Small but insufferable things I hate about The Sims 4 

I don’t think of you as the person who “hates the sims.” I think of you as the person who “demands answers!” Like we all should. 😂

After I bought Cottage Living I had a sims couple move in a cute pre-made house. I couldn't understand why they wasn't using half of the house! I finally put the walls up and could see that there wasn't any doors for them to access that HALF of it! I quickly added two archways but how does the person who built it forget to add doors themselves?!?

There's something that really drives me insane. They updated the Caliente household and didn't change their relationships, like HOW DUMB CAN THEY BE?! Didn't they see that we've complained over YEARS for that?! I'm tired of pretending there's some lore going on, and the worst part is, they've already updated them, they won't do it again, so we have to say thank you for a cosmetic makeover. And now they're teasing a Landgraab makeover, I'm soooo sure they'll forget about Johnny🤬

Social bunny is a perfect example of a “we will be improving it but for now there are a few basic responses and messages you can send and receive” blah blah blah. Social Bunny is INSUFFERABLE for me

9:27 The answer is they don't want to have to animate a sim opening and closing a lid on a bin, or stepping on a pedal to open and close the lid. It's too complicated for the people with millions (billions) of dollars available to figure out. The weird bin that zaps plates can get away with a lid and no animation since it's an unrealistic fantasy item in the game.

I honestly love Neighbourhood Stories. Not because it's good but because it makes the game so chaotic. Like why do sims marry the most random sims? Why does the headmaster from Highschool Years always have like 7 kids before dying and leaving the older kids to raise them? Why do the Goths now always get a horse? It makes no sense but the chaos is hilarious

I wish they would include pull-out trash cans you can put under the counters, it would be so good especially for small kitchens

What I don't understand is after 10 years, the sims still don't use their closest sinks to wash their hands! And they still use the shelves only to hide dirty dishes!! 😮‍💨😂

I hate the loading screen, loathe it...I stopped going to other lots as much to just avoid the load screen. I love the chaos of neighborhood stories, random townies adopting loads of pets and kids! I truly wish they would give us better organization for build/buy...it is a nightmare to navigate.

The hiding items behind swatches is incredibly annoying. I always find something cool i could’ve used in an earlier build because I didn’t know it was the 5th swatch of a completely unrelated item

The fact that you have to type an exact word to get an item you want, but the names of objects can be random to what they are

i have a hard time believing they've never fixed the broken lots like... how hard can it be? or am i missing something?

What's most frustrating is this is all so easy to fix......

There are two neighborhood stories. Played households and unplayed households (if you click the unplayed tab when you go to manage households, you’ll see neighborhood stories aren’t global they have played/unplayed household settings separate -- thank god, cause I rotate a few families in the same save and I don’t want my families touched by neighborhood stories, but the rest can be). The settings in gameplay settings is the unplayed family settings. You can toggle it off/on from either there or manage households. So you can have neighborhood stories on for unplayed households and off for played households or the reverse…..or have them on for both. So that your unplayed sims go on having babies and getting/quitting jobs or whatever, but the character(s) and families you control won’t be like reproducing or quiting jobs when you are not playing them. Having unplayed families and played families settings different is really useful for playing multiple families in the same save file. Though it could do with better tuning, I don’t hate it. Keeps the world going without me playing everyone, but still able to protect more than one family from neighborhood story nonsense.

The item sorting is truly the absolute worst, I think about it everytime I play bc it’s so hard finding stuff. There’s so much wrong with the game 😭

0:43 I may have to check this to confirm but I believe it's for you to customise if you would like your played households to be affected by the system or not. So they added the option so you don't have to turn them off one by one. But it should still work for unplayed households

They could even hire Simmers to redo the builds, there are sooo many who would love to do that.

Yes, Satch. It's always bothered me that there are unlit candles in the basegame that should've been functional lighting candles.

The neighborhood stories gives the option to enable/disable for your saved households and also for other households ... that way if you add a sim specifically to be, for example, a romantic interest they won't go off and get married to some random townie and interfere with the intentional story you're creating ... but the stories for townies/random npc's can proceed without having to go adjust the settings for each of the individual households that you want to include/exclude.

7:25 it just proves that they have different teams doing stuff and they do not communicate with each other. So one decided that candles are lamps, the other thought it would be misc.

I hate when my sims walk through walls instead of using the door.

the get famous rug is used for the movie set lot LOL that’s why there’s a void critter swatch, a ruined swatch, and arrows

Keep it up, Satch! You’re awesome! Somebody has to say “the Emporer has no clothes” and not care what EA or anyone else thinks. It’s called Free Speech, and expressing an opinion on a product you paid a lot of money for! (And you do it in a hilarious way that’s fun to watch!!!) Yes, the randomness of finding objects is very annoying…I never thought about the ‘bins’ aka trash cans, not having lids. Especially when Pets (or Cats and Dogs, whatever) came out…I mean, all of ours have lids because dogs love to dig in there and pull out things that will either kill them or cause a total mess all over the house (we had a dog once who was obsessed with Kleenex, napkins and paper towels…and he was smart enough to figure out how to get the bin open…and spread a thousand little shreds of the above all throughout the house…sigh. Yes, we checked with the vet, health fine, normal quirky dog stuff…we used to say he needed extra fiber in his diet.) Anyway, love what you do, if people don’t speak up, nothing will ever change, and you’re humorous and fun, not a whiner…you keep doing you!!!

Its the evil voice and the flames for me 🤣🤣

Biggest pet peeve for me: elevators are just portals. Like cmon, you’re a AAA studio, you can spend the money to do elevator animations (ahem like previous games had).

So for the first one the reason its not enabled there is bc its YOUR households youre looking at, other households have the stories on when enabled and you can still customize them too

I think the discussion should be things we hate about EA. They are so greedy that they won't put any of the Sims 4 profits back into the Sims 4 to fix these issues. I'm sure if the Sims team were given a budget that would allow them to hire more staff they would. I think we let EA get away with too much. I don't hate the Sims 4, I hate what EA has done to it.

Neighbourhood stories... I disable all adoptions and moving out. With no adoption, I get a LOT less families of 8 in a house with only one single bed. With no moving out, I avoid those empty houses stripped from their furniture. That Get Famous «rug» and it's unrelated swatches is used in the studio for the Actor career. They are used to decorate the stage. Often, a smaller plain window will cost more, probably a lot more, than a huge stained glass window. Same for the doors. And, what about the wall papers...

Oh the items not being sorted correctly grinds my gears, I spent like 7 mins looking for a kids nightlight in the kids section and even searched it on the search bar and it came up with nothing, cause my game has been broken for like 2 years

babe those are the neighborhood stories for YOUR households

We need a part 2 with what you don't like in the gameplay 😂

This is why I hardly decorate the houses I can never find what I am looking for. I always keep walls down and I just put a few mirrors on the walls. I rarely use paintings or posters. The horse items are in the Outside category and not in the Pets category which is frustrating.

I was playing sims 4 today, and I know what's one insufferable thing. The WEATHER. I set the seasons to last 14 days, and I kid not, it RAINED and THUNDERED the ENITRE SUMMER. Absolutely hate Seasons dlc sometimes, idk why people rank it so high up on their favs.

And you are right, items need to be organized by item type as well as pack, look at debug for example, all the fishing posts and landscaping are scattered everywhere. It takes you forever to find anything, unless you know the name of the item--and until Twistedmexi, finding the names of the items was often impossible. Thank God for modders.

THANK YOU about the bins! Most Aussie don't have bins out in the kitchen, because you know it's hot and smells. Other sims games have had an in counter bin so why not 4!

I 100% can never find the washer and dryer. It's not under any of the appliance categories, it's not in the bathroom category, I have zero clue what category it's under. I have to search for it every time.

I had NO idea the stupid stories thing was what was to blame for EVERY townie family in my world adopting toddlers and like 3 pets. I figured it was some side effect of MCCC or something. It's so weird and annoying

Loading screens are a big reason that I don't enjoy the game, I'm pretty much stuck in the house

Omg...i had no clue what that clothes rack from the HS pack was! This whole time i thought it was a weird shelf. I always tried using those hanging clothes but the game never let me. Now i know!

Reminds me that I downloaded the Simda dating app and I could go on a spicy date night with a cat in a top hat 😂😂

There are a lot of rugs and paintings that I never use because the good swatches are hidden behind the first swatch. Like, if I don't like what I see on the thumbnail, I'm not gonna even try the other swatches.

Didn't know that big crack in the ground existed thank you Satch support you always xx

People always talk about Get famous mansions and Realm of magic ugly house, but I recently got Jungle Adventure and the museum in Selvadorada is the most wasted potential of a lot ever. The bulding is ugly and cramped. The lot is 64x64 but the building would fit in a lot half of this.

0:42 I think that happens because the option from the Game's Menu is for the non-controlled households, for example, if you turn off the neighborhood stories option from the Game's Menu and check at the Other Households option in Manage Household menu, you would see the Neighborhood stories are dessabled, but if you turn on the option of the Game's Menu, you would see that Neighborhood Stories are abled for the "Other Households". I hope the reader understands what I write, I'm not a native English-speaker😅 And yes, Neighborhood Stories are a completely NIGHTMARE

I like the free clothes, I loathed having to shop for clothing in Sims 2, I always use mods to get past that feature.

I would love to see a build mode overhaul. Re-sort it and/or redo the menus and sort it that way

All my sim’s friends die with the neighborhood stories on. Even though they’re young lol it’s so frustrating I always turn it off

That loading screen bit sounded like a tongue twister lol

The buying of clothes, I feel like they could have done so much more with the mosquito pack if they had integrated that like you said. Make a Model career and depending on your wardrobe it can affect your fame levels and you have to purchase them. Maybe that would have saved that pack from so much ridicule.

I like neighborhood stories but there are definitely ones I like to turn off. The moving for example. I like certain townies to stay in their homes. The goths for example.

Ye the items be hidden behind swatches is so annoying i discovered that awhile ago too. I probably miss so much cause im not checking every swatch item. And im assuming its the same

They need to have someone look at those items when they create them and pick something that simmers may actually use as top swatch. I miss using a bunch of great rugs because the choice they selected is so out there. If you think -hey i want to use the egg rug... where is that now?

You forgot to mention that nearly all shelfes have something in it. So you really like the style of that one shelf but you can not use it in the kitchen cause there are diapers in it for example. I hate it!

love ur laugh satch

To be fair in sims 3 you can go back into CAS to change outfits with a huge free wardrobe just like the sims 4. And I actually like it 🤷‍♀️ I love CAS and I go into it a lot to dress up my sims

I have an open trash can in my kitchen...🤣

omg the neighborhood stories made my game lag so bad then i went to check the family bin thing and all of then had like horses and pets and random children yh no effin wonder… disabled them and had to go and delete like 1000 horses. now my games back to normal 😭😭😭

i hate in sims pets none of the townies take care of their pets, they are always sick in my game and never taken to the vet it makes me so sad :(((

Omg the swatches… I had no idea 😂😢

The Del Sol Valley driveway not connecting to a road or even a flat area makes me REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. It's at the green/blue hair sim house.

The more packs I get, the more I hate the build/buy categories.

THERE IS A MUD CRACK behind Pokémon carpets???? I never knew..

10:05 this is a problem I've been working to solve with my recolor project I've undertaken. Everything I touch is significantly cheaper (but not so cheap as to be pointless). For eg I redid the Growing Together "Lifes a Ball" speaker into an Apple HomePod ripoff, and the HomePod Mini (What I can only assume EA ripped off in the first place) is $99, not the $400 they had it listed at. EA is so damn weird. I look forward to redoing the base game bog roll holder - now in 7,500 new colors, just 5 simoleons per :P

The Sims 4 seems to be made by a group of people who don't speak to each other and on the last day of the project they put together everything they did separately. There is no consistency or cohesion between each feature that is added to the game.

Remember when they released that Venice-inspired Community Lot for The Sims 3 Store, and how it was absolutely mind-blowing because back then, they had passion? Or that Community Lot with the rollercoaster for Roaring Heights, in The Sims 3? They went from that, to releasing homes with staircases that lead to nowhere.

It bothers me that they essentially made the hanging clothes a 2 part interchangeable system w the clothes separate but we can't do that for things like beds and linens?? 🤔

You know the "alien bin" the one that's closed acctualy gives you money when you put things in it

I love neighborhood stories in one save I found out that Lily Zhu the werewolf has adopted a few Landgraab children. When I play I want a mod and can see the townie's family tree instead of finding their household and loading in to see how far the family tree has expanded.

We lost the lid to our trash can so we do have an open bin in the kitchen and bathroom lol. We just don't put stinky stuff in it until it's the morning we're taking the bag out to the curb to be collected lol.

theres a closed trash bin in the get together pack but its so tiny, I wish they just had a normal tall one!

I always forgot the neighborhood stories, I mean I thought it was cool and it still is. It's just the way it's implemented is awkward. If it would have been built more like the Sims 2 or the Sims 3 world, both of those start your save from where the town/ neighborhood begins. In fact, even the Sims 1 begins in the neighborhood. Instead, you always have to start a household to start a world. So the neighborhood stories would have made more sense if it started where the new save starts. Personally, I think the new start should always be where you can pick a world. Then you could just add an icon for create a sims on the same screen where you pick a world. Bc when think about it you have to load the game, then load a new save, in create a sim, then load again to get to the select a world screen, then load again to the world, the pick a house and then another loading screen wow I'm exhausted just typing how many steps that took.

That famous Sims have literally 0 social media followers…

i lobe Neighbourhood Stories. recently in my save five people (including Bob Pancakes and Judith Ward) died on the same day, all from chickens or rabbits

YES! God I hate the organization of this game, i'm always confused and sometimes the items have random names so searching for them is just awful ⚰

THAT'S HOW YOU HANG UP THE CLOTHES?!?! Jfc I thought I had a bug or something that just dissappeared the racks!

I 😅 do not have a lid on my bin in my kitchen. My teens like to shoot thing across the room into them and we all cheer or boo accordingly, and then I yell at them if it’s hits the wall and makes a mess 😂. I understand the stink thing but really with so many people in my house it fills up and goes out before anything has a real chance to smell raunchy.

plant bug is back !!!! my plants turn into pile of dirt again !!! every time i travel ! even ones in thing that water them and prevent pests !

What's the point of having an indoor bin if they can only put one thing into it before having to take it to the outside bin anyways? Then you have randoms coming over and kicking the outside bin over. I can't be bothered. Bring me the zapper!!

Honestly, the only thing I thought TS4 did better than previous entries was Create a Sim. I don't particularly like the cartoony style, but click and pull is a nice feature. Most of TS4 seems like EA didn't really care enough to allocate the necessary time and resources to make it complete, let alone good.

8:01 is why I hate making bedrooms these days, cause I can never find the coat racks! I couldn't stop laughing from how frustratingly real that was. 🤣

you load into the loading screen to load another loading screen then you load to watch an animation to load out

One neighborhood stories is for unplayed households. The other is for your played households

"Dude, I swear. Today is the most abnormal day I've ever had." "Hey, did you see SatchOnSims was complaining about the sims 4 again?" "Nevermind."

I've never clicked on a video so fast in my life

About the economy. This is a problem that many games have. Either they are far too forgiving, or everything is far too expensive. The latter is mostly true for games with a lot of microtransactions.

The neighborhood stories discrepancy is because the settings in game settings turns on/off for INACTIVE/unplayed households. The settings in manage households are for your played households.

lol the explanation of the loading screen took me out lol

Neighbourhood stories are broken for me. I've made a (terrible lol) story about a vampire having 30 children with a lot of differents townies. I wanted the 30 children having children on their own with a partner, to see the genealogic tree growing up. But instead, NONE of them got married or moved with their partner, they only had adopted children. It really was a waste of time aha... i delete that files bc of frustration lmao

I kind of like the clothing being on hangers but I haven't played the sims 4 in a long as time now lol

take a drink every time satch says load

I actually have an open bin in my kitchen lol. To be fair...its in its own cabinet though, so technically closed lol.

Happy Friday the 13th! I saw a black cat on my way to school 😂 it was adorable

The chaos is unmatched

We have an open bin in the kitchen for dry trash and a bin with a lid and a liner under the sink for wet garbage

I know they put lots of restrictions on builds because of performance. 1. the game runs bad no mater what because the code is spaghetti. 2. does a significant portion of people giving them money on packs and stuff really play on a potato from 2005??? like give these base game houses an update.

I'm watching my Sims 4 loading screen as I watch your video. 😅

I cant remember what its called but the wants panel 99% of the time just being wanting to listen to music. Like my fitness obsessed entrepreneurial sim needs to listen to lullabies or island music or she is gonna raaagggeee😅😅😅

i found neighbourhood chaotic yet hilarious at the same time so i quite love neighbourhood stories for that reason😂😂 i agree with the bills and the clothes part though

unpopular opinion: sims 4 build mode is not the best and very much not new user friendly, especially when coming from older sims games. also none of the furniture looks good

I always hope and pray that the sims team do watch your videos, and also read the comments so they know how many people agree with you!