User blog comment:LostInRiverview/New Game Pack for TS4: Outdoor Retreat/@comment-24258073-20141220040747/@comment-14.201.214.192-20141231021102

My thoughts, cause you asked:


 * It's a bit confusing, but once you get used to the new UI and that Build and Buy modes are combined, everything is different places, etc., it's quite easy--and if i dare say it, better.


 * No Pools until you apply Patch 9.


 * There hasn't been an EP or SP yet for ages, so there's nothing that hasn't been in The Sims 1/2/3 (AFAIK).


 * The graphics are very nice, smooth, etc.


 * It has the same muscle and other sliders in CAS from The Sims 3 (I forgot what EP)


 * I think ovens catch on fire more quickly than TS2, IDK why but it just seems like it. I've had about 3 fires from ovens, and 1 in TS2 (from unattended toaster pastry)


 * The phone (which is a Sim's--not a phone from buy mode because they don't exist) doesn't have deliveries, or emergencies.


 * Sims in TS4 (as you may be aware) don't have Wants/Fears,  but they have Whims (you know, the little thought-bubble like things above their Portrait?), which are sort of like wants. They don't have to be completed, you can just hover over it and click the X..

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I could go on and on and on, but I'll stop here. -- And yes, I get the same feeling as you: when it's sim-time, it's The Sims 2 time. I want a University or Seasons like EP for it, as those are my two favourite EP's for The Sims 2/3.