Honest Review of The Sims 4: Riviera Retreat + Cozy Bistro Kits 

How much have you raised for St Jude so far? It's the end of May!

@@gracehowell. we hit 480k today!

theese are the first kits that I have not liked anything in, ok the pool rocks are cool and the pergola😍, but other than that.

I loveee this idea!!! Simsie really has to do it now, I can’t build for **** 😭

aww that is sooo cool!

dont get me wrong, it's adorable but I wish they added some gameplay. i wish it wasn't just a kit yk?

dude it’s soooo art deco all i could think of was speakeasies

i need this omg

you're so right but also the poor sims devs. we see something good and we're like "aww :) so who did this"

ive heard they've been hiring simmers more

I heard SIXAMcc did get hired and it makes sense bc a lot of the newer stuff gives SIXAMcc’s style!

Hey Simsie! I’m BEGGING the sims 4 to make a Keurig style coffee maker… I personally have one that you put the mug right under it so there is no coffee pot under it. Do you agree that it would be a new addition?

Yeah, I was thinking about MAX20 as well! It’s a beautiful kit 😍

Tlou fan spotted in the wild 😮🎉

I wish my restaurants worked properly 😢

@@122334455v then you buy dine out

@@honeycarbs there is a mod, I think :o

@@minilimse4204 yes, and it is an amazing mod. But I like my games vanilla and it’s just sad that Maxis won’t fix the buggiest pack

Where is that?when I looked it was 4.99 on epic and steam

@@wolfmidget1 I believe it's on the ea app

@@MunchyCrunchBar thank you 😊 I see it now,I rarely log into my EA account so I didn't see it 😅

Ah, I only looked on Steam last week and assumed I missed it...the EA app...oh, well

I thought it was inspired in art deco

@@augusto7681 Art deco is more geometric where art nouveau is more organic. Both are heavily graphic, though. They're also pretty close together time period wise, so I think there was probably some overlap with decor and design.

@@augusto7681there are a few architectural styles of that time with similar elements, like Art Deco and Art Nouveau. High School Years is more inspired by Art Deco, while this one is a bit more inspired by Art Nouveau. Realm of Magic is inspired by Art Nouveau as well.

the pool kit makes me wanna build a community pool and the bistro kit makes me wanna build a french town.

@@alyssaharris7072 For sure!! I wouldn't be surprised if the new expansion was French or Italian inspired.

You can use Carl's Dine Out mod. James Turner did a lets play with it and review. It helps

You should check out Carl's Dine Out mod if you're on PC. I'm not sure if he's updated it recently or if the most recent patch has changed anything, so keep that in mind, but he is consistently working on improving the player options and fixing the bugs! He releases each new version for free after a certain amount of time; his patreons just get it faster and help test it out. Also, I'd recommend recycling the localthumbcache package in the Sims 4 folder (good habit to do this especially after any Sims 4 updates) and trying it out with a new save to see if this improves the issues you've been having. I'd also ensure you're using a build that was done with game play in mind, so plenty of room for routing just to be safe, and unfortunately no distractions from other packs would probably be a good idea, so no fun activities unless you lock them up in a faux apartment on the lot.

Thankfully, the Sims' laundry list says they plan on fixing Dine Out. Hopefully they actually stick with the plan.

Not everybody reports issues with it. Personally I find dine out works perfectly, I think a lot of people haven't tried using it for a long time so don't realise it now works

@@GirlOfTheTardis So, this isn't me needling you because I found that it works for me the few times I've visited a restaurant in the recent past but I also haven't played Sims 4 in a while and usually I switch to a new save after a year or so (in the process of saving specific families from some of my older saves to migrate them to a new one but since I haven't been playing much, I have to update them for any removed CC, and EA keeps releasing new packs/updates I'm not in a rush to migrate to that new save.) I say all this because I know one of the biggest problems is that older saves can't get all of the bug fixes, sometimes it's new save only, and I suspect having a lot of packs tends to cause the most problems since Maxis never tests the new ones with the old ones (they literally aren't allowed to and simply have to remember things.) I have most packs up until Werewolves I think (I wanted to get that pack so badly but money got tight and has been ever since.) But anyway, I'm curious. How many packs do you tend to use with Dine Out or own altogether? Do you run the restaurant or do you just visit it with your Sim families? Do you play in legacy saves, do you use Save As a lot, or do you tend to have completely new saves that you play in? Also, do you regularly recycle the localthumbcache package? Do you have very few issues with simulation lag? Just trying to get some info. :)

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The whole pool kit looks like it would pair well with romantic garden. And also with the castle kit and with the wedding game pack that shall not be named.

Yessss I love the Mediterranean vibes!!! I've been wanting to build more in that style and this is perfect timing!!

espically because its a kit and not a proper game pack. EA is actually putting effort in this time.

true that i love and the curtains would fit almost perfectly ooo plus that metal pergola(?) would fit nicely too

And the rocks, stone wall and arch all match the castle kit swatches. I’m already using the two kits together for builds. I wish more packs had matching swatches!

Wow, haven’t seen you in like a week

You can vuy it on CD key 2,3x cheaper. :)

real

just pirate it

They're trying to get as much money out of us before the game becomes so overloaded with content on shoestring code it becomes unplayable lol

OMG YESSS

yesterday i started building a house for my sims in tartosa for the fist time because i was waiting for kits so much, and today I'll add all the new stuff from this kits, they are so cool

fair

Bistro set is definitly not inspired by the Edwardian style, it's very parisian style...

Bistro set is definitly not inspired by the Edwardian style, it's very parisian style...

Well unfortunately for the diving board/water slide we don't really get new kinds of items in kits. There aren't even any interactions on the waterfalls

@@merchantfan at least we got a new floatie tho?🥲

😁

This is really mediterranean

@@Éga_Fr Morocco is a Mediterranean country 😊 so yes you’re correct!

right?? and additionally, it doesn't help the "DLC for a DLC" feeling which is a shame!! cause the items are pretty cool 😢

Exactly. I won’t even buy Dine Out because it doesn’t work, so why in the world would I want a bistro kit?

That spa day "pack refresh" or whatever they did to update spa day was the biggest tease ever, I feel like they'll never do that again 😕

i don’t think I understand this criticism because you can use tables, chairs and community lot stuff for other types of lots besides restaurants or even sims houses. Because it’s called bistro doesn’t mean it has to be used only for restaurants, just that it’s inspired by the style

@@callmekerrigan but if I own a dine out restaurant, I want it to work. Not just use the build mode. Same with bistro. I'd like to be able to use it in a restaurant. USE it. Not just build it

i love that

i mean it in the the name, it's her seat with a reserve and everything

@@kitty79er So... I'm hotness and awesome? Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

i'm the same way, i love both kits but i'd choose pool kit over the bar kit and probably the same reason you mention in here and i'm more like a pool type👍

i guess they will go well with the next EP

Also it sucks that these core features are primarily locked to early packs which are just objectively worse lol