And it’s not helped by a camera whose controls are, at best, finicky. Clicking on items you want to move, clicking on people you want to talk to, clicking on…well, pretty much everything in The Sims 4 is just a massive pain. These challenges mount as the game gives you more to do. Or, to put it in more simple terms: it shouldn’t take me three or four passes with a cursor to change my Sim’s shirt.
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Not only does the game not make it blatantly obvious how to change clothes, it also makes changing them a pain once you figure it out, demanding precise clicks on the clothing item you want to change but not giving you a cursor that can be moved with that level of precision. Changing your Sim’s appearance should be the most basic, intuitive part of the game, except, beyond giving your Sim a name and a personality, it’s not. Unfortunately, it’s more a hint of all the frustration to come. Creating a Sim should be a fun introduction to the game, a hint of all the different customization options to come. The problems manifest themselves almost as soon as you start playing. When you have to flip between all those options with a controller, it’s not nearly as precise, or intuitive, or responsive. The Sims 4 is built around giving you all kinds of customization options, which probably works great when you’re just clicking around a screen with your mouse. What I can blame EA for, however, is porting a game designed to be played with a mouse and keyboard over to a situation where people have to experience it with a controller. I can lament what feels like a lost opportunity, but I can’t blame EA for not having a feature that, apparently, the rest of the world has moved on from. I know, I know: Sims 3 didn’t have it, either (which, I realize in retrospect, is why I don’t have fond memories of playing that entry), so I can’t be too upset about its absence this time around. You can imagine my disappointment, then, when I discovered that The Sims 4 didn’t revive that same feature. I don’t generally go for emergent gameplay, and she doesn’t usually go for video games, period, but there was something about that game that just clicked for both of us. One of my all-time favourite gaming memories is playing Sims 2 for hours on GameCube with the woman who’d eventually become my wife. Even though I haven’t played any of the games in years, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Sims franchise.
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