The Sims 4

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  1. althekoolkid
    Oct 18, 2014
    4
    This game reeks of potential. As a base this game has a lot of room to grow. . . That being said. This is simply a base. There is nothing there. The neighborhoods are TINY, the careers are ridiculously stupid, and all of the outlying factors make the game-play incredibly lacking.

    Despite the many flaws of this game (to many to list) the selling point of The Sims 4 was supposed to be    This game reeks of potential. As a base this game has a lot of room to grow. . . That being said. This is simply a base. There is nothing there. The neighborhoods are TINY, the careers are ridiculously stupid, and all of the outlying factors make the game-play incredibly lacking.

    Despite the many flaws of this game (to many to list) the selling point of The Sims 4 was supposed to be its simplicity. They wanted to make it easier. Easier than what? The last word I would use to describe The Sims franchise is hard. Everything has been dumbed-down to the point that it completely looses its functionality. Placing houses is incredibly easy, placing houses correctly is **** impossible. I continuously find myself placing houses with front doors facing away from the street and into a field, and this theme is constantly recurring all throughout the game, things are easy to do, just not properly.

    Being that this is the "base game" I imagine it ill be improved upon. With the previous Sims installments each DLC was accompanied by a free update that improved the overall functionality of the "base game". I would say it would be fair to assume that after 5-6 expansions have been released, the base game will have gotten enough updates to be playable.

    Unfortunately, The Sims always feels incomplete until a lot of DLC has been developed and released to expand the game-play. It always feels like something is missing. I find it likely that this will also be the same for The Sims 4 but on a much broader and lengthier scale. I would wait about a year and a half before purchasing this game.    … Expand
  2. Mudget
    Sep 23, 2014
    4
    The Sims has been my favorite franchise since its release in 2000 and this is the first time in the series' long run that I have truly felt disappointed. Disappointed, I should add, in much the same way I was disappointed with SimCity and what's happened to that franchise. At this point I truly abhor EA, as it feels like the decisions made regarding these classic games have been made byThe Sims has been my favorite franchise since its release in 2000 and this is the first time in the series' long run that I have truly felt disappointed. Disappointed, I should add, in much the same way I was disappointed with SimCity and what's happened to that franchise. At this point I truly abhor EA, as it feels like the decisions made regarding these classic games have been made by the same committee who decided to improve upon the wheel by making it square.

    There are good aspects to this game, it's not a 0 or 1 rating game, as so many people are trigger-fingering here. The user interface has undergone a much-needed facelift and after a short and awkward learning-curve, you find it's far more intuitive and well-placed, opening up the majority of the screen to watch the game rather than be cluttered with information. The way specific skills level up seems more natural, and the addition of new skills like 'comedy' when talking or traits like 'introspective' when not being social for a while is cool. The graphics, lighting, effects, music, all still good, but compared to the difference between Sims and Sims 2 or Sims 2 and Sims 3, this is easily the smallest leap and I've noticed some people are annoyed at the slightly more cartoonish approach. I am not bothered by it.

    I'd love to say there's a lot more to love about this game, but there's not. Sims 2 introduced a whole host of improvements, notably an 'open world' type system. Sims 3 introduced a ridiculously innovative style system of textures and colors, among many other improvements. Sims 4 strips all of these things away and claims its big introduction (something so good it had to replace those other things) - moods and multitasking. If added to the already awesome additions of the previous games, fine. Great, even. I like multitasking - watching tv while eating and talking is nifty. But for as unexciting as that is, the moods system is even less exciting. Yes, now moods affect things, particularly how you engage in conversation (always has, though, really), but now you get corresponding facial expressions, body language, and animations. Again, add these innovations on top of the previous innovations, and fine.

    But removing previous advances, especially the style-swapping features of Sims 3, has caused this game to feel like a big step backwards. I mean big. Feverishly looking for the eyedropper tool as I style a room, only to be reminded yet again that the function was totally removed, is the hugest bummer. Yeah they took out swimming pools and toddlers and ... whatever ... I want the ability to style everything the way I like it. With that one single feature gone, the game has lost an entire level of engagement for me. Add to that the missing open world design of previous games, and then, yes, a freaking universe of items - and this thing feels like just a totally incomplete shadow of former Sims games. A real letdown.

    I am playing it and supporting the series for one reason and one reason alone - out of the hands of EA, I think this game could be revived (I feel the same way about SimCity). I honestly have no idea if EA is even directly responsible for these ridiculous design decisions or not, but I know that everything EA has touched in the last five years or so has turned to complete you-know-what.

    The game isn't worth buying for sixty dollars right now. Period. It's a practically empty shell of a game where your only real aspirations are to become friends with people in your direct vicinity and maybe eat and do dishes, watch tv, go to sleep, rinse repeat. There's practically nothing here anymore, feels like very little to do. The interest in seeing how moods affect things wore off after about 15 minutes of playing and I longed for the ability to at least lose myself in styling things to my content. I'll go back to the Sims 3 where I've got Sims in college, on vacation, and everything looks badass because I made it that way. I can do without the moods. I'll be in a better one myself with all the stuff missing from Sims 4.    … Expand
  3. finan
    Sep 3, 2014
    4
    Small SMALL worlds make this sim seem like a hugh step backwards. More than anything else they did to this game the change from open world to this new model are game breaking for me. I don't mind so much that they use zones but the way they did it make it seems more like a table or xbox game than a pc game. No 64bit support wtf? If they had a open world area with the housing hoods aroundSmall SMALL worlds make this sim seem like a hugh step backwards. More than anything else they did to this game the change from open world to this new model are game breaking for me. I don't mind so much that they use zones but the way they did it make it seems more like a table or xbox game than a pc game. No 64bit support wtf? If they had a open world area with the housing hoods around it that probably would have been ok but the way the did it makes it seem like sims 2.5 not sims 4… Expand
  4. IvanWong
    Sep 12, 2014
    4
    The Sims 4 is a game that takes EA's franchise one step forward and three steps back, with certain welcome features but a number of shocking omissions. Good music and graphics result in a polished game, but a single play-through exposes the limitations of this game compared to The Sims 3.

    The game starts off by giving you a good impression – loading times are noticeably shorter than    The Sims 4 is a game that takes EA's franchise one step forward and three steps back, with certain welcome features but a number of shocking omissions. Good music and graphics result in a polished game, but a single play-through exposes the limitations of this game compared to The Sims 3.

    The game starts off by giving you a good impression – loading times are noticeably shorter than they are in The Sims 3, allowing you to jump straight into Create-A-Sim Mode. It is here that the development time spent on The Sims 4 shines through, with virtually any part of the Sim being adjustable with an easy click-and-drag. One criticism of this mode is that while the functionality is improved, the organisation of the entire mode is not. For example, accessories on the face and accessories on the body are in separate categories. Furthermore, players (as far as I know) have to click on the Sims’ bodies at some point to get to other settings, as opposed to The Sims 3 in which every setting was accessible from the buttons at the side. Filters for clothing, while handy, are somewhat tedious to use because they do not switch themselves off when you switch to a different set of clothes (e.g. from everyday to formal) and they aren't always onscreen, necessitating a few more clicks than one would like.

    Create-A-Style is absent, and perhaps the second-biggest turn off in The Sims 4. While EA has sensibly chosen to include more styles for each set of clothes, furniture, tiles and wall coverings, the lack of this feature means that if you wanted to make a copy of a house, The Sims 3 would give you much closer results. The exclusion of this feature brings us back by a decade to The Sims 2. In defense of The Sims 4 though, the addition of wall heights, movable rooms, easy-to-build foundations and roof trims make the rest of build mode more powerful than before. Oh wait, swimming pools and basements are missing too.

    So the second-biggest turn off is Create-A-Style. What’s the biggest? The Sims 3 came with an open world mode, allowing players to follow the Sims inside and outside their house. The Sims 4 doesn't. Loading screens separate any movement of Sims outside their homes, save for the two or three other houses in the same area. Granted, these loading times are short. However, they also take a lot of immersion out of the game, so I could either choose to have limited but immersive gameplay by making my Sims stay at home only, as opposed to going to community lots, or I could choose to tolerate the loading screens which do nothing except make me wish I was back playing The Sims 3.

    No review of The Sims 3 would be complete without talking about the new mood system. In my opinion, I do not care much for it. My Sims fluctuate between fine and happy very often, and every time this happens there will be some music to indicate this (and the music cannot be switched off). Little moodlets that Sims can have determine the final mood of the Sim. If my Sim happens to have +2 angry but +3 confident, then that Sim will be confident and not show any signs of anger at all. After a while, the confidence wore off and my Sim switched from confident to being angry. All the while my brain is screaming “That’s not how moods work!” and now both the Sim and I are angry.

    In Life mode, social motives take a lot more work to keep high, and chatting online is now virtually useless. Sims can talk for hours on end online and still not be particularly satisfied. Romance is improved to be more realistic, as it actually takes more work to build a romantic relationship, whereas in The Sims 3 you could spam romantic interactions and get your Sims married in a few in-game hours. Despite this, the game still feels backward because as stated above, there is no open world. Sadly, the absence of the open-world means that EA could put 50 new features in the game and still not make it as satisfying as The Sims 3 was. The sadder thing is that EA didn't put 50 new features in the game anyway. To depress you further, the maximum height of buildings is now three storeys instead of five.

    So let me now end off with the positives. The performance of the game is better on the same hardware than The Sims 3. The music sounds good. Sims look better. The user interface, as a whole, looks much more modern. The grass is greener? I’m struggling to come up with more positives already. The same can’t be said for the negatives of the game – here’s another three. Traits are more limited, careers are simplified and limited anyway, cars are gone, and toddlers have vanished. Oh wait, that was four. What more do I have to say? The Sims 4 looks polished enough to be branded an EA game, but is nowhere near complete enough to be a part of The Sims. The disastrous thing is that if the Sims 4 is successful, there weren't be a Sims 5 (Google it). So if you have a copy of The Sims 3, keep it well. You might be playing it for a while.    … Expand
  5. BalicanBreeze
    Oct 1, 2014
    4
    While a pretty good game in itself, it's hard to judge Sims 4 without comparing it to the previous versions in the franchise. The constant loading screens are quite annoying and the lack of features compared to release versions of 2 and 3 are very blatant. The good.. the character creation and house building is much better and more streamlined than in S3, but lacks options. TheWhile a pretty good game in itself, it's hard to judge Sims 4 without comparing it to the previous versions in the franchise. The constant loading screens are quite annoying and the lack of features compared to release versions of 2 and 3 are very blatant. The good.. the character creation and house building is much better and more streamlined than in S3, but lacks options. The multitasking feature is a great addition, and would have been worthy of its own expansion to S3.… Expand
  6. CypherDivine
    Sep 6, 2014
    4
    EA strikes again.
    Dumbed down & gutted for later DLC sales.
    Expect the "pool party" & the "growing up" DLC's soon for a mere 20-30 bucks.

    Used to be "EA games, challenge everything" now it's "EA games, charge everything"
  7. JomartheGreat
    Sep 2, 2014
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just wait for the game that me and Will made, The Sims 4 Religions with personal intentions and beliefs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Sims 4 can be also a good game but without me lead tester Jomar Divina and Will Wright, the game would suck than The Sims 1 and 2, Plus with the Baptist Church, The Old Path and 700 Club Asia exclusive live doctrines, game coming soon early 2016.… Expand
  8. Mudgee
    Nov 20, 2014
    4
    Never been a fan of the Sims series but when I bought this for my girlfriend a few months back, I thought I'd give it a try. Firstly, she is a die-hard Sims fan, and she doesn't even play this. Whilst it seems intuitive, bright and bubbly, I must warn Ye' it's all a facade. Behind the initial wall of pop is a long line of mediocrity in all shapes and form. I only put two hours into thisNever been a fan of the Sims series but when I bought this for my girlfriend a few months back, I thought I'd give it a try. Firstly, she is a die-hard Sims fan, and she doesn't even play this. Whilst it seems intuitive, bright and bubbly, I must warn Ye' it's all a facade. Behind the initial wall of pop is a long line of mediocrity in all shapes and form. I only put two hours into this game, before turning it off. That was 3 months ago. No intention of going back. This game is not entirely bad, but it doesn't offer anything either. Confirmation to why I ever enjoyed the series.… Expand
  9. IDeathstalkerI
    Sep 14, 2014
    4
    The game is an absolute disappointment, I'm not saying that the game is bad but it is very disappointing. I've been playing 'The Sims' since the first one, as a big fan of the series this is a big let down..
  10. crozakos
    Sep 8, 2014
    4
    This game is crap. The Sims 3 already had some features removed from The Sims 2, but that was acceptable. This game had 89 features REMOVED from the game. It has less than The Sims 3. Hell, even The ORIGINAL Sims had more features than this game. And Maxis actually DEFENDED the missing features by saying "We improved the character creator, added better A.I. and better graphics". TheThis game is crap. The Sims 3 already had some features removed from The Sims 2, but that was acceptable. This game had 89 features REMOVED from the game. It has less than The Sims 3. Hell, even The ORIGINAL Sims had more features than this game. And Maxis actually DEFENDED the missing features by saying "We improved the character creator, added better A.I. and better graphics". The graphics are the same as The Sims 3. Everything you see in the trailer is pre-rendered fifa/madden **** A.K.A. EA's hype generator. To give you an example of how unaceptable the game is, I'll tell you some of the missing features that were in previous games:

    - No toddlers*
    - No pools*
    - No public area editing*
    - No open world. Everything you see in the distance might as well have been a wall painted*
    - No sheds, garages ect. Instead you're limited to just a house.*
    - No diseases*
    - No public jobs*
    - No unlimited floors (max. 3 floors)
    - No party invitations
    - No private schools*
    - No garages/garage doors*
    - No swimming*
    - No pets*
    - No seasons*

    Also, if your computer has more than 4GBs of RAM, you're f*cked

    * Probably DLC    … Expand
  11. TsukasaHiiragi
    May 23, 2016
    4
    I waited several years in order to accurate review Sims 4, because honestly - all the sims games started out buggy, or lacking any major features until expansions and DLC appeared and all simmers know that all the Sims games come with a crap-load of expansions....and unfortuntely those expansions are usually comes with patches that fixes alot of the bugs and glitches from previousI waited several years in order to accurate review Sims 4, because honestly - all the sims games started out buggy, or lacking any major features until expansions and DLC appeared and all simmers know that all the Sims games come with a crap-load of expansions....and unfortuntely those expansions are usually comes with patches that fixes alot of the bugs and glitches from previous expansions....heck, I don't think Sims 3 became 'stable' until a few of the last expansions appeared...but I disgress since this is about TS4...

    Nope, just can't give it a positive review - after several years, the game is STILL a mess with rampant bugs and glitches, some of which are still fairly game-breaking or review constant fixing/repairing in order to fix, sometimes the bugs just break the saves completely causing tons of game time to be lost.

    Still lacking tons of features and options from previous games, the neighborhoods are still WAY too small for builders, the 21 lot limit more or less makes each world feel so cramped and tiny that any legacy families have to be killed off just so you have room for newer generations - and lets face it, no one wants their prized sim to die especially after working on them for a long time, building relationships/families and stats...

    I could easily say that any simmer who hasn't purchased the game so far, really should just ignore this version and go back to Sims 3 and hopefully this hasn't ruined the chances for a Sims 5 at some point in the next 5 years...yeah...it'll take that long as EA drains Maxis for expansion after expansion which is usually around 10 - 12 expansions before they start the process over again.

    Sure the game has a few good things going for it, but its got so many issues and missing elements compared to the previous games that the good parts just never really shine bright enough and with the several years since its launch it still hasn't really progressed that much, some of the expansion packs haven't really been able to make the game that much better and I will say that, if the Sims 4 originally launched with all the current content back in 2014 then the game would have scored better but lets face it - so much content was cut its just not even funny - but again...its EA so its to be expected.    … Expand
  12. Neylian
    Sep 3, 2014
    4
    My score is 4. No no its not that bad totally I think its step forward but its really buggy right now and empty, I'd say its a good demo of what is too come. I believe it will be a good game to play in 2 years. I haven't played Sims 3 till they have released Pets addon and and Im not going to pay for this game either untill it will be fully playable. Right now its a good demo and I wouldMy score is 4. No no its not that bad totally I think its step forward but its really buggy right now and empty, I'd say its a good demo of what is too come. I believe it will be a good game to play in 2 years. I haven't played Sims 3 till they have released Pets addon and and Im not going to pay for this game either untill it will be fully playable. Right now its a good demo and I would say it must cost 25$ tops as US dollar and Ero as well. Too empty and nothing really to do unless you would like only to build houses, but for Sim there is not much to experience. I like a lot of things like interface, sim editor (tho they must return full customization) and emotions and other things but game-play is empty, very empty a few days tops to play it or week and that's it, played whole day going to the store to get my 70$ back for its too much asked to payed for nothing. Its solid 4 score nothing more.… Expand
  13. Cosmonaut15
    Sep 3, 2014
    4
    "Do not expect much for Base Game. At least it has potential to be one of the good game but better stick with TS3 until other expansion/DLC come out"

    Graphic/Sound: 9/10 Game Engine: 6/10 Gameplay: 3/10 Content: 1/10 Price: 0/10 I gave them graphic/sound 9/10 for their beautiful world, animations and almost perfect lighting and shading. But the sound are just ding-dong like    "Do not expect much for Base Game. At least it has potential to be one of the good game but better stick with TS3 until other expansion/DLC come out"

    Graphic/Sound: 9/10
    Game Engine: 6/10
    Gameplay: 3/10
    Content: 1/10
    Price: 0/10

    I gave them graphic/sound 9/10 for their beautiful world, animations and almost perfect lighting and shading. But the sound are just ding-dong like kindergarten song. I still prefer instrumental classic theme of TS1 the most.

    For game engine, it is now optimized for both PC and iOS. So, they have to sacrifice some large portion that become controversial so much. That is open world and story progression of other NPCs. It proved that it can run smoothly with high settings on almost all of the PC. But is it worth it since the town is now so small, silent and lack of life. I'm okay with loading screen since it doesn't take much time but at least create more venue for us to explore and play with, EA !!

    Emotion and multitasking are the most excellent idea in this series, it make them more life-like. But why they have to delete other aesthetics aspects which is actually make the game looks "incomplete". User interface is now okay, they are just swap places for each icon, but nothing significantly changed. Build mode and Creat-a-sims are also improved but they also left some limitations e.g. not every part of the body can be adjusted, can't chose other style of MANY doors and windows. What the hell??

    The content is now almost empty as the Sims Base Game always be. But this time it has been stripped to its bone. Toddlers, pools, many furniture, cars, etc. are now gone. My cars!!! No more Create-a-style. At least they can create color pallet with 100 shade for us to choose from. Just ask Microsoft Office developers!!

    For price, it is easy. Not buy it, okay?    … Expand
  14. crazedbeauty
    Sep 2, 2014
    4
    I am a huge Sims fan, always have been. I was very excited to see Sims 4 coming - they amped it up to be this amazing new game. I could not agree more with the other reviews on here... The Sims personalities, the way they look and interact is fantastic. But thats the whole game right now. Honestly. I purchased the game this morning came home excited to play spent a good 5 hours hopingI am a huge Sims fan, always have been. I was very excited to see Sims 4 coming - they amped it up to be this amazing new game. I could not agree more with the other reviews on here... The Sims personalities, the way they look and interact is fantastic. But thats the whole game right now. Honestly. I purchased the game this morning came home excited to play spent a good 5 hours hoping something was going to happen once my sim progressed so far. Nothing. What I did during my 5 hours was socialize. socialize, go to work, socialize, improve skills, go to work. build a little. There are tons and tons and tons of content left out. At this point in time I would rather revert back to playing Sims 3. This game has huge potential. Hopefully EA makes good with their fans and adds free downloadable updates and content to make this worth owning. When I first starting playing Sims 3 I was glued to my chair. After my 5 hours today with Sims 4 I was bored and shut it off. Such a shame.… Expand
  15. simlishpro
    Sep 4, 2014
    4
    I am still on the fence. Just bought it and played for a couple hours. Mostly, frustrating. i have been dedicated to The Sims/EA Games for 13 years... I was expecting my socks to be blown off. instead, the opposite. i like the game but so much is missing. no top or bottom edge scrolling (WTF) that is basic! makes playing a pain. no pools, no tilt or top view on camera, no easy way to panI am still on the fence. Just bought it and played for a couple hours. Mostly, frustrating. i have been dedicated to The Sims/EA Games for 13 years... I was expecting my socks to be blown off. instead, the opposite. i like the game but so much is missing. no top or bottom edge scrolling (WTF) that is basic! makes playing a pain. no pools, no tilt or top view on camera, no easy way to pan and rotate. it's weird... i enjoy the new features, such as multi-tasking and emotions but truly i could do without that for the game to brought closer to its height in SIms3. I dislike also, the closed neighborhood. In neighborhood view you can only see a few buildings, not an entire town, so not many options there. You can only choose from 3 or 4 lots... travelling is a pain. you cant just go out now, there is a loading screen and you're not able to follow sim around town as we could in Sims3. And the lack of interaction! what is this about?? you cant collect bugs, examine plants, fish by clicking the water... or i haven't figure it out yet. I went to get a refund and EA tells me I have no games eligible... what a joke. stick me with anti-climatic game then deny a refund when it isnt near as great as i anticipated for TWO YEARS?! I am almost embarrassed to admit i have been such a diehard fan for this company.… Expand
  16. dhartaros
    Sep 5, 2014
    4
    I've waited this games for years. Finally I bought it, and I got disappointed. The game isn't finished yet, there are some bugs as babies disappearing, or characters looking like if huehuehue and Slenderman had children. The game has the basic core-features, but lacks of that extra The Sims series give you. Cars, basements, exploration, and damn it, I even miss burglars. This game isI've waited this games for years. Finally I bought it, and I got disappointed. The game isn't finished yet, there are some bugs as babies disappearing, or characters looking like if huehuehue and Slenderman had children. The game has the basic core-features, but lacks of that extra The Sims series give you. Cars, basements, exploration, and damn it, I even miss burglars. This game is promising, but the only way EA can redeem themselves is giving aways DLC's for free. The Sims 4 is a remastered version of The Sims. On the other hand, the new Sim Creation is pretty cool, plus some other stuff (the piano is back!). Luckily, we'll have some upgrades soon with the missing content.… Expand
  17. bummed
    Sep 6, 2014
    4
    I just purchased this game and I have to say, I am slightly disappointed. While the interactions are cool and the graphics are awesome, I am bummed at how little the world is. There are no restaurants, no movie theaters, no grocery stores, no pools, you can't see where they work, no hospitals, I mean the world is tiny!! I regret spending the $60! I will be playing my sims 3 much more thanI just purchased this game and I have to say, I am slightly disappointed. While the interactions are cool and the graphics are awesome, I am bummed at how little the world is. There are no restaurants, no movie theaters, no grocery stores, no pools, you can't see where they work, no hospitals, I mean the world is tiny!! I regret spending the $60! I will be playing my sims 3 much more than TS4 for sure. So few stories to play out as well. I love the supernatural expansion for TS3 and am disappointed to hear TS4 won't do this also. I purchased TS4 hoping to have a less laggy, nicer looking version of my S3 only to be bored an hour after playing. I do enjoy how much more involved I can be with my sim and how they can do multiple things at once. The ability to multi task is something I miss in my S3 so that's a plus. But overall, I'd say EA missed the mark with this one.… Expand
  18. alexdecaris
    Sep 8, 2014
    4
    As reformas mercadológicas feitas pela EA Games em The Sims 4 e SimCity arruinaram os dois jogos que um dia já foram carro-chefe da produtora. TS4 trouxe as emoções e a multitarefa, que dinamizaram a simulação. Porém, não há grandes diferenças com a versão anterior, e em alguns pontos, é muito pior. Não posso negar que há algumas melhorias em TS4. Mas além da falta de compromisso daAs reformas mercadológicas feitas pela EA Games em The Sims 4 e SimCity arruinaram os dois jogos que um dia já foram carro-chefe da produtora. TS4 trouxe as emoções e a multitarefa, que dinamizaram a simulação. Porém, não há grandes diferenças com a versão anterior, e em alguns pontos, é muito pior. Não posso negar que há algumas melhorias em TS4. Mas além da falta de compromisso da produtora, muito foi perdido e o jogo ficou incompleto. The Sims 4 é um jogo com ausência de recursos importantes, é "meia-boca", estéril. É de fato um passo atrás na série.… Expand
  19. Buccelus
    Sep 9, 2014
    4
    First of all: Sims4 is not worth purchasing.
    I thought I maybe should give it a go, but I was let down.
    Good things: 1.Creating a new Sim or family is quite easy to do, creating a sim is much faster now, you can be more precise and you can freely adjust body proportions by drag and drop. 2.Sims are now able to do multiple things at once. The second thing is talking 9/10 3.You can    First of all: Sims4 is not worth purchasing.
    I thought I maybe should give it a go, but I was let down.

    Good things:
    1.Creating a new Sim or family is quite easy to do, creating a sim is much faster now, you can be more precise and you can freely adjust body proportions by drag and drop.
    2.Sims are now able to do multiple things at once. The second thing is talking 9/10
    3.You can now give parties, even with multiple sims having birthday at once.
    4.The new talents are also quite cool, although not that much different to sims3, except they often affect your mood and wishes, which appears quite often. Which leads me to mood.
    5.The mood feature is pretty cool after all, it makes you want to use it, because it appears in the right situation and seems realistic. For example: You feel confident after you brush your teeth, then you go to another Sim and use: "confident pick-up line". If you succeed you will feel both, confident and coquettish, while one of them is always stronger. If brushing your teeth was the only action making you feel confident, you might be mainly coquettish now, what allows you to do specific flirty things.
    This is basically the only thing which keeps you playing and the game fluent.
    6.Emotions look real and are nicely animated.
    7.Building your house is easy but not quite full filling.
    8.Cool new jobs.

    Now the bad things. There are plenty's of them, I might forget some.
    1.You can't define and precise colours of your clothes anymore
    2.There are only two very small worlds.
    3.Which despite being small have a loading screen for every single house and you have to travel by clicking your phone.
    4.No dishwasher / not many objects you can purchase, especially a huge lack of games. Darts, balls, anything. Just a table to play cards on, music instruments, computer and chess.
    5.No age step between baby and child.
    6.Children don't feel childish, more like too little teens.
    7.You can't see any stats, work progress, relation status or ANYTHING except the picture as long your Sim is at work.
    8.No pools.
    9.Sims who you have any kind of progressed relationship with (mother, daughter, gf,bf, a.s.o) will try to visit you EVERYDAY and sometimes THRICE if you are not at home (because you are at work too, because your several other does not when you work), until you let them in. For every time you don't (because you don't quit working to come home and open the door), your relationship decreases.
    10.Sims need to pee way too much and will often wake up because of that.
    11.Babies are objects now, which are only able to lay in bed or be cuddled, but never let out.
    12.If you don't pay attention while cooking you will miss the cake for your birthday after work, because you need to bake it and can't purchase one.
    13.Parties start immediately, no matter which state of needs, mood, time, or being at work. Parties at the bar will likely be flops, because the entertainer has no piano (no one told you he needs one before of course) and if you did not bring a cake (to blow out the candles is your main goal in the party "mission") because you did not know it start immediately... well you won`t get any, not by any chance and you will load being very frustrated.
    14."Make love" option tends to disappear and you have to click the bed like S2.
    15.Sims switch chairs and run around like having AD HS.
    16.You still can't ask Sims about their age. (I know you don`t ask women for their age but pls... I married a young looking woman, married her and 4 days later, one day after giving birth to my son she grew a senior. My Sim wants to make 10 babies, hard with an old lady like her. At least she has a daughter...)
    17.No ghosts.
    18.No environmental events/activities
    19.Not a single dlc of Sims3 found it's way into vanilla Sims4
    20.You feel robbed and betrayed all the time. You will feel like: "I bet this will come with a dlc", or "Really? No dishwasher?" 9/10 Minutes.

    Pls don't buy this game. If it was tagged with 20€ I would recommend it, but for this retail price and as member of a progressed Sims-Series, it should have been so much better.
    I hope this was helpful.    … Expand
  20. Kaliarii
    Sep 10, 2014
    4
    All right, I can't bring myself to give this game an entirely bad review. It DOES have a lot of good points. First, the graphics are beautiful on any setting, allowing even those with lower-end computers to enjoy playing. Additionally, the music is well-done, the interface (once you've gotten used to it) is a nice improvement, and the game itself loads faster than any of the other baseAll right, I can't bring myself to give this game an entirely bad review. It DOES have a lot of good points. First, the graphics are beautiful on any setting, allowing even those with lower-end computers to enjoy playing. Additionally, the music is well-done, the interface (once you've gotten used to it) is a nice improvement, and the game itself loads faster than any of the other base games - especially TS3. So overall, not a bad game, right? Wellllll.....

    The issues I take with TS4 are multi-fold. First and foremost, the price vs the level of completion. I wouldn't have minded shelling out $70 to a small, indie game with lots of potential, where devs actually needed the money to continue development. However, dropping $70 into a multi-million dollar franchise and getting a game that is, well... not finished.... is a little ridiculous. I didn't complain too much about the loss of open world - honestly, the loading pages take about as long as cross-map travel would have anyway, and probably won't get much longer with added DLC, so we're good there. Fortunately, the immediate area is open, so I can still visit next-door neighbors without dealing with loading.

    That said, I find it absolutely unacceptable that EA left so many bugs in the game. I've run into the majority of the known bugs at this point, and the two updates I've seen since launch a little over a week ago, seem to be making things worse. Showers keep running, even when there's no one in them (and seem to break faster when they do)... Conversations with other family members become "stuck", where no matter what those sims are doing, they're conversing - which messes with their ability to do other things - like bathe. With any other installment in the series I would hit one, maybe two bugs if I were really unlucky, and rarely more than one in the same day. With TS4, it's every two or three Sim hours (yeah, seriously.)... EA's best solution? Create a secondary "save" file, and send one sim travelling - and follow that sim. That *should* fix the issue. They think. Insert eye roll.

    Honestly, I was a bit concerned with the demo Create a Sim. The game just didn't look the way I'd expected it to. But I shook off my trepidation, and told myself this was probably an earlier version that EA wanted to use as an example. This was true - there are, in fact, subtle improvements to the full create-a-sim that weren't present in the demo. That said, however, the improvements just weren't significant enough. There are an extremely limited number of options - even down to the color combinations one can choose per clothing article. With base TS3, even though there were very few available choices for content (just like any base Sims game, kids)... The possibilities were infinite - you could literally make a hundred (or more) different outfits from the same shirt, pants, and shoes - all dependent on what patterns/fabrics you chose for each piece. I could spend hours in TS3 perfecting my sims. TS4 takes that ability away, and now, while I like the more intuitive style of designing the actual sim, I spend about 5 mins finding a clothing combination I hate the least, before being over THAT hot mess.

    The career choices are wildly unrealistic - what happened to the cop, the doctor, the businessman, and all the rest of the "normal" career paths? I mean, come on. I like the amount of challenge that's been added into promotion - I always play my sims on prolonged lives, so promotions before were just way too simple. I can also appreciate the challenge added to the "major wishes" - and I especially like that they're now relative to the age groups and you can have more than one! It always seemed stupid to me that a sim would finish his or her lifetime aspiration as a teen (or child), and just be done with "it all"... So that's kind of cool. However, putting the same amount of difficulty getting a child's "promotion" or "goal" there as an adult's is stupid. Their age-up time is less.

    My final complaint, before I run out of characters, is this: TS4 just isn't as "immersive" as earlier base games in the franchise - the player just doesn't get sucked in the way past games did. In a running series like this, the games should be GROWING, always improving (and, you know... finished BEFORE release). My hope is that future DLC and updates will correct the glaring flaws, of which there are unfortunately many with TS4. The game has potential, and for a first-time indie game, or even an open beta, it'd be a great start. The problem lies in the fact that this ISN'T an indie game - EA and Maxwell have been doing this long enough at this point to have known better than to release an inferior product.    … Expand
  21. NightWolf88
    Sep 14, 2014
    4
    The worst game of the Sims franchise, after a couple of hour playing you will start feeling that you are playing in a prison world. Is inconceivable that with today’s technology they didn’t developed a open world. Not recommended if you actually like The Sims.
  22. BohoBeans
    Sep 17, 2014
    4
    I have been a dedicated fan since the beginning. When the news of a new Sims base game released, I was so excited I think I peed. Sims 4 was advertised as a step forward and a new outlook on the way we play RPG games in its entirety. The day I downloaded it I sat down at my computer with a bag of Starbursts ready not to see sunlight for the next three days. After 10 hours of game play andI have been a dedicated fan since the beginning. When the news of a new Sims base game released, I was so excited I think I peed. Sims 4 was advertised as a step forward and a new outlook on the way we play RPG games in its entirety. The day I downloaded it I sat down at my computer with a bag of Starbursts ready not to see sunlight for the next three days. After 10 hours of game play and counting, I can confidently say that I am not impressed. Creating my Sim was very basic. It was not what it was all cracked up to be. The facial sliders were amazing and being able to click on your Sim is unique. Although the creativity was ultimately stripped from my fingers. With no creative tools and horrendous eye lashes my Sim looked like a slight twin of Iggy Azalea. Managing the highlights of your hair, length of your eyelashes and even the personalization of your eye shadow has been taken out and left true style completely basic. With only three traits, a feminine walk, and a Wealthy Ambition, I decided to make my house. As I started editing my starter home I noticed right off the bat it was extremely hard to navigate and get a diagonal view into the house, it was only a vertical or horizontal view, no in-between. Again I have noticed there as no create a design tool. There is only standard selections to choose from, which isn't all that bad because I have really noticed the modernity of the designs. I feel like EA stepped up and made their interior designs not so 90's. The game played smooth an after i designed my tiny modern home I began to play. I thought that the Sim emotions are incredible! One of the best add-ons I have ever seen on an RPG game. The emotions really make a difference in playing and I honestly think it's what keeps me playing. Being able to take an angry poop when clicking on the toilet is comedy you can't get enough of. I also love being able to paint emotional art pieces and writing emotional books. It makes the game play a lot more spontaneous and exciting.

    In its entirety I do believe Sims needs more improvements as a game. I can live without toddlers and pools, but who can ever live with those ungodly eyelashes and not being able to personalize our clothes into a zebra jumpsuit. If EA is planning on making an update I do recommend them listening to their forever true customers and correct their wrongs. The whole aspect of the Sims culture to us is to create a world we want to live in. I don't want to live in a basic world.    … Expand
  23. VirtualTate
    Sep 19, 2014
    4
    The sims 4 offers nothing new. In fact it offers a considerable amount less than it's predecessor sims 3. The main notable difference is the lack of an open neighbourhood populated with sims who lived their own lives. The idea behind this is that people don't have to sit through a long loading screen to play the game but instead give us one every time we want to visit any other location.The sims 4 offers nothing new. In fact it offers a considerable amount less than it's predecessor sims 3. The main notable difference is the lack of an open neighbourhood populated with sims who lived their own lives. The idea behind this is that people don't have to sit through a long loading screen to play the game but instead give us one every time we want to visit any other location. This isn't a very good compromise, I would happily sit through one long loading screen, getting myself a drink and maybe a snack and come back to a then seamless game than have to sit through a loading screen for every excursion from my street. It's just quite bland, I'm not a fan of EA and their methods but Sims have always been one of their strongest points. For me this is a let-down and I don't think I will be sinking any more money into expansions when the base game itself is lacking much needed content. The reason I give it a 4 is because it still does what the sims is suppose to do. It provides a reality simulator in which you can raise a family but honestly aside from the addition of new Sim moods, and addition so small it would be a better suited to an expansion this game offers nothing new and I would urge most people to stick with sims 3. If you are a hardcore sims fan then additional content may eventually make this a game worth playing but for everyone, I'd stick with sims 3 for now.… Expand
  24. Colonel_Kit
    Nov 1, 2014
    4
    This game is mainly for big fans and I am a very big fan of The Sims series. Unfortunately, this took me by surprise. Look, I understand that I am going to get some hate by some real die hard fans about this but I can assure you that I have my good and bad reasons. The first thing I notice was that the loading screen was quicker than The Sims 3 and I figured that that was some improvement.This game is mainly for big fans and I am a very big fan of The Sims series. Unfortunately, this took me by surprise. Look, I understand that I am going to get some hate by some real die hard fans about this but I can assure you that I have my good and bad reasons. The first thing I notice was that the loading screen was quicker than The Sims 3 and I figured that that was some improvement. The next improvement was the interface. It looked beautifully sharp and was no doubt an upgrade to its counterparts but that's when I realize that the Sims 4 is just another SimCity (New One). With all of its improvement it seems to me that they dispose so many great aspect that made its counterpart so popular. The Sims 4 is a dumb down version of The Sims 3 believe it or not. Yes, the way your Sims act (emotion wise) is more 'real' than The Sims 3 unit but that's barely an improvement that could had easily been implemented on The Sims 3. Also, don't expect global view. Why? Because it's not there anymore. Another thing to not expect is color customization. Yes, you read it, no more creativity on how different you can make your avatar look. There are only a few things that The Sims 4 has really improve on. One as I mention before, is emotions and the way your avatar interacts with other Sims. Two, the way you build homes and how easily you can turn a box into a glorified piece of art. Last but not least, interfaces and loading time. And just to point out why it loads so fast is because there's no more global view and what I mean by that is, rather than seeing your Sim drive to the local gym or the local dance club, you get a beautiful loading screen instead. Oh yeah, did I also mention that you are limited to where you can live? Maybe this is just for now but it doesn't excuse the fact that you're limited to how your Sims can live. Overall, this version of The Sim is just a big disappointment. Wait until it goes on sale, gets improved updates, or have some type of bundle with extra DLC's because for a full $60 or $70 for the deluxe edition, it isn't worth it. The Sims 4 is meant to be played with medium-end performance, meaning most modern computers should be capable of running it without having to get high-end graphic card or CPU in comparison to The Sims 3 (If you want to run it without much difficulty). And if you do happen to like this version of The Sims, more power to you but this isn't my cup of tea.… Expand
  25. tjh98
    May 7, 2015
    4
    Loading screens, loading screens, loading screens! A perfectly good game franchise ruined by constant loading screens and a very limited and lacking base game with the idea that DLC's will replace this once readily available content from previous games that came with their base game.

    I refuse to pay £30 for a DLC which adds a few more jobs and outfits, nor will I pay £15 for a DLC that    Loading screens, loading screens, loading screens! A perfectly good game franchise ruined by constant loading screens and a very limited and lacking base game with the idea that DLC's will replace this once readily available content from previous games that came with their base game.

    I refuse to pay £30 for a DLC which adds a few more jobs and outfits, nor will I pay £15 for a DLC that adds tents and an outdoor fire!

    Boredom: check, overpriced: check, limited in content: check.    … Expand
  26. InkPoison
    Jan 29, 2015
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm an experienced Sims player. I've invested quite a bit of money into the entire franchise (including a monthly subscription fee for The Sims Online.) I thought I might cover some of the aspects that some of the other reviews didn't cover.

    I was able to test this game for 48 hours through Origin, so I tried to encompass as much of the gameplay as I could.

    I think the graphics were actually pretty nice. The game seemed a little smoother, and the load times were a lot shorter. However, there are a lot of load times, and the division of the town into sections takes away from the continuity all together. It doesn't feel like a town at all. There's no grocery, spa, any of the buildings where your sim might have a career, and with a maximum of 12 or so houses, it feels more like a pre-made art farm. I had one sim wife go out on the town, she danced some, got hungry, and had to go home because I couldn't find anywhere for her to eat.

    Everyone likes the customization in CAS and build mode. I enjoyed CAS, but I felt like it was all a little flat. The hairstlyes were awful, most of the clothing was the same style with alternate colors and patterns.
    The sims seem to have more character, animation wise, while having less character because of the limited options of aspirations and traits. One of my sims enjoyed the outdoors, and aspired to be a botanist or gardener or something, So I built a garden outside. I'm used to gardening being a hassle from the Sims 3. It makes you sweaty and tired. But for my sim, it was completely unenjoyable. That doesn't make any sense. She aspires to be a master gardener, and she loves the outdoors. Gardening should be fun for her.

    I really wanted a grocery. Paying out of pocket everytime you open the refrigerator is ridiculous, and completely unrealistic.

    Hosting house parties is ridiculous. I don't see how one sim hosting a house party with two guests and a horrible time limit could ever achieve all the "requirements" for a great party. At least it could've been tailor made for the amount of sims at the party. My female sim has a girl friend and a guy friend over, and she has to flirt 5 times? Serve 3 drinks? Play an instrument for an hour? By the time she was done making them all drinks and multitasking with chitchat the entire time, the party was over and everyone left. Also, I wanted to avoid playing the instrument because she's not very good and would feel all embarassed when someone heard her. (Audible sigh.)

    Another hint: uncomfortable. Your sims get uncomfortable all the time. 70% of your sims life is spent being uncomfortable. 20% is feeling tense. Having to get your sims to feel a certain way for them to succeed at work or school is taxing. Having to get my culinary career sim to make 4 drinks and/or meals every day before work is silly, and a waste of money.

    There's also a moat the runs around your entire neighborhood behind all of the houses. That's where you fish! You're not lucky to have a house so close to the river. That's just a thing. If you don't live in the desert, it looks kind of like a concrete water ditch with a wall running around it. It really took away from my pseudo-Victorian style house.

    Overall, I can appreciate the effort. I get what they were trying to do, but they just didn't execute it as well as they could have. I've read a lot of people mentioning how the sims 3 was terrible without the EPs, but that just isn't true. The base game should be a full representation of the game and how it plays, and extras are extras. I'll keep playing The Sims 3 until I get bored with it.    … Expand
  27. Henri123
    Feb 21, 2015
    4
    For me The Sims 4 was done lazily. It was sold incomplete and surrounded by excuses. Not counting the reported bugs, average graphics for myself and others. They had hurry to sell the game but ought to have given more time for producers. They also ought to have prioritized some important things for the players. Still for me they were more motivated in The Sims 2 that had few bugs, but itFor me The Sims 4 was done lazily. It was sold incomplete and surrounded by excuses. Not counting the reported bugs, average graphics for myself and others. They had hurry to sell the game but ought to have given more time for producers. They also ought to have prioritized some important things for the players. Still for me they were more motivated in The Sims 2 that had few bugs, but it was fun and with a strong base game.… Expand
  28. Elite5363
    Jun 28, 2015
    4
    This game is "not finished", during the Create-A-Sim part of the game you can only have 3 traits, unlike Sims 3 which allowed player to have up to 6. Also during Create-A-Sim you can't see what jobs there are available so you have no idea what traits to pick, Sims 3 allowed players to pick a Life Time Goal/Wish and this Goal/Wish was the job that we picked for the Sim. For example, if IThis game is "not finished", during the Create-A-Sim part of the game you can only have 3 traits, unlike Sims 3 which allowed player to have up to 6. Also during Create-A-Sim you can't see what jobs there are available so you have no idea what traits to pick, Sims 3 allowed players to pick a Life Time Goal/Wish and this Goal/Wish was the job that we picked for the Sim. For example, if I wanted to be a Super Spy, that'd be the Goal/Wish, to become a Spy. The Sims 4 didn't even have Pools when it came out! Pools where added a few months later for free. Another thing, we couldn't see our Sims at work. I just wanted to be able to see the building my Sims worked at, just like in Sims 3. Again, after a few months EA allowed us to see out Sim at work! BUT we had to quit our current job and get a new job with the 3 jobs that you can be with your Sims while they where working. The 3 Jobs where, Detective, Scientist, or Surgeon/Doctor. This new DLC called "Get to Work" costs about $35. So basically you are paying for the game all over again (If the game was 50% off...). Oh and one HUGE thing EA messed up with, THEY DIDN'T ADD CARS! Can you believe it? They didn't add cars! Every so often you will see a few cars driving around the world, they can't be driven by your Sims though. EA, add cars as a FREE DLC for the game, and make the world "Open-World" like the Sims 3 was. I really dislike Sims 4 because it has a different "travel" system. That new travel system makes my game run at about 10 FPS just because of the loading screen. EA, please change the Sims 4 and make it be like Sims 3, I want to be able to travel with a car and not a long, laggy loading screen. I want to be able to have up to 6 traits for my Sims and not 3, I want to be able to see what jobs are available for my Sims when I'm creating them. I want my Sims to be better dancers and not just wave their arms like they are freaking drunk or high. I want my Sims to be able to live in a house that have Spiral Stair cases, and Elevators. I want my Sims to live in a single world and not split up within the 3 world that Sims 4 currently have. I want EA to fix their **** and stop dancing in our money.

    EA, you better fix this.

    I mean it.    … Expand
  29. Charley575
    Jun 15, 2015
    4
    The series takes a step backward in Sims4. While the emotions system and multitasking abilities have potential, the graphics are like watercolor cartoons, the open world gameplay of Sims3 is gone, and the game in general seems dumb-down and oversimplified. It feels like something you'd buy off the App Store for 5 bucks, not a full featured PC game for 60 bucks, which, believe it or not, IThe series takes a step backward in Sims4. While the emotions system and multitasking abilities have potential, the graphics are like watercolor cartoons, the open world gameplay of Sims3 is gone, and the game in general seems dumb-down and oversimplified. It feels like something you'd buy off the App Store for 5 bucks, not a full featured PC game for 60 bucks, which, believe it or not, I paid. I still find myself going back to Sims3.… Expand
  30. RealisticCritic
    Feb 6, 2016
    4
    IMPORTANT:I am reviewing this game with the version it launched in 2014 any new things will still be negatives so let's get started

    The good:create a sim (+2),Better UI(+1.5),slightly better graphics (+0.5) The bad: there are many things missing such as...create a style,Pools,toddler stage,cars,basements, etc, no exploration so in the end the game falls short and in my opinion is    IMPORTANT:I am reviewing this game with the version it launched in 2014 any new things will still be negatives so let's get started

    The good:create a sim (+2),Better UI(+1.5),slightly better graphics (+0.5)

    The bad: there are many things missing such as...create a style,Pools,toddler stage,cars,basements, etc, no exploration

    so in the end the game falls short and in my opinion is the WORST MAIN sims game to date    … Expand
  31. golongui2
    Jun 5, 2016
    4
    What I feel to this game right now, after like year and a half of its release, and time after I scored this game with an eight. I remember The Sims and The Sims 2, every expansion pack was an event that I couldn't wait to happen, I wanted to see all the content and interactions. At the beginning of The Sims 3 it was quite the same, until EA carried with them all the expectations, but IWhat I feel to this game right now, after like year and a half of its release, and time after I scored this game with an eight. I remember The Sims and The Sims 2, every expansion pack was an event that I couldn't wait to happen, I wanted to see all the content and interactions. At the beginning of The Sims 3 it was quite the same, until EA carried with them all the expectations, but I assumed it was because of me more than because of EA, because I was growing and all, so when The Sims 4 was announced I didn't care. I wanted it to happen, but not with the same expectations as The Sims 2 or The Sims 3. What happened? My sister went to the creator's camp, and came back with so much enthusiasm that caught me right away. The game was released and I bought it immediately. The Sims 4 Digital Deluxe costed me 45 dollars. It was incredible, but you sit down to play and you see that bit by bit you get more bored. Then the expansion packs, stuff packs and new game packs began to be announced and released. It was no big deal with Outdoor Retreat or Get to Work, they were not bad, but then you sit down to play Get to Work and you get bored easily and you can see so many bugs. After that the beautiful idea of the stuff packs started. Luxury Party was unnecessary, we already had a bunch of party stuff in many of the base game editions. Perfect Patio is a bit better because the stuff, although it's a small amount, it's a better quality. Then EA released Spa Day, that is a game pack and in general terms, it's ok. Cool Kitchen is that expansion pack that never had to be released. The 20 different ice cream topics are no more than different colors. When it was released you couldn't put the ice cream in the fridge (giant WTF), and the fact that every spoon of ice cream they eat they complain that they brain freezes is inadmissible. Get Together is a little bit of parties (mooore parties), the clubs and nothing more. Spooky, Movie Hangout and Romantic Garden: the packs that I didn't know that existed until this March. In only almost 2 years they released 6 stuff packs, I bought 3 of them, and only one is good. If someone asks me "Is it good to buy The Sims 4?" I will tell them that they should, because the base game is still ok, but not to buy all of the expansion packs. Because besides, they added an unnecessary and annoying button that appears out of nowhere only to make you remember that you don't have all the packs. Be selective, don't buy everything just to have anything. Do you really need Cool Kitchen or Get Together? Outdoor Retreat: Did you enjoy Vacation, Bon Voyage or World Adventures? Then buy it. Anyways, I can decide for you. I only recommend you that, because if you buy all the packs you will see all the money you lost in a good for nothing pack, and I hope EA does something good, because they are doing almost everything wrong with the game.… Expand
  32. GamecubeLover
    Jul 4, 2016
    4
    Sims took a flop on it's face oh god! This game when I got it on PC it was boring. Sims is boring at a lot of points but this game takes it at a new level. The graphics look bad they look like sims 3 which came out in 2009! Hopefully Sims 5 isn't worse.
  33. arostislavna
    Feb 29, 2020
    4
    Good mod support which makes it the definitive way to play, awful DLC monetization, and awful neoliberal globalist propaganda.
  34. longuigon
    Feb 12, 2019
    4
    The problem with EA is that they make their money ambitions way too obvious. It's 2019, I'm waiting for The Sims 5.
  35. kakak
    Nov 23, 2016
    4
    Overall pretty disappointed with this game. It seems to me like a major downgrade from the Sims 3.
    Pros: Being able to build awesome community lots (bars, libraries, etc.), Create a Sim
    Cons: My biggest problem is that the Neighborhoods are so boring. The neighborhoods in Sims 3 were big and beautiful. The neighborhoods in Sims 4 are tiny, flat, and too simple. They also dropped create a    Overall pretty disappointed with this game. It seems to me like a major downgrade from the Sims 3.
    Pros: Being able to build awesome community lots (bars, libraries, etc.), Create a Sim
    Cons: My biggest problem is that the Neighborhoods are so boring. The neighborhoods in Sims 3 were big and beautiful. The neighborhoods in Sims 4 are tiny, flat, and too simple. They also dropped create a style feature from Sims 3 - one of the best features.

    I would invest in Sims 3 and some expansion packs. Sims 4 is simply not worth it    … Expand
  36. Kire_92
    Apr 24, 2018
    4
    The Sims games have been part of my life for a long time. I started playing the first one when it was released in 2000 and have played every new release after that. Every game in the series have made big improvements, compared to previous versions, and made it a more enjoyable game with new and exciting mechanics. Every game… except The Sims 4.

    The Sims 4 takes a few minor steps forward    The Sims games have been part of my life for a long time. I started playing the first one when it was released in 2000 and have played every new release after that. Every game in the series have made big improvements, compared to previous versions, and made it a more enjoyable game with new and exciting mechanics. Every game… except The Sims 4.

    The Sims 4 takes a few minor steps forward in some areas but takes giant leaps backwards in others. The positives are not many, tough they are worth mentioning. The best change is that it’s now easier and simpler to create a sim and you have greater control over the appearance. And when you play the game your Sims can now multitask, which is a nice change, but not a huge change and don’t make a big difference. Besides that the game runs much smoother than The Sims 3 and you don’t need a good computer to play the game. But that’s about it when it comes to the positives. Sure there are some other new changes like the graphics and the new mood system. But those are neither better nor worse than previous games. They are simply just different and don’t change the game in any meaningful way.

    The negatives on the other way are plentiful. Simply put there is less content in every area. There are less traits, less careers, less customizable settings (can’t for example customize how many days every age period should be), less furniture’s/stuff, no open world (which is a HUGE step back), can’t customize clothes, no cars/transportation and on it goes. There is simply less of everything.

    But my BIGGEST complaint about the game is the removal of story progression. In this game your neighbors don’t do anything with their life except grow old and die. They don’t get new jobs and promotions, they don’t marry and have kids, they don’t move out and new Sims move in, they don’t make new friends and live an active life. This makes the world feel bland and boring. The only thing that happens is that when a whole family is dead the game generates a new one and move them in. And the way the other Sims in the world act in public areas feels extremely fake and forced. When you go to a public location a lot of Sims spawn in and join in the activities, which is how the game should be. But if you choose to leave and go to another location the majority of the people in the previous location have now also decided to follow you and go to the same place. Which makes it feel like that the only reason other Sims are there is to fill up the background and that they are there for your amusement and not because they want to. Which makes the whole game feel fake and chatters the illusion of a life simulation with real individuals.

    This game is a huge disappointment and the only reason I could recommend someone to buy this over the Sims 3 is if their computer can’t handle the Sims 3. Overall it feels like the developers didn’t even try to make a new and exciting game. If they at least would have tried to make something new I could understand that it lacks content compared to previous titles. For example if they made it into an online game or changed the mechanics completely, then I at least could understand the reasoning. But there is no excuse for what has happened to this game and in the end it feels like a money grab without any vision or passion.    … Expand
  37. Otisnemes
    Jul 24, 2018
    4
    The fact that you can't dress your sim, or pick the colour that you want for every piece of clothing, sets the tone for the rest of the game.
  38. chillbaron
    Jul 18, 2018
    4
    The worst entry of this legendary title. A lazy, shameless and greedy move by EA. Not only the game feels incomplete, but they also butchered the world mechanics that once made this title great in other entries. They expect me to pay for expansions? Hell no!
  39. shabazz0401
    Dec 2, 2018
    4
    The Sims 4 is a mediocre game at best. It lacks many of the customization options that made the previous Sims games so good, and removed many classic features from The Sims 3. The sims themselves are two-dimensional and lifeless, and only have 3 traits each, which mostly just give them random buffs instead of adding personality to the game.

    Positives- The create-a-sim is heavily    The Sims 4 is a mediocre game at best. It lacks many of the customization options that made the previous Sims games so good, and removed many classic features from The Sims 3. The sims themselves are two-dimensional and lifeless, and only have 3 traits each, which mostly just give them random buffs instead of adding personality to the game.

    Positives- The create-a-sim is heavily improved from The Sims 3, and uses clicking and dragging to sculpt sims bodies, rather than vague and confusing sliders. The loading screens have been drastically shortened, and are only a few seconds long. Build mode has also been improved, since you can now click and drag rooms and walls easily. The UI is streamlined and far nicer looking than in previous games.

    Negatives- Many features from previous games in the series have been excluded from The Sims 4. This includes cars, open worlds, ponds, create-a-style, movable babies, editable worlds, 5 traits, and memories. The sims themselves are have far less personality than they did in TS3 and especially TS2. The "emotion" system that was heavily advertised for the game is broken and unbalanced. The worlds have been drastically shrunken down, and there are loading screens between literally every lot, even lots in the same neighborhood. The huge, beautiful worlds from previous games have been replaced with tiny neighborhoods with 2D backdrops. The worlds cannot be edited at all, and feel very lifeless and tiny. The game is plagued with "simulation lag" issues, meaning that sim interactions are delayed for up to hours on end, and time frequently skips, which can sometimes make the game nearly unplayable. Babies are now just objects, and can no longer be picked up or moved out of their crib. Teens are now identical to adults, both in height and appearance, aside from going to school and being unable to get married/have children. Due to the closed worlds, cars, which had been in every other sims game since TS2, have been excluded, and sims now teleport EVERYWHERE, which quickly breaks immersion. Many NPC characters from previous games have been removed, including burglars, police officers, firefighters, and the social worker. Starving children now disappear in a burst of sparkles since there are no social workers. The Cats and Dogs expansion pack, which, as it's name suggests, only includes cats and dogs, was very devoid of features when compared to previous Pets packs. Whereas The Sims 2: Pets and The Sims 3: Pets included many small pets along with cats and dogs, small pets are a completely separate pack in TS4- My First Pet Stuff, which may very well be the first ever DLC FOR A DLC! This goes to show how greedy EA has become, and how they only care about money at this point.    … Expand
  40. flakerZ
    Mar 15, 2020
    4
    It's been almost 6 years since the release, and still being the same cashgrab as it always was. What's the point of playing this, anyway? No story nor gameplay, ugly cartoon-ish graphics, disgusting emotion system that was made exclusively for advertisements, limited features compared to the older iterations (people's beloved openworld, create-a-style, etc.). There sure are some advantagesIt's been almost 6 years since the release, and still being the same cashgrab as it always was. What's the point of playing this, anyway? No story nor gameplay, ugly cartoon-ish graphics, disgusting emotion system that was made exclusively for advertisements, limited features compared to the older iterations (people's beloved openworld, create-a-style, etc.). There sure are some advantages over The Sims 3 and The Sims 2, like quite powerful CAS and Build Mode, but these were made just to excite a new player for near 5 days until the game will have been started to glitch a lot, and they'll begin to look forward to the older games, which are A LOT more superior. For veterans of the series, mainly nothing of The Sims 4 would be as addictive as the previous games.… Expand
  41. MNaccarato
    Feb 9, 2019
    4
    Everything about this game is disappointing. Everything I remember that made me enjoy the Sims franchise is missing from this iteration. No open world, the neighborhood is terrible, there’s no personality to the game. The story goes nowhere. There is NO story. This is just another money grab for a company like EA. Everything I enjoyed about the Sims series of the past has been utterlyEverything about this game is disappointing. Everything I remember that made me enjoy the Sims franchise is missing from this iteration. No open world, the neighborhood is terrible, there’s no personality to the game. The story goes nowhere. There is NO story. This is just another money grab for a company like EA. Everything I enjoyed about the Sims series of the past has been utterly ripped out and stripped down. No cars, no open world, no uniqueness to this iteration. Every expansion and stuff pack I buy I feel robbed. I thought maybe it was because I was getting older, maybe I didn’t enjoy these games anymore, but nope I can play part 3 for hours at a time. I don’t mean to be so harsh, but sometimes the truth is just that harsh. If you’re considering this game, just buy part 3 and save yourself the disappointment and don’t expose yourself to this. There are a few things that are done well, yes it look amazing, yes it runs smooth, yes the Create-a-sim is the best and easiest ever, building lots has never been more streamlined and impressive, the Gallery feature is a perfect addition, but beyond those few things you will find yourself bored after just 30 minutes with every new game you try to start. The people responsible for creating this iteration should lose their jobs and feel remorse for what they’ve done to such a strong gaming community. EA just wants to make as much money as possible and take advantage of the average consumer.… Expand
  42. Zerobyte
    Aug 4, 2019
    4
    10 Points
    -3 Points because it's an EA game and has TOO many Dlc which are too expensive
    -3 Points because it's just fun for a short while
  43. audra1776
    Sep 3, 2019
    4
    I LOVED The Sims 2. I banned myself from playing because I was addicted, so I never played Sims 3. Recently allowed myself to play Sims 4. I'm glad that it wasn't as addictive as Sims 2 because that made it easy to give up. I'd give it 5 stars if I had never played The Sims before, because, overall, on its own, it's not bad. But there are tweaks they made to v4 that made it not asI LOVED The Sims 2. I banned myself from playing because I was addicted, so I never played Sims 3. Recently allowed myself to play Sims 4. I'm glad that it wasn't as addictive as Sims 2 because that made it easy to give up. I'd give it 5 stars if I had never played The Sims before, because, overall, on its own, it's not bad. But there are tweaks they made to v4 that made it not as gripping.

    The CAS was pretty cool. Even though it lets you move shape vectors around (to design the curve of a cheek, for example), somehow I wasn't able to create the avatars I wanted. In Sims 2 I used to be able to make myself and my friends pretty easily, and it was fun to play with all these people who really looked like people in my life. You could do funny things with them. But in Sims 4, despite the advanced tech, I couldn't make avatars that were recognizable as me or my boyfriend. The one thing better about Sims 4 was that you could design your avatars' bodies with more variation. For example, it was nice to be able to use the contour manipulator to give my females smaller breasts, and to make all the characters' body shapes more realistic.

    It's difficult to say what was less compelling about the game, all around. The aspirations part changed. It should have been better, but somehow it wasn't. There wasn't a feeling of, "I want to accomplish THIS" or "I must accomplish THAT" ... the whole thing felt a little more apathetic than v2. I suppose that's realistic, because the world has become averse to rewarding accomplishments for fear of making the underachievers feel bad. Somehow The Sims 4 has captured this new "We're ALL blue ribbon winners!" feeling.

    Differences that I noticed are:
    - there are no cars - that bit was fun before
    - there are no diving boards - realistic to life now ... no biggee, really
    - there is no private school, and no doing homework - your kid just all of a sudden is at school and it's treated the same way going to work is. This was kind of a bummer, because I thought schmoozing with the headmaster was kind of fun. I presume that the designers wanted to abolish social caste distinctions, but The Sims was a world where anybody COULD get to private school and get a nice house and a maid and a helicopter if they worked for it. That was fun. Now it's lame.
    - The first kiss, first woo hoo, and proposals used to trigger a little close-up movie scene, which was fun. Now they don't.
    - The neighborhood doesn't seem to be as big. There were less empty lots to choose from.
    - House-building and decorating used to be my favorite thing. It's still pretty good in v4, but they made it more complicated.
    - The characters now spend way too much time talking to each other. They're always gabbing, gabbing, gabbing. When you want them to get stuff done (like eating when they're starving) it's annoying to have to keep trying to control them from talking. On the plus side, the animations are well done. It's kind of cool how a character can take a plate of food, sit on a bed, and talk to a toddler playing nearby. Even though I can appreciate the tech, I don't like the result in the game play.
    - The characters have a lot more options now. I understand how this would seem like a good thing, but it's not. Too many options slow the game down. For example, when you clicked on a character in v2 you had, I dunno, maybe 12 options for ways to interact with them. Now, in v4, you have a ton more options. While I do like the color-coding and the grouping them in motive categories, I think having this many options actually makes the game less fun. Similarly to how you have to constantly control your Sims from talking to each other, the multitude of character action options forces you to spend too much time clicking in order to get them to do what you want.

    All in all, I think The Sims 4 is a fun game to try if you've never played The Sims before. However, for me, I was hooked for about a week, and then I hated it. There was a lot of work required for not much reward. I liked Sims 2 better.    … Expand
  44. enbyenvy
    Apr 28, 2020
    4
    The only problem I have with this game is the pay gap with male bodies vs female bodies.

    I have both male and female working in the space unit--they are currently at the module cleaner level. M is getting paid 37/hr while FM is getting paid at 33/hr. Seriously???? How hard is it to get equal pay FOR THE SAME JOB? I'm going to bet it happens with other careers(I'm not sure though).    The only problem I have with this game is the pay gap with male bodies vs female bodies.

    I have both male and female working in the space unit--they are currently at the module cleaner level. M is getting paid 37/hr while FM is getting paid at 33/hr. Seriously???? How hard is it to get equal pay FOR THE SAME JOB? I'm going to bet it happens with other careers(I'm not sure though).

    The game itself is really fun, I also wish there was a graveyard or something to reflect the whole town's death as the game progresses.    … Expand
  45. eplate2
    Jul 24, 2023
    4
    I guess i just don't really understand the appeal of a game like this. I think it's super repetitive to take over the life of a sim and live a standard human life while you build up a networth to buy more...furniture? I dunno, I hate it
  46. Game_Matrix
    Feb 26, 2021
    4
    Got it for 4 euros on sale. And absolutely regretting it. It's because, all the content that I wanted in this game is in form of an overpriced DLC, and i don't like playing incomplete games.
  47. Fallconex
    Dec 17, 2020
    4
    I can't think of anything NEW that this game brings to the genre. The only point of 4th part is to make more profit and bring newcomers.
  48. kaana948
    Dec 14, 2020
    4
    not gonna lie: playing this easier than playing sims 3 because game works wery well

    but thanks to the ea, the game and sims themselves lost their soul they don't feel like real characters and ea literally tries to sell everything like seasons? pay for it pets? pay for it? and worst things is that they are not good than the old sims games' dlc's
  49. neckezz
    Dec 22, 2020
    4
    This game is a big miss, it's just leagues down from Sims 3, **** expansion which costs a lot of money.
    The only good thing about this game is sim creation. Also, the graphics can be better.
    If you want to play sims, and you don't care about music and graphics, download Sims 3.
    Shame on EA, money-hungry bastards.
  50. mdang90
    Feb 2, 2021
    4
    being a simmer since 2001, I've been playing from The Sims for over 15 years and I have to say The Sims 4 is a mess :) Everytime 1 single new content released, I gave it a chance and I felt so disappointed over and over and over again.... Just because The Sims 4 is not The Sims anymore!
    a boring gameplay, meaningless content, bunch of decoration only items, no charming NPC .... everything    being a simmer since 2001, I've been playing from The Sims for over 15 years and I have to say The Sims 4 is a mess :) Everytime 1 single new content released, I gave it a chance and I felt so disappointed over and over and over again.... Just because The Sims 4 is not The Sims anymore!
    a boring gameplay, meaningless content, bunch of decoration only items, no charming NPC .... everything makes me get bored super quickly. I nearly have nothing to do with this game although the create-a-sim and build system are cool and easier to catch up!
    All the production care about seems to be money    … Expand
  51. Drewmeadyy
    Feb 17, 2021
    4
    The sims 4 base game is missing a lot of content, where's the open worlds, why are the babies just objects and where are the cars? I want to like this game as there are many aspects of it which i do like which makes it addictive and can play hours on end. The expansions packs are pricey and some fail to add much to the game. 6 years and minor improvements. The game isn't awful by an meansThe sims 4 base game is missing a lot of content, where's the open worlds, why are the babies just objects and where are the cars? I want to like this game as there are many aspects of it which i do like which makes it addictive and can play hours on end. The expansions packs are pricey and some fail to add much to the game. 6 years and minor improvements. The game isn't awful by an means , but the game has so much potential and its a shame its being wasted. 44/100… Expand
  52. Wondux
    Jan 3, 2022
    4
    Honestly, the 3rd game was better than this. It was boring to me. Areas to explore are very limited. The game only added new graphics in order to make easy money and removed some good aspects in the process.
  53. jojimbo
    Sep 12, 2014
    3
    Featureless botch of loading screen hell. Want to visit next door = loading screen, Plots all disjointed and, yes loading screen. A massive step backwards into a dog turd.
  54. Sshodan
    Sep 4, 2014
    3
    A remake of sims 2... Loading screen hell and locked in the house again - no matter what else they added or will add the loss of a seamless neighborhood is horrible - the loading screens are even withing your small sets of lots - you need two loading screens to go to the neighbors lot...
    Even today the screens are not exactly lightning fast on a common PC and what will they grow in to    A remake of sims 2... Loading screen hell and locked in the house again - no matter what else they added or will add the loss of a seamless neighborhood is horrible - the loading screens are even withing your small sets of lots - you need two loading screens to go to the neighbors lot...
    Even today the screens are not exactly lightning fast on a common PC and what will they grow in to after some expansions and custom content?    … Expand
  55. Terrum
    Sep 25, 2014
    3
    Let me start by saying that I have read through a lot of the reviews, I have watched videos of the game footage, and I even went as far as playing the game on a friend's computer, as I've seen some people complain about reviews being unfair just because they hadn't played the game. So, as someone who grew up with The Sims series, this is genuinely the least impressive. They really shouldLet me start by saying that I have read through a lot of the reviews, I have watched videos of the game footage, and I even went as far as playing the game on a friend's computer, as I've seen some people complain about reviews being unfair just because they hadn't played the game. So, as someone who grew up with The Sims series, this is genuinely the least impressive. They really should have stopped with The Sims 3 because that was average too, but still much better than this. No one should ever have to pay for stuff in-game after spending $70-$80 on the game itself. The graphics, fine, they're pretty good and very Sims-style graphics. But the gameplay is no different and you pretty much have to buy DLCs to actually play it properly - what happened to having community made content for free like in The Sims 1?… Expand
  56. Tubey
    Oct 16, 2014
    3
    Imagine playing Skyrim, but they locked off a load of the skill trees as DLC. Or playing Final Fantasy 7, but Yuffie and Vincent were downloadable characters and the Gold Saucer was DLC. The effect would be that you're playing a good game, but it's so bare bones that it can't possibly be considered a complete game.

    Sims 4 takes this one step further. This "game" is quite literally a    Imagine playing Skyrim, but they locked off a load of the skill trees as DLC. Or playing Final Fantasy 7, but Yuffie and Vincent were downloadable characters and the Gold Saucer was DLC. The effect would be that you're playing a good game, but it's so bare bones that it can't possibly be considered a complete game.

    Sims 4 takes this one step further. This "game" is quite literally a barebone skeleton of a game that is frankly nothing to write home about until the 1000 DLCs come out and flesh it out. Which, of course, means this will ultimately be a £200+ game.

    Is it worth that outlay? It;s impossible to tell, but just going on the skeleton we have available to play, the answer is a resounding no. Why? Because this game is a shinier version of Sims 3, with added loaded screens. So why not just buy Sims 3 with all the DLC for not much more than the base game of Sims 4 costs? Hell, why not buy Sims 2, which again is a superior title for a few quid?

    The emotion system in Sims 4 adds something different I guess, but it's not a good enough reason to justify the outlay or the time you'll invest in the title. That aside, nothing is better here than its' predecessors.

    I'm not an EA hater. If they get something right, I'll praise them for it. But this title is everything EA is criticised for in a nutshell - DLC by the boatload, not much else.

    And please can game reviewers at apparently reputable websites stop giving ridiculous scores to AAA titles to appease their paymasters? It's cynical and worrying as you are conning people into turning over hard cash on sub-par titles. Just stop it.    … Expand
  57. theirrelephants
    Sep 6, 2016
    3
    The fixed the horrendous, purposefully bad (they do this to get you to buy the next Sims game) load times of the Sims 3!

    Unfortunately and completely predictably, they did so by ripping out over 90% of the content the previous game and its xpacs had.

    Just play sims 3 and put up with the loading times if you enjoy the sims.
  58. giskarduk
    Sep 9, 2014
    3
    I like the sims games and I am not blind to the problems the Sims 3 had. It ran badly even on fast machines, it could handle too many NPCs and had so many bugs you spent half your time at the console using cheats to clear them. It also had over £300s with of extra material added by extremely over priced expansions. When it came out people said it had nothing in it compared to the Sims 2I like the sims games and I am not blind to the problems the Sims 3 had. It ran badly even on fast machines, it could handle too many NPCs and had so many bugs you spent half your time at the console using cheats to clear them. It also had over £300s with of extra material added by extremely over priced expansions. When it came out people said it had nothing in it compared to the Sims 2 with its many expansions. The Sims 4 has no expansions yet so its being compared to the Sims 3 with all its extra content. So its not going to look good.
    Fact is though, compared to the Sims 3 without any expansions, the Sims 4 does not have much of anything, the maps may be designed to improve performance but they have cut back too far, you can see your neighbors house, but if you want to visit it, there is a loading screen to deal with and if you switch between your Sims whilst one is out, there is a bug that stops your Sim entering your front door. I found my self actually bored, the game seems to be Eat Sleep and **** and little else. Sure the emotions are funny and the character creation is interesting. But the UI it self scatters everything all over the screen, its not all in one place anymore so you spend the first hour wondering where everything is and the rest of your life cursing the design decision that put everything in each corner of the screen. Also the Sims look pretty dated, this is not much of an upgrade over the Sims 3 from a graphics perspective, in fact it may even be a step back once you get over the new hair and stuff. The game is very slick and polished when you go to town and find only 4 buildings you can enter and there is loading screen between each of those, you more or less get the idea that the Sims 4 has a bad case of anorexia, which for £50 for the standard game, makes it one of the biggest rip offs on sale today. EA being the holder of most of these rip off records. Having said that, if your willing to throw money at EA I am absolutely positive they will solve all these problems with a whole series of grossly over priced expansions.    … Expand
  59. guitarmaniac004
    Mar 2, 2015
    3
    Ok, so giving this game above a 0 was hardenough but I'll give it some amount of credit. I like the game to an extent. It's fun to play while the internet is down and it's nice to build a neat house or create the sim that you've always wanted to be. The thing is, this game doesn't supply all of that. The create-a-sim is better than it used to be because it interactsbetter with theOk, so giving this game above a 0 was hardenough but I'll give it some amount of credit. I like the game to an extent. It's fun to play while the internet is down and it's nice to build a neat house or create the sim that you've always wanted to be. The thing is, this game doesn't supply all of that. The create-a-sim is better than it used to be because it interactsbetter with the userface. The build mode would be alright if it didn't constantly bombard me with DLC, as if this game wasn't entirely based on DLC!

    As opposed to gameplay, this game has taken a definate setback. They slightly improved the graphics (yay I guess?) while removing access to the entire game without loading screens. This really ticked me off. The idea of bringing out a new game to a franchise isn't to just slap an extra number on there and to strip most of it's features. You're supposed to have a HOOK! Something newthat people can grab on to to make ther game new and exciting. This game did not supply that. I felt like I was playing The Sims 3 with a lot of removed features. I don't know what was going through EA's/Maxis's mind when they thought the next intallation of The Sims was going to be a success. This game sucks donkey balls but some features are ok... but it still sucks balls    … Expand
  60. cubanboy31
    Sep 9, 2014
    3
    The Sims 4 has givening me no reason to spend my money on it, when everything in the Sims 2 is on pair, not to even compare it to 3. The Sims 4 might have a shinner coat of paint, but if the Sim 3 is an sign of how much DLC can be squeeze out of people at 20 expansions at 30 a pop, your going to end up having to pay close to 600 alone for a complete game.

    The fact pools and children are    The Sims 4 has givening me no reason to spend my money on it, when everything in the Sims 2 is on pair, not to even compare it to 3. The Sims 4 might have a shinner coat of paint, but if the Sim 3 is an sign of how much DLC can be squeeze out of people at 20 expansions at 30 a pop, your going to end up having to pay close to 600 alone for a complete game.

    The fact pools and children are removed gives the consumer an idea of the first 2 DLC packs that will be offered at a prem of 29.99-39.99 each.

    Time for the sun to set on the Sims as 4 has nothing new to offer past shinnier graphics and more DLC.    … Expand
  61. MaxLexandre
    Sep 3, 2014
    3
    I quite don't know what to say, while the new game looks amazing, it's failing on actual playable content, and specially, most-loved things from past games that were just not added to the base game, when i imagined Story Progression would be finally improved and fixed on TS4, i came to know it wasn't added at all, while people who like "move director" style of gameplay, who wants the gameI quite don't know what to say, while the new game looks amazing, it's failing on actual playable content, and specially, most-loved things from past games that were just not added to the base game, when i imagined Story Progression would be finally improved and fixed on TS4, i came to know it wasn't added at all, while people who like "move director" style of gameplay, who wants the game to have its own progression, things to happen, etc... will be disappointed.… Expand
  62. Sjalka
    Sep 7, 2014
    3
    For that review i will only consider the base game, what we actually get for our money - without the certain knowledge that there is probably more than 10 times the content coming in various DLCs ( each for nearly full price )

    My first impression after installing is - the UI is kind of ugly, stylish, but still ugly. It starts out with the CAS, which places the sim against a plain white    For that review i will only consider the base game, what we actually get for our money - without the certain knowledge that there is probably more than 10 times the content coming in various DLCs ( each for nearly full price )

    My first impression after installing is - the UI is kind of ugly, stylish, but still ugly. It starts out with the CAS, which places the sim against a plain white background - and although it serves no purpose at all, i did very much appreciate the changing room style of the sims 3.

    CAS is the part where you spend a long, long, looooong time in - adjusting, readjusting, adding tiny little flaws and traits to the sim, trying to get the details just right even if you hardly notice them in the actual game.
    The first shock (not really a shock, cause it was mentioned so many times before i had the game) - there is no create-a-style. There is a saying that you only really appreciate something when you miss it. And it does turn out that i very much appreciated the feature in Sims 3 - and i so very much miss it now.

    I end up with a sim that allows me more freedom in physical aspects, while placing strange restrictions on me in terms of style. ( however, i only review the BASIS retail version of the game, i do not have the deluxe or collectors edition, so who knows - maybe they have a bigger wardrobe when it comes to styles? )

    My sims aspirations - hmm... a lot less customization there, too. a little disappointing, but the traits and flaws we get are satisfactory for the most part - but it does look like there is definite room to expand the list of available traits, - and also sure that EA will do it.

    On we go to the neighbourhood. - and man, that one looks terrible. No more birds flight over a fairly vast valley, or in later expansions - entire archipelagos. ... instead - a selection of a few houses. the size of my "world" does not even justify the name "tiny village" - in fact, it does not look like a world at all.

    I am painfully reminded at Sim City 2013, which gave us town sized squared instead of city/metropolis sized areas. - So it seems that "progression in sequels" means "smaller".
    Maybe however smaller means much more detailed? - well... no. It means just smaller.

    Building a house is similar to the Sims 3 with a few tweaks, useful tweaks, but again - however that was to be expected - i am missing tons of materials to customize my home, - remembering the Sims 3 BASE game however, ... yea - its about the same.

    Managing my Sims is as enjoyable as it was in the Sims 3 and 2 ( never played 1 ). - In fact, i d go so far and say - it is almost the exact same as the Sims 3 in terms of interaction with the sims. Sure, there are some tweaks like multitasking - but in general, my sims experience does not differ much.

    And so i focus again on the flaws. loading times that shatter any believe of a sprawling, living world around my house. Again, one only appreciates a feature when it is lost - and i realize how much i appreciated the wide open areas of the sims 3.

    Now in that case - i am not so sure if EA can DLC a more open world in that game - i kind of doubt it - which leaves me sad.

    on the positive side - i kind of like the new cartoonish look of the sims. Since it never managed to look "realistic" it is a good choice to go more cartoonish.

    All in all however, i notice that i miss a lot more than i appreciate - in all fairness however, i do believe i felt the same when The Sims 3 was released and it was only the base game yet. The restricted world however is a huge negative - and a huge step backwards in the series, a restriction that might break the game.    … Expand
  63. Morokish
    Sep 11, 2014
    3
    its not worth your money at all! Ea as usual is trying to ram up dlcs so, all things this game is lacking you will see it released on dlcs! but you my friend have the power, so dont buy this game or dlcs!
  64. DerAleckz
    Oct 11, 2014
    3
    Here's my rating for The Sims 4 (played on PC)

    +Create-a-Sim-tool
    +deeper emotional feelings

    -graphics
    -controls/UI
    -neighborhoods
    -lack of innovations
    -no cars, no toddlers, ...
    -very basic (bad value)
  65. Panoptical
    Sep 17, 2014
    3
    The biggest problem with this game is that there is no reason to buy it instead of The Sims 3 with it's expansions. It's stripped down and a dreadful step in game making. I long for the day where some indie or other developer creates something based on The Sims that will surpass this to the moon and back.
  66. hermis98
    Sep 4, 2014
    3
    Generally disappointed by this game. The tutorial is horrible and not optional, the map is gray and even smaller than both Sims 2 and 3, there is even a load time every time you opens and closes the map. The whole gameplay aspect of the game feels very much like taking a step backwards from the other games, with the emotion system as an only exception.
  67. puchjd
    Sep 18, 2014
    3
    I felt just the same way when i bought the "new" SimCity, all cool options and addictive gameplay were gone. The same happened with TS4. This game is booooooooooring compared to the Sims3. Maybe it's a good option if you have not played anohter sims game ever, but as a fan of the series, you will be very disappointed. The gameplay just sucks, loading screens? come'on!, the "city" where youI felt just the same way when i bought the "new" SimCity, all cool options and addictive gameplay were gone. The same happened with TS4. This game is booooooooooring compared to the Sims3. Maybe it's a good option if you have not played anohter sims game ever, but as a fan of the series, you will be very disappointed. The gameplay just sucks, loading screens? come'on!, the "city" where you are living is just dead, there are no longer interesting stories going around, the lack of customization, fewer life dreams, and a long etc.. Now i have graded this with a 3 for the following: nice create a sim, improved social interactions (more "realistic")... and i think that's it.… Expand
  68. pjson12345
    Nov 22, 2014
    3
    A half-assed attempt at a Sims game

    Pros Create a Sim is fantastic you can make pretty much whoever you want it is very detailed apart from the clothing selections and colors. Multitasking is a great feature to the series allowing you for example to talk to a person while watching TV or cook and talk at the same time. In previous games you would have to cancel a task to do the thing    A half-assed attempt at a Sims game

    Pros
    Create a Sim is fantastic you can make pretty much whoever you want it is very detailed apart from the clothing selections and colors.

    Multitasking is a great feature to the series allowing you for example to talk to a person while watching TV or cook and talk at the same time. In previous games you would have to cancel a task to do the thing you wanted and prioritize what you do first but here it is quick and simple to do.

    Gallery is a great way to see what the community has built

    Cons

    Blatantly no content here screams EXPANSION PACKS while flailing Sim Guru X liked XXX

    Game does not live up to the tag line "Smarter Sims Weirder Story's" the sims themselves are pretty dumb they will do what you tell them to forever without considering basic needs such as hunger, Freewill is pretty much dead if you tell them to do something.

    The game is buggy as F*** Sims will not wash up they will just hold the plates until these "Smarter Sims"
    just put them on the floor and i have run into 3 corrupt save files in my 10 hours playtime.

    Tutorials is F****** annoying they come up in the most annoying spots either hiding something you want to click or just fail to explain what the hell to do.

    Verdict

    Game is a real disappointment i have loved the sims my entire life and to see it just be a cash grab for EA just saddens me. We should go back to the good old days of The Sims 2.

    3/10    … Expand
  69. Stormshadow2k
    Sep 6, 2014
    3
    No skill diary or options to expand into skill achievments. WHY remove this!? No open world. WHY remove this? What made you deside to evolve the franchise BACKWARDS!? I really really regret spending money on this game. I could have stuck with Sims 3 - as its a BETTER GAME with more options. Epic fail EA. Epic, epic fail.
  70. whitepawn
    Oct 23, 2014
    3
    This is mobile gaming blown up for the PC. Repeat that to yourself 3 times. There's a trend right now that says mobile gaming is where the money is (see: microtransactions). It's like that don't get that while we may play that crap on our smartphones, so we don't have to do nothing during downtime away from home, what we want is to return to our PCs or consoles with our BIG screens andThis is mobile gaming blown up for the PC. Repeat that to yourself 3 times. There's a trend right now that says mobile gaming is where the money is (see: microtransactions). It's like that don't get that while we may play that crap on our smartphones, so we don't have to do nothing during downtime away from home, what we want is to return to our PCs or consoles with our BIG screens and comfortable controls.

    Look at the base of this game. It's FB. It's tablet. It's not PC. The lack of choices on the character creation menu alone makes me sad. It only took two characters for me to realize how similar they would be...even wearing the same pair of pants, cuz, there's only one pair of pants!

    Blame mobile gaming for this farce.    … Expand
  71. TurboDog777
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    I have put this off long enough. I have tried to see the value in this game, tried to give the people that kept telling me "This game is SOO much better then Sims 3" a chance but the fact is this game is dookie. There ARE elements to the Sims 4 that are good such as the emotion system and updated graphics from the Sims 3. Sims seem more alive and I have to be honest I did legit enjoy myI have put this off long enough. I have tried to see the value in this game, tried to give the people that kept telling me "This game is SOO much better then Sims 3" a chance but the fact is this game is dookie. There ARE elements to the Sims 4 that are good such as the emotion system and updated graphics from the Sims 3. Sims seem more alive and I have to be honest I did legit enjoy my first few days with it. But after the magic wore off, I started to get bored... REAL bored. Everything feels like its made out of cardboard. Yeah, pretty to look at but no substance there. I'm not in a town, I'm in a house with a picture of a town in the background. Those arnt cars going by, that's not a train rolling down the tracks, its just window dressing. its all fake and it does NOTHING. I also have to admit that I kept hearing certain sim fans saying that its not fair to compare the sims 4 to any sims 3 expansion because its a base game. To that I say I DO in fact compare many aspects of the sims 4 to every part of the sims 3 because I PAID for all that **** I spend hundreds of dollars on all those expansions over the years starting with the Sims 1 and I would at least expects a FEW things from previous expansions to be in 4 like weather, or pets, or anything else that I already paid Maxis for 3 times already. This game isn't a step forward, its not even a step sideways, its a giant step back. I give the Sims 4 a few points for entertaining me with what it did right but in the end, Its not worth it. Go play the Sims 3.… Expand
  72. rrafemi
    Feb 3, 2017
    3
    Terrible desde todos los puntos de vista.
    Es incomprensible como un editor de personajes tan completo como tenía la anterior entrega, se queda en nada y tan falto de opciones y personalización en Los Sims 4. No es posible editar las texturas ni los colores. El número de opciones de peinados, barbas y detalles del cuerpo se han visto reducidos a unas pocas opciones. Los tatuajes tampoco se    Terrible desde todos los puntos de vista.
    Es incomprensible como un editor de personajes tan completo como tenía la anterior entrega, se queda en nada y tan falto de opciones y personalización en Los Sims 4. No es posible editar las texturas ni los colores. El número de opciones de peinados, barbas y detalles del cuerpo se han visto reducidos a unas pocas opciones. Los tatuajes tampoco se pueden editar, no puedes superponer varios para crear una imagen mas persnalizada y tampoco permite colocarlos a distintas alturas y tamaños.

    El mapa del mundo es de auténtico chiste, un simple dibujo plano con apenas unas pocas parcelas. Dentro del barrio, su tamaño es como 1/5 de los mapas de el anterior juego

    Prácticamente todo el juego parece una involución de la anterior entrega. Todo es peor, todo tiene peor editor, menor tamaño, sin opciones de personalización.

    todo esta mal en este juego. Es decepcionante en todos los aspectos.    … Expand
  73. nilsy
    Sep 14, 2014
    3
    I'm probably the unusual customer who tried sim3 and didnt like it at all and yet decided to try sim4 and see if it was better. It might be as good as a clean no DLC sim3 but if you didnt like sim3 id say there is no almost no chance you will like sims4 its basically the same game.
    It does have the youth potion in it that lets you extend a sims lifespan so it can achieve the hard to reach    I'm probably the unusual customer who tried sim3 and didnt like it at all and yet decided to try sim4 and see if it was better. It might be as good as a clean no DLC sim3 but if you didnt like sim3 id say there is no almost no chance you will like sims4 its basically the same game.
    It does have the youth potion in it that lets you extend a sims lifespan so it can achieve the hard to reach goal you set for it before it dies. used to have that in sims3 that my sims died before i reached my goal but unlocking the youth potions is a very time consuming minigame that takes you out of immersion.    … Expand
  74. hedeon
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Played for 5 hours so far and to be honest, I don't see much improvement over Sims 3. Yes loading times are shorter, yes there are moods now, and sim creation is slider-less, graphics little bit better, but overall it is the same game. It should be called Sims 3.5. So far I have a feeling that there is actually less stuff (haircuts, clothes, furniture) than it was in vanilla Sims 3. IfPlayed for 5 hours so far and to be honest, I don't see much improvement over Sims 3. Yes loading times are shorter, yes there are moods now, and sim creation is slider-less, graphics little bit better, but overall it is the same game. It should be called Sims 3.5. So far I have a feeling that there is actually less stuff (haircuts, clothes, furniture) than it was in vanilla Sims 3. If you have some add-ons with your Sims 3 it will feel like a downgrade to you.… Expand
  75. minidruid
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Game starts out entertaining and looks pretty nice. Slowly over time i realized that it was a shell of a game and actually lacked much of the depth that i enjoyed as the game series progressed from the original sims up to the Sims 3. It feels like they stripped the game down in order to push of DLC that should have been included in the game to begin with. I have already contacted EA aboutGame starts out entertaining and looks pretty nice. Slowly over time i realized that it was a shell of a game and actually lacked much of the depth that i enjoyed as the game series progressed from the original sims up to the Sims 3. It feels like they stripped the game down in order to push of DLC that should have been included in the game to begin with. I have already contacted EA about a refund due to their 24hr origin satisfaction guarantee. Overall the game leaves to much to be desired in a franchise that has had so much success.… Expand
  76. Jach
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    The graphics suit well with the environment. This is the good point.

    However, the gameplay is too poor compared to the previous Sims' base games. I am disappointed as I expected a better game than what EA badly made. I'm a fan of Sims games but Sims 4 is bad.
  77. geraldteo
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Let me start that I admire EA for making the characters deeper. For a life simulator, deeper characters are definitely a plus. EA has emphasized this, and it's definitely delivers as a proof-of-concept. This, along with the graphical overhaul deserves three points.

    However, this game feels like it regressed in many other ways. I won't go into the lack of toddlers and pools, that's been    Let me start that I admire EA for making the characters deeper. For a life simulator, deeper characters are definitely a plus. EA has emphasized this, and it's definitely delivers as a proof-of-concept. This, along with the graphical overhaul deserves three points.

    However, this game feels like it regressed in many other ways. I won't go into the lack of toddlers and pools, that's been beaten to death. What people aren't talking about as much are:

    1. Create-a-sim has been nerfed. You only have around 5 patterns or colors per furniture/piece of clothing
    - No more thousands of combinations of patterns to customize clothing
    - You don't have a color wheel as well to edit

    2. You are back to dollhouse mode like in Sims 1 and 2.
    - No more open world like in Sims 3. You have to go to a loading screen even just to visit the people next door.
    - Loading screens are signs of a bygone era. This is unacceptable considering Sims 3 got us past this already.

    3. Character interactions are much less and just weird.
    - You don't have as much character interactions.
    - There are weird interactions like when you are having your sim talk to someone, another person your sim doesn't know just joins the conversation, and you can't kick that extra person out of the combined conversation without quitting it.

    I really wanted to like the Sims 4. However it feels like it took us too many steps back to give us the new emotion system. This is not a game, but a proof-of-concept of the emotion system. Compared to the Sims 3 base game, which really made you feel like you cannot go back to the Sims 2, this incomplete version of a game only makes me want to go back to the Sims 3.    … Expand
  78. Zaran
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Like Sim City, this game was a major disappointment to me when other versions were so good. While I like the idea that the towns are zoned off, the fact that the towns are so small is ridiculous. I don't get how so many NPCs can live in 25 or so lots. You can't do things that the original Sims 3 game did. You can't buy traits so really the only goal you have is to keep your SimLike Sim City, this game was a major disappointment to me when other versions were so good. While I like the idea that the towns are zoned off, the fact that the towns are so small is ridiculous. I don't get how so many NPCs can live in 25 or so lots. You can't do things that the original Sims 3 game did. You can't buy traits so really the only goal you have is to keep your Sim happy. I won't go into any more features that this game is lacking. I just feel like this is another game where EA just sold a name to me without backing it with the content that I am used to. Plus this game was way too expensive. Again I felt like I was paying for an improvement to Sims 3. You can't improve 2 things and throw away 90 and call it a new edition. This is a game that needs free apology DLCs to put it on the same level as the Original Sims 3 game.… Expand
  79. samanthro
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    I suppose I should start off with the good things; this is a visually stunning game. The two worlds (what you get to see of them, anyway) are gorgeous, and everything seems to sparkle. The Sims are adorable, and I love that you can fully customize body shape. In fact, in game, subtle changes appear over time if your Sim doesn't eat properly or exercise. However, the CAS lacks customizationI suppose I should start off with the good things; this is a visually stunning game. The two worlds (what you get to see of them, anyway) are gorgeous, and everything seems to sparkle. The Sims are adorable, and I love that you can fully customize body shape. In fact, in game, subtle changes appear over time if your Sim doesn't eat properly or exercise. However, the CAS lacks customization options for eye colour, hair colour and is certainly lacking on the clothing front; no surprise here, really, as Maxis has always provided a limited number of fashion choices. What was really disappointing to me was the fact that colour options are limited to just a few pre-selected choices. I was hoping that wouldn't extend to the build/furniture options, but wouldn't you know it, you're limited there as well.

    Aside from those issues, I was hoping game play would keep be suckered in. Nope. The new interactions are cute, but the game failed to motivate me to keep going. Your Sim goes to work on their own, and travelling is limited to switching between a few (four in the one world) community lots. Game play becomes akin to playing the mobile or Free Play versions. I don't think I'd be able to sit and play long enough to have a good run at a legacy.

    There is limited time for your Sim to socialize once they've found a job; you have to complete menial tasks in order to be promoted, and these tend to take up a lot of time and energy. I didn't really have the desire to socialize anyway, since going out means you're bombarded by three or four NPCs at a time, and they never stop talking to you. Since you don't have the option to limit autonomy (it's either you have it or you don't), you pretty much just let your Sim and the others do whatever they want.

    This game was a huge disappointment for me. I've been waiting and waiting, but what I got was boring. If I wanted to play the mobile version with better graphics, I would've just purchased it for my phone. $80.00 for limited game play seems ridiculous. Thank God EA offers a refund within 24 hours of launching your digital copy.

    I sincerely hope that after a few patches, and perhaps a major expansion launch, this game will be worth the money. The updated Create-A-Sim and the build mode are everything I've wanted in The Sims 3, but the game play just isn't on par for me.    … Expand
  80. Akisune
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Okay, definitely a waste of 70 bucks. A MASSIVE step-back from it's predecessors.

    The bad here we go: A whole lot is missing and the new fancy features don't make up for it at all. Truly limiting options and creating a sim with no create a style blows and it really shows after playing the sims 3, like they say you never really know what you got till its gone. The creativity you can    Okay, definitely a waste of 70 bucks. A MASSIVE step-back from it's predecessors.

    The bad here we go:

    A whole lot is missing and the new fancy features don't make up for it at all. Truly limiting options and creating a sim with no create a style blows and it really shows after playing the sims 3, like they say you never really know what you got till its gone. The creativity you can do is just abysmal to it's predecessors. Building and creating is simple and easy but you have just a couple options to work with. Sims clip through objects and ghost through people. The story progression is non-existent, if you don't personally do it then nothing happens outside your family. Its horribly immersion breaking and huge step backwards. So many features were taken out it's sad. The background of your world is literally a picture. Feels like the Sims 2.5 or a mobile game with enhanced graphics.

    Not ready, not good, don't waste your money. Thank god for EA 24-Hour Refund.    … Expand
  81. nishikun
    Sep 2, 2014
    3
    Feels like a step back in the series. A lot missing, no open world, and tons of loading screens. For what i already have in the sims 3, i don't see why I would go play less. There are a few cool features, but just not worth it. And know EA all the features we want will come in 30 dollars dlc
  82. Woodbutt
    Sep 3, 2014
    3
    Customization as greatest part of the game is gone now. Towns turned to something schematic. Lots stuff missing. Graphics almost has no changes (sometimes it looks even less detailed than Sims3). Overall game doesn't feels like something solid and completed but only like platform for future expansions. Thank you Origin for 24-hours refund.
  83. MissNikki
    Sep 3, 2014
    3
    I am so disappointed with The Sims 4. Ok, I get that the loading screens make it so a wider audience can play, and that people don't need a powerful gaming PC to enjoy it, but there is just SO much wrong with TS4 that I just cannot look past it. For starters, there is a whole bunch of content missing that was always supplied to us from the past sims base games. BUT it MAY be available inI am so disappointed with The Sims 4. Ok, I get that the loading screens make it so a wider audience can play, and that people don't need a powerful gaming PC to enjoy it, but there is just SO much wrong with TS4 that I just cannot look past it. For starters, there is a whole bunch of content missing that was always supplied to us from the past sims base games. BUT it MAY be available in the future as DLC for EXTRA MONEY! I mean, come on. Is that all EA thinks of us? A dollar bill? Pools were always implemented in the game, now if they do decide to add them in we customers have to line their pockets with even more money just to get the basics that were always provided? As far as graphically, yes the game is a bit smoother BUT that whole cartoon like look is just not my cup of tea. Another thing that I cannot look past is the loading screens and the fact there is NO open world. The game feels so claustrophobic and cramped and we, the players, have lost the freedom of just leaving our home to go for a jog or drive aimlessly around town all hours of the night. To go to the next door neighbors house there is a loading screen. So lame. Another BIG issue I have is the playability. If I want to play with more then one character and want to leave my home or a lot, I either have to take them with me or if I go alone their not playable until I return to where they currently are. That is so stupid. I loved being able to take one of my sims to a spa while simultaneously making my other garden while making another dance away at a local night club. My freedom is severely compromised with TS4 and I am so disappointed at the choices that were made. I can't see how this is a step up, as it really reminds me of playing The sims app on my ipad instead of an actual PC game. I will stick with playing TS3 and will not be wasting anymore money on content from the sims 4. They are on my crap list hardcore right now.… Expand
  84. OnceIWasBooker
    Sep 3, 2014
    3
    Made an account just to express how disappointed I am with this game.
    I love the sims but this game is incomplete. Feels like it was made in a rush, there are no gameplay-wise action to keep you playing for more than an hour, no variety of options for customization whatsoever in neither the create-a-sim nor in the building of houses.
    Simply terrible and EA should feel ashamed. Gave it a    Made an account just to express how disappointed I am with this game.
    I love the sims but this game is incomplete. Feels like it was made in a rush, there are no gameplay-wise action to keep you playing for more than an hour, no variety of options for customization whatsoever in neither the create-a-sim nor in the building of houses.
    Simply terrible and EA should feel ashamed.
    Gave it a 3 for the fast loading, saving but I guess that's easy to accomplish when the game is only 10% done.    … Expand
  85. Ironflesh
    Sep 4, 2014
    3
    Only EA can make a sequel that is a lesser game than the previous version. I seriously think they have a policy to destroy franchises after a few iterations.

    This game is fun for 10 or so hours then you see how shallow it actually is. You can actually spot where they removed content to add later for dlc. Like certain elements don't make sense unless there was something specific to    Only EA can make a sequel that is a lesser game than the previous version. I seriously think they have a policy to destroy franchises after a few iterations.

    This game is fun for 10 or so hours then you see how shallow it actually is. You can actually spot where they removed content to add later for dlc. Like certain elements don't make sense unless there was something specific to follow but that "thing" is not there. Basically it is either unfinished or one of the worst cases of holding stuff back for DLC that I have ever seen.    … Expand
  86. furisodeshon
    Sep 4, 2014
    3
    Well, it's a shame that we have been waiting for so long for this. The Sims 4 is nothing but a 2.0 version of The Sims 2, or an PC version of The Sims FreePlay. When I first saw the trailer, I was impressed with how they improved the graphics, gameplay and I was getting anxious about this game that was looking very, but very promising. Create a Sim is good, the better CAS in the franchise,Well, it's a shame that we have been waiting for so long for this. The Sims 4 is nothing but a 2.0 version of The Sims 2, or an PC version of The Sims FreePlay. When I first saw the trailer, I was impressed with how they improved the graphics, gameplay and I was getting anxious about this game that was looking very, but very promising. Create a Sim is good, the better CAS in the franchise, except for the huge lack of "personality options". We don't have more than 10 aspirations to choose, the options to costumize your sim personality are pretty few. So, I created my sims and I was ready to start living. When you finish the creation, the game directs you to the map so you can choose your land, that's when I realized that the both cities are RIDICULOUS. It has some houses, which only 1/3 of them are occupied. Which city doesn't have more than a gym, a karaoke, a bar, a museum and a park.

    The sims on your town just keep running around the city, they don't have a life. They grow old, but they don't work, don't have child, don't do NOTHING but walk around the city like zombies and visit the same public places that you are visiting. I don't know why they took off EVERYTHING cool that they created on Sims 3 just to have a game with crowded public places and silly, useless and anoying emotions. As a TS fan, I was very disappointed. More than 80 stuff was taken off from the game. It is two steps forward on build mode and create a sim, and five back on gameplay. Maybe. MAYBE the game can get better with some expansions pack, but then I'll need to take off some more $200 bucks from my wallet just to have a "complete" game, and still I won't gonna have more fun that I could have with Sims 3, which one is far more cheap AND better. It's just not worth the money, even if you are an The Sims fan. Thank God I can refund this crap.    … Expand
  87. Maidenchina
    Sep 4, 2014
    3
    1. Who cares about pools and toddlers? Move past that already.
    2. Where are the design tools? Why can't I change the texture/color of my sofa to match my recliner?
    3. With the improved emotions system, Why doesn't my sim care that her husband cheated on her with another sim? 4. Where's the color wheel picker for hair, eyes, and clothing colors? Why am I limited to a few colors, and even    1. Who cares about pools and toddlers? Move past that already.
    2. Where are the design tools? Why can't I change the texture/color of my sofa to match my recliner?
    3. With the improved emotions system, Why doesn't my sim care that her husband cheated on her with another sim?
    4. Where's the color wheel picker for hair, eyes, and clothing colors? Why am I limited to a few colors, and even a single color on some items?
    5. wheres the mailman? the repo man? wheres the grocery store?
    6. Why can't I add lots to the neighborhood? why must I bulldoze a lot to create a new one? (I may be wrong about this one.. Just as of yet, Haven't found the way to do it so assuming it went the way of the swimming pool)
    I've only played for about 18 hours so far, and already I'm bummed about this game. There just aren't enough improvements to justify the roll backs. The price should not have been $60. A more fair price would have been $40. And if EA wants me to buy at least 10 expansions... They better hope they aren't more than $20 each.    … Expand
  88. HipsterFruit
    Sep 5, 2014
    3
    Big prize, **** content. Footage showed on E3 isn't what I expected after premiere. To many limitations due to The Sims 3 which destroys gameplay. If you are Sims-maniac and you want to pay for incomplete game, go for it!
  89. alexlou96
    Sep 5, 2014
    3
    I have been waiting for this game to come out in the UK since I was told that it was being released, probably about a year ago now, maybe even longer. However, I am very sad to say that all this time of waiting has really been pointless, as the game does not bring anything new/exciting to the table.
    Although there are a few positive points about The Sims 4; such as everything loads very    I have been waiting for this game to come out in the UK since I was told that it was being released, probably about a year ago now, maybe even longer. However, I am very sad to say that all this time of waiting has really been pointless, as the game does not bring anything new/exciting to the table.
    Although there are a few positive points about The Sims 4; such as everything loads very efficiently, and the game does not lag whatsoever (unlike The Sims 3), I feel like I have been robbed of my money. What's going on with the fact that we can't even see our sims walk to the library? Or the fact that we simply have to just sit there and wait for our sims to come back from their day jobs in stead of having the beneficial feature of looking around the neighbourhood? To be honest, I simply couldn't believe the fact that we couldn't do these things, as it really feels like a major step back in time. Isn't this just a really high-defined version of The Sims 2?
    Create-A-Sim was okay, I was quite impressed at first, but after a short while I began to realise that actually, it was very confusing, unlike Create-A-Sim in The Sims 3 which is very easy to navigate.
    Closing comment; why does my sim take like, 3 hours to have a shower? Ain't nobody got time for that.    … Expand
  90. Grace-Logan
    Sep 5, 2014
    3
    I thought The Sims 3 was great. I usually play the games for the design features in characters and homes, not for going through multiple generations of sims.

    The Sims 4 fell short. The new sim creator is awesome and really useful for getting really unique sims. However, the only thing that's different about it, is body mods. The lack of diversity with the hair styles and clothes across    I thought The Sims 3 was great. I usually play the games for the design features in characters and homes, not for going through multiple generations of sims.

    The Sims 4 fell short. The new sim creator is awesome and really useful for getting really unique sims. However, the only thing that's different about it, is body mods. The lack of diversity with the hair styles and clothes across the ages teen, young adult and adult was a huge disappointment and for a game that's supposed to be focused more on the sims personalities, there's less traits than the starter for sims three. The Build/Buy mode is inconvenient, annoying and slow. It's hard to navigate and difficult to get a grasp of. Not a lot of designs to choose from and really plain.

    If they pulled the emotions and sim creator from Sims 4 and chucked it in Sims 3 the game would have a hell of a lot more to show for. As it stands, the worlds are small with barely anything to do in them, you have load screens to go to most lots, you have no control over what your sim is doing whilst at work or school. You can't have them slack off or work hard or sleep or suck up to their boss. Your sim just disappears from the game for however many minutes it takes to go to work or school.

    There's less social interactions to choose from and less ways to interact with your surroundings, you can't even lock the doors. The camera is a pain in the arse to deal with even with the Sims3 option ticked. The lots are smaller, there's not a lot of room in the worlds. The graphics are very cartoon like ad I could make a perfect replica of Gintoki fro Gintama, the hair styles are that carton like. In some cases it looks alright but the girls hair doesn't really suit the art style.

    It doesn't feel like completed game, feels like a trial for the new sim creator. Everything else kind of feels like it was an after thought, compared with the obvious effort put into making the sim creator.    … Expand
  91. LindoWicker
    Sep 6, 2014
    3
    Just a shame, this is the second big release EA have had in recent times and on both occasions they seem to fall short. Sim City was pretty awful. The sims 4 follows this with a lack lustre version of Sims 3. The graphics are a minor improvement but the gameplay/content is severely gimped. Every incantation should bring something new to the series, to make it seem fresh. This bringsJust a shame, this is the second big release EA have had in recent times and on both occasions they seem to fall short. Sim City was pretty awful. The sims 4 follows this with a lack lustre version of Sims 3. The graphics are a minor improvement but the gameplay/content is severely gimped. Every incantation should bring something new to the series, to make it seem fresh. This brings nothing new, if I'm honest I felt like I was playing the android version. Its probably going to be DLC heavy to make this game work. So in essence be prepared to spend a lot of money on DLC to make this good.
    Sufficed to say I won't be buying anymore EA products.    … Expand
  92. ashgasm
    Sep 6, 2014
    3
    Let me just start of by saying that if you buy the Digital Deluxe version for $70, you're essentially paying extra money for around 5 extra outfits, a few hats, and around 6-9 items (ie. a tiki bar, which was the only thing I noticed from the "extra content"). I really wanted to like it. Honestly. But there's just so many limitations, things missing, lack of interactions and the Sims thatLet me just start of by saying that if you buy the Digital Deluxe version for $70, you're essentially paying extra money for around 5 extra outfits, a few hats, and around 6-9 items (ie. a tiki bar, which was the only thing I noticed from the "extra content"). I really wanted to like it. Honestly. But there's just so many limitations, things missing, lack of interactions and the Sims that I'm used to. My biggest issue is the lack of open world. Sure, you can walk out on the sidewalk, and there are more Sims that are just making their way around that general area - but it's because they're in that area of the map. Also, there are no cars - so yeah, people are walking because they have to. Nobody really progresses at anything - no relationships, job promotions, nothing.

    Why would they throw such an unfinished game at us? There are only TWO neighborhoods to explore. The nicest looking place to do anything (like have a beautiful engagement spot) is this pond at a park. There are no hospitals, schools, fire departments - everything's either a residential lot, a library, club/bar, gym, or a museum. If you're going to work, you walk off the lot and come back when it's over (none of those "Work Hard", "Slack Off" choices anymore).

    Interactions are dumb. You have a bar for a relationship, and then you have a separate bar for romance. Any negative reaction from the person you're talking to will affect your mood negatively. Were you feeling Very Confident? Oops, that guy just answered your question weirdly, suddenly you're Embarrassed and want to Hide from Everyone. And it's not just that - from what I experienced, you can have several romantic partners and relationships without any drama. Wasn't that part of the fun - how real it was? Now, you can have a bunch of boy/girl toys on the side, and then you can have your spouse, with no turmoil.

    It's nice that they actually do trimesters now for when you're pregnant - although it takes a bit longer for you to actually have your child. If you're in labor, people can still come and talk and interact while you writhe in agony on the sofa. After you have your baby, it just magically appears inside the home, in a basket. You can choose to age it up at any point, or wait it out. Once they age though, a freaking child just jumps out of it's crib and just suddenly talks, hugs, takes food from the fridge. You also just get to choose traits for the child now regardless of how/when they age, which is a lot less realistic.

    There are added features, but there are a lot that have been taken away. You can build a rocket in your backyard and explore space, but you can't drive a car. You can cook regular meals and gourmet meals (with some interesting tricks that your Sim will perform), but you can't go for a swim. You can play a game of Tetris in 3D, but you can't walk over to visit the building next to you (you have to "travel" - aka wait for the loading screen and then materialize in front of the lot).

    The biggest crime besides the lack of free roam is that the Sims 4 is BORING. There is no actual life going on outside of your household. It's just a routine - go to work, come home, cook, shower, sleep. There's nothing going on, no REALISM, which is the biggest selling point for the Sims and why Sims 3 was so thoroughly enjoyed. Don't get me wrong - the graphics are VERY nice. But that doesn't make up for ripping everything else out of Sims. I really thought this game would be a huge step for the franchise. Instead, it's a huge disappointment. $70 is really not worth it.    … Expand
  93. misscedras
    Sep 7, 2014
    3
    You remember sims 2... well sims 4 is pretty the same with better graphics. All the things I like about sims 3 (open world, more interaction, profession, toddlers, etc.) have been eliminated. Okay, the game doesn't lag (thank god) and the loading is so much faster. Seriously, EA, you need to reevaluate your team. You just can't create a new version of sims and forget all about the previousYou remember sims 2... well sims 4 is pretty the same with better graphics. All the things I like about sims 3 (open world, more interaction, profession, toddlers, etc.) have been eliminated. Okay, the game doesn't lag (thank god) and the loading is so much faster. Seriously, EA, you need to reevaluate your team. You just can't create a new version of sims and forget all about the previous one. Disappointed is the word.… Expand
  94. Megadacity
    Sep 7, 2014
    3
    Having read various reviews and reflections, but being a massive fan of The Sims series I thought I'd still give the game a pop, but treat it less like a sequel of The Sims 3, and more as a standalone game in it's own right to stave off disappointment. Whilst there are many positive features of The Sims 4 (love the effect of emotions, the art, the depth of skills, highly-engaging newHaving read various reviews and reflections, but being a massive fan of The Sims series I thought I'd still give the game a pop, but treat it less like a sequel of The Sims 3, and more as a standalone game in it's own right to stave off disappointment. Whilst there are many positive features of The Sims 4 (love the effect of emotions, the art, the depth of skills, highly-engaging new objects, more morally lax Sims, having mixology bars in the base game) there are quite a few issues with it asides from the ones previously highlighted, i.e.:-

    - Just to move from lot to lot requires a refresh screen, and this gets dull quickly. As the neighbourhoods are divided into districts (with fixed places to put your lot, a departure from the Open Worlds of Sims 3 where you could bung a lot anywhere) I would expect the refresh screen to appear if I was travelling to a new district. That would be fine. However a refresh screen appears even if you visit a neighboring lot, or any of the lots within the district that your Sim resides. Very tedious.

    - I have a decent new laptop with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 860m graphics card. It's no beast but it's pretty good. I found that the game started to lag pretty badly if you tried to play it extensively. What is the point of having a close-world base game with a lag issue? It's the worst of both Sims 2 and Sims 3 worlds.

    - The controls are not intuitive. For example you have to jump through hoops to save an existing household, or move select members of your household elsewhere.

    - The lack of story progression is a pity. I like to see my Sim neighbourhood naturally evolve, and I don't particularly like to manage this.

    - Some features seem broken or lack interactions that are fundamental to game play. Anyone playing the Sims 4 knows what I mean. This makes it feel rather clunky and half-baked.

    - The game crashed a lot for me. For example if I tried to marry Sims it would crash. Maybe my sim was too commitment-phobic for her own good after all.

    - The lack of a creature is disappointing. I really like the fantasy element of the Sims.

    - You have to micromanage your Sims so much more. I.e. in The Sims 3 you could choose to have your Sim going fishing for an hour, or after they caught five fish. There were similar time limitations you could put on other interactions. Now this is removed, which means you have to closely guard your Sims and cancel interactions to get them to move onto the next task in the interaction queue.

    - I don't like the mouse only controls for Create-A-Sim. Each to their own but I sometimes found it difficult to mold a sim as I wanted them.

    - The Sims now seem stupider rather than more intelligent. A Sim just dozily watching their house burn down (especially as there are no firemen in the game) or choosing to eat on someone's bed rather than an empty dining room table is not a smart simmie. I know this is billed as the new and exciting 'weird' behaviour, but it just seems like there is something missing in the AI.

    - The teenagers look like adults. Both confusing and feels a bit lazy.

    Actually the first time I have been disappointed with a Sims base game so very early. Like many have said before, it is clearly half-finished and obviously the result of EA breathing down the neck of the developers to get the game to market earlier than it was clearly ready. An extra 6 months and I am sure the game could have been something polished. For me to like this game the bugs/lag need to be fixed, at least within districts it should be possible to openly navigate between lots, and some story progression would be good. Otherwise given that I no longer want to play the game and I only bought it Thursday, the series is over for me.    … Expand
  95. maritha01
    Sep 7, 2014
    3
    I think that Sims 4 is a scam...
    I think that the bare bones of the game is given with the initial release so that you have to purchase the expansion packs that are to come, which will have more options of course. Very disappointed with the fact that you have to load between neighborhoods, something that they probably wont change.
  96. Primarosa
    Sep 8, 2014
    3
    Despite features such as story progression and an open neighborhood not being included I still decided to give the game an honest chance. I have been a fan since the first game was released and have had countless hours of fun with all three of them. And this really could have been an absolutely amazing game if it had not lacked so many other features than the ones mentioned above. I simplyDespite features such as story progression and an open neighborhood not being included I still decided to give the game an honest chance. I have been a fan since the first game was released and have had countless hours of fun with all three of them. And this really could have been an absolutely amazing game if it had not lacked so many other features than the ones mentioned above. I simply can not get over how few things there is to do and see in the game - even the most basic objects are missing from the game. In my opinion it will take several expansion packs and years only to complete the base game.… Expand
  97. TheFastBison
    Sep 8, 2014
    3
    Disappointed, is really my only thought about this game. Where is the free roam from Sims 3? You have to travel to all destinations and there are really not a lot to the cities (One park and 3 building seriously!?

    It's like they wanted so bad to remake the core mechanics that it just ended ruining a lot of the funny stuff from the old games (No pools and cars). It's still fun, its just    Disappointed, is really my only thought about this game. Where is the free roam from Sims 3? You have to travel to all destinations and there are really not a lot to the cities (One park and 3 building seriously!?

    It's like they wanted so bad to remake the core mechanics that it just ended ruining a lot of the funny stuff from the old games (No pools and cars). It's still fun, its just not an improvement from the older games.    … Expand
  98. Reagh
    Sep 8, 2014
    3
    I'm not usually disappointed enough in a game to take the time to write a bad review, but I have to make an exception for this one because I was very excited about its release and I should have seen the red flags before forking out $70 for it. This felt nothing at all like any of the previous sim games. the days went by way too fast, it shouldn't take 9 sim hours to water your plants. II'm not usually disappointed enough in a game to take the time to write a bad review, but I have to make an exception for this one because I was very excited about its release and I should have seen the red flags before forking out $70 for it. This felt nothing at all like any of the previous sim games. the days went by way too fast, it shouldn't take 9 sim hours to water your plants. I don't need dramatic music and huge drops in moods just cause my sim has to pee or wants a bagel. I didn't feel like I was seeing any "weird" stories occurring unless it was mine of the obsessive lady who spends all day watering 6 plants and walks funny. If I had time out of watering my plants to even be slightly social, I was always cranky because some dramatic music would play and Id have to eat or use the washroom. It felt more like a time management game I would play for free on any free gaming website with a little better graphics. I'm really not feelin' this one EA, and this is coming from someone who has previously purchased nearly every expansion for sims, sims 2 and 3. Not likely I'll put any more money into this one.… Expand
  99. Deems
    Dec 11, 2016
    3
    The amount of content you get with the base game is like 1/3 of the Sims 3. EA the Apple of the gaming industry, and is charging us 10,00/20,00/40,00 euro's for content that should've been in the game already. Seriously, don't buy this, **** EA.
  100. Bananadog
    Sep 15, 2014
    3
    First off: I'm a huge "The Sims" fan, but Sims 4 disappointed me.
    Sims 4 improved the creation of a Sim and a House alot - But thats about it.
    The game itself is not really bad, but if you compare it to "The Sims 3" it's just garbage. They've cut major features like toddlers and pools. Also the world got smaller and you have to view the loading screen if you want to visit someone elses    First off: I'm a huge "The Sims" fan, but Sims 4 disappointed me.
    Sims 4 improved the creation of a Sim and a House alot - But thats about it.
    The game itself is not really bad, but if you compare it to "The Sims 3" it's just garbage. They've cut major features like toddlers and pools. Also the world got smaller and you have to view the loading screen if you want to visit someone elses house.
    And the worse thing out of all is that most of the cut features are probably gonna come back as DLC's.
    It is a waste of money if you own "The Sims 3"    … Expand
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  1. Cubed3
    Jul 23, 2020
    60
    While an enjoyable title that has been polished up and seems generally very modern, it cannot be expected that The Sims 4 is not going to be compared to The Sims 3. In this respect, it seems that while the game took a few steps forwards, it also took a few steps backwards by abandoning features that were very helpful and appreciated in the previous versions. It does have new features that people have been waiting for, such as emotions and more personality for the Sims. As for now, for some players it may not quite be worth to abandon The Sims 3 for it, but for new players looking for a first experience with the franchise, they may have an easier time navigating than former The Sims 3 players. People that have previously enjoyed the latter may be disappointed by the menus (Sim creation, building, or navigating town), as they have been so massively oversimplified that they are now actually confusing.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Oct 25, 2014
    80
    The Sims 4 is once again a new beginning. Needs more content and soon, please. [Oct 2014]
  3. CD-Action
    Oct 24, 2014
    40
    The Sims 4 is just a foundation of a game. How would you react if you bought a new Elder Scrolls game and realized that half of the cities are unavailable (because TES6: World Adventures is around the corner), there are only 4 weapons (TES6: Accessories), you can’t ride horses (TES6: Pets), there are only 12 quests (TES6: Careers), 2 guilds (TES6: Friends) and 3 spells (TES6: Supernatural)? [Nov 2014, p.50]
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