I think making male Sims is made harder by the wild patterns put on the clothing. The males basically have one type of fashion and it's something I have NEVER seen any male in real life actually wear. If anything, I see the plain t-shirt and long sleeve, those button down shirts with little patterns on them, and a business casual look on most every day American males. They wear jeans or shorts to their knees. Shoes vary. Only time I see something different is clothing worn by people that were not born in America. I have seen many people from other countries wearing traditional clothing of their respective countries or their pop culture style they would wear to a nightclub or party. IF the shirt has a pattern on it, it's not so wild that it's not even tasteful. There's enough athletic menswear in the game that is passable. They need more night clothing or more colors to the existing ones because I'm so sick of HEART underthings. I have not met a single American male that would actually go for those. They choose plain, plaid, stripes, and if it's a pattern it's related to something they enjoy like sports, motorcycles, their dog, etc. The styles of most male clothing is fine, but the patterns kill them.

Same!! I’m female but play with mostly only males

it’s pure laziness lol

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Generally when I start a new game, the random Sim it gives me is female. Plus most of the clothes are feminine. So more or less by default, I play more female than male, at least when creating adults. My kids and toddlers tend to be more balanced.🤷🏼‍♀️

EA have INSANE analytics teams. They will know what everyone does in game - they definitely play into that when making packs etc

Literally. I prefer playing with men but the cas is so bad. I also play on console so no cc for me😞

also their torso is weirdly bent

Male clothing is the game is lacking, but I never really found it to be a problem since most of my male sims are based off of people I know irl, and those people have only ever worn basic men's clothing from stores like Walmart lol. But I understand why people are unhappy with the current clothing options for males in the game.

That's how I feel since all my friends and boyfriend are software engineers. I know by the way Sims 4 plays they did the very barebones "enough to make it work" coding and some stuff like adding colors should actually be easy, yet they give us a constant string of excuse as to why it isn't done.

so they're selling us the barebone 1st draft at such a high price, every time? Or are most of the pays actually for the artists instead of the software developers? But this is a game pack so.. for the price yeah it does feel kinda lazy.. or am i just ignorant of how hard the work is..? Or most of the profits actually go to the higher ups instead? Or are the lack of features caused by the need to make sure it's runnable in most computers and even laptop? Then i appreciate it, because the game is runnable on my non-gaming laptop. Is it hard to make a game like this runnable on most non-gaming laptops? Genuinely just curious.

EXACTLY

Also a software engineer and I agree!!!!

They can also sleep on the tent. Thats great because I dont need to buy two new beds for my todlers just a tent haha.

Just like the slide with toddler stuff xd

Also communication skill can be done super quick if you buy a large stuffed animal. Just spam interactions with it and get level 5 in one day.

That is a great idea. I would love some kind of real estate gameplay. It could be a great way to make money: buy cheap, renovate, sell with a profit.

I would love to be able to flip houses. Buy the property, remodel it, sell it for more… but the way Sims values property I don’t think you’d ever actually make money that way. 🤔

@@bookcat123 they would have to implement an old vs. new and well-tended vs. run down value mechanic or something like that. Would have also made sense with the dreamhome decorator career, people hireing someone to update there aging homes. With such gameplay elements it really would have been a Gamepack, not just an overpriced Stuffpack.

Speaking of renting out, I actually sort of enjoy Discover University's roommate feature, which isn't limited to Brightchester's lots either. You can ask any sim to be a paid roommate as long as you have a bed for them, you don't have 8 sims already living in your household, and the sim that you're asking to be your roommate doesn't have any sims who "rely" on them, which probably means that they have to be "homeless". You can place an ad that will guarantee willing roommates though. People have said that this game mechanic is buggy, but I haven't noticed anything game-breaking yet and the free food roommates produce is nice. I've even sold it in a yard sale. lol

The apartment doors of a gig you have will straight turn into invisible glitchy messes in the wall if you happen to travel to the neighborhood with the gig in it on off hours and this cannot be fixed by players. (Occurs with and without mods)

Your first point is the exact reason I've been avoiding getting this pack. Anything that makes sims drop the interactions I told them to do is just irritating to me. This pack and Batuu are the only game packs I don't have, and I'm probably getting a bundle during the holiday sale so I'd probably get Batuu over this.

Thank you for the honest review. I was looking for this. If gameplay is annoying it really makes me not want to play, although the idea was great

There’s so many kits that I literally had no idea this existed

@@erina2600 understandable! well now you know, i highly recommend that kit if you’re looking for CAS it’s one of the few that’s worth the money

The incheon kit has better male clothes than the modern male kit 😂

I was just about to comment this exact sentence as well!!! LOL yeah we see you!

I also play on xbox, so no mod stuff available. Having a few packs has expanded my options a lot

I like the werewolf pack for cas tbh, I end up using it so often for my male sims

I’m mad because tartosa looks stunning but I do NOTTTT want to buy wedding stories

omg me too i thought i was the only one

Worse is that this pack actually breaks apartments if you so much as travel to the neighborhood your gig will be in by making the doors go invisible so nobody can enter. (It's not mods causing it. The pack is.)

I LOOVED "flipping" houses in the sims 3, where they literally gave many of the cheap homes crappy old worn walls, floors, and furniture and bad floor plans. The styling career was super fun too

As a male I feel the same way but have to say that I do feel like in real life there are less styles for men than for women most stores only carry t-shirts, long sleeves, polo, plaid button up, jacket and a few jeans and shorts where the womens section will have t shirts, long sleeve, crop tops, tube tops, strapless, spaghetti strap, blazer, some with a semi transparent and flowy midriff, jackets but with more variety of styles and designs aswell as jeans, shorts, skirts of many different styles, leggings, casual dresses, pantsuits, jumpsuits, suspenders/overalls and don't get me started on lengere.women have literal stores dedicated to fun underwear but men just get boxer briefs and boxers at Hudsons bay. The mall I work at literally has 4 women's underwear shops and I've never seen a men's one. And even when you do consider other men's styles that exist, they're not easily accessible. Most good male fashion is designer and sold only online and costs an arm and a leg to buy and even then it's still usually just a jacket or a t shirt with a logo on it. There is no male equivalent to fast fashion. And while that may be good when looking at the negatives that come with fast fashion, it severely limits the kind of styles that men can try On top of this men get made fun of when they wear things like a fishnet or mesh top. For some reason it's ok of women to wear stuff like that but not men. The way things are right now women's clothes are designed to be fun and exciting and sexy, with many styles made to hilight women's bodies and put them out there. While men's fashion is made to look seriouse and nothing else it comes from the outdated idea that men shouldn't need to put themselves out there with looks but instead be wealthy and in a successful career. And it's true that fashion isn't just meant to attract others but even when it comes to just having fun with your wardrobe, men's fashion is just to focused on being sophisticated to allow men to have fun with their clothes More example of this is with formal wear. Every red carpet event or prom or wedding, the women are always dressed in beautiful dresses that are all unique and of different trims, while most men are in the same identical suit Going back to the sims though I agree with you that this problem is even worse in the sims and that's even more frustrating

@@seankart4459 Its sad that its all true, In my opinion clothing styles shouldn't be as limited for men than women same thing with hairs, if you see all TS4 male hairs some of them are practically the same, meanwhile the woman hairstyles feel more diverse. Overall EA needs to try harder because while there may be less styles for men there are still a bunch of styles they haven't put in the game yet because they go for more American/Fun dad vibes since TS4 is a American game. (Im not even gonna get started on how to have to pay for different cultures **cough** City Living **cough** )

@@Basil_omor12 omg yeah the hairs are so bad I think it says something that when creating a male sim I don't even look at official sims 4 hairs and go straight to my cc. And yeah idk I feel like the sims and lifestyle games in general are a great place to experiment with male fashion. Just because male styles are limited irl doesn't mean they can't try to create new styles in the sims 4. Like just be creative and give male sims more flowy tops or more interesting suits just something to add more while also adding in more existing styles to the game. I think we need more cozy clothes for men in bot IRL and the sims and also other styles that don't make all my male sims look the same and also more male hairstyles with hilights please. Like more frosted tips but also hairs that are half one colour and half another like we have for a lot of female hairstyles but sgort would be cool, or where the front is dyed a brighter or darker colour than the rest. I know it's hard since men tend to have short hair but there are ways to make each hairstyle more unique. Even with small details like stray hairs

@@Basil_omor12dude and they have the audacity to make selvadorada a vacation only world when the culture there is unlike anything the sims has made before 😭

@@erina2600 FR, I understand its a 'American Game' but like, other people play TS4.

I thought the style influencer was like this. I didnt reach the peak of carrear yet but the other sims doesnt pay for the makeover?

I would like to buy this mostly for the decoration items and all that, I'm honestly not interested on the job carrier that this pack offers, I'm more into decoration and that's it. That being said if you only use the decoration does the rest of the game works properly or everything else gets glitchy? like other jobs, or building mode?. Thank you for helping

@@eclinor there are shelves that return to your home inventory when you leave and come back and it seems no matter what you do it keeps happening, and it's a pain in the butt to fix especially when you get it perfect... BUT I will say those same shelves are perfect for using the moveobjects cheat, you can move those shelves wherever and a LOT of stuff fit in them. So there's always drawbacks and upsides. One drawback, most of the time, if you have a type of decoration style set as a favorite for likes and dislikes, your sim will go over to an item they like or dislike and react, and it'll be out of nowhere, they'll sometimes stop what they're doing to do it, but I think it's also a base game problem?

@@twilightwillowglade7214 wow I appreciate a lot your answer, I just didn't wanted to buy something that make the game unplayable anymore. Sounds good thank you for taking your time explaining all that

@@eclinor of course! If there's any other pack you wanna know about, let me know. I'll give as much of an unbiased opinion as possible. The game is still very much playable with Dreamhome decorator, just don't expect the shelves to stay, and don't set any liked or disliked style preferences

@@twilightwillowglade7214 thanks again, if it doesn't bother you the other DLC I would like to buy is Laundry day, but it has a lot of bad reviews where even some people say they regret buying that DLC, I would like to have the effect of the Laundry and dryer working, but I don't know if that will make it unplayable, glitch wise and also having to micromanagement your sims a lot with to clean really frequently their clothes. So if you have any suggestions or advices about that DLC it would be nice to hear your experience. Thanks a lot friend. By the way I bought the dream home, is really cute. Thanks for sharing your experience about that one

you get another slot as you progress :)

@@jodieb6969 Thank you! I couldn't decide if they would be that obvious about missing features that were advertised. Maybe if their trailers didn't always lie I wouldn't have to question it lol

Also half the sims born in my game are male, so I need clothing options of the non clown variety for them. Thanks.

Try to clear any junk (old photos, videos, software) that you no longer use on your laptop and see if that helps x

@@SatchOnSims i delted everything part from like the stuff that came with my laptop but its fine when i move out ill get a good computer and sign into my account hi thought 😂💕

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