You called sims 4 half-baked.. Is there something you personally don't like about the game?
I objectively cannot like the game.
No toddlers! I love toddler Sims and they're gone.
No pools! And their excuse for it ("oh our engine can't cut into the ground to make pools etc etc") is such a cop-out.
No open world! Sims 3 being open world was AMAZING and facilitated storytelling so much.
No Create-A-Style! This was one of the best parts about TS3. Ok, can you imagine someone wanting troll bloodswaps without Create-A-Style? You'll need a million pre-sets per shirt, one for each symbol in each color. Ok, not one million, but 144.But then what if you want a slightly different colored shirt! Or a couch that matches your room! IDK man, you're stuck with what you have.
The Sims 4's only advantage is the Create-A-Sim capabilities, the new snappy building mode, and that it runs a lot smoother (but that's because the graphics are more streamlined now). This is not enough innovation to justify me buying The Sims 4.
Also, in every interview they've had about whether they'd add pools, toddlers, etc, to the game, the devs at EA have kinda been skirting around the questions leading me to believe they actually will be coming out... except as paid DLC. Fuck EA.
Reviewers all across the internet agree: Sims 4 seems bare-bones, it's obvious that EA's gonna go all paid DLC on us, and lacks a lot of features that made TS3 an awesome game. It's mediocre, and I don't settle for mediocre games.