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Why You Should Give 'The Sims 4' A Chance [Part I]

Reasons why "The Sims 4" deserves a chance within the "Sims" community.

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Why You Should Give 'The Sims 4' A Chance [Part I]
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I'm sure you all heard of "The Sims 4," which launched last year. Well, I've compiled a list as to why one should give this game a chance. Yes, there are cons to this game; however, I feel the pros are overlooked too often within the "Sims" community.

1. The graphics are amazing.

The difference in graphics is significantly astounding. They improve every upgrade and the sims look more humanlike.

2. The interactions are much more realistic.

You can multitask. Multitasking was something that lacked in "The Sims 3"; there were limitations to multitasking. Now you can eat and drink at the same time.

3. The emotions are more complex.

Emotions play a significant role in impacting your sims' performance on their tasks. Not only that, you can incorporate your current dominant emotion into your activities. For example, if you're painting while angry, you can choose to paint an "angry painting" (it's more effective if you do it while you're angry) and if you choose to not sell it, you can hang it up anywhere and enable the emotion to create that aura in the room, compelling your sims' emotions to change. It's awesome.

I also love the fact that your emotions can be more than just plain happy, sad, angry, bored -- they can now be very happy, very sad, very angry, very bored, and so on.

4. You can play with more than one family.

Yes, you heard correctly: You can play with more than one active family, without having to start from scratch, as you did in "The Sims 3."

5. The Get To Work expansion pack.

Rabbit-hole jobs were one of my biggest pet peeves in "The Sims 3." I was curious to see what they were doing inside their workplace. The Ambitions expansion pack was a joy; however, I enjoy having the ability to choose whether or not I want to follow my sims to their workplace. One of my sims has the doctor career, so I have the option of going to the hospital with them, which is awesome!

6. The relationships are more humanlike.

If you enable autonomy, your sims automatically do autonomous things without your control. My favorite thing about this control is how relationships impact it. My spousal sims autonomously do romantic things with one another if my control isn't on them at the moment and I think it's cute. If a sim doesn't like another, they instigate conflict, which is hilarious to watch when it occurs.

7. The resemblance in family members.

I like that the offspring attribute physical qualities from both parents. See how each child below resembles the parents?

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