There are virtually no recreational or leisure activities available. In The Sims 4, you and any friends you make will most likely be stuck indoors when it’s time to socialize. What kind of draconian society places a ban on pretty much all sports and recreation? If we ever get bikes and cars added into the game, I’d love to be able to take them out for a spin on my own terms. The Sims is supposed to provide a sense of escapism and the constant loading ruins that experience. But every time you see a loading screen, you are reminded that it’s just a computer game, and I feel like that violates one of the central reasons people play these games. In the current game, you can still visit that friend, but instead of traveling there, you simply stare at a loading screen for a bit and then show up inside your friend’s house.Ī lot of gamers play The Sims because they can live vicariously through their characters, at least for a little while. In the last game, you could watch your Sim get into his bike or car, travel to another part of town, and meet up with a friend. But one of the worst parts of Sims 4 for long-time Sims 3 players is the lack of an open world. The entire game would need to be rebuilt from the ground up. I realize that there’s probably little chance of this happening. Since this most likely won’t happen in one fell swoop, let’s at least hope some of the missing features make it in through upcoming expansions. If Maxis wants to win back some fan support, it might be best to put their more exotic expansion packs on the back burner for now and simply focus on turning Sims 4 into the game that should have been released in the first place. There are no sports venues, hospitals, police stations, schools, movie theaters, bicycles, and the list goes on. The “no swimming pools and toddlers” controversy has been beaten to death, so I won’t dwell, but there are plenty of other disappointments, as well.

We’ve knocked The Sims 4 for not having even some of the most basic features from The Sims 3, but if you really want to dream big, how about an expansion that ports over all of the major expansions and add-on content from the prior game?Īll told, there are 89 different features present in the Sims 3 which didn’t make it into its sequel. The Sims 3 released a large amount of additional content during that game’s time in the sun.

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