this is super popular but I just wanna say… you should be able to have fun with a sims game without buying lots of expansion, game and stuff packs. the base game in itself should be good. add-ons shouldn’t be things that should’ve existed in the base game; swimming in places other than pools, acne, apartments and such things.
I agree. Especially now that we're seeing indie devs do so much more content in their base games - sometimes with one or two devs total. And then they do FREE dlcs. It's just... If indie companies can do it, there's really no excuse for an AAA company like EA. It's so obvious at this point that they're just milking us for as much money as they can get. Especially as they start to split things up into smaller and smaller packs.
I agree, I played Sims 3 with no expansion packs for YEARS and I loved it. Sims 4 feels unplayable without expansion packs/mods. Which I guess works for EA because I love the sims so I've bought more packs for Sims 4 (which I think I've been playing for about 2 or 3 years) than I did for Sims 3 (which I played for about 10 years - I did buy some packs when they were £5 each after sims 4 came out lol).
I wish sims could just be annoyed with each other, like a moodlet or sentiment, where they don't necessarily lose relationship points but they don't want to be around each other.
Especially in romantic relationships. I hate that if someone does one thing wrong, the romance and friendship bar goes down. If I'm mad at my SO, I don't love or like them less.
@@MelissaLawrence2002 the pancake household is actually what makes me think about this. I never play as them but I think it would reflect their lore better
I know that The Sims 4 has some overall terrible programming. But oh my god the toddler programming is so broken. They can inject themselves into the queue of their parents at any point and you have to FIGHT to cancel it. They do what I call the grabby hand of death and it just constantly keeps interrupting the parent's queue. I've had toddlers demand their parents take them out of beds when they have max movement skill. JUST WALK! AAAAAAAAAUGH Toddlers are cute though.
I have the opposite problem with toddlers, as adults will destroy the toddler's current action and queue to "check toddler" when the kid gets anywhere near tired on their energy bar. I think the bed thing is a bug, because if you have the toddler just "move" to a spot right next to the bed, they'll get up on their own. But if they're in bed and you click the potty across the house or whatever and tell them to go use it, they'll do the grabby-hands thing for a random adult. So I've learned to just make the toddler step out of bed first and then queue up actions for it.
The loop of doom where both parents continue to cancel the care action for the toddler because of either checking or just picking up/putting down as the toddler is starving. 🤦🏼♀️ I use testing cheats for needs for toddlers now because forget it otherwise.
@@damian4628 if the ai wasn’t inherently broken and pathing was better? Toddlers would be a joy in the sims 4. But their parents are just incompetent and can’t take care of them to save their lives. High chairs? Never heard of them
@@Larissa-up7lu Except when they have heard of them and repeatedly put them in and take them out instead of feeding their starving children who are moments from being taken away.
Yeah I have to constantly remind my self not to shake the baby when I see that mother fckn Make a Mess icon pop up on their queue. But look do cute when hugging and howling(werewolves) and I LOVE the playing in the kiddie pool
my biggest confusion with the seasons pack back when it came out was that there is no festival activities outside.. You have all kinds of strange festivals happening but no christmas market? no easter egg hunt out in the world? no public fireworks on new years eve? it's like all the magic only happens in your home and on top of that, it feels like your family is legit the only one celebrating these things.
We need a furniture pack with like 70’s-90’s furniture with big cube TVs and velvet couches and the ugliest yellow tile you’ve ever seen. It would make legacy play throughs so much more fun.
Yes! I'm dying for a 20th century pack with '60s-90s furniture, technology/electronics, CAS, activities etc. We should be able to play through generations that way. It's not nearly as fun when the fifth generation of a Sims family is using and doing the exact same shit as the founder on a day-to-day basis.
Yeah. I mean I also had that burnout feeling sometimes I previous games, but I don't count that as a point against the game, because I still had the urge to come back and play soon after.
This is so true. I could play the Sims 2 and 3 for hours on end, but with the Sims 4 once I'm done in cas I'm like well time to go do something else. It's so boring.
@@lordjreen same. I have like 60 started save files just bc I make a family, build a house, play for 2 hours after and then just abandon it bc i get tired of it and its more fun to just restart
People keep complaining about how shitty feminine clothes look on male frames but no one talks about how shitty can look on large body types and how ridiculous fat sims look in general. I wish the sims team would work on this.
I'm just mad about pointy bewbs. Putting male clothes on a feminine frame doesn't work on a whole lot of old clothes because their boobems look spiky through the shirt
@@sinnebunZ They're bad on hourglass. I tried making myself & the clothes stretch out over the boobs really badly & same with the hips. Only look good on rectangle figures with very little difference between bust/hips & waist.
Not unpopular, but I desperately wish we had more dynamic relationships. One bar for how Sim A feels about Sim B, one bar for how Sim B feels about Sim A, and one bar to generally show their relationship level (some clever design choices could keep this from being too cluttered, too). I like to make complex sims and flawed relationships/families. It’s impossible to have any love/hate relationships between sims, everything is only ever mutual, there is no one sided love or hatred, and it’s impossible to have a one sided crush or friendship for the kids and teens (which in my experience, was a HUGE thing in school).
they have sentiments and a few times my sims kept trying to flirt and get in bed with someone but they kept denying it. A friendship goes both ways. One can't be good friends with someone else if the other person isn't. That just doesn't make sense
@@aspenisthebest of course you can, otherwise no one would ever be shocked when a relationship is broken off. One person can think they have a good thing going whilst the other person thinks the friendship is strained, your BFF doesn't necessarily see you as their BFF. It's great if you have a mutually enjoyed friendship but it just doesn't work that way all the time irl, so it'd defo make sense if it was added in game.
My sims hot take is that I wish children could bring babies and toddlers food and change diapers and such. A grade school aged kid can absolutely get their toddler sibling a bowl of crackers or give a baby a bottle! My partner has brothers who are 10 years older than her and they definitely helped with those things when she was a baby.
100%. I absolutely changed diapers when I was 10. They could have tied it into a skill level to imply older kids or if they wanted to limit it to a pack pair it with Parenthood's responsibility stat.
YES!! This makes having a multi-kid household absolute hell. The children automatically interact with babies when they cry, meaning my adults can't get in there to ACTUALLY SOLVE the issue, which is usually hunger or hygiene. It's annoying enough that I've thought about locking babies in a room that only adults can get into
@@beep3242 Yeeeeeesss!! I constantly have to do that, in Sims 3 teenagers (not sure about children) would actually help their parents with their new sibling and it was so cute. Now I just hate all my other children for getting in my way!
Why? There's lots of mean little kids who grow up to be nice people. Tbh, as someone whose had a shitty childhood this would not be a good take. You're not your childhood, you can improve and grow. If you want this progression, the option is literally there for you. Just pick the mean trait when your kid grows up. Plus, if you have the family pack (or parent pack, whatever it's called) the traits you earn literally effect your adulthood. Like whether or not you're responsible, emotionall stable, etc. If you wanna make an angry, mean little brat there's all the options for you to do so.
But you can already choose the mean trait when your child grows up. It shouldn't be compulsory because not everyone wants their gameplay like that and the point of the sims is that it has fluid gameplay so you can make the stories you want to make. Not to add, kids who behave badly don't necessarily grow into adults who behave badly
It’s good to see you again, Jessie. I hope you are doing the best that you can! You have our love and support always. Also I love these videos so I’m so excited!
11:30 I love the need to go shopping in the sims 2, it guarantees my sims get out of the house and there’s always some kind of drama that happens. One time Dina (after a dramatic saga of catching don cheating and marrying Mortimer) ran into don when she was buying clothes for her kids and she had just gotten over being furious at him, and when she saw him she wanted to ask him on a date. I mean the gameplay just makes itself when you have errands you need to run.
Yes! I loved going out to get groceries in the Sims 2 and having my sims go out and buy new clothes. I'm the type that loves realistic gameplay, so I thought it was really fun. Plus, it's a good way for your sims to meet new people aside from the welcome wagon.
This may not be unpopular, I've never seen anyone comment on it: but I think it's ridiculous that pregnancy halts aging completely, extending their life by 3 days every pregnancy. Especially when in reality it's been shown that people who birth multiple children actually live shorter lives than they may have because of the stress on their body. I understand that they didn't want them to be able to die, and I'm cool with keeping them alive while they're preglant, but the fact that as long as they're a baby factory, they're immortal is just insane. The days on their life bar should still count on during pregnancy! ETA: Also, I'm very sorry for your loss and I hope you're coping to the best of your ability. All my love and sympathy to yas, bitch 💗
It makes me so mad, I usually made the Non childbearing one of the couple drink potions and stuff to reduce the age difference because otherwise big families get weird, I dont mind a few years apart but playing normal or short life span is a lot
I actually don’t mind it, because I play on short lifespans. I feel like it gives the pregnant sim enough time to not be a grandma by the time the kid turns into a teen lmao.
I agree. It ends up throwing off the aging system for the town, especially with the story progression update. Some families with have babies in huge numbers and the husband will die before the wife even becomes an elder.
I find this hilarious actually, and occasionally take advantage by keeping a Sim pregnant to expand their lifespan. Then they ignore their poor unwanted convenience kids 🤣 But yeah, it really is kind of broken.
@@mrsmoth101 True, but it would make more sense if the entire family’s time paused while your Sim was pregnant. Otherwise have enough kids and the first kid will eventually be older than mom. 😂
Lowkey: I love when she talks to Declan through the camera. It is like sitting in on two best friends who have an inside joke. Typically that would be embarrassing, for me, but it humorous because I can relate
Something I don’t like in the sims 4 is the hair color swatches. I wish they had a color wheel so you could make any hair color you want because I would like a cool dark purple hair color or a pastel pink hair color but can’t get them unless through cc which I can’t do as a console player.
I have fond memories of burglars in TS3 breaking into my new household when I had almost nothing in my house yet, so they would steal my only toilet within the first five minutes of playing. 😂
With the babies, I feel like they could remedy it by making toddlers change more as they gain skill. I like to imagine the toddler is 1 when they first age up into toddlers and as they gain skill they are getting older. I would however like to be able to go for a walk with the baby or a toddler in a stroller/buggy. Also would love if sims held toddlers hands as they walked some together!!!
How cool would it be if they actually just grew? Like you had a tiny baby and then after a day or so it could sit up and then after a day or two longer it could crawl and then walk? I'd love it if there were a few more life stages. Like 1) newborn, 2) infant, 3) toddler, 4) preschooler, 5) child, 6) tween, 7) teen, 8) young adult, 9) adult, 10) middle-aged, 11) retiree, 12) elder, and more variations in height and wardrobe and gameplay options for each stage. It would be nice if there were actual consequences if you didn't help kids gain skills. Like military school or getting held back if they don't do homework or grades don't improve, or a child being more likely to have an accident or wetting the bed or something if they aren't toilet trained, or struggling with school more if they don't do well on thinking skills or struggling socially if they don't hit communication levels or receiving the clumsy trait if they don't get enough movement. I'd like the ability to turn those features off--sometimes how easy the Sims 4 is compared to previous iterations is nice--but it would be nice to have the option of a more challenging game. I also wish we could turn occults on or off in different files. They're a lot of fun and I like having them, but I don't necessarily want them showing up in every game.
@@gothboiclique.mp3 There is overlap because each kid is unique in their stages of development, but I think of toddlers as 1-3, maybe even younger, when they are starting to learn to walk and explore their world. Preschoolers are 3-5 and can begin to develop some fine motor skills and learn colors and count. Thinking in terms of Sims 4 toddlers. I would say toddlers have most skills at lower than level 3 while a preschooler would have skills in the 3-5 range.
@@pamelac.nation5437 I mean kindergarten (where you learn to write and count and stuff) is ages 3-4 here and then first year of primary school is the year you turn 5 in. So I started primary school at age 4 because my birthday is at the end of the school year. Granted I had already learned to read & write by the age of 2, so the first few years weren't teaching much other than improving handwriting. But still. Seeing 5 be considered pre-school is just odd.
@@AlexaFaie We are talking about the same thing. Kindergarden in the US is age 5 and you have to be 5 before the start of the school year in many states, meaning it is the year you turn 6. Our preschool is your kindergarten and our kindergarten is your primary school, except that you have to be 5 already, not turn 5 that year. Then there are kids who have to repeat kindergarten because they are not ready for 1st grade (6 turning 7), usually because they deemed are not either socially or emotionally major enough to handle "normal class" There are a handful of counties in the US that still do half day kindergarten so that the 5 year olds go home at lunch time (or to day care).
I do feel like they should rotate who gets to build, like why did James Turner /formally known as thesimsupply/ get to build a whole world, no shade to James I just don’t think it’s fair
I found that super annoying. I don’t care about him. I don’t like his build style. I immediately changed everything anyways. At least with different creators it’s a chance for different perspectives and styles.
I think one of the reasons Sims 4's build/buy and houses feel cookie cutter to some is because there's no CASt. In Sims 3 you could use the same couch and the same wallpaper in 5 different living rooms and because you could change the patterns, colors, and textures neither would look exactly alike or give off the same vibe. You can't do that in Sims 4. So if you don't use CC/mods and you only like certain styles and locations you could end up feeling extremely limited in that category. It may be more user friendly, but creative choice took a big hit.
Exactly. You can make diverse places in TS4, but I often find myself creating similar houses or using the same items, because those are the ones that look best, especially outside of the base game. Sims 3 was the best because even with base game objects you could use create a sim to add style and personality into a space, which made playing with a broke sim all the more fun.
Agree here. Same with create a sim. I don’t need all the fancy patterns, but it’s really frustrating when i find a couch that would be perfect but then none of the swatches are to my liking. And the fact i cant use a color wheel for my sims’ hair color is ridiculous, especially when i can for my pets.
As an ace person, I do feel like they nailed how flirty/h0rny everyone in the world is like, all. the. time! BUT I would really love to be able to be romantic with a single sim without being repulsed by it, but also not automatically flirting with every sim who comes along. Like I need something that falls in between those two extremes.
There's not enough time in a Sims day, it overwhelms me with tasks and I feel like I can't play multiple Sims. Children in the sims drive me insane, I have to hire a nanny unless I cut my Sims job but I've been playing the same file since 2017, I refuse to stop climbing the chef career.
I think toddlers in sims 4 are the best EXCEPT for one tiny little detail. They can walk from the start even before learning how to walk, which in my humble opinion was only done out of lazyness.
They obviously used my brother as a model for the toddlers. He quite literally ran before he could walk. Like he could go zoooom but not go regular toddler speed until part way through his 7th month. Yep walking by seven months old. His leg bones are actually slightly bowed from them not having hardened enough to support his weight. And he wore through so many pairs of baby booties because they didn't sell proper soled shoes small enough to fit him. 🤣
I wish that sims, once they become kids or something would know they're cousins, uncles, aunties, etc, just because irl you would see them quite often especially when the child is a newborn. I'm not saying that they have to instantly be bffs but just know them a bit.
I absolutely agree that I love the sexuality update for adding ace and aro Sims!! It's great representation, in my opinion (though we don't get much representation, so any is good, haha). I also like that now I can be like "this sim is GAY" and they won't gain romance if they're flirted with by someone they wouldn't find attractive.
Yes!! As a gay trans man, I definitely find it uncomfortable that a lot of people seem to treat pansexuality as the “correct” sexuality - It shouldn’t be considered a detriment that I’m not sexually attracted to women.
The fact that the game feels utterly incomplete without seasons and most people say seasons is a requirement tells me that those features should have been base game. I get why in previous sims games weather was an expansion because they were literally inventing the weather system. But now by sims 4 weather and holidays should just be base game. It's a life simulator and weather and holidays are just integral to life.
another thing about the sexuality update: sims have always been able to have gay relationships, but they were pansexual/exploring by default. so if you wanted to have a gay or lesbian sim who is exclusively attracted to their own gender, you'd have to herd them away from the other sex or else they'd start autonomously flirting and ruin your story 😭so for that reason i'm grateful for the update, but it is a bit disappointing that the sims still adheres to binary sex. that limitation is literally baked into the fabric of cas so i understand though. i just hope that changes in the sims 5
They actually mentioned they’re working on working past the binary already, in a blog post announcing the update they mentioned they’re trying to figure out how to work it into a game that unfortunately operated on the binary during its conception
@@perfectblueeeee Tbh. I think they'll abandon the idea. The biggest reason being that depending on how they approach it they'll end up being labelled homophobes.
@@fenrisvermundr2516 I mean, they'd probably get called out by LGB Alliance type transphobic gays, which would probably be overshadowed by the rest of us that aren't transphobic. If they abandon it, I think it'll be because it's too complex to implement.
I like to see other people who like Strangerville ! I actually replayed it several time because the fact that it’s kind of scripted, you really feel that what’s your sims doing is impacting their environment and idk I like the story and the desertic world Tho when you finish it’s a bit disappointing like your sim SAVED A TOWN but all they get is rotten fish in the mail ? 🫠
Honestly i think in the sims 5 they should put more on off buttons in the options So u can customize ur game Like turning on/off weither u wanna buy clothes Turning on/off acne, same with hair growth and so on So everybody can play in a way that makes them happy
I agree that previous games had more character! The sims 3 create a style was a NIGHTMARE, but I went SO far outside the box with my room styling because of it and made such unique things ! Paradoxically like. The sims 4 is the most innovative build tools, but with such limited swatches and objects, I just always make…the same generic house…
I think the issue with why people get bored is cause they make up this whole story about the sims they create, their interests, their personality and how they react to things. Seeing them wave that they cant walk past a plate of food like immediately breaks that immersion and picture in your head who these sims are and you quickly realize that they are just sims at the end of the day.
With the sims being mean without mean traits one. I don't know. I've had weird problems where my sims will just autonomously be mean to each other, despite not having that trait and maybe even be good sims, but they're just being an ass to their spouse that they have high friendship and romance with. It's very frustrating.
Yeah, same. I had to turn off mean interactions with MCC so my married couple would stop randomly being mean to each other. :P It would be fine if it was just one or two random comments (I can just imagine that they're pickering over something small etc.), but it just sometimes escalated so quickly and even if you tell your sim to stop, they're back to being mean like two seconds later. But tbf it was probably also the fault of some of the mods I had that changed their personality which I uninstalled later.
I really liked this format, especially with the raw reactions to everything. Would definitely love a part 2. I agree with you on most everything, especially EA building their own houses and lots. For me, of course the ones built by simmers look great and it's fun for them to get to do, but it feels a bit lazy on the team's side, like if they have simmers create the lots they don't have to learn how to build in their own game.
I would love a story version of the game. Like in Sims Bustin' Out, you could make a save file that's just regular gameplay, and another save file where you take a sim on the storyline. They kinda have that now with the scenarios, but those are very short. Would be harder considering all the packs and that most people don't have all of them, but not impossible to make it kind of a modular thing. I would also like more story packs in general, though!
It would also just be nice to know in the gallery if a house was built on a particular lot without having to incorporate the lot's name into the gallery title. That way you could completely furnish Newcrest with buildings, or replaces all the ones in another town.
@@jspihlman I always hashtag the original lot name in the description (but not the title) on any builds. It would be great if it was incorporated automatically. (not that I'm saying my builds are good just that's what I do and I'd love to be able to look for others the same way)
The sexuality update also added the ability to have multiple woohoo partners without repercussions because it’s available as a friendship option so they don’t gain romance therefore the other partners don’t get jealous (as far as I know from my own testing anyway)
The "Sims adds straight people" is a funny joke for sure, but people definitely forget that previously, you couldn't really make aro, ace, or gay people either.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t want cars in the sims 4 Reason: knowing the sims it would be useless, since sims fast travel everywhere anyway we wouldn’t get to see the sim actually drive, or have any fun stuff like decorating a car or having a parent teach their kid to drive, it would just be another object with minimal game play and a large price tag
if sims 5 isnt open world im not getting it. ea has gaslight most people into thinking thats why sims 3 was shit at running, but no, its because that game was made in like 2008 and the optimization was awful, we have progressed enough for average pc to run open world, dont settle for this closed shit
right, frankly if they can’t figure out how to make a decent open world Sims game in the year 2022, maybe they shouldn’t be making these games- not for the price point they sell them at, anyway
Ugh I totally agree with "perfect households" I am so sick of having happy, go-figure sims. Its ironic Sims4 main marketing scheme was "they have real emotions" and yet the only one they every display is "Happy".
Unpopular opinion - I really enjoy The emotion system. And I would actualy enjoy it be more tough, as in make The moodlets stronger. Sims 4 is TOO easy on keeping your needs up and I need a bit more, so adding moodlets that would impact The speed of your bladder would be so much fun and negative moodlets should be easier to achieve.
My hot take: the pronouns pissed me off. Context: I made my simself, using exclusively they/them pronouns, but most things referring to them used she/her.
Glad that you’re feeling well enough to post again, Jesse! I’ve always really appreciated how open you’ve been about the things you’ve been struggling with and going through. Been praying for you and your family, I hope you’re all coping as well as you can. Sending love to you all! ❤️
People always forget about aces, or think we're just not worth giving representation. Thank you for calling that out. The sexuality update was needed. I only wish it had come sooner.
I am ace myself and as I've been playing my new legacy challenge since the update, my 2nd gen heir met a girl in highscool who randomized to be Asexual and it was lovely to see! I ended up having him and her get married and they adopted what would become my 3rd gen heir. It was such a new sight in the game and really felt needed and made me happy!
Ok so Bella when you mentioned ace celebrities you reminded me of Alice Oseman, who is AroAce and uses She/They pronouns. She is the author/illustrator/screenwriter of Heartstopper, as well as other books. As someone who is Ace I would recommend reading Loveless as it focuses around an AroAce character who goes to Durham Uni and explores her sexuality and and as an ace person myself it is one of the best books that I’ve ever read, if not the best. If you haven’t read it already then I would highly recommend it as it is an incredible book with incredible representation.
@@justabee9692 true - it's a fantastic book as well but personally I prefer Loveless as I relate to the ace characters in that more than I do with Radio Silence. The whole Osemanverse is incredible though.
Just wanted to recommend a couple other books with ace characters/by ace authors: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann (this one's about ace identity and is set in college; the character is biromantic ace), and Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman (this plot isn't centered around ace identity but the character still realizes she's ace throughout the book, I think aroace actually but can't completely remember, and talks about it with another character)
i think the gender and pronoun options are a good start but they really aren’t that great. i have a non-binary sim i’m playing with currently, and 75% of the time they’re referred to with she/her pronouns by the pop-ups even though i have their pronouns set to they/them. also, there’s no alternative to girlfriend/boyfriend, son/daughter, mother/father, etc, which really makes it feel like i’m not actually playing a non-binary sim, but just a girl sim with they/them pronouns slapped on. as a non-binary person, it’s very frustrating trying to play a sim with a similar gender identity and have the game itself invalidate that identity at every turn
When the sexuality update was announced and explained I knew it was gonna get messed up with pronouns and the complexity of people's sexuality when they're anything but cis, and yeah it feels a bit like virtue signaling from EA BUT I was so overwhelmingly happy to see aromantic and asexual sims (for them to not be mutually exclusive!!!) not because I am but because other people ARE and they need that representation. It just sucks so bad to have this life simulator everyone loves that you can make yourself in but then certain groups of people can't do it at all. It makes you feel alien and wrong. It's the same problem with black representation (skintones, hair textures) and of course the trans community. Being trans does not mean having a masculine body but wearing feminine clothes, especially if you are transitioning and have a body very in between. I understand that it's hard with programming but I just wish EA addressed these issues. They praise their updates but rarely say "hey, we know that this is still lacking and here's why we might not be able to fix that". It's the unapologetic attitude for me.
Yeah and same thing with mental health and disabilities. Like they just renamed the "insane" trait to "erratic" rather than addressing how much of a harmful stereotype the trait is. But there's no other trait to pick if you want your sim self to share your mental health issues. They just lumped multiple bad stereotypes of different mental illnesses into one & called it a day.
I agree with you completely about the sexuality update! I too was one who didn’t understand why they added it, after all the sims were pansexual already so what’s the point? But the more I heard others talk about it, the more I realized how important this update was to ace and aro ppl. Also, while it’s easy to say “all it did was add straight sims 🙄” I think it’s easy to forget this adds 100% gay sims, who aren’t interested in sims of the opposite sex. Overall, I think it’s a very neat update and I’m glad the sims added it!
As a gay male simmer I gotta say, the sexuality update also added the option to make exclusively gay people like myself. I love playing the hecking family (my otp gay sims 4 couple) and it always bothered me that they are set up as gay in game, but if they went to the romance festival or the free love nap happened to be voted in, Brent or Brant or both could end up being hit on by a female sim randomly and they would ACCEPT IT and next thing I know this married gay couple would have a slight romance bar with a female sim. The sexuality update gave me the option to finally define them as gay and even made it so that they will autonomously turn down a female who hits on them (much like us gay guys do in real life lol). So to me that update didn’t just add straight people, it added the ability to make people who WERENT just pansexual.
Exactly. I have characters who are straight, gay, bi/pan, ace, and so on. If it wasn't for that update, my self insert would hook up with guys. Um, no? Please let me gay game.
YES! im a lesbian and it really annoyed me how whenever i tried to create a sim that was also a lesbian they'd start flirting with male sims on their own .
On console for sims 1 & 2, you had a story mode to play through and it was so tough. I still haven't beat it to this day. But it was the hardest challenge to sims. Sims 4 could never.
I really disliked the sexaul preference update because it messed up the gender part. Also the pronouns didn’t work so my trans male sim was being misgender by the game and his partners had to be attracted to women. As a trans guy it was really sad to see. I understand sexuality and gender become difficult as there’s so many options but the constancy is what I am disappointed by.
idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but i miss how more “adult” sims was? my first sims was sims bustin out and i remember you could “use ‘sign language’” on a sim and it would basically be them flipping the sim off and cursing (it was bleeped out lol) and they had like dirty dancing and i miss the vibrating beds and heart shaped hot tubs!! (and just hot tubs in general…) and they had a faux bear rug and you could relax w your love interest and make out lol. now sims are so… tame and basic, it’s so hard to do dramas like before 😭
also there were like objectives in bustin out (i think cuz it was more of that type of game… the point was to get to level 10 of all careers) but each house you moved into you had objectives to get new objects. it wasn’t just getting to a level in a career but also doing certain interactions or going to different places and doing something. i remember one was at the goth manor i believe and you had to go to Dudley Langraab’s trailer to take back a fern he had stolen and then it unlocked a car for you. or you also had to exorcise the ghosts in the goth manor after you got the seance table. or at Pixel Acres, you had to have a party and then play this song that made everyone take their clothes off and a cop popped out of the bushes and arrested Malcom Landgraab 😭😭 that kinda stuff (also i miss burglars….)
my unpopular(?) the sims opinion is that they should have waited with releasing the pronoun update until all the languages were at least mostly ready for it. my language is heavily gendered and i understand that custom pronouns would require a lot more work than they do in the english version, but also all the rep theyre trying to do with sims using different sets of pronouns in the high school pack feels shallow to me cause its not going to be in my version of the game for probably a long time. also, with the lack of updates we're getting (as at least as far as im aware, the only blog posts with updates are in regards to the english version of the game and only translated at most) im really worried that maybe its never going to come out for other languages lol. so yeah i think it wouldve been better to not rush it and wait until the other language versions are either also ready to come out with it, or maybe at least mostly ready and then keep updating us on how its going. i know most simmers are playing the english version of the game and probably dont care, but as a non-binary person who speaks a very gendered language and lives in a pretty transphobic country it would mean a lot to finally be able to make my sims more like me also another pronoun update thing - i really hate that they have the pronouns but all your gender options are still male/female. i understand its built into the game and it would probably be difficult to make more options that are non-binary but also lol yeah you can use they/them but youre still going to be male or female according to the game. again, feels kind of shallow to me
I can understand some people's opinions about the gender/sexual identity update, but personally from a gameplay standpoint, it feels really off when I leave a gay couple alone to do their own thing and then a day later find out one of them has been flirting with a girl. Like story progression is fine but he shouldn't be talking to girls like that cuz I intended him to be gay. It takes you out of the experience I guess.
I wish there was more options for relationships and an attraction setting. I want my sims to be able to sleep around without having them fall in love and I want my sim to walk in a bar and find someone attractive or for my teen sim to get nervous around someone they think is cute.
I feel the Pan-comment. I see how it is important and i'm really happy for everyone who is happy about the pronounce and sexuality-update. And i also used it myself. BUT i also like the aspect that Sims, even if it makes no sense in a realistic way, would love almost everyone. There is no gender, no appearance-barrier. You can make youre Sim love evyrone you want, and this person will probaly accept you after some time. BUT this is also not gone. Just because there is this update dosn't mean you can't any longer play this way. Quite the contrary, to play the pronounce and sexuality update you have a heck ton of work to actually change all the stuff for all the important sims you play with xD.
I might be wrong, but i thought the comment was about a similar thing i'm seeing in my game now--ALL the random townie sims are loading in default hetero/allo now. I wonder if it's a bug or maybe a mod thing. I haven't met any default ace or bi/pan sims, but every sim I meet is now default straight :/ idk if anyone else is having that issue. I love that we can edit sims to be any sexuality or romantic identity, and I'd be happy if premade townies in each pack had their own identities, but every sim i've met since the update has been default hetero and allo. i hope it's just a mod problem and not the actual game lol
@@starstruck_sims oh i didn't know about this oo. I only Played a Bit after the Update in my on-going world and was thinking you Need to Change this by every Sim manualy by default. But wow okay, this Sounds ... uff. There should at least be variaty ~~.
I would definitely like to see babies getting some improvements. I also hope that, if they ever do that (which I doubt they will) that they keep the "age up" button. I find babies to be a bit tedious, so most the time I just skip them. I do think the gameplay options should still be there, for people who want that sort of thing. Best part of babies in Sims 4, by far, is the ability to completely skip the life state, haha.
So regarding clothes, I'd really like the idea if I could choose an x amount of clothing items that the sim already has, maybe a couple of pre-set outfits like we do now, but also have the option for my sim to go and randomise themselves an outfit from the existing items (randomise outfit, change shoes, add jewellery as separate actions). Other Sims could compliment or hate on the outfit, and e.g. if they get a lot of love, you can save it as an outfit (pop-up); if they hate it, it can have a negative moodlet etc. If you're tired of the clothes you have, you have to go buy items in store. I feel like Sims2 was basically this already, but I don't remember if it had some pre-chosen options for those who are not bothered constantly shopping for them. I'd also like the clothes to wear out. Like a tally of how many times you've worn it and a quality mark like furniture does. So something expensive would manage 20 wears without wear and tear, but something cheap only 5 etc.
Also, in regards to the sexuality update "just adding straight people," it allows players to make strictly gay sims as well. There was a simmer on reddit saying how happy she was with the sexuality update because she was always uncomfortable with her lesbian sims happily accepting flirtation from male sims, and this update made that to it wouldn't happen. (obviously... the update isn't perfect, as a nonbinary person the male-female options are a little awkward lol)
One of my issues is that they've made sexuality into a marked category, and I preferred... not that. I also understand why people might like the ability to set NPCs to be gay, ace, aro, etc for their own gameplay, beyond controlling the player sims' choices. I just hate the way this was done - we keep getting vague acknowledgements that nonbinary people exist, but then they build this off binary choices... it's frustrating. Still my biggest issue honestly is CAS. I find it's difficult to manipulate the 'male' frame into having softer features or the 'female' frame to look more 'masculine.' It doesn't reflect the real diversity of cis bodies, and it's particularly frustrating when I want to have a trans sim and feel like I'm picking between making them look entirely cisgender, or like an unimaginative stereotype of a trans person, because the body sliders are sex-segregated. I get that it might be difficult to change after having built the game this way - clearly pronouns weren't that simple, since it took forever and I still get text that misgenders my sims! I also get inapplicable 'wants,' like a trans sim wanting to 'try for baby' with his wife even though it's not an option. In a good mood, this is annoying. Sometimes it's much more grating. It adds so much insult to injury to have all this marketing on the idea that the sims is inclusive and groundbreaking, when they've really failed to prioritize actually building these features in properly in the 22 years since Jamie Doornbos coded in same-sex relationships without asking. Tbh it just feels like they want to be able to obscure how much legitimate criticism they're getting for constantly releasing busted features. If they claim the features are progressive, it makes it sound like criticism is just homophobia or something.
"It added straight people in the game" yes and no, it also added aromantic and asexual sims, why would every goddamn adult sim want to woohoo or romance? Then this kind of people will complain about the sims 4 being unrealistic
I'm not trans, but I think they've missed a trick. You can create a sim from scratch that's not "the norm", or use cheats to edit existing ones. But there's no opportunity to send one to the hospital to transition in game, which some people might want to do for story.
IMO.... I dont think the sims should be rated E... I miss slapping people with fish, the raunchy vibe. I look at the sims 3 and sims 2 vs the sims 4 and... The Sims 4 is just, too sugar coated? Like spellcasters are BARELY able to be "evil". We dont have burglars. Theres 2 evil careers. I think just a little chaos made the previous sims games well rounded, good games.
All I want is for actions to be like in TS3. No more idling for hours after giving a command, actually interrupting an action immediately instead of two hours later, AND shorter amounts of time needed to do sth.
I totally agree that it is a basically a build simulator rather than a life simulator. The create a sim and build/furnish mode is really good but the gameplay has always felt flat and boring, and that’s literally the biggest aspect of the game!? I join the club of creating a sim and house and then getting bored with the gameplay. Bring back Sims 2 on origin. :(
*Sims 4 has a stranger things pack and it's called strangerville* . The pack is _not_ a reference to the sims 2's strangetown!!!!! Watch lgr's video about the pack and then it hits This comment is about 13:08
hi ive missed you! which feels reallllyyyy effing weird to say about someone i do not know but oh well here we are. you bring joy into my life, hen. hope you are doing well
I also like the fact that burglars aren't a thing in the sims 4. I like my sims having perfect, mostly stress free lives because its an escape from my very dysfunctional life and I like the stability of knowing something major isn't going to go wrong.
When it comes to gameplay, I enjoyed how random Sims 3 could be; if I was having trouble with a storyline for my sims some random stupid thing would happen and you just roll with it. Like one of my families, I had a vampire woman and regular guy have a half vampire baby, and then the dude just had one of those random sims 3 accidents and died; so she got a new guy and I was about to make him into a vampire to have a full vampire baby when he got abducted by aliens and had an alien baby 😅 So THEN I turned him into a vampire and I had 3 kids of various lineage and they went on vacation and the dude died AGAIN. So upon their return home, I was able to befriend/seduce the ghost of the first dude and turned them into a happy mixed family. 😂 It's just one example of those storylines that you could probably plan out but it's so much more fun when it happens randomly and you can just build off it. I enjoy a lot of things about Sims 4 but there's just no randomness; you have to plan everything and shake things up yourself if you want odd things to happen, and they feel less odd when you have to work so hard to make it happen. Also I miss having sims be able to go do things around town without loading screens and being able to easily switch control to the various sims wherever they were or whatever they were doing.
I think that toddlers can be so annoying because they need more that they can do independently. They have doll houses, the puzzle table, the iPad, and one playing animation for all toys. To learn skills, they need constant adult assistance. I've downloaded a bunch of toddler activities including cribs that you can keep the toddler in while you're doing chores or working and it has made playing with them so much more enjoyable. But not everyone has access to cc so it would be great if EA could give those toddlers some autonomy and more interactions.
The only skill they need constant adult guidance for is the potty training- but even that could be bypassed if they have the independent trait. All of my toddlers are completely self-taught, especially since we have some items (like the mini slide, and the big tent) that make the skills go up faster. Not to mention, if you have 2+ toddlers they can also gain skills by watching each other gain skills.
Toddlers have the puzzle toy to learn logic, and can learn speech in mirrors if I remember right. I've done more grow-up challenges than is probably sane, so I'm very familiar with potentially needing to up a toddler's skills without any help. It would be nice if they had more to do in general, because the toddler stage of said challenges is mostly trying to grind skills to max while getting one's queue destroyed by an uncontrolled adult trying to "check toddler."
@@Kibeeeeee yes, you can gain all skills through the items I listed but only in a very repetitive way. When I want to have strong family relationship between my sims, putting my toddler in a room with a couple of items or teaching them flashcards isn't entertaining. The gameplay is restricted by the interactions a toddler can have. I just think they're less annoying in family gameplay when they have more options. If someone would rather their toddler be self taught, this version is fine but if I want a close parental relationship it doesn't feel right to leave my toddler in another room with an iPad while I work. Sorry, this is a bit of a ramble but I think it makes sense. Please let me know if it doesn't lol.
Some of my unpopular opinions, I think the sims 4 has the best art style hands down. (Attempting) hyper realism is ALWAYS going to age poorly and people who want the sims 3 style back are nostalgia blind. Building off that, the sims spin offs (the sims medieval etc) are criminally underrated and I wish there were versions using the sims 4 style. Having a closed game set in a wildly different time period or setting works so much better than just as a pack world. That's probably part of the reason why batuu sucks ass, it breaks the immersion to see Eliza pancakes show up to the galactic war Edit: If you have to tell me that ts3 does look good, with the caveat that you use CC. I hate to break it to you but that means it doesn't look good actually.
I also really like the art style, I think the only thing I don't like is how exaggerated their facial expressions can be. Like when they smile, it takes up their entire face lol, and their eyes basically pop out of their heads. Nothing is subtle. I do love the way they look in general, just want more subtle facial expressions
The sims 4 update also added gay people like cmon lesbians and gay people don’t have it easy now either. So annoying when my gay sims flirt with straight guys.
not an unpopular opinion but I miss when the sims was SO wacky and weird, like sims 2 for example. Sims 4 just seems so… tame. In my mind when I think of playing the sims years ago, especially sims 2 (PC, PSP, DS) they were so wild and hilarious and I miss it 😢
GOD. Absolutely agree about the builds. I think the ones made by game changers are pretty, but they're also Finished, and often look very 'home design magazine' and are WAY more expensive than the EA builds, because so much money is spent on little decorative bits. Which, IMO, makes them less functional. Also, like. Most real houses and buildings are kinda ugly. EA ones are weird, but they're often decent enough bones, and allowed you to put character into them by decorating as you progressed. (Which uh, yeah, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I really liked in sims 3 and 2 and such, when it was a starter home, it was very bare bones, to me, that's what a STARTER house should be. An affordable basic lot with no personality to serve as a blank canvas)
Toddlers and kids fuck me up in Sims4. The only thing they do is dump shit on the floor. Kids irl are way more interesting (obvi) but the sims team had so much they could have pulled from. I hate this also because townie kids will also dump paint so anytime i go to a public lot, i cant enjoy it because there will be 20 patches of paint all over the lot. And they never disappear overtime. (ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS THE PAINT COMING FROM?) Things they could have given to toddlers and kids instead of just their toxic-paint-dumping-fascination: -kids obsessing over fav cartoon characters -stealing mom and dads shoes and wearing them around the house -walking around house singing THE SAME SONG over and over and over again -writing on walls, cutting paper into unending amounts of confetti, getting into cookie jar -toddlers could mimic siblings or adults behaviors and surprise the sims around them.."kids say the darndest things"
You're ace 🥺 that makes me so happy to hear.... I agree with the representation thing. I'm aroace.. as far as ace celebrities goes, I have heard of some. One I could remember off the top of my head is Tim Gunn
this is super popular but I just wanna say… you should be able to have fun with a sims game without buying lots of expansion, game and stuff packs. the base game in itself should be good. add-ons shouldn’t be things that should’ve existed in the base game; swimming in places other than pools, acne, apartments and such things.
I agree. Especially now that we're seeing indie devs do so much more content in their base games - sometimes with one or two devs total. And then they do FREE dlcs. It's just... If indie companies can do it, there's really no excuse for an AAA company like EA. It's so obvious at this point that they're just milking us for as much money as they can get. Especially as they start to split things up into smaller and smaller packs.
I agree, I played Sims 3 with no expansion packs for YEARS and I loved it. Sims 4 feels unplayable without expansion packs/mods. Which I guess works for EA because I love the sims so I've bought more packs for Sims 4 (which I think I've been playing for about 2 or 3 years) than I did for Sims 3 (which I played for about 10 years - I did buy some packs when they were £5 each after sims 4 came out lol).
@@Hollie0601 same it’s fun to play base game sims 2 & 3.
@@jimjimjimmy7793 Even 1 too
This is why im a pirate when it comes to the Sims 4
I wish sims could just be annoyed with each other, like a moodlet or sentiment, where they don't necessarily lose relationship points but they don't want to be around each other.
and not strike up a friendly conversation after I make them rudely introduce them self.
Especially in romantic relationships. I hate that if someone does one thing wrong, the romance and friendship bar goes down. If I'm mad at my SO, I don't love or like them less.
@@MelissaLawrence2002 the pancake household is actually what makes me think about this. I never play as them but I think it would reflect their lore better
I feel like there is? My sim gets a tense moodlet when they're around someone who they have a bad memory with
@@slashedbeauty I've only seen it with like a hurt sentiment but it's really cool if you've seen something along these lines!
I know that The Sims 4 has some overall terrible programming. But oh my god the toddler programming is so broken. They can inject themselves into the queue of their parents at any point and you have to FIGHT to cancel it. They do what I call the grabby hand of death and it just constantly keeps interrupting the parent's queue. I've had toddlers demand their parents take them out of beds when they have max movement skill. JUST WALK! AAAAAAAAAUGH
Toddlers are cute though.
Realistic though cuz kids prevent their parents doing anything in real life too 🤣
I have the opposite problem with toddlers, as adults will destroy the toddler's current action and queue to "check toddler" when the kid gets anywhere near tired on their energy bar.
I think the bed thing is a bug, because if you have the toddler just "move" to a spot right next to the bed, they'll get up on their own. But if they're in bed and you click the potty across the house or whatever and tell them to go use it, they'll do the grabby-hands thing for a random adult. So I've learned to just make the toddler step out of bed first and then queue up actions for it.
The loop of doom where both parents continue to cancel the care action for the toddler because of either checking or just picking up/putting down as the toddler is starving. 🤦🏼♀️ I use testing cheats for needs for toddlers now because forget it otherwise.
As a mom of two toddlers irl, that is pretty realistic though.
@@4everbuffylover honestly, I really do think Sims 4 toddlers are the most realistic, which is also why they’re so obnoxious and cute simultaneously 🤣
As someone who is also chronically depressed and scared, Yes! Keep on keeping on babes
You came back stronger than a 90s trend.
Finally a reference I understand.
@@anton_7xg strange thing with Plumbella is that the more that she says the less I know but still wherever she strays I follow
The more that you say the less I know
And just like the return of 90s fashion, I’ve been excitedly waiting for this and I AM READY!
PERIODTTTTT
I think burglars would make a good lot challenge. That way people who want it can easily add it to their lots, and those who don't can just ignore it.
I'd prefer it in the settings. Enable it globally or not at all
ooo i love this idea kinda like a “rough neighborhood” lot challenge
Great point actually
Carls mod adds an option to have burglars as a lot challenge called bad neighboorhood.
Sims 4 toddlers are so annoying but they’re so cute when they’re happy it makes you want them. Guess thats what real kids are like-
They are so needy and unfortunately sims r dumb and a lil slow moving. Not a good combo
@@damian4628 if the ai wasn’t inherently broken and pathing was better? Toddlers would be a joy in the sims 4. But their parents are just incompetent and can’t take care of them to save their lives. High chairs? Never heard of them
@@Larissa-up7lu Except when they have heard of them and repeatedly put them in and take them out instead of feeding their starving children who are moments from being taken away.
I like Sims 4 toddlers because they have personality instead of being babies 2, but oh man the AI is terrible.
Yeah I have to constantly remind my self not to shake the baby when I see that mother fckn Make a Mess icon pop up on their queue.
But look do cute when hugging and howling(werewolves) and I LOVE the playing in the kiddie pool
my biggest confusion with the seasons pack back when it came out was that there is no festival activities outside.. You have all kinds of strange festivals happening but no christmas market? no easter egg hunt out in the world? no public fireworks on new years eve? it's like all the magic only happens in your home and on top of that, it feels like your family is legit the only one celebrating these things.
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We need a furniture pack with like 70’s-90’s furniture with big cube TVs and velvet couches and the ugliest yellow tile you’ve ever seen. It would make legacy play throughs so much more fun.
It is hard to make different eras in the game, yeah
the sims 3 did it and so can the sims 4
Oh god yes please
Yes! I'm dying for a 20th century pack with '60s-90s furniture, technology/electronics, CAS, activities etc. We should be able to play through generations that way. It's not nearly as fun when the fifth generation of a Sims family is using and doing the exact same shit as the founder on a day-to-day basis.
7:50 i think we wouldn’t get bored by the time we’re done with cas and building if we knew the gameplay was gonna be deep and engaging
Yeah. I mean I also had that burnout feeling sometimes I previous games, but I don't count that as a point against the game, because I still had the urge to come back and play soon after.
This is so true. I could play the Sims 2 and 3 for hours on end, but with the Sims 4 once I'm done in cas I'm like well time to go do something else. It's so boring.
@@lordjreen same. I have like 60 started save files just bc I make a family, build a house, play for 2 hours after and then just abandon it bc i get tired of it and its more fun to just restart
Well said
@@eggyolkjpeg You could at least make your new families in the same save file that way they are part of the same neighborhood.
People keep complaining about how shitty feminine clothes look on male frames but no one talks about how shitty can look on large body types and how ridiculous fat sims look in general. I wish the sims team would work on this.
Yes, especially the shirts and dresses. On some of the trousers the texture is stretched like a bad Jpeg
I'm just mad about pointy bewbs. Putting male clothes on a feminine frame doesn't work on a whole lot of old clothes because their boobems look spiky through the shirt
From what I've seen in my game, most of feminine clothes look bad/odd on body shapes that are not pear or hourglass-shaped..
THIS!!!
@@sinnebunZ They're bad on hourglass. I tried making myself & the clothes stretch out over the boobs really badly & same with the hips. Only look good on rectangle figures with very little difference between bust/hips & waist.
Not unpopular, but I desperately wish we had more dynamic relationships.
One bar for how Sim A feels about Sim B, one bar for how Sim B feels about Sim A, and one bar to generally show their relationship level (some clever design choices could keep this from being too cluttered, too).
I like to make complex sims and flawed relationships/families. It’s impossible to have any love/hate relationships between sims, everything is only ever mutual, there is no one sided love or hatred, and it’s impossible to have a one sided crush or friendship for the kids and teens (which in my experience, was a HUGE thing in school).
so like the sims 2 where both sims can feel differently about eachother, and they have a long term and short term relationship bar
they have sentiments and a few times my sims kept trying to flirt and get in bed with someone but they kept denying it. A friendship goes both ways. One can't be good friends with someone else if the other person isn't. That just doesn't make sense
@@aspenisthebest of course you can, otherwise no one would ever be shocked when a relationship is broken off. One person can think they have a good thing going whilst the other person thinks the friendship is strained, your BFF doesn't necessarily see you as their BFF. It's great if you have a mutually enjoyed friendship but it just doesn't work that way all the time irl, so it'd defo make sense if it was added in game.
My sims hot take is that I wish children could bring babies and toddlers food and change diapers and such. A grade school aged kid can absolutely get their toddler sibling a bowl of crackers or give a baby a bottle! My partner has brothers who are 10 years older than her and they definitely helped with those things when she was a baby.
100%. I absolutely changed diapers when I was 10. They could have tied it into a skill level to imply older kids or if they wanted to limit it to a pack pair it with Parenthood's responsibility stat.
YES!! This makes having a multi-kid household absolute hell. The children automatically interact with babies when they cry, meaning my adults can't get in there to ACTUALLY SOLVE the issue, which is usually hunger or hygiene. It's annoying enough that I've thought about locking babies in a room that only adults can get into
@@beep3242 Yeeeeeesss!! I constantly have to do that, in Sims 3 teenagers (not sure about children) would actually help their parents with their new sibling and it was so cute. Now I just hate all my other children for getting in my way!
I would just want that so my kids could do all the work while the adults go and get on with their own shit
There’s actually a mod for this!
Burglars coming into your house just to magically vacuum up a toilet and leave was actually the funniest thing ever
So disappointed I have to get the life tragedies mod for the same experience in ts4 lol
i literally just want a sim's upbringing to impact their traits, if my toddler was a menace they should be MEAN when they are older
They are if you make them. Im currently doing an eeeeevil family.
Why? There's lots of mean little kids who grow up to be nice people. Tbh, as someone whose had a shitty childhood this would not be a good take. You're not your childhood, you can improve and grow. If you want this progression, the option is literally there for you. Just pick the mean trait when your kid grows up. Plus, if you have the family pack (or parent pack, whatever it's called) the traits you earn literally effect your adulthood. Like whether or not you're responsible, emotionall stable, etc. If you wanna make an angry, mean little brat there's all the options for you to do so.
But you can already choose the mean trait when your child grows up. It shouldn't be compulsory because not everyone wants their gameplay like that and the point of the sims is that it has fluid gameplay so you can make the stories you want to make. Not to add, kids who behave badly don't necessarily grow into adults who behave badly
i think parenthood adds some of that to the gameplay but it SHOULD be basegame and have more options
yea its in parenthood with developing traits like empathy, emotional control, etc. but not in the base game :///
“If there’s any anxious energy in this it’s because I’m anxious” perfect video to vibe with after I’ve just taken my anxiety meds, we can do this hun
It’s good to see you again, Jessie. I hope you are doing the best that you can! You have our love and support always. Also I love these videos so I’m so excited!
"If they released a Stranger Things pack..."
Jessie.... did you forget about StrangerVille???? Millie Bobbie Brown is literally a townie!
Millie Bobbie Brown was a seasonal Townie for that old positivity challenge
11:30 I love the need to go shopping in the sims 2, it guarantees my sims get out of the house and there’s always some kind of drama that happens. One time Dina (after a dramatic saga of catching don cheating and marrying Mortimer) ran into don when she was buying clothes for her kids and she had just gotten over being furious at him, and when she saw him she wanted to ask him on a date. I mean the gameplay just makes itself when you have errands you need to run.
Yes! I loved going out to get groceries in the Sims 2 and having my sims go out and buy new clothes. I'm the type that loves realistic gameplay, so I thought it was really fun. Plus, it's a good way for your sims to meet new people aside from the welcome wagon.
I cant wait to see what malls look like in the sims 4 sadly grocery store probably will never be a thing
This may not be unpopular, I've never seen anyone comment on it: but I think it's ridiculous that pregnancy halts aging completely, extending their life by 3 days every pregnancy. Especially when in reality it's been shown that people who birth multiple children actually live shorter lives than they may have because of the stress on their body. I understand that they didn't want them to be able to die, and I'm cool with keeping them alive while they're preglant, but the fact that as long as they're a baby factory, they're immortal is just insane. The days on their life bar should still count on during pregnancy!
ETA: Also, I'm very sorry for your loss and I hope you're coping to the best of your ability. All my love and sympathy to yas, bitch 💗
It makes me so mad, I usually made the Non childbearing one of the couple drink potions and stuff to reduce the age difference because otherwise big families get weird, I dont mind a few years apart but playing normal or short life span is a lot
I actually don’t mind it, because I play on short lifespans. I feel like it gives the pregnant sim enough time to not be a grandma by the time the kid turns into a teen lmao.
I agree. It ends up throwing off the aging system for the town, especially with the story progression update. Some families with have babies in huge numbers and the husband will die before the wife even becomes an elder.
I find this hilarious actually, and occasionally take advantage by keeping a Sim pregnant to expand their lifespan. Then they ignore their poor unwanted convenience kids 🤣
But yeah, it really is kind of broken.
@@mrsmoth101 True, but it would make more sense if the entire family’s time paused while your Sim was pregnant. Otherwise have enough kids and the first kid will eventually be older than mom. 😂
Lowkey: I love when she talks to Declan through the camera. It is like sitting in on two best friends who have an inside joke.
Typically that would be embarrassing, for me, but it humorous because I can relate
Something I don’t like in the sims 4 is the hair color swatches. I wish they had a color wheel so you could make any hair color you want because I would like a cool dark purple hair color or a pastel pink hair color but can’t get them unless through cc which I can’t do as a console player.
Yes agreed. I have dark red hair. I can't make myself in the Sims. A dull brown is the best they got or full on ginger :/
18:10 if there’s one thing the Sims franchise has made a life-long impact in me, it’s that it was what taught me the word "miscellaneous"
I have fond memories of burglars in TS3 breaking into my new household when I had almost nothing in my house yet, so they would steal my only toilet within the first five minutes of playing. 😂
With the babies, I feel like they could remedy it by making toddlers change more as they gain skill. I like to imagine the toddler is 1 when they first age up into toddlers and as they gain skill they are getting older. I would however like to be able to go for a walk with the baby or a toddler in a stroller/buggy. Also would love if sims held toddlers hands as they walked some together!!!
How cool would it be if they actually just grew? Like you had a tiny baby and then after a day or so it could sit up and then after a day or two longer it could crawl and then walk? I'd love it if there were a few more life stages. Like 1) newborn, 2) infant, 3) toddler, 4) preschooler, 5) child, 6) tween, 7) teen, 8) young adult, 9) adult, 10) middle-aged, 11) retiree, 12) elder, and more variations in height and wardrobe and gameplay options for each stage.
It would be nice if there were actual consequences if you didn't help kids gain skills. Like military school or getting held back if they don't do homework or grades don't improve, or a child being more likely to have an accident or wetting the bed or something if they aren't toilet trained, or struggling with school more if they don't do well on thinking skills or struggling socially if they don't hit communication levels or receiving the clumsy trait if they don't get enough movement. I'd like the ability to turn those features off--sometimes how easy the Sims 4 is compared to previous iterations is nice--but it would be nice to have the option of a more challenging game. I also wish we could turn occults on or off in different files. They're a lot of fun and I like having them, but I don't necessarily want them showing up in every game.
@@TiffanyAllen1784 what’s the difference between a toddler and a preschooler?
@@gothboiclique.mp3 There is overlap because each kid is unique in their stages of development, but I think of toddlers as 1-3, maybe even younger, when they are starting to learn to walk and explore their world. Preschoolers are 3-5 and can begin to develop some fine motor skills and learn colors and count. Thinking in terms of Sims 4 toddlers. I would say toddlers have most skills at lower than level 3 while a preschooler would have skills in the 3-5 range.
@@pamelac.nation5437 I mean kindergarten (where you learn to write and count and stuff) is ages 3-4 here and then first year of primary school is the year you turn 5 in. So I started primary school at age 4 because my birthday is at the end of the school year. Granted I had already learned to read & write by the age of 2, so the first few years weren't teaching much other than improving handwriting. But still. Seeing 5 be considered pre-school is just odd.
@@AlexaFaie We are talking about the same thing. Kindergarden in the US is age 5 and you have to be 5 before the start of the school year in many states, meaning it is the year you turn 6. Our preschool is your kindergarten and our kindergarten is your primary school, except that you have to be 5 already, not turn 5 that year. Then there are kids who have to repeat kindergarten because they are not ready for 1st grade (6 turning 7), usually because they deemed are not either socially or emotionally major enough to handle "normal class" There are a handful of counties in the US that still do half day kindergarten so that the 5 year olds go home at lunch time (or to day care).
I do feel like they should rotate who gets to build, like why did James Turner /formally known as thesimsupply/ get to build a whole world, no shade to James I just don’t think it’s fair
fgg should be on creators network too
Hell yes, like, they could at least pretend they don’t have favorites 💀
@@rubusroo68 They don't have the guts
I found that super annoying. I don’t care about him. I don’t like his build style. I immediately changed everything anyways. At least with different creators it’s a chance for different perspectives and styles.
Uh.. Because he earned it??
I think one of the reasons Sims 4's build/buy and houses feel cookie cutter to some is because there's no CASt. In Sims 3 you could use the same couch and the same wallpaper in 5 different living rooms and because you could change the patterns, colors, and textures neither would look exactly alike or give off the same vibe. You can't do that in Sims 4. So if you don't use CC/mods and you only like certain styles and locations you could end up feeling extremely limited in that category. It may be more user friendly, but creative choice took a big hit.
Exactly. You can make diverse places in TS4, but I often find myself creating similar houses or using the same items, because those are the ones that look best, especially outside of the base game. Sims 3 was the best because even with base game objects you could use create a sim to add style and personality into a space, which made playing with a broke sim all the more fun.
My dream buildbuy is literally just the sims 4 but with create a style
Agree here. Same with create a sim. I don’t need all the fancy patterns, but it’s really frustrating when i find a couch that would be perfect but then none of the swatches are to my liking. And the fact i cant use a color wheel for my sims’ hair color is ridiculous, especially when i can for my pets.
@@NightTheKittenn Also saturation and hue sliders for skin tones. Yeah the skin tones are better now, but still not good enough
I just wish that sims could carry babies around, that’s all I really want
An object that I could put in random places 👌🏽
@@Epatron2 exactly 😂
i literally live for that, having my sim hold their baby while they sit on a park bench or watch tv with the family makes me so happy
As an ace person, I do feel like they nailed how flirty/h0rny everyone in the world is like, all. the. time! BUT I would really love to be able to be romantic with a single sim without being repulsed by it, but also not automatically flirting with every sim who comes along. Like I need something that falls in between those two extremes.
yes exactly, i can want to do a lil flirt and a cuddle without wanting to take them home lmao
There needs to be a loyalty lock on sims, because one partner in a steady couple is one good flirt away from "oh... I'm married? oh well."
@@tirsden and they could still do the opposite too for poly sims so they don't get jealous if you flirt with another one.
@@chel-belle7653 Only if both Sims are poly though
There's not enough time in a Sims day, it overwhelms me with tasks and I feel like I can't play multiple Sims. Children in the sims drive me insane, I have to hire a nanny unless I cut my Sims job but I've been playing the same file since 2017, I refuse to stop climbing the chef career.
I think toddlers in sims 4 are the best EXCEPT for one tiny little detail. They can walk from the start even before learning how to walk, which in my humble opinion was only done out of lazyness.
They obviously used my brother as a model for the toddlers. He quite literally ran before he could walk. Like he could go zoooom but not go regular toddler speed until part way through his 7th month. Yep walking by seven months old. His leg bones are actually slightly bowed from them not having hardened enough to support his weight. And he wore through so many pairs of baby booties because they didn't sell proper soled shoes small enough to fit him. 🤣
I wish that sims, once they become kids or something would know they're cousins, uncles, aunties, etc, just because irl you would see them quite often especially when the child is a newborn. I'm not saying that they have to instantly be bffs but just know them a bit.
I absolutely agree that I love the sexuality update for adding ace and aro Sims!! It's great representation, in my opinion (though we don't get much representation, so any is good, haha). I also like that now I can be like "this sim is GAY" and they won't gain romance if they're flirted with by someone they wouldn't find attractive.
Yes!! As a gay trans man, I definitely find it uncomfortable that a lot of people seem to treat pansexuality as the “correct” sexuality - It shouldn’t be considered a detriment that I’m not sexually attracted to women.
The fact that the game feels utterly incomplete without seasons and most people say seasons is a requirement tells me that those features should have been base game. I get why in previous sims games weather was an expansion because they were literally inventing the weather system. But now by sims 4 weather and holidays should just be base game. It's a life simulator and weather and holidays are just integral to life.
another thing about the sexuality update: sims have always been able to have gay relationships, but they were pansexual/exploring by default. so if you wanted to have a gay or lesbian sim who is exclusively attracted to their own gender, you'd have to herd them away from the other sex or else they'd start autonomously flirting and ruin your story 😭so for that reason i'm grateful for the update, but it is a bit disappointing that the sims still adheres to binary sex. that limitation is literally baked into the fabric of cas so i understand though. i just hope that changes in the sims 5
people straight up forgot that gay/lesbian ppl existed 😭😭
They actually mentioned they’re working on working past the binary already, in a blog post announcing the update they mentioned they’re trying to figure out how to work it into a game that unfortunately operated on the binary during its conception
@@perfectblueeeee Tbh. I think they'll abandon the idea. The biggest reason being that depending on how they approach it they'll end up being labelled homophobes.
@@fenrisvermundr2516 I mean, they'd probably get called out by LGB Alliance type transphobic gays, which would probably be overshadowed by the rest of us that aren't transphobic. If they abandon it, I think it'll be because it's too complex to implement.
@@beep3242 The LGB Alliance isn't against trans rights. They're just a group that specifically focuses on LGB issues.
strangerville is genuinely one of my favorite packs like who cares if the gameplay isn’t replayable it was still fun and the world is beautiful
I always feel guilty for liking strangerville and the batuu pack...because I actually think they are pretty good
Ummm not Batuuu but I agree with you about Strangerville it’s well done and feels better than some expansion packs😭😭😭
I like to see other people who like Strangerville ! I actually replayed it several time because the fact that it’s kind of scripted, you really feel that what’s your sims doing is impacting their environment and idk I like the story and the desertic world
Tho when you finish it’s a bit disappointing like your sim SAVED A TOWN but all they get is rotten fish in the mail ? 🫠
I actually kind of like possessed Sims running around. It's weird and mildly unsettling and I need that kind of chaos.
Nope. Awful pack together with star wars
nobody mentioned the TS3 imaginary friend!!!! the things I would do for this comeback!! ILLEGAL things!!!!!!! BRING IT BACK😭😭😭😭😭
Honestly i think in the sims 5 they should put more on off buttons in the options
So u can customize ur game
Like turning on/off weither u wanna buy clothes
Turning on/off acne, same with hair growth and so on
So everybody can play in a way that makes them happy
I agree that previous games had more character! The sims 3 create a style was a NIGHTMARE, but I went SO far outside the box with my room styling because of it and made such unique things ! Paradoxically like. The sims 4 is the most innovative build tools, but with such limited swatches and objects, I just always make…the same generic house…
I think the issue with why people get bored is cause they make up this whole story about the sims they create, their interests, their personality and how they react to things. Seeing them wave that they cant walk past a plate of food like immediately breaks that immersion and picture in your head who these sims are and you quickly realize that they are just sims at the end of the day.
With the sims being mean without mean traits one. I don't know. I've had weird problems where my sims will just autonomously be mean to each other, despite not having that trait and maybe even be good sims, but they're just being an ass to their spouse that they have high friendship and romance with. It's very frustrating.
Yeah, same. I had to turn off mean interactions with MCC so my married couple would stop randomly being mean to each other. :P It would be fine if it was just one or two random comments (I can just imagine that they're pickering over something small etc.), but it just sometimes escalated so quickly and even if you tell your sim to stop, they're back to being mean like two seconds later. But tbf it was probably also the fault of some of the mods I had that changed their personality which I uninstalled later.
I really liked this format, especially with the raw reactions to everything. Would definitely love a part 2. I agree with you on most everything, especially EA building their own houses and lots. For me, of course the ones built by simmers look great and it's fun for them to get to do, but it feels a bit lazy on the team's side, like if they have simmers create the lots they don't have to learn how to build in their own game.
I really liked Stangervile and want more story packs I don't know If that is a unpopular option though
That's a great idea. It would be cool to have another actual storyline in the game.
I don't know how often I'll replay the SV story, but I love living in that town.
I would love a story version of the game. Like in Sims Bustin' Out, you could make a save file that's just regular gameplay, and another save file where you take a sim on the storyline. They kinda have that now with the scenarios, but those are very short. Would be harder considering all the packs and that most people don't have all of them, but not impossible to make it kind of a modular thing. I would also like more story packs in general, though!
Strangerville was a great pack for building. Between that and Vampires, I build excellent worn down homes for my sims
Strangerville is the most awful pack ever 😵😵💫😩
I'd love for the standard builds to be EA's, but for the gallery to have by default different versions of the builds by chosen simmers.
That's a fun idea that could give best of both worlds!
It would also just be nice to know in the gallery if a house was built on a particular lot without having to incorporate the lot's name into the gallery title. That way you could completely furnish Newcrest with buildings, or replaces all the ones in another town.
@@jspihlman I always hashtag the original lot name in the description (but not the title) on any builds. It would be great if it was incorporated automatically. (not that I'm saying my builds are good just that's what I do and I'd love to be able to look for others the same way)
The sexuality update also added the ability to have multiple woohoo partners without repercussions because it’s available as a friendship option so they don’t gain romance therefore the other partners don’t get jealous (as far as I know from my own testing anyway)
wait that’s awesome :o
so glad you have posted, hen! I hope things are well, remember to take all the time you need
The "Sims adds straight people" is a funny joke for sure, but people definitely forget that previously, you couldn't really make aro, ace, or gay people either.
There was literally 1 sexuality. Pansexual. And they're saying giving the ability to add preference only added straight people? Like?
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Unpopular opinion: I don’t want cars in the sims 4
Reason: knowing the sims it would be useless, since sims fast travel everywhere anyway we wouldn’t get to see the sim actually drive, or have any fun stuff like decorating a car or having a parent teach their kid to drive, it would just be another object with minimal game play and a large price tag
I feel like maybe they could add npc cars like your pizza delivery person (you know what I mean) could drive up to your home
if sims 5 isnt open world im not getting it. ea has gaslight most people into thinking thats why sims 3 was shit at running, but no, its because that game was made in like 2008 and the optimization was awful, we have progressed enough for average pc to run open world, dont settle for this closed shit
right, frankly if they can’t figure out how to make a decent open world Sims game in the year 2022, maybe they shouldn’t be making these games- not for the price point they sell them at, anyway
Ugh I totally agree with "perfect households" I am so sick of having happy, go-figure sims. Its ironic Sims4 main marketing scheme was "they have real emotions" and yet the only one they every display is "Happy".
Unpopular opinion - I really enjoy The emotion system. And I would actualy enjoy it be more tough, as in make The moodlets stronger. Sims 4 is TOO easy on keeping your needs up and I need a bit more, so adding moodlets that would impact The speed of your bladder would be so much fun and negative moodlets should be easier to achieve.
everytime u mention u're ace, my heart just flutters bc it's so nice being reminded that there are others, bc as u say ppl forget we exist lol
Yes this!!!
My hot take: the pronouns pissed me off.
Context: I made my simself, using exclusively they/them pronouns, but most things referring to them used she/her.
Glad that you’re feeling well enough to post again, Jesse! I’ve always really appreciated how open you’ve been about the things you’ve been struggling with and going through. Been praying for you and your family, I hope you’re all coping as well as you can. Sending love to you all! ❤️
People always forget about aces, or think we're just not worth giving representation. Thank you for calling that out. The sexuality update was needed. I only wish it had come sooner.
I am ace myself and as I've been playing my new legacy challenge since the update, my 2nd gen heir met a girl in highscool who randomized to be Asexual and it was lovely to see! I ended up having him and her get married and they adopted what would become my 3rd gen heir. It was such a new sight in the game and really felt needed and made me happy!
Sending all the virtual hugs! We’ve missed you, but please take your time too, love. ❤️🩹
Ok so Bella when you mentioned ace celebrities you reminded me of Alice Oseman, who is AroAce and uses She/They pronouns. She is the author/illustrator/screenwriter of Heartstopper, as well as other books. As someone who is Ace I would recommend reading Loveless as it focuses around an AroAce character who goes to Durham Uni and explores her sexuality and and as an ace person myself it is one of the best books that I’ve ever read, if not the best. If you haven’t read it already then I would highly recommend it as it is an incredible book with incredible representation.
also Radio Silence who has a demisexual character as well :D
@@justabee9692 true - it's a fantastic book as well but personally I prefer Loveless as I relate to the ace characters in that more than I do with Radio Silence. The whole Osemanverse is incredible though.
Just wanted to recommend a couple other books with ace characters/by ace authors: Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann (this one's about ace identity and is set in college; the character is biromantic ace), and Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman (this plot isn't centered around ace identity but the character still realizes she's ace throughout the book, I think aroace actually but can't completely remember, and talks about it with another character)
Fellow ace here! I love so much that they added the option for asexuality 🧡 Being unflirty is NOT the same!
i think the gender and pronoun options are a good start but they really aren’t that great. i have a non-binary sim i’m playing with currently, and 75% of the time they’re referred to with she/her pronouns by the pop-ups even though i have their pronouns set to they/them. also, there’s no alternative to girlfriend/boyfriend, son/daughter, mother/father, etc, which really makes it feel like i’m not actually playing a non-binary sim, but just a girl sim with they/them pronouns slapped on. as a non-binary person, it’s very frustrating trying to play a sim with a similar gender identity and have the game itself invalidate that identity at every turn
New sexuality mechanics exclude non binary sims as well
in france we dont even have the pronoun thing
@Amanda I'm not non-binary tho..I was just saying that in most country they did make the pronouns update
When the sexuality update was announced and explained I knew it was gonna get messed up with pronouns and the complexity of people's sexuality when they're anything but cis, and yeah it feels a bit like virtue signaling from EA BUT I was so overwhelmingly happy to see aromantic and asexual sims (for them to not be mutually exclusive!!!) not because I am but because other people ARE and they need that representation. It just sucks so bad to have this life simulator everyone loves that you can make yourself in but then certain groups of people can't do it at all. It makes you feel alien and wrong. It's the same problem with black representation (skintones, hair textures) and of course the trans community. Being trans does not mean having a masculine body but wearing feminine clothes, especially if you are transitioning and have a body very in between. I understand that it's hard with programming but I just wish EA addressed these issues. They praise their updates but rarely say "hey, we know that this is still lacking and here's why we might not be able to fix that". It's the unapologetic attitude for me.
Yeah and same thing with mental health and disabilities. Like they just renamed the "insane" trait to "erratic" rather than addressing how much of a harmful stereotype the trait is. But there's no other trait to pick if you want your sim self to share your mental health issues. They just lumped multiple bad stereotypes of different mental illnesses into one & called it a day.
@@AlexaFaie yeah i hate that trait :(
I agree with you completely about the sexuality update! I too was one who didn’t understand why they added it, after all the sims were pansexual already so what’s the point? But the more I heard others talk about it, the more I realized how important this update was to ace and aro ppl. Also, while it’s easy to say “all it did was add straight sims 🙄” I think it’s easy to forget this adds 100% gay sims, who aren’t interested in sims of the opposite sex. Overall, I think it’s a very neat update and I’m glad the sims added it!
As a gay male simmer I gotta say, the sexuality update also added the option to make exclusively gay people like myself. I love playing the hecking family (my otp gay sims 4 couple) and it always bothered me that they are set up as gay in game, but if they went to the romance festival or the free love nap happened to be voted in, Brent or Brant or both could end up being hit on by a female sim randomly and they would ACCEPT IT and next thing I know this married gay couple would have a slight romance bar with a female sim. The sexuality update gave me the option to finally define them as gay and even made it so that they will autonomously turn down a female who hits on them (much like us gay guys do in real life lol). So to me that update didn’t just add straight people, it added the ability to make people who WERENT just pansexual.
Exactly. I have characters who are straight, gay, bi/pan, ace, and so on. If it wasn't for that update, my self insert would hook up with guys. Um, no? Please let me gay game.
YES! im a lesbian and it really annoyed me how whenever i tried to create a sim that was also a lesbian they'd start flirting with male sims on their own .
On console for sims 1 & 2, you had a story mode to play through and it was so tough. I still haven't beat it to this day. But it was the hardest challenge to sims. Sims 4 could never.
I really disliked the sexaul preference update because it messed up the gender part. Also the pronouns didn’t work so my trans male sim was being misgender by the game and his partners had to be attracted to women. As a trans guy it was really sad to see. I understand sexuality and gender become difficult as there’s so many options but the constancy is what I am disappointed by.
I like to bring it back to no gender stuff. Where you have to use your IMAGINATION. That was fun. But nooo, they do whats in right now. Just nope
idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but i miss how more “adult” sims was? my first sims was sims bustin out and i remember you could “use ‘sign language’” on a sim and it would basically be them flipping the sim off and cursing (it was bleeped out lol) and they had like dirty dancing and i miss the vibrating beds and heart shaped hot tubs!! (and just hot tubs in general…) and they had a faux bear rug and you could relax w your love interest and make out lol. now sims are so… tame and basic, it’s so hard to do dramas like before 😭
also there were like objectives in bustin out (i think cuz it was more of that type of game… the point was to get to level 10 of all careers) but each house you moved into you had objectives to get new objects. it wasn’t just getting to a level in a career but also doing certain interactions or going to different places and doing something. i remember one was at the goth manor i believe and you had to go to Dudley Langraab’s trailer to take back a fern he had stolen and then it unlocked a car for you. or you also had to exorcise the ghosts in the goth manor after you got the seance table. or at Pixel Acres, you had to have a party and then play this song that made everyone take their clothes off and a cop popped out of the bushes and arrested Malcom Landgraab 😭😭 that kinda stuff (also i miss burglars….)
my unpopular(?) the sims opinion is that they should have waited with releasing the pronoun update until all the languages were at least mostly ready for it. my language is heavily gendered and i understand that custom pronouns would require a lot more work than they do in the english version, but also all the rep theyre trying to do with sims using different sets of pronouns in the high school pack feels shallow to me cause its not going to be in my version of the game for probably a long time. also, with the lack of updates we're getting (as at least as far as im aware, the only blog posts with updates are in regards to the english version of the game and only translated at most) im really worried that maybe its never going to come out for other languages lol. so yeah i think it wouldve been better to not rush it and wait until the other language versions are either also ready to come out with it, or maybe at least mostly ready and then keep updating us on how its going. i know most simmers are playing the english version of the game and probably dont care, but as a non-binary person who speaks a very gendered language and lives in a pretty transphobic country it would mean a lot to finally be able to make my sims more like me
also another pronoun update thing - i really hate that they have the pronouns but all your gender options are still male/female. i understand its built into the game and it would probably be difficult to make more options that are non-binary but also lol yeah you can use they/them but youre still going to be male or female according to the game. again, feels kind of shallow to me
Bella babe I am so so glad you are back on my screen! Sending much love to you and your family.
its come to my attention recently that you have not watched the vampire diaries and i really think you would benefit from a binge watching
i think she'd like legacies too tbh
@@dylan4142 potentially an unpopular opinion but i think legacies >> originals
I can understand some people's opinions about the gender/sexual identity update, but personally from a gameplay standpoint, it feels really off when I leave a gay couple alone to do their own thing and then a day later find out one of them has been flirting with a girl. Like story progression is fine but he shouldn't be talking to girls like that cuz I intended him to be gay. It takes you out of the experience I guess.
i agree with you i just want my gay couples to be gay in peace
I wish there was more options for relationships and an attraction setting. I want my sims to be able to sleep around without having them fall in love and I want my sim to walk in a bar and find someone attractive or for my teen sim to get nervous around someone they think is cute.
I feel the Pan-comment. I see how it is important and i'm really happy for everyone who is happy about the pronounce and sexuality-update. And i also used it myself. BUT i also like the aspect that Sims, even if it makes no sense in a realistic way, would love almost everyone. There is no gender, no appearance-barrier. You can make youre Sim love evyrone you want, and this person will probaly accept you after some time. BUT this is also not gone. Just because there is this update dosn't mean you can't any longer play this way. Quite the contrary, to play the pronounce and sexuality update you have a heck ton of work to actually change all the stuff for all the important sims you play with xD.
I might be wrong, but i thought the comment was about a similar thing i'm seeing in my game now--ALL the random townie sims are loading in default hetero/allo now. I wonder if it's a bug or maybe a mod thing. I haven't met any default ace or bi/pan sims, but every sim I meet is now default straight :/ idk if anyone else is having that issue. I love that we can edit sims to be any sexuality or romantic identity, and I'd be happy if premade townies in each pack had their own identities, but every sim i've met since the update has been default hetero and allo. i hope it's just a mod problem and not the actual game lol
@@starstruck_sims oh i didn't know about this oo. I only Played a Bit after the Update in my on-going world and was thinking you Need to Change this by every Sim manualy by default. But wow okay, this Sounds ... uff. There should at least be variaty ~~.
@@mlem6951 seriouslyyy lol i really hope it's just my mods being silly 😩 would not be great if it's the game
I would definitely like to see babies getting some improvements. I also hope that, if they ever do that (which I doubt they will) that they keep the "age up" button. I find babies to be a bit tedious, so most the time I just skip them. I do think the gameplay options should still be there, for people who want that sort of thing. Best part of babies in Sims 4, by far, is the ability to completely skip the life state, haha.
So regarding clothes, I'd really like the idea if I could choose an x amount of clothing items that the sim already has, maybe a couple of pre-set outfits like we do now, but also have the option for my sim to go and randomise themselves an outfit from the existing items (randomise outfit, change shoes, add jewellery as separate actions). Other Sims could compliment or hate on the outfit, and e.g. if they get a lot of love, you can save it as an outfit (pop-up); if they hate it, it can have a negative moodlet etc. If you're tired of the clothes you have, you have to go buy items in store. I feel like Sims2 was basically this already, but I don't remember if it had some pre-chosen options for those who are not bothered constantly shopping for them. I'd also like the clothes to wear out. Like a tally of how many times you've worn it and a quality mark like furniture does. So something expensive would manage 20 wears without wear and tear, but something cheap only 5 etc.
Also, in regards to the sexuality update "just adding straight people," it allows players to make strictly gay sims as well. There was a simmer on reddit saying how happy she was with the sexuality update because she was always uncomfortable with her lesbian sims happily accepting flirtation from male sims, and this update made that to it wouldn't happen. (obviously... the update isn't perfect, as a nonbinary person the male-female options are a little awkward lol)
i lost my dad two months ago. you have no idea how much you’ve been there for me. love you jess. ❤️
One of my issues is that they've made sexuality into a marked category, and I preferred... not that. I also understand why people might like the ability to set NPCs to be gay, ace, aro, etc for their own gameplay, beyond controlling the player sims' choices. I just hate the way this was done - we keep getting vague acknowledgements that nonbinary people exist, but then they build this off binary choices... it's frustrating.
Still my biggest issue honestly is CAS. I find it's difficult to manipulate the 'male' frame into having softer features or the 'female' frame to look more 'masculine.' It doesn't reflect the real diversity of cis bodies, and it's particularly frustrating when I want to have a trans sim and feel like I'm picking between making them look entirely cisgender, or like an unimaginative stereotype of a trans person, because the body sliders are sex-segregated. I get that it might be difficult to change after having built the game this way - clearly pronouns weren't that simple, since it took forever and I still get text that misgenders my sims! I also get inapplicable 'wants,' like a trans sim wanting to 'try for baby' with his wife even though it's not an option. In a good mood, this is annoying. Sometimes it's much more grating.
It adds so much insult to injury to have all this marketing on the idea that the sims is inclusive and groundbreaking, when they've really failed to prioritize actually building these features in properly in the 22 years since Jamie Doornbos coded in same-sex relationships without asking. Tbh it just feels like they want to be able to obscure how much legitimate criticism they're getting for constantly releasing busted features. If they claim the features are progressive, it makes it sound like criticism is just homophobia or something.
Omg i so agree with the get to work vs city living one. I love get to work. I like San Myshuno/apartments but I never go to the festivals anymore.
"It added straight people in the game" yes and no, it also added aromantic and asexual sims, why would every goddamn adult sim want to woohoo or romance? Then this kind of people will complain about the sims 4 being unrealistic
I'm not trans, but I think they've missed a trick. You can create a sim from scratch that's not "the norm", or use cheats to edit existing ones. But there's no opportunity to send one to the hospital to transition in game, which some people might want to do for story.
I'm pretty sure in get to work you can go to the hospital to get a sex change.
@Terra bull I played sims 4 a while ago but I'm 100% certain you can get a sex change. You can get cosmetic surgery as well.
this is absolutely NOT needed wtf.
@@GlizzyGoblin757 People like to roleplay their transition.
@@RaroHi Their permanent mutilation*
IMO.... I dont think the sims should be rated E... I miss slapping people with fish, the raunchy vibe. I look at the sims 3 and sims 2 vs the sims 4 and... The Sims 4 is just, too sugar coated? Like spellcasters are BARELY able to be "evil". We dont have burglars. Theres 2 evil careers. I think just a little chaos made the previous sims games well rounded, good games.
Jesse my dad died a few days ago and your videos help me relax in the midst of it all ❤️
I'm sorry for your loss ♥️
OMG mumbella!! I know jesse lost her grandad recently as well, hope you guys are also holding up well ❤️
I pray for peace for you and your family. I'm so sorry for the loss of your dad ♥︎
@@dandelion-honey ♥️ thankyou x
@@joaomacedo5849 yeah Jesse's grandad, my dad 💔
my career is now making fun of sims 3 EA builds, i do agree they have far more character...
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All I want is for actions to be like in TS3. No more idling for hours after giving a command, actually interrupting an action immediately instead of two hours later, AND shorter amounts of time needed to do sth.
I totally agree that it is a basically a build simulator rather than a life simulator. The create a sim and build/furnish mode is really good but the gameplay has always felt flat and boring, and that’s literally the biggest aspect of the game!? I join the club of creating a sim and house and then getting bored with the gameplay. Bring back Sims 2 on origin. :(
When life gives you spicy mental health - watch plumbella :))
*Sims 4 has a stranger things pack and it's called strangerville* . The pack is _not_ a reference to the sims 2's strangetown!!!!! Watch lgr's video about the pack and then it hits
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hi ive missed you! which feels reallllyyyy effing weird to say about someone i do not know but oh well here we are. you bring joy into my life, hen. hope you are doing well
The shag looks great! I wish the best for you and your family in this time. Take the time if you need it. We’ll still all be here when you come back.
I also like the fact that burglars aren't a thing in the sims 4. I like my sims having perfect, mostly stress free lives because its an escape from my very dysfunctional life and I like the stability of knowing something major isn't going to go wrong.
When it comes to gameplay, I enjoyed how random Sims 3 could be; if I was having trouble with a storyline for my sims some random stupid thing would happen and you just roll with it. Like one of my families, I had a vampire woman and regular guy have a half vampire baby, and then the dude just had one of those random sims 3 accidents and died; so she got a new guy and I was about to make him into a vampire to have a full vampire baby when he got abducted by aliens and had an alien baby 😅 So THEN I turned him into a vampire and I had 3 kids of various lineage and they went on vacation and the dude died AGAIN. So upon their return home, I was able to befriend/seduce the ghost of the first dude and turned them into a happy mixed family. 😂 It's just one example of those storylines that you could probably plan out but it's so much more fun when it happens randomly and you can just build off it. I enjoy a lot of things about Sims 4 but there's just no randomness; you have to plan everything and shake things up yourself if you want odd things to happen, and they feel less odd when you have to work so hard to make it happen. Also I miss having sims be able to go do things around town without loading screens and being able to easily switch control to the various sims wherever they were or whatever they were doing.
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I think that toddlers can be so annoying because they need more that they can do independently. They have doll houses, the puzzle table, the iPad, and one playing animation for all toys. To learn skills, they need constant adult assistance. I've downloaded a bunch of toddler activities including cribs that you can keep the toddler in while you're doing chores or working and it has made playing with them so much more enjoyable. But not everyone has access to cc so it would be great if EA could give those toddlers some autonomy and more interactions.
Reminds me of the play pens in ts3, we need those back
The only skill they need constant adult guidance for is the potty training- but even that could be bypassed if they have the independent trait. All of my toddlers are completely self-taught, especially since we have some items (like the mini slide, and the big tent) that make the skills go up faster. Not to mention, if you have 2+ toddlers they can also gain skills by watching each other gain skills.
Toddlers have the puzzle toy to learn logic, and can learn speech in mirrors if I remember right. I've done more grow-up challenges than is probably sane, so I'm very familiar with potentially needing to up a toddler's skills without any help. It would be nice if they had more to do in general, because the toddler stage of said challenges is mostly trying to grind skills to max while getting one's queue destroyed by an uncontrolled adult trying to "check toddler."
@@Kibeeeeee yes, you can gain all skills through the items I listed but only in a very repetitive way. When I want to have strong family relationship between my sims, putting my toddler in a room with a couple of items or teaching them flashcards isn't entertaining. The gameplay is restricted by the interactions a toddler can have. I just think they're less annoying in family gameplay when they have more options. If someone would rather their toddler be self taught, this version is fine but if I want a close parental relationship it doesn't feel right to leave my toddler in another room with an iPad while I work. Sorry, this is a bit of a ramble but I think it makes sense. Please let me know if it doesn't lol.
yeah but isn't that the realistic/challenging part? real life toddlers need a lot of attention
Some of my unpopular opinions, I think the sims 4 has the best art style hands down. (Attempting) hyper realism is ALWAYS going to age poorly and people who want the sims 3 style back are nostalgia blind.
Building off that, the sims spin offs (the sims medieval etc) are criminally underrated and I wish there were versions using the sims 4 style. Having a closed game set in a wildly different time period or setting works so much better than just as a pack world. That's probably part of the reason why batuu sucks ass, it breaks the immersion to see Eliza pancakes show up to the galactic war
Edit: If you have to tell me that ts3 does look good, with the caveat that you use CC. I hate to break it to you but that means it doesn't look good actually.
Thats absolutely true. Even sims 4 build buy modern things were painful as heck.
I do hate realism. I think Sims faces are too cutsey and anime for my taste, but otherwise I'm ok with the art style
I also really like the art style, I think the only thing I don't like is how exaggerated their facial expressions can be. Like when they smile, it takes up their entire face lol, and their eyes basically pop out of their heads. Nothing is subtle. I do love the way they look in general, just want more subtle facial expressions
While I do like TS4’s style, in my eyes, The Sims Medieval is proof that (semi-)hyper realism can work very, very well.
I like the new facial style much better, but the clay hair is just so ugly.
I really miss dynamic relationships, like in the sims 2; it made it challenging but fun.
The story possibility it gave!! I miss it too.
The sims 4 update also added gay people like cmon lesbians and gay people don’t have it easy now either. So annoying when my gay sims flirt with straight guys.
as someone who really doesn't like cottagecore (i just find it boring): yes pls more styles
not an unpopular opinion but I miss when the sims was SO wacky and weird, like sims 2 for example. Sims 4 just seems so… tame. In my mind when I think of playing the sims years ago, especially sims 2 (PC, PSP, DS) they were so wild and hilarious and I miss it 😢
GOD. Absolutely agree about the builds. I think the ones made by game changers are pretty, but they're also Finished, and often look very 'home design magazine' and are WAY more expensive than the EA builds, because so much money is spent on little decorative bits. Which, IMO, makes them less functional. Also, like. Most real houses and buildings are kinda ugly. EA ones are weird, but they're often decent enough bones, and allowed you to put character into them by decorating as you progressed.
(Which uh, yeah, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I really liked in sims 3 and 2 and such, when it was a starter home, it was very bare bones, to me, that's what a STARTER house should be. An affordable basic lot with no personality to serve as a blank canvas)
Toddlers and kids fuck me up in Sims4. The only thing they do is dump shit on the floor. Kids irl are way more interesting (obvi) but the sims team had so much they could have pulled from. I hate this also because townie kids will also dump paint so anytime i go to a public lot, i cant enjoy it because there will be 20 patches of paint all over the lot. And they never disappear overtime. (ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS THE PAINT COMING FROM?)
Things they could have given to toddlers and kids instead of just their toxic-paint-dumping-fascination:
-kids obsessing over fav cartoon characters
-stealing mom and dads shoes and wearing them around the house
-walking around house singing THE SAME SONG over and over and over again
-writing on walls, cutting paper into unending amounts of confetti, getting into cookie jar
-toddlers could mimic siblings or adults behaviors and surprise the sims around them.."kids say the darndest things"
"All they added was straight people" girl what :/
You're ace 🥺 that makes me so happy to hear.... I agree with the representation thing. I'm aroace.. as far as ace celebrities goes, I have heard of some. One I could remember off the top of my head is Tim Gunn