The Sims 4 Shows Off its Home Building Tools

Spending hours decorating their house and having them live their life only to kill them all when you grow bored of them is pretty much how you play The Sims.

There is a reason most expansions introduce new ways to kill your sims and new ghost types related to them. This is the best video I could find with most of the deaths in Sims 3:

I would't hold high hopes for that, friend.

The main cash grab in Sims game was always to get you constantly returning each time an expansion came out. Not to mention the thousands of single items in the EA store, like clothes and pieces of furniture.

I didn't buy into it much in Sims 3, but I'm sure EA has been perfecting their micro-transaction machine just for this.

Is Maxis actually going to make me interested in a Sims game after Sim City? I'm a sucker for the Sims.

Faces look just like the Sims 3 weird 'pillow faces', so I'll say they probably borrowed a lot from the last game.

The only true way I can make a purchase worthy option is to watch Alexis do a quick look of this. Human Zoo possible? Can you set off fireworks in the kitchen? Place beds outside? Make a "death bed" of remembrance for the recently departed? I need him to make a Giant Bomb household run through. If Alexis isn't included in the quick look of the Sims 4....we riot!

I wouldn't give up hope on that just yet. It's a short preview video, and I'm sure there are more advanced tools to be had that wouldn't fit into the quick demo they wanted to do. It would be weird to do a step backward in that regard, but we won't really know until we get more info. Here's hoping!

Woah that's looking pretty slick.

I just hope there's enough furniture and decorations to choose from to make homes as unique looking inside. Without having to spend a fortune on DLC and expansions, I mean.

As much as I've always enjoyed playing The Sims, I've always found it to be one of the more grubby games for squeezing money out of folks who want a greater variety of things to choose from. In that sense, the base games always feel kinda barebones.

EA has to be EA somewhere along the lines, I guess.

So I assume they are removing all the advanced build tools from Sims 3? It looks like they simplified a lot of stuff, but I'm guessing that means they removed the ability to do split level houses or basement garages and the like. Too bad =(

I fucking adore The Sims games. Owned every one since the very beginning.

Ah, it looks like you didn't watch the 24 hour livestream :P

The Sims 4: Human Zoo
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the more I see of the sim 4, the more I want to play it. I'm still going to wait on the verdict of the game before i buy it. I really fell EA may pull another simcity on us.

YESSSSS. Building in the Sims is my favorite. This looks so great.

Congratulation on making Alex uncomfortable!

https://twitter.com/alex_navarro/status/471686692005761024/photo/1

Human zoo confirmed?

but how are its videogame-character-wrestler-creating tools?

@thegorilla: THIS IS KIND OF A TERRIFYING QUESTION.

I like

So how will Alexis kill everyone in Sims 4? I'm guessing everyone will burn or drown. Maybe somehow both.

Sims do not dream. it is the one thing that seperates us from them.

Yes, wall heights and better window placement! Always was the thing missing to be able to build interesting houses.

I also vastly prefer the art style over the Sims 3, it feels more like a natural evolution from the first two games.

I would guess the catch is all the expansion and millions of overpriced DLC furniture, just like in Sims 3.

I will not get burned again, a la Sim City. You can make good games, Maxis, make us happy.

Where's the basement garage? And the valley lot? I want to build on hills again. 3 went flat and I hope 4 borrows from 2, not 3.

I like what I'm seeing of the Sims 4 so what's the EA catch where they fuck it all up?

Can I build a teepee? That's what I really need to know.

Edit: Or a yurt. I'd settle for a yurt