5 Reasons Why The Sims 4 is the WORST 

''when you launch the sims 4, do you ever feel like there's something missing?'' yes, the actual game

the most tragic thing... is that everyone is pretending the Sims 4 is a great and fun game, the sims community is really brainwashed. I'm so shook ngl.

Remember: it is morally correct to pirate any EA game, _especially_ Sims 4

The game is way more laggy than sims 3 at this point. Looking forward to Life By You and Paralives.

68 DLCS 😭 And It’s Still Trash

If you think this is bad, wait until The Sims 5 launches as a cross platform online focused free-to-play mobile game riddled with microtransactions, and an in game currency to be exchanged for real world money. When that happens, not even the mods will save you since games that deal directly in real money typically frown upon any kind of modification/hack, to the point of the companies issuing full bans.

One thing I hate about Sims 4 is I have to keep constantly fighting my Sims where in Sims 3 my Sims do what I tell them and things go the way I want to.

As easy at it is to blame EA for the state of the Sims 4 we can't ignore the role the playerbase had. People are far too forgiving when it comes to the Sims 4. How many times have people expressed disappointment with how broken or lackluster a pack released only to say they'll buy it anyway because "the modders will fix it" or "at a discount when EA gets it together and fixes their stuff" or even "I don't care about the problems with the pack it has X feature I really like." Guys, EA doesn't care how you feel about their game because they _know_ you'll throw money at them anyway. All they gotta do is put out a pretty pre-rendered trailer to get people hyped and you're hooked. Other gaming communities would've straight up stop giving the developers money for putting out low quality content like this. Just look at gaming disasters such as Redfall, Fallout 76, and No Man's Sky at launch. Those games got torn to shreds when people saw the state they were in. The difference is that at least No Man's Sky actually fixed their game and put out all their promised features and then some. The sims 4 on the other hand...👁👁

I've refused to give EA any more money, stopped playing, used my saved money to buy a beefy PC, and I am currently enjoying my time IMMENSELY in the sims 3 🥰

I have no regrets dumping Sims 4 years ago. I'm only keeping up with the game to see what kind of CC the players will convert to The Sims 2

The only way to get the message through to EA is through mass boycott of their products. Stop buying the Sims 4 stuff and simply return to the previous games. There are more than enough mods out there for the older titles to fill up your time, and you don't even have to give EA a cent of your money if you know where to look. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

perfect timing! i downloaded sims 4 like 3 days ago because i somehow wanted to play after seeing all this horse stuff (i don’t have horse ranch but after seeing sims 4 content so much lately i just wanted to play it) and i have never been that disappointed, i opened it and immadiately regretted it because it was that boring and after playing only sims 2 and 3 for the last months i noticed how little gameplay there is… so i’m going back to my lovely sims 3 lol

Even after getting all the dlcs for free I could not play this for more than ten minutes

I just dont understand how toxix simmers on twitter still get excited about eps and when I say sims 3 so much better they literally attack to me with words saying animations are better in ts4? nonsense.

The thing that sticks with me is that a few years ago they were committed to pack refreshes to fix a bunch of things fans complained about.. and to date.. they’ve done 1 refresh. Also, I remember when people were upset with Stuff Packs beginning in TS2, but now we have 4 types of DLCs and DLCs for DLCs. I’m really saddened by how EA is handling one of my favorite IPs.

the sims 4 is a genuine chore to play. so much of the gameplay is just imagining a better game

The sunk cost fallacy was actually why it took me until My Wedding Stories to actually uninstall the Sims 4, even though I had already given up on the game by that point.

I stopped playing Sims 4 after Cottage Living. It just wasn't what I hoped and I went back to Sims 3. Great vid!

The Sims 2 just has so much personality, life, details, whatever, all the little things like going shopping, how the cars worked, the most indepth gene system I've seen in a game, how sims could get one sided crushes it just has so much love in it, while sims 4 is just this sterilized mess created solely as a sequel because they wanted more money with no care at all

I used to think I was the only one that thought Sims 4 was bad.

I agree with everything in this video. My biggest problem with the sims 4 is that it just feels so soulless; I want my sims to feel distinct and have personalities that make them fun to actually play with. I’ve been playing the sims 3 for the past 2 years and I think the traits make all the difference, only having 3 traits per sim and the variety being so limited really kills the sims 4 for me and makes it feel so inferior to the sims 2 and 3 that it’s laughable. I honestly don’t think I’ll ever touch the game again and I have absolutely no interest in the dumpster fire that is most likely to be the sims 5

2020 was the year I gave up on Sims 4, ugh BATUU. So much of giving a benefit of the doubt since 2014. Now I sit back and laugh at the constant cycle of "hype, excitement, disappointed and angry then silence" in each DLC announcement.

i always say this: mods in the sims 4 are used to make the game enjoyable, mods in the sims 3 are used to make the game smoother

I recently started a lepacy challenge on Sims 3 (you start with base game only and gradually add new packs in release order throughout the generations) with the goal of completing every single lifetime wish, and I was shocked to realize that after years of always playing with packs... sims 3 base game is fun!! I miss seasons, pets and generations, my most used packs, but you can have a really good time playing with no add-ons, and it actually makes me excited to add more stuff later and actually engage with each pack to the fullest (something I never really did before). This is unthinkable for Sims 4: its base game has no substance and each new pack is as disappointing as the last. Sims 3 remains unbeaten for me (but Sims 2 is also a blast).

Unfortunately I'm stuck with this game until I can purchase a new gaming laptop to play sims 2 and sims 3. However, I'm always baffled that players always try to excuse E.A. laziness by saying "their trying," yet the Caliente update took nearly a year to just change them in CAS. Mind you, I did my own Caliente refresh, with lore, and relationship updates, etc that took me the most under 2 hours. Then they tell the players that Katrina is obviously a clone, to justify not doing their research on the families as if we the players are stupid for not realizing Katrina a clone Dina and Nina made. Despite the fact that E.A. couldn't even be bothered to know the lore on their own game 😂😂😂.

it's not even these points that sadden me, it's the fact that NOTHING happens organically in the game if you don't make it happen. Every sim is the same and act the same, with terrible autonomy. Which means no stories or cool events happen, no chaos (unless you consider poorly coded fire ovens chaos) arise... sims are just kinda there and struggling to get through the day

I used to play sims 3 a lot before 4 came out. 4 came out when I was like 12 so I was super excited and immediately made the switch to 4. after a few years I realized I have been playing the sims less and less than I used to, thought I was just growing up and growing out of sims. couldn't put my finger on why the game wasn't enjoyable to me anymore. like I would just make a family, a house and then never play them. I completely forgot what it was like to play sims 3 then a few months ago decided to just see what sims 3 was like for fun again, just to reminisce those times. turns out I didn't "grow out" of the sims, the sims 4 is just so bad. even though I used to play sims 3 a lot, I completely forgot a lot of features and I was just so surprised finding out about them again. and now I can spend hours in game again. it's truly amazing how horrible they have managed to make the sims 4 and how they've been able to market it in a way that most simmers don't see it

I watched a few LPs which were cute, but as a gal who owned horses, the animation for the horses is very cartoon-ish and childish. The sims 3 horses (and unicorns, ahem), move very realistic and regal, just like real horses. I'd love to see someone post a side by side comparison. Appreciate your opinions, very true.

Yep, I had the Sims games in the past and I kinda fell away from them. Then when 4 came out I said, why not? So I went to Origin and downloaded it. I think it was within an hour I realized this was not a good game. Fortunately I still owned 3, and I downloaded that again. Now, mind you, I have a lot of complaints about Sims 3 (go to a club where your Sim says "where is everybody" and then go to a hotspot where no one is at either) but these are complaints about how the game could be even better, not about how the game is not good to begin with.

for me the most annyoing thing is that there is always a load screen... switching between my households is such a pain. when two of my household hang out at the same lot I wish I could just switch between them to control... it's so annoying that I have to go to load screen all the time!!! that's literally my number one thing that I dislike the most

I gave up on The Sims 4 back when they released the My First Pet stuff pack thing. It was crystal clear at that point what direction the game was going in. And indeed, it got worse with each pack. The Sims 4 is a soulless, boring cash-grabby game. Comparing it to the glory days of Sims 1-3, it breaks my heart. This isn’t my beloved Sims game anymore. I don’t have high hopes for Sims 5. Hopefully Paralives and Life By You carry the baton like Cities Skylines did with SimCity.

This needed to be 10x longer. I know you got more in you!

After playing for a couple of years with just sims 3 basegame and University pack, I decided to try the sims 4 around the time the farms expansion came out. I bought a few DLC that I thought I would enjoy and I got quickly bored. When the wedding pack came out and we all realized it could only be played with fixing mods, I decided to go back to the sims 3. I'm not paying EA for DLC only modders make playable, and besides, I was bored to death... I'm back to the sims 3, bought all the expansions for around 50 euros, and I know I have years of fun ahead...

I officially went back to sims 3 when all my packs disappeared for the umpteenth time, I’ve started about 4 saves and lost everything due to the game not working or breaking with updates multiple times, plus the game is boring as a whole. I wish I could get back my money, glad I only buy when there’s a sale

FANTASTIC video! 👌🏾👌🏾 The Sims 4's first advantage for me was being able to be played on any computer easily, but that's not true anymore for a while now. I got the Sims 4 shortly after launch in a giveaway and I still managed to play 2 and 3 more. I uninstalled 4 a couple years ago. I still enjoy watching videos about it from people who like it (and don't like it), but that's the extent of my interactions with it. I don't even watch the trailers anymore. I'm so disappointed. The second advantage: the mods for 4 are amazingly cool. That kept me from uninstalling the game in the past -- but modders for the older games have been catching up. I can get all the CC and almost all the mods I could want without having to go through the weaker game. So it's sayonara. It felt like a breakup, but uninstalling it made more hard drive space to download more stuff for the older games. You win some, you lose some. 😝

Just stop and Think . This is the only sims ( 4) game that's been give away for free permanently

I bought the sims 4 a few years after it came out, about 2016. Compared to the sims 3 base game, it was was so boring I couldn’t play more than 4 hours on it. I haven’t bothered since then.

Youre absolutely right. I bloody hate when people pretend the Sims 4 is good. Its the biggest piece of 💩 i've ever played. I regret spending so much money on the DLC. And dont get me started on the updates. They broke my save files

I got a feeling that The Sims 5 will be the last nail in the coffin for the series… I hope I’m wrong but the future does not look good for the sims

It's frustrating. I WANT to like the game. I do. But I can't. It bores me very quickly and the gameplay is so shallow. I have way more fun playing the first 3 Sims games. What also frustrates me is how much money I spent on it since it came out (back when the basegame was full price around $60, before it was free every 5 seconds, and before DLC was always on sale). Say what you want about Sims 3's store system, but you have to admit that when you play Sims 3, you can tell the Sims team still had SOME love and care for the game and the players. And the store was optional add-ons; not mandatory or anything, but your game can feel complete without it...store items just spruce things up. 4's DLC packs feel mandatory to make the game even remotely fun, but that fails miserably. Nowadays the Sims team are of touch and shallow. Ugh.

I fixed an old laptop & bought Sims 1-3. Never went back to Sims4. I'm an older gamer - I play games for the game play.

For DLC, many of the Sims 4 packs can be in one pack. I remember playing the sims 3, and there was Late Night which came with apartments, fame, an acting career, and vampires, dance clubs and lounges (which had so much detail in comparison to sims 4, despite clubs and lounges being base game. The gameplay is just so shallow), and even the basic interactions such as slow dancing added so much depth to the sims 3. In Sims 4, to access all this you need city living, get famous, vampires, get together (if you want to add more gameplay for clubs), my wedding stories (to have the slow dancing interaction without mods, which is ridiculous that they’re charging so much considering the pack is broken and it’s even worst then dining out. At least with dining out, there’s a mod to fix it for PC/Mac players. But with “My Wedding Stories” the pack is just unplayable. If you add all these packs together, it will be $160. Which is so much money just so you can have the same or similar amount of gameplay. Not to mention the world is so much bigger in Sims 3, they include apartments, and then they have upper and richer celebrities on the other side of the map. Late night is what Get Famous wished it was. Apparently in the new expansion pack, they are adding the option to build your own apartments which should of been City living, as the entire point of city living was literally living in apartments.

Reject the sims 4, return to the sims 2. While you’re at it: pirate the game. It’s very easy. You can get an installer made by a passionate TS2 community member that installs the ultimate collection for you and automatically applies all the patches it needs to run well on modern machines/monitors. Even installs clean noncorrupted versions of the hoods for you. All for the low cost of free and no money in greedy EAs pocket. TS2 community also is very passionate about addressing various bugs/quirks that the game has. There are hundreds of different fixes you can easily find and apply to address every issue you can think of basically. No waiting on EA. Just do it yourself.

My favorite hobby is watching you roast the shit out of ts4

With sims 2 we understand why some features are not there, basic ones like, the hour be the same when you enter or leave a community lot, sims 3 too, a simulation game in a open world before the boom of hardware power in 2015, but why sims 4 is so laggy and unfinished? Didn't make sense, why close the neighboor instead or just make open neighboors with loading between worlds? They know people will buy the game, with paralives or LBY people WILL BUY THIS, and even the mess that will be project rene, same team, same mistakes, same mess, and they know they don't need to make a good game anymore, everyone know the sims, even people that don't play, I quit being angry at this mess and now I'm just waiting for LBY early acess and Paralives launch, I'm done.

modders' backs breaking from carrying the sims 4 for the last 9 years

I've been on a cycle of continuously coming up with storylines, creating different sims and scenarios in The Sims 4, but quitting and not actually playing anything. I thought that was a me problem, turns out I just need to downgrade to a previous game.

I just recorded my first ever speed build in the sims 2 because i'm terrified to even touch the sims 4 after the horse update another thing i noticed after attempting to play sims 4 right after having played sims 2 and 3 for a while, is that the actual interactions menu popping up is SO SLOW OMG in sims 2 you click on things or get your sims to do things so quickly and smoothly it's ridiculous, in sims the actual speed at which the menu appears really stresses me out I'll admit it's a shame for me cause i do really enjoy the build buy mechanics in sims 4, the mods people have made, and the cas but until they stop patching up the game and it's over and the DLC releases are finished im not even gonna try, and i only say this cause im more of a builder/maker than player

I've been playing The Sims since I was 5. And I was 5 in 2001, so I got to play TS1, then 2 (here, in Russia, the base game and, I believe, University came out in English first, but starting with the next packs, the game got a Russian release, so we had to buy the og game + University again) and 3, I saw them come and go. Those games were full of content, and even to this day, I like to come back to all of them, even the very first game, which might not have aged as well as the other two, but it's still full of charm and heart. Many find it eerie, but I find it oddly comforting and welcoming. With this background, of course I was waiting for TS4. I wasn't too big on the way it looked, but I was interested because, hey, it's The Sims! And oh how disappointed I was. It was raw, boring, with not much to do. Sure, the CAS was great, but what's the point if I do not want to do anything with these characters? I like building houses in TS4, but yet again, what's the point if I don't want anyone to live there? What's the point of having these few good things if the main point of the game, which is life simulation, is boring and practically non-existent while potentially interesting gimmicks, cause that's what active careers and whatnot are, get old in about an hour? I only ever paid for the base game, which cost me nearly 3000 rubles in 2014, which was very expensive at the time, and never paid for a single pack. I pirate it every now and again to build a few houses and see what it has to offer, but I am not going to pay for a game that is this lazy and half-assed, not to mention so blatantly greedy. Edit: Forgot to add, but there is one thing in particular that shows just how empty TS4 is. And for me, it's cheat codes. Rejuvenation chamber for TS1 (CC), need cheats for TS2 and TS3, I use them so that I can explore areas, mechanics and features. It may not be as challenging, sure, but the point is, there is stiff to do. In TS4, however, there's nothing to do. And what is there does not leave a lasting impression and is repetitive.

you know a game is bad, when playing it only becomes fun if you use mods/fan content.

0:05 Me 😭😭😭😭

Got the horrible news today that Life by You is delaying early access release from September to March, 2024. Then I saw your video. Yay!!! Sims 4 bashing!!! I really needed this Rekowcski - thank you. ;)

Still playing….and still complaining. I just don’t have another game I like, unfortunately. The one bright point for me, the gameplay being so shallow has made me into a builder. I also am a lot more creative with how I structure my worlds once I begin to play. Alas, I still do a lot of what my children used to do when they were little; set it all up painstakingly, then walk away. :(

I just love watching shittalk videos about ts4 😂❤ it's my guilty pleasure.

100% if they combined packs like cottage living + cats & dogs + horse ranch + my first pet stuff as a single pack for only $20..... many people would be okay with sims 4

It's so sad that people who have only played TS4 believe that it's the best game ever. It feels so wrong. In a perfect world, I wish EA made a game with TS2 gameplay, TS3 open world, story progression, and the colorwheel, and graphics like TS4. I am sick of TS4 being so mind controlling in such a bad way. If you compare an expansion from TS3 to a TS4 one, you can see who EA has really become. Barely any content and still tricking players. Then, the Sims team tries to guilt trip us and try to make us feel pity for them, but as a buyer's POV,. this shouldn't be the case. At the end of the day, we are buying a product and expect it to work. Imagine getting a brand new car and the dealer is like "Look at this brand new amazing car with so many feature! Oh... but ignore the fact that it is missing two wheels, it stalls a lot, and the paint job is half done"

most sim youtubers have too much money so when a new pack comes out they hype it so much as they know they are going to get it so they are just gonna treat it like a brand new base game update, but for everyone else it just gets them excited for something that they really shouldnt be.

what breaks my heart the most is that the game had potential. It's got great style, the CAS is gorgeous, the build mode is fluid and intuitive and the DLCs introduce features that at the first glance can bring additional charm to the game. The game threatens to become good - until you turn it on and try it out. It's not as much infuriating as disappointing - y'know, like an abusive lazy ex who promises to change but never does, haha.

Every time i try play, if its no fun without mods or a crap ton of packs. If i play with loads of packs, it's glitchy af. Mods break every other week with the stupid updates. It's just unplayable. I enjoy the building, the CAS is good (ignoring the actual personality customization). It's just....its a money grab. That's it. It's so sad. Just go play ts3 or ts2.

I never played Sims 4, it has pretty objects and they did a good job at build mode but as I have seen many youtubers focus on building rather than playing, the look of the sims is too cartoony for my taste, even the horses look like a cartoon, The Sims 3 horses looked like an actual horse. I prefer Sims 3 which is my fav from all the Sims games, I know it has its problems but open world from the base game it's something a pretty object or a well done build mode can't beat, I play it along with Sims 2 and even Sims 1 till this very day and even though Sims 4 is free to download I am not interested in playing it, I rather have its pretty objects converted for TS3 or TS2 and that's about it.

I can't build objects disappeared if I try to put them in do you know anyone else with the same problem

Avid Sims 3 player here, I can say that I've tried to play TS4 YEARS ago and could not. I maybe had it installed for a day or two before I deleted it entirely. I second-hand watch from Simmer on RU-vid who play TS4 but man, what a shitshow. All of it. I do wish that the build mode in Sims 3 was as high-tech as it is now but I make do and I have lots of fun with creating solutions with cheats. I'll play all the Sims, excluding the 4th, until the end of time. It's my creative outlet and has done so much good for me without any stupid kits. When will EA hear our voices, ENOUGH DAMN KITS!! Focus on the gameplay.

my problem is that i absolutely love building and creating sims and in that aspect sims 4 absolutely rules 😩 but actual gameplay? it sucks. i just started playing ts2 again a week ago and its such a stark contrast. like i literally dont give a damn about how my sims or house looks bc i am so focused on gameplay and having fun. really puts it in perspective again. all the little details (the couch and water physics for example)

The Sims 3 has a smooth patch mods and now I never return to The Sims 4 again.

When I launch the Sims 4 the things I find missing are all the freebies they have offered that I tried to download (Jungle Adventure, and various kits and packs) as well as the Dogs and Cats expansion I bought years ago and that had been working up until recently. EA App says they're installed but the game says they are still downloading. Online help hasn't fixed the problems. What I like to do is take Sims 3 and recreate the promo pictures of Sims 4 to the best of my ability or most recently, used a rabbithole rug to create a walk-in horse arena (rodeo style) to play in Sims 3.

I had downloaded back the sims 3 few days ago before the horse shxt pack released. I noticed that there were way more things included in an expansion pack back in those days,and The sims 4 expansion packs are really shallow.

Unpopular opinion, I could give a crap about the open world. I play Sims 2 more than 3 and have no issue with loading screens. My bigger issues…the sims have literally gotten dumber not smarter, the emotion system sucks, the traits System in Sims 3 was literally top notch and the Sims 4 one is worse tha Sims 2, the teleporting Sims do in Sims 4 to ‘travel’ is immersion breaking…in sims 2 I believed in the cars because vehicles were an active form of travel to leave a lot, even when it was closed world, the map view in Sims 4 sucks and there aren’t enough lots…even Sims 1 gave you more building freedom and who cares how good the build tools are when you have to bulldoze a whole town to use them and can’t add your own world/neighborhood/town maps. You litterally had limitless possibilities for world building in 2, Sims 2!!! And 3 opened that up with Open world. But both gave world builders a tool that TS4 doesn’t even have. Like one blank limited Newcrest map. Wtf?

I'm not touching Sims 4 until the Gallery gives me notifications again. The main reason I play is to share my builds and sims. Getting a notification while I play that someone liked my stuff gives me a serotonin boost to keep going. If I have to go into my catalog to see that, the serotonin isn't there. On the older builds, I have no idea if anyone likes it if EA won't tell me. I've been playing TS2 and TS3 basically since Growing Together. Currently I'm working on making a Strangetown downtown so it has a consistent desert look. I might even make a desert shopping district. Sims 4 could never.

You spoke nothing but facts ❤

I still don't get what ppl to expect. It's a modern day EA game, it's gonna be realised before it's even finished it's gonna have dlc for dlc.

I haven’t BOUGHT a sims 4 pack since like the 2nd expansion I think? I wish others would follow suit and start telling EA how they feel with their pockets because the CEO doesn’t care what you say if you’re still buying the damn product. As long as the CEO’s pockets are getting filled it doesn’t matter what the devs want and it doesn’t matter what you want. But sims players just keep buying everything that comes out so the franchise is gonna be run into the ground just like fallout. I’m sure the sims 5 will be like fallout 76 and piss everyone off but I really really hope they get it together. Maybe the competitors coming out will motivate them to do more but I doubt it

Not even an AI supported, nitrogen-cooled, Quantumsupercomputer can run The Sims 4…

Sims 4, I hate the game because I still make myself play it from time to time… I see a moderately fun let’s play and I’m like “okay, there is something nice going on here” but when I myself go to play it… I get bored after 2 or 3 1 hour sessions of this game… I hate that I spent so much into it because I thought maybe the next expansion was the missing link. I hate the community drama every time there is something for the game (I bet EA does it on purpose, to build clout, even if it’s bad publicity). I hate… so many things about it. I essentially returned to Sims 3 at this point, or just go play something else

The thing i hate about The Sims 4 is that you have to create a family first before you can edit the town so when u get to edit town then save and exit the game. So when i load the game back up you have to go back to the family you created before you can edit the town/world again. This was not in other sims games as you can edit the town without having to make a family first and another thing is the worlds/towns look to cartoony nothing like the other sims worlds where they looked realistic

I got the free Sims 4 base game and THAT'S IT. Way too much money was spent getting all the expansion packs for Sims 3. I refuse to put myself through that again.

I really don't believe sims took better care of themselves in earlier games. There's a reason why challenges like Asylum were so popular. Sims are dumb. I remember watching my Sims 2 character kill herself in an Apocalypse challenge because she was tired and hungry and bored and needed to pee, so kept stamping out any thought to take care of one of those needs. (Hint, she needed to eat first.) She eventually starved to death because she refused to walk 4 steps to the fridge and eat. Conversely,. the first thing I tried upon getting Sims 4 in 2014 was an asylum as best I could set up going off of old rules. The only death was due to embarrassment. The Sims 4 sims were stupidly good at taking care of themselves, which made it boring. I gave up on Sims 4 early on, so maybe things changed & they somehow became dumber?

I love SatchonSims, he's the only simmer on RU-vid thats realistic and brutally honest, while still making hilarious videos.

Bought the base game when it first came out, having been an avid player of the first three games. I was confused, then shocked, then angry when I realised how pared down the game was. I shelved it after my first playthrough and never touched it again. Fans were gaslit and dismissed when they expressed their disappointment. I will never buy another Sims game.

I left Sims for more than a year out of disappointment for TS4, and then started plying TS3 again. Had some issues with Korean version(which never occurred back then), and uninstalled in the hopes of installing English version. Now EA app won't let me download any EPs, even though I bought them. It seems that this has happened to many people and EA doesn't bother to fix it for months. Maybe I'm never playing the sims again, because they locked me out of the game I own.

Sims4 suck like around 2016/17 (when it was clear that it won't evolve and only cost me lots of money for nothing) or even right from the beginning.

How about you make video like "playing the sims 4, when i get bored the video ends" the video would be 0,01 second in length

i've totally given up on the sims 4! i will never install it again... why would i waste my time on such a lackluster and boring game when i could just play sims 2 or 3 for an actual guaranteed fun gameplay experience!

Once I tried TS4, I very quickly stopped playing and came back running to TS1 and TS2. The amount of DLC feels overwhelming yet lacking in depth. The word that describes it best to me is sanitized.

just to put a dissenting opinion in the mix, i've been playing the sims for since launch day when i was 13 and since then i have put about 6,600 hours into it. i've also played at least two thousand hours of the sims 3 and still return to it often. i like the games for vastly different reasons. the sims 4 is the best sims game for imagination and storytelling, and the modding community makes the game worth it for me. i know a lot of people don't want to play a game that requires some level of roleplay to have the most fun while the mechanics aren't too great, but i still find a lot of joy in creating a sim or two that i'll play to their deaths, then carry on playing at their descendants, crafting complex interpersonal storylines that fill in the gaps of gameplay. the older sims games have personal dealbreakers for me that suck a lot of my fun out, like frustration in ts3 about my sims getting stuck on everything (even after doing the tricks in game files and placing furniture farther apart). and i find the sims 2 unplayable because the way you go backward in time when you come home from a community lot makes the sims' days feel so non-cohesive and unrealistic. the sims 4 is a game that requires a lot of heavy lifting on the part of the player and the modding community, and i understand a lot of people think it makes it worse, but it's what i love about it. i dont have any issues with you beefing with the sims 4 and ESPECIALLY ea, get your bag messy king. i stick around for your sims 3 builds and gaming and funny blunt personality. i could keep talking in defense of ts4 but i wont make this comment any more miserably long than it has to be. closing argument/ tldr: people who play this game love it for good reasons.

So I got out of playing world of warcraft to do sims four.... I just got tired of the repetitive kill kill kill and more killing. It's ok, let's get into this. I think I'd play this year's ago, and wanted to see how it is now. Oh my goodness it is so aggravating. This is more aggravating than my own life. Why play a game that is Aggravating, complicated And not to mention Stressful. I thought the point of the game was supposed to be fun, uplifting and exhilarating. I think some of the personality traits on these characters are a little overdone. I played lone wolf.... Wow it's psychotic... She can't be around no one at any length at time.... It's a cartoon version of a karen.... Then you can't tell them what to do because a lot of times they want to do what they want to. Then they stand next to the fire and you can't get them to move and then now they're on fire. Then my outdoor grill catches on fire and she couldn't even use the phone in order to call for the fire department. Back to the lone wolfing again.... How do you get somebody to talk to somebody if they don't want to talk to no one. You cannot fill up your social if they don't want to be social. Alright, now the property taxes. Or lot taxes. What the heck is that....? I've always had to pay my taxes like that for my house yearly. They should have just called it mortgage... Yeah you pay your mortgage every month. But just because I have an extra couch doesn't mean that my lot taxes should go up. Cause my lot taxes has nothing to do with if I buy another lamp or not. Only if I use it and then my electric will go up. Alright if you want to do it like reality.... Then make it where we've got to have a permit to build. And anybody who's ever built knows what you gotta go through on that. This is supposed to be a game to be enjoyed and have fun with. And not have a time that where it leaves you more frustrated than life itself. I have a home that is seventeen hundred square feet.... I live by myself.... I have more lights in this house than I do in my game.... But yet the electric is triple than what my real life bill is... And she lives by herself... Of course, cause she's a loner.... I see why people uses a lot of the cheat codes.... You know that you've got a problem with your game. If more people are using cheat codes, then not!

I agree with all these points about the game, but I have another issue with EA itself that I'm surprised people aren't as angry about as I would have expected. After waiting 1.5 years, I have finally been able to buy a new gaming laptop and all I wanted to do was run the Sims 3 smoothly - but it turns out that there is a big issue with newer processors. The game only opens once and then simply never runs again for me, despite trying all the fixes multiple times. This has been an issue since at least Dec 2021 and EA has done nothing about it - they are still selling the sims 3 and it is often completely unplayable! I just don't understand why this isn't a bigger issue!

SIMS 4 is only enjoyable thanks to the modders in the community, it is not a memorable game though, previous sims games didn't need mods to make it enjoyable and memorable-

Sims 4's gameplay is shallow compared to TS2 and TS3. It lacks the humor and quirkiness of the previous installments. Also, the game is plague with bugs and glitches.

There are some points in the video I agree with but I don't actually mine the game and I do feel sometimes things are overhyped but I would consider myself a casual fan as I play it basically daily

Well said! I enjoy your videos and your build style. Your thought process is very thorough and you’re very articulate. Thanks for creating sims content. I enjoy the sims 3 and I like to hop on the sims for dis bandwagon every once in a while :)

All they did was generate some random sim, slapped red hair on her and called her Dina and that was it.

When the sims 4 was first released, alot of people complained it lacked features. I agreed, nut i was very hopeful, because what it seemed is that they made a base platform to something amazing. Yes, there were no pools or toddlers, among other things, but those were easy to add, the hard things were done. Im talking the emotion system, that was completely new. The way sims could just go to the bar and leave with a few new friends without you having to directly interact with anyone was amazing. the fact you could hold group conversations was also awesome. All that made it have so much potential in my eyes that i wasnt even mad about the lacking features. Fast forward to now, i dont think i could be any more disappointed. Bugs, lackluster content, constantly adding new systems without balancing old ones or taking them into account, lack of interesting locations (or lack of locations at all some hoods have like 1 community lot). I bought a few expansions at the beginning but now? Only reason i still engage with the game is Anadius, arrr. The game with all the expansions isnt worth 60€ in content imo, let alone the ridiculous prices they charge.

Everything in the sims 4 looks big , bulky, square.

That's why I pirated it. Absoutely not giving EA ridiculous amounts of money just to make a game actually playable.

yeah I recently switched back to playing the previous games, especially 3, since it has some legit mods as well. The Sims 4 really does seem designed to forever dangle the promise of a full and satisfying game, but NEVER deliver it, no matter how much money you spend. it's a scam.

I downloaded Sims 4 in 2020 during COVID, as a free download. The only thing in my opinion that was improved was the ease of building. Like l-shaped stairs, foundation heights, moving the house on the lot, roofing. That's it, but not enough for me to drop the Sims 3. I bought a few packs for Sims 4 (I think two or three years ago, so nothing recently) but nothing could get me the same feeling Sims 3 does, of an actual living world. Sims 4 feels more like a building simulator, rather than a life simulator since the Sims in Sims 4 seem like puppets with no autonomy. Its almost like the Truman Show, in the sense that all other characters not being played only exist when you interact with them, and have no lives of their own. At least in Sims 3 you get the feeling that the other Sims you're not playing have their own lives going on, even if your played Sim family never interacts with them. I'm glad to find other people who are not so apologetic about the Sims 4 and unwilling to keep making excuses for why it's a better game. I liked and subscribed, and I still play Sims 3 yet it's been maybe a year or two since last touching Sims 4.

I always feel sims 4 lost luster and the game play I grew up with. I've been playing since the first sims game.

Sims 4 is just a "perfect insta life" simulator

Like why have I just started playing it (free on PS5) and there’s barely anymore base game items than it had 10 years ago???

why EA, despite so many dissatisfied players, still does not change this game. It would be nice if there was a big update that created a new sim story, added cars, ancestors, more with sims, etc. It would be a step towards a great game. I think there are a lot of people in the company who would like to do this. The question is, why aren't you still changing for the better? Boring game.