10 reasons why The Sims 4 feels so boring

In sims 2 my sim broke up with her boyfriend. He didn’t take it well. For about a week, he would walk by her house at 4am and kick over her trash can. I always had to rush to clean it up to avoid roaches. In sims 3 my sim was a serial cheater and got called out for cheating in the middle of leading a protest. All the sims started booing her. I miss the wacky, unpredictable antics. I was going to uninstall sims 4 but my ten year old discovered it and has fun with it.

i've never completed a sims 4 life cycle. it's just all the same stuff, same choices, same dialogues with townies. and all the fun stuff is hidden in the bunches of $40 packs. there's just not enough replay value!

in sims 2 leaving my game unpaused meant that some of my sims died, someone got divorced because they randomly cheated on their spouse, children were either crying or taken away, everybody had mental breakdowns all around. in sims 4 they're slightly unhappy

The BEST THING EA could ever do is to freakin play this video on a loop every day in the office until they FINALLY GET IT. Because you NAILED IT, over and over. All of this.

In the sims 2 and 3 I never designed a house. I would literally buy a random house, put in some stuff I needed, not caring if it looks good. I would put on my Sims the first clothes that looked ok, and never changed it. I was so eager to get into the gameplay that the aesthetics didn’t matter. In the sims 4 I spend hours setting up the game, building, decorating etc, and then spend 5 minutes with gameplay before I get bored.

The sims aged down while the players aged up, thats the thing for me. Especially for the 1-2 players who grew up with the burglars, the horrifying sims 1 reaper music and fire screaming. Sims 4 feels like it's treating me like an ipad baby while im just LOOKING at it

love the section on ts4 being too safe, you covered that so well. nothing is ever surprising or shocking in ts4, it very much feels like an endless beige sludge of gameplay.

It feels like a bunch of talented people created a game and then they sold it to a big company, it's like a Netflix movie plot. They watered it down, they made it a cash cow, they slapped people with tiktok culture

The sims 4 IS boring though. Their slogan is literally about creating your own stories because they haven’t done any of it! Ts4 was a step way back before even sims 2 which did have stories, drama, proper animation, and engaging sims. The sims 4 is a dead game. Lifeless with no depth or drama

i want to tell stories but its just so boring... like... i don't want to pretend that a story is happening??? I want the story to actually happen??? I don't want to have to orchestrate everything that I want to happen

I'm surprised they keep adding new death types because I don't think I've ever seen a sim die in this game. I even tried to get one electrocuted by getting him to repair the TV when he was in a bad mood. I had him pee himself next to the TV to create a puddle but he still wouldn't get shocked. Eventually I even resorted to breaking the TV and creating puddles over and over using cheats and he didn't even get electrocuted once, let alone twice which is a requirement for death. There's no challenge in this game.

The “after I get a job what will i do next?” Is so real

The sims 4 is boring and if someone says otherwise they are delusional the game is boring bc there is NO GAMEPLAY NO MATTER HOW MANY PACKS YOU BUY OR MODS YOU INSTALL IN

The worst thing is how sims 4 slowly spoon-fed you features in DLC that were in the sims 2 & 3 BASE GAME.

Sims 3: You made a Sim and reached the Emperor of Evil rank of the criminal career? Good luck keeping anyone around your sim. Sims 4: You cheated on me with 20 different Sims? Just put a flirty lamp in the room.

I hate that everyone I meet in the game is dazed, and it takes forever to get them into another mood, just for them to leave because their social timer has ran out

The Sims 4 so often just feels like a series of chores. You want to join a werewolf pack? Get ready to make your sim do the same few things over and over again, interrupting other gameplay or you'll get warnings. You want to teach the infants new things? Oops, looks like they've been awake for two seconds, they need a nap. Oh and they've got a quirk that means even getting them to sleep is a chore. You want a sim to have a certain lifestyle? Gotta stay on top of that too! It's just boring. It feels like I constantly have to stop playing the game to complete repetitive and unnecessary tasks.

When I played Sims 1 over 20 years ago, I will never forget when I had a house party and hired an entertainer, a clown showed up went directly to my hamster and stole the entire cage - put it right in his pocket. Then he went to entertain the guests as if I didnt just see him steal my pet. Ive never forgiven and Ive never forgotten. Sims 1,2,3 - Life happens around you and to you Sims 4 - Youre the one who makes 'life' happen Its actually criminal that fire doesnt spread.

I'm not really a big fan of complaining for the sake of complaining... but dude, you're absolutely right about everything you've said. The Sims 4 is just not working and it REALLY needs A LOT of adjustments. I think that the main problem is probably the thing you mentioned about The Sims 4 trying SO HARD to be safe and family friendly like dude... most simmers are teens and adults like wth, we want DRAMA, ACTION, CONTROVERSY!!!

11:27 this is so spot on. And it's proven by the newest simmers that has only played sims 4. A while ago i argued with such simmer in their reddit post about why the game feels boring. The title is "I figured it out", as if they said some revolutionary thing that would change simmers opinion... but 10 seconds later after reading the whole thing i really thought "no, you didn't figure out sh1t" It was paragraphs of that person describing their IMAGINATION. They said a bunch of things like "one of my sim is a tomboy, the other is girly despite being twins so yeah sims have personality!" and they blame veteran simmers for complaining because they can't see that... yeah no there's no tomboy feature here jessica, your sim is the same as anyone else's. And jessica here is prime example of EA's targeted demography.