The Sims 4's Free Update & Dream Home Decorator Stream Summary 

100% agree. Over-reliance on emotions is I think one of the game's biggest problems. It was flawed from the start and needs some kind of overhaul. Even using some of Roburky's ideas would help.

so true! even the simgurus showing it off had to cheat other moodlets to go away because the negative ones were easily overtaken by the positive ones 😏

Yeah... in the livestream her sim was dancing to a music she didn't like while having playful moodlet, it overtakes her tense moodlet.

Hmm... but not entirely on the moodlets? It also affects the fun need and autonomy, and adds interactions that can affect relationships (when she complained about kid's music to the kid that loved kid's music, they got negative relationship). But yeah, as funny as the angry dance was, that was a missed autonomy opportunity - she shouldn't autonomously dance to music she doesn't like.

@@peppermintbutler8205 The angry dance was kind of hilarious tho 🤣

Always happy to help. I don't really enjoy streams either. Some are better than others but I don't like others' camera controls as it can make me sick. But when I do these I know many people will benefit from my efforts and editing so I find myself excited to get into it.

@@CarlsSimGuides You're THE go-to man for an honest, realistic review. :-))

I never pay attention to the updated

Same here, and when I need a "real review" not a "bought" one 😒😓

@@CarlsSimGuides wouldn't it be neat to be a sim in oculus quest VR.....if only

Before: floor After: A pile of poo.

I'm not kidding this is totally happening in my review lol

@@CarlsSimGuides ~imagining Carl scaling up a giant dog poop in someone's living room~ I'm not surprised. A pile of poop is seriously better than most base game houses. Yeah, I said it.

@@gigisneckofthewoods Talking shit about Johnny Zest's house right here.

@@CarlsSimGuides if they have likes associated with gardening or pets, or heck the color brown, maybe you'll get bonus points for it

Well thank ya. I'm going to have to think a bit more on this one because it's not standard. I just hope you don't need to do 5 jobs to go up a rank in this case, because it could get a little repetitive. I would not feel that way so much if budget were restricted. You don't notice repetition so much if you're thinking of overcoming a challenge and I'm afraid that's something that may not have been considered here.

@@CarlsSimGuides It feels like any form of challenge is stigmatized and avoided by the Sims 4 team. Which is quite a shame, but par for the course. cough mountainclimbswithfoodandtentsandeverythingyoueverneedstrewnabout cough. Oh no, what a dreadful cough.

I always wait until it's on sale or look at free update first

The pack has no gameplay. It's all in build mode.

Nah, it's easy. but the deaf and international community gave me so much support i made 100% sure they are always done and ready before I push the button. I think other creators - especially those who use scripts - are just criminally lazy. I have the script all I have to do is send it to YT for timings and approve it. But I'm grateful people notice the effort

@@CarlsSimGuides i'm really grateful! it's always noticeable because it rarely happens. can't describe the disappointment when you click the captions button, only to be met with the auto-generated ones lol. just another reason why you're one of my favourite creators on the site ♡

@@CarlsSimGuides I’m always grateful for those too. It’s been especially noticeable in the last year, with masks and all, which creators are willing to put in the effort for things like that. I understand if vloggers who are more ‘off the cuff’ and don’t work from a script don’t want to write them all out, but some don’t even enable the auto captions and I’m sitting there watching them out and about with a mask on like, “What are they saying?” So creators like you who actually have proper captions are just fantastic and so appreciated! Thank you 😊

@@CarlsSimGuides Thank you! It means a lot.

@@CarlsSimGuides It's very helpful not only for deaf people. I have bad headphones and more important stuff to spend money on (and not enough money), plus the fact I just don't like to watch stuff on max volume and english is not my first language, so having subtitles has saved my life many times lol. Thank you so much (:

I hope the personalities match the townies in someway. I would hate to see Nancy Landgraab being into a Gothic interior or the goths favorite colour to be white or pink

This never even occurred to me. Going to gut some houses myself....

@@MathPatath I don't have time to rewatch the video right now, but I'm pretty sure he said you can change the likes/dislikes at any time. So it should be easy enough to adjust Nancy's (or whoever's) traits at the same time as I'm fixing her wildly out-of-character hot and cold weather outfits.

I'm trying friend, thank you for the support.

Omg yes, that would take retail to a whole different level I second this!

Love this idea ! That also could’ve been added to the stylist career !

I've never really thought about it, but that sounds awesome .. making jewelry with collectibles and being able to turn then into special gifts that can be worn as accessories would be so cute, especially if children could make bracelets and belts etc .. 😅 now I need that!

Not to mention when you want them to do a certain task, but they automatically go to the gym equipment

Ambitions it's so enormous that I don't even remember what it's the occult that you talking that come with this pack! And remembering that are new skillS (not only one!) both hidden and unhidden in one pack ends all the conversation.

"it's interesting how the sims 3 ambitions was able to have this profession, along with a bunch of others with in-depth gameplay AND a new town AND new skills AND a new occult" that's because every three steps your game lags in the sims 3, and it also takes 5mins to load any other neighborhood or saved game. personally i think the problem with sims 4 are all balancing and between pack synergy, i don't think the amount of things you can do is the issue.

@@shadybrain3424 I mean tbh the sims 4 lags anytime you do anything as well. Simulation lag is just as annoying, so I prefer the amount of things in the sims 3, lol. Not a dig on u tho

@@fudgecookii4396 what crazy world do you live in where you think the sims 4 has anywhere near as much lag as sims 3.

@@shadybrain3424 When I played Sims 3 back in the day when it came out I didn't have any major performance issues I can remember. I'm not saying it's not laggy, but I have no memories of issues myself. It was a great game in it's time. But Sims 2 will always be my favorite.

😂 This is a mood it's so hard to get my builds to look different

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That's what I was thinking! When I first saw the trailer, I thought "Ok...so The Tenants: Sims Edition". I'm waiting for James Turner to do the side-by-side comparison, since he's been playing that on his channel instead of Sims 4 😂

so you think this pack was done in two months? lel

lmaooo

It does seem suspiciously much like The Tenants minus the effort, coherence and real estate system.

IKR? This is SOOOO The Tenants.

For people like you, this might be grab it in a sale then (if money's a factor). I mainly say so as thankfully they have the likes/dislikes and bunks upgrade coming in the free update, but it's only fair given how much many have invested. I still appreciate it from them though.

My pleasure!

Hell yeah it is. Now they should expand upon it. Am I asking too much? :P

@@CarlsSimGuides ... WAY too much, I think. It feels like I should thank Paralives tho, but I can't figure out exactly why lol

I am not interested in the career, myself, but I do like the content and I will be buying it next week.

Its *not* for builders what do you mean!

as u should!!

I haven't played sims 4 in over a year 😂 but Ill never miss Carl's videos

Been playing Sims 2 with a bunch of 4t2 conversions and now we've got the pretty and the fun. 😂

Thanks for this. I totally agree, and the ONLY reason why I even keep up with Sims news is because of Carl. He's so fun to watch.

Every update gives me anxiety anymore. They fix one thing and break 3 more, and then it's this whole process of updating mods and finding new ones to fix what they broke with the patch. Games are supposed to be fun, not a chore. I miss the days when they had to release them on physical disks. The gaming industry had to make complete, integrated, fully-functional games they play-tested the hell out of before anyone paid for them.

I feel this so much. The previous games were absolutely not perfect, but none of them made me look at an upcoming patch with a sense of DREAD and/or the thought of "what's going to break THIS time?" The completely and utterly broken state of TS4 is what's stopped me from playing it, and I hate it. I have genuinely had a lot of fun with this game, but I no longer can get excited about future content or patches, because they inevitably come with more problems. My personal view on new releases have gone from sheer excitement over TS3 packs to "ugh" at 4's stuff. It's kind of sad.

@@lunacouer I never thought of it that way, that they tried harder to avoid mistakes when they had to send out a disc. That totally makes sense. Sigh

@@lunacouer They need to make "live services" either illegal or heavily regulated to ensure high quality. Gaming companies get away with substandard products because of "live services". You pay $70+ USD and get a game that's not even playable; that should be illegal but it isn't. It's also not illegal for them to deny refunds when a product isn't even finished; EA has been sued and lost evey time they deny refunds, precisely because of the fact that it's false advertisement. What these companies do is the equivalent of a car company selling a substandardly manufactured vehicle, but put out ads that show it performing like it should, then denying refunds because it turns out the vehicles don't even have the parts neccesary for it to operate properly and/or the parts are poorly made and break, causing accidents or inoperable vehicles. Just because it's a video game doesn't make any less ethical to purposely publish half-assed games, especially when they falsely advertise the products.

I Agree with you actually. Maybe they should have chose bored instead of tense or or at least get tense if after doing the activity several times in a short period of time

I think that should honestly be dependent on what category the dislike is. Like being tense about doing things, but being bored by the music/color/etc. ones. At least, that's what would make sense to me.

​@@LonelyAssassin96 So I've played around with the new likes and dislikes. and here are my issues: 1) The random generate button is useless. It only provides one like, or dislike, per category and that's it. I'd love it if it would have been a little more powerful. 2) The emotions are too strongly connected to the l emotions. I had a sim in a bad mood fix a broken toilet once and immediately got the "x seems to dislike handiness". I was like no, the reason why s/he is in a bad mood is because she's hungry, needs sleep, and hasn't showered after dumpster diving all day (I played rags to riches).

@@missjessilla Yikes. Here's hoping some brave soul mods in a fix.

this time I thought more of Tennants raising in popularity :D but yeah I definitely see where you are coming from

I'm curious now that you're seeing how much content it comes with if it changed your mind about buying the pack at all?

I'm guessing it has so much (build) content because it is limited in gameplay, which is more difficult to implement. It is basically an extensive stuff pack

@@WaterAce168 I second this. Most of the features they showed off span from features they are adding to the base game. The likes and dislikes shape the career, the bunk bed update applies to base game too (but the four new styles are in the game pack), etc. So we would basically be paying for 2 kitchens, a living room and some storage and clutter (and let’s not forget the random bathtub 😂)

@@yazplatt Yeah exactly! The most important and interesting features are base game, which is great, but what does this "game pack" add? A separated stove and oven is NOT a gameplay item, even if it is a desired item by the community. Are there skills? Activities? Is it really just the career? Did they spend all of their resources on the sectional sofas? Maybe xD

@@yazplatt and the new career too, obviously

Damn, give me some time. Just kidding, glad you dropped in.

Oh god, the end times are upon us.

Modders might be able to do some cool new things with the likes/dislikes system, so we'll see. I've been wanting to download traits but I'll definitely wait a couple of weeks after the update to see what's out there.

@@leahbobeaa This is always a good point. Those base systems being there make modding a whole lot easier. I'm curious how wicked whims will handle it given a system like this exists. It may make it better and there's a PG version now.

Yeah I'm wondering how this is going to handle CC furniture. Is that just going to not count? Traits it may not matter since it seemed like they focused more on preferences and less on traits.

@@leahbobeaa Yeah I have a Baker trait I *really* like (it has custom moodlets and whims and actually uses baking) so hopefully CC traits will be ok

Lol- it’s the little things man. I wanted other robes and more interactive decorations. But you are so right.

I think that's unnecessary as players aren't able to see the ceiling almost always throughout the gameplay.

@@eljaghali It helps tremendously with screenshots and it was a feature in 2 of the previous games before it. I don't know why it'd be that hard to implement since they should have examples of how it works in previous games as well as the ability to do it themselves with the jungle adventure pack.

That is so incredibly sweet. I'm so happy that you two have each other 💛

dunno man thats gay

That is so sweet. I would like to get it (if it's as good as them make it seem), but my husband and I are running low on money because we're buying a house. I'll just have to wait a few months.

@@PinkMarshmallows if it makes you feel any better, I play the sims to fill in all the things I can't do irl, like buying my own house 😅

@@natashakorbut3918 That's what the Sims is all about! Pretending! If you don't build/buy that dream house, you're not playing the Sims right. xD