base game experience is lacking and vanilla experience is boring. a significative downgrade in various gameplay aspects of ts2 and ts3. soemtimes i feel it lacks detail and personality.
this game's lore is horrendous compared to all previous entry on the series and imo the writers got so lazy that they decided to make a new alternate universe for this.
what stands out is the brand new cas with an amazing character costumization, and of course the build mode. seriously this is a life sim but the building is what really goes hard, i love building and decorating in ts4.
i still have like 130 hours in this thing though. i love the sims 4 you could never make me hate her.