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[Swar]

Finally someone who liked it! 

[Swar]

I'm still exploring all the features/lack thereof but will keep this thread updated with my findings

Make sure to check out a big tree in a park, if you keep exploring it, you'll have a nice surprise!

[Drakonid]

I haven't played it yet, and I don't plan to, but any game that allows this is great.

[Outsider]

Building houses was the greatest thing to do on the sims.

[Outsider]

You still can I just never had the patience for it and I'm not very creative. 

Ah, good. I re-read it as well and seen you are talking about the rooms, anyway. Never really liked the furnishing aspect of it, but I loved building the actual house.

[onlyme]

sims 4 = sims 1 + breastfeeding.

[Elindoril]

Don't forget "trolling teh forums"

[Syntax]

I just got it too but I haven't installed it yet. The stylised rooms was already there in Sims 3. They're the blueprints. I heard that they went to combine build and buy into one mode??

[Prisca]

I want to try this game. The Sims are a sneaky favorite of mine. I just bought the Sims3 again recently to fill the void i had been living with lol. Looking forward to Sims4 fun.... and just to clarify, breastfeeding? is it true?

 

[KaibaSama]

Good, you can just plunk down rooms. I hate building houses. Usually I just buy the cheapest lot, use the family funds cheat, and then buy the most expensive house in the game and tailor it to my liking. 

[onlyme]

I am just completely disappointed by this game.

As a passionate Sims player since part (and day) one, I just expected so much more! Not entirely sure why though, it's still EA we are dealing with here.

The fact, that they got rid of everything that made Sims 3 outstanding and 'new', is a giant no for me. There is no open world anymore, they went back to loading screens. They got rid of cars and rabbitholes, which means if your Sim goes to work, they walk to the end of your lot, then disappear. We had that the last time in Sims 1. 
The CASTing feature is gone. Back to presets. I hate it. With passion!
They took out the toddler lifestage completely, made teens look like adults (same height, same faces, same everything). 
I know we are only having the basegame avaliable right now, but it doesn't tickle me one bit. I dislike the graphics, was definitely hoping for something more realistic, especially if I look at other newer games character creators (Skyrim!). The buildmode seems the only thing that's kind of nice, since you can just drag everything, including roofs, like you want. But that's definitely not enough for me to like this game. It's a giant let down to see how instead of fixing issues, that made Sims 3 lag until the bitter end, they just got rid of them and went back instead of forward.

I don't even feel like pirating the game and that really means a lot, since I usually preorder everything Sims.

Oh well, I just hope, that the Sims 3 community will be as firm and loyal  as the Sims 2 community always was and I'll keep getting pics and CC and let's plays and all that for that game. 
*SIGHS*

[Swar]

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I am just completely disappointed by this game.

As a passionate Sims player since part (and day) one, I just expected so much more! Not entirely sure why though, it's still EA we are dealing with here.

The fact, that they got rid of everything that made Sims 3 outstanding and 'new', is a giant no for me. There is no open world anymore, they went back to loading screens. They got rid of cars and rabbitholes, which means if your Sim goes to work, they walk to the end of your lot, then disappear. We had that the last time in Sims 1. 
The CASTing feature is gone. Back to presets. I hate it. With passion!
They took out the toddler lifestage completely, made teens look like adults (same height, same faces, same everything). 
I know we are only having the basegame avaliable right now, but it doesn't tickle me one bit. I dislike the graphics, was definitely hoping for something more realistic, especially if I look at other newer games character creators (Skyrim!). The buildmode seems the only thing that's kind of nice, since you can just drag everything, including roofs, like you want. But that's definitely not enough for me to like this game. It's a giant let down to see how instead of fixing issues, that made Sims 3 lag until the bitter end, they just got rid of them and went back instead of forward.

I don't even feel like pirating the game and that really means a lot, since I usually preorder everything Sims.

Oh well, I just hope, that the Sims 3 community will be as firm and loyal  as the Sims 2 community always was and I'll keep getting pics and CC and let's plays and all that for that game. 
*SIGHS* 

 

I'm sorry that you felt like that

Luckily, everytime I play, I build for hours and "live" with the sims for about an hour or so and stop using that save

[Swar]

Great news, @Kate!

http://kotaku.com/th...ls-f-1641172105

[Batori]

Interesting! I'm glad CAS has improved since the demo, I was not impressed at all by that. It sounds like premade rooms will be a godsend for me. It still seems like they removed a lot of functionality between TS3 and now, but I'll probably give it a try when I get bored of the games I'm playing. Thanks for the review!

[Canis]

Boyfriend came home from work with a copy of The Sims 4 Premium Edition for me... what a pleasant surprise.

So, it's currently downloading. Gonna let it download overnight, as it's 1 am here, lol.

 

Needless to say, I am excited! ^^

(Not as excited as I am for Dragon Age: Inquisition, but still!)

[Liesa]

I got it on my windows and I love the new CAS and house building but since my windows laptop is huge I'm hoping they release it for mac soon, so I can play more easily  

[onlyme]

I pirated it by now. Main reason for that was the CC-boom that happened. There really is lots of stuff already, which makes everything more interesting for me. 
What is definitely needed, is a lightning mod though. WTF is this game so dark??

Anyways, first impressions: