In sims 2 my sim broke up with her boyfriend. He didn’t take it well. For about a week, he would walk by her house at 4am and kick over her trash can. I always had to rush to clean it up to avoid roaches. In sims 3 my sim was a serial cheater and got called out for cheating in the middle of leading a protest. All the sims started booing her. I miss the wacky, unpredictable antics. I was going to uninstall sims 4 but my ten year old discovered it and has fun with it.

i've never completed a sims 4 life cycle. it's just all the same stuff, same choices, same dialogues with townies. and all the fun stuff is hidden in the bunches of $40 packs. there's just not enough replay value!

The worst thing is how sims 4 slowly spoon-fed you features in DLC that were in the sims 2 & 3 BASE GAME.

The BEST THING EA could ever do is to freakin play this video on a loop every day in the office until they FINALLY GET IT. Because you NAILED IT, over and over. All of this.

In the sims 2 and 3 I never designed a house. I would literally buy a random house, put in some stuff I needed, not caring if it looks good. I would put on my Sims the first clothes that looked ok, and never changed it. I was so eager to get into the gameplay that the aesthetics didn’t matter. In the sims 4 I spend hours setting up the game, building, decorating etc, and then spend 5 minutes with gameplay before I get bored.

The sims 4 IS boring though. Their slogan is literally about creating your own stories because they haven’t done any of it! Ts4 was a step way back before even sims 2 which did have stories, drama, proper animation, and engaging sims. The sims 4 is a dead game. Lifeless with no depth or drama

Sims 3 was my first sims game and so it holds a special place in my heart. My best moment: I was throwing a pool party and a meteor hit and killed four people and my house caught fire. It was amazing. I tried so, so hard to get into Sims 4 but nothing fun like a meteor ruining your party ever happens.

love the section on ts4 being too safe, you covered that so well. nothing is ever surprising or shocking in ts4, it very much feels like an endless beige sludge of gameplay.

The sims 4 is boring and if someone says otherwise they are delusional the game is boring bc there is NO GAMEPLAY NO MATTER HOW MANY PACKS YOU BUY OR MODS YOU INSTALL IN

The sims aged down while the players aged up, thats the thing for me. Especially for the 1-2 players who grew up with the burglars, the horrifying sims 1 reaper music and fire screaming. Sims 4 feels like it's treating me like an ipad baby while im just LOOKING at it

in sims 2 leaving my game unpaused meant that some of my sims died, someone got divorced because they randomly cheated on their spouse, children were either crying or taken away, everybody had mental breakdowns all around. in sims 4 they're slightly unhappy

It feels like a bunch of talented people created a game and then they sold it to a big company, it's like a Netflix movie plot. They watered it down, they made it a cash cow, they slapped people with tiktok culture

i want to tell stories but its just so boring... like... i don't want to pretend that a story is happening??? I want the story to actually happen??? I don't want to have to orchestrate everything that I want to happen

When I played Sims 1 over 20 years ago, I will never forget when I had a house party and hired an entertainer, a clown showed up went directly to my hamster and stole the entire cage - put it right in his pocket. Then he went to entertain the guests as if I didnt just see him steal my pet. Ive never forgiven and Ive never forgotten. Sims 1,2,3 - Life happens around you and to you Sims 4 - Youre the one who makes 'life' happen Its actually criminal that fire doesnt spread.

Sims 4 is almost unplayable without MODS. I really hope the creators see this & get right back to the drawing board

I'm surprised they keep adding new death types because I don't think I've ever seen a sim die in this game. I even tried to get one electrocuted by getting him to repair the TV when he was in a bad mood. I had him pee himself next to the TV to create a puddle but he still wouldn't get shocked. Eventually I even resorted to breaking the TV and creating puddles over and over using cheats and he didn't even get electrocuted once, let alone twice which is a requirement for death. There's no challenge in this game.

I heard someone say this one time and it made so much sense, the sims 4 is just a dollhouse game. You make your pretty sim and their perfect family and put them in their pretty house and that’s the game. This is so true bc everytime I get on the sims I make my pretty sim move them into their perfect house and then I’m bored and get off 🤣.

The Sims 4 so often just feels like a series of chores. You want to join a werewolf pack? Get ready to make your sim do the same few things over and over again, interrupting other gameplay or you'll get warnings. You want to teach the infants new things? Oops, looks like they've been awake for two seconds, they need a nap. Oh and they've got a quirk that means even getting them to sleep is a chore. You want a sim to have a certain lifestyle? Gotta stay on top of that too! It's just boring. It feels like I constantly have to stop playing the game to complete repetitive and unnecessary tasks.

Sims 3: You made a Sim and reached the Emperor of Evil rank of the criminal career? Good luck keeping *anyone* around your sim. Sims 4: You cheated on me with 20 different Sims? Just put a flirty lamp in the room.

I wish it wasn't so easy to get rich. I wanna tell stories with my sims. Yeah sometimes that means getting a big mansion. But sometimes maybe that story is about a struggling single father working late nights as a Bartender.

I think the relationships are so shallow which isn't that fun for family gameplay. I get that there are limitations but eh. I get bored when my sim cheats on her spouse and he's upset yet still has an entire conversation with her. So unrealistic. I think if a spouse cheats then the other sim could initiate the divorce and move out of the house. That would be awesome

i just want things to happen to my sims!! nothing bad ever happens unless you go to great lengths to make bad things happen. i just want some surprise scenarios to happen to spice up my sims lives.

The “after I get a job what will i do next?” Is so real

I think my main struggles with the game when it’s playable are things like: Monotony: There are a lot of tasks that you need to do over and over again that take a while to do and aren’t particularly interesting to watch. And by the time these necessary tasks are done, half the day is wasted away. I often need to fight my sims to get them to do the thing I need them to. If I want them to complete a hobby, they’ll often want a drink in the middle of it and spend a good half hour in game deciding if they want to be upstairs or downstairs. And the things I get them to do rarely result in some sort of reaction, whether from another sun or from the sim themself. It’d be nice if they could feel some sense of pride in achieving higher levels or a skill, or other sims would acknowledge it. If sims got treated different from having better jobs. Things like that. I find even with mods, sometimes sims will just not react the way I want them to. So some big event can happen with rather little impact. Take those sort of vids where it’s like ‘What if a child sim is raised by a very neglectful parent’ and they give them a shitty room with a toilet in it and gross stained walls and floors and their parent argues with them regularly. At most they’d feel a bit uncomfortable or a bit angry when an argument happens. But they don’t really have long term consequences. If that sim grows up and leaves the house, they aren’t going to automatically have reactions to similar environments or anything like that.

What I really hate is that if I go out with one sim, the rest of the sims at home don’t get anything done and their needs go to shit because you can only control the sim you’re off the lot with. In TS3, you could take your sim to the park and everyone else at home will take care of their needs, work on skills, etc. I get that the open world caused lag but it really made the game feel alive and realistic.

The biggest difference between the Sims 4 and earlier games is that the townies are almost entirely designed to be NPCs you occasionally interact with instead of pre-made characters you can play instead of making your own. That does really make it boring, since everything is about one household and you have to work to interact with the rest of the world.

Does anybody else remember the statement EA made regarding reception of the Sims4? That if we didn't unquestionably LOVE it, they would not make a Sims 5. They literally blackmailed the community to adopt it, or they'll abandon the game. I think that threat is worthy of a video unto itself.

I really want sims 4 to be a fun game. But that’s just not happening no matter how many purchases I make😭. EA keeps adding less features in very pack. I just anxiously waiting for Parlives to come out. I’m tired of Sims being the only way to play life simulation games

It's boring because you achieve everything too easily, I only enjoy playing Sims 4 on short lifespan. I like to struggle a bit.

I remember every time a new expansion pack for The Sims 3 came out, I'd take the time to read every household description in the new world to get into the lore. Now, everything feels so EMPTY, empty of lore, empty of stories. EA is doing the bare minimum and it shows.

11:27 this is so spot on. And it's proven by the newest simmers that has only played sims 4. A while ago i argued with such simmer in their reddit post about why the game feels boring. The title is "I figured it out", as if they said some revolutionary thing that would change simmers opinion... but 10 seconds later after reading the whole thing i really thought "no, you didn't figure out sh1t" It was paragraphs of that person describing their IMAGINATION. They said a bunch of things like "one of my sim is a tomboy, the other is girly despite being twins so yeah sims have personality!" and they blame veteran simmers for complaining because they can't see that... yeah no there's no tomboy feature here jessica, your sim is the same as anyone else's. And jessica here is prime example of EA's targeted demography.

When I downloaded sims 4 when it came out I was excited because it looked beautiful and clean…and also sterile and I quickly came to realize that after character creation, there was little to do. Coming from the sims 3 it’s as if they put you in a box with some dolls and say “ok go play” but you can only do so much, and if you want to do more you’ll have to shell out hundreds of dollars for things that SHOULD have been in the base game. I’ve never been so disappointed and I will gladly play the sims 3 for the rest of my life.

I have almost 3k hours in TS4 and have never completed a single sims life cycle. It gets too boring.

Traits "so un-impactful" is so right. My booklover sims never read unless I make them and that applies to all traits. They want the computer to chat even when they have full social and a houseful of guests, or they just want to dance even though I've given them many different likes and even tried dislike dance. They still dance and don't like it but don't stop. I have to force everything and pretend it's fun. S4 removed almost everything that made TS fun and every time I quit having fun, which is usually when I quit building, I hate EA. PLUS, too safe for sure! It's made for 8yr olds, not teen. Well I'm 71 and have played since 2000 so I'd like at least teen rating lol

How EA is supposed to care if simmers taught them no matter what crap they release people are willing to pay over 1000$ for packs that do nothing. As a teenager I spent happily my allowance to buy sims 3 packs. They were massive. When I saw sims 4 i pirated it, never spent money on this sad overpriced excuse of a game.

The only time my sim's personality has ever effected anything is when I use the "hot-headed" trait and it's more so they get to angry to do what they need to and sometimes they'll try and fight for no reason.

Without mods or your own doing nothing happens in this game. In the Sims 3 (i barely remember Sims 2) there's so much going on you forget about your own Sims 😂

EA is so boring up to the fact the modders have to be the heroes aka 'unpaid' workers to help make this game alive. Like, goddamn, it's that embarrassing for a billion-income company to be able to sink this low. 🙈🙈🙈

I can't tell how many hours I played the Sims 3. I even ended up re-building and re-creating an entire world, with entire family trees and different stories. It was so much fun and the Sims 3 felt kinda alive in a way. I started playing the Sims 4 and I got bored after a couple of hours and I haven't played it for years now. Despite all the expansion packs (which are shamefully expensive and empty) it feels like there is nothing to do...

I'm not really a big fan of complaining for the sake of complaining... but dude, you're absolutely right about everything you've said. The Sims 4 is just not working and it REALLY needs A LOT of adjustments. I think that the main problem is probably the thing you mentioned about The Sims 4 trying SO HARD to be safe and family friendly like dude... most simmers are teens and adults like wth, we want DRAMA, ACTION, CONTROVERSY!!!

My very first sim family in Sims 2 were all tragically killed in a house fire, like 20 minutes into the game. You just don’t get that kind of excitement in Sims 4😂

Watching Plumbella’s Sims iceberg makes it so obvious how lacking in storytelling and depth the Sims 4 is compared to the Sims 2. It was actually so depressing to watch😂.

the sims 3 was my first sims game- and I loved it. I played through one of my first sims' entire life, He had a career, he had a wife, he had 6 kids, he had a full life. I spent hours expanding his home and creating stories. I think I spent over 100 hours just on that one save and that was without ANY EXPANSIONS. In the sims 4 I have over 5 packs/expansions, yet I can never spend more than a few hours on a single save. it's so boring, bare, and greedy.

Also there’s a thing that makes me annoyed: when the job starts at 8:15, my sim was supposed to be leaving home at 7h30 BUT THEY TAKE AN HOUR TO SIMPLY GO TO WORK. Example: they are taking a bath at 5, i send them to take breakfast and they just smile for the walls for 30min while the action is waiting to be done. Result? Always late for work 😍😍🥰

You perfectly described my attitude to TS4. It is utterly, utterly lifeless and no matter how much I try to create interesting drama, the game frantically puts it back to boring 'happy' Stepford Wives mode. I keep going back to TS3 which has such interesting gameplay with brilliant behaviour animations, traits, and so much more.

There's also a lack of incentives. In older Sims versions you would get different car pools depending on how you progressed in your job and you needed to visit downtown in order to buy clothes.

I'm installing Sims3 right now. I want to go to Islands again and dive deep into the water for treasures and fishing with harpoon instead of going to another rabbit hole! I want to do quests and discover hidden islands. In Sims3 quality of pictures you draw depends on how much practice you had and your new fancy easel has nothing to do with it! I want to drive a car again and i swear the first thing i going to build will be garage for 2 cars and motorcycle, only after that a house will be build. I will be working at different bars at night and i'll have all recipies for cocktails collected. Oh, and don't forget about patries! I shall be invited to parties again by my neighbors! And i'll be living in studio at winters and in a house for warm seasons taking care of defferent sorts of grape collected at 'France' during my travels there and produsing all types of nectars! Soon my sim shall be drinking a glass of perfect nectar to pay tribute to the Sims 4, laughing and saying 'rest in peace, you are a joke' in simslish.

After not touching Sims for over a decade I started playing it and instantly noticed a lot of things "not right" with it. My first try was a generic character, a tutorial for myself to get familiar with the game. Bought the cheapest land in the first world, built the smallest house with all the features to cover my basic needs and gave it a go. In first 5 min I think I met like over 20 neighbors who were ringing on my door, wanting to greet me. On the second day one of them asked if she can come over and stay for a while to which, despite being very surprised by the insanity of it, I said yes. She then came with her whole family which was in ruins so they fought and argued all the time making everyone in the house getting debuffs. Their son kicked the hell out of the trashcans so I got a trashplant plague going. Overall my house became trafficed like an LA highway where people constantly ringed the bell and hung out in my house 24/7. Later that Vampire dude came over and started messing and breaking all the little stuff that I had left. Whats with all those trashcan kicking?! Despite being an honest and hard worker I couldn't pay the insane bill of over 650$ (until today i have no friggin clue why it was sso expensive!) so I ended up in a dead loop - no devices and no water means bad mood and huge debuffs, means no promotion or loan increase, means i can't pay the bills and get my character back into a good buffed mood. All that while my house gets rekt by 20+ people daily. Again THAT is the MOST BASIC and generic start you could have! My second try was in that pet-village which was the complete opposite and is actually a chill and nice gameplay at least for the start.

Well, while playing ts4 I thought that maybe I was too old for it. But then I decided to play ts3. In 4h my vampire sim died (as I forgot that hunger k!lls them), so I decided that my other sim would obtain a ginie lamp to ressurect them. It worked and I got the ginie in the household, he wanted to be a criminal, ok. After some time he got arrested and another sim went to free him with the drill that I have no idea where they had gotten it from. There are so many unplanned things happening in ts2 and ts3 while playing, but sadly not in ts4.

sims 3 to sims 4 is such a whiplash that you would think that sims 4 is still in development

Exactly! The only reason to play Sims 4 is for the WickedWhims mod because Sims 4 is literally a digital doll house, not a game.

For me it always comes back to the game not being open world, and also big part of it is when I have a plan for my sims life, and she spends half of her day making lunch because she will stand in place alot

Even getting fired from your job is locked behind a pay wall

I miss the excitement of The Sims...it's all gone

I still Play Sims2 even tho its old af but i still get to find new random things that happen in this game and i'm never bored... I just started to Play Sims4 and immediately got enough

This is so spot on. I eventually decided no amount of expansion packs was going to make it more interesting and I haven’t picked it up in over a year.

Sims 4 is just a money grab. There's like no heart and soul in it at all! I love mods but we shouldn't have to depend on them.

we all know the sims 4 is the worst/most boring sims game to exist fr, lmao

I tried to play in a different way . My sim is a male who is a serial romantic. At one point he was flirting with a girl and they he started to flirt with another girl. The first girl didn’t care about the second one, but the second one just accepted to get married with him. Then for some reason she freaked out and started a fight. I made them elope, but she was still angry. Then he asked for the divorce and now she cries and cries. I have tried many times to make her leave, but she won’t. I think I’m going to build a pool and you know the rest. He is always embarrassed because she won’t accept his apologies.

I regret wasting $20 on the base game of Sims 4 a few years ago, since they literally just made it free. I also regret wasting money on 6 of the DLCs, just to make it feel somewhat like an actual game. EA owes me at least a kiss on the cheek.

Talking about "Death by mold..." That clip just looks so... childish, so... unrealistic... Ugh I just hate that they've made the Sims 4 like a Sesame Street Show...

My “playing” the sims consists of creating a sim, building a home, and then never touching the game again for the next six months.

Ive never even played Sims and this was pretty good. By looking at how the older Sims were better, it opens my eyes to why people liked the original Sims games.

You're so right about there being a lack of depth. I only seem to really look forward to my game when, say, a kid is about to age up or someone is up to some romantic mischief or if I've created a restaurant or lounge and I'm anxious to see it in action

I hate the loading screen so much that I avoid the texts from friends asking me to come over and I also avoid using high school years because of the loading screen. It’s shoved in my face so much that I’m not using 80% of my packs. The most I use of my packs is in the house my sims live in.

It’s not a little bit boring… it’s very boring

Sims 3 is a laggy mess but it’s because it has so much you can do ! Sims ambitions, Sims Late Night, Sims 3 Pets and Seasons are my absolute favorites ❤️ Those are the only packs you really need to have a great time. Arguably, Sims 3 base game is all you need to have wonderful gameplay and DRAMA. So much is always happening and the traits, lore, and open world keeps me going back! When Sims 4 was announced I completely ignored it knowing that it couldn’t compete 😅

I love how you just spit out what we old school sims fans are all thinking!

sims 4 has so many mechanics that do nothing for the gameplay. Pure fluff in an attempt to make the game look fleshed out.

Plus they completely shat on the lore. Instead of expanding on what the first 3 games did, they were like nah Sims 4 is in an alternate reality so none of that stuff matters

They really do hold your hand. Recently I've been starting my sims as homeless; just clicking the first empty lot and putting down a tent and party bush, etc. Start farming, making flower bundles, buy a cow, etc. They don't get Lyme disease or sick of sleeping on the ground. Sometimes it's embarrassing using the bush but there's never an accidental snake bite or anything. Nobody shames them for being homeless or poor, they sit right down on the stump and offer their fruitcake and talk about the campfire. Well, alright. What's the point, man. What are we even doing here?

When I played the Sims 3 and got the Nightlife and vampire pack for free because of a deal I had SO MUCH fun. I could have one sim at home cooking, another at work, one at a friend's house, and one at a club. Instead of having to go through a loading menu every time I wanted to switch locations, I had all the sims in my arsenal and could do multiple things at once. The nightclubs were really fun and there were also celebrities that you could talk to in order to make your sim famous. Don't even get me started on vampires. They had super speed, cool red eyes, different traits and conversation ideas with them, and more. Compare this to the sims 4. I can only control ONE sim at a time. If I have a sim at the club that's the only one I can interact with while my other sims are frozen in time. If I want to do anything else I have to go through a loading screen. So instead of doing multiple things I just take all the sims with me so I can play with all the sims at once. Instead of being able to see what my neighbors are doing through the camera and popping up at their house like in the Sims 3 I have to go through a loading screen and hope that the neighbors are there. The only thing that the sims 4 does better is the CAS, which can easily be by passed with mods.

I had a couple of friends that I played the Sims 3 “with”. We used to call each other and talk about things that happened in the game. It was better than gossiping about reality tv shows. One friend in particular had so much drama and crazy things happen in her world that it used to take hours to talk about what happened over the weekend. 🤣🤣🤣

I personally find the sims 4 boring because i find it too easy. I got my family to go from 0 sim dollars to 2 million sim dollars in one life stage purely by working and selling crafted items. My starter sim has now mastered every skill, completed several life goals, has nearly every unlockable personality trait and it’s just like … what now ? It’s had zero impact on her family or the world around her

It’s only fun to make characters and to make stories, also designing homes and what not. It’s boring actually playing the regular game

I am so bored by the sims 4 (packs included), I can not play it for more than a couple days before completely forgetting it again for months. I just thought I had outgrown the Sims, I had nostalgia from the series because it had been a huge part of my childhood. One day I just randomly decided to install Sims 2 to check some feature missing in the Sims 4 (world editing maybe). I kid you not, I was inmediately hooked: I was struggling to keep all my family members alive, I had plans to murder that filthy buglar and my main sim was having a mental breakdown crisi (those were a thing). When I blinked it was midnight in real life! I only stopped binging because not having working diagonals was driving me insane so I started downloading Sims 3. Never worked, Sims 3 is not compatible with my pc/w10 (Why?! Why?!)

My biggest gripe is that it’s too quick and easy to progress. Within an hour or two you can go from homeless to married with kids and living in a mansion. It should be 10x more difficult and have way more real life struggles to work through.

I am of the opinion that the Sims 5 should literally just be the Sims 2 with updated graphics, maybe also with the open world from the Sims 3 (although that eventually made my Sims 3 games a buggy, laggy nightmare). I agree with everything you said, the Sims 4 is a mess and I get bored with it so easily, and the game-breaking bugs that they don't care about are so frustrating. I hate the Sims 4 wants and fears. Bring me back to the good ole days of the Sims 2 when my sim both wanted and feared having a baby. Bring back the drama.

I'm a creative and I love to make stories with the Sims 4, but too much control and the lack of random wackiness do make the game boring most of the time.

I love the thought you put into this video and the points you've made. I always wanted to love Sims 4, but I've sunk the LEAST amount of hours into that one and I attributed it to me getting older and just finding the game boring? Seeing your video made me remember all the things you can do in Sims 2 that were like a fever dream to me. I honestly forgot a lot of it. TLDR: I couldn't agree more. I appreciated your video. :) and man, I miss what The Sims used to be.

"Don't worry, the bugs make it exciting!" -EA

The Sims 4 feels more life a dollhouse than a game. It doesn't interact back to you.

this is the first vid of yours I've seen and I've never hit a subscribe button so fast haha! Absolutely love your energy and agree with every point, I'm so glad it's not just me that has these waves of finding it boring and not touching it for months

i hate how when the game flopped hard, they said "if you guys don't make this game successful, you won't see sims 5"... so people bought into that and made it so financially successful, making the devs forget not only their promise of a good sims 5 coming on time, but also they forgot how much of a failure sims 4 was and just said, "okay, this is a success now, LETS KEEP MILKING IT FOR TEN YEARS". just.. mindblowing. and then they have the petulance of saying sims 4 will continue being developed for well after sims 5 is released. and we don't even know if renee is sims 5 or not xD could just as well be a deck builder mobile game or something, and even worse part is, PEOPLE WILL STILL BUY INTO THAT CRAP

I have more fun in The Sims 3 BASE GAME than I do with The Sims 4 with every EP/Kit/Stuff :/ Its really bad.

the thing that bothers me so much is that there are no consequences to anything u do so what really is the point then

This is not a hot take and I believe all simmers should watch this video. For those of us who have played older Sims games, you know the problems. The Sims4 tried to accomplish too much too quickly. It sacrificed key elements to Sims gameplay such as storytelling, base game features, and world building. For me, the reason why the Sims4 is boring is it requires the player to create their own goals and achievements. In past Sims games, there was a clear goal to achieve every time you started a New Game. Hell, even The Sims Bustin' Out on PS2 and the Urbz created CLEAR GOALS. There was a vision and something to strive for whereas the Sims4 requires much more imagination and playing pretend, with "goals" (career promotions, new houses, relationships, etc.) that are too easy to achieve!

13:38 - To be fair, they’re not blind, they can see how much we’re shitting on the sims4 (rightfully so.) I have played the Sims since the sims2. I am autistic and it became my absolute special interest. I have so many issues with this game for most of the reasons you have listed so far, especially when it comes to: this at this point is an INVESTMENT. EA has created a system in which they genuinely understand that we will buy regardless because right now there is no competition. They understand that no matter how much we bitch, they have certain deadlines to release by, broken or not, and I genuinely think that has been their biggest downfall. I would much rather wait longer for more gameplay, or better interactions. I literally can’t keep doing the Strangerville Mystery over and over just to feel like my sim actually has some sort of purpose other than to essentially be a Barbie doll. I have invested easily $1,000+ into this game, and I still feel that we are lacking SO MUCH than what we were in previous games. I used to be able to make a sim, their house, with a cat, and not feel fucking exhausted afterwards and get off the game.

They dont even punish you for staying inside for too long, I remember in sims3 I HAD to go outside sometimes and explore just so my sim wasn't upset and going stir crazy, I remember getting to have my sim kids hang out behind the school playground, I remember repeatedly doing those silly pet quests in sims3 Pets Sims 4 at this rate I just play it to design houses and play with werewolves And caring for the kids is just annoying now One thing I HATE though is that I cant just load my game and if they're meant to be at school/work they DONT GO, and then my sim suffers because they didnt attend while in my sims 3 they'd automatically of gone if I switch to them

I like the fun I've had playing the sims 3 more than the sims 4. My sim was getting married to her husband and during the ceremony THE GAME TURNED THE GROOM INTO A ZOMBIE. In the end the wedding party failed, my sim was upset, the guests were disappointed, the fiancee was a zombie which I was scrambling to cure. It was hilarious and unexpected, it was more memorable than any marriage event in the sims 4. Another highlight was the Grim reaper accidentally having CC on and being a completely void black human with noticable abs and bleach jeans. 😂 I was like hot damn Grimmy, is that what you're hidding under that robe!

And what in life isn't boring after a while ? I am 58 and have lived a full, adventurous and satisfying life. Now that i am pretty much crippled, i play games on pc and while they were exciting at first, they get boring eventually. Everything that's repetitive, in life, eventually becomes boring.

Trendi is also bugged to shit and you can sell any outfit, as long as it's in the trending style, for 9,999,999 simoleons.

I installed sims 3 to give it a try. In the first 20 minutes of gameplay [apart of the 2 hour CAS that I enjoy] my sim was made fun of by an other sim dressed as an alpaca, a portal opened on my lot to the future with her toddler, I was taught to fly with a jet pack, bought robot parts, and I met my sims future children [not all descendants liked her]. The amount of random craziness that came my way... the amount of things I could do on the new location... chefs kiss.

Every point, every single point you made. I wish they would just watch this. I don’t need it to be perfect, I want it to be fun. Something it’s predecessors somehow pulled off, even with all THEIR glitches we forget about

I also have never complited full life cycle in the sims 4. My favorite gameplay is romances, messing around with townis, have affairs, enemies, break some marriage and have a lot of baby out of wedlock. But in the sims 4 you can woohoo with other in front of your spouse, and... it will NOTHING. no jealousy, no hart broke, nothing. It's soooo boring

This is a fab video, I feel it sums up all the annoyances I have with the Sims that I couldn't quite articulate. Great work, subscribed :)

They don’t let you lose your job is so true. I had a sim who didn’t go to work AT ALL because I was trying to get her fired. She didn’t show up for many weeks in-game, her phone rang and she got warned every day, but she still had her job. I gave up

I really miss the individual bios from The Sims 3. They were great for jotting down how a sim should be played, so if you left for a while, you could come back and quickly read up each sim’s bio to remember where you left off. Also I didn’t know The Sims 2 actually encouraged you to follow the townie stories! That’s so cool!!!

They don't want you to have fun...they want you to buy more packs. Sims 4 has nothing to do with being enjoyable. You're meant to chase the enjoyment by spending more money.

there's a reason why the term "sims phase" is a thing. because it's only fun for a minute until you get bored and burnt out and move onto something different. i love playing the sims for a total of 2-3 days before i'm bored out of my mind and close the game and not open it for MONTHS after. like others have said, it's a doll house game more than a simulation game. i spend hours customizing my sims, creating the ideal appearance i want them to have. then i make a house, spend hours maybe even days just customizing the house, decorating things to match the personalities i've applied to them or created in my head, and once i'm done... well. that's it. i'm done. i play for maybe an hour at most, and then i log off. if i ever go back to it again a few days later, it's just to move them into a different house and redecorate it all over again. because that's... kind of it. the whole "life" part of the sims is just as you said it, BORING! it's not fun. most people enjoy customizing more than actually PLAYING the game with the different features. it's also incredibly baffling how sims 4 CC creators are able to bring so much more cool things to the game than the ACTUAL sims 4 devs. many dedicated and talented mod creators create mods that add so much more to the game, so much more than the initial game could. it's almost impossible to ENJOY playing the game for long periods of time without adding some CC and mods. theres so much they could do with the game, but refuse to. it's such a shame...