Awesome, thanks for posting. I love the way LGR plays.

Woah - he really tortured those poor Sims!

Gamers think the Sims 4 is “OK” – The results are in

Inc Gamers: The Sims 4 Review



I Played 'The Sims 4,' And It Ended My Decade-Long Journey With The Game

While not exactly a review, I did run across this story on IGN today:
EA's Priorities Include Players-First and Digital

with the following excerpt from Andrew Wilson's statements about the new direction of the company for the last year since he took over:



source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09...rst-and-digital

So BF and DA got delays to push innovation and polish to the forefront of "every game that EA ships". I wonder what happened with TS4? Do they really do think they released it with innovation and polish?

Yes , they do really think that. BF got delayed to include silly walks for soldiers marching to the battlefield to die from embarrassment. DA characters they gave a epic polished wooden staff with a knob on the end. So don't worry, EA will make it work.

My current review in progress site is the official bug report forum at http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4...The-Sims-4-Bugs.
Very helpful and impressive!

Wired: The Sims 4 Review

The Zero Punctuation review:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...e-Sims-4-Review

Wow, that guy is hilarious! I love the review. I'm sad to say, it is all too true.

I loved that review "Yahtzee" is spot on with EA being greedy barstewards.

The Sims 4 review (PC): Falls short of its lofty potential





The Sims 4 asks fans to move into a fixer-upper

What I don't understand is why people are acting like moods are new. In TS3 you could see their mood by hovering over the happiness bar. TS4 just made it louder.

I’ve had some time to play The Sims 4 now, so I feel that I may be able to give somewhat of a proper review now.

There are some things that really get on my nerves with this game that includes:

Why does it take Sims so long to eat now even when you’re eating alone and not interacting with other Sims? I understand this gives you the ability to actually sit down with multiple Sims and have a proper dinner, but they seem to eat far too long than they ideally should. I would like this time reduced unless you’re actually having a conversation/interacting with another Sim. Watching your Sims eat actually isn’t all that enjoyable, honestly.

There also doesn’t really seem to be much of an objective in this game. Ideally, you’re really just checking things off of a list and not really getting any true rewards outside of being able to purchase rewards to make managing your Sim easier. The careers are boring, and I imagined this is why they introduced the new system of having to unlock special objects in buy mode. It doesn’t really feel worth it, though, because the options before the unlocks aren’t really all that limiting to make you feel as if you really unlocked something with worth. There is no real advancement in that aspect, because I can live without what’s locked. I would have actually liked the idea of unlocking things that gave more functionality and playability. The joy of unlocking better TVs that play the same stations (sarcasm).

I don’t know if this is a bug or if it has been fixed since I last played, but I really don’t understand why you don’t take the last name of your Sim after getting married. Not only did they remove toddlers (I can live with it, honestly), but they removed the family tree, removed any connection of marriage besides a simple icon, and limited your interactions with the babies. There is nothing “family” about this game. Again, it seems like we’re going backwards compared to The Sims 3 (Yeah, I don’t think that comparison will ever die down). Making a family in The Sims 4 just doesn’t feel the same and it feels a bit limited. Hell, you can’t really even make true friends, because it only takes a couple of days before you forget they ever existed.

I’m shocked that they really gave you a limited option of things that you can do in terms of the community lots. To be honest, I would have much preferred a “community town” than the additional town that they provided. How nice would it have been if they provided an extra town (for a total of 3) that had nothing but community lots that actually gave you a reason to leave your home! They could have had a supermarket lot to purchase groceries, a library from where you could buy new books, and the possibilities go on. Bars, libraries, and the parks in my opinion are fairly dull and only nice when your home is too small to meet and socialize (parties really make going to community lots not worth it as well). I can’t believe they made everything possible to purchase within that object and the cell phones! Repairing objects and getting the trash is bit annoying, but that could have been another option for a community lot (the junk yard to buy parts and to get scrap). Why the hell does everything break down every other day?

They made the emotions of Sims seem much better and more dynamic than they actually turned out to be in the game, but that’s good marking I assume. Emotions to me don’t really make up for the lack of playability and options, but I do think they’re quite entertaining at times. I wish they were more fluid. The best new feature would have to be the multi-tasking, which I’m shocked they didn’t promote! They spent a lot of time talking about the several different ways you can die and emotions, they left this beauty of a function out, but I guess that’s just nitpicking at this point. But then again, there isn't really much to do, so they didn't really have much to talk about outside of those core features.

At this point, I haven’t really been playing all that much, because I’m not having as much fun with the game like I thought that I would. The new building option is pretty great, but outside of that, I’m kind of twiddling my fingers and waiting for DLC (Yes, you got me again EA). Also, it’s a shame they got rid of the custom coloring/patterning from The Sims 3.

It overall just seems to be lacking the charm that The Sims 3 had, honestly. No desire to achieve, to start a family and to make friends, and to advance most importantly. I really dislike that your Sims don’t have memories, because not only does moving forward seem dull, but there is really no foundation for which your Sims stand on. They’re just there, in their single limited lot. The lack of story progression is also a shame…

Overall, I’m bored. The Sims 4 didn't seem well planned out. Lack of creativity, functionality, and improvement from its older brother, The Sims 3.

Agreed. And with the most recent set of breaking stuff with a patch I've just been bulldozing all the lots in Willow Creek and building my own places rather than actually play the game.