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That would be cool if you could choose someone to take with you.🤣

@@maggiesays7827 Oooh can I pick Andrew Wilson?

Ahh, the ol' Sims 3 approach... I miss the days of more all-encompassing packs

Then add the others together like.. Vampires, werewolves, faries, mermaids 😢, then ... If they put together.. HSY , Discover University & MWS .. Or something like that😂

That would be awesome, but it would be soooo buggy

@@Kit438 it would make good arguments if the pack on sims 4 all are bug free. Evan small things like the bust the dust kit is broken in its mechanic that no one really enjoy and the only customization was either use the dirty mechanic or not.

@@Kit438 No, it wouldn't. More content doesn't mean buggy game. TS4 is already buggy AF. TS3 was buggy because it was buggy, not because it had more content in it.

Thanks for still watching!

@@LGR we appreciate you, we understand the struggle of dropping 200+ on shit DLC for an empty game 🫡

@@LGR never stop

@@LGR When we start to hear more about project Rena, Lifebyyou and Paralives Id love to see a faceoff of the sim competitors from your perspective. With all of this stuff coming out its a pretty exciting time for long time simmers.

For me I think it’s because he has TONS of fun and goofiness with his variations on Duke and all the different scenarios he does. While also being fair and balanced. Since the start he’s admitted he’s likes 4 and has liked it from the start, but he has always been clear about his balanced gripes and disappointments with its downgrades from the past ones in the series. But doesn’t dominate the reviews with those gripes. Brings em up but still seems to legitimately enjoy 😊

I don’t play The Sims 4 and never plan on buying it, but I still love LGR’s reviews of the packs.

@@vidcas1711 it’s F2P on steam and other platforms as of this past October! Only the expansions still cost money! No pressure of course, but now you don’t have to worry about spending money and disliking it. Now you can try whenever you’d like 😊

​@@Gredran Yah har ahohy and avast!

I think it's his passion. You can tell how much he loves the franchise

same here and its funny when other sim UKpostsrs mention him when there talking about new chairs in the game

I remember him every time I take notice of a new chair. xD

I believe it started with the Sims 3 Seasons Ignorant Review!!! "I swear the chairs are the most important aspect of the game. Why would it come with so many of them if it wasn't?! I mean, really, how many kinds of people can you make, like what? One? I really don't even know why they didn't call it the Chairs 3 because that makes so much more sense" - 1:30 (It's unlisted now but in the Sims 3 reviews playlist) I remember distinctly that this was it, and surely enough, in the Supernatural review, there's no line up, but in the Seasons review after the Ignorant one, the line up is there!!!

I miss Ralph tho. R.I.P.

Buttrests 😂😂😂

i think there is a mod for the daycare

Itskatato tumbling tots is an active carer mod that was adopted and works

@5:24

I watch the Sims videos for my own information/entertainment, and the vintage computing videos to fall asleep to

Some of us are here for both!

@@The8bitbeard Seconded! I've been playing The Sims since the very first game (and have been a gamer since the Atari 2600/ZX Spectrum days), so I can assure you, Mr. Vardo, that both niches are far from being mutually exclusive. :)

@@KittyMeow1984 I'm in the same boat as you although a fair bit younger given my gaming started on a Cyrix 6x86 based PC and PS1 lol

I watch both even though I probably haven't played any Sims game in a year or more

Totally agreed. I'm waiting Life by You eagerly. Hopefully EA would get its head out from its arse and start to take things more seriously.

Absolutely, the only reason Sims 2 & 3 were great was because of *stiff* competetion from Singles: Flirt Up Your Life 😏

"Life by You" is the Paradox Interactive one, right?

@@CoffeeFurret Yes.

Early access on Life by you begins in September too. 6 months away.

plus it's $40 for stuff that should just be in the game to begin with it really is sad how the company went from making packs in Sims 3 so that players could customize their experience in fun ways to packs/kits/extras in Sims 4 that are clearly just cash grabs

This pack would be appreciated in 2015/2016.

@@f.miller801 I feel like that's the sentiment for a number of these packs.

Awe same age

I was 15 when I pirated the entire S3 with generation pack back in my homeland with my friend… what a time and holy Fock I’m 27 now… this is interesting how downgraded sims had became since those times, there could be such an amazing progression but it is only business wise…

i was like 9 when i found out about lgr im 19 now lmaooo

What a bad parents to letting an underage kid playing sims... It's clearly contain some sexual stuff, nudity, and stuff like that

@@DBT1007 there is nothing overtly sexual on the sims. They even censoring things that don't need to be censored like toilet since sim don't even bother to undo their bottom clothing. When there is nudity, it was censored. Not even woohoo is done in nude in most ocassion. When they do, like in shower, you dont even see anything. Besides it's clear the target is preteen and teen so if by that time you don't understand basic sex, i find it hardly implausible you learn about lovemaking by witnessing sims woohoo. Last part, even if you think that the sims is pretty liberal with sex, you can't actually just ask for wohoo without making the other one your more friendly. So yeah, even in game they teach you to be responsible and ask for a kind of consent first.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by everyday play influencing the review? It seems to me that people who play the game every day would be the ones most interested in how it affects thair gameplay.

​​​@@smellincoffee rose tinted glasses too. Someone who plays that much is more likely, for example, to see a minor tweak as being a huge game changer. While the general audience might not notice or care. LGR instead just plainly looks at the content to see if it's worth forty bucks.

I’ve been seeing the girlies have affiliate codes that solely benefit them. Not even a discount lol just use my code so I can get money.

@@TCO_404 LGR also, as he said himself, has long been tired of the game and it's expansions. So he _is_ biased, negatively towards the game.

Yeah, for some reason folks seem to think having positive feelings about the game is biased, but negative feelings about it are unbiased. When really reviews are always “biased” as they are subjective to the feelings/thoughts of the reviewer. It doesn’t mean that the reviews won’t have facts in them to help support their thoughts/feelings. But it’s still an opinion at the end of the day. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Glad that it helped in any way at all, and I hope you’re on the mend soon!

Maxis and EA Game should really move on but nope, they had to get all they can from a pretty bare bones game

lmao same, halfway thru college too 😂

Lol same, though I started with his sims 3 reviews and I’m in my last year of college

oh, it's kicking against its own coffin, I hope

Glad that you’ve stuck around!

Thanks, I’m glad this proved useful!

I do recommend lilsimsie if you want to see reviews of the new packs in more detail :) She's also very fun

Everyone has definitely been too biased

@@mathildasjogren2039 i personally cant stand her XD. Something about her makes me wanna throw up.

I think it helps that he isn't reliable on sims content and was just a fan of the game before reviewing. He actually plays the game and doesn't need to rub EA off like other sims content players have to do. ALSO, the review details. I wish he did switch games too 😑

When we literally got changing tables with the sims 2 and 3 base games 😂

​@@Aelffwynn well, not really. For the sims 3 changing tables were added after a few years as a store content 🙃

i said the same thing when i got the pack

the wooden one matches base game furniture too lol

​@@Aelffwynn sims 3 changing tables were also dlc locked.

I've felt the same way. I did find another guy on here named rekowcski who's on a similar track, he's just a little more... blunt about the lack of positive comparison between TS4 and previous games.

@@tegandetermann3299 there's other simmers that I enjoy but for some reason their reviews I just can't trust. Is that weird?

@@thechandraraj6415 Not at all. Particularly with the smaller more positive channels. "Game Changer" status is always a potential that could unintentionally influence what the say in a review, even if you like their video style. At least, that's how I feelm

@@tegandetermann3299 i trust game changers opinion on sims packs about 3 weeks later, especially Plumbella, her first video on a pack is always positive, but as time goes on the more videos she releases, she gets more and more honest, by then she's ripping EA a new one for all the shit they do

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Clint actually did have some sort of partnership with EA for a while related to his Sims videos, but then they actually dropped him for not kissing their ass.

Neigh, it has subjected itself onto _me_

Yep. Should have been one pack.

Doesn't add much for teens, for example.

​@@Schaemiaat this point high-school years is like parent hood where they will just do another pay wall for teens to have better gameplay

I think Parenthood, Growing Together, Toddler Stuff and Kids Room would have been the ultimate Generations -esque pack.

@@sweethistortea and they're still missing elder Sims activities

Always has been. 🔫

will not watch it anywhere else haha

He only reviews the big expansions now. Sims 4 has more than $1000 of DLC and the game still sucks if you own it all.

@@mr.cuddlesworth3144 I have to fully agree with you there

This is the way.

😂😂😂😂 omg this comment was hilarious

They already announced The Sims 5. It's a few years out though

​@@samanthanorton4538 Or whatever _Project Rene_ ends up being called. I'm still not convinced it'll be "The Sims 5," my money is on a soft reboot of the franchise.

always online microtransaction heavy i can see it now.

@@LGR My guess is it will be a soft reboot like you say but as something closer to a live service style game - New expansions, etc will instead be free updates and the main revenue stream will be people paying the upfront cost of buying the game alongside a storefront selling new content for the game ala The Sims 3's store. More than likely the updates will have a relative lack of content to make use of the new features with the idea being that you instead buy that content on the storefront, although I have little doubt the community will step in so you can easily just wait a month or two and get a load of modder-made content for free instead. The whole expansion thing as EAxis does it currently is a bit of a weakness with the competition coming out to be honest, assuming Paradox does a Cities Skylines-style DLC release schedule for their game then I can see an approach like I've theorised above actually giving EAxis a leg up.

@@terryberry38 Specifically, the gurus have said it's _"the next generation Sims game and creative platform.”_ Read their wording carefully :) They specifically have not said "The Sims 5" or anything like that. The team has been quite careful, yet vague, in all of their descriptions and phrasing. It will almost certainly be the fifth mainline Sims game, but I just don't know that it will be specifically be called The Sims 5. I personally feel they may go for a soft reboot of the series to start "fresh" and not have the baggage of being a sequel, exactly. I can see them calling it "Sims" or even "The Sims" again, theoretically resetting the stage and introducing a new online-focused simming platform for content to be added to over the next decade or so. It certainly falls in line with the current trends of game design and monetization, both at EA and other big publishers. They've also described how a big focus of Project Rene is to allow other players online to drop in and out of your game at will, and that you go from playing on your PC to playing on a phone seamlessly. So while I'm admittedly reading between the lines, it kinda feels more like a reboot/refresh of the series rather than a straight-up sequel to The Sims 4.

Came to the channel for Sims expansion reviews, stayed for everything else

He keeps it real

SatchOnSims is also a brutally honest Sims reviewer you can try watch. These 2 are the only ones I trust, I swear the others are either paid to hype it up or so young they don't know what they missed with Sims 1, 2 & 3.

@@Dragoncake567 Yesss but also thesimyin is the best for telling the truth

@@Dragoncake567 oh no people were born after 2000, the horror 😐

Thanks for continuing to check in, even if we’ve both moved on from this particular title!

same, its tradition for me.

The same amount of years we’ve had with sims 4

The most progress was made in Sims 2 and 3. It’s just sad this shell of a game is still going like this.

Could say the same for gaming as a whole. Feel like weve been on the same gen since 2012

why make new thing when current thing prints money

I'm more amazed how people are hyping this and not more upset about a pay wall for gameplay that was free in base games in last two games

Sims 2 and 3 were both noticeable progressions over their predecessor. Sims 4 was a regression.

Medieval was better that it had any right to be.

Medieval fucking SLAPS 👏👏

Tell me about Sims Medieval - I'm interested now.

@@DiscoTimelordASD Clint has a review on this very channel, check that out - he will explain it better than I ever could.

@@DiscoTimelordASD Like Sims 3 but with quests/storylines. You play different heroes (monarch, bard, physician, etc) with different daily responsibilities and expand the world every time you finish a quest. The writing is fantastic, very funny and very detailed! Clearly a lot of care put into the world and the storyline 🙌

and this is why I pirate the packs

@@ashunotaku icon

EA - Scamming Everyone

Well thats kind of their bread and butter isnt it?

Or they talk about how awesome the new pack is even though its mediocre at best

​@@ladybird1782 trying to get that Maxis dough. Usually rich white girls.

fr like no one cares that some curtains dont come in black, they care about how the game feels shallow and empty

@@ladybird1782 thats why i hate those sim influencers whatever that stupid program is called, theyre paid by EA to promote and talk good about the game yet they pretend it's their valid opinion. bunch of liars, fake af.

​@@Abrakadabro666 Had to throw that last sentence in, didn't you?

Most of it should. I'll give example of CiV V, they had Religion and Trade Route on two separate expansion. When civ vi rolled out, they were integrated to base game since the devs is not as crazy as sims dev to sell the same thing twice, just in differrent graphic.

Omg I spent months on a family and then the child glitched and removed itself from the world and I couldn’t bare to restart

My aunt loved the sims (can’t remember if 2 or 3), had one save file that was multi generations in… until my uncle deleted the sims from her computer. Can’t remember the reason now, think to free up the storage? She hasn’t played since

​@@CountLilacI would have deleted the uncle after that stunt...

​@@CountLilacWow, that's just awful.

Him and Juno Birch for me.😆

I mostly picture the sims with Graystillplays.

So far we learned that his wife is Karyn Nukem, and their kids are Anessa Nukem and Nukem Nukem. We even got Fartwhistle Dinglehop back from LGR's let's plays of Sims 4 years back. Great he's still going around.

@@giselletorres4156 I love that you were able to tie all the deep lore together so succinctly.

@@thejackal007 When Sims 4 stops giving you the stimulation previous installations gave you find it yourself. So far Lauren Reviewer is a child that will go..... places. c:

Happy to hear it :)

This wasn't in-depth, if anything I appreciate LGR's short, concise and honest reviews

@@OnionTheBat To each their own. My definition of “in-depth” is explaining the positives and negatives and giving reasoning for both. It’s likely different for yourself and others, which is also fine.

Thanks for watching, I’m glad they still manage to excite :)

Paradox? Rescue from DLC's? Oh boy, if only you knew...

​@@KokorocodonIf the DLC is packed and worth it, I love them. Sims 4 DLC are empty cash grabs.

@@boethia7367 you do have a point, but don't send your hopes up.

@@KokorocodonParadox would unironically release a 'Chairs from X Pack' set of dlcs, charge $10 for it and then get praised because gamers love losing money

@@Rynewulf pretty much

Thank you for your service

I bet you join military in the sims 4 too sir

You are quite literally "Growing Together" 😜

Oh same. They nailed build mode in TS4, but I cannot bring myself to actually play. The itch is scratched by TS2 and 3 where I can build and l play!

Sims 4 just a building/interior design sim at this point. I have a feeling sims 5 will be ever more like that as well sadly.

Thanks for continuing to watch!

Does back carrier come with this expansion?

@@SuperfreakXoXo Yes, but mind you, it's neither a CAS wearable nor a Build Mode object; it works similar to umbrellas, in that you select and use them through options while in Live Mode. To select which back carrier you want your Sim to wear, click on your infant, then select "Baby Care > Set Preferred Back Carrier". Then, to use the back carrier, click on your infant, then select "Baby Care > Put [Infant's name] in Back Carrier".

@@KittyMeow1984 Oh dang... sad I don't have that expansion :( but thanks!! now I know it's not included in the free update..

@@SuperfreakXoXo Yeah, the free update is *very* barebones... it just adds a basic bed for infants, and that's it. It's almost like the inclusion of infants in the base game is just a demo to enntice you into buying the Growing Together expansion, because without it there's pretty much nothing you can do with your infant Sims. :(

Hehe, yeah I'll probably have to

I mean, Life By You doesn't look like much for now. People are excited to try an alternative to the Sims and that's understandable, but we just don't know much about it.

@@Ezullof They did show off stuff a bit ago. Already better than Sims 4 base game. Open world, active careers, switching people on the fly with no loading screens, dynamic and readable conversations. In game tools to make new content like mods, lots, conversations, careers, etc. There are cars, bikes, motorcycles, and skateboards. Swimming in the ocean and a beach. The thing is built for modders and modding. I'd say they so far have proven their worth. More so than The Sims 4 Growing Together which is indeed a $40 Game Pack/Paid Free Update.

@@Ezullof What does everyone think of Paralives?

Hope they allow extensive graphics mods, that game looks real uncanny valley

It's also definitely going to have it's own DLC when it comes out, but it does look cool if quite different from The Sims.

I haven’t been on my game for a while. $50? Damn, Origin really are screwing us Aussies over

Same in Canada 😢

Yes! I always played with them, though they were really creepy 😅

that comment sounds depressing

with how much heavy lifting the player has to do to make things actually happen in this game, all sims count as imaginary friends i think

Thanks for continuing to watch, glad you’ve stuck around!