What was The Sims 4 like when it first came out?

[@selkiefluff]

I remember playing the demo for a couple days, then giving in and going to the store with my dad later. I'll tell you what though, these selection of early base game clothes definitely makes it noticeable how obsessed they are with neons. Neon magenta, neon blue, neon green EVERYWHERE, it was not cool even in 2014, I promise. It took them this many years and collabs to realize people want neutrals.

[@biscuityy]

Honestly it’s embarrassing that how they thought everyone wanted flashy zebra print purple and green, but they couldn’t comprehend that neutrals were something that were needed? That’s so shameful tbh

[@ghosty8193]

@@biscuityy fr! Like, have they ever walked into a primark or an H&M? Neutrals everywhere.

[@emerson3669]

@@ghosty8193 like, only neutrals basically LOL!

[@Kualinar]

Neon colours where in during the 1970's, and made a comeback in the 1990's. Broad legs where a late 1960's thing, often in bold colours. Low waist where late 1960 to early 1970's

[@legendarybubbles4567]

@@Kualinar That’s awesome information! Thank you!

[@beetle7962]

I remember being blown away by the cas demo

[@simmerscrossing]

Same!

[@biscuityy]

Honestly hearing peoples views on things when this came out is so funny 😂

[@yayadavamp]

same😭

[@KaseyRosewood]

Honestly I was really disappointed with the lack of color options. I wasn't used to not having a color wheel. I didn't end up getting into it until last year and that's only because my husband bought the base game for me and i seen how smoothly it ran.

[@trashqueen4361]

I was only blown away that i could choose their foot size, everything else was kinda boring and sad

[@koihime]

I find it so crazy how TS4 is so bad at making trendy/in style clothes. They basically missed the whole cycle of the high rise pants. Low rise pants are already kind of coming back in style and it feels like it was quite recently that we started getting pants that don't show our sims' butt crack.

[@StarJester]

lol ur so right

[@hpdftba]

Maybe I’m just getting too old, but I am so angry that low rise pants are coming back in style. I only recently started getting new clothes and getting rid of my old high school low rise jeans, but now they are back in style!

[@rice3844]

@@hpdftba wear what you want! High rise generally looks better anyway

[@zetjet9901]

Yeah, I think that’s just TS in general. I remember playing the Sims Freeplay in like 2016, and all of the CAS stuff was very early 2000’s.

[@THATSmE4EVA2u]

Yes, definitely YES! Sims 2 was quite good at styles, but Sims 3 was horrible, Sims 4 was just as bad...

[@Ycontrolher]

I hand painted the Sims 4 original plumbob and it took me 4+ hours. I used acrylics and blended every green I had together to get the effect. Not to brag, but it's perfect. THEN THEY CHANGED IT 😭

[@prosperstarling3513]

that's unfortunate

[@biscuityy]

Damn, that sucks. Like actually I feel so bad for you 😂😅

[@junglily]

I mean now you have yourself a painting of the prehistoric plumbob 😂

[@mayhare9754]

If it makes you feel any better, I do think the original plumbob looked cooler than the new one.

[@VonBuch]

„We only had 18 skintones“ Well, for me who skipped TS3 and came straight from sims 2 (with 4 Skintones) this was incredible 😅.

[@Mimi-py8mf]

Lmao right? I came from the sims bustin' out on the ps2

[@augusto7681]

Me too haha. It's nice they have more skin colors now but I think like half of them are not usable. The cool skin tones are really grey and some variations are almost the same skin with different details in the shadow.

[@sfisher923]

I basically came from TS1 on Console (I did touch 3 but never really got in to that game)

[@Gisellenid]

You missed the best of them all.

[@VonBuch]

@@Gisellenid I tried TS3 once (a friend had it on her PC) I wasn’t a fan of the art style and the open world overwhelmed me 😅 So I stayed with TS2

[@bellabean8009]

God you pulled that Sweater Dress out ( 7:18 ) and I was transported back to Lifesimmer's OG sims 4 lets play, I think the sims name was Candace Monet and she wore that. And then I put every sim in that for a year because it was the cutest thing we had in CAS

[@beckstheimpatient4135]

The sweater dress is a mood and I would still wear it nowadays. I've always been a fan of it.

[@DREAMINDIGO]

Same! Both in real life and in game

[@tortillachips3911]

I do want to clarify that in the Sims 3 you could still go into advanced mode for editing facial features. Just that all the options were controlled by sliders. The options were still there.

[@tortillachips3911]

Honestly, even when the game came out, within 20 minutes I was missing the sliders for the face, and I think after about 1.5 hours making my sim and house, I played for less than an hour before quitting and switching back to the Sims 3 because I was bored 😅

[@antonizajkowski9698]

I don't get why people choose TS3, if not for nostalgia. The gameplay is best in TS2, the B/B mode is best in TS4, I guess the CAS depends on the person, but imo TS3 sims look awful and have same-face-syndrome... so I don't see any field that TS3 works best. I guess it's mediocre in all fields

[@theekatspajamas]

@@antonizajkowski9698 I dunno, I preferred the sims 3 gameplay over the others, especially from the expansion packs. I'd play for hours in each of the different packs, even after the sims 4 came out. I even preferred building in the sims 3 until we got more build/buy items in the sims 4.

[@TricksterIdiot]

@@antonizajkowski9698 Nah, it does have simillar amound of gameplay as TS2. I really miss TS3 school in other games, 2 doesn't really have school gameplay and High School Years... You want me to do another repetitive gameplay like Get To Work? It's way to much complicated and time-consuming, and after a while you just don't have interest in it. Prom and notifications were way better. And theres many stuff like that, if it wasn't for look, it would be a great game, open world, pets, horses, small animals, snakes, cute toys, univercity, magic creatures that weren't inpacting game too much to get annoying

[@phunnyguysixtynine]

@@antonizajkowski9698 I agree 100%. Sims 3 was the most lackluster of all the sims games to me, and the faces of those sims is true nightmare fuel

[@essaedits_xo]

I remember when i first got the game like 5 years ago, I thought CAS was amazing, but than I discovered cc, they updated the gendering system of ts4, they discovered what subtle was, and they updated hair colors and skin tones. So looking back i really realize how incredibly lackluster the old CAS really was.

[@witchyfishfry]

8:44 kayla: "i don't think i've ever given a sim these gloves" stanley humphrey: am i a joke to you 😭

[@ema_groot29]

i just remember playing for HOURS in the demo before my grandma finally bought me the full game after it was out for a year. she said it was sad i only played like half the game😭💀

[@DREAMINDIGO]

Your grandma sounds so sweet

[@NuteGunray]

W Grandma

[@francis7336]

57 add-ons later and we don't even have twice as many traits as we did in the cas demo 💀

[@kazejonin]

Omg true

[@amrei1692]

THISSSSSSS

[@andreamorningstar895]

Besides likes and dislikes, are there any other new traits in the base game? Because I can't remember other traits than the one she showed

[@francis7336]

@@andreamorningstar895 I don't think so 🤡

[@andreamorningstar895]

@@francis7336 I started with Sims 4 and when I tried Sims 3 I was shocked by all the traits they had, it's at least twice as much and way funnier options too. So sad

[@sonjatampe391]

I remember going to Gamescom in Germany and standing in line to play the sims 4 demo. A woman came up to me and asked me if I wanted to partake in a quiz and ofc I said yes immediately. She asked me what the name of the "thing above sims heads is" ... i immediately answered "plumbob" and my price was skipping the waiting line 😀that was so awesome. At least 1+ hr saved. And I got to play the demo which was so amazing! 😀 I see it in my origin libraby all the time but never thought of revisiting it. What an amazing idea kayla ! 🙂

[@Minmarky]

omg I've also played the demo at gamescom!! I was so impressed back then and thought it was totally worth the wait for 1. wait in line and 2. wait for the game to be released... but looking back it was actually sad and lacking so much

[@tomilang]

This video reminds me how upset I was with The Sims 4 CAS when I just started playing it sometime after launch. There were no curly hairstyles that in-between slightly wavy and fully dense/afro curls, so no way to get hair like mine or in general the type of curly hair so common where I come from. Like my ethnicity did not exist as all in the game lol

[@sg-qi7np]

same !!

[@rawwrryy]

I kinda wish there would be more walk options tho Its kinda fun and would give the sims more personality too

[@utube9056]

Cas was groundbreaking! As a player that experienced the game develop from sims 1 to this it was HUGE improvement! Of course I didn’t have eyes to notice any flaws

[@mel_diamonddove9913]

I was so impressed with this demo back in the day, then was so disappointed with the game on release. so, I continued playing sims 3 until literally June 2021 🤣

[@tortillachips3911]

I still play the Sims 3 more often than Sims 4 tbh

[@claudiah.2935]

Wow you held out longer than I did! I thought I waited a long time by getting TS4 in late 2017 lol

[@biscuityy]

I might switch to the sims 3 in the meantime because my sims 4 meantime because I can’t even open my sims 4 game 😂

[@CrownedLily]

I've only ever played 4 hours of The Sims 3. It only once made it pass the loading screen for me. So I went years without playing the Sims and just jumped right into 4 without ever really playing 3.

[@Schnort]

@@biscuityy sims 3 has a lot of lag, make sure to get some mods to help with it

[@Seiferboi]

The dress and legging combo is what a few of my female cousins wore for Christmas Eve one year. They including knee-high and thigh-high boots along with a wide belt to complete the look.

[@toxxicx]

instagram moms still wear this in the fall

[@DREAMINDIGO]

I still dress like this, I even put it on my sim self lol

[@Renikee]

There are actually two wedding clothes (full body outfit) in Sims 3, one with, and one without necklace. I've always used that one when my female sim was about to get married

[@GreenScrapBot]

I like how the Erratic trait was called Insane and that straitjacket icon was changed not that long ago... 😂

[@mygetawayart]

the other day i went back and watched one of the first James Turner formerlyknownasthesimsupply The Sims 4 videos and boy the build mode was TRAGIC, and even then, i was too busy being in awe at how practical all the build functions were.....how naive i was

[@mickefy]

As I was driving, today, I locked eyes with my own stuffed Snap cat, on the dash, and realized my partner had turned him around to mess with me. His face told me a story of hope, perseverance and melancholy. I, then, turned him back around to get back to the view of cat cheeks I was used to. What a day.

[@druskellyington]

🤣

[@angelfall7479]

I have dim memories of James doing a throwback to the original release version of the game, maybe for the 5th anniversary or something?

[@buttersofi]

Yeah precisely. He had the og disc though

[@bakingwithtrouble4918]

I remember watching KZbinrs playing Sims 4 and I was obsessed but my family is poor so this demo was my life

[@theeverythingkid]

This will be so different. Remember no ladders and no auto window door placement in walls etc

[@steviecarter]

I follow you on Instagram

[@biscuityy]

Just thinking about that makes me cringe like the fact that we used to have no matters or auto place windows and doors freaks me out 😂

[@williek08472]

No toddlers, no swimming pools, no ghosts...

[@theeverythingkid]

@@steviecarter great

[@baharmanavi9880]

i remember searching EVERYWHRE for this game back when it was first released bc it's an illegal game where i'm from. i was finally able to get it from an underground dvd shop and installed it on my fat computer only to be disappointed by the lack of everything compared to the sims 3 and deleting the game

[@kazejonin]

I remember renting it for the 360 when I went to visit my sister and brother-in-law, and was in awe. Now I feel like it was a dream and didn't happen. That being said, my nephew turned 8 just a couple of weeks ago, so he and TS4 are the same age....

[@isabell7325]

I remember being obsessed with the demo when I was younger. I played it for hours before I got the game.

[@katieletts9981]

I loved the CAS Demo so much but continued to play Sims 2 until toddlers came out in 2017. It's fun to look back and see how much has changed!

[@itstillonlycountsas1932]

Dude that sweater dress/leggings/ boots combo was THE MOMENT

[@lilyaileen]

pffff as a child in 2014 i remember that the ONLY jeans that were available for purchase in stores for elementary schoolers were low waisted and boot cut and they were the ugliest, most uncomfortable things on the planet.

[@glitchgoblin1338]

I love how sims is different for us all in ways. The hair option you said you've never used is one that's most nostalgic for me.

[@meganlister3084]

Even with only having sliders there was still a lot of functionality with TS3 CAS. And that color wheel fixed a multitude of sins 😆

[@tangerine101]

Oh my god, the goddamn demo version. I remember when my sister made a very, very important announcement at the dinner table one night. (She was OBSESSED with the sims 3. She has played it since like 2011). And she had to legit beg my dad to let her get it. I sat on a dining chair in the living room, next to her, and watched her play. God the nostalgia 😭

[@pokix1215]

I was also so obsessed with the sweater dress althoughI I added the galaxy leggings with it 😭😭

[@jayjay4816]

i always breeded my sims and made "mansions" (simply just a huge house with way to mutch furniture)

[@AmandaC.]

This is so cool!! Ive been rewatching old James Turner videos and its soooo wierd seeing how much the game changed since then! Like seeing reactions of all the base game added features!

[@maximumdinosaur]

THE CAS DEMO OH MY GOD. THIS WAS MY EVERYTHING.

[@KristinaFarron]

my sims self mostly wear pretty gowns and dresses and cute top and skirt

[@maisieredfield8200]

You are such a good KZbin thanks for giving us a reason not to be bored

[@welovepies]

The sims 3 definitely comes with wedding dresses in base game? You can make anything white!

[@alexandria3583]

i loved the hair eliza pancakes has. i used it so often, that one and the longest one with curls at the end

[@simlishmork3831]

You know how townie Sims feel iconic and necessary for every save file? That's how I feel about the Sims I made with the cas demo. I still add them to every save. Maybe its just me, but I enjoyed the game more when it was a little simpler (not cas necessarily but gameplay).the more they've added, the less it all works especially the past couple years.

[@mattrose99]

I believe it was James Turner's (formerly known as The Sim Supply) channel where I saw a video about how to set TS4 back to the original base game. Watching it reminded me why I almost broke the game constantly with the amount of mods I downloaded.

[@nickolgoen3044]

I’d love a reference point of how many hours in actual Sims 4 Simsie has lol

[@ZoeDelToro]

the new skin tones is honestly so legendary. im so glad for all the options each day

[@masone-b9697]

I miss being able to customize the highlights and specifical parts of the hair color in sims 3

[@Pfannkuchen07]

I remember playing the demo with my friend and we made each other, but the hair options for curly hair were like non-existent so my friend gave me an afro because it was at least kinda curly BUT IT LOOKED so bad sksksksk I'm glad they edited more options for non-straight hair in the base game :')

[@user-cy6zq9oj4w]

i started playing a little later but i was a strict base game only player until 2020, and i was so obsessed with the sweater dress too

[@marblefanboy7724]

i remember playing the cas demo sooooo much for the couple months in between when ts4 launched and when i got it

[@lifewithjuice.2095]

OMG YOU MADE ME REALIZE IVE BEEN PLAYING TS4 FOR ABOUT 7 YEARS!!!

[@annabellem7953]

Didn´t know about this, but I still remember the strugel of creating a Sim in the first Sims Game and how many options there where in the sims 2, played that probably the most.

[@ashleyanimatesstuff]

Omg I remember when sims 4 first came out, I was in elementary school and I remember listening to music as I would play. Not much has changed from that time except now I play on console and I'm a senior in high school... How the time flies..

[@auacldo5751]

Rest In Peace queen Elizabeth, you will live forever in our hearts and the hearts of those you touched

[@NatalieHarrisonLim]

You and I both used the sweater dress and leggings all the time as well😂😭😂😭

[@SadBugBleu]

this is the lilsimie video that came out when queen Elizabeth died

[@catienoble3191]

I had so many of those clothes irl in the early 2010s (when I was in middle school) 😂 Also, I have 2 complaints about the original hair options: 1) there was no long curly hair options until fairly recently, like I played The Sims 4 a little bit in 2020 and only really got into it this year and that hair must've been added since then; I remember making my simself back in 2020 and the only 2 curly (but not coily) hairs were the long one that looks like it was curled with a really big curling rod and... a beehive?!? 2) many - if not most - of those hairs look really sharp lol

[@rea_keebz]

i'm pretty sure the english simmer did a video a year or two ago where she did exactly what you said and installed the game using a disc without wifi and played the game as it was released. i would love to see you do that

[@SimsLegacy5083]

Ironically that multi color fishtail braid is what my NSB minty girl started with. I wasn't using cc at the time and I didn't like the pure mint hair very much. Fun to go back!

[@elena_eleen]

I can distinctly remember people making cc recolors for the demo. They would override one of the existing swatches I think? I don't remember if you had to do something to make the files work in the actual basegame when it was out, but I know that I got it to work back in the day. I swear I still have some of those pieces in game now 😂

[@sfisher923]

On a similar note (Not quite the CAS Demo but still quite old) It blows my mind that Newcrest wasn't in the base game when it came out (It was added in patch 20) and that's the area I normally build in (Would do more Forgotten Hollow stuff but I hate the Welcome Wagons which were added in the same patch as Newcrest)

[@ladyofavalon80]

I still have access to the first sim I created in Sims 4 because I loaded her up to the gallery. I did it because I lost my first sim for Sims 3 to a computer crash, and missed her because I had used her as my picture for the Sims 3 online profile/gallery. I ended up quitting Sims 4 a few months after it's release. All of my Sims families began aging in my library and I couldn't figure out how to start a new save. The pickings for a husband were limited too and I ended up having a child with Don Lothario. I don't remember why, but I had to download the Goth family from the gallery. I was SO MAD that the library changed because Mortimer died and the family had aged. At that time I didn't know how to fix the family.

[@masquerademage]

i was in awe of this demo and the base game once it came out. such simpler times 🥺

[@DorkPrincess987]

I remember when the base game and CAS demo were released, you could upload the sims to the gallery, I maybe misremembering, but I do still have some old CAS demo sims up on my gallery.

[@brooklynelise5767]

I was just think about the create a sim demo when you released your last video. I remember the day this came out omg.

[@Choppete]

Playable? The answer for the title. The stuff they do now is so much better you can’t even play, it’s amazing.

[@tortillachips3911]

As someone who is mainly into CAS and not building in the Sims, it took me months to realize there weren't pools. But within a week I was frustrated at the lack of CAS options lol

[@yehfish88]

I literally made so many sims wearing that sweater dress with legging and boots. This style never fades!

[@NgarakoryFalls]

Ôh you made this video on the day that queen Elizabeth II has died, May she rest in peace.

[@Kae750]

I started playing just after outdoor retreat came out. The old menu music is so nostalgic 🎶

[@tmoo81024]

Hope you're having a great day simsie!

[@MiotaLee]

I was obsessed with the cas demo. Now I download as many extra sliders as I can

[@mayhare9754]

Regardless of anything else, I'll always appreciate the face editing system they went with for this game. It's still, in my opinion, the best face creation system we've ever had in a game, and I wish more games would use it instead of sliders and presets. I think The Sims 4 is one of the very few games where you can, within the art style limitations, make your character look EXACTLY like you want them to look.

[@MandPKratz]

Some of the stuff wasn't bad but I voided, and still do, a lot of the chunky items, like the hair and boots in particular. Some of those boots are some I would have wanted to use if they didn't look like big, plastic, doll shoes. On shoes, I really feel we could use some more nice heals and flats. With the gloves, didn't like that **all** the gloves were skin tight. Ditto on the jeans, hard to find a nice pair, and all we really need is a version of the more typical jeans one would find at a shop, a nice bootcut even.

[@katyycxx]

I wish sims added the same slider for the hair colours I could make the blonde look so good

[@LauraLeeLauraLoo]

I bought a physical copy of sims 4 right when it came out, my sim lost their job in the first week because they kept missing their shift because it took them all day to eat breakfast. I went back to the sims 3 for several more years.

[@amberb.6395]

Me and Stanley enjoyed this video! I got mine in today- perfect timing to finally sit down and watch todays videoN

[@thesparklycrayons]

Kayla I gotta say I love your brows. They’re so perfect! Also those freckles are poppin 😊

[@dylanjovan3082]

Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth :(

[@gummidoggi]

2014 was def a high waisted era bc i remember being upset that the jeans were all low waisted

[@gemmadowsett4283]

I loved this I was too poor at the time for the actual game so this was so fun to me I used to play it occasionally up until I finally got to

[@BasicallyDuncan]

You should do what you said about installing the game with no wifi! I’m pretty sure James Turner did that a couple years ago and it worked

[@Sizzleseater]

I so miss the maxis logo

[@sarahdragons861]

Clicked faster than my Sims getting married 😂

[@sheilacm2074]

okay but the sim she made at 7:44 is exactly how my main sim looked at that time xD just different swatches

[@vyvisabastard]

i bought the game in early 2015, i remember playing sims for YEARS without cc and now i cant play without it

[@nemuidesunoodle3358]

I remember when I played sims in 2017 my sister and I were like “there should be toddlers in the sims” few months later, tada!

[@ramonasalha6179]

cant belive they didnt have the eyeball ring

[@MissLewis27]

Oh my gosh I used to use that sweater dress on my sims ALL the time

[@skymmac]

to say alot more trait options is being pretty generous

[@fangirl258]

“no wedding dress in the sims 3 base game” girl what? there was that long strapless one that i used for alllll my sims wedding dresses.

[@g.jaundy]

7:26 omg i always did the exact same thing lol

[@kianastaples7492]

Bro I was in LOVE with the CAS demo I was literally so excited to download it for free

[@kiralouise9215]

I remember playing around with it and I hated it! I only got the sims 4 last year! Now I'm obsessed 😍

[@edsmoony]

omg I remember making thousands of sims in this demo because my parents only got me the game for my birthday the next year

[@svc_annon9929]

A nostalgia video was very cathartic today. Thank you simsie

[@luxqueenmina]

it took me a few years to get the sims 4 after it came out cause i didnt feel like not having pets but i had the cas demo and it BLEW my mind. then cats and dogs came out and i still waited cause i didnt care if i didnt have horses 😂

[@SJ.27]

I loved that sweater dress! I’d deffo wear that IRL!

[@sidneijunioranastacio3087]

I love your videos. I’ve been watching them to practice my listening skills in English.

[@HassassinCat]

First time ive played CAS just blown me away. I felt like it was alien technology ngl. Then I tried playing and found there was no toddlers, quit the game and never came back.

[@IvyCoveredAngel]

Toddlers exist now, it’s hella annoying tho