The Sims 4

Yes. Could you repeat yourself?

Now, now, toddlers, calm down. Or else you won't get your pools back.

it'll be in DLC within a few months, I'd put money on it.

It's EA. They've probably already made the DLC, named it, packaged it, and only need to wait a few months.

Or you could get it now in exchange for your soul.

edited 8th Jul '14 10:22:07 AM by Ringsea

There is going to be a demo of the Create-A-Sim coming soon. Here's a FAQ for it.

Huh, I did not know they were removing so much stuff. I thought it was just pools and toddlers.

edited 8th Jul '14 11:57:15 PM by CassidyTheDevil

... wow. They rely are taking like seventy steps backward.

If that CAS demo isn't of limited use, I may just stck with that and never buy the game.

If I'm honest, I'm not too bothered about the absence of create-a-style and pools. CASt I never really bothered with that much, and pools just end up killing my Sims. As long as the rest of the game is good, I'll be fine.

I'd say the biggest thing they are removing here is the work and school lots. This feels like something that probably will not be added in an expansion pack.

EDIT: looking at the description for The Sims 4 on Origin, it includes careers in a list of things that are customizable. This might just be an oversight, but, do you think they're going to be overhauling the career system somehow?

edited 9th Jul '14 7:25:06 AM by Jinxmenow

I wish people would stop saying that they're just dropping everything, or going backwards. For the most part, they're not removing things, they're changing them. They didn't drop the open world, they made a design choice to redesign the way the world work (and, IMHO, changed it for the better). The only things that have been out right "dropped" are swimming, toddlers, CASt (which didn't add much to begin with), and rabbitholes (which were widely disdained). In fact, they've added a lot more to the base game, with things like emotions, the new CAS, and travel. If you don't like the changes they're making, that's fine, say so, you have every right to be dissatisfied if you don't like how they're designing this game. But don't misrepresent the situation by claiming they're going miles and miles backwards. They're just going somewhere else

I'm sorry, I sounded pretty pissy there. All I mean is: Complain about what you don't like, but acknowledge the reality of the situation

edited 9th Jul '14 6:59:51 PM by TheComicScholar

With the removal of CASt will we still be able to make any clothing any color?

Probably not.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings on removing CAS. On the one hand, losing customization options obviously sucks. On the other hand, CAS also made a lot of the furniture kind of same-y, somehow. It was almost too flexible, you know?

What is a rabbit hole anyway?

A lot that exists on the map that your sims can enter, but you can't see them when they do. Think shops or jobs in TS 3.

Thanks. I thought it was something where the outcome was randomized, or something like that. I was way off.

They've announced that there'll be two Worlds in the base game: Willow Creek (based on New Orleans) and Oasis Springs (based on suburban Las Vegas)

Whoa. New Orleans and Las Vegas?

Those are both a pretty far cry from the standard Suburban Paradise the previous games have used.

edited 16th Jul '14 12:49:01 PM by Mukora

I'm okay with that, so long as they're big enough; filling up a large neighborhood with my Sims and their friends/rivals/mortal enemies is more fun than having a ton of smaller 'burgs.

I just hope they have proper apartment support in the base game.

Here's the first proper (beta) gameplay demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN2ue9y7_2M

You know, I the "Dying of Laughter" thing is starting to look really annoying. I hope it's not as common as it's being portrayed in these videos.

edited 30th Jul '14 3:50:54 PM by Jinxmenow

I didn't see anyone die of laughter in that one.

I mean, the Comic Scholar's beta gameplay video.

It's probably this game's "rare hilarious death that you'll probably never get," like how in Sims 2 your Sims could get eaten alive by flies or in Sims 3 they could get hit by meteors.

edited 30th Jul '14 10:33:37 PM by KnownUnknown

So, the Uncomfortable emotion is denoted by a stinky foot?