I LOVE everything Sims. From the Original Sims, Sims 2, Sims 3 (And every Expansion and Stuff Packs), SimCity, SimFarm, SimCopter- I LOVE SIMS! And I didn't think Sims 4 would be any different.
However, I couldn't be MORE disappointed if it was made by my twelve year old nephew in the garage on an Apple II-- And this is why.
1- One of my favorite things about the parenting Sims games was their wonderful development of the maps and overall world.
Especially in Sims 3 how you could zoom in and out of the map, check out what was happening at the park down the street without having to actually travel there.
Sims 4 has reverted back to the ridiculous "You get to see THIS far away, and here's a load screen if you TRULY want to visit your neighbor." Not to mention the towns small and underwhelming layout, segregating the neighborhoods and limiting how large the plots of lands are AND how many there are.
Sims 3 was wonderful because you could create your own town how you wanted. If you wanted the Snooty-McSnootypants living next door to Dirty-Foodstamps-- THEN YOU COULD.
When I heard Sims 4 was in development- I thought, "WOW, they could take the map and world system FURTHER and might even let us design our own cities from scratch- allowing us to manipulate the mountains, or rivers, or deserts, or jungles, et." How AWESOME would that have been? But no. We get WORSE than Sims Classic.
2- Where is Create a Style?! That was KEY in making the Sims universe feel unique to your style and taste! Again- we've reverted back to Sims.
3- Home Lot Terrain- 'Um, this lot is awfully flat- I would like to place my home atop and outrageously high mesa surrounded by a moat. Ope! Looks like I can't do that either- Maybe a pool will do-- OH WAIT. No POOLS either.'
4- What is with the return of the baby bassinet? Oh- I forgot- I was playing a updated Sims 1! And I can't find my toddler ANYWHERE! All I can find is this random nine year old chillin' next to the baby bed... Hmm. How odd.
5- Where are the cars? Oh yeah! They're not needed because the map is ONE DIMENSION AND YOU CAN'T TRAVEL WITHOUT LOAD SCREENS.
If I were in game development- I would have kept the cars and added the car options from previous games- including just sitting in the car, going for drives, woohooing (that's what she said), and more.
6- I can't help but feel that the career list is significantly shorter. I don't want fifty astronauts from the household, but that feels like my only option.
7- Though its not a necessity- I am quite bothered by cheat codes. TestingCheats always resets itself and has significantly less options and Moveobjects is nowhere to be found.
There you have it. It's not a HUGE list, but it's enough to really upset me. ESPECIALLY the map issue. I can't get over it.
If there is anything on my list that I have mistaken or maybe just haven't discovered yet- feel free to set me right and rid me of my ignorance.
But it wasn't all bad. Here are the things I DID enjoy.--
1- I definitely liked character creation- or rather the sliders- I don't care much for the lack of clothing styles. Basically, we got soccer mom or slag.
1 1/2- Also- in relation to the characters, is the characters RELATIONSHIPS. I liked that though one character may like someone as a friend or even romantically- it showed that sometimes feeling are one sided.
2- And I also liked the ability to set the height of the walls. And the wall sliders. And the roof sliders. So, I guess I liked the basic building process. But that only includes Walls, roofs, and foundations. I mean- where are my fireplaces and chimney's (And I don't mean the lame ones hiding in Decorations.)
Heck, maybe I haven't explored the game well enough yet, but first impression express that EA is making a mickey of me.
In conclusion-- I thought with graphics and technology developing more and more everyday, that Sims 4 would be Sims 3 on steroids-- adding everything they left out (AND MORE) and taking out the rubbish. Instead they took out the simple things that made the game great.
Basically, they should take the few things that were okay about Sims 4 and put them in Sims 3 and continue making Sims 3 expansions that I will definitely buy, seeing as how I own all of the others AND loads of stuff from the online store.
I likely won't buy any expansions for Sims 4- unless they completely redo the world and map and replace all which they've stolen from me. Is that too much to ask?
When I wrap this up. I'm gonna go play Sims 3 and cry.
The Sims has meant a lot to me over the years, so this feels like a spit in my face.
I feel hurt. I feel lied to. I feel betrayed by you, EA Games. I feel like I paid $60.00 to play a Facebook game. EA- You failed. Try again.
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