LGR - The Sims 4: Two Years of Meh

Rambling about the current state of The Sims 4, after having just passed the two year anniversary of the game's release.

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Music used is from The Sims 1,2,3,4 OSTs

[ErinDromedaGremlin]

I remember one time in the Sims 3, I walked my character over to the neighbour's house to try and ask her out on a date. When I got there, I found an empty bowl of "Brain Freeze a la Mode" on the table, and she had turned into a zombie. So my character then had to book a taxi and go all the way across town to the elixir store and buy an anti-zombification potion, before taking that back and trying to give it to her, without getting bitten himself. After that happened, they entered a relationship.

Now that was a fucking adventure. Granted it was an adventure fueled by expansion packs, but I don't feel like any amount of expansion will help The Sims 4. The fact that every lot is separated by a loading screen makes the world feel so sterile and lifeless. In the Sims 3, you could take your dog for a walk at nighttime and witness a break in, or buy a tent and sleep in a field before befriending a fucking unicorn, because the world was one big, living, breathing world where things happened.

THESE are the sorts of adventures that you remember, that stick in your mind and make the game memorable, that really gives you an emotional bond with the characters you create. The Sims 4 doesn't offer that to me.

[catmerchant]

The Sims 4: Never Ending Years of Meh.

[RainbowLynnful]

man i hate the traits system in sims 4, for example in sims 3 if your sim had the neat trait they would clean everything, you even had the option to clean up the whole house if you click on the ground, they would be more likely to clean up their dishes and make their bed, in the sims 4 having the neat trait just makes them upset or tense if something is dirty lmfaoo

[Robbaz]

Sims 4 always felt like a downgrade to Sims 3, if sims 3 had better "moods" and multitasking both with shores and socializing it would be a superior game.

[ElinorMahoney]

The 4 stages for me:
The sims 1: Wow! I like this game. I hope they release another one.
The sims 2: OMG! This is great! Can't wait for the next one!
The sims 3: Hands down my favourite game. Take my money EA.
The sims 4: Give me my money back EA.

[ramenchuu]

They claimed in the beginning the Sims 4 would be silly and full of life and that's exactly what it's lacking. There's no exciting and or random events, burglaries, or strange things like previous.

[baptista]

Totally agree, when my sim's husband was cheating on her, she just stood there feeling sad and did nothing

[martingulbrandsen]

I so agree with you! The Sims 4 seems so cool at first, but then you start feeling this sense of emptiness. Nothing you do really matters, or has any real impact on the game world.

[Her_Imperious_Condescension]

The Sims 4 only runs well because there's barely anything in it.

[julienbelair]

Sims 4 is more like a dollhouse and less like a life simulation.

[lilithjade]

no wonder why all sims players have either become builders or CAS. we don’t really have a choice when the live mode simulation runs so lackluster. live mode feels so forced

[reyshakquit]

I THINK THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THE SIMS 4 is that the game is predictable. That was not the case with past sims. The sims is supposed to be a simulation of every day life, and in life shit happens just random. You have a lot of control in the sims 4 and that's why is not interesting.

[Valerie-diqr]

It's 2018 and this video is still relevant to how I feel about TS4.

[LadyLamorna]

I miss the sims 3 newspaper. The announcements of births and deaths and local sports games. It was awesome.

[gianmachado]

Pretty disappointing how at 5.5 years 90% of things said in this video still hold up. So little improvement has been made 😔

[pineapple]

What suprises me most is that those sims 4 youtubers treat the game as godlike, and seem to never mention its flaws.

[hatsuharu]

I've been a simmer since the first Sims 1 came out when I was 10. Loved every single game and was so excited for 4. Didn't want to admit how disappointed I was until the latest expansion came out, and I realized how empty everything felt. It looks pretty and clean and well thought out (kinda), but it was pretty saddening. I have concluded that maybe aside from Seasons or Pets (and probably not even then), there's no real hope for Sims 4 to get to the level of Sims 3 or any previous game. I finally went back to Sims 3 after 2 years of trying Sims 4. Hopefully a Sims 5 will still be possible... and will bring back what we loved about the Sims.

[Lkjhgfdsa-lh]

I’m revisiting this review again and honestly the most fun I’ve had with the sims 4 is CAS. I could make sims for hours but then spend ten actual minutes in the game playing it. Yes, like LGR said, there were some good things about sims 4 that sims 3 missed, but at what price? There’s no real story behind the townies, everyone operates the same. I go back to the sims 3 all the time and always found myself wishing that sims 4 had this and that. Most of my hours of gameplay for this game has just been CAS, which I wish sims 3’s CAS was like that. But that’s about it. Watching this again made me sad because poor baby :( it hurt me to see him so disappointed w the game.

[eddiehimself]

LGR, 2016: "Death is too hard in this game"
EA, 2020: MURPHY BEDS

[freakishuproar]

I think I've worked out why I love LGR's videos so much. He never trails to railroad anyone into his way of thinking, he simply expresses very sincerely his thoughts about a particular subject in a way that endears to almost anyone regardless of their own opinion. I feel that even if I was a major _Sims 4_ fanboy I would still have the utmost respect and validation for Clint's perspective. He is an awesome non-hateful dude, and wish more gaming youtubers and gamers in general had a little bit of his civility.