Fun Things to Do in The Sims 4 (when you're bored of it)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- The Sims 4 can get really boring at times - so here are some fun things that you can do in the game that can make gameplay more interesting! You won't even need any expansion packs if you can't get them yet! Hopefully I've made your base game more entertaining!
Also, EA if you're reading this, please make the Sims 5 better. Thanks.
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Also, sorry about the Last of Us clip. Hurt too much not to share oopsie.
I’m not going to lie, that family tree totally sucked me in. I would watch a lets play about them
me trying it and wondering when they got a cat
I did a strange family kinda like that family... I can't keep up with every kids and every links of people xD
Same
The best way to play 😂
100%
The game show idea is brilliant. I’m adding my own twist on it though, instead of adding a prize of money, I’ll make them the only one that lives
Calm down satan 🤣
I think every bored Simmer has done that! 😂Randomly generate 8 sims, stick them in a home with minimal amenities and lots of high risk items, remove the door and watch them try to survive. Whoever outlives the others gets a bunch of money, a great house and all the therapy they'd ever want lol.
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@@herm712 trying this. Ty. Also saw from someone else that you build a garage with a secret basement and have a secret room with mirrors as walls in that basement where you trap a sim and give them the basic amenities and something that they can do that makes you money. :) they used the Realm of Magic pack in that one so I’m pretty sure they had their sim do some magic on the trapped sim
Okay Saw 😂😂😂
we need a reality show for that first family
yesss true haha😂
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Yessss 😂😂😂😂😂
Funkin’ with Dunkin
Modern Family Music starts
I remember playing sims 2 and 3 for hours upon hours. Never had to look for fun. Your game has failed if players have to go looking for fun
YES! The Sims 2 & 3 had 2 more needs than Sims 4, adding to the difficulty, plus robbers, funky secrets, backstories, worlds to explore, and so much more!
@@NE0TIMELESS but it's not safe and it's online, and if it was just that... It's worse than roblox in security, in there is even more pedophiles... So.... Buy the sims 2 or 3 ksksks
Yes! My favourite thing is going to the cemetery, chat with ghosts, read horror stories 8k the cemetery, and many things... All without mods
@@NE0TIMELESS ew no. Paralives is what I'm waiting for.
I've personally never had to go looking for fun in the sims 4, I love it so much. I can play for hours. I think it depends on the type of player you are because I mostly like storytelling and building, plus challenges. I think if you can't find things to do, play another game and stop complaining? Like not every game is suited for everyone. The people that prefer sims 3 should simply play sims 3
The family part was so confusing and I couldn’t tell if there was incest or not
There is NO INCEST don't worry. Everybody who slept together was not blood related.
Plus, the game won't let you be incestuous without mods!
LOL ME EITHER
So, if you're curious, I figured out that you can actually have incest in Sims. Please don't judge me, I'm very bored a lot.
So far I've had couples that have the same great-grandparents, but also your Sim can have a relationship with their parent's cousin
UPDATE: My sim can get freaky with her own great grandfather
I'm definitely going to hell, but I'm taking everyone that reads this with me
@@Crazygirl1997XD OMG GIRL-
The first one-- i- I just lost all 4 brain cells I had.
I lost four braincells I DIDN’T have
@@hopepapernacky 💀💀
try to watch Dark on netflix and you will lost all of your brain cells😂
I lost braincells i didnt know i had
I didnt have braincells to begin with-
The 1st one is basically turn your game into a telenovela!
Yes
Omg fr though 😂😂😂
yesss
Story lines/ideas when I was bored :D
-Made my single mum sim homeless. Lives in a tent and everything is off-the-grid, lives off her own garden veg etc.
-Made an orphanage - Converted a big building into a residential and moved 6 babies from various NPCC households, with one adult and an elderly cat. I name them all their original surname + Snow (#GOTreference ;) ), then when they're older - let there be drama!
-Picked one household where ZERO cheats are allowed (because for me Sims gets boring when its too easy)
-Hostage story - where a sim marries/moved in with a hidden psycho, where they are then locked in one room and not allowed to leave.
-Use the clubs feature more - create clubs to enhance bad work dramas (eg. all the detectives in one club to hang out after work - romance dramas/triangles that may then come up in Get To Work). Or use them for 'family reunions' to bring all the relatives over that hate each other etc etc. I also have LGBTQ+ Groups who turn up at nightclubs, teens who group in parks, business men group in cafes etc for more atmosphere.
- Riches to rags ... sometimes way funner than rags to riches!
I know some of these require other packs, but hope this helps inspire!
I'm just absolutely in love with the idea of making my sim work in the detective career and then they will join all the other officers/detectives in the cafe or restaurant where they can work, eat and talk about their day. It would totally add some realism to their career and relationships with their collegues!
*This would probably also work for the doctor or scientist career and probably others as well. It would be nice for most careers where you can work on your laptop on the work you have to do for your job when you're not at work. If that makes sense 😅
I thought of making an orphanage when Paralives was out but I never considered it on TS4. Great idea!
lgbtq+ groups are such a good idea omg
I really like picking random NPC and letting one of my Sims have a relationship with them (no matter if it’s friendship, romance or enemies). Especially those NPC that have a certain job like being best friends with your babysitter (was kinda cute), hating the pizza-service, or (who didn’t do this in their game at least once ;)) being in love with the grim reaper, which is especially great when you’re a ghost.
@@nirvanawayne9503 I literally have a club for like every career 😂😂 but yeah it works so well!
“Gameplay can get a little bit still”
Um, that’s an understatement..
I have 31 packs I need to rethink my life.
Same but I never play😭
what ones would you recommend?
@@bethanproctor2014 The packs I use the most are probably Seasons, Parenthood and City Living. Those are some of the best I think
@@bethanproctor2014 It really all depends on how you like to play your game. For a "Build your bundle" you get an expansion, game pack and stuff pack for cheep. If you like playing family's I would recommend Parenthood, Toddler Stuff or Kids Room and Seasons. If you don't like that type of game play then Seasons, always Seasons. Laundry Day. If you need more help let me know.
Me too but they pirated
I first started doing the store idea a few years back, with a collector sim who raised all the plants that were in the game, except alien, up to Perfect in his garden. He made herbal remedies, and with icemunmun's Canning Station mod, he made jams, sauces & preserves that he sold in his little country store, along with hand crafted items from the woodworking table. This was before you could just buy seed packets and harvestables. You had to actually collect the plants (which, BY THE WAY EA, MAKES IT MORE FUN! Yeesh.) so it took me a long time to find all the harvestables (well all the ones in the game up to that point anyway. More have come in since.). And then bringing his skills up enough to make his products worth a lot of simoleans. I played him for months of real time and was never bored with it. That's what's lacking in Sims 4 really. It's too easy to make money, it's all just handed to you on a platter. We have to make challenges for ourselves to make the game more interesting. Sims 2 & 3 were tough! That's what made them satisfying to play. I wish the current Sims team understood that. If they're the same ones in charge of Sims 5, I don't hold out a lot of hope. :P
I remember I was CONSTANTLY broke in the Sims 1 and 2 - and it was so fun!
Unfortunately, the Sims Team is trying to make the game more accessible to new players. So, my hopes aren't too high for The Sims 5 either.
Is its possible to make a store in the sims 4, with the base game and have actual sims by the items you are selling?
@@elizabethpapadimitriou No, you have to have Get To Work to have a retail store in the game. But Get To Work is totally worth having. The three careers that come with it are fun to play. I loved playing a scientist, especially. And it brings aliens into the game as well as the retail stores. City Living came with a street sales table, and so did Jungle Adventures. So you can sell items if you have the table. But owning and running a retail store has been my favorite thing I've done in my game, so I recommend Get To Work. :)
@@HughLlewellyn okay thank you very much!
They just need options. For example, if you don’t like burglars...no problem, disable them in game options. Just give us easy, medium and hard instead of just noob settings.
I don’t understand how Joe and Jenny are half siblings - step siblings completely - but they don’t share a parent so they’re not half siblings. However I love this idea!!
Oh my gosh you're right! I meant to say step-sibling! Whoops! 😭
FakeGamerGirl I wasn’t trying to be cruel - I was just genuinely confused! 😂 I think I may give this a try 😂
Oh my god watching an old video of yours gave me whiplash. The smooth voice. 😭
It's important to know not every one of us could buy the pack when they were released, get instantly bored and then jump to sims 3. Some of us are still playing sims 4 and this video is relevant.
Sometimes I put like 20/25 sims locked in one house with extreme violence autonomy activated for them all. Then I just watch who is the one that will outbeat them all and win the competition. I actually write down who dies first, second ... and by whom they are killed. So in the end, I see sims that killed like 5 and sometimes the winner that only killed the 2nd place.
are you secretly graystillplays by any chance?
How do you do that
@@jamesmac439 mccc allows you to extend your family members until 100, I extended for 25.
@@sandroribeiro7644 What is the option in MCCC? I never saw it before 😀
It’s funny how calm FGG sounds compared to her now
Currently I’m playing a rich black family, the storyline is that a beautiful women fell in love with a vampire, but their families do not approve of them. So they ran away to Del Sol Valley, and they become CEOs of a big company, eventually they moved and had a child who happens to be half human, vampire, and are planning another. The twist is that they keeps slaves (😏) for the vampires of the family in a basement under their house, and nobody knows about it, which is why it’s a big secret.
I’m confused why you said “black family” 👁👄👁
rich “black family” why did you have to include their skin color?
@@avrillove11m94 why not, why do people get triggered at the mention of someones race instead of just being like "oh okay cool" gahdamn
@@avrillove11m94 what’s wrong with that? She said a beautiful black family there’s nothing wrong with saying that smh.
@@avrillove11m94 lmao why you so pressed she just said that to include more detail chile
My recommendation is to make a story around it. For example (this example will only work if you have Dine Out and Vampires): A vampire must live a double-life, vampire training and such at night, and running a restaurant in the day time. While doing this he is trying to not let people know he is a vampire by disguising himself well and making clever excuses to not do certain things (like go out to a park in the daytime). But as time goes on it gets more difficult to do so. This stress affects his performance managing his restaurant which makes him have to have a decision: Keep hiding it or tell people about it?. This scenario does take some serious roleplaying but that's one of the best things about The Sims
I'll try this, great idea
Damm this should be a book no a movie about this
Yeah, but it's still pretty boring when you're the one completely controling the story. It's too easy to have a perfect life, and if you don't want them to live it then you have to make them less succesful on purpose which is again - boring. Sims 4 is a total flop
I have a secret vampire whose main career is being a musician, and a Spellcaster (witch) who is the vamp's sister and is a writer by day. Trust me, that sort of situation is FUN to play
it's sad that MOST of Sims 4 is supposed to take place inside of player's minds... and not, you know, on the screen. *sigh*
oh there are THINGS to do in that game? didn't even realized.
yes you did ungrateful bastard 🤬😡
@@jesussaves5692 we’re talking about EA, the greediest company on earth, stop giving them money and they might just make a full pack, and not a half baked one.
@@moominfella7614 i should be telling YOU that considering i pirated my game (don’t tell 🤫) 😡🤬
@@jesussaves5692 i never payed for the sims, either.
I agree with y'all that EA is hella greedy, but pirating the game isn't a solution. As long as people keep buying the game it shouldn't be much of a problem but when people stop the franchise will eventually die out since lack of interest = no profit and therefore discarded.
I literally LOVE the first one, especially. “Who’s personality by the way is completely made out of silicone.” 😂😂😂
Thank you for all the likes!
The first one is so complicated😒which makes it better😏
lmao ikr
*not me just realizing that you can sell stuff with the get to work pack and you don’t need city living*
The energy is much calmer and different than the current GamerGirl videos.
Creating complex family trees in the sims is a whole lotta fun. You’d end up with the most interesting reactions from your sims
Download mods, even simple ones. I got a mod where children can do laundry using the washtub and they can use the garden and cook it’s for like historical gameplay but it’s also fun for modern gameplay when you want to have a farm that grows bell peppers using child labor while the one adult in the household drinks “juice” all day and yells at the children when they don’t want to work. I also have Mc command center and with mc command center you can make it so kids don’t have to go to school but they can still go if you choose so the kids aren’t getting any education and they have to farm all day :)
I've never gotten bored of The Sims 4, even before I added mods to the game. Creating drama and sims with specific objectives is what I do and I find watching daytime family shows like Jeremy Kyle (UK) or Jerry Springer (US) has helped come up with ideas for drama in the past. I always say to players, if you're bored you haven't likely found everything there is to offer. I have 3/4 of the packs and still haven't unlocked all collectables, caught all fish, unlocked all recipes, maxed every skill, reached the top of all career branches or made it beyond 4th generation.
I love making weird families. I had a husband and wife who had this weird ass house and kept having children and it was honestly so much fun, especially on short lifespan.
oooo good idea, thank you
So I found this video after watching FGG's more recent videos and her normal voice threw me off, haha! I thought it was a different person entirely! Love both aspects of FGG.
Things to do if you’re bored in the sims:
*mods and cc because those are the only things keeping the sims 4 entertaining at this point*
What is a CC sorry for being dumb
@@michellemartinez6295 custom content
Me who plays on ps4:
im on console 🥲
Is cc free and how do I download it?
Make your sim immortal, either by mod or potion and try to complete every aspiration and every collection. Kept me busy for a while
I couldn't help but start singing I'm My Own Grandpa at the first suggestion. 10/10 love crazy family building. I also love mixing movies and TV shows I love. One of my sims that makes a living by gardening is named Lacy LaPlante. I also made a Pennywise to scare all the children in my neighborhood.
Wait why does Fake Gamer Girl have a normal voice here???
She's a man don't fall for the trap 😂
another idea if you’re bored: grilled cheese
there’s a full grilled cheese aspiration
(I’m not even joking, look it up if you don’t know about it already)
Aahh yes, i like to call that "The Merry-Go-Round Family Tree", when you manage to make a full circle out of your family
YOU DID NOT JUST SHOW JOEL’S DEATH, I CRIED FOR MONTHS
I STILL HAVENT RECOVERED 😭✋🏽
@@jennahilw8121 Me too I saw the gameplay and got a little trauma of watching it... and now it returns haha
You can also try to complete all collections or even better: complete the aspirations of ALL premade sims
Little edit: complete the collections can be a pain, because (at least in my save) there's items that doesn't appear! I spent in-game weeks to find a common snow globe to complete this collection!
I don’t belive that Fake Gamer Girl actualy talked so calm
Ikr
here’s a fun thing: move everyone out of your world (except for your starter sim because that will corrupt the file) and bulldoze all the lots from at least one location, then start the game from scratch
wow it's so strange that you used to speak so calmly and now you just show your chaotic self :DD
Oh, the store idea is good. I tried it before watching this, and it really does add to crafting. only downside is that once you actually fill up the store shelves? You don't really need to craft anymore since you can just restock the item. I was stupid and put way too many items in there, though. If my poor Sim isn't restocking, she's working checkout. The Spellcaster with her own witchy store is awesome, though, might steal that.
You thoroughly fried my brain on that first one.
I put one parent with 7 toddlers and try to have them grow up happy 😁 I have failed everytime, but each time I do a little better
I got recommended this video and I bought the sims yesterday I’m definitely not bored of it yet
I finally forgot about Part 2. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME ABOUT JOEL. *cries angry tears*
DONT REMIND ME OF THAT SCENE IN THE LAST OF US PART 2 (I finished it already so it makes it less sad BUT STILL)
I made a house full of young adults that were all in STEM careers, they each had to be a certain level in the career by the end of the year or they got kicked out… this was especially fun because I had get to work so I had a scientist and doctor which was fun to toggle between the two in one house house. It was almost like a competition between the sims and they had to fight for their spot in the “genius house”
Love your videos. They help make me feel better about not being able to go back to the old iterations, but they're also highly entertaining.
I LOVE running retail in sims. I open a new retail with every pack (if possible). Right now i'm running a fruits and flower shop, I grew them.
My sims generation gameplay is literally my family of crackheads. They keep me happy, when my computer isn’t lagging due to the CC I’ve added...
The Sims 2 is still my favorite. I felt like it had so much substance
0:15 L E N N Y ? I S T H A T Y O U ?
LENNY MY BOAH!
came for The Sims 4 but subbed because of the Last of Us Part 2 reference! loved that game. thanks for the ideas, they were awesome!
Me during the video: Oh that's great ideas there! It makes me want to play the sims again!
Me at the end of the video: start my 5th playthrough of the last of us 2
The way you sound so calm in this old video. 😂
Me: **causing a mass killing by having everyone swim until they die**
Also me: *i'm bored*
That first one was something I did out of curiosity once the family tree was added, I can vouch for it’s fun aspect.
the difference in your voice now is so cute and funny
Yep, the family tree is what I’m always after. Genealogy is my gameplay 😎 👌🏻
Solution: Get mods, because EA could never!
Seriously though, for the game show one, get the extreme violence mod, turn on autonomous killing, and make it so the last person alive in the household wins the money 😈
That first one I've done. Also, early in the Sims (I dunno if you can do it now) 2nd cousins can woohoo & get married because the game doesn't consider them related for some reason? So you can kinda make your family tree just, like, a giant fricken circle?
Y'all, come get your royal family lets plays
1:22 that is extremely complicated. I had to look at it several times to understand😂😂😂😂😂😂
FGG has come a long way! We get new ideas from her all the time. It would still be fun to see an updated video dedicated for these kinds of play ideas again. :D
THAT ENDING I WAS NOT READY
That idea with the shop is literally so fucken good. Thank you for that
that first one was crazy😭
Something similar to the first suggestion happened to a famous family in Brazil lol
What to do when you get bored with The Sims 4:
1. Buy The Sims 3.
Seriously. You won't be bored with this baby.
I haven't played the sims4 in 3 months because I got bored of it and now I want to play
Why do I always stumble across a dramatic SIM video 😂 great vid though
my sister is the generation before The Sims. sometimes she peeks at what I'm playing and she was like "oh wow so you create people, build them houses and care about them, that's cute" and I was like "well, yes, but when I'm bored I kill them all"
she looked at me like I was a psychopath, saying "why would you do THAT oh my god?!!?"
I didn't manage to explain it's normal and now I'm confused if it actually is
It's normal, don't worry. Some players obviously don't do it, but most of us do it at least occasionally 😅 (I recently realized I find it a lot harder to kill Sims I raised or created, so I feel pretty sane atm)
I would watch so many episodes of a sims game show
I have such a complicated family I can't even explain. It basically started with my favourite ginger Avery who was married to a man who's now dead and he had 4 kids with her, 2 out of marriage and a pair of twins with his and Avery's daughter in law. Well yeah, Avery eventually killed him.
Their cousin tho, Derek, was married to Debra who already had 2 kids (Boy: David is Avery's son in law, and girl: Fiona is Derek's sister in law. Technically, Debra's and Derek's kid is already an aunt) eventually debra came out as bi, and married to their other cousins Heather, they adopted 2 kids. Derek on the other hand has an affair with Fiona (and a child shhh). Derek's brother, Matthew is depressed 😅
That family tree was just as confusing as the Joestars’-
the joestars arent confusing though
i used to play a challenge made for sims 3 where instead of kidnapping the town, you are a teen who has been kidnapped and needs to find a way to break out of her holding cell and to make money and finally escape
you don't even need to play this as a kidnapping, you can play it as a sim with super abusive and neglectful parents too
I love making a Backstory for my sim families
Update: There is now 80 packs worh around 1.2k to 1.6k depending on where you look
She was so calm.... is that really you?
I know Sarah sounded so fake like legit her voice was so different
I recreated fables (from fables comics),with bigby,snow white, their kids and Cinderella,briar,beauty and the beast as their neighbours 😂😂😂 it was fun
Why did you have to hurt me with that last clip?! I havent even gotten platinum yet because im still too sad to do another playthrough
My favorite is the make the most disfunctional families I can. Mom and dad, five kids, dad dies, mom sad, older sister has to take care of kids, continue. Or another one: single mom, two kids, mom dies, kids go to live with mean aunt, run away. You see where I’m getting? It’s sooo fun
Katie walking in on her husband cheating on her with he daughter-in-law: *_L a r v a_*
I am in LOVE with the fact that you used the music from The Sims 2 Pets❤️❤️❤️
Why’d you make me watch that scene again. :( I’d almost forgotten about it.
Amazing!! I’m gonna make the most drama, plastic, complicated and messy family!! It’s gonna be chaotic with my mods.
Lol this is a great video! New sub here ♥️
that last of us part 2 scene hurt my heart all over again
Before it went free it was over £600 for everything in game not sure what it is now
I think it’s like 1K in USD even with the base game being free. Base game was only 50USD, so it wouldn’t put a massive dent in the amount all the DLC cost.
Sometimes what you do is chaotic and I love it, but number 2 genuinely seems very cute !!
**Me only having the dogs and cat pack**
Bro Joel’s death traumatized me and I apparently cannot escape it
I'm currently working on filling up every lot with my own sims and businesses. 90% of the households are LGBT and the desert place has a bunch of homophobic Karens. I have a lot of resturants, Libraries, and even family-owned pet clinics! Can anyone tell me how to use the University pack better? I just don't get it.
That first family had my head spinning. Had to watch it a few times and it's still confusing lol
Fun things to do in sims 4 on playstation : unlock trophies.
Doing complicated families is literally all I do, but I find Sims 2 to be better for this
HELP YOUR OLD VOICE SOUNDS SO HIGH??
I like playing as the existing townies and expanding their stories
“When you’re bored of it”
You mean the whole time you play it?
I have a couple sims that live off of busking and gardening, so it's great to hear more ideas in that aspect. In my latest family, the girl skipped school and busked at the club in brindleton bay or whatever it's called every day to get money to eat. It's boring starting with enough money to make living easy so I overindulged on the house on purpose so I'd have a reason to work :P
And now her garden is so successful the family is naturally rich again with nannies and maids lmao
I might get the packs you mentioned just for the shopping aspects, rn all I have is the pet packs and nifty knitting and I've been trying to decide which ones to get next
I made my wife in Sims 4 and found her a nice girlfriend but then they died of old age before they could have kids... When they where gone I was just left with an empty house and sadness I deleted the game off my PS4 and never played it again. Maybe I'm just a simmp.
I have another idea:
Make a survival show (like squid game) in the Sims 4 when ur bored