Stop hating The Sims 4 and admit it: the game nails what counts

All you haters of The Sims 4, put down your pitchforks and just hear me out.

EA Games’ latest iteration of The Sims series is not as bad a game as Reddit thinks, nor is it a step down or a step back from the progress made with The Sims 3.

It’s true that The Sims 4 doesn’t have the open world freedom that The Sims 3 awarded us, nor does it have the multitudes of expansion packs that have been done to death over the last three iterations of the game. It doesn’t have swimming pools or toddler life stages, and being a new game, it has a variety of glitches.

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However, it does make up for the lack of that freedom by focusing on what’s important to the series: the Sims themselves.

Home is all the entertainment you need

Loading screens in between each lot aren’t a big deal when you consider just how much you can do at home. Without diving into details (which our full review will have), The Sims 4 offers a ridiculous amount of customization in build mode. You can now build and place stuff at angles and at different levels on walls, and that’s only the beginning of what you can do.

While the items and furniture available to you are still limited (hey, it’s week one for the game, after all), the base selection has almost everything you’d want, with the exception of one thing: the good ol’ telephone.

The future is now

That’s because (as the caption above reads) The Sims series has kept up with the times. It’s not just the base item selection that’s become more expansive. Each Sim now owns a mobile phone, because who uses a landline phone anymore? They’re also able to engage in modern day activites like chatting online, playing mobile games, and, yes, even taking selfies.

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