User blog comment:Knc1w2h3n4c5t/The Sims 4 is NOT Open World - Thoughts?/@comment-75.206.157.220-20140730151349

I can't say I'm thrilled about not having an open world or the create a style, but then again I'm not excatly sure what this means for the game.

From the game walk-through at the "Bro residence" lot it looked like you could see your neighbors and maybe even walk down the street to visit them, (LOOKED I don't actually know if you can). It doesn't seem to be as confining as the sims 2 where I could literally only stay at my house when I was home. But coming from the sims 3 I've gotten to love the open world and what it meant I could do. I could send one sim of to the book store while the other went to the pier to fish and keep track of both of them and their interactions with other sims. It was one of the main reasons I easily transistion to the sims 3 because it was something I hated in the sims 2. So does this mean that each "neighborhood" has mutilply lots to make it feel less confined within them? Say I went to the gym could I also go the a libary across the street without the load screen coming up? But I do like the idea of being able to cross from world to world in game as long as the time is consitant. If I have family in other worlds I want to see them age and have their children age as if they would if they where still under my control.

As for CAS, one of the main things I spend countless of hours was desgining. Not just my sims house but their outfits, making them unique because of the limited  popular choices. By removing CAS does this give me more options in clothing in return? I mean it's not going to kill me it not being there, it took me forever to realize it was there and to actually use it when I first discovered it. But over all I can't wait for the game to come out and hopefully these things will be over looked by the new things in the Sims 4