Heck, after watching a couple of let's plays, just about the only thing I find superior in Sims 4 is the social aspects(Which is probably why that's about all the marketing campaign focused on). There are definitely many things that have either been removed or reduced between Sims 3 base and Sims 4 base. Seriously, I get the frustration towards the 'haters' who are spelling gloom and doom for The Sims, but that doesn't mean that they haven't made any good points. This is a remake to Sims 1- 2 instead of Downgrade.ДЄnd yes, I find it funny how 99% of the 'removed' features turns out not to be in Sims 3 base game.You mean like the Open world, Create-a-style, or landscaping tools?ДЄll of which were major features in the sims 3 base game and not present in Sims 4. it doesnt leave me with much confidence.Umm, Witches came to Sims 3's expansions, not Vanilla. I'll give it a while to get expansions out and I might consider it in the future, but all the things like the no review copies, the way they just yell EMOTIONS in everything when it's the same thing we have in 3 just with a different name, the fact that the few people who did play it brought up all the terrible bugs and were given some BS response like 'oh this is just a uh pre-alpha build don't worry we totally have a different one ready to ship that everything you see broken is fixed'.

Otherwise, I'm really unimpressed with everything I know of sims 4 so far. Might be they've improved the AI somewhat and I'll see the sims do more interesting stuff on their own, but so far it's really only manifested in that the neighbors seem *really* clingy, as they come to your door and ask to hang out *all* the time. Yet while they sleep, time passes stupidly fast so. So if all your sims are at work, you honestly spend too long just staring at your screen.

Work is boring, because time passes *so* slow while your sim is at work. Or 'Flirty' and unlock more romance interactions. The change to the mood system is interesting. Creating houses is a lot easier, but furniture feels somewhat limited, and some furniture is even gated behind reaching certain levels of certain jobs. Honestly, compared even to the base Sims 3, the game feels. This is especially problematic, as I found that even with 7 traits, I had a hard time acquiring all the traits I wanted. But more than that, you only get to choose three traits at start, and the selection of traits is *very* limited. Shaping the body is easier, but missing CAS doesn't make me a very happy player. It's okay if that description sounds like it was lifted right out of some bad mary-sue fanfiction, it's sims and I can blow stuff up and laugh at it. Aside from the child part (that wont be half witch half mermaid), I cant do any of that in 4. I like playing my witch that makes a living traveling the world discovering tombs and relics, who restores cars in her spare time and had an illegitimate child with an evil merman. Sims 4 has removed features we've had in base game in previous ones, and it doesnt have everything that we've got from expansions already. If you take out all the things Im mad at EA for, and all the things that just don't interest me with this game, it still comes down to content. Im a big sims 3 fan (still playing it) but man, I would not even consider touching this until at least 5-6 expansions out.

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