Gameplay and overview of the FIFTEENTH expansion pack to The Sims 4. This time it's all about rental units. Apartment buildings, shared lots, being nosy, being infected with mold, and generally being a skeevy landlord... Is it worth paying another $40? Let's see!
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"Driven by the ghost of a better Sims game" Bruh I've never heard such an succinct phrase that explains Sims 4 in its entirety.
oof
...but then you spoiled it by writing "bruh".
Lol That's no lie!
I cracked up on this one
RIP Good old dayz before the dark times, before the Evil in EA games
All this is stuff that should have been included in City Living.
All of this stuff should have been included in the _base game._ These are removed features being sold back to you, a bit like Airpods.
B-But if it was included in city living, h-how would those poor, poor EA executives be able to buy a second limousine?!?!
I have a feeling that the world was meant for a different pack with tigers being able to pet and stuff like the dolphins, foxes, and rabbits, but suddenly they just slapped the two together..!
For fricken real. They tried the responsible thing Once in a refresh for Spa Day, it didn't make them as much money as releasing shoddy repetitive and overpriced packs, it only gave the community some sort of misguided expectation EA was going to work to make things better. But oh well. It's clearly not as big an earner for them xD The amount of goodwill they'd earn by doing proper refreshes on old packs to bring them in line with more modern systems and options they've added, to fix things broken going back to the dang start, and add content that should've been there? Huge. But they can cheat it by releasing packs no one cares about for free and releasing more and more new crap.
@@DeathInTheSnow "All of this stuff should have been included in the base game." This is stuff better suited to a PACK about cities, apartments and rent. "These are removed features being sold back to you, a bit like Airpods." You don't say? 🙃
crazy how sims 2 is about to be 20 years old and it’s still the ONLY one in the franchise that knows how to do apartments
The only one that does running a business well too.
Fun fact, the TS2 was still 9 years old when TS4 was released on 2nd of September, 2014, TS2 would turn 10 in just another 12 more days on the 14th of September.
@@MarkWhichJesus. That’s really tells you how much EA has milked S4.
Did you forget the sims Urbz?? They're not really Sims 2
@@MarkWhich i loved when roommates would complain about you even if they had 4 floors for themselves
I think we're definitely at a point where computer power should be able to pull off what the Sims 3 aimed to do without the horrible performance.
THANK YOU
Computer power isn't the problem they would have to make a whole new engine for the game... Which realistically means just go to sims 5. But also even with powerful hardware the loading times and possible crashes would be bad.. each town should be one loading screen at this point but not the whole world.
Check out Life by You made by Paradox and some former developers of the sims like Rod Humble. it is going to release as an early access title next year and earlier videos showed choppy gameplay but now it is more optimized, and it has open world and customization like Sims 3 did.
@@briwanderz sit down
The problem of the game isn't really about computer specs. TS1 can host entire simulation with just a mediocre CPU, on-board GPU and 384 MB of shared RAM. The Sims 3 can host an entire world on dual core processor, low end integrated graphics, and two gigs of RAM. The real reason is the software development direction and user's expectations. Something can't just go along with another, and you can't have The Sims 4 graphics with The Sims 3 world without consumers burning money for high-end gaming rigs (like Life By You). All current Sims games are developed with low-spec computers in mind since it's the largest group of users who would just pick this game and play without thinking about system requirements. It may change in the close future since average parents nowadays at least know about buying gaming computers.
You know Clint's underwhelmed by a Sims expansion when the traditional Chairs Segment feels like an afterthought. I feel like the Sims community needs Paralives or another Sims competitor now, more than ever. We can only hope.
Paradox is releasing one in March I think,but based on their other games DLC practices it might be only worth watching out for.
im not looking forward to paralives. it seems to be even more innocent, butterflies and rainbows focused than the sims 4, instead of having the crazy goofy insane and terrible stuff the sims is known for.
Inzoi looks really good. Check out the trailer.
Life By You is the big one for me. It's releasing in early access soon and despite the characters still looking a little rough in their unfinished state, the gameplay they're offering feels like a modern Sims 3. And it costs the same as this expansion pack.
I'm not sure where you got the notion that Paralives will always be happy. I believe Paralives aims to present a more grounded perspective on suffering. They intend to include events such as funerals in the game.@@iwavrQwpX4uB39nilBlQ
The year 2000: Spending hours designing every little detail in the dream mansion I'll live in when I'm older. The year 2024: Spending hours designing every little detail in the dream one bedroom apartment I can't afford.
Best comment 😢
Funny
I was thinking the exact same thing. In 2000, the idea of spending hours on The Sims as an all-powerful, benevolent landlord that you may pay rent to (or really wish you did) seemed so banal. We didn’t know how good we had it then…
reddit moment
Yup...
Man... Maybe i shows my age, but i member being able to walk across entire town on foot in Sims 3, seamlessly entering and exiting lots, and traveling in un-a-LOT-ed space in-between. And you're telling me that 14 years later we need a loading screen to, essentially, switch to a different set of rooms on the same lot?
Even in Sims 2 apartments, you could visit your neighbors without a loading screen.
When sims4 came out, i remember there were MANY disappointed ppl on the forums, but they never came through. It was as if they were ’covered up’ by all the hype comments... it was bizarre. To this day i am covinced, many sims3 players never got into that game and ignored it. The ’success’ of Sims 4 still feels flat to me.
@@Marge719 That's me. Been playing the series since House Party expansion for the original, and dropped out at 4, now just watching LGR's reviews of the 4's expansions and shaking my head in disapproval...
@@Marge719meee 🙋🏾♀️ I never moved on to Sims 4. I wanted to wait until some expantions came out To see what direction it was going in but every time an expansion dropped it was too expensive and people were always disappointed. honestly it was the loading screens for me.. Open world is a must have which is what really keeps me playing The Sims 3 even though it's bug ridden lol. But lucky the sims 3 modding community is still alive and have some of the best mods to fix what EA refused to. They even stopped updating the game when sims 4 came out, low-key forcing players to buy sims 4😅
Sims 4 came out back when many computers used standard hard drives instead of SSDs. Now theoretically they could create a much better game with fewer load screens optimized for newer PCs even more optimized than Sims 3… but we’ll probably have to wait another 10 years.
Adding mold to Sims 4 is appropriate in some way, symbolic representation of the video game and its disrepair and neglect.
IM DYING 😭
The fact this is worse than Sims 2 Apartment Life in every aspect just blows my mind
To be expected from EA.
We didn't know how good we had it back in Sims 2
Apartment Life costs more tho
@@Fanboy-hf1iuAnd provides more content.
I mean, what blows my mind is that The Sims 2 is still the highest fidelity Sims game. Like 3 and 4 clearly didn't have the care and attention put into them sure... But it's been nearly two decades and 2 still has the highest poly objects with the most detailed textures and animations... You'd think the progression of model making technology would make that impossible, yet here we are...
The Sims 4 released in 2014. 2024 is a couple days away. It's actually kind of impressive that a game has had expansions for the past 10 years. Problem is, a lot of it should've been in the base game in the first place.
It’s honestly insane that it was able to release in the incomplete state that it was.
@@Missab4000 Yeah, the fact that it launched without babies or pools still hurt astonishes me. EA absolutely wants to squeeze every last penny out of this.
I wouldn't use the word _"impressive"_ to describe it. I have a few alternatives though. Deplorable. Reprehensible. Evil. Pure, distilled capitalism. I do happen to have fifteen more words to describe them as well, but you'll have to pay for them separately in my new "Description Packs", coming soon for only $9.99 each!
@@DeathInTheSnow sign me up for the Despicable Pack DLC
Do you think they'll give us a hot tub for the 10 year anniversary?
All EA has been doing in the last 6 years is solidify my decision that I will not be buying into the Sims 5 and am not spending another dollar on the Sims 4.
I was thinking of downloading sims 4 base since it's free and maybe other free expansions if they have it. Is the base decent by itself?
@1hinita in my opinion it is quite boring without 1 or 2 expansion packs because there is just nothing to do for your sims. if you don't want to spend money on packs and play the game on pc or laptop you can download gameplay mods to enhance your gaming experience. there are a lot of fun and free mods out there.
@@1hinita It's okay. I remember at release they didn't even have the feature to have pool or your sims be able to swim! That was patched in after so many people complained about it. If you can get a bunch of expansions for free then it's not a bad use of your time. Personally I'd rather get into The Sims 3 if I was going to get back into it. Or you could buy a lot of Sims 2 installation DVDs for PC off of a single listing from eBay, Mercari, or OfferUp for a fraction of the cost of owning Sims 4 expansion packs. You will need a external USB DVD drive(like LG is a good brand to buy for $20-$25) and patience as the packs install but personally I think it's worth it. The Sims 2 was the golden years of The Sims franchise and has a HUGE modding community that adds clothing, features, and other mods that makes the game all yours.
@@1hinitasince it’s free there’s no harm in trying it out. They’ve given the base game quite a few updates since it originally started
@@1hinita a bit of an immoral suggestion maybe but you can try out the free base game with unlocked DLC by using the Anadius method. If you feel some are worth buying, you can do so afterwards
LGR has been making sims 4 content for a third of my life
This comment broke my hip.
ah christ
Two fifths of mine
Holy shit.
...almost half of my life for me
It's pretty sad how excited I was every time a new Sims 2 or 3 pack was announced. Now it's just: yeah, another pack that's 1/3 of the previous game counterpart, whatever
That's how I've been feeling too. That and Pokemon. Feels bad man.
Agreed
@@Creampuf1977yess Pokémon too
and just adds to the massive cost of the other dlcs
I was so excited when the last Sims 3 expansion pack came out, that I couldn't stay still at all. Instead of waiting for my mom, I checked the internet to confirm it was at my local Walmart, grabbed a bus, and endured the freezing cold to buy it all by myself. Impatiently waiting for the staff to remove the theft proofing, cheerily walking back towards the bus stop on the slip and slide pavement, trying to climb over a giant snowdrift and falling right in, and still my good mood couldn't be punctured. And rightly so, because a Sims 3 expansion never disappointed me. It was straight to the computer when I got home, and I had a blast. It's really sad Sims 4 could never spark excitement in me, partially because it kept delivering disappointment. :(
"Driven by the ghosts of better Sims games" 😂 Even my husband who doesn't play the Sims had a good laugh over that.
Cap 🧢
bwahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
"It's... fine?" is basically *the* tagline for Sims 4 and its packs.
Clint, you really don’t need to keep putting yourself through this. But thank you. These videos are still so enjoyable and some of the only Sims 4 content I’m still paying attention to.
The mushroom sims were kind of funny, though. Kind of made me wish they had that kind of death in previous versions of Sims. Admittedly, though, Sims 2 let your sims get swarmed and eaten by flies if the environment was filthy. I also had a sim take a sponge bath in the kitchen, then literally die of fright when a ghost popped out the drain to scare him. Maybe I just like stupid causes of death in Sims. 😂
Meanwhile, I just downloaded the online university and the laundromat fix mods and started up The Sims 3 again. Significantly more fun and there's so many performance mods now that it works really well! Sims 4 needs to be laid to rest already.
omg me too. I just started playing S3 again, and now I can't stop.
Where do you find these mods?
I still can't get sims 3 to function on my PC
@@psychic_beth modthesims!
It's not Sims 4 that needs to be laid to rest. It's the corporation (and perhaps managers/leads of the project). If not, all the issues will continue.
Can we get The Sims Sewer next? Manage the daily intricacies and tribulations of sim poo
There goes Civvie 11s Sewer Counter :D
wait cause i would love a sims pack that added those kinds of jobs imagine sewer worker, trash man, maid and stuff
A silly idea that could be fun. Granted, it'd have to be planned and executed well...
Yes, for that smelly Fecal Funny ™️ experience 💩👃👌
I'd live there
So they made a better apartments system than sims 3 ever had but had to somehow screw it up still? That's a certified Sims 4 moment.
And still no cars
@@lortonlestar6941that shouldn't even come to mind given how unlikely this is. Best you can hope for is a prop like the ones in the japanese town and maybe clickable to select options were you want to travel to
@@lortonlestar6941 why does everyone want cars? It''s not open world, they'd be fairly useless except for maybe a new skill.
@@barbaral.7221 Sims 2 had loading screens just like 4, but the cars were still interesting. They had interactions like just sitting in your car, listening to the radio, getting an alarm installed... They were also a woohoo location. I kind of wish they had made cars like that in 3. In Sims 3, they're just modes of transport at varying speeds.
sims 3 don't even have proper apartments ehmnmm the sims 2 is the only on the series that had good apartments, sims 4 comes right after with proper apartments but sucks with loadings.
The highlight of this pack is the white plastic garden chair
You know the economy is getting bad when you can't even own a house in the sims, and you have to rent. 😂
Waiting for the "car living" expansion
Man if you're under 40 you're lucky if you can afford to rent.
@@ndf3 Bench living expansion..
@@ndf3 Boondocking be a dream come true...
@@Lu-db1ufI’m under 40. Had to buy a manufactured home last year just to have a home to call my own.
The 3 things we can depend on: death, taxes, and a new expansion for The Sims 4
LGR, just wanted to say, thank you for these Sims 4 videos. I think I recall you not enjoying making these, but, well, as an old sims fan who doesn't touch sims 4, it's extremely cathertic hearing your takes on these soulless expansions. I guess after such a solid success with Sims 1 and 2, it's like a morbid curiosity of wtf is happening with sims these days. Your patience is strong and is greatly appreciated.
Agreed!
"They're driven by the ghosts of better Sims games." Iconic.
Unhappy tenants seem to be driven by a bad personal relationship more than the property even when you are a good landlord. The tenant literally had a sweet setup and a bigger room than me (the landlord) and STILL revolted because I wasn’t socializing much with them. I wish the pack had a better good to bad scale based on the amenities in the space.
Yeah the tenants are so confusing lol. I had a revolt on day one after moving families into 2 very nice units on my sims property. I promised to make changes, which instantly made them stop, then I traveled to their unit and nothing was even wrong 😭 what do you people want from me?? 😆
Honestly it's so broken I've just turned off the events in the settings. Like, sorry guys. You chose to move into a unit with a shared kitchen and public bathroom. Get over yourselves.
Honestly I'd start rioting too if my landlord didn't take me out for dinner once a week
becouse the game is spegetti code garbage. only played by E thots and twitch/youtube groomers
@@madirebekah3660 Seems realistic to me, you'd be shocked at how entitled and irresponsible some tenants are.
I was thinking about getting this one, because the landlord and apartment stuff is VERY intriguing, but damn, those loading screens are atrocious! I really appreciate these reviews, since it lets me see what the expansion really looks like.
They looked at Starfield and said “Yep people love these loading screens.”
The world is incredibly empty and dead as well. Even the night market is a joke. It feels like a ghost town and there’s nothing to do. Very depressing
8:12 I am so disappointed by this reveal. In the trailer, they made it look like the apartment experience is seamless like the one in The Sims 2. But in reality, it's the same it always has been since City Living.
EA's addiction to splice up what used to be one expansion pack into like 4 different packs, then selling all of them for the exact same price is something only the current Sims community would eat up and tolerate.
I thought when I saw this pack: "Cool so we can finally visit apartments without loading screens, right" what a let down :( But atleast it gave us a new LGR Sims review. Yay?
i may be taking a well needed break from the sims 4 but i will never take a break from your awesome reviews :)
Same
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you still doing Sims 4 content even after all this time is still very much appreciated. I know it's not really fun for you anymore, but you still do enjoyable work and I want you to know I value and admire your work on it.
4:45 Seeing a Sims 4 house with actual grunge and some wear is actually pretty refreshing lol. I love that exposed brick decal on the wall. It adds so much more character. I hope we can get more stuff like that in the base game instead of every house looking perfect and clean.
A few packs have had grunge and cracks actually. I keep the world in Eco lifestyle looking pretty trashy so I have that trashy aestetic when I want it and City Living has some fun cracks and grime decals as well.
The nice thing is a lot of stuff comes with both worn and nice swatches so you can choose if you want it to be crappy
I'd appreciate the realism more if it wasn't for the fact it's tied to landlords and played for aesthetic charm. It's like glorifying poverty.
its honestly kinda ruined by the PG 13 disney esque art style to me but i agree that at this point anything different is refreshing
@@DeathInTheSnow Okay? Would you prefer the landlord pack be boring, sanitized, and only let you be a virtuous angel of a property owner who can only be kind and luxurious?
Thanks for continually subjecting yourself to The Sims 4, Clint.
"If you can barely affort a apartment, then why thinking about a car in your sims game?" -EA
Clint, have you thought of doing a retrospective of old Sims DLCs (1,2,3) regarding what they did well/what you liked? I think that would be a great way to make new content out of something you did before--and it would be talking about something you actually enjoy. Just food for thought :) I know you did separate reviews years ago but I would wholeheartedly welcome you returning to the old expansions.
Rentals seems like the kinda thing that should be included in the base game tbh
Agree. Or tbh a game pack. We got paranormal houses in a game pack and tiny homes in a stuff pack…
For the sims 4, I agree. I could’ve let it slide on 3 and so forth, but 4? Come on now lol
Sitting in the botanical garden under a gazebo and eating weiners can be experienced better in fanfiction, so I think I'll pass. In all honesty though I've never gotten the Sims 4. The whole neighborhood element of the Sims 3 has been my favorite part of the franchise so I've been sticking with modded Sims 3. ...that being said I kind of love that you can play a slumlord in the sims 4. The most realistic the game has ever been!
We really need something like Cities Skylines to come in and compete with the Sims series. Their complacency just says they feel they have no competition.
search up Paralives
With the way cities skylines 2 came out, maybe not.
@@smorgisborg1 CS2 is still better than SimCity World.
here’s hoping an actual life sim comes out and humiliates EA the same way cities skylines basically ended simcity (along with their online bullshit fiasco, which lgr also covered well.)
Not to sound ignorant or a dick but isn’t that what Life By You is? Like the same devs as cities skylines if I remember correctly
What I don't like is that EA couldn't even be bothered to add a zombie lifestate, like in previous games It looks like they even tease you with the mold death animation, where the sim turns into a fungal zombie for a few seconds before dying.
Oh don't worry, they'll just make that as a Game Pack instead of including it with the Expansion Pack!
Fungal zombies makes me think of the game The Last of Us. What a weird tie-in that could have been. Like the Plants vs. Zombies one they had in the Sims 3.
I don't even play the Sims anymore (I downloaded the Sims 4 in 2016 and played it for maybe 10 hours) but I love watching your reviews. One of my favorite KZheadrs out there.
The expansions have been $40 since 2014, right? So if they're inline with inflationary we'd expect them to be 33.77% smaller or cost $53. I do genuinely think we're seeing "shrinkflation" here
Videogames do have a tendency to just kinda ignore Inflation, like games have been 60$ for like 30 years by this point and only recently have devs started pushing the price to 70.
@@gray007nl because the second developers move inline with inflation the internet has a combined meltdown - see the backlash on AoE2:DE DLC going up $5 in the past 12 months, same with Creative Assembly. There's further backlash of a full priced AAA game moving to $70 as Ubisoft and Activision have tried that you mentioned.
@@alexashton6501 tbf Creative Assembly took the price of what was usually a 10$ DLC to 25$ which is like ludicrous .
The inflation doesn't matter. They aren't charging based on budget. They charge based on what they think people are willing to pay. That's how corporate economics works. It's why companies that are completely unaffected by some facet of economic trouble raise prices anyways. Cuz they know people will just chock it up to the economy being bad and not make a fuss. the sooner you understand you are being played by the systems in place, the better.
@@gray007nl 30+ years ago 95% of "game" prices was physical media, manufacturing, distribution (truck on the roads and physical stores)... Stuff like economies of scale, tech/software advances and maturity exists too. Stop regurgitating corporate BS. Not our problem if "devs"/publisher dump tens or hundreds of millions on celebrities, top execs and shareholders...
@LGR going through the slog of The Sims 4, so we don't have to.
And God bless him for it!
@@MovieReviewGuyOfficial and forever more with the next pack and whenever the Sims 5 arrives
The loading screens are insane in this pack lol
watching LGR growing up reviwing the sims series is insane
God bless Anadius. I would never pay for this broken crap.
Care to elaborate for someone interested in playing through the Sims 4 content with no desire to be broke?
Same I ain't buying 100 dollar on dlc mods and anandius updater it is
Also instal mods too make the game infinitely better
@@teyrns there are lots of great tutorials here on youtube :)
@@teyrns just type sims 4 tarac and you'll find what you need
At this point, I'm just going back to the Sims 3. There is plenty of content for it, and it just feels like a deeper game.
honestly thats what ive done. i buy the sims 3 packs when they are on sale at $10 and i already almost have all of them and its SO much more fun then sims4 (and i have 12 expansion packs and 3 game packs for the sims 4... )
Steam has a bundle with all Sims 3 expansions, I've bought that during a sale a few years ago With some nraas mods and the smooth patch mod it runs now better for me than ever, even on a modern laptop
Me too!! But I somehow lost access to my old origin account and lost my expansions for ts3. I can’t believe EA still has those expansions at $20 each… That’s robbery for an almost 15 year old game.
I’ve been playing the sims 3 and been having a blast. The only main issue is not being able to do any ocean swimming. (I play on a Mac and for some reason when they updated the Mac version to the 64 bit version, it basically broke the ocean swimming and being able to collect insects, which they’ve never fixed. I’m hoping when they release the EA app for Mac it might fix it.).
I feel like reinstalling the game fresh and applying mods properly cause i messed around with the code n screwed it up last time. I just upgraded my pc so it should work out waaay better this time! Ts2 n 3 are clutch af
The reason why so many of us still love playing this game is because we emerge ourself in it differently than maybe you are able to do. I can only truly speak for myself in this, but for me its like playing with Barbies still. I use my imagination, I make up new and fun stories for my sims and I play each family different from the other. I also play challenges, I build A LOT and I love creating new and unique sims in CAS. I make over townies, make my own houses, build my own community lots and I use my creativity to its absolute full ability. I play families on rotation and mix their stories with one another +++ The game sure lacks a few things here and there, there is no denying that, but for many of us this is an absolutely amazing game still, even after 10 years. I have 9000 hours played in the Sims 4, and I have enjoyed every single minute. I have paid over 1000$ for this game, but with 9000 hours played I'd say its been worth every penny for the amount of fun I've had. Also, my boyfriend has been playing WoW for all that time and he has spent more than me with his subscription + expansions over these years, so there's that. Its not everyone's cup of tea, but it sure is my cup of tea!
I really felt that sigh @ 0:11
This would go perfectly with the University expansion 😂 I mean the mould bit and greedy landlords in particular, very familiar! I would love a mod or something to get those to work together, ruining dorms.
You actually can make 'dorms', they showed that off. The big issue though is you can only have 6 rental units per lot. There's an in-game cheat to increase that but people who tried building with a lot more found it basically broke the game. So basically you can make a dorm, just a smaller one. Or I guess you could break it into 6 'wings' and put a lot of beds in each.
its almost like theyre selectively removing things only to introduce them in paid packs… hm… remember in the sims 2 how nightlife came wth cars, and they didnt need to sell it separately? oh yeah, and restaurants, and vampires, all in one pack.
@@manyyoumas tbh mould has never been in a University pack, I just said it would be funny 😂 being a student and knowing how bad real landlords are! But I agree, the only thing I would argue is that the removal of vampires was a good thing, as they are so much better for it.
@@charliefenoh yeah, i get what u mean and i didnt mean for my comment to come across rudely now that im rereading it, im mostly just irritated at EA, i just think EA has gotten way too comfortable separating things they would totally include together back before EA bought out maxis, because yeah the uni and apartment stuff would go hand in hand
Having an expansion where you actually have an incentive to create pretty houses in a doll house sim sounds actually kind of genius. The game already has the best architecture tools of any Sims game so it's odd that it took almost 10 years for renting your lots to became a feature. This seems tailored made for any sims players that are heavily into build mode.
Yeah it's relatively flexible- you can create townhomes, one room apartments in a house, regular apartments- they've encouraged people to make trailer parks. Though there's still the issue that there's a bug which means you don't get paid rent... which is pretty important in a landlord pack
pretty much no excuse to not include these features in city living because you could definitely also make townhouses and trailer parks with the sims 2 and they didnt even have as robust a system as s4 build mode (pretty much the only nice thing about it and why people spend two hours creating a home and then put the game down, meanwhile sims 2 you actually play and have fun lmao)
@@manyyoumas Doesn't Sims 2 have the same problem as 4 with you needing to teleport from lot to lot?
@@constipatedwonka8061Not really, th “Apartment Life” pack in sims 2 didn’t require loading screens for apartments, Everything was preloaded on the lot. You could even leave your kid with the neighbor (babysat). Sims 2 wasn’t open-world. But lots could be multi-functioning in the game! If you play with all the expansions the closed world is really an after thought, but for sims 4 not so much, doesn’t have enough game-play or content like the sims 2. It’s actually kind of embarrassing how even the sims 2, as old as it is, is still leap years head with the closed-world system, despite it being like 18 years old? ALSO THE SIMS 2 worlds were big! You could also place as many lots as your computer could handle.
@@constipatedwonka8061yeah, how much of the world is loaded at once is pretty similar between sims 2 and 4, though that's kinda forgivable for the age of the former game, and on modern hardware the load times are WAY more bearable lol. but personally when playing both games I find that sims 2 feels a lot less claustrophobic than sims 4? idk whether that's the aesthetics tempering my expectations, or whether the game design itself changed as a result of sims 3's open world and never really fit back in the box. but every time I'm cycling my sims through the aspiration grind, I always groan when I reach a bottleneck where I have to drop everything to grab the relevant sims to bring them to the gym or the museum or whatever, bc there's nothing special to do there. it's just a checkpoint I need to reach to mark off a tick box. in the sims 3 I could pop into a lot on the way home from somewhere else. in the sims 2 I could get unique items and do unique activities. in the sims 4 I can... get new requirements for a successful social event. hooray.
LGR Sims reviews never disappoint
the terrible loading screens that we all hated when the sims 4 first came out is really starting to have an impact here with separated house units
Wake up Babe, LGR is reviewing the Sims again🤯
Its always a great day when LGR uploads a sims videos!
I don't even play The Sims anymore, but I'll always check out your expansion pack reviews. They really convey the acute apathy I have for the game's direction
please dont stop making reviews in sims. I like it when you making reviews on every sims pack...
I don’t think he will stop
the only thing that's kept the game alive for me are Mods. Bless the mod community. I've been tempted to get this but we've been burned by EA so many times (looking at you glitch fest) that I can't imagine paying them for a broken, half-assed game at full price. And don't even get me started on loading screens 🙄
Get the pack for free! Just look up "anadius sims 4" and you'll find tutorials, it's actually quite easy.
I found your channel many years ago by looking up sims 3 expansion pack reviews and I'm still watching many years later. While I don't currently play the sims 4, I still enjoy your humorous reviews on the expansion, game, and stuff packs. Keep it up.
As a Brit, I really love this pack. It's really nice to be able to have council houses, townhouse flat conversions and it's really good for making our homes which are semi detached
If i had a time machine i would go back to my childhood when i was obsessed with the sims 1/2 and make it my lifes mission to be lead director of the game and make the sims great again!
Oh, if we only knew! We would’ve sounded the alarm! 🚨
I am thankful you make these reviews for the expansion packs, as I love watching them
Clint, I’ve been following you a long while across different accounts. You’re always 100% spot on with your takes. With all the other life simulators getting ready to release, I hope we’ll all have the pleasure of having your insight on those too! Thank you for this and I hope you had an enjoyable holiday.
7:34 Dat Labowski reference. Clint be dropping references like no ones business.
Thank you so much for reviewing this pack!!! Your Sims reviews are my absolute FAVORITE! I really appreciate your full honesty about everything in each pack 🤘🏼
I have been waiting so patiently for this.. the only sims reviewer I will watch! 😂
I've been studying composition and what goes into art, and the video made me wonder seriously about what TS4 is missing compared to TS2 and even 3. My first guess is that the game lacks restrictions and regulations to balance out expression. Restrictions promote innovation, which is what the Chemistry/Aspiration of TS2 and even the Trait system of 3 promoted: at the same time, you had creative freedom in selecting your own restrictions, which was probably the very appeal of The Sims. The Sims 4 goes in mind with "painting yourself a story however you want" as if Life Mode has the same creative freedom as CAS, but there's too much "choice" without any "restriction." It's good that the 4th entry in the game is trying to branch out from previous games with a brand new idea, but the idea needs to "work" somehow.
For me, the main thing it's missing is the open world. I got used to that in 3 and am not interested in any life simulator that takes it away.
I love your sims reviews! Your voice is so soothing and calming and I love how you mention intetesting stuff.
I've given up on Sims 4 and gone back to playing Sims 3. I thought maybe I just wasn't as into sims anymore, but even with the often game crashes and lacking building tools, I still am having so much fun playing sims 3 again.
The Sims 3 is a mess and a half, but it's a _fun_ mess and a half. That sets it apart from The Sims 4 by default. :p
Back to The Sims grind I see. 🤣 The install size at this point must be approaching CoD Warzone levels, but seems worth it to turn the game into The Sims 4: Tenement Edition. Happy New Year Clint!
At this point it wouldn't shock me if they were on par to that mess!
not quite, it's 63 GB for me and loading time isn't even that bad but performance as in game speed is worse than sims 3 running on a pentium
I really didn't expect a Big Lebowsky reference in a Sims video 😂
I was just rewatching all your sims content last night, while playing the sims :) glad to see you continue the sims vids, tysm clint for the wonderful content over the past 15+ years
I remember watching and loving your sims 3 reviews back in the day. Excited to see you’re still at it!
Every time you put out a Sim 4 thing I just think back to Ralph. Wonder how he's doin.
What's sad isn't so much that we're stuck with a subpar Sims game for the foreseeable future, it's that if the game and expansions were actually good then this would be the ideal time to be a Sims fan. But since it's not, everyone is gonna have to wait many years before there's even a slight chance for that to happen. Even slight seems too generous, because... You know, EA.
thank you for continuing to make these videos, even though you're so over the sims. i really enjoy them!
We really need a video of you going over the sims 2 packs in detail some day, your sims 3 reviews were always a highlight when they came out.
Thanks so much for always reviewing the expansion packs even though you’re no longer a fan of the game. I share your sentiments about TS4 but I still play sometimes and I only buy packs based on your reviews so I appreciate them every time :) your reviews also have entertainment value so I sometimes watch jut for fun ^^ happy new year to you!
I just wanted to say “Hi.” I hope everyone has an amazing New Year’s.
thank you for always making videos rating sim packs ! i’ve always enjoyed watching your videos
When the trailer for this pack 1st came out, I remember watching it and thinking “Thats it?” the gameplay looked empty (as always) and it honestly felt like it should’ve been a city living update. But people were so excited and put so much faith in EA that to the surprise of no one, they got let down again. The selective amnesia in the sims 4 community is hilarious 😂
Another Christmas gift 🎁 you legend. Sims and LGR such a timeless classic 🎉❤
YES! Thank you! :D ^__^ You are one of the very few OG Maxis people (like me) who really get it. Thanks for doing this! Happy New Year!
Oof, that "so it goes" at the end hits hard. "I used to be with the Sims, but then they changed what the Sims was. Now what I'm with isn't the Sims anymore and the Sims seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you!""
Thank you LGR for making this.. I always look for these videos to see what im in or if i want to check out another Sims 4 DLC.
The pack really does emphasize what feels like the standard life cycle of when I pick The Sims back up. Use fun new build stuff to make lot/family. Play until I get bored of the lack of actual gameplay which is often cut even shorter than it should be because there's so many rabbit holes and/or is ridiculously buggy. Wander away for a couple of months and try again.
Having loading screens between apartments on the same lot? What's next, having them between the living room and bathroom? Between the toilet, shower and sink? Great video, by the way!
Happy newyear LGR, thank you for another year of awesome content!
I'm glad you did an honest review, keep up the good work!
Don't lie, Clint, you had a great time becoming a sleazy landlord! 😂😂😂
It honestly was an enjoyable hour or so playing a scumbag.
@@LGR I knew it!! 🤣🤣🤣
"Landlords BAD!", said the trillion dollar gaming company.
"You can also completely cheap out or ignore [this stuff] to maximize profits..." - That's EA right there! XD
Dude! That rug really tied the room together
It always feel like they always fall just short of being good/greatness. And the bad part, is it feels intentional.
I was almost considering giving this expansion a try after all, but loading screen after loading screen just for checking in on apartments _on the same lot_ ? Naaah, thanks!
I’ve actually been waiting for your review on this pack. Needed a good laugh 😂
0:39 Unless you buy via the Bundle & Save option during a sale. Normally this is about $66 for around $80-90 worth of DLC. With the current sale, it’s $33 for the bundle & save.
0:33 - My GOD!! You could get a freaking iMac or a Macbook or even the latest LG TV for that price now! And yet, they STILL never bothered to bundle all these packs together with the game into one actually AFFORDABLE collection like they did with Sims 2?! Let alone for Consoles outside of the Switch which STILL doesn't have this on there?! Bloody HECK, EA...🤦🏾♂️
The game has to end to be bundled. Sims 2 was bundled when they knew they were moving onto Sims 3!! Since this game was born in the digital era, even when/if they release a sims 5 they will likely bait Sims 4 completionism with Kit drops for as long as they can.
im pretty sure it's wicked whims that keeps the sims 4 running lol
I love your review videos. You described how I feel with this pack and the sims 4
yes indeed
Argue if you want but sims 3 is an explemplary title in the sims franchise. Yes it still had rabbit holes, yes it doesn't look as good or even run as good as the sims 4. But give credit where credit is due in the way of how buildings were open, how much of the town was free to zoom in and out of at will with zero loading screens, how much more enjoyable the expansion packs were (at least for me). I started watching lgr as a literal child who loved the idea of the sims and watched every review of sims 3 content before I'd asked my parents for an expansion. Now being 18 I miss so badly those simpler days of sitting around after school playing a game I shouldn't have even been playing (given the 13+ rating). All that aside, I'll always appreciate you lgr for how you oddly impacted my childhood❤