this is my most played game of all time but I have a long complicated history with it.. I grew up on this game because I was just a bit too late for the sims 3, and this game on launch was... a disappointment to me over the years it's gotten WAY better but I still have my issues with it, for example, the DLC is even more of a plague in comparison to the sims 3 which is a bit better because it's now free to play I guess but I still don't think that most of the DLC is worth it, splitting up the usual dlcs that you'd expect in the sims into many more DLCs makes it feel so greedy. most of the DLC isn't even worth it imo I mostly felt like I wasted my money outside of get together, city living and seasons.. I mainly have 1500+ hours in this game because of the insane amount of mod support this game has. the mods carry this game so much it's insane! there are so many amazing mods that it dwarfs the mods in the prior sims games imo.
TLDR: I'm divided on this game if you wanna play it sure but maybe get mods instead of the DLC if you want more out of it.
TLDR: I'm divided on this game if you wanna play it sure but maybe get mods instead of the DLC if you want more out of it.
Good game, graphics and most importantly UI is really clean and intuitive. Gameplay is also beginner friendly and easy to use and thats basicly half the game. Also good amount of content in the base game but they released so so many expansions that in comparison the base game is barebones. Hope they bundle this and the DLC one day together for a ok priced bundle but we speak about EA so that will never happen.
i perhaps have more hours in this game than anything else but they still haven't made a good sims game huh. enjoyable to fuck around in for SURE but if you try and actually sink your teeth into it, you will quickly learn it's incredibly shallow. occasionally i return for like a week of playing it non-stop and then the spell fades and i abandon it for another year or so
fuck you, EA, for almost ruining the sims series with ts4 being a complete cashgrab of a game where you need to pay for every little thing
if you're a player of this game, but ONLY this game in the sims series and not the other sims games, please play the sims 2, it is MUCH better than this, the sims 3 is pretty great too
if you're a player of this game, but ONLY this game in the sims series and not the other sims games, please play the sims 2, it is MUCH better than this, the sims 3 is pretty great too
The core of the sims is in there somewhere with the fun art style and improved build tools, but it's buried under the stingiest DLC hackjobbing ever seen and oversimplified lackluster gameplay compared to what came before it.
If you want a better version of this, play TS2. Even an up-to-date pirate of this game isn't as good as the others, so don't bother unless you really feel curious.
If you want a better version of this, play TS2. Even an up-to-date pirate of this game isn't as good as the others, so don't bother unless you really feel curious.
The one good thing I can say about The Sims 4 is that it's stable.
You might not feel like it's a significant thing, but with how The Sims 2 can easily corrupt the entire GAME itself if you just delete a single gravestone, or how The Sims 3 is running on a program held inside a black box made of corrugated, rusty metal, this is a very BIG thing.
That being said, it's not infallible, and there are still some annoying bugs here and there in this game that makes the experience annoying.
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The game itself harkens back to the old times of The Sims and The Sims 2, where everything was confined to a lot in a neighborhood instead of the whole neighborhood being absolutely live. The graphics have settled for the standard Pixar-esque art-style the series have come to adopt since The Sims 2. And the gameplay? There's quite a few things to do here and there, and a considerable amount of furniture variety... if you're willing to shell out real money to buy small DLC packs for the price of around a quarter to two-thirds of the game's retail price itself. If you think this is ridiculous, it's because it is.
I will not suggest you buy this game thanks to that, especially since the stuff packs don't mesh too well in the first place. Added that Japan Expansion Pack? Well, say hello to about half of their population filling up your neighborhood, and vice-versa finding desert Strangetown dwellers making their way to Komorebi as if this was their backyard.
You might not feel like it's a significant thing, but with how The Sims 2 can easily corrupt the entire GAME itself if you just delete a single gravestone, or how The Sims 3 is running on a program held inside a black box made of corrugated, rusty metal, this is a very BIG thing.
That being said, it's not infallible, and there are still some annoying bugs here and there in this game that makes the experience annoying.
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The game itself harkens back to the old times of The Sims and The Sims 2, where everything was confined to a lot in a neighborhood instead of the whole neighborhood being absolutely live. The graphics have settled for the standard Pixar-esque art-style the series have come to adopt since The Sims 2. And the gameplay? There's quite a few things to do here and there, and a considerable amount of furniture variety... if you're willing to shell out real money to buy small DLC packs for the price of around a quarter to two-thirds of the game's retail price itself. If you think this is ridiculous, it's because it is.
I will not suggest you buy this game thanks to that, especially since the stuff packs don't mesh too well in the first place. Added that Japan Expansion Pack? Well, say hello to about half of their population filling up your neighborhood, and vice-versa finding desert Strangetown dwellers making their way to Komorebi as if this was their backyard.