A Brutally Honest Review of The Sims 4 Discover University

The Sims 4 Discover University Gameplay Review! I reviewed The Sims 4 Discover University

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00:00 Pack Overview
00:21 CAS
01:37 Build Mode
03:00 World
05:40 Gameplay
12:20 Performance
14:04 Cross-Pack Features
15:01 Skip the video

[Janis_Valerio]

I'm just so mad that we couldn't turn the teaching career into a live mode career with High School Years. Such a missed opportunity.

[waretaSL]

I think an absolute MUST HAVE for discover university is the shorter uni time mod, or disabling aging during uni. If you don't go to uni IMMEDIATELY after aging your teen sim up into a YA, then you'll have a really old sim once you come out of uni xD and it's just so stupid. In ts3 uni, it auto-disabled aging at uni no matter what life span you set your save to have

[grossverena]

honestly the "no kitchen" thing almost made my sim starve when I first played this pack. Don't understand why they did that

[gemfem]

No matter what I do, my Sims are always late for class. Even when I teleport them in front of their class building. The bikes just further complicate this. Wish the dorms were better too

[MarkusHansson]

This was one of their packs where I really felt the limitations of the sims4, they clearly didn't design the game to support a setting like this.

[FirstNameLastName-ictn]

I don’t have this pack, because real uni was traumatizing enough. However. I NEVER thought about how the world is set in England, but uses the American uni system. That is absolutely hilarious. ☠️

[KMort]

I had my sim attend uni from home and it was actually preferrable. I could still do stuff and interact with family and friends and do the work without all the insufferable loading screens of moving around a world.

[Harley]

Interesting test I did with this pack: I sent one sim into the tech career the same day I started her brother at university to get a degree for the tech career. By the time he finished university ( fast tracked with 4 courses over three in game weeks) she was promoted to level five already. So even getting a degree to start at a higher level was pointless. 🤷‍♀️

[roeliethegoat]

Yes to having your Sims being able to spend time at home! I was so confused when I sent my Sim home for a visit and she got yelled at for taking a shower. Like, that should never happen, not when you're family. Can you imagine your parents yelling at you for cooking in their home? No matter in what kind of house you live, you should always be able to go home.

[erikawhite]

I’ve always thought of the two universities as emulating Harvard and MIT, two universities that are very close to one another but quite different

[yourmeatball]

I like how they gave us bicycles but made them completely unusable in Foxburry where stairs are e v e r y w h e r e

[erzeh]

I like this pack very much, but I'm surprised you didn't talk about what I think is a major problem : it takes AGES to graduate ! I use a mod to make university degrees require less credits, otherwise the whole process becomes so draining and repetitive!
Also, if you have Sims in university, and want to go back playing another household, it will interfere with your students results, causing them eventually to fail!
Other than that, I think it's an enjoyable pack. I've never tried the secret societies though. Maybe I should, I was too lazy I guess.
Thank you for the video, see you in the next one :)

[katchibediako]

In America, due to fires started on campus, they stopped allowing cooking in dorms, you can't even own a hot plate. Therefore, noodles and ironed grilled cheese sandwiches are a thing. (Some dorms won't even allow microwaves)
And yes, college roommates is a thing, rarely would you have your own room. It is not unusual for there to be many visitors in the dorms, so I guess this, too, is on brand.
In America, if your roommate dies, you get an a for the semester.

[timpancakes]

A great and fair review! This is one of my favorite packs, even with the frustrstions, because it lends itself to replayable day-to-day gameplay for my legacy families. I have found ways to circumvent the more difficult obstacles, like living at home to make attending classes easier or starting my semester on a wednesday so i have the weekend to catch up on classwork.

[Janis_Valerio]

Everytime I make my sim go to college I just choose the option to do it from home bc is such a nightmare to get the family back to how it was when they leave. Random babies appear in the household, pets and elders start to die... it's just not worth the stress!

[TheDawnofVanlife]

With how restrictive they made University, they should have made an "aging off" bubble the way they did for Sims 2 and 3. I mean in Sims 2 young adult only existed at university, but you weren't gonna run out of life attending. I do find to rotate my families the way I'd like in Sims 4, I have to be very aware of when to turn to clock off for a bit anyway. Like there are certain career grinds where I want to play it to a certain level without missing the whole life and aging up of my other families.

[avsambart]

Can you imagine if they did a pack refresh for this added extra courses and lessons for the newer packs?! Damn...

[jamieblaire]

About the housing situation: where i live (not north america, but eastern europe) it's perfectly normal to share a bedroom with someone (it's actually rare and very luxurious if someone has a room for themselves), but I agree that at a british-style university they should have followed the british norms – though, at the sims 3 game dorms had shared bedrooms as well. What I think is that the absence of a kitchen is much worse and everytime i even TRY to use the dorms in the game, hell breaks loose and I have to get my sims out immediately because they are on the verge of starvation. I find them very disappointing because of how messy they are, and yes sure I can build a 'dorm' for myself and have roommates if I want to do it well, I just think the fact that these buildings are unusable in a university game pack takes away a lot from gameplay. I also don't like how whenever I choose to use dorms (rarely), my sims literally MOVE in and I can't go back to the house I had beforehand lmao – maybe it's just my game though.

About societies, my issue is that there are not many options. I'm glad that there are robots or you can play soccer or e-sports as a career, but I wish there were stuff like "dance class" or ballet, figure skating, gardening etc. for sims with different interests. More sports would have been nice, at the very least. I remember in the sims 3 you could choose from a bunch of sports to have your sim do. They were rabbit hole events but still

[joyces]

It frustrates me that every sim can get school or work off for holidays except for university students.

[roeliethegoat]

What you said about Uni taking up so much of your time when you're doing 4 classes is so true. That's why I stopped sending my Sims to Uni. I don't want to play with aging off, I want the game to progress naturally. And I hate that all they do for their whole young adult life is doing homework. No time to have fun.