User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/The Sims 4: One year later/@comment-27408862-20151214025907

Honestly, I don't mind The Sims 4.

Yes, it's a cash cow. Yes, it's runs like crap on new PCs. Yes, the graphics are worse than The Sims 3 and are a lot more cartoony compared to The Sims 2. Yes, it calls for a lot of hate on EA. Yes, you should probably pirate it instead (at least you know Origin won't have to hog up more resources, right?). But it really did improve upon The Sims 3. Loading screens I don't have a problem with, but that's probably because I somewhat hated The Sims 3 with its stuttery and laggy open world, and The Sims 2 has much longer loading screens especially since it can't take advantage of newer hardware.

The new build mode, emotions system and more are just so much better than The Sims 2 and 3. (okay, maybe not the emotions system when compared to The Sims 2--it's just so much more "real" in TS2).

Just my 2 cents.