pirated the game and all it's dlcs plus played with mods so personally i have a 5/5 experience whenever i play this.
I still can't rate this any higher than a 4 because the game is overpriced as fuck (especially the expansions) and even if you pirate the game + expansions, it's the mods that make the game good.
2/5 game with a 5/5 community
I still can't rate this any higher than a 4 because the game is overpriced as fuck (especially the expansions) and even if you pirate the game + expansions, it's the mods that make the game good.
2/5 game with a 5/5 community
As always, fuck you EA. Anyways I love how much detail CAS has but the worlds are such a downgrade and the millions of types of packs that never have enough in them to validate the price. In sims 3 the supernatural pack has vampires, werewolfs, and fairies (among others but they're not relevant rn). Now vampires and werewolfs have separate packs and there are still no fairies. Not to mention, I have consistently had issues making this game run on pretty much every pc i've had and i've ran into constant game breaking glitches. I've lost multiple saves to the game randomly just not working anymore.