I'm wondering (and hoping) if we can make custom apartments...

but then why would you buy city living??

Wondering the same. Do you still need City Living?

@@emilykennedy2260 for the content in it I guess I don't think they would make a another extension where u need to purchase a previous pack to play another pack :) just my thoughts

@@stocra I don't think so it's not another pet stuff deal lol

That would take too much effort for EA.

@@rabbitbvt It is not hard to add lots..

Sam 1 they were being sarcastic.

All the empty spaces I see for each world and the neighborhood traits makes me think a massive update is storming, adding more special lot types or spaces. Since at this point it's a waste of graphics resources just for shells and skyboxes.

Yeah, also the world it huge and sims can't even swim anywhere. It's like they never go one step further

It definitely has to be.

also mismatched roofing - but they better fix all those mistakes before the release, that's for sure.

Sorry for asking, but who is Kayla?

Louise Greppi Kayla is Lilsimsie. She does lots of speed builds and other fun stuff

i think he said that because it's grey, colorful means black and white 😂

😂😂😂😂

He who makes everything GRAY WHITE AND BLACK!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

Lori Horta me. I’m into goth

I think he meant like more dynamic colours (I get your joke I just wanted to comment this)

Love it when they Call me Big Papa - 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ok relax. I’m just referring to how he always goes hard on the EA builds, I like Gordon but the good news is, that’s my opinion and you have yours ✌️💋😎

PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN

I know LilSimsie has been critiquing EA's new worlds and builds for a while but I would love if James did too. Not just because it's hilarious and a nice world overview; but because then they might step up their game, rather than thinking no one cares because only LilSimsie complains. I admit, at the end of the day they can easily be replaced but it shouldn't have to be that way.

@@tirahmisu to be fair LilSimsie complains so much it's hard to take her seriously and I'm not really surprised that they don't listen to her.

@@RoxyTruthHunter well it is kinda a lackluster game... have you noticed this EP looks more detailed than the rest? paralives

Honestly, if they left the lots empty but made them playable, I would have been over joyed to build houses on all of them. It’s just is really disappointing to see so many houses I can’t use...

personally, I'd kinda prefer it if a world was just houses and zero community lots. That's kinda closer to real life. Not all communities have shops/bars etc. Somtimes you need to travel a little to get to those places

I got a ghostcity vibe of these neighborhoods. It‘s just kinda sad to see all those houses knowing nobody lives in them...

Agreed, also the decorative houses in the Station neighbourhood look very odd to me. They look like townhouses yet they're all separated. And I think it's to make that one starter house fit into the neighbourhood more, but it just makes the whole neighbourhood look very strange to me! Maybe this is a thing in the US and I've never seen it because I'm not from there, but it looks so strange to see skinny townhouses (in particular, the type with that roofing) with backyard space in-between them (not just to the back). I have seen them with garages in between but that's different to what we're getting. However, if places that look like that do exist; feel free to educate me and send me a link of what they look like irl! Maybe it'll help me not find them so strange looking. Btw, I like James' idea of having a group of rental properties that have set outside look (and therefore can be townhouses up next to one another, or flat units with garages separating them) and work like apartments inside. Would help make some worlds look more realistic, with more homes that fit into the neighbourhoods around them. Probably less taxing too; allowing more homes but not all are fully customisable on the outside. I'm fine with that.

At least the amount of decorative lots aren’t as bad as Get Famous. God I hate Get Famous

Same lmao I'm still laughing at it 😂

there are tears streaming down my face

"thanks." LMAO

On one of lilsimsie 's vids for this pack, the loading screen said something like "I don't want free earbuds!" Lol

I hope this becomes a new thing. For us who have to spend way too much time looking at loading screens, it would be fun to have something to laugh at while we wait :P

Paying 40 dollars for a world of empty props is just sad.

There are 15. Stop

@@jocelyns6078 11 lots, 4 apartments. Remember, we had 80+ lots in Sims 3 worlds. We don't even need that many, but there is no reason why EA couldnt give the team enough resources to add more lots to the world. We could at least have 20+, like Windenburg. Anyway, Sims 4 is all about little resources and huge profits, and I blame EA for it, not the developers.

@@beepbeep-m6m I personally think I like the small spaces and worlds. Besides if we want another space then we try another world in my opinion. I feel like Ea feels as I do

I agree it's disappointing. I expect each expansion pack to be better then the last but this one isn't very appealing. I do like that there are some new things and the dirty world that you can clean but I feel there should be more.

It actually seems accurate that like, the super urban neighbourhoods in City Living get the tall and modern looking apartment buildings, but the "smaller town" of Evergreen Harbor gets the 3 story bland apartment buildings :D

I love the crane lot. The plants are super cute and it doesn’t look empty, which is a really big problem for EA

The lot was made by the sim youtube builder simproved while she was on the Sparked show! She was really proud of it and excited it got in game

@@meikahidenori oh wow I didn't know that, now it makes much more sense :D thanks for the info :)

MAJOR MOOD! ahahahahahahaha

In the area my cousins live in Poland most of the living places are apartments, seriously there are a few houses but apartments are everywhere

I mean nowadays a lot of them are being painted in a more vibrant colours (at least in my sad post-communism country), but yeah.. (My block used to be faded yellow, now it's grey :)))

I think they look quite pretty when they are renovated and vibrantly colored, like many are in the Czech Republic nowadays for example. Also, they are really space-efficient compared to apartment buildings with only two floors. In Germany it's actually quite fashionable to live in such a large post-communism building, it's what the young hipsters in Berlin often do, as it's much cheaper than in the downtown area.

damn imagine if he saw the portuguese appts

Omg same also miss an open world where u could explore to your heart’s content, now it’s a loading screen u look at and hope it buffers quickly. ( I have crap internet) 🥺

@@alikat9364 Sims 4 loading screens don't depend on your internet speed though... it's all on your disc/harddrive that the game is installed on.

@@alikat9364 Yeah, your internet speed has nothing to do with how fast The Sims 4 loads. The only online thing in the game is the gallery.

Yeah they are because they change as you “level” it up

If they could they would just say fuckin build it yourself :P

It’s especially funny because she criticized the same build on her vid! 🤣

Oceana Kennedy, same!! I’m excepted to see what both of them are going to do with this whole world!

I think that may be a bug :P

@@Stettafire Probably a filler for an Eco Lifestyle related "tip".

It is prob because it is early access

Me too i love that they added it its really cool, tho i wish they've added one more or made them bigger as in wider like at least 3 apartments ... Because dunno for me they look like apartments from anime :D dunno why it just gives me that vibe so bad and i love it i wish wed have more related to that items too tho maybe someday will get city with that type apartments, japan or korean style vibe from anime that be cool. My country doesn't have that style apartments so maybe that's why it looks to me like anime one :D

They would need to build within EA restrictions still, to ensure the build playable for everyone, including console players.

@@tabytastick yeah, Kayla does it a lot, but usually the problem is that EA builds are humongous and very bad in terms of colours and shapes. Furnishing is not the worst problem

Or simlicy, shes an amazing builder wish people would recognise her more. Honestly think shes better than kayla

It will be so laggy on the low end computers.

Irina Kogan true, the developers are bad builders 😂😂

Or Rags to Deconstruction? It would be fun to see how the town changes to more industrial.

Rags to Recyled

Rags to Cleanliness

I feel called out because I definitely added an underground bar in that world covered by a grave yard lol

I made a vampire lair bar on the empty lot in mine. I think I called it the mausoleum 🤔 idr.

Prodigiousnesses wait is it on the gallery? Please share

I put in a spooky restaurant called The Gingerbread House

So true!! I feel like we were cheated out of that for strangerville!! Not every house has to be shiny and new! And not every sim I play I want to be a gazillionare. Give me some lived in homes and some cute trailers/rustic tiny houses.

yesssssss

Like when sims 2 had apartment living. The best expansion everA

@@chloe-anne5253 yeah not being able to custiomize appartment lots is a trash move by EA, The Sims 3 is by far a better game in terms of features, but is terrible in terms of optimization.

Then we would be paying $70 for expansions if they hire that good of people.

@@tabytastick Not to speak for unpaid work, but I doubt they would have to offer much for simmers to want to have their builds in official copies of the game...

Whenever I download lots from these players they are super expensive and lots of freemove placements so when I’m playing a story line I either have to make my sim work for ever saving money to move in or just move into an unfurnished house which takes away from the players hard work. So when I do use thejr lots motherload or free estate is being used. I like the ability to move into a house within a reachable budget and then decorate it accordingly to the sims personality without any cheats which I find the challenge more fun.

@@ella_komiya but loads of simmers has done those sort of lots as well - lilsimsie has plenty of starter homes and renovated builds with EA's constrictions. I doubt builders given the chance would have any trouble making starter homes more appealing than those EA is providing

Yes! Nice little tiny-intricate doorways are just cute and adorable. heck, they even scream "witchey" more to me then those great big things we got in realm of magic

I love it and the matching windows I do a lot of modern minimalist builds and it's perfect

I LOVE IT!! With shelves next to it ahhh it would look amazing

I like it a lot too, I think it would look great as an exterior door, but wish they added it with and without the frame so we had matching internal doors

The get famous world actually sucks so much

I feel the same way. Quarries should be swim-able.

I wish they would update that for all the worlds with water. It'd be awesome to be able to swim at the Brindleton and Windenburg beaches.

Quarries hr tnd to b polluted and/or quit deep, so not suited for swimming at all.

I actually wondered if it was because in many places (not all), quarries are extremely polluted and potentially toxic. If you had sims swimming around in them, it might encourage people to swim at their local quarries without learning whether that's actually safe or not.

yessss thats what i think as well, because that roof was purposely done

yes 😂, but overall I think they actually did better on the builds than they usually do

I hope the team listens to what he says about more & bigger lots. It hurts to look at this beautiful world and not be able to change more of it.

I mean if the team put some effort into what they're designing he wouldn't have to spend so long pointing out the numerous flaws. It seems like with Sims 4, they do everything half-way, get bored, and move on.

Lol same 😂🤚

Same😂

He got possessed by a little ghost girl for a split second I bet🙃

I thought it sounded like a dj disc 🤣 ewee ewee.

Same 😂 i lost it and watch it several times 😂

It’s so funny hearing people say that, I will in Quebec where it’s -40 in the winter which lasts like 7 months out of the year so outdoor corridors are unheard of here!

Wish we could make our own apartments and not have to have "roommates"

That’s really cool, I love storytelling like that in my games

They are adding firefighters, so it might take you longer lol XD

I think sims players might be too young for a Mamet reference. :D

@@Burgeonite A lot of sims players are in their 40s, you would be surprised how popular this game is amongst boomers :O

Stettafire 40 year olds are not “boomers” they’re way too young to be baby boomers. Try to tack another 20 years or so on. At least here in the u.s.a

I like The Sims 3 where there were zero loading screens...

That icon showing up on his screen was annoying

*formerly

@@julianacarragher7323 it was intentional. Cuz his gallery name is The Sim Supply and ea uses it. So it's formal?

In some places churches have been converted into pubs, so not outside the realm of realism, but I would have leaned into it a bit more

it looks like an old train station to me. The building shape with the roofed platform and the old railways next to it give off abandoned train station vibes to me.

Stettafire. Where I live one club was converted to a church. They changed nothing about the outside. Inside is slightly changed 😂 😂

Throwback to Wags to Riches and the old church *cough* I mean old factory inspired vet clinics

Every single house was livable in sims 3 😔 I miss it

Sims 2 best sims ever. It should be made playable on origin or remastered

@@pugsofsushi24 I thought you could get it on steam? Runs like crap though, and good luck getting it working on a modern machine

@@Stettafire working great, actually. mods can fix everything

Stettafire The Sims 3 is on Steam, not The Sims 2. TS2 is not purchasable on Steam or Origin which is frustrating. Seems there's guides to get it to work on newer systems just fine though if you have it. I know Plumbella has far more issues running TS1 than TS2 btw, seems the latter runs fine for her.

even on my parents’ old computer from 2009, i could run the game fairly smoothly!! I understand they’re trying to make the game more accessible, but if it can be run on that computer, it can be run on even lower-end ones as well!

Rosie Rodrigues that’s the reason, it can run on the old computer so they reached their goal.

Rosie Rodrigues exactly like I have multiple computers because I built them. And my beef cake runs it at 300fps. My shittiest computer and laptop can run at 60 which is the desired mark for any game.

Actually, I appreciate that they make the game accessible to everyone. I only have three expansions and one stuff pack and sometimes Sims 4 freezes and is slow. I couldn’t play the game at all if every pack had like 30 lots and lots of objects in each one.

You know what's funny, my PC is from 2012. It has Windows 7 still (shhh, I love Windows 7 ok? One day I'll move forward when it becomes an actual issue for me ... but still working fine so far). But it's somewhat a gaming rig. I say somewhat; I got it because I was fed up with how Photoshop ran on my old PC while using lots of layers. I was like PLEASE GIVE ME LOTS OF RAM, and a half decent graphics card. Anyway, runs TS4 perfectly on all the highest settings! So it really makes me wonder what the fuck some other people's rigs are, especially when I've seen someone say they have an "old gaming pc" yet can only play on medium settings. I couldn't be bothered arguing with that comment when I saw it the other day, just scrolled past like "suuurreee". 😂 If you're PC is so old it can't run most recent PC games on the lowest settings (lower settings are there for a reason, TS4 even has a laptop mode (which does affect the graphics) which is very nice of them), maybe it's time to move on? Consoles move forward eventually (games only come out on the new ones), so do phones (no more updates, and so apps stop working because they no longer support the old hardware ... happened to my old iPad) ... if things aren't able to run, then I say maybe it's about time you update your god damn PC?! - sigh - Sorry ... had to make that rant.

Too much money that greedy EA doesn’t want to give up

Where do I apply for that job? I'd be in!

They probably do have some okay builders, but EA puts a HUGE time pressure on producing these games. Mistakes are easily made

If everything was pretty they would be taking away half the game play. Some people like to play in crap houses to build them nice themselves, and loke to see the change. Sort of like how this pack will be.

Taby Tastick u can make something look cheap without making easily fixed mistakes and it looking terrible

Daemoninwhite don’t give in! Resist the urge! We have to boycott it

Me too lol

Lol me too! But to be honest, I'm in it for the plants

@@snowleopard064 why should we boycott it? Genuine question, I don't follow the Sims community, aside from the fake leak, was there something else?

it is a fantastic pack! all the boycott is a bit stupid ngl

My hometown in Wales has a promenade too. add in some Victorian architecture and it would look a lot like my hometown. Quarry and all.

I live in Portsmouth too, it looks more like the ferry port or naval base lol

Why did James change his name from The Sim Supply to James Turner? What was the catalyst for him doing so? And why the heck are EA refusing to acknowledge his name change in the first place? What the hell happened?

Zoom Zoom Boom it’s still his origin ID but at this point it’s a running gag

I'm gonna buy it on sale. I really want it but I don't have an extra $40 lying around

Yeah, I wasn’t enthused at all after watching the trailers, but after the livestream and James’ videos, I’m pretty excited.

It's... $40.

i really think this game needs some sort of update that adds some extra detail animatuions to the game like sims2 had and to add the features of the expansion pack sto the other worlds, even if only the basegame worlds, like the ocean swimming and this clean/dirty can that be added to other worlds?

I think they’re nice, even kayla kinds liked them

I like moving into crap EA houses and making them nice through game play. If everything was nice half the game play would be gone. Just make your own nice houses.

glorybr just because Kayla happens to like them doesn't mean that other people are going to. She's not the "one all, be all" of the Sims 4.. And there are definitely more talented sims builders here on KZfaq 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@tabytastick true, but the thing is, not everyone is a talented builder. If you can build, you can change even nice looking home into something better, but if you can't and for some reasons you don't have an access to the gallery, you're stuck with an ugly building... :(

@@tabytastick Isn't the point of buying the game is to have it ready for you? Why is it the player's job to make it better? That's the weirdest excuse I've ever heard

I think the quarry is supposed to look ugly

The whole time i was watching this I kept saying, this is Portland and Washington. 👀😂

That's what I was thinking!! I'm in Everett and all the neighborhoods look like the ones in my city.

I was getting big time Life is Strange vibes. Love my Pacific Northwest.

I live in Portland was going to say this world feels very much like the Pacific Northwest