Missing features in The Sims 4
You know how gamers are, no matter what a company does to improve upon something, many just focus on what isn’t there because it’s something to complain about. That’s no different with fans of the popular life simulation game, The Sims.
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With The Sims 4 set to release on September 2, the series’ fans have decided to compile a long — and we mean long — list of features that were either completely removed or drastically reduced in The Sims 4 compared to its predecessor, The Sims 3.
The list comes courtesy of Sims4News, and includes bigger omissions like custom pools, no toddlers and careers like law enforcement and medical. It also includes smaller missing features like no cuts scenes, ghosts or repo men.
A large part of the list can be found below with the entirety being at Sims4News:
Features missing and/or limited in The Sims 4
- No create a style (CAST) – NOT possible in future expansions
- No modifications to world/public spaces – The park in the demo is a mix of a community lot and public space
- No “normal” careers – Law enforcement, Medical, Business, etc. were removed
- No open world – You must incur a loading screen between each active lot; each neighborhood has 1-5 lots total
- No pools
- No terrain tools other than paint; everything is perfectly flat
- No story progression – Sims in the neighborhood age, but do not have children, get jobs, move, get married…etc. without player intervention
- No toddlers
- No way to create/place new lots – And you only have 2 empty ones at the start of the game!
- No Mac version of the game at release
- All buildings on a lot must have the same foundation. No mixing for sheds, garages, etc.
- Babies are mere objects – All interactions are through basinet. There are no baby objects. Babies can only be lifted directly above basinet.
- Backgrounds are illusions – The buildings in the background are not playable in the game.
- Completely FLAT lots – The entire build-able world is completely flat
- Fewer floors/levels, limited to three
- SIGNIFICANTLY smaller “worlds” of <25 lots compared to 125+ lots in TS3
- Smaller lots – Lots are limited to 50×50 instead of 64×64.
- Loading screens for individual lots
- The map is a one-dimensional picture
- Teens are same height as adults and they, along with elders, all look nearly identical.
Sound off FanSiders! What removed features have you the most upset? Will this reduce your interest in buying the game? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below.