History VideoGame / TheSims4

On January 14, 2015, a "Game Pack" was introduced allowing Sims to go on vacation to a new world called Granite Falls as well as introducing a number of camping related items such as tents. On April 2, 2015, the first expansion pack, titled "Get to Work" was released, (re)introducing three careers which you will be able to actively participate in (scientist, detective, doctor), as well as the ability to have your Sims run retail businesses.

** If you build your house up from scratch, sometimes a sim would come into the house, go out the back (or into a random room), ''then knock and ask to be let in''. See, the game requires you to set a door is the main door, and actually allows you to set ''any'' door as the main door, even if the door doesn't lead outside, and even then, if your main door doesn't face the street, the game will get confused.

** If you build your house up from scratch, sometimes a sim would come into the house, go out the back (or into a random room), ''then knock and ask to be let in''. Apparently the game's AI has problems figuring out which door in the house opens to the outside world.

** The game pixellates the whole screen if the game's CopyProtection determines that it has been compromised (ie the main executable's checksum doesn't add up, usually done to bypass the game's Origin check).

** If you build your house up from scratch, sometimes a sim would come into the house, go out the back (or into a random room), ''then knock and be asked to be let in''. Apparently the game's AI has problems figuring out which door in the house opens to the outside world.

On January 14, 2015, a "Game Pack" was introduced allowing Sims to go on vacation to a new world called Granite Falls as well as introducing a number of camping related items such as tents. On February 3, 2015, the first expansion pack, titled "Get to Work" was announced, to be released sometime in April 2015. It will (re)introduce a number of careers which you will be able to actively participate in, as well as the ability to have your Sims run retail businesses.

* BannedInChina: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]: unlike the previous three versions of the game, this one was rated 18+ (=unsuitable for minors) in Russia - presumably because of the new HeteronormativeCrusader laws of the country combined with the fact that the game does nothing to prohibit same-sex relationships.

* ArtificialStupidty: Maids decide a freshly cooked meal is trash and will go over and throw it away before leaving the plate on a table. Hard to find good help these days, isn't it?

* ObviousBeta: Accused of being this by many fans due to the absence of a number of core franchise features at launch such as ghosts and swimming pools. Many fans feel the game was rushed to release. Fortunately, some of those features have been added back for free in patches.

* {{Pixellation}}: Female Sims are pixellated shoulder-to-knee when showering or using the bathroom, male Sims from waist-to-knee. [[VideoGamePerversityPotential Naturally one of the first things modders did was find a way to remove it.]]

* VideogameCrueltyPotential: Many players find great glee in tormenting their Sims any way they can. And there are a lot of ways.

** The most obvious example of this is the smartphone that all Sims seem to have: these didn't even ''exist'' in the form they do today when the first ''Sims'' game was released.

* {{Pixellation}}: Female Sims are pixellated shoulder-to-knee when showering or using the bathroom, male Sims from waist-to-knee.
** [[VideoGamePerversityPotential So naturally one of the first things modders did was find a way to remove it.]]

** [[VideoGamePerversionPotential So naturally one of the first things modders did was find a way to remove it.]]

* Speaking Simlish: Sims speak the titular "Simlish," which is mostly gibberish.

'''The Sims 4''' is the fourth standalone game in the [[Franchise/TheSims series]], released in 2014. It places more emphasis in [[DigitalAvatar character creation]] while simplifying other aspects -- notably, pools and toddlers were excluded from the base game, which was a massive BaseBreaker at the time of the release. The sims can now feel emotions which are influenced by their traits.

'''The Sims 4''' is the fourth standalone game in the [[Franchise/TheSims]] series, released in 2014. It places more emphasis in [[DigitalAvatar character creation]] while simplifying other aspects -- notably, pools and toddlers were excluded from the base game, which was a massive BaseBreaker at the time of the release. The sims can now feel emotions which are influenced by their traits.