Remember in the Sims 3 You could look at the neighbourhood view and see a party going on and have the option to crash it? I miss that feature the most. It was just a nice detail that reminded you there was a world outside your sims.

those aren't actual sims in the trailers They're 3D models designed and colored to look like sims Animators created the trailers That's how you get the unrealistic emotions and interactions

I didn't know they marketed the Sims 4 as smart sims . . . how ironic because IMO they are the most stupid. Sims 2 were the smartest by far.

Never realized how much false advertisement was littered in the Get Famous promo….. almost all of those scenes they showed for the acting career aren’t even in the game.

didn't they originally state that they removed the open world aspect so they could optimise the lots, make them more crowded and well done? seems so lazy

I hate how with the wedding pack they wanted to “fix” the awful buggy weddings we had and then just made them worse AND had you pay for it

I miss Maxis when they owned Sims. They know how to add details and actual gameplay. 😴

These trailers are part of the problem. People, including myself at one point, saw these and got all excited and would go buy whatever the trailer was selling. The unfortunate part is that nobody's Sims ever act this way. It just doesn't look like this in game. Nothing is ever coordinated, half the time things don't work right, I feel like it's just misleading. People need to separate fact from fiction. Fact being what actually happens in your game and fiction being these trailers. I think we so desperately want these things to happen in game that the hope that it actually will overpowers the reality of how Sims behave and what the world in game is actually like.

The environment AROUND the lots is always SO rich in detail, if you’re worried about performance MAYBE make the surroundings (which are mostly unusable anyway) less detailed and then put more detail onto the actual lot?? This just makes zero sense and this build is horrendous. Making it more furnished for the trailer is literally false advertising

I still don't understand why the "lower end pc" excuse is still a thing. What was the point of the legacy edition if they're still going to limit lot detail and game play for those that are still able to play new releases?

The cottage living one was waay more engaging than the fake vague ones. They should just do that, I def agree with you on that.

They’re going to have a heart attack when a different life simulator rolls around and steals all their customers. Maybe some competition will force them to up their game.

Majority of the trailers don't feature real game-play & are not done on the Sims 4. They just animate all of that stuff. For Dine-Out, that's just an animated video. That's why all the sims are behaving and the restaurants are populated. Same with every trailer they have released. It is false advertising because when you buy the pack, you don't get to have that same experience at all.

That Get Famous trailer made me cringe so hard. I got the pack from a sale long after its' release so I was well aware of the features. Never watched the trailer (nor do I do watch them even now for I know official ones for any game tend to be bullcrap) but now that I saw it here... sheesh. I feel like they put more effort into their stupid trailers than in the actual game.

Lmao the fact that they give you warning in the trailer that that everything won’t be in game is BEYOND ME

You can't just "change the game" where ts4 is concerned. It seems to be a very set-in-stone system. That is just inherently broken. There is no fixing it.

the thing is, they don't even need to do shitty builds as a reason so lower end pc players can still play. it's a bit hard to implement completely different builds in different setting versions, like, if you changed your settings midgame, it'd either crash or destroy the existing things and replace them with the higher end versions, which could ruin someone's work in the game. but what isn't hard is implementing code that changes things like the npc spawning rates and amounts, and the debug menu items for the surroundings. so they could make the highschool experience the exact same as the trailer for everyone, but then have it so that if someone has it set for lower settings, there's less people walking around, but also less assets, meaning your game won't load certain objects in the world until you get a certain distance from them, and it reduces the amount of debug menu type decor around you, that's sorta like how some games like minecraft work, where you can set it for lower specs and it'll spawn less creatures and load less of the world around you. this would allow them to have the developed pack they portray in the trailer and still make it playable for people with lower end pcs. also, i'm pretty sure the reason why they don't get in legal trouble for these trailers is because it's considered cinematic gameplay trailers. so basically it's like those machinima things you mentioned, they're like a short movie type thing made to sell the game but doesn't actually represent what the game is. i mean, mobile game ads do it all the time without even a legal disclaimer to state the trailer footage doesn't represent actual gameplay and they just keep going like it's nothing

I’m happy I’m not the only one who is annoyed with how big and empty the school is. They honestly could’ve made it smaller and did a lot more with it. It honestly feels like a hospital building imo

You'd think it'd be a red flag for them that they have to make whole new animations and scenery to make the trailer look interesting.

It’s actually astonishing that EA hasn’t been sued for false advertisement yet.

The cottage one was the last thing I've bought, and was the one that brought me back to the game after giving up on it for years. I really enjoyed it, and I think for the most part it actually works. There are some annoying things, like every pie I make gets put down somewhere in the living room for some reason, but there wasn't anything really game breaking. At least, not that I saw. I still don't understand how my cow can come in third in a competition with only two cows, though.

I don't think they use actual footage from the game for the marketing, it looks like it's completely animated...

If the trailers were accurate, then people would always be doing pushups and situps in the background XD

They'd pretty much need Gordon Ramsay to step in as project manager and bring the dev team from Path of Exile combined with whoever made Rimworld for the Sims to have any hope at this point.

I missed the trailers that are actually look like it is actually from the game like in the Sims 2 days. AND they list down actual features in trailers. PLUS there are easter eggs and surprises in the game not featured in the trailer. Trailers nowadays have more glam and flashy effects. So much misleading elements in the Sims 4 trailers that looked more fun than it is.

The last couple of packs are empty. Here the problem EA got rid of a lot of people that were from the beginning of Sims 4. The people they have now are not very good. Look around at the old worlds and then go into the new worlds like the wedding world dead as a door nail.

If they had just merged the best parts of TS2 and TS3, added in TS4 build and buy and CAS, and then expanded from there this could’ve been such an amazing game.

In my opinion, it would have been a great feature to Get Famous, if they made small clips like in the trailer, so you would get these mini films with your sim in the role. Like in sims 2 we had those cute mini-movies when something big happened - I never grew tired of watching them no matter how many times I had seen them before. I don't know if it makes sense, but then the pack would have been more true to the trailer, and a lot more fun to do the acting carer. Just imagine having your old sim sitting with their grandkids and be like "I was quite a big actor when I was younger" and then be able to put on your own movie to show.

I last played the game around the time the werewolves pack came out. I wanted the cas and bb objects and thought it'd be fun to play as a werewolf. I was so annoyed with how constant the werewolf changes were, especially for teens who then couldn't go to school because of the transformation. And it was just kind of the last chance I gave the game. I stopped having teen sims and turned aging off for the main sims I played as, and had very set stories I played out. A bit after I stopped playing, I heard about the patch that ruined saves because of the aging issue. And I just haven't cared enough to go back. I legit miss sims 1 through 3 so much more now. I loved the social progressiveness of the fourth game especially when it comes to sharing clothes and hairstyles, choosing body frames, and being able to change whether a sim can get pregnant or pee standing up, but I'm ready to give it up the series since I can't get the old games to work on my pc and 4 is trash and 5 isn't going to be any better if it ever comes out

The kneeling on the bed thing seems impossible to replicate on purpose, but just yesterday I bought my materialistic sim a new bed, and when I clicked "admire new object" she crawled onto the bed and kneeled on it to do so.

When I heard they advertised sims 4 sims as smart I was shocked. In my opinion how are these sims smart?!

TBH I never had that many problems with dine out except for the fact that it takes 8 hours (sim time)

I wish the movies that you film in Get Famous you could watch on your sims tv, that would have been a cool feature

2:00 I have actually had my sims do this on single beds before they go to sleep, but it's never something I've told them to do. They just do it autonomously kinda like how some sims do the "relax" action before getting under their covers.

0:39 you know what. I don't understand why they didn't just decide to make a console version for the game. What I mean by that is in sims 3 you had the big open world game for PC, and they had two console spin off games that obviously wouldn't have been able to handle that world. So instead the sims 3 console base game and sims 3 pets console had a world similar to the sims 4's current world. There were also some notable differences like the loading screen and only having a small number townies in the console version, it in my opinion works extremely well for a life simulation game being on console. So I don't understand why the sims 4 couldn't do the same thing like they did in the sims 3.

God this only shows how much false advertisement they've got. You should make a video sometime where you react to old Sims 1, 2 and 3 trailers! Could be fun, especially as there was way less false advertising in those! :D

The school being different based on graphic settings is such a great idea. Because on my main save I never use maxis builds, but on my multiplayer save (S4MP) I have to use maxis builds because my friends PC isn’t great, so we don’t have another option and the build just feels so lacklustre. I think the gameplay heavily involves how the school looks. It can make or break the experience for high school years, and even though we could use the gallery we can’t but having a more detailed school based on his graphic settings would make all the difference. Edit: sorry for the rant 😭

Where’s the Sim getting up from the table at the restaurant to do push-ups in the gameplay trailer?

The Sims in Sims 4 are smarter with pathfinding then they were in the previous games and... well, that's it. They're still dumb af, just not that dumb to imprison themselves in the corner by putting a dirty plate down in front of them, no other differences regarding inteligence.

I've been watching your videos since I found your channel a couple of weeks ago for entertainment and I used to think that you hated on the Sims 4 too much but you actually made a really good point with this one. Your analysis on the pack's trailers is great and you noticed some things like the way the tell a story or just explain the pack that went unnoticed for me. You are working hard and putting a lot of effort in these lately so thanks for doing it and sharing with the world. I'm having a rough end of summer and your videos are helping me and putting a smile on my face so thank you so much 💚 Love from Spain 💃🏻

EA should make two versions of builds (I'm thinking of the high school specifically). One for those with less powerful pcs and one that's more cluttered/decorated for others. I guess it would be too much work for them, but it's embarrassing how lackluster the builds are, especially looking at the simtuber builds in Snowy Escape and how decorated those are. EDIT: Holy shit mans just said what I typed. I was 30 seconds in when I wrote my comment lol.

It would be really interesting to see you do over some S2 and S3 trailers and see if some of them do the same misleading things! Also, I always assumed they just used the normal Sim models and animated them like a movie to make the trailers, not moving them around in game.

OMG I wish I could give this video a bunch of likes! I have been making comments to other Sims you tubers for years ranting on the false trailers and how the Sims base game advertised "Smarter Sims, Weirder Stories " was also a lie. The one thing that saves EAs a** is when they post "not actual game play ". Thanks for posting this! The Sims is a product and when they advertise features that are not the reality of the product they are guilty of false advertising. I'm sure they are making a lot of money from younger Simmers getting caught in the hype and spending their money on disappointments. There are also the you tubers they follow who help glamorize contents later found to be broken or over glamorized.

I actually don't have too many issues with dine out like everybody does their job and sims sit at their tables, but it does take like 4 hours to get their food.

Good morning I’m just now seeing this video and I really appreciate you for making this lol you stated at some point in the video you know exactly sure why you made it but honestly it was much needed because this is something that a lot of us some players have been feeling and experiencing and it kind of helps us further understand how we’re feeling I guess and making sure that our feelings are pretty much validated and not just the only one that is out there feeling that sim players expectations were not being met And the majority of us is kind a let down every time the game comes out because we’re expecting one thing in another is given

wait it never occurred to me people believed the trailers were gameplay footage... im giggling imagining people at ea trying to set up their sims and film them for trailers

Finally an reaction video from an sim tuber

The part that gets me about Dine out is the other sims stealing my food after waiting so long!

First time commenter here, loved your guidelines 😂 this came up on my suggested and I'm SO GLAD because my gf and I get annoyed when we don't get what's advertised! Good to know it's not just us

Having a bad week. I need some shanice and shantelle content soon 😂 always look forward to all of your content 💕

Yeah, that's true. Get Famous was so misleading. I guess my game feels more lively bcos I took 10 minutes to tweak everything in MCC 😅

I’ve been able to use the tablet on the bed like that, and there was the superhero acting gig in get famous

This is just so interesting to watch because a lot of us really don’t pay too much attention to the trailers but we get distracted by cute little things in it. So a lot of us miss the misleading details and never realize that it was advertised. Looking at each one with you, it’s just unreal. I feel like there’s a source game that the team has and it’s exactly how the game should play out but what we bought was a very bad copy that couldn’t be fixed and they continued to just build on that. I think that’s why the sims behave a certain way in trailers. They promoted Leonardo DiCaprio and we got Mr.Bean. (I adore Mr.Bean)

i’m sick of getting catfished by the sims 😭

I legit watch my sim sit down watch tv for 5 seconds then get up and walk over to the table. Then go back and do it again and again. And again. for 10mins straight

The amount of times he says sad 💀

You're correct! for me though, I peeped this behavior from EA/TheSims team as far back as S2 & S3, but I think it only got worse In S4, nothing really shocks me anymore; I expect the trailers to give a false reality of the game 🎮. A lot of games do actually, but yeah. And I liked what you said about the Cottage Living trailer description, it's what they used to do in older Sims games, broke it down in a fun, but realistic way.

I miss so much the view from that mansion, of the ENTIRE Brigdetport, in the Sims 3 Late Night at the sunset... Man.. So cool!

I used the Get to College mod and the lot types that you use have Sims doing things all the time. It's the piss poor devs they have now. They even screwed up the moon when they introduced moon phases. I had to put in a replacement moon so it didn't look like a white filled in big dot in the sky, the sun is also messed up. If the sky is pink/ purple especially in cottage living by the bar when the sun is going down you now see the the lines on the colors of the sky instead of the lighting blending them. What I read about the lighting in HYS is a total nightmare, one person said that no matter what the weather it was dark and dreary, that after 5 mins playing in Cooperdale she wanted to jump out a window, lol. They claim they fixed that but I don't own it and don't want to own it. Dine out did work in the beginning.

I got the premium edition of the game when it came out. They were really really pushing how smart and unique the sims would be in sims 4. Not sure why they put so much emphasis on the least considered aspect of the game.

I love your videos so much satch!!!

This video needed to happen! Thank you!!!

Why is it that they suddenly can build for the trailer (see cottage living) but when it comes to in game suddenly the windows are off center and the building is physically impossible etc.

2:02 When I was playing with my sim teenagers I saw one sitting like this but without the tablet, I may be saying crazy stuff because before I started playing with my sim teenagers I downloaded a bunch of cc and maybe even mods, I'm not sure, but I remember one of them sitting that way (by themselves, I didn't make them sit on bed like that).

The game does kind of work that way like making sims feint and stuff. You just have to level up in the fame skill tree before you can do that.

you r absolutely right, Dine Out: its weird that they havent planned the toddlers in neither, but they always say that the actual gameplay can vary..

The thumbnail alone had me gagged-

not really related to the video but you r sooo charismatic it's insane

Nah fr tho like you’re so right I’m so glad someone is talking about this because it’s been bothering me so bad

One of these days I'm going to test this "we do it because our players all have bad PCs/laptops" theory. I have accumulated enough parts over the years to build a slow PC by today's standards. I also have a 10-year-old laptop lying around. I have a strong suspicion that these devices will have no or at least few problems running the game...

So the reason I think they said the sims are smarter is because they introduced multitasking, which is nice and annoying at the same time

I adore how pressed you are about this and I so so soooo agree with everything your saying. If ea would listen to you and fix this bs…

I think Snowy Escape was the worst. It made it seem like there was a working train station, that people used the station, met people off there, hung out there, and you couldn’t even get anywhere near the station in the actual world. It was a dead area. They also had people taking and posting photos like it was Instagram..lol there was absolutely nothing in the pack that was even vaguely about that.

I find the actual gameplay of the Sims impossible to play. I love cas and build mode and spend hundreds of hours creating sims and their homes, but every time I try actually playing with those sims I just find myself frustrated with how short the days are, how often needs need to be met, how often sims do something you don't want them to do, how hard it is to get your sim to do activities with a friend, how goofy the animations are, etc. I make a character I love and want to live out their life, but I just find it so lacklustre and buggy that I get fed up and leave to design a new Sim. How anyone actually plays the gameplay I have no idea, but I admire you for it.

The kneeling in the bed thing, I couldn't do it myself, my sims do it autonomously, but I can't tell them to do so, and it sucks

why cant I put the cross stiching on my wall??

If they did a list of features for Dine Out, it would go something like this "Dine Out, where your sims can go to a restaurant and eat a meal, first pick your sims to go to the restaurant, then you get to the restaurant and the host will show you to your table, hopefully. Then get the waiter's attention to order your meal, don't worry if he's playing on his phone or doing pushups, he'll get to you eventually, then get his attention again cause he ignored you the first time, then choose your food and drink for each sim in your party, then wait about 6 or 7 sim hours or until your sims have died from starvation, for your meal to arrive, ahh there it is (shows the waiter putting the plates in front of 2 skeletons or the 2 sims now ghosts) Bon Appetit, and be sure to leave a nice tip if you enjoyed your meal, Dine Out, where you can dine out if you don't die of hunger first.",

also, quick note on the "low end pc/laptop" excuse they like to pull. i have a pretty decent gaming laptop - it runs all sorts of big games just fine. i can play dragon age inquisition for hours with no issue for example. however, the sims 4 lags for me quite often, almost at least once for a couple minutes every time i play. so the older the game gets, and they keep using that same excuse, the more annoyed i get about it lol

vampires + high school years would be a wonderful combo.

They should get sued for such misleading trailers and for selling broken packs

DId anyone else notice that in literally every trailer all the lots are filled with life, there's many sims there just hanging out and doing their stuff in the background, but then you go to those lots and it's so empty and depressing? :D Like there are so few sims there at diff times of day and all they do is either sit or order a bar drink in a very boring fashion. No craziness and diff kinds of autonomy going on, just nothing.

1:53 my one sim I made to play the HSY pack definitely did get in that pose on the bed with the ipad thing. he only did it autonomously though and I never tried to replicate it 🤔 his house was very empty so he basically just had the pad to entertain himself with and vey few places to sit, if that makes a difference.

OMG I recognize that teenager sitting in bed from HS! In URBANSIMS parenting predicament series, her teenager sits in the bed like that, totally random, just staring, but WITHOUT an iPad o other object, she even commenting it wondering WTF shes doing just sitting like that, SO CREEPY

abt molly sitting on the bed like that my sims sometimes do that, but its often with reading books/homework only, havent seen them do it with a tablet

I don’t think they actually use the game to make the trailer. It’s probably an independent company that doesn’t have anything to do with the game design.

It's not just that unrealistic trailers make games less popular; I think it's more like when they know they screwed up and have a really shallow pack or glitchy pack on their hands, they make unrealistic trailers to try and create a big rush to buy, before word gets out that the pack is not so good.

I'm still just devastated that the school lot is bound to only the pack world. i was looking forward to so many fun little projects for other worlds.

Sitting on their bed like that may just be something they can only do autonomously because I've seen my child sim do it quite a few times since aging her up from toddler last week. The first time it happened her mom was sitting in bed watching TV and she climbed up on her dad's side of the bed and sat like that to ask for advice about a bully.

When they removed objects from lots in order to make the game run better on less-advanced PCs they clearly forgot to put the gameplay back in as well.

how do you get all the tutorial and samples on the left. mine doesnt have sNice tutorialt

The preview for this vid started playing and I was like "wait the school doesn't look like this, did they get glitched or something?" AND THEN I REALISED I MUST HAVE PLOPPED DOWN ONE FROM THE GALLERY WHEN I GOT THE PACK AND FORGOTTEN BECAUSE ITS BEEN SO LONGGG UNTIL I PLAYED😭 I did think "wow this is unusually detailed" about mine too 💀

To me it’s false advertising on many of their advertisements and the fact that they haven’t been sued over them is beyond me. I remember a time when ads for TS3 and other previous titles didn’t even have the full gameplay jammed into the ad. Sims 4 ads are literally the whole pack plus what you wish actually came in the pack as far as gameplay and sometimes even items! Like that window people thought would be included in the pack but wasn’t LOL.

ive actually done that sitting pose on the bed before and i was confused of what was happening i wouldve taken a photo if i knew if it was hard to do im sorry for not being able to do it

I like to think that the sims in this game have their own character to them. Sure, they stand and then sit multiple times while talking to their selves but like its kinda fun and quirky.

I always rebuild the Copperdale High when ever I restart a sims 4 lets play

loved this video!!!

For real.. like the school was so dissapointing i instantly popped down one from lilsimsie to replace it 😂 like i was not having that empty horrible thing. Like i have a pc that runs it no issue but even if i didn’t i would have popped down a different school anyways. Also the university thing like sims 3 university felt rich, sims were playing beer pong there and having parties some were streaking others talking and yet others were doing juice keg stands. If you went anywhere people would be doing shit instead of just walking around and doing nothing like in the sims 4.

I always hear people complain about Dine Out, but as long as I play with the restaurants EA has provided it always works. It only goes bad when I use a building off the gallery because it's not streamlined right.

my sims has sat on the bed looking her phone like in the high school trailer.

The pose on the bed is legit. My teen sim was standing near her bed when I asked her to lecture her dog and she sat like that on the bed while lecturing