What's it Like Playing Sims with ALL the BAD Traits in The Sims 4?
Players asked me to make a guide to creating the worst Sim. Ultimately, this comes down to two types of trait - personality and character values. You're limited to 3 personality traits without mods, but can get all 5 character values if you put them deep into the red by more than -90%.
Is this worth it, and does The Sims 4 even support this type of gameplay with its systems. There's no doubt you can do it ,but there is doubt if Sims would actually be 'worse' instead of just 'not good'. If emotional impacts are too weak and negatives don't pile up with about 15 negative traits, it's certainly not going to with a more limited selection.
For this reason I tested all negative traits I could think of to put Sims 4 traits for a bad sim to the test.
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“He’s clumsy, jealous, irresponsible, and he hates your kids!” *wow, call me out, why don’t you?*
"Yeah he's a real loser" "Surely no one can love him" Icing on the cake 😂😂😂
I felt personally attacked lol
CarlDillynson I read this as he was saying this 😂
My cat feels threatened
Non committal sims shouldn't be able to commit, unflirty sims should REALLY dislike flirting, traits should actually matter and I shouldn't be able to override them as a player by just ignoring them. They should have an actual impact. For instance, a sim that hates kids should have a hard time gaining the parenting skills and therefore the kid could come out with bad character traits as a repercussion. I just think things should matter more in TS4.
I hired a nanny multiple times, I winded up just having her become part of the household since it was cheaper to just house and feed someone than to pay them $180 x2 a day, she was literally an on-call nanny 24/7, well, maybe 22/7 but you get the idea. Too many kids, not enough adults in the home. She had a non-committal trait, goof ball, and ambitious, she drowned. It seems like there isn't a way to save someone who's drowning? Which is a bit unfortunate, I exited the game when that had and just reloaded, it was a huge set back, since then I've Save'd before a Sim repairs anything, and I also don't let/tell Sims to go swim if they have low energy. In my game the sims have full autonomy, but there's definitely not I in AI for the Sims, this idiot who complains about having to work as a musician (They had 10 piano, 10 guitar, 10 violin when I brought them into my home) and is literally free loading, and was about to be deported over to Sulani to get the Beach Life trait making her never get Tense, even though I had over 5000 aspiration I was still on the edge about wasting it on this Sim. Well, she drowns, I get the notification, I find my best Fitness Sim on the lot (9) send her in to swim to her to save her, I tried clicking on her but pulling her up/swimming to save wasn't an option, I jump into the pool hopping maybe than an option appears, none does. I couldn't be arsed to roll back my game for the Nanny who complained about living for free and just going to work to pay for what she ate (she made very little, only level 6 of the musician category, and rest of the house made much more in comparison., yes, even the 3 teens.) *TL;DR* Sims AI has no "I" in it, likewise non-committal sims are a pain in the ass, and I'm not annoyed that she drowned other than now I have to find another Nanny or age up my teens so they go live with their father in Sulani, but he's off-the-grid, so that will be fun. (Oh, and reason why Non-committal Sims can commit to anything is otherwise they wouldn't ever commit to a job, you'd maybe have them do only Freelance Jobs, or perhaps only Odd Jobs, which I think are both behind a paywall.)
I'd say it's not that things should matter more in ts4...they just should MATTER at all to begin with.
@@thundertea For some reason it's like they make the game more for children. And honestly ii don't think children are their biggest fan base. Prior Sims games were a lot better with the AI. It seems in my opinion the only plus of Sims 4 is the graphics and that's it, anytime they attempt to add AI anything, it does nothing. I'm sure that's why they no longer add traits to the game they've given up and become lazy. Every sim acts like the last with just a different look no actual personality. Sims 3 may have been buggy but I adored my sims and their offspring, I enjoyed the townies I enjoyed them actually living and acting outside of my control. I could play for hours while in Sims 4 I could just play a hour then get bored VERY fast. Sims 1 2 and 3 I had on PC and in my opinion I never felt mods were needed for their personalities. But playing this game on console the game is just boring and I have all EPs and SPs. It is a shame really. Bring back story progression Sims team
@@sukirinaa i just got back to sims 3 and i remember why i love the game. it has all the details. the open world, cars, incredible gameplay, everything.. and i don't need +7GB of cc and mods. a few hairstyles and that's it. sims 3 is fun and it has content. it makes you want to leave your lot and explore the world. sims 4 has a nice cas but that's it. that is everything it has for me. in sims 3 i also love how i don't have to pay 20 € to have a curfew for the teens..
Unflirty sounds like aromantic, but it doesn't work like that at all...
All sims are just on really great anti-depressants
with chocolate, skittles and that coca-cola you hear about in every factoid from the 1890s.
It's not even that - they're on ecstasy 24/7.
@@IsomerMashups those decoration manufacturers are really selling drugs, hah.
Z. Well, flirty ambience items are pretty dodgy in the whole concept of "freely given consent" - like an aphrodisiac gas released into the room without the person's consent.
The only side affect is that they speak in a garble version of every language
oddly, Clumsy isn't a bad trait really. Your sim falls over a lot but they're quite cheerful about it as a result. Found it balanced out my gloomy simself quite well
Yeah, not too bad. Was hoping for occasional interruptions from it. Evil wasn't picked because it would make him happy any time he upsets someone.
your clumsy sims fall over? I give them the clumsy trait and it just acts like I didn't pick anything! lucky!
@@vroomlucas they don't fall onto the floor or anything, tripping and wobbling might be a better description
As a clumsy person I can say I trip so much that I just reflexively laugh now.
My sims make a skipping motion like they slipped on a banana and then flails like he’s gonna fall face first or on his butt. But then quickly regains his balance like nothing happened. And it’ll happen at random times. Like it happened my sim was going to the chicken coop to feed his chickens.
I recently played Sims 3 and my Sim was socially awkward and it was so hard to build a friendship or flirt with someone because my Sim said the wrong thing and the other person looked at her oddly and left the date or conversation. Traits in Sims 4 are just a joke.
Ikr instead of them making useless packs they should make a big update for their behaviors or make a pack for it or else the game will be unplayable even with new packs
I made myself in the Sims 3, gave myself the clumsy, brooding, socially ankward, shy and ambitious, and it was so hard to make friends and was legit a challenge, i gave myself the non-commital trait in Sims 4, got a girlfriend in 2 days.
@@Nobody-qk4xu My non-committal sim in TS3 has had 1 marriage, a divorce, a bunch of breakups and career changes (all on her own wishes). My non-committal sim in TS4 is married, cool with it (apparently?) and only wants to look at paintings. And if that ain't just a baffling lack of depth right there, I don't know what is! 😂😂
Carl: "Sims cant be bad" Jim Pickens: "Hold my pufferfish nigiri"
Hail to the dear leader.
The dear leader shall set us free.
DEAR LEADER!!!
We worship dear leader
All hail the dear leader
This is the most frustrating part of the game for me. Sims aren't a collection of personalities, they're a random collection of moods that changes on a dime In my current game, I'm playing two scientists "trapped"in a bio-dome. Trait-wise, they're polar opposites. I want them to eventually become romantic. But because forming a romantic relationship is so easy, I'm making it harder by: 1) Starting them out with full negative relationship bar. 2) Requiring them to do an hour straight of negative interactions. Separately, they're required to work on various knowledge aspirations from 9-5 each day to make relationship building in general more difficult. This is the level of user responsibility that's required to have any depth in the Sims 4. So unfortunate. I'm having fun, though. Credit to "Gatmadi" in the gallery for their awesome bio-dome build.
That sounds really cool, like something out of Sims Bustin Out
LG 92 - Love Bustin Out. I think it was the second time I played the Sims after Sims 1 since I moved to primarily gaming on console.
Sounds fun!
If yer not against using whicked whims, you could download it for the attraction system and make them dislike each other traits. It will actually make it quite hard for them to become romantic.
Verônica Prata - Not possible. I’m on console...In any case, we shouldn’t need cheats or mods to do that.
I think it was Sims 2, or 3 I made an ugly boy in a family, he had quite a big jaw, narrow/thin cheecks which enhanced the jaw. He was a happy kid, much loved. He grew up and I gave him a beard to hide the jaw. He went off to Uni. When he finally moved in a home with friends I decided to get rid of the beard. The weirdest thing happen. I felt so bad. He shaved his beard looked at himself in the mirror and started crying. Luckily their was a machine you could unlock as a career reward, was a plastic surgery machine and I could change his face and make him good looking. In my heart I always felt bad when I remember his reaction when he looked at himself in the mirror. Was the truest moment I ever felt in Sims.
Findme Atglen sims 2 was a blessed game- Sims 3 doesn’t have a real reaction when you change their appearance.
ArtemisMoon12 yes, I it was Sims 2, so long ago :)
4:45 This is probably the MAIN reason why The Sims 4 feels so shallow and unsatisfying. They created TWO mutually exclusive systems and one ends up overriding the other. You can either have traits OR fixed emotions, not both since emotions override your Sim's individual traits. Two Sims under the same emotion behave exactly the same way, so traits only make a nominal difference. In real life, two people experience the same emotion in very different ways according to their personality. This is extremely difficult to replicate in a video game and why they should've never gone for a FIXED emotion system. The moodlet system as it was implemented in The Sims 3 was better in that sense, as it's heavily reliant on traits rather than fixed emotional states.
this explains it so much. It's the fact that emotions override traits. Spot on!
It's not just that, though, Sims 4 aspirations are a complete joke, and the fact that you can change them so easily means that every sim ends up completing a massive number of aspirations in their lifetime without any effort. Whims mean absolutely nothing (and they're disabled by default), so there's never any push for the player to do something interesting (like adopt a baby just because their sim wanted it).
Right @Isomer Mashups - it's not everything, it's just a very easily provable problem that we can say, "please fix" to. I am 100% in agreement we need a broad effort to make Aspirations something other than tutorials and to give more for Sims to do with large sums of money and improve autonomy/storytelling, AI, career rewards, and mainly those areas off the top of my head. This is me chopping down what was a 25m video into a couple sentences but.... I really hope they are planning to tackle the issues we seem to almost universally agree upon.
@@IsomerMashups Right? I loved the aspirations in Sims 3, they actually meant something and you had to work to achieve their goals.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 I liked the Lifetime Wishes in 3, but preferred the Aspirations in 2. Since the aspirations were vague, the wants were the real heavy-hitters for shaking up gameplay, and since those are randomized, no two sims were ever alike.
Honestly I've been thinking about how weirdly the emotions are in TS4, like why aren't Sims bored when their fun is low? They seem to be either happy, tense or uncomfortable. (At least they are in my gameplay) I imagine a lot of other people have said it, but I wish that TS4 took the emotion system seriously. Some of the emotions just don't make sense to me. Why does literally any minor inconvenience make my Sim uncomfortable? It's weird.
yeah, low fun is tied to tension like being overworked ( the main drain of fun) while boredom is generally, "I want to do x but haven't done x in a while" like for dance machines. But yeah, happy or uncomfortable are the major players here. Being sad + uncomfortable should likely overwhelm your +happy points and make you not feel so hot. That's my take.
Slice of Life mod can help
Another thing that really bothered me is I have two sims with the "hates children" trait, they're males and got abducted, both came back pregnant and they were happy about it -_- they should've been tense or angry, etc. Super unrealistic.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 that is super weird considering that normally they would've been losing their minds. Idk TS4's a wide ride.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 agreed. I dont hate kids, but i defenitly want to be childfree in life. I would be upset and angry if i ever got pregnant.
This is why I always loved Sims 3, they remembered having bad relationships with people and would get mad whenever an "arch nemesis" was nearby, also they had the option to shoo children whenever there were kids if they had the "dislikes children" trait. I dunno why so much is missing from Sims 4, it's truly disappointing.
Ikr instead of them making useless packs they should make a big update for their behaviors or make a pack for it or else the game will be unplayable even with new packs
I miss my evil sims being able to steal candy from babies and toddlers.
"I'm sorry I've derailed this" he says snapping me out of my mesmerised state... you... you killed the Grim Reaper!?! I'm amazed, impressed and didn't know I wanted that in my life
Don't. Kill the Reaper could crash your game, or so I heard. Maybe don't do it if the Reaper is an NPC.
Oh thanks for the heads up @@gumballz.9259 but I just didn't know it was possible or hadn't thought about it. It's really pretty cool still
Lol!
Someone also did it around the time the sims 4 first came out. She did a whole test around it. If you wanna check it out, her name is PrettyGrumpyBear.
I usually dislike messing around with Grim like he's a regular Sim. It messes with my headcanon regarding the Sims mythos in which Death is a "greater deity" which is why the Watchers (us) have less direct control over him. Any time Grim appears to be killed, cursed, beaten up, etc. he's just messing around with mortals.
The "Have Some Personality Please!" mod has actually been remarkably impactful for making negative traits and the like noticeable in normal play, at least in my experience, since it peppers in a lot of trait-based autonomous interactions. Mean and Evil sims with the mod are just... extremely hard to be friends with. roBurky's Meaningful Stories mod also address that thing you mentioned at the end - negative emotion moodlets compounding other negative emotions, as well as vastly reducing the impact of environmental happiness on mood.
Yeah those two do cause a more lasting impact with negative moodlets. Especially Roburky's mod where they can stack and can linger for hours.
I know a lot of people have said that meaningful stories mod fixes some of the issues with this system but the system should be fixed in the base game. Us console players have to work our asses off with self imposed restrictions or setbacks to make our games interesting since mods are not an option.
Agree 100%. I hope this is part of what they're cooking up to improve gameplay. I really look forward to covering whatever big patch they are working on based on that survey and hope it wasn't just to put some more stuff in some kind of snow retreat pack (because that type of activity was mentioned in the survey as well).
oh god do I feel this pain as a console player. buying the packs on 50% off sale JUST to keep me interested. Thank goodness we at least have access to some of the gallery now! even if it does take several minutes to place a lot...
The fact you can't get mods and CC on consoles are part of why I'm getting a gaming desktop.
I made a bad sim once, yeah his traits meant nothing, all they did was make him tense ever so often
I confirmed all my traits were firing, even with that many they were still too infrequent. It's a shame, really. Thanks for sharing your experience.
@@CarlsSimGuides it seems that positive traits occur more often than negative ones, I paired a genius and a gloomy sim in a single household to test this up, and the gloomy sim would get sad a lot less frequently than the genius sim would get focused, seemed like the genius sim would get focused 3/4 times a day while the gloomy sim would not be sad more than once a day, I may need to test this a bit more
@@tonyshum5569 Do keep me in the loop. I may follow the lead you've given me as well... though I have to pace out critical videos as this one turned out to be. I want the best for Sims 4 but I do not want to be seen as hating it or ruining others' fun so I try to space that out. It'd be quite shocking to me given how easy things are if the sad/angry moodlets fired less period. So you can't even make a real hot head if you want to..
@@CarlsSimGuides celeb's quirks and vampire's weaknesses are more reliable in that department. They are triggered all the bloody time! So if you want to make the worst sim, add those in as well.
@@gumballz.9259 The emotion-bomb trait should really help to bring out the negative emotions.
Sad that most traits mean so little. Knew this already, but still sad. It is one of my four main complaints about the game. Thanks Carl for the video. I like you content, keep it up.
What are your other three? Genuinely interested.
@@MieSyzygy Well, the general lack of risk and challenge for one. The fact in many ways it is less developed than sims 3, no open worlds, fewer pets, fewer life states and more. Is another. And the last is it lacks much of the quirkiness of the earlier packs.
@@TheScoed I agree with you on those. Really did expect much more from the game at this point. Thanks for sharing your reasons, I know we all have similarities as to why this installment is lacking. The fact that we have to rely on mods says a whole lot about where their headspace is at. I keep crossing my fingers that they'll take a hint from the thousands of us who interact with them, but it's almost like a deaf ear in response. It's such a shame because this game is graphically very nice, build/buy/cas is wonderful. It just lacks so much depth with the gameplay. Thanks again. 💖
@drunkdeity Yeah I only play with mods now lol. I can't without them.
@@MieSyzygy This is really interesting and I just don't know why Maxis steadfastly refuse to listen to fans. AKA the people who pay over and over for games right from the Sims 1. Almost everyone says the same thing about lack of challenge, lack of consequences for actions, shallow gameplay and just generally feeling bored and uninspired with the game. And these are the die-hard dedicated fans I am talking about, who actually care enough to make these suggestions and comments. But instead of listening they just release more random stuff packs or add things like mermaids instead of challenge. Its says a lot that fans are forced to create their own artificial challenges like 100 baby or rags to riches etc, to create the element of difficulty and depth not provided by the game, plus relying on mods and downloaded content just to make it fun. But I highly doubt they will ever listen. They'll just take our money from the dozens of Sims 4 expansions so far then move right on to the Sims 5 and expect us to do it all over again.
I feel like you should try to make him a vampire & give him the uncontrollable hissing & undead aura. I found it really hard to build up a child / parent relationship with the parent having these traits. (I actually got a toddler/parent relationship down to zero, which was weird. With the evil trait the parent keep getting irritated by the child as if they had the good trait)
Add into the mix with celeb's quirks. Emotional bomb and juice addict or vain would make your sim even more terrible when it comes to emotions.
I find emotional bomb not that bad actually. It’s actually one of the quickest ways to get rid of a sad mood let from a death. Sure they’re very sad for a bit but then they just have a cry and all the sad moodlets are removed.
This was my biggest disappointment with Sims 4. In Sims 3 you could have fun with gloomy, insane and angry traits. Insane Sims need to go to hospital during a mental break, angry Sims grumble and yelled a lot and gloomy sims stared out ALL the windows. Nearly died laughing when I realized my gloomy Sim, when sent to the future, spent all day staring out each and every window in the building made of windows.
This was really educational and rather revealing about how the emotions actually change things. Thank for doing it!
I'm glad you found it helpful, thanks for letting me know.
Traits need such a revamp. Only trait that is slightly annoying is unflirty. Other than that traits mean nothing. Sims who hate children will become tense after trying for a baby, but will be perfectly happy during pregnancy? Makes no sense Erratic is actually one of my favorite traits since sims can just talk to themselves for Socialization. Kleptos are boring because they're so limited to what they can actually steal. And all my sim steals from work are dirty dishes Hot headed and gloomy are just random moodlets and clumsy sims don't have much of a difference. Traits barely affect whims either. So in reality there aren't really any 'bad' traits that make gameplay harder in my opinion
Klepto is boring to me because even if I get caught stealing there are no consequences. I can't go to jail, won't get fired from my job, you won't have a meaningful loss in friendship. They should make it so that if you're caught stealing you get kicked out of the place you're at, or if you get caught stealing at work you can get fired/demoted. Also when you don't get caught if would be cool if there was still a possibility to be caught later, like you get a text from the Sim you stole from asking if you took their object. It would be great if you could be arrested for stealing as well as fighting, throwing drinks, streaking, etc. since we already have the jail and police station from Get to Work but I get that's too much to ask
@@saintazepam I mean honestly you’re so right this brings up a point I’ve thought about for a while. Like why is there so much missing? it because of EA restrictions and not wanting to trigger their fanbase using police, robbers, etc? Cause you know this day in age you can’t do anything without offending at least someone 🙄 Is EA trying to make ts4 appeal more to children? Like is that why there’s so much missing from sims 4? I don’t freaking get it!
I really hope the sims devs are watching this, it so perfectly encapsulates the core of what is wrong with the Sims 4. Emotions are well and good if they actually properly reflect the sim's character traits, behaviours and actions.
The Worst Sim. *Jim Pickens has entered the chat.*
However our glorious leader is, in fact, very good at being bad.
God, I love the guy.
He's a good guy really
I love the Sims 4. The graphics are great and I love how I can have fun in multiple ways each playthrough. But holy crap we HAVE TO get a COMPLETE OVERHAUL on Traits, Ambitions and the Moodlets. Traits and Moodlets don’t mesh together whatsoever and the Ambitions are kind of repetitive and easy. Why should a mood overwrite a trait? Why are moods so powerful and unbalanced? These are questions I sense in the back of my mind every time I boot up TS4... it’s like an existential crisis looming behind every decision I make.
We won't get a complete overhaul, now when sims5 has now been announced. That will be under development as we speak, so most of the energy and resources will be going towards that. They might add stuff, but I highly doubt they'll do a full rework of existing features.
Stettafire you’re right - it’s a shame but we have to stay realistic.
The mod "meaningful stories" from roburky really helps with this issue!
5th mention of this mod, I'll be looking at it. Thanks again.
@@CarlsSimGuides I just downloaded it based on it popping up in related videos. I'm curious to see how it goes.
Holy crap... Even DEATH died.
PLEASE upload him to the gallery 😂😭
He will lose all his extra traits, leaving you to get the mod and customize him - since you're not gonna be the only one to ask, I went ahead and did so just now. He's in the roommate household found searching hashtag #carlsguide
There's a mod called meaningful stories that somewhat improves what you're talking about here! Negative (particularly uncomfortable) moods stack together to make things a bit more difficult.
You're like #4 to recommend it to me, but I"m taking these to heart and will definitely be investigating the mod :)
I'm wondering how this would do combined with other negatives you can get from other things, like the occults. Curses from Realm of Magic, Weaknesses from Vampires, and Quirks from Fame could all be fun to try.
This is why I wish there's a difficulty setting that halves happy moodlet power and doubles all negative moodlets (even fine) or something like that among other things.
There are a couple types of transitions I won't use or will use less frequently. I feel like I've come to learn a lot but have overdone a few things. Sim share below. If you'd like to support my videos and site, see: www.patreon.com/carlssims4guide The Sim is shared under hashtag carlsguide on the gallery. Should be Roommate household. Note youll need the mod and likely have to reconfigure him to have the extra personality traits. Let me know if I'm wrong though I doubt I can do much to help given he's modded.
I started the Random Legacy challenge with full autonomy, and my sim is evil and a criminal. He married hotheaded Katrina Caliente, and except for their wedding when they were both pregnant (he has alien kid) and she peed herself, making him happy and her random breaking dollhouses, they are great parents, have a wonderful relationship, and have achieved their aspiration and career goals. I now understand why he wasn't as horrible as I thought he would be.
Go Carl go! Its been amazing seeing your growth from the Guide I've read since I first started playing the sims to now and your fantastic youtube channel. Exciting to see your explorations of the gameplay capacity of this most modern iteration of the game.
1:56 "At least I improved my thumbnail creation skills!" Nice!
I've been looking for negative custom traits. Like a Mean Girl trait where the Sim gets happy being mean. The Slice of Life mod and Meaningful Stories mods stacks emotions. Also, Personality Please is a great mod. We need more negative emotions. Sims need a full range of emotions.
I rolled Mean as a trait for one of my Legacy heirs and she'd often get a Happy moodlet from being mean to someone, but it would be great if it was a little more smug than just happy.
...so in other words, we pretty much just need roburky's Meaningful Stories mod implemented into the game, right? :D
yeah that is a good mod.
if it stayed updated, yes.
Even with that great mod, that doesn’t remove the core gameplay on how not meaningful the traits are. I’ve experimented with and without, this issue is at its core gameplay.
@@Hestia23 True, it doesn't fix traits, but at least it eliminates the easy manipulation of emotions through decorating and sims being happy all the time by default :) I would love for traits having stronger consequences too, sure.
sucks we have to resort to mods for a decent gameplay...
I've been referring to your guides for years but until now didn't know you had a youtube channel. Glad I found this!
This may actually be the best video you've ever made. The humor aside, you really revealed the problems with the emotions engine. I think emotions are great and I hope they don't get rid of them for Sims 5, I hope they make them better and more realistic. I know a lot of people would rather see them go because they don't do much, but I think there is a lot of potential for emotions to greatly impact gameplay.
I've been playing Sims Medieval lately and you have to take two positive traits and a 'fatal flaw.' It works really well because unless you locate a quest of self improvement to get rid of one (Another interesting feature), it's something your character has to live with.
I love how this game took everything that The Sims 2 & 3 did right about traits, and threw it on the ground for no reason
OMG he needs to be the rival/nemesis of your supersim 😲😱
As someone who has loved all the Sims games, including Sims 4, I think this is the best illustration of your frustration with the game that I’ve seen. I think what you’re up against is that some of us like this Sims malleability-it’s a feature not a bug. I love your idea of using some sort of slider to make the game more personality driven. If the Sims team figures this out-this might be my favorite version.
Disagree, I don't think this is malleability at all. The opposite, in fact. I can't personalize my sim no matter what traits I use, they will be exactly the same as any other and ruled almost entirely by the room decor. I don't find that to be a feature at all, it's a critical part of the game that does not function in the way it logically should.
This explanation felt like a analysis of a character from a serious
Thank you so much for this video! I always really wondered how much traits changed how a Sim would react to different situations. You put so much time and effort into these videos! I wish you so much success! Thumbs up.
People are watching my videos more than ever, and it's exciting. I'd love to do this for life. I don't have some calling for it, I've just learned a lot in 18 months and hope it continues like this so I can make use of everything I learned. Thanks for the well wishes :)
@@CarlsSimGuides I really hope that you can make a living at this. I have followed the supercarlinbrothers since they had only a couple thousand subscribers. They now have over 2 million, and have hired, I believe, five people for their office. They have recently tried to tackle the Sims 4 with hilarious results. I wish you equal or more success. You're providing a rare service that any and every Simmer really needs. I have been playing The Sims since the first pack came out, but had no idea about several of the things that you brought to my attention.
Oh my! The cathartic experiences are so good! If you play with those mods, that will beat Call Me Kevin and GrayStillPlays!
And maybe even DF!
Come on content!! You really been entertaining me with these deep dive Sims 4 content. Please keep it up!
It's entertaining for me too. I'm enjoying the process of learning to edit and get better footage, so it's definitely super exciting people actually watch that when I make it!
This is why Meaningful Stories and Personality, Please! are absolutely my must-have mods, even above MCCC. The only thing I wish is that MS would rebalance the decorated moodlet instead of getting rid of it altogether. I would still like it to show up, as a nice, weak moodlet, if the sim is in a super well-decorated, fancy pants place.
Hey Carl! Love the video! 😂He's a gorgeous sim. Emotions really can be annoying in the sims 4 but I find that the True Happiness mod by roBurky seems to add more variety to it. Its nice to finally have sims not be permanently happy all the time
this confirmed a lot for me. i've been trying out a few different mods to try & make my sims feel more unique. still experimenting plus relying on my imagination to pretend that my sims are...more. thank you for making this video.
And the nail is hit on the head about the problem with emotions -- namely, Happy is too powerful. I think at least a bit of temporary game balance would be to greatly increase the strength of the moods given by the traits like Gloomy or Hot-Headed -- you know how teenagers can have super-powerful Angry moodlets as "phases?" Do that. And yes, three traits is DEFINITELY too few -- you need at least five. *sigh* I like this stupid game, I swear, but it definitely needs some upgrades. Also, if you guys want a funny tale of a Sim getting all the negative character value traits, I can recommend James Turner's Parenthood LP -- the origins of Max Power. XD Seriously, it's great.
Yes, since happy boosts all positive emotions like inspired and confident, but negative emotions do not boost each other at all, happy wins hands down and there are many sources of it. Decor in particular is problematic. I think a hot-headed Sim should react MUCH more strongly than a regular Sim to angry moodlets, and that'd be better than giving them a regular +1 angry that disappears in a few short hours. Sims must be amazing at letting things go, because things from a week ago can sometimes bother me today. Not ruin my day level but you feel the world is against you sometimes when problems stack up. In addition to being too weak, they don't ever get to stack up because they all have the same duration (in many, many cases).
@@CarlsSimGuides Yeah -- Decor should only ever give one very minor mood boost, and the negative emotions need to help boost each other/be stronger in general. (This is particularly apparent if you watch CallMeKevin or GrayStillPlays or anyone else who does Sim torture -- it's amazing how happy the Sims stay even when you're actively trying to torment them!)
I feel like they could easily fix the traits issues, at least a bit, by changing weights. Non committal should definitely stop you from being married unless youre really in love with another sim and even then the whole time you should have a tense or uncomfortable moodlet until you cheat or break up. They could also update emotions to stack negative ones similar to how the positives stack.
Did one with Paranoid, Evil and a third (something like wacky I think). The combo seemed to make them happy around sheer misery, and when left to their own devices they'd mock the old guy from down the road, or even start fights with the postal-worker. If a combo plays against itself well it can have some fairly unique results.
I really love Carl guides! I never knew there was a KZhead 😂 ♥️♥️
Wonderful and yes, sad that the numbers just don't add up for our sims. Thank you for another fun episode. :D
This was one of my favorite videos 🤣really enjoyed it,as much as I love the sims 4, I wish they would fix that issue with everything being so easy even when bad.🤷🏼♀️
Hi again Felicia. It turned out to be a fun one to make but definitely had disappointing results. I don't want to go negative and make all my vids about TS4's shortcomings, but I do feel it helps generate discussions that could help the game to improve.
I haven't played without the meaningful stories mod in a long time. I now remember why
You are a Content making MASTER :-) I really liked how you put in "Meme's" to express your Emotions! ~ Sul Sul!
Wow Carl! You really go all out with these videos! I appreciate all the time, passion and hard work it took to make them! :D I was wondering is there a guide for all the keyboard shortcuts and settings you can have in the Sims? I saw your hotkeys guide, thanks for that! But not one for special settings in the Sims 4. Things like... If you go to game options --> Audio ---> Click ON or OFF "Make music match game speed" you can set whether you want the sims radio music to match the game speed or be normal regardless of what the game speed is. Or if there is a Simlish song you like on a radio and you don't know who it is or if it is a real song go to Game Options ---> Music ---> The radio station you heard the song (pop, alternative, spop, jazz, etc)---> play the songs in the list until you find the title and artist. OR you can go to Game menu ---> Credits ---Pick the pack the song came in ----> scroll down to the bottom to see the credits for the Sims music ----> There you can see who actually sang, performed, wrote and produced the song (for both Simlish originals and Simlish versions.). Stuff like that, did you make a guide already?
James Turner's Parenthood LP aimed to get all the negative character values and he had to work way harder to get them than I do to get all the positive ones (perfectionist that I am). I get not wanting it to be too easy to get negative values such that neutral parenting accidentally yields negative traits, but it shouldn't take THAT much effort.
Yeah that doesnt surprise me. Some of the rewards for the cards that come up are very strong, and could wipe out a day's progress at farming negative points.
I remember I made one of my sims insane (now erratic) when the game first came out. He would constantly choose mean interactions with other sims and his relationship with his family was s***. Fair to say I never picked the insane trait again. However, I did play with some erratic sims from the game recently (like the grandma from Sulani and the one from Windenburg) and it was SO MUCH easier. All they did was occasionally talk with some objects. They definitely watered down the bad traits...
There's a couple of mods who tries to address the inertia to "Happy" on Sims 4. "Meaningful Stories" is probably my favorite. It tries to make the Default emotion be Fine and be way more neutral, and negative emotions linger for more time and can come back
Grim can die of laughter? That's hilarious. Thanks so much, I needed to see that. LMAO. (Yes, I know I'm a bit behind on the videos, lol)
First I would love to say, your videos never disappoint me! I just love them! ( yes fan girl here lol) but I do agree with you about the traits you can pick anything and it feels like the same sim just a different window dressing.
I'd like to see this with the trait update.
Hey Carl, great content as always. These transitions are a bit rough on the eyes though.
Thanks for letting me know. I have a tendency to go overboard when I learn things but gradually settle into a comfortable place :)
So much of that video is just fine in my monitor but when I go to a larger screen I think I immediately see the biggest problem - the swirly ones with the large flash of light? Some others are a bit too slow as well. Let me know!
Bless you Carl for trying to make this game fun playing. I still would be cool with Sims 3 Vids, hell I still use the Sims 3 forum of yours all the time still. Anyways, yeah bless you
We. Have. Been. Waiting. For. This.
I would love for you to make some Sims 3 videos but I know you focus on Sims 4 now. Thank you for all the videos and guides. Been following your sites since Sim 3 days.
I'm considering doing some for nostalgia's sake. Because of how much 4 has taken up my attention I haven't played 3 in 5 full years... life and all that, and heck.. space on my SSD! I reinstalled for a video a while back and haven't had the chance to play with it. Always have to be thinking of what's next. I definitely want to compare Ambitions vs GTW in a video.
Damn, that was a great video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Another awesome video! Thanks
I have been playing with my Sims for so many generations that all the original townies have died!😂
Thanks!!! I wanted that!
I think the sims game you prefer, is down to the style you like to play. If you like to be in control all the time, and create very specific things, sims 4 is great. If you like more challenge, chaos and consequences, the earlier games is probably to prefer. The positive things with the sims 4 is if you want to have a sim with bad traits for the fun of it, but not completely ruin the ability to do things in the game.The bad thing is that it tends to easily become too perfect or boring, because of the way most people play the game. It would be interesting if they added an 'impact' game mode you could choose, where personality traits had more impact on moods and behaviour than they actually do. This way, both types of players could enjoy the game.
Whenever I make a sim a bookworm they have never once chose themselves to read a book, I always have to make them read a book they end up putting away and never finishing
I created a family with one sim that was good and family-oriented and another that was evil and hates children and had them adopt a kid and... nothing happened. The hates children sim actually got a POSITIVE moodlet for adopting the kid and had no problem having pleasant interactions with them. Occasionally the evil sim would be mean to one of the others, but they'd hardly register it and everything would be fine and dandy the next second. The good and evil sims would sometimes get negative moodlets for being around each other, but they were always overpowered by other positive moodlets so their relationship was fine. Also the good sim kept autonomously trying to be mean to stray dogs.
I wonder how this would play out now that the traits have been tweaked. I've been researching how to make a killer sim on console. So far the best idea is the vampire comic from a previous video
Amazed that in Sims 3 you could have a trait called 'unlucky' that just... kills your Sim over and over again, but the Grim Reaper thinks it's fucking hilarious so he brings you back over and over again.
Make him wear the Tragic Clown outfit all the time :)
I half agree. The traits need to be leveled up as much as a T rating will allow. Watching the same animations over and over is boring. I miss when sims would autonomously fight or whatever. It also depends on how you play. I have an erratic sim, and sometimes have to keep her from being mean to the kids or hubby for no other reason then she's erratic. It can be challenging. The emotions do override a lot of gameplay, but they also add a little challenge to the game. It can be hard getting my sims to do things if they're tense or sad, but not impossible.
The "Get some personality please" mod really fixes this!
My coffee just went all over the place when seeing the meme of Nazaré Tedesco, from a Brazilian soap opera ( that I haven’t watched)! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 the Brazilian woman thinking among the calculus!
hmmmm hopefully! that survey we did that had a section asking what more we wanted for the sims personalitys/relationships will be in a free update and make them more like in sims 3 were a breakup would take 3 days to resolve or you would even get that notification that the person you cheated on no longer wants to resolve the issue and you're no longer friends, and such , im hoping having asked us they are going to fix some of these issues, it is kinda crazy how sims can be in a fight one moment and declared enemys and then showing selfies and laughing the next . So lets hope we soon get a free update fixing some of these issues as a result of that survey.
Yah! You're back!
I'm trying to get better footage that lines up with everything I talk about, so my videos will come a bit slower. I wish YT didn't push longer videos so hard, because I do enjoy a quick one every now and then. My channel's success has literally been tied to average watch time increasing. Thankfully this 11 min vid felt easy compared to the 25m ones tho, yikes.
you should add the aspiration bonus traits
It's just weird that you're automatically happy if you're in a nice room even if you just lost your spouse...? People's happiness isn't based on the... Decorations. You'd think they would have thought about that.
Thats why I make my own traits with extrem strong emotion levels.
Is The Sims 4 really just We Happy Few: Life Simulator DLC?
get a vampire with the worst possible vampire traits. It becomes surprisingly hard if your vampire needs large amounts of blood, hisses and instantly burns in sunlight.
You hit the nail dead on the head. I have a sim who is a loner yet has moodlets that want to meet new sims and interact with others. Yet when she does her loner meter goes down lol make it make sense
TheSimSupply (James Turner) once did a prequel to his Super Sim challenge with Parenthood and his goal was to achieve all of the negative character value traits!
I made a total creeper with lunacy(crazy?), hates kids, and evil. I made him a detective and then made a prison in my basement. Also traumatized the landgraabs and adopted thier son
Now for the redemption arc!!! Best becomes worst and worst becomes best!
I’ve found the game much more interesting and challenging with the Meaningful Stories mod. Moods last longer, feeling uncomfortable boosts negative moods, and there are lingering moods as well.
You want a unique bad sim experience? Give them the tree of evil celebrity perks. The game becomes jaw-droppingly unplayable, with something as simple as one mean interaction against another sim spamming your action queue with requests for autographs. I've also done a murderfest game with a spellcaster, killing people by setting fire to the floor beneath them. The game is so buggy that after one or two successful kills, all the sims will become fire-immune and you have to change lots through a loading screen to try and get more murderin' done. But add one of those "immune" sims to a group and travel with them to your home lot, and you can kill them off just fine. And I would have to make sure the murderer was in another room or unable to see the death, or he would have the mourning-a-loved-one debuff regardless of his relationship status with the dead sim(s), even complete strangers!
the jeremy jinglebottom outfit thooooo!!
The Slice of Life mod improves the game so much and makes this a lot more bearable!
I’m only a few minutes into the video and I’ve already realised something... I hate that sim.
It makes sense, since he has the traits of a narcissist, of course he's happy when he's throwing a tantrum or arguing. Negative people enjoy being negative.
I remember than the first time I made a clumsy sim in TS3, they tripped on the trashcan. I gave my sim the clumsy trait in TS4 to see if it happened again, never did. Didn’t even have a change in animation.
8:33 THIS is the biggest problem with TS4 emotion, if you have +2 Angry, +2 Sad, and +2 Embarassed, your Sim will not care if they have +3 Happy i feel that if the Sim's total negative emotions are at least 50% of their positive emotions, they get suitably Tense, same for the other way around. i'd also introduce opposite emotions (Happy/Angry, Playful/Sad, Confident/Embarassed), unless they feel strongly enough to feel Very Confident, for example, will become Tense with even 1 Embarassed moodlet. i also miss Sims 3's negative traits, there were more of them and the ones that are in Sims 4 too aren't as interesting. negative traits in both games generally had upsides, while they still weren't worth picking on an optimal run, while they're a mild setback at worst in Sims 4, they felt like a genuine obstacle in Sims 3. unlucky, loser and grumpy would noticeably impact Sims and the way they react around others and the world. but while i'm on that Sims 3 sims were also way too happy. even with the Grumpy trait they'll generally be happy most of the time.
"At least I learned to do this!" OMFG. "Oh yeah, and THIS!" WAHAHAHAHA! I had to pause the video until I could breathe again. You're such a nice guy. I never see it coming when you do stuff like that. hahahaha Yeah, I agree. Sims 4 sims are so homogenous, you can basically ignore any trait as a mild incovenience no matter how bad. The insane (oh, excuse me, ERRATIC) trait is interesting at first but gets annoying when it interrupts everything you ask the sim to do, but other than that, I can't think of any trait that really stands out to make a sim unique.