How to enjoy The Sims 4 again

[@MischievousMischief]

Sims 4 is wide as the ocean with the depth of a puddle ...

[@lillithk]

Now that's deep

[@user-th9ne6su5y]

Best description of the sims 4 by far

[@thomaskruitbosch6146]

@@lillithkno it’s not deep that’s what he is saying😂

[@laser__unicorn]

I mean, if you have to make a tutorial of how to enjoy and have fun in a game...then there is something seriously wrong with the game.

[@shaunafraser.2865]

Wow. Never seen it summed up so perfectly 😂

[@hummingkiki]

The tumbnail: It's not boring The opening: it's so boring

[@BelgianDude]

And people wonder why I don't trust anyone 😂

[@skycastleshay]

Ppl sleep on the calendar. Delete all the premade holidays and make all new ones. Fill your calendar with stuff for your sims to do. Pumpkin patch day for fall, picnic day for spring etc… it also gets you off your home lot. And if you use mods there’s custom traditions out there!

[@seadragonpirate8195]

That's what I do!

[@jadedjhypsi]

I do this as well because I am pagan and have all my seasonal holidays there, etc...

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

I don’t do this because a blank calendar would be too intimidating, but I do edit EA holidays and add ones I find fun. Like I have a winterfest Eve in addition to winterfest itself. Small things I also give my families a winter break.

[@bonbonvegabon]

How do you do that?

[@seadragonpirate8195]

@@TheDawnofVanlife I add a winter and summer break for the kids to go snowboarding or play with water in the summer. No beach because I don't have the Island pack 🤣

[@222beelzebub]

One thing you didn’t mention that I do is I create a mild story for a new family or sim in my head, and once I have them moved into their first home, I use skill cheats and career cheats to align with my story. I find it’s really boring to have to grind my sims’ skills or careers from scratch every playthrough, so I like to give them a little boost at the beginning so it doesn’t feel the same way to me every time. It also doesn’t make any sense to have a young adult or older to start out with literally zero skills. I’m basically just doing the story feature from CAS manually, lmao, but it’s a great way to have a good storyline for your sims and also not feel daunted by having to start everything from zero.

[@cassindermuppet8259]

I've never done this, good idea!

[@positivelysimful1283]

True! I like to play Sims from childhood for that reason, so they have some skills once aging up to YA when I'm ready to play them... but also when new Sims come into my Sim's life (like a BFF or SO) I give them a background, a job, some skills, sometimes even an entire family.

[@jakiyajenkins8188]

I agree I’ve been doing this since TS 4 came out

[@wxrm]

I remember playing the sims 3 for 600+ hours before I bought my first DLC. I could have continued without the DLC's as a matter of fact, but I ended up buying one and thoroughly enjoyed it. When I played the sims 4 at launch, all the excitement faded away, and I was so devastated 🤣

[@SineN0mine3]

The worst thing for me is that build mode is actually quite a bit better than sims 2 or 3 so now it feels like I'm missing out no matter which one I play. I check back to sims 4 every couple of years to see if the situation is improving and it seems to be getting worse. Bugs from 6 years ago are still unaddressed (literally not even acknowledged despite dozens of reports on the official forum) and every single pack adds more! Why would I spend even MORE money to introduce more bugs and instability into an already broken game?

[@CuracaoChic]

Sims 3 was awesome. Even Sims 2 . I remember playing as Aliens almost all the time. I don't even touch the occults in Sims 4 now. I am trying to. I downloaded Spells and wolves one months and months ago and haven't played them yet. Tried mermaids just a couple months ago.

[@agnes8610]

8:05 last time I accidentally romanced a guy without knowing he has family and only realized that when the move in screen came up, I decided to do the whole divorce properly for once. I planned sleepover days in the calendar and the guys kids came over 3x a week and had their own rooms etc. When my family had a new baby, the guys kids actually had a good relationship with their half sibling. At one point I decided that the teen boy had a big fight with his mom and he moved into my household for a season. This accidental storyline was the most realistic I had had in a long time and I enjoyed it very much. The sleepover gameplay from growing together is perfect for divorced families.

[@AussieCassPlays]

I don’t understand how people don’t play rotationally. I start with one household and then as their kids become adults, I play rotationally between houses. If I decide I want to do something that doesn’t suit my current household, I’ll do it in another. I’m four or five generations into my current save and, other than the hideous townies, it’s so much fun.

[@kpoppy9635]

My problem is that I like my sims to have their own business or do well in their careers. And once you leave the household, your sims dont own that business anymore or their careers will tank cause they dont go to work. I also sometimes send my sims to University and their grades will slip if you switch households. Plus to play rotationally and not have sims age up too fast you need to play on long life span and I like to play on normal.

[@Pikaru-c4u]

@@kpoppy9635or turn it off, never had these issues

[@nuna632]

i'd love to have a new sims game without doing mental gymnastics to enjoy it

[@augusto7681]

I dont follow many games comunities, but I think the sims is the only game people say "how to not become bored playing the game". LOL I think is wild people have to come up with ideas to not get bored. Play a game should just be effortless fun... But I get it, I have nostagia about playing the sims when I was a kid.

[@agnes8610]

Well I also play Minecraft and World of Warcraft and with both games these videos exist and I had to use the tricks from those videos to keep playing. These kind of videos actually exist for a lot of hobbies. Every time you immers yourself into one thing deeply you have the potential for that thing to get repetitive or a grind and you need to free your mind a bit to find the initial fun you had with that hobby again. 👍🏼

[@Squaretable22]

Unlike linear games, the Sims is open ended. Play it enough and you can easily become bored. Additionally as it's non linear and open ended, you aren't spoonfed on how to play it nearly as much as other games.

[@timothymongrel8361]

It's not. Every sandbox game is like this.

[@myrkflinn4331]

The reason I am playing the game less isnnot cos its boring. But because its stupidly bugged, annoying and immersion breaking.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

Same, I am not bored but I am annoyed when I have a great gardening system going and the whole system bugs out. I am also annoyed when I go out to dinner and it takes 5 hours to get my meal. And my Sims is getting exhausted before they even get served.

[@_sleepy_panda]

I second that so much. I love generational challenges but its just way to buggy for it to be fun. The more you play the more the chances significanlty increases if your safe file gets corrupted. Its just a common thing now instead of being the exception.

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

@@_sleepy_pandaoh my gosh, yeah, I finally gave up on rescuing my long-lived multi gen save and am starting over, which is fun FOR NOW until some update corrupts it all again

[@SineN0mine3]

​@@TheDawnofVanlifeor when you attend highschool for your nerd sim and end up failing because they walk too slow and because time skips around. Or having to cheat aspirations to trigger them to complete properly. Or having to cheat money to make up for the items dissapearing when you load your save...

[@t_sizzler_2032]

My game hasn't experienced bugs lately but it has been running unusually hotter than usual. I can't play my game for more than an hour before my laptop starts sounding like a rocket ship taking off. Might be a ME problem though.

[@koololdster]

Wait! WE create the same Sim over and over? Hmmm... "Shanice, Shanice are you there?" Ha, ha! Just teasing you, Satch. You actually have some really good ideas!

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

I mean he has Shanice Shanice saved, so he’s not creating her over and over again. Technically what he discouraged is starting from scratch to just spend hours creating the same Sim again when you could just save them and dump them into a new save.

[@Rabellaka.]

I did that in Sims 2. Every sim I made had the same face preset, they were all “elves” with different hair and eyes. Now, I hit the randomize button a few times and maybe fix the chin/foreheads. I’ve got one sim who looks like Ruffnut from HTTYD, but with blue hair. Just from using the random button.

[@nedrane297]

Alright so here is a suggestion from something I used to do. If you go to the sim management button in neighborhood mode, it has a list of all the sims in the game. If you sort them by date it will list all the townies added by the game basically by pack, but you can sort the anyway you like. So what I used to do is go "sim shopping" finding sims from the bin, just whatever sim you want, their traits and aspiration and everything will be unknown so when you get them they will often already have a job/career, if its a file you've been playing for awhile they might already have friends and often skills. Some have pets and children, so you can get one that is already that single parent dynamic. (I did it that way once and the child was actually their little sister, totally changed how I thought of the sim.) The key to playing like this is to NOT going into full edit mode to change their face, bodyshape, and traits but to work with what they have. Especially for traits because you can now earn new traits. You never know what you'll get, sometimes the adult and child don't like each other and you can play into that. Sometimes you look at them and its just "Oh, you are so pitiful I'm going to make your life better." Or worse. Sometimes they are a supernatural/occult sim and you had no idea. Or maybe its a sim you see in the world all the time and you just want to give then a life. Point being, you don't have to go through create a sim, there are lots of random sims in the game already that you can mess with. If you really want to go crazy with it, check to see how many sims are in the sim bin, randomize a number and play whichever sim the number corresponds to. You never know what you'll get.

[@marydearmas1631]

Thanks Ill do this!

[@steggopotamus]

One of the things I do to make sure I'm getting all the features of my packs is to build community lots with the items somewhere conspicuous. So, I never used the wishing well from romantic garden stuff (gotten for free). My romantic magnolia blossom park puts it front and center. When I had it tucked away mysteriously in a corner, I'd forget, or it seemed like too much work to walk to the other side of the park. It also helped my park look better because there's this cozy little glade where there was just landscaping before, and it feels special & romantic to me

[@jenniferwilliams7637]

One really cool idea that’s really livened up my gameplay is making each world a different country! Some ideas: Oasis Springs - Morocco (all you need to buy is the Moroccan kit) Windenburg - One half is Paris with beautiful cafès and the other half is Sweden with cosy, red cabin homes. There’s actually so much fun to be had just exploring homes on the gallery - I have to give the sims 4 credit for its amazing build mode.

[@judeconradfrancis]

this sounds so cool

[@phantomrecluse7311]

I got out of same face syndrome. My one sim intentionally has a horse like face and I actually love her

[@Chaxxy777]

These videos are actually an inspiration because the sims 4 is actually super bland. Thanks satch!

[@Avoidthevoidx]

the sims 3 is a rollercoaster. when i was a kid i remember getting up as early as i could during weekends, and waiting for my parents to leave for work then i'd start my sessions, and my sessions would drag on and on for hours. not even realizing it's either close to dinner time or time for bed. scenarios in the sims 3 would lead from one thing to another. and i rarely complete my plans for those sessions because of that. and my god, the traits in the sims 3 are super good. and the fact that your sim would automatically fulfill their trait without even your input is such a nice touch. i remember having a sim that is Neurotic, and every so often that sim would run towards the oven checking if they left it on. and by doing so they gain a positive moodlet out that. i also had sim that is a technophobe that sim would constantly want to sabotage his neighbor's electronics and computers. one time i met a sim with a computer whiz trait. and i saw via his whims that my technophobe sim suddenly want to declare that sim his nemesis. it's like there's no need for storytelling. they already write their own stories and you just have to give them the go ahead signal.

[@blazeshaun1115]

I’m more of a builder / designer so Sims to me would never get boring 😅 I wish they would have a pack strictly for build mode items like different stair cases, roofs, elevators, functional garages 😅

[@xxnicolek]

Satch, you should do a lets play challenge series! 🙂

[@Robert_disc0rda]

Fakegamergirls challenges

[@itsOwO]

satch looking skinny and snatched

[@RenzoDragneel]

twunk

[@animdoodle]

satched

[@amsa5661]

Always say “yes” to pop ups. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the grief mechanic in L&D, if you don’t deal with the grief there are consequences! (only if you say yes with the pop up though). I really enjoyed the “globetrotter challenge” look it up, it’s really simple and I loved it, I didn’t live in a tent but made a small tow trailer to live in. Also the decades challenge, building your home and CAS to look 20s or 50s is fun. If I play legacy I do “no repeats”, this stops all your sims being a cheerful,good,bro! No repeat careers, aspirations, traits, lot traits.

[@TheGlassAddiction]

Playing a slow burn medieval/peasant save in henford on Bagley rn using a bunch of build/buy mods and it's the most fun I've had in ages. Currently living in a 1 room hut w an infant off the grid/w simple living and it's been a real challenge. Hoping as the generations go buy these descendant Sims expand the world and build new farms, inns etc. for rent pack helps divide lots into smaller serf farms!

[@Christine-49]

I have really enjoyed your save files! I recently completed Newcrest and I am on to Oasis Springs now. I am sure Willow Creek is quite an undertaking, but I hope you do that world as well! The best part of Sims 4 for me is building/designing. Of course it is more fun with mods and custom content!

[@yasminchan7425]

I really appreciate vids like this that gives tips on how to enjoy the sims 4, I have mods and all packs but I get bored so easily, thank you Satch ^^ (Also thank you for calling me out multiple times, very cool)

[@CarolM1968]

Firstly I can't play without mods now, and I only have a few but they integral to my gameplay now - T.O.O.L then MCCC, the one where you can turn paintings into looking like photo's, I think that's it since the last update as some haven't been updated yet. Secondly I recommend playing challenges like the legacy challenge or 100 baby challenge, or the very berry challenge or whatever it's called lol, I'm on gen 8 of my legacy save file, the world is full of Sims I have created or downloaded from the gallery and it makes it much more fun, also I have had every single generation living in one household, in fact it happens quite often. Thirdly try to finish your Sims aspirations and career goals. That's my ten cents from a Simmer who has played since the first Sims was released and before that SimCity on floppy disc lol

[@cpettee0115]

I got bored with my sim and decided to play random townies and work towards their aspirations. Aging off of course

[@rousedobrev6941]

I have a Legacy Family. With long lifespan. And I make it my goal to mix things up all the time. Like my next heir will be a vet, something I have never done before. And because of the long lifespan I could change the hosehold to the best friend I level her up as an occult. And Newcrest is pretty much filled with lots. And i have like two savefiles for stuff like testing the new career and trying to get knock up by grim. Just everything to not get bored and abandon my legacy

[@NicolesBookishNook]

I thought until recently that most people had one save file and did the rotational game play... Apparently not. I have a legacy challenge for two Sims families in my save file and it's so long, the family tree is broken for both families 🤣 I'm sometimes bored, but when that happens, I won't play for a few days, and then I'm excited to get back into the game. I only have a few packs/worlds too. I am hesitant to get all the stuff because it's so buggy.

[@SoGoodWeNamedIt]

same, having a bunch of files sounds like a lot

[@NicolesBookishNook]

@ that honestly spikes my anxiety 😆 I couldn’t keep up.

[@pachimari3420]

Satch, Cats and Dogs HAS a career, the vet career. Plus there are collectibles your pets can get for you like the feathers. And you can train your dog as well. I'd love it if there was more gameplay, more pets, etc. but i also dont get all the hate that the pack gets xD For a Sims 4 pack that is 7 years old, i think its pretty decent.

[@jtrash8082]

6:52 I’ve always played rotational gameplay style as a veteran Sims 2 player (in TS2 it’s the only way to play) but I’ve noticed that the sims 4 makes it slightly more difficult depending on what you try to do. When I tried playing the highschool pack this way I was disappointed to find that if I played one household with a teenager and then switched to another household the other teens I played wouldn’t show up to school, so the teens I made couldn’t actually interact with eachother in highschool and I was limited to only unplayed townies. Kind of a disappointment considering the creative possibilities that could have come with adding more students of your own making to the school and creating friend groups and different dynamics. Nothing will ever beat the customization of Sims 2 neighbourhoods!

[@Pikaru-c4u]

Ur sims will show up, it’s just random

[@UliaSamsonova]

I struggle with the Sims 4 for some time after the new expansion And then I chose to be happy and download the Sims 3 again and there was so much to do I couldn't keep up with the ideas and events. And all this when I loaded my old family, so I had already done a tone of stuff in the past and there is still plenty

[@planetofaliens]

My different saved games are categorized by Occult sims, a Zombie apocalypse, psychopath/serial killer sims, every sim owning unicorns, sims based on tv show/movie characters I love, and an original game which is just general gameplay. And I play anywhere between 5 to 20 different households in each.

[@mirrrie]

Your laugh makes me so happy 😁

[@Ikwigsjoyful]

One of my favorite challenges has been the “no loading screens” challenge, which is basically rags to riches, but you can only be on your own lot and the area of the surrounding neighborhood that you can get to without going through a loading screen. You only get to meet the sims who come into your neighborhood, have to figure out how to make money and feed yourself when you can’t leave (no ordering groceries until you can afford a fridge). It really shows you that even without an open world, the neighborhoods may have more going on than you think. Plus you can just keep playing without having to wait through any screens, which is honestly pretty nice!

[@MiaAngelinaCZ]

Well my experience is quite the opposite. Being stuck on one lot makes it especially boring for me. The fact that TS4 has loading screens and I am super obsessed with micromanaging every aspect of my sims' daily lives, it discourages me most of the time to leave the home lot/neighborhood at all whenever I have multiple sims in my household. Because unless I travel with all the sims, those left at home will be out of my control, which I hate. So I always end up spending most of my time on one lot and it sucks. That's why I loved the way Sims 3 (open world) and Sims 2 (time freeze) handled it.

[@Ikwigsjoyful]

@ Oh, I much prefer Sims 3, and still play it in preference to Sims 4 (I’ve only played Sims 2 a little, so can’t say much about it). But I do find the loading screens very annoying which is why I decided to challenge myself to stay in my home neighborhood- no outside job, no going to towns from other packs for interest, no visiting my neighbor’s lots. And I surprised myself by enjoying it more than I thought I would without having to deal with the loading screens. Admittedly, since I’m doing it with the large empty lot in Henford as my home base, I do have a better neighborhood than some, with a public toilet, picnic area (although I was challenging myself to only eat what I foraged or could grow until I could afford a fridge), small community garden, and a place to fish and to swim. At any rate, I’ve been having fun with it and even sticking to it (normally, I ditch any challenge I start in Sims 4 because I get bored and game hop😅), so I thought I would mention it. Maybe I was finding it more fun than usual because I was the one making the rules.

[@MiaAngelinaCZ]

@@Ikwigsjoyful When I think of it, I really don't mind the loading screens themselves as much as I hate not having control of the rest of the household while one of my sims is somewhere else. Because this way going on a date means that my kids won't have their homework done or another adult won't have the daily work tasks done. It is really stupid. Not even mentioning that any challenges that rely on you having limited access to resources are now pointless as the sims will magically feed/bathe themselves when you're away.

[@SablePixelAdventures]

I screamed when I got called out about "Always making your Sim an author" 😂 Why you gotta do that lol

[@discipler77]

Lol me too 🤣

[@adey126]

I have stopped playing since the weather pack. And Whiny Brit is the only player I watch. Her videos are so creative.

[@tiffanygilbert8188]

10:39 I did the tiny town challenge and, other than the bugs from the rent pack, I had a lot of fun! A Satch Tiny Town challenge would be hilarious!

[@constanzamancebo1948]

The super sim challenge has been my favorite!! I’ve been able to try so many careers/skills and just do stuff I hadn’t really tried before in the sims - plus it’s so satisfying completing everything, especially if you use james turner’s guide and check off everything you’ve completed. Highly recommend!!

[@nakseli]

Mods are literally a lifesaver when it comes to Sims 4. The game becomes boring in ten minutes without them. But the amount of gameplay mods I need in 4 vs 3 🥲🥲

[@squigglesthefox5979]

Sadly i play on ps5 so i cant get mods or cc 😭

[@jovitagonzalez1479]

EA should be embarrased of people needing mods to enjoy a plus than a thoursand dollar game

[@Indiscreetmess]

True that

[@nakseli]

@jovitagonzalez1479 agreed

[@kpoppy9635]

I only play with MCCC and lumpinou's pregnancy mod. And the mod for the daycare career but only for that career.

[@KagamineRinVocaloid]

Satch: *critizises Cats and Dogs* Also Satch: life careers are good packs Cats and Dogs has the vet life career 😅

[@the_emo_666]

I get bored when im not sure where the story will go! That's why I love legacy challenges because it helps me make a family that's new and not just my real-life family! Im currently on Gen 6 of the Barbie legacy challenge, and I love it!!!

[@matthewthehangout6995]

Congrats Satch, just signed up for KZbin and added you to my watch list for sims 4. Only one other made it to my list that is English Simmer. Love y’all broadcast informative up today funny with a good vibe. Thanks

[@akaAli01]

We often forget but with cats and dogs you can have a vet clinic and work as a veterinary there. But to be honest, I never did unless just to playtest the only vet clinic I've ever built.

[@macabre_maeve]

I am loving your save files right now. Cant wait for the rest of willow creek. I tried to go on without your shells but turns out im now Satch-dependant 😂

[@jessica1580]

What has kept me entertained as of late in TS4 is playing with premade families. I have a bunch of mods that enhance social interactions (including wicked whims lol) & played with the BFF household. Gave them a makeover, turned aging off and let the messiness ensue. If I get burned out of gameplay I build or make sims. I keep a separate blank save that I add lots /sims that I’m proud of to so I’m slowly creating a personal save file.

[@anazlatov9741]

I love doing legacy playgame so i play one in game week with each family i have. It’s actually pretty fun because every single sim has a different story and the family tree is much more in depth. I really recommend doing that.

[@bigbangbot-SuperSqank]

Making a new save file or even a new family is the simplest way I make the game more fresh. It gives you something new to work towards as when you’ve done everything you need to with a family, you don’t really have an incentive to keep playing so starting all over again is an easy way to find a reason to play.

[@Kualinar]

If you have Cats & Dogs, you also want the Pets Everywhere mod that allows random cats and dogs to roam everywhere like they do in Brindledown Harbor. We DO need more active careers. Some of the base games careers could very well be made into active careers. I often use the story line when creating my Sims, and I'm all «Always take the first option» or always the second or third option. I may also chose options in a rotation, often without ever reading the questions. That way, I get to play various careers and starting aspiration that I otherwise wouldn't have chosen, with traits that I also wouldn't normally take. Most of the time, when I create a new Sim, I don't alter his default look and use the randomiser feature for his attires.

[@Simventure77]

This is perfect, I've been struggling with burnout. Thank you

[@isaiasagustini7525]

One challenge i made up that’s quite cool no matter what sims game you have is a release order pack challenge. Disable every single pack, and start a new save with only the base game, and play every pack individually in release order (yeah, start with outdoor retreat) for one week each. Each expansion pack you enable, you create a new household with the “new” items to be friends with your first household and play rotationally. Each game pack and stuff pack you choose one of your houselholds to play with those items and gameplay from that new pack. It’s fun how the game evolves each pack you add.

[@Klondike877]

Excellent video, I am playing rotationally and have now probably more than 25 families, either EA premade or mines and I never ever go in CAS to create new sims because I have like 235 played sims... and they all have different personalities and goals and aspect to themselves that makes them all fun and different to play. There is another thing that I modified 2 years ago and it was to set the lifespan to ''normal'' because I had it on ''long'' before and it felt like they had too much time before growing up and I realized I started to kill sim because I was bored of them, they had done everything I wanted them to do and they were all too overskilled and samy... so it really push my interest back into the game, to live the moment with each sim, for what they have to live and not stress with them getting older. Life and Death also kind of compliment this, by giving you the option to start over with the same sim if you are not prepare to let them go completely, which was a brilliant idea from EA to do this.

[@justagirl6761]

What helps me is to add some existing family for the sim and put them in the world. You can do that by creating a big household and splitting it up, maybe use cheats to give the family members money. There is a family tree mod that generates family for your sims as well. And then I maybe make a club where I can add the family members and use the club for hanging out with them. It also helps to take like 3-4 photos of your sims immediately and hang them on the wall (maybe of them working on their skills or having fun together). Then you will feel more attached to your sims and they feel more real It's also fun if you take a photo during major holidays or important life events to hang on the wall I also like to add a lot to the world that is like a favourite hang out spot for the sim I play with. I made a space museum for my space loving scientist for example. He would often go there and work on the rocket ship there and bring back stuff to complete the museum. I also added a space loving artist who would go to Sixam and paint from refference. Or maybe you can make a community grarden but a proper one and gardeners and scientists and sims who make floral arrangements or paint or take photos can go there for their hobbies. Make the world fit your sim and you will have more fun. Also I sometimes create a lot of drama and I usually end up having like a main character sim for every household that goes through hardships during the drama and then they come out stronger and make better choices in life Rotational gameplay is the best because if you get bored with one family you can just go to another and then you get cameos of all your sims whenever you leave the house. If you're still bored try a skill/career you never tried before, or never got too far with.

[@felciebiased]

The tiny town challenge is my latest obsession, the main reason why I ended up buying the For Rent EP (at 50% off at least though). I get to have fun with both the gameplay and the builds I have to do for my sims. Deligracy also has a second tiny town season with an appartment building instead and it's fun to do as well.

[@Rvbdeedee]

KiaraSims makes a ton of active career mods on patreon.

[@joryalrasheed9422]

Please keep making more of these types of videos!!! You inspire me

[@tonichan89]

It would be really cool if you did a playthrough (not a review) of the SpinningPlumbobs mods, like the Expanded Mermaids one; you could have Shanice become a seawitch and level her up, cause some mayhem! Or their new PlantSims mod, it looks really exciting. There is a lot of drama to be made with those mods, they're huge!

[@alyshad321]

5:52- 6:30 this is literally me. I always try to play an alphabacy starting with my simself since my name starts with A. I always make her an author because that’s my favorite method of making money in the game. I also always live in Crick Cabana too. I’m hoping to stick with the legacy this time and not quit two generations in like I usually do

[@ZannePeace42]

I also liked the Strangerville pack. I enjoyed the story and the kookiness of everything in that world 😂 also, i love to build my own art museums and libraries in empty lots. I've also made coffee shops/comedy clubs

[@SundaeSyrup]

I really loved the GrayStillPlays style challenges and it inspired me to make a maze that 100 sims had to go through and whoever got to the top first won. It was so glitchy with all the 1x1 pools I added that 8 contenders won and the rest died. Made those 8 sims have more kids and did the maze over and over again. I actually loved it more than my main game save file. I played it for weeks and would laugh my ass off.

[@WitchBye]

I saw the video title and couldn't believe this was from Satch! Great tips, thanks.

[@kpe02]

I used to always be stuck in the same worlds. But now I try to go on vacations and stuff, also take a lot of photos with my sims and it really makes a diffrent

[@aaliyahroams1301]

Need this video lol honestly been losing interesting in sims and I’ve started playing club penguin again, it’s soo much better playing with real people and decorating a house for actual people to visit and like. Also so many events and the limited catalogs! I think you might like Club peng journey if you like sims but want to play with other people 😅

[@marielledelaine]

the 4 packs i would say are standard for me for mostly roleplaying/virtual barbies (lol) are Seasons, Get to Work, Pets and dine-out, and I would say university life... then parenthood

[@KowaiZuzu]

I never have to worry about same face syndrome because I always use whatever random sim shows up. I do tweak their looks, and I will admit to having general preferences (all my sims have lip filler lol). But in general I try to edit their face as little as problems and just make whatever face they showed up with look nice. Skin detail cc are my savior when it comes to this.

[@Dr_Sleepenstein]

I think the most fun I had with the pets expansion was a "world of sim pokemon challenge" where I had a sim that was a pokemon trainer. I went to all the base game townie households and made them pets or "pokemon" that I thought they would have using the paint feature for pets. Then I had my sim open a vet clinic so people would bring their "pokemon" to the pokemon center I made. It was quite a lot of fun at least for a while. I actually even uploaded all the townie households with their pokemon to my gallery account and everything haha

[@amanimotloung8521]

I live in Metropolitan areas and my sims 4 gameplay experience has always reflected that (my sims always stay in San Myshuno or have very modern houses in suburbs) until recently when the new Life and Death pack challenged that. With the new build items and pack theme, I discovered my boredom with the sims stemmed from not challenging myself into different themes and builds. Since then I am so immersed into my game, like seriously I’m stuck to my MacBook, I might need some help getting unstuck now 😂🤭

[@finnnow3647]

I've found a really interesting thing; Combining a challenge (decades challenge) with story telling. It's giving you some random things, such as deaths, and you have to really look into the moodlets and reactions of your sims. I also try and do it as a legacy challenge, but follow each child into the next 'household' and tell their story.

[@wiktoriajurkiewicz3144]

People are like "bUt YoU nEeD tO uSe Ur iMaGiNaTiOn" when you tell them you don't enjoy Sims 4 like... first of all when I play Sims I want to relax and don't engage my mind too much, second off all you literally have to do this with other Sims games too but they usually have features you'd need to imagine and if don't that's not a big deal bc there's plenty of game play features and third of all: I hate that most Sims 4 simmers are babies that can't understand critique. Like for ex. many MGS fans were criticising MGSV that story lacks depth and missions are repetitive and ppl were like "yeah, ok" and moved tf on without jumping on or harrasing anyone

[@marieduran6286]

I know what you mean when you say same face sim. What I like to do is have them be a Purveyor of Potions or Freelance Botanist and then have their aspiration be close to what their career is. That way it is so much simpler to get rewards points.

[@pSiLoCyBeRiOuS]

1:21 everyone told me seasons was better to get first and looking back, %100 get to work first over season

[@nedrane297]

Oh oh oh! I made a simbot and then he made his wife and they moved out from the creator's house to their own house and they started adopting and raising children.

[@michelebell6225]

i think i have 7 different save files - each one is for a different challenge (black widow, boba tea, rotten berry, tiny tony, etc.) and then i have a blank one that i'm filling up with houses/families i'm creating along with shells from the gallery and the ones you're making for your save file - it's definitely gotten me out of the Sims 4 rut to have options and i like challenges cause they give you goals to complete plus you get to do thing you might normally not have done

[@Eli-jw8mx]

Playing 1000+ hours mods do make the game more fun but I’ve found I enjoy the sims 4 as vanilla as possible I use mccc and some overlays but the constant updates makes having mods feel like a chore. But I do recommend mccc. Look into it as you’re able to slow down or speed up the time it takes to complete tasks like eating and cooking.

[@dinorah.]

I love the hotel mod!! I built a sleazy run down hotel and played with wicked whims 🤣🤣

[@hannahm9327]

Thanl you!! The supersim is gonna be my new thing

[@sandroribeiro7644]

I love to randomise everything. I have a legacy challenge and I'm on my 8th generation and every new generation I like to randomise traits, careers and likes and dislikes. Whatever the result is, I create a story for them based on that. The only times I don't do this are when I have a very clear idea of what I want to do.

[@bee_dee_emm_pea]

I have 3 basic modes of game play: 1) trap house... it's exactly what you think. Sometimes I spice it up with a brothel or two. 2) Assassin's Creed... but make it Sims. I use historical builds and lots of mods. And 3) the Last of Us... but once again, make it Sims and always add your own version of Pedro Pascal. All 3 of these play styles have never let me down. With the right mods and CC, anything is possible.

[@catsquared246]

I'm actually having a lot of fun (minus glitches) doing a book challenge where each generation is based off of one of my favorite books and playing through all the different packs and gameplay to experiment. Im not letting myself play back to back cottage living /horse ranch anymore 😂. It's also borderline fanfic which entertains me.

[@unicorntears6179]

Rotational gameplay is the best. Especially when most of my households live in the same neighborhood. It feels like my sims are in an episode of Desperate Housewives. I like to have my sims cheat on their partners a lot. It keeps things interesting, lmao.

[@alekmikate]

im making a whole harry potter universe in my sims save. they have their own dynamic etc, pick your own fav world and create it! you will see how interesting it will get!

[@demariusfisher931]

Wait wait wait, I never knew you were a kingdom hearts fan! I need to know more!!

[@killertau-]

I love the idea of Cats & Dogs.. loved the pets packs in older Sims games, but it feels like it's way too much of a chore in Sims 4.. mainly because you can't control them, so they basically just act as babies 🤷‍♂️

[@mayormcweed1823]

I usually just go on week long 'shopping' sprees of downloading CC and then I usually end up sliding down the slippery slope of whims of which are quite wicked

[@zabi_aka]

What i actually like to do is kinda what you said. I make my same-face sim, i play with it for a while, realise it's boring and go back to cas to make new parents/grandparents/siblings etc for them and then move them out (cause i can't handle multitasking in sims 4) 😂 now they have a horde of relatives bothering them and making my sim's story somewhat richer

[@diogomatias737]

havent even watched the video but im here for it, the cancelling of EA, honestly me and my boyfriend have been having so much fun with these videos

[@glumbun]

It’s too late for me, i’m afraid. i love many of the mods that make the experience better but im so tired of updating all of them every new update. i just deleted ts4 and my mods folder and i feel so much better 😭 i have a new pc coming in soon anyway but im doubting i’ll want to dl it again on there. i’ll just wait for inzoi…

[@aVoid_only]

I’m not the greatest builder but I love making sims. The only problem I have is ofc with Men’s clothing, there’s hardly anything and I don’t like the bottom of the pants. I just want normal pants please! I have a huge save with 7 families that I made, a lot of moving parts but very fun.

[@Seikurith]

I stopped taking my save file seriously and just turned it into my own Meme House. I have Bogan, Garfield, SpongeBob, Vibe Check, and Wesker like in the original series. I've taken it upon myself to add some different characters to the world like Baldi, WarGreymon, a few Homestuck trolls, and a Link that isn't the CD-I version lol. I got my OCs in there mingling with them, and I use a mod that prevents the creation of randomly generated townies (it's by Cepzid, and I cannot play without it) xDD I already do rotational gameplay and do not have the same dynamics in every household. Like my favourite original household (all OCs, the other favourite household has a premade Sim I had my OC marry) my space punk thug OCs that terrorize the neighbourhood. One of them turned out to be one of the best dads in my game, and one of the others turned out to be a freakin' deadbeat dad and his catboy-hybrid teenage son wrote a bestselling book called "My Dad is a Dumbass" XDD I have both kids living with their dads and they don't really participate in the violence and thuggery. The leader of the group had been having gay relations with the aforementioned two thugs' brother (who happens to also be his bodyguard) and I can't even anymore because it was unexpected xDD

[@kelly-bo-belly]

These are great suggestions.

[@naediggs4816]

Waaaait, I didn't know you were a KH fan, too!!! When Missing Link comes out, do you wanna do a Let's Play? Omg maybe the Satchon Community can initiate playing together??

[@hikikomori5917]

I don't know, every time I try to do things differently, I immediately find out that Sims 4 just doesn't have enough features to actually do things differently. No matter how many packs, expansions, etc one may buy, the game is missing a core feature -- a satisfying game play loop, which is what's most important for a life simulator. Sims 2 had that with the "Wants and Fears" system. Sims 3 had that with the open world. The Sims 4 really is just a dull, millennial life simulator, without any of the satisfying game play loops of its predecessors. And if you try to deviate from that type of game play at all, you're met with road blocks that the game just wasn't designed to deliver on, even with mods. It's really disappointing, honestly.

[@bunnicula6257]

Love the kingdom hearts wallpaper

[@cecbsoe]

3:20 I only have a laptop to play and it can’t handle more sims 4 stuff… I didn’t even buy all the packs just a few

[@itsgaylebitxh]

Best way to enjoy TS4 is by putting it down and playing TS2 or TS3

[@positivelysimful1283]

I don't think I can play much without mods, mods keep it interesting. Mods and challenges. I also like to do the Bitlife/Sims combo, where I play out in the Sims the things that happen in a Bitlife game. IDK why but it amuses me.

[@bootje99]

3:58 what youtube video? how come don't see it in your feed? Do you have a 2nd channel? or is it for members only?

[@KngMary]

playing with mods is like having a brand new enhanced game. Been playing with mods and CC for years and once I've tried playing without them and I COULDN'T

[@natalieilatan]

I didn't know there was a way to get mods without having to manually update all the time. Wow game changer

[@meetthejacksons720]

So true it has so much more opportunities when u switch families I try to do the same. Some are clean freaks and dirty along with trying to make it day by day. More entertaining

[@VaultGirl684]

I’ve always wanted to renovate the lots in every single world but I always loose interest while renovating the first lot😭