Going Back To The Sims 2 Showed Me Everything Wrong With The Sims 4

I recently returned to after primarily playing during the last ten years, and I found that it has several qualities that I prefer to those in . Considering it'd been so long since I returned to play a main game in the series other than, I suspected that it was the nostalgia of that had me remembering it as being more fun, and perhaps a result of playing the game during a time in my life with fewer responsibilities. In the end, it wasn't just nostalgia influencing my opinion.

has celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it shows no sign of slowing down, with a new expansion announced and set to arrive in time for Halloween. However, being the longest-running base game and the entry with the most extra content due to the variety of packs that have been released for the game over ten years doesn't make it the best base game by default. In comparison to other versions of, I would even go as far as saying that might be the most boring among them.

I find that the set-up for additional content for has a few flaws, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was intentionally done for the sake of getting as much money out of the game as possible. The packs are separated into several categories, from full expansions to kits, and the category basically indicates how much the pack will cost and the type of content it'll contain. Full expansions are the most expensive, but they include actual changes to gameplay, such as new life stages and new locations. Meanwhile, kits are the cheapest and include mostly cosmetic additions, like furniture and clothing.

The idea of separating additional content like this isn't necessarily bad, but I don't think it's exactly satisfying in the way it's been implemented, either. In this case, I'm talking mostly about the kits. They don't cost much, about $5 USD, but they also add little in terms of content, and in a lot of cases,the amount added isn't even worth the money. Usually, when a kit is added and what it'll include is revealed, it feels like more of