5 Things I Hate About The Sims 4

hey guys it's satch and today i'm talking about five things i hate about the sims 4. i've actually recorded and uploaded two videos today one of them is five things i love and the other is this one five things i hate i just thought it would be a fun idea to do two videos at the same time and you know it's kind of funny because i recorded the love video first and it was a really bright sunny day outside and then as soon as i hit the record button for this video it literally started raining about the hate video isn't that funny anyway after you've watched this video make sure you also watch the video about the five things i love but other than that let's get started the first thing i absolutely hate about the sims 4 is the lack of personality so this is my sim self he kind of looks like me and we also have similar traits so he's lactose intolerant just as i am he is self-absorbed just as i am and he is a goofball just as i am but i am also a very creative person i'm also a massive foodie and i'm also very gluttonous and i'm also very neat and i'm also very materialistic i'm also vegetarian i also love the outdoors i also get paranoid very easily but i can't express all of that i can only express three things about myself in the sims 4 which is just not enough which not only limits a way to express myself in the sims but also limits my game play like there isn't a complicated matching system with different people's personalities and chemistry systems there are also just many consistencies one of the biggest inconsistencies i find so annoying is the likes and dislike system so last year they updated the game with likes and dislikes in order to update it for the dream home decorator pack where you can decorate your house based on the way your client likes or dislikes furniture we have three base game likes and dislikes color music genre and activities and the decor which only comes in the dream home decorator pack one thing i find really strange is okay we can choose the different likes and dislikes like colors but if i want to like the outdoors it's actually a trait that comes under a lifestyle trait if i like cats it's also a trait but even more specifically and weirdly if i like a certain type of weather like let's say i really love rainy weather in order to set my light preference for rain i have to click on another sim click set weather preference and then click rain i can't just select it from the likes and dislikes menu or if i want my sim to like coffee i have to select the coffee fanatic lifestyle choice that comes with snowy escape pack which is different from the lifestyle traits we have here it's a special kind of lifestyle trade these inconsistencies just make the game feel really all over the place and annoying and difficult when i want to express myself the next thing i hate is the built by mode inconsistencies one random thing that bugs me is this coffee stand thing and this counter are supposed to be exact matches but as you can see the shades are very slightly different or the fact that the island counters have the drawers on the inside of the counter instead of the outside in real life you would have drawers on the outside and then the seats on the inside it doesn't make any sense why would you put a stool here but then have all of the drawers under it funnily enough in the dream home decorator pack this makes me laugh so we have two island counters one of them is correct in that they put the drawers on the outside which is what they were supposed to do but the other one they put them on the inside which was a mistake why have they done it so inconsistently like this one is right there on the outside but then this one is wrong it's on the inside why are they so mistaken and mixed up it doesn't make any sense these eco lifestyle doors and windows really trigger me because the swatches do not match at all even though they're supposed to be a part of the same set not only that the actual build by menu itself is so annoying look how thin it is you only have two layers and it can't be expanded on and you've got to scroll through all of this stuff to find things it's so annoying the categorization as well is also very annoying if we just look in miscellaneous activities and skills we have a pet's obstacle course we have a picnic basket we have a weather control device we have a garden shop and we have a laundry hamper it just seems so lazy that they always chuck things in this misc option because they can't be bothered to find a proper place for it people say the sims 4 build buy mode is the best build by mood we've ever had in a sims game which is correct but there are still many things that it can be worked on the next issue i have is interactions between different sims if i give you just a few examples firstly is that they do nothing together there are some base game interactions mostly romantic interactions where they seem to actually interact together but mostly they don't really interact together if you want your sims to dance together they won't dance together they will dance alone next to each other the funniest thing in the get together pack it was an expansion pack about getting together but they actually just do stuff alone but next to each other other issues with interactions is like if you go to a community lot i know all sims players have had this problem where you try and get two sims to sit down together if they're friends visiting a restaurant or going on a date or in a bar or something and they won't sit down together you'll ask them to sit together as a group and five seconds later one of them will stand up somebody else a stranger will come and sit with you and talk to you and then your sim will go up and do something else it's an absolute nightmare getting sims to interact and another issue i have with interactions is relationships relationships in the sims 4 are so bland it's so easy to manipulate relationship levels like you can just spam a load of interactions to get a certain way a really funny easy way of building up your relationship with somebody is just to take loads of selfies with them because every time you take a selfie it builds up the relationship by loads they also have a sentiment system which is a cool system but again it doesn't really impact gameplay that much even in creative sim mode when you want to decide the relationships before you actually go out and play the sims you can either only choose roommates siblings or married as the three options for adult sims why isn't there an in-between like if you want to select sims that hates each other or are in a relationship but not married i just feel like there's not much in between and it's very difficult to get sims to dislike you or to have clashes with personalities or personalities that joe well together it's all just very very samey and vanilla and i don't really think there's enough diversity to make relationships interesting the next thing i find so annoying that i hate about the sims 4 is the fact that the packs are not fleshed out enough or updated enough one of the most controversial packs for the sims 4 is the dine out pack and that is because it is so buggy i actually tried to play the sims 4 dine out recently in my own time i made my sims go to the restaurant on a date around 7 p.m and we ordered our food straight away and the food didn't arrive until about 1am so it took six hours for the food to arrive because it's so broken the sims constantly get up and start walking around waiters will randomly drop dishes on the floor and then random customers will get up from their tables and go into the kitchen and wash the dishes themselves the food often gets stuck and the waiters can't pick up the food and deliver it to your table there's often way too much going on and the game can't handle the simulation it's so broken yet they haven't fixed it other issues like the dream home decorator pack is so easy to exploit it's ridiculous and the fact that the dream home decorator pack just comes with build by mode stuff and it doesn't really come with any gameplay features that we didn't have before some of the really old packs as well like outdoor retreat are so bland and empty why didn't they put werewolves in that pack i will never understand why are some of the stuffed packs the oldest stuff packs so so so empty compared to the recent ones yet they're not updating them i know they did do the spa day refresh update in 2021 but other than that they haven't refreshed any other packs so it really annoys me that they just let them die because people are still buying them but the next thing i find so so so so irritating about the sims 4 which is why i hate it so much is just a lack of challenge this isn't much of an issue with the sims 4 but more so the sims franchise in general for me there are so many different ways that the game lacks challenge to give you some examples of money with the cottage living pack they gave us the ability to sell and grow vegetables and sell them at the marketplace but why would i want to sell them at the marketplace when i can just drag and drop sell them from my inventory why would i bother opening a retail store with the get to work pack when i can just sell things from my inventory why use the yard sale mechanic or the plop scene mechanic when i could just sell it from my inventory why even sell things from my inventory at all when it's so easy to just use a motherlode cheat in terms of gameplay why can't my sim cheat on me or divorce with me why can't my sims start to hate me randomly because they've got something going on in their lives and they're taking it out on me why is it so easy to build relationships with somebody i can marry a sim in like five minutes just by spamming loads of random romantic interactions if i think of other similar simulation games like animal crossing or stargy valley i have to put work into those games to get what i want in the sims 4 i don't really have to put any work in there to get what i want and because of that i feel like i'm not involved in the gameplay process with the sims 4. i don't feel like i'm really putting any effort in to make things happen because they just happen so easily that i'm not really achieving anything and it's that lack of achievement that bores me i never really see other simmers make that same point about the lack of challenge and i honestly really want to hear what you guys think about that one in the comments and i'll try my best to reply to all of you because it's something that really bothers me about the sims franchise in general not just the sims for all the sims games yet nobody else mentions it and i wonder if it's a me problem or if it's just a sims problem you guys let me know of course other than five things i hate about the sims 4 there are also 5 things i absolutely love about the sims 4 which is why i recommend you watch the next video here telling you about why i love the sims 4 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Channel: SatchOnSims

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Keywords: sims 4, the sims 4, 5 things I hate about the sims 4, the sims 4 worst features, sims 4 bad game

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Length: 9min 23sec (563 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 09 2022