I'm finding The Sims 4 Cottage Living a bit too easy. Presented by EA Game Changers.
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I wish Sims/NPC’s would stay in their own worlds. We really need a filtering system. Keep using your voice Carl! Maybe maxis will listen.
Agreed. we need simmers with large audiences to get this heard!
Nah - I like that NPCs travel. I enjoy that aspect of the game. When I first started playing, Nessa a sim I created but wasn't playing, jogged literally every where. It was how I learned neighborhoods were open, and that you could even jog around the science lab.
There's a mod for that so its definitely possible lol I don't know why the Sims team doesn't bother. (Its called Sim Spawn Overhaul by Lotharihoe if anyone wants it, they updated it for the most recent patch)
As long it's an option in the menu
@Nicole yeah but batu is kind of appart
Why does everything give us gifts lately? Spirits, dust bunnies, actual bunnies, birds. It’s a little much.
It goes at least as far back as the bees in seasons. And the present pile probably counts too
Reuse...Recycle = TS4
bees from seasons and dogs from cats and dogs also give gifts
so they don’t have to make actual game play for any of it
Because EA doesn't care about thinking of new unique features for each of those things anymore. It's all about recycling...
An expansion pack without new skills and just a tutorial aspiration...? 🥴
Like, get a bird is tier 1-2 of the aspiration, damn.
@@CarlsSimGuides I think they need to refresh that entire Sim Guru leadership team and bring in fresh blood. Not just from within EA, but from other popular game franchises. They need fresh blood and eyes looking at Packs.
@@TanyaOwens They're already in development for sims 5, which has a different team.
Cross Stitching is a new skill.
@@alans2418 It's a minor skill, not a fully fleshed out one, though.
Carl over here letting his hidden southern accent escape when he says chicken
Ha!
It's hidden? I thought it was pretty apparent in all his videos 😂
Not just chicken but 4:02 The Golden Hen too. Basically Country Accent disregard North or South.
Yeah he sounded especially country in this video, it was fun!
Omg you're right, but weirdly enough I always find it really obvious when he says the word "toilet" 🤣🤣
I don't trust sims 4 anymore... Lately I've been playing sims 3 again with not so many expansions and I'm still discovering new things! I almost couldn't believe how much I missed coming back to the older game. That's how much gameplay there is! It's insane how little sims 4 has to offer...
I really want to get into Sims 3 again since it has SO much content (at the downfall of long loading screens) but for some reasons the colors come across really bright and contrasted. I went into a resort I built and it was practically GLOWING! Do you happen to use any graphic mods to help with how the game looks by chance?
@@abaliagoob It's called Bloom and you can turn it off with some .ini editing.
@@abaliagoob oh shoot! A glowing building doesn't sound fun at all! Truthfully I don't even know how you would fix that :/ I would try to mess around with the graphics in the option menu. And to be honest my sims 3 game played better on a newer gaming PC than a Mac. I'm sorry 😐 I wasn't really helpful but I hope you find an answer ;-; cheers!
@@TheDarkblue57 oh! There we go lol thanks for helping out I was panicking not knowing the answer 😂
I went back to Sims 2 and honestly, same. It's so old but there's so much content. Playing the Broke family was fun, super hard but fun. And I hate Brandi lmao girl wants 10 kids but is too lazy to look after the three she's already got.
the sims 4 is the essence of EAs corporate greed. i think it really marks the point in where they decided to stop caring about making an enjoyable game in any capacity
Indeed !
@Raphael Oliveira The problem with that is that there's people like me: a collector/completionist. Like I HATE Batuu but I got it because it was half off (or more; can't really remember) and it filled my self-described OCD. Though I don't ever buy packs at full price anymore (I stopped at Cats & Dogs I think) and only get it when there's a sale going on.
@@FallenAngelHiroko Just pirate it instead of giving money to the shitlords at EA
@@eris7889 can't do that on console
@@FallenAngelHiroko see a therapist about that instead of wasting money
Weren't debug items popping up with the dust bunny gifts as well? Whoever does their loot tables is terrible at it.
Wtf
This would be unacceptable in a $5 game. In $40 corporate made DLC, this is criminal.
@@parrot998 chill dude
ive experienced this with eco lifestyle when i dumbster dive. i have gotten quite a few debug items that i can do nothing with
Yup still doing it after the update 😂 Nothing was fixed.
I think that this pack is another perfect example of the fact the base game itself and the Sims 4 in general cannot be fixed and even a desirable feature can’t bring enough replay value to the table. It’s a shame, but I guess we’ll see about all the reviews coming out (although I definitely trust your opinion very much)
I disagree, but only for this pack. If they'd break the mold a bit it could be very strong if they had leaned in hard on that country lifestyle but kind of ruined it with other functions. I'd have loved to have sought golden chickens and ability to craft treats late in the game while working with other features.
@@CarlsSimGuides The game is now aimed at children, who need stuff to be easy to accomplish, these days. I loved The Sims 1 & 2 (thousands of hours), really liked The Sims 3 (not thousands of hours due to lag issues - pitty...). I hate The Sims 4 - only purchased the base game around when seasons came out (because a friend said "Oh, it's much better now!" LOL!!, and only bought a couple add-on packs - there just isn't any value in them compared to the rest of the gaming market. And there's no challenge because it's now a kids game, really. Their target audience has changed and there is about $5 worth of value for each expansion pack - nowhere near the $40 price tag. Instead of buying lackluster 'so-called' expansions, I buy brand new, challenging full-feature games for the same price or less on Steam. Until people start hitting EA in the hip pocket, until EA are forced to actually produce value in order to sell their product, they will continue to produce what sells. Sadly, what sells are these bugged, crap featured packs...apparently... :-(((
@@fransmith3255 girl, you need to learn how to use paragraphs
@@fransmith3255 honestly, for this pack, i think the dev team also in the fault. There are a lot of stuffs that they could do better. Like, husbandry skill to at least Pace the game and lock the end game item like treats behind a skill (instead we got canning for picnic), lot challenge should have been in the base game instead of locked behind a paywall (or at least the simple living one), and errands should've been applied to other world as well instead of it being restrictive to particulat npcs from henford. Just slap off some generic mission to do and generic rewards and generic text. I really think not including husbandry related skill is a major oversight
@@fransmith3255 I agree sims 4 is a doll house simulator for kids, anyway regarding sims3 lag issues a simple fix, It was laggy because sims got stuck so all you do is type in the cheat menu resetsim * and boom the game runs smooth as F--k
Oh man, out of all the Sims packs, this really should've been a challenging one. Caring for farm animals? That's one heck of a job! But The Sims keep offering way too easy easy-way-outs. Why does everything have to be so helpful and why don't we ever get something unexpected that hinders you in your gameplay and forces you to rethink? At least something mild like the wild birds and rabbits sometimes giving you a bad gift with a negative effect instead because nature is unpredictable or doesn't share your sims' view of what a good gift is? An easily stoppable fox stealing an egg is... oof. Can we get something similar to the fascination and dread from when your Sim became cursed by mummies in the Sims 3 World Adventure and you had to drop all previous plans to fix it within seven days or your Sim dies? Work opportunities that can go so wrong you actually get fired like in Sims 2? A lot of the time when I play Sims 4 I feel like I'm playing with training wheels on and I'm not allowed to take them off. Sims 4 feels made for an entirely difference audience than the previous games and as someone who's played since Sims 1 I feel like I'm being treated like a child by the game itself. I aged up while the game aged down. There are ways to make your game more including to more age groups but what EA is doing, is just not it. They've got such nice ideas, but something is just not quite working out. Also I miss burglars, I seriously miss being robbed. Rob me EA, but not with this type of content.
Every time there's a break of "reality" from it, such as my cat answering the phone, I immediately quit. Every time I have a sim go on a date at a restaurant that's in New Crest and a celebrity decides to literally butt in so I can't do any of my goals (or really anything else for that matter), I quit. Mods can't save the game anymore for me. If I didn't get spoiled by the "prettiness" of Sims 4, I'd go back to Sims 3.
@@FallenAngelHiroko Oh yeah definitely! Can't count the number of times that immersion was lost after my Sims have gotten messages from their own literal babies wishing them congrats on landing that sweet promotion/job/partner I'm just like... game, what are you doing. I delete Sims that appear somewhere they shouldn't be or butt into conversations they really shouldn't have, and it feels so weird to have to resolve to that. I fall back to Sims 2 every so often.
In “Jungle Adventure” you can get a sickness and you need to hurry and work for the antidote. That happened to me and it was fun, new and challenging. Definitely for my future excursions, I’m gonna be more cautious depending of my sim’s personality. You can actually get fired to and playing the easy dame tact comes from normal jobs is fun, since you can win fame, but lose it all
Because children who play sims 4 would cry then their parents will complain online. They rather have a child audience now which makes no sense because adults and teenagers are more likely to have money to spend on this game.
I really think that it would have been better if wild bunnies came and ruined your crops like in real life instead of helping. Also wild birds could have been a challenge if they swooped down now and then and stole the rare treats you were trying to feed.
You showing clips of the random NPCs jogging and walking through absolutely took me out. You didn’t even have to say anything, the clips were enough. 😂😂😂
I wonder if that golden chicken can fix the problems of EA
The fact that Animal Handling isn’t a skill was bad enough for Cats and Dogs, but with Cottage Living it just goes into being ridiculous. You should not be an expert at handling and taking care of so many creatures without any kind of study, especially if you’re dedicated to hard farm work or being a vet! That’s what kills me about this game, the logic and flow that the other Sims games had (to an extent) is just completely gone. Everything is seemingly made individually with no thought to how it’ll play with anything else, even the base game. This game costs nearly $1000 at this point with all of the DLC. And it’s not even worth a tenth of that.
You know they're just saving Animal Handling for their My First Farm Stuff pack...
It's actually over 2000 lol
Jesus that’s 7000 kn in my country, enough money to visit the USA😂😂😂
Or other skills. We have charisma, comedy, mischief, acting and singing as separate skills. We have home cooking, gourmet cooking and baking as separate skills. We have handiness, programming, rocket science and robot as separate skills. It gardening, herbalism and flower arrangement. But we have only ONE fitness skill? Why not a fitness skill and for every sport one skill like swimming skill, basketball skill, soccer skill etc.
Thats why I started playing sims 3 again. And modding it Lol much funner
I literally cannot remember the last time I wasn’t disappointed by a pack
Only best one to me city living
Dream home decorator is good tho
@@radito8 I need to buy that pack
@@juno3369 same, I absolutely love city living
Seasons
The Sims 4: Cottage Living - a game pack for the price of an expansion pack.
I said this from jump and the ✨Positivity Posse✨ literally jumped down my throat and called me a Karen 🙄
How many EP-priced GPs does this make now...?
Game packs are one of the biggest mistakes EA has done. Now, expansions don't have depth when game packs have more. But of course, greed is the answer to why game packs and expansions won't get merged.
@@bonnieinlove big corporations have so many dumbass followers who will go with anything they say nowadays that it’s not even funny. You can’t even criticize a pack for lacking content when you’re paying 40 bucks for it anymore.
Wait, it's an expansion?? I've always thought it was a game pack. Mind blown 🤯
EA, why do I already know I'm gonna need mods for this expansion pack to make it actually worth playing? I'm really tired of these shallow, half-baked packs 😒.
I was already thinking about that yesterday, how I’m looking forward to modders making more animals and making them actually seem like they’re alive lol
@@brayson6889 Lol, some already found the bonus objects for the pack in the update, so expect those to be available soon. At this point, I'm just hoping they'll be able to fix the bugs that are inevitably gonna come with it, lol. Anything after that is a cherry on top.
Yeah and console players have to deal with it. They should cut the cost with packs for console players they can't get mods it only seems fair.
That’s the worst thing about sims 4. You NEED mods, but they refuse to support modding and modders, so after every update, you need to manually check all mods and download updated versions. That was the final straw for me, and I stopped playing sims 4 a couple of years ago now. It’s just… ugh.
@@drn6741 that's why I haven't installed the new update yet. I had just got done updating my mods, added a bunch more, and 2 days later another s4 update 😭 Updating mods is the worst when you have more than a couple. And like, you need more than a couple to make the game fun! 😩
Sims 4: All fluff, no game.
The intention of the sims 4 is full player control. If it's not your playstyle then you won't enjoy it, not so much fluff.
@@hannah8466 NAPS could've been great for chaos but they're poorly executed. The AI should be better regardless.
@@hannah8466 true, and if sims 4 wasn't like this then no one would be buying it from such a shitty company
Sims 4: A great build mode, but we forgot the game so make your own
@@seriliaykilel more like laziness on their part.....
Which is the most challenging for Carl?: Speedrunning Cottage Living on accident or being the best Sims KZheadr? He makes both look so easy.
Everyone will speedrun cottage living if they follow the aspiration lol. I enjoy youtube but I HATE feeling a need to be honest and at the same time feeling negatively about things.
@@CarlsSimGuides But that's why we trust you, Carl. Your honesty is a life, time and money saver! If you say i's not worth it ..it's not worth it.
@@lazy5373 not worth it for the price. The older sims3 was laggy af but much more possibilities
@@lazy5373 babe u need to go outside, he posted his video an hour ago and u already commenting some bs because you don’t like people’s opinions about it. How tf u gonna be upset at HIS video when YOU chose to watch it, if your watching it so early I’m assuming u know his videos are all his opinions and nobody is forced or influenced that much, we know his style of playing the sims and yes we (the fan base) are aware we can play however style we would like. Thank yew.
@@lazy5373 lol "very detailed" this made me laugh so hard. What Carl is doing is play testing it. THAT is how you should test a game. And NOT do a Let's Play like most youtubers do. He's not speeding it through for fun, he IS testing the game, to check bugs and glitches, to understand how the mechanics work (or the lack thereof, in this case). So when you say the game is "very detailed" and YOU haven't even played it yet, it really just makes that YOUR opinion (and a baseless opinion too). But when he says that this game is empty, it's because he tested the game. Now, tell me which information is more reliable?
The 'make your own challenges' comment is really hitting home for me. Thats one of the things that i love about the sims 3. So many challenges im the form of lifetime wishes that are actually hard and not something you can just finish quickly in a 4 hour game session. I do think if the sims 4 just made challenges like that, it would be a fun game. Something like own a mega farm of 20 golden chickens, craft 30 golden treats, gather 20 golden milk. This would just be one big quest. Also i really dont like how satisfaction points have no purpose. The rewards in the reward store arent worth getting so you never want to get any points in the first place.
The reward store from TS3 was so good 😭 I always forget about it when I’m playing ts4…
@@skelar1315 Sorry, I meant the lifetime reward store that's in the game, where you spend points to buy things for your sims, like the collection helper, or youth potion. Not the sims 3 store and it's website.
@@ItMeLily no that’s what I meant!
I don't think that would actually make it more fun. The SIms 4 is a novelty, trying to recreate an older, better version of itself, and ... let's be honest, it's worn off. It's worn off for all of us, we just haven't truly learnt that yet. We haven't learnt to stop. For me, Cottage Life is going to be the last expansion pack I buy.
@@SevenEllen I disagree, the aspiration/lifetime wants are part of the core gameplay of any sims game and the way they handled it in ts4 was horrible. Maybe you were the type of person to just throw your sims in a new save and do whatever you want but a lot of people weren’t. Your sims’ “goals” were part of how you played your game ESPECIALLY for wants based players who only do what their sims wants. I’m no where close to a wants based player but I still tried to complete their “goals”. The sims games are games and games are supposed to be rewarding (well most are, that’s why we have fun and keep coming back!). In the past sims games you finished your “goal”, got some kind of points, and then used those points to buy something extremely helpful or fun for your sims. TS4 have some helpful stuff in its rewards store but nowhere near as satisfying as in past games. This causes the game to not be fun for people and also makes a lot of the sims in TS4 feel the same because pretty much every sim feel like they have the same end goal, death.
Like how hard is it to keep sims filtered to their own worlds? They already have that with Batu, why can't they just patch it so I don't see a celeb walk past my freaking cottage in the sticks. Tired of manually deleting them, it really messes with my immersion/play thru when I have my sim going ape 🤬 over Thorne.
The filtering doesn't even really work. I did a scientist with the Basemental mod (drugs and other stuff so taking a trip to Batuu isn't as easy) and Kylo Ren was his co-worker. I kept trying to delete him but he kept respawning. Then I'd have the alien guy (forget his name who's in charge of the Scoundrel's faction) keep asking me to go party with him.
@@FallenAngelHiroko You can't delete kylo ren because.. *ThE dArk SIiIde o F ThjE FoRcE Is APaThWAy To MAnY AbiLiTieS sOMe ConSidEr To Be UNNAtuRal*
In sims 2 and 3 I could play for hours without having to look for fun. I get 30 minutes into sims 4 and I'm already bored. I'm not getting sims 5 if/whenever it comes out. Not unless everyone and their aunt are screaming it's praises. But with ea at the helm I highly doubt it. Just another game series I loved as a kid ruined by corporate greed. I've seriously tried to like sims 4 but I can't not when 2 and especially 3 are vastly superior games. Sad
well, we have paralives coming, it may teach EA that there is competition and they need to do a better job, or they just ignore sims completly like what happend with simcity
I’m the opposite! I get so caught up in my own storylines and goals and characters I can’t seem to play for less than 5 or 6 hours.
@@heg203 no one asked
I physically cannot get myself to play Sims 4 without challenges and mods
I noticed so many bugs in the early access version of the game they gave to people. Did they not fix any of these? What's the point of giving out an early access version, get people excited about the aesthetics and hope they don't notice them?
I figured it was all promo, and nothing would be fixed. That's why I love Plumbella's LP Intro, She just ran through the disclaimer! I was hoping they would add the option to shop instead of window shop in Town Square....nope.
I'm kinda surprised tho that if you put 2 barns next to each other with moveobjects, lama and cow won't run into each other (even if both of the space are into the other) BUT I had 8 hens and they just are bugged into each other, so yeah... X') The other bug I've found is that in the village festivals, the mayor only give a price to one of the contest and not the other one... Or she doesn't even check your participation 🥺 I still kinda have a lot of fun with the pack tho.
I could be completely wrong about this, but early access almost ensures bugs. Generally, if you get a game in early access, you're becoming a play tester. Devs will test to how they code (i know this personally, and it's really, really hard if you don't plan on what the consumer will do), qa tests to how they might break, but it's the consumers that will find the bugs by doing things you'd never expect, or don't have the patience to keep trying until the bug shows.
Case in point: I got the expansion. I had a sim that i wanted to age up early and so i made 2 sims make a cake with the simply living lot challenge. When i moved the cake from the coffee table to the kitchen table, i couldn't add candles to it. Thinking it odd, i reset the object, left the lot and returned, and had them bake a different cake. Still no candle option. My sim aged up and i tried again. I had him make a different cake from the other 2 and it worked. So i tried the other two cakes, which also worked. Then i had him and another sim make a cake and it did not work. So group cooking a cake means that cake can't be used for aging up. That's not something people would come across casually in testing. They wouldn't test every recipe, just a handful if they need to check animations or successes. Group baking a cake and putting candles/wedding topper on it would not be a test case.
I have heard of so many complaining on other forums about the bugs. Such as game lag, duplicate Mrs. Crumplebottoms appearing in the game, and many more. Not to mention those who had mods.
If I remember the sims 3 had risks alongside its random gifts / treasures. I think adding some risk to these rewards systems would go so far balancing ts4. Like, imagine if the birds got fed up with you for asking for stuff too often, and started having a chance of pecking you to death
Exactly
judy ward is EVERYWHERE, never has a rl celebrity hoofed it from town to town like this lol
literally! 😭
I never even see the Bailey-Moon family as often
All this time people cried for shared worlds well I hope they're happy give me closed off large worlds anytime.
And when she has the shine and walk or you sim can't even "approach" her, but only ask for an autograph (to sell later), lol.
Tbh the only thing I enjoy about Sims 4 is how comical Judy Ward's behavior is ironically. She got herself knocked up by one of my sim's husband, who was a doctor. Judy went to the hospital to have the baby and my doctor Sim ended up being at the hospital to deliver the affair baby lmao
Thats why i love watching carl's and lgr sims 4 pack reviews. Savage reviewers talking straight to the point.
And unfortunately LGR doesn't even really do them anymore. Though its also telling on what he thinks of them if he doesn't even bother...
@@kathleenpage2861 Sims 4 packs are just boring how many times can LGR say how disappointing the packs are he's a Sims fan and want's them to be good we all do but they never are.
I think he does only expansion packs now. I am looking forward to his scathing review of cottage living.
@@Qrtuop haha no sorry he hasn't done a review for the sims 4 since snowy escape and that was 8 months ago 😬 the sims 4 has officially killed him Edit: He would have had the review up by now also if carl was finished so fast with it
I have a hard time understanding what even is the point of this pack. Why bother adding farming mechanics if they have no progression attached to them and they only end up making Gardening even easier? It's like a non-feature at this point. I was considering buying this for a farming playthrough but I think it's best not to bother. At least with base game and Seasons, gardening requires you to DO something instead of succeeding on the back of magic chickens and friendly birds and bunnies.
Well long before cottage living the whole gardening system has already been completely ruined by seasons so I won’t really blame this pack for that…
I'm still very excited for this pack, but I do agree it sucks that you have to make the challenges for yourself. Limiting gameplay features should not be required for a game to feel like a game
Well, only took this long to find the exploits…. EA 😤😤😤
Heck, they aren't even hard to find. You trip on them by accident because the aspiration tells you to do this.........
It's not an exploit if you're playing the game the way it was intended to be played. Then it's just bad design decisions.
i’m getting sick and tired of the half arsed expansion packs with little content for the fact they cost £35, the sims 4 is too cookie cutter and gives you way too many easy way outs
That's why people need to put their foot down and stop paying full price for these expansion packs.
@@1sTEfFaniE1 Most people remedy that by just pirating the game. You should see the number of seeders for this game.
@@1sTEfFaniE1 This! I’ve seen a lot of people complain about the price and then turn around to spend the exact price they complained about, then complain about it again. It’s really simple to not give EA anymore money.
I loved this so much! Despite getting a free pack, you still give good honest reviews. Other Game Changers would water down their reviews until they are either saying "it's great!" or "Just needs a little work but it's one of my favorite packs." They are so fake and lame.
Well, I'm glad people appreciate my opinions but I really, really dont' like the situation. I was fairly hopeful until around the 2nd half of my LP (the 2 parter).
I think he's just a professional at finding the faults in the game while others get distracted by the cuteness
@@sfooshy4517 Your point is definitely taken but, really I just play it. Not so much probing for faults. The tutorial aspirations kind of force me into situations actually.
Don't think you should be THAT distracted by cuteness unless you're one of the children they make it for
just because you like the pack doesn't mean your opinion is not valid. you can definitely like it and be honest about it. but yeah, i feel EA could've done better.
This feels so much like when you ran through all of Realm of Magic in like half an hour. What is with the balance in these packs?
The head of the game has toddlers/small children at home and she is making the game for them _ that Lindsey woman
@@TanyaOwens Please tell me you're joking....did she come right out & say that or is it a rumor going around? D:
@@cantthinkofadamnedname7928 She said that about the Star Trash pack
Why am I not surprised that things are becoming more underwhelming and yet there are still people who buy into this game.
Oh God, here we go again... Why they just don't make a The Sims 2 remake? TS4 is beautiful, I know. But TS2 is a good example of balanced gameplay. Becoming rich in TS4 is not satisfyng as becoming rich in TS2.
TS2 is my absolute favorite. Everything in TS4 is too easy and watered down. No spontaneity. I love the look of TS4 but I miss the gameplay of TS2 so much.
TS2 can be just as beautiful. There are plenty of skins, terrain replacements, skies, cc, etc. I switched to TS2 over a year ago and don't regret it.
Finally an honest pre-review of the pack. Tired of all the other “game-changers” who are too afraid of saying the truth and losing their free prerelease game privileges. This is what a real game changer looks like. Thank you.
Just because they like it or are more tolerant of the packs misgivings doesn’t mean they’re being dishonest. That’s their opinion, it just happens to be different from yours. For some, the things in the video are a deal breaker, and for others, it’s not. Other game changers (at least the ones I watch) don’t lie about the bugs or what they don’t like or would’ve liked instead. But they also enjoy the game in different ways and use different aspects of the game in their own way. Same with Carl. You can like something while acknowledging that it has problems and still have fun. You can dislike that same thing and be unable to have fun. I understand that you’re probably frustrated with the sims, a lot of simmers feel the same, but putting down other people for not having the same perspective on a pc game as you is not okay.
@@bpsara and I do know that obviously not all “game changers” out there act that way. But it’s an undeniably large majority of them. I know a lot of people are legitimately still able to have fun playing the sims, and I’m happy for them. But it’s just impossible for me not to notice the painfully obvious biased behavior of most (especially the biggest) KZhead channels.
@@brunoglopes funny why the content creator are called game changers while it seems aside from some being asked to build / fill the world of an expansion, barely anything changes to the gameplay of the whole game. I kind of understand why LGR refuse the offer back then since he worried that it would affect his review and probably could guess that his involvement would barely change anything about the game
@@dodixaverius9176 He got offered it again? I know they didn't give him a pre-release version of Cats & Dogs, but I didn't know they tried to give him one after that. Definitely understand why he'd refuse though on various levels. They showed him (and other game changers) that giving reviews that pointed out faults/expressed disappointment would get you booted.
They are paid to advertise the game. Of course they are dishonest.
Thank you for continuing to show us a balanced view of this pack, Carl. Most others have been absolutely raving about this. I get that the birds are a bit of an exploit from watching your other video. I’ll avoid using those! Looking forward to a full review!
I'm fairly convinced that EA just doesn't care about balancing any gameplay aspects when it comes to packs. It's an issue that persists in most of the packs, but I think it's been especially obvious from the last few in particular (I'm looking at you, dust bunnies). Design a feature or gameplay items, slap on some quirky text descriptions and boom, ready for launch. Is the drop table well adjusted? Does the feature reward the player too little or too much? Does it create obvious gameplay exploits for things such as simoleons, skills, etc? Who cares, we gotta ship the pack out in 2 weeks, little Timmy or Samantha won't care about that stuff any way. Just hurry up and give us $50 for the expansion already.
I dont think you can judge the gameplay/experience of a pack by “how quickly can i make money by min/maxing it”. I can’t wait to combine this with cats and dogs, eco lifestyle and seasons and work towards an entirely self sufficient farm (plus surplus for profit)
he isn't judging it, he explicitly states this isn't even his full review in the first minutes.
Befriending birds and bunnies -- has anybody dubbed this the Snow White Strategy yet?
Yeah, who does that?
-the grocery store is a feature of the base game in ts2 and ts3. -gardening comes with seasons in the sims 2 (is more detailed than here, brings the 'simplant' for example, all this in, remember, A SEASONS EP) also is a base game feature in ts3. -opportunities are (more or less) in ts2 base game and also in ts3 base game and it was updated for each pack, adding a lot of gameplay. -farming (cows and chickens) is a set in ts3 store and costs 1500 sim points, they don't try to sell it at the price of an EXPANSION, like ts4. these are some examples, I can't remember everything, but Cottage Living should have been, and should be charged as a KIT (speaking in ts2 and ts3 standards, of course).
What's super depressing is that objectively speaking this is probably the deepest gameplay in an expansion pack we've gotten.
I think get to work was better
@@Agustin9191 Get to Work was good, but the paths are linear.
The debug thing happened to me while diving for treats using eco lifestyle. It gave me an stereo and it was useless
I've never seen that flower. I thought it was new but I'm just lost on it because it's so weird.
This is so disappointing, I feel like once everyone gets the pack it's gonna get a lot of hate and backlash
Same old story. People will make pretty things, people who play will walk away.
@@CarlsSimGuides I'm just waiting for Paralives lol.
It seemed so promising, seriously great idea to offer some cottage core living for a pack. I saw the chickens and was about to pre-order but I reminded myself of the disappointment that was university and eco-living 😔
@@CarlsSimGuides perfect description of sims community
After they put their heart & soul into Strangerville and folks hated it (I love it) they just do the bare minimum now. Why, it didn't matter how good or bad the pack is/will be, tens of thousands were yammering about how they wanted it, needed it, must have it.
I was really looking forward to a farm-inspired EP but this honestly looks boring. The world looks just like every other "green" world, it's completely empty and no matter where I go, the Goths and the Pancakes will be there for some reason. So frustrating
calm down bro this packs the best and youre disrespecting the work ea put into this pack.
@@awsomenicholi4715 What work?
@@awsomenicholi4715 XD
I'm still upset abt the lot sizes, you're right
@@awsomenicholi4715 hahaha, that's what Deligracy would say ... like... you gotta appreciate what EA are giving you XD
I mean, it all depends on what your gameplay style is at the end of the day. I would probably never go for golden chickens (at least not have them actively help in the garden), because I prefer a bit more "realism" to how I play. I also barely play any challenges (the only one would be rags to riches, but I don't even want my sims to become super rich at the end); I'm quite inspired to go for a StardewValley-esque experience with the new pack, and can't wait to have the new world be perfect for it, with all its lore and tight-knit feel to it. I don't need to rush my sims to make huge cash money as fast as possible, I enjoy taking it slow and maybe even expierence some hardships with the new lot challenges. Kinda excited how many of these I'll use and how they'll affect overall gameplay. I still much prefer TS3 over TS4, but I'm willing to give this one a chance because I'm seriously craving some cottagecore vibes with lovely animal surrounding my sims.
Oh thank god, a positive comment. I agree, i cant wait to have my little farmer sim and to become part of the community, i want to do it because i like the idea of farming and rustic living, i love the way they finally gave the townies some personality through the quests, i love that i can befriend wild animals
this sarcasm is my exact brand of humor 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Tbh I'm probably going to treat the golden chicken the same way I do all these other "quirky" things they add because they think "random for the sake of random is cute", and I will ignore it and avoid having one. Same with the evil chicken. And the rainbow cow. I really just want do basic farm things lol I don't even need to make friends with the rabbits I'm just good with having more wildlife running around.
My thoughts exactly, 100%.
IF I get this pack I would do the same. Same with clothes on animals (farm or wild) just no.
They really took this stupid treat "game-play" and did way too much...I just wanted animals, and more crops, etc. Those treat resources could have went to making Town Square not Fake Window shop Rabbit Hole/Decor.
I might befriend a rabbit or two to keep as "pets" but otherwise, yeah. I'm okay with not befriending birds and foxes.
Same, I'm buying the pack because I had started an Amish-inspired save and it became stale pretty quickly, so I'm hoping that the farm animals and new crops will breathe some new life into my game again. Sad I've gotta spend 40 bucks to do it, but eh! I've got the money and it's a birthday gift to myself. Lol
I'm still discovering new things in the Sims 3 and 2 and it's been over a decade since those games came out. In the Sims 4 you can discover everything about the new pack in under an hour. Shame.
Too bad there are no gender customization options in TS3. I can't make my Simself there.
Huh, you must not play a lot of sims and 3 then
The Sims 2 was great, but it was very buggy. The neighborhoods would eventually become corrupt if you played them long enough. Also, they used the Big Five for the personalities for the Sims, which was great, but all Sims had to have 25 points, so they ended up with a lot of rare personality types being overrepresented, like ENTJ and INFJ, with hardly any of the really common ones like ISTP and ISFJ.
In under a hour? I figured out everything in the pack with its first trailer
Instead of giving you the pack for free they should pay you to play test. This looks like a hot mess
If you spam the game of course you’ll be bored. I’m a big advocate of not buying packs just to not have, but if you play it with your sim have no job, or absolutely nothing to do in between of course you’re going to be bored.
I really appreciate your dedication to doing real, fair, balanced reviews. A lot of game changers have just giving up doing real reviews and just make video content with the pack. I can't really blame them, but I appreciate the effort you make nonetheless. Your reviews remain the most trustworthy.
This isn't even Carl's actual review, just tips etc as he played through the new content
I feel this pack is about "look at the cute animals we have given you" but they forgot about good gameplay again
This was HILARIOUS, especially the last few seconds of the video
"The Sims 4's biggest problem is that The Sims 3 exists ..." - Kevin Vanord
It's a farming expansion pack and there's no horses. Who are their game designers lmao
they're definitely planning on making horses a whole different expansion pack.
@@Frostdraga 100%
I mean not all farms use horses. They are mostly just for sport or show these days but yeah I was hoping they'd have been in this pack. A horse training skill/hirse riding skill + competitions would have at least filled in some of the gameplay gap
I like the cooking aspect of this pack, also cows and chicken, but overall this is perhaps not for me. Hope they fix the Dream Home Decorators pack.
Well you pretty much listed just about all the limited features of this pack besides the festivals as if we have not go those in almost every expansion since City Living
I wish they’d take Sims 3: World Adventures and create something akin to that personally. I miss exploring Landgraab Mansion and getting burnt by a dozen floor fire traps because I forgot to check the floor for traps. I’d usually run out of vacation time trying to solve the mysteries of the mansion and then have to wait for the cool down period to end in order to return and resume. I loved the beauty and mystery of the Egyptian pyramids. The Chinese temples were always so much fun. I could play Sims 3 with these wishes, but then I’d quickly miss the stability of Sims 4. Maybe this is why Sims 4 remains simple… because it only has a simpler game engine at the core. Maybe the game engine of Sims 4 cannot be reworked for complexity of puzzle solving that Sims 3 had. In honesty, if there will be a Sims 5 in the future, just make it a stable version of Sims 3. EDIT: And keep the CAS build engine of Sims 4. My favorite part of Sims 4 is the build mode. I buy the packs to get more ‘exploration’ places. tbh, my fav Sims 4 pack is still Strangerville because of the puzzle solving and creepy infected Sims.
thats basicly what we need, world of sims3, gameplay of sims2 and build/cas of sims4. i always loved making my own tombs and then let others play them:) i was sad and frustated when jungle adventures didnt allow for own tomb making.
@@ElysiaWhitemoonOmega ts2 gameplay Is a bit boring imo. Ts3 gameplay is just perfect. I'm still discovering new things there, after years playing it with the help of Carl's website.
Funny how I'm more excited for that sims 3 smooth patch (game changing!) then cottage living
I don't know who I'm quoting when I say this but, "Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! I really hate these bugs! They ruin the flow of gameplay!" Edit: I hate the fact only a third of the game is a improvment on older titles. That being Build/Buy mode and CAS. I don't even want Sims 5 at this point. Just make a sims game based off the Ps2 version of Sims Castaway and I will be happy.
While there is nothing wrong with those who prefer building and like Sims 4 as it is (no judgements there), EA can't have a clear picture of what the entire user base wants so long as those of us who want deeper gameplay pay for shallow but pretty content. It's up to each player to realise they collectively have power to impact EA, but only if those who truly want gameplay as a priority don't buy any more content until EA is impacted enough financially to notice, care, and evolve their strategy. The whole, "It's still pretty so I'll buy it on sale" mentality is good (again no judgements) SO LONG AS people realise they are providing EA with no business reason (financial impact) to add deeper gameplay. As much as we'd like EA to care about the entire community, that's sadly just not how most publicly traded companies work. Shareholders tend to mostly care about profit and so long as that keeps increasing, they are happy. re: your reporting on Sims 4, Carl, while I feel sad at your own sadness/frustration, I greatly respect and admire you for your honesty and integrity. You are doing a huge service for our community and are loved by many. Your frustration, is our frustration. Thanks for keeping it real and being a voice for an undervalued (by EA's actions) subset of the community. Carl, do you have a separate KZhead channel to start reporting on Paralives content or plans to start one? And will you create a separate Patreon for it?
Re/ sims crossing over into other worlds Yes, maybe cross overs that make sense.. but a celebrity in a small town should be super rare (and depend on their peronality and traits etc) and should be a nice surprise, especially compared to a city or whatever. Adventure types should pop up in random places more and athletic sims skiing and stuff while magic Sims would more likely spawn in places with rare items etc..all that should count for something. You know, some forethought, care, effort, continuity and TLC.
Carl’s default setting is “honesty,” and I love it.
I don't know why that "Debug? What the hell?" Made me laugh so much
Fantastic video as per usual. Your website/channel is an invaluable resource
Chicken that casts spells... yeah... everything we asked for...
The debug cow flower is a cow plant. I put patchy on my farm to help with gardening and he planted it. I couldn't click on it to get my sim to plant it but he could. I have received two of them from the birds. I dont normally take the gifts from the rabbits and birds but I do have them helping with the garden. The birds are amazing at eating the bugs on the plants. Highly recommend. There is a new skill - cross knitting. It is a level 5 skill.
I think a configurable difficulty option would be great, not just a lot trait. For example less gifts from animals, or just cheap things, less salary, more expensive things ...
disappointed but not surprised. great video as always carl
This is why i only build, I can’t wait to see what paralives has to offer
THANK YOU! I've been following a lot of EA Game Changers but have been waiting for this video to learn more... They showed me the bugs and things I could be excited about but you ... as always have showed me the GREATNESS (or not) of it!)! THANK YOU
Lilsimsie’s reviews: oh my god this cow is sooooooo cute, HI RABBIT FRIEND Carl’s reviews: this is trash that makes sims worst, it’s a laggy mess and should be deleted Edit: pick your poison ones overly negative and ones overly positive I like them both
I've tried to watch this Lilsimsie girl once, made me want to vomit in like 20 seconds.
@@FaustRSI to each their own. I watch both. But it is true that she puts too much sugar on everything -i kinda stopped watching her bc of this-, maybe it's her way to deal with life, forgetting the bad things.
@@KairiMyLife I agree each can live their life however they want unless it somehow hurts other people. BUT. If you are pretending to be a REVIEWER, then ffs at least TRY to be impartial.
Lilsimsies reviews aren't even reviews at all
@@FaustRSI True enough. I think hers are not even reviews but more of a let's play... since she's easily excited for new stuff. I think that's also kinda misleading, since this leads to believe "there's new stuff I need so that's good", when there's ton of useless stuff in ts4 already and she herself sometimes bumps into something and says "I dont remember if we had this already".
I think the game is so easy because the target demo is much younger at this point, like 10 to 13. Granted I think that age range is capable of skilled gameplay.
It would go back up if it had some depth and continuity
Remember how good sims 1-3 was
Preach, Carl! 👏 I've been waiting for your cottage living videos!
I love how sarcastic and condescending your voice is in these videos. It cracks me up.
"this game is always forcing me to make the challenges for myself." yup. intended for little kids, and if you happen to not be twelve, good luck.
You’re one of the only honest and objective simmers
I like seeing the different POVs from people playing. You have James Turner doing the deep dive in a LP, which gives you an idea of the possibilities. Then there's Carl who's test plays expose all the bugs and there's no fluff - except that at least the animations are good 😉❤ Least I'll have some enjoyment over how cute it is to see a Sim snuggle a baby chick 😅 I wonder if the bugs are mostly because of the huge patch update, which will take them months to fix probably, or maybe they forgot to unlink some of the new features from the new pack so they function on their own. I can't even order seeds.... rather, I can, and the Simoleans disappear, but there aren't any seed packets in my inventory. Which might be related to the "Zoomer" bug? Either way, thanks for the heads up. I still like the concept of Cottage Living (it's definitely the aesthetic, who am I kidding) but good to know it's longevity of being "fun to play" is about the same as all the other EPs.
What is with EA and making things too easy with everything they do lately? All I can say is thank God for modders to fix EA's stupid. BTW when they do something I like, they are Maxis. The rest of the time they are EA, mainly because I hate EA with a passion. And yet, I keep buying their products.
coughcough use igg-games
EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD WEEK
u too 💖💖💖
I laughed way too hard at this video than I should have.
Omg the cow flower. I've gotten like 7 of those things and I can't do anything with them. Can't plant them, can't eat them, they freeze my sim up if I try to sell it. Have to put it in my house inventory then sell the damn things.
Always appreciate these reviews, Carl, so helpful when considering to buy
I'd let the mayor stand inside me...
That bunny thing does seem confusing..My bunny went under my _couch_ and found an _excellent pineapple_
I havent played sims 4 in a long time and dont plan to anytime soon but I always love your videos ❤️
I'm going into this with the mindset of my game not really changing besides switching my FX chickens...for TS4 Object chickens...at least I can interact with them.
Lol did we even need a Create a Pet for chickens or something 🤣🤣🤣 these are way better than TS3 Store chickens.
@@TONZAMUSIC Nah lol...but give me the illusion they are as Autonomous as Sims....Cows too, I wanted UK Free Range! lol Nope...tied* to an Obnoxious She Shed....Like Babies.
I trust your opinion , your the only honest person out there imo reviewing the game .
Plumbella gives honest reviews too
“Now once it’s transformed you kindly ask the chicken to help you with your gardening” I don’t know why but this line made me laugh so hard
I remember that creating robot hearts in TS2 and 3 was such a chore and now things are easily give to us.
"Thank you to EA Game Changers. :) Anyway. Game sucks."
Despite its limitations and every animal giving me stuff for free (again), I for once am interested in having some regular old chickens and a couple of cows, which I think should not be so profitable, or at least won't make my sim rich so quickly. I also do like the fact that townies seem to have a life beyond my control, and stories that I can dig into without playing them specifically. The biggest downfall of this pack, however, is that gardening was made easy and therefore making money is easy, but if you stay away from treats, your funds should stay on normal levels. BUT I won't get it for the full price, I'll get it through a bundle with DHD and Paranormal
Great video! I can't wait to get my golden chickens!
The thing is my play style isn't about figuring out the challenges as fast as I can. That does not sound like fun. I play the Sims in families and more for the interactions between them and gradually improving their lot. I really enjoy the pack; especially the 'errands' for my Sims without jobs. It's not the destination, but the journey for me. I see what you are saying and you give really helpful tips, but getting the golden chicken seems cheaty overall. At least to the semi-realistic way I play.
This reminds me of the Spore launch. World won't load and asking people to repurchase. EA tech queue 100+
It'll be interesting to see how many of these bugs they actually fix for launch.
I love this video Carl, just in time for the game release so I can cut corners like you! When you want to avoid sim fluff see Carl. I'm pretty much the same way ;D LOL
I wanted this: Animals have realistic socializing with sims and eachother, Animals do not need to be friends with sims, Cow milking stools are placeable with different colors/styles. HORSES & PONIES. We got this: Animals bounce around, can be told jokes and human talk, Animals have to be friends with sims *CONSTANTLY,* Cow milking stools appear from thin air in minimal style and one color. No horses or ponies; And in this pack and Jungle Adventure, THEY DIDN'T INCLUDE TRAVEL LLAMAS WITH STORAGE, BLANKETS, CARAVANS AND RIDING. Some people wanted fairies and we didn't even get _squat._
Carl, I love your accent. It's my fave thing about your videos.
Ngl, kinda looking forward to this one. I wanted farm's forever
Because the pack is aimed towards teens who want to be play as social media influencers and don’t want to get upset, that’s why burglars aren’t included in it, the sims 1 had genuinely scary moments in it
@carl's sim guides i still have the questio if i can download the mod you made, will be perfect to learn how you did it. and will you ever do a followup, like spawn evil chickens everywhere:D