Had Sims 3 still a big city, you could travel to completely without any loading zones, one has in Sims 4 only a few small sectors.
You want to get to the fitness center, visit to the park or other neighbors, you have to be "Destination" set previously.
For this purpose, just open the sector map. Up to 4 buildings stand on one sector. And no matter where you want to set from home, you get a loading screen before the nose.
The loading screen can be, depending on the computer's performance, really drag. Even on a system with i7 4770K überpriviligiertem and 16GB of DDR3 RAM, the charging phase has between 15 - 25 sec. lie.
On a reasonable SSD one will come with a bit of luck on 10 to 15 seconds.
That's just way too long. It interferes with the flow of the game and Maxis has done here nothing more than just the last SimCity title.
You save it, having to design the entire world, but is the player doing it with appetizers before he can choose. A large whole does not exist.
The options regarding home design / equipment, have also been severely curtailed. But what is me most bother, there are no more garage, no car, and even the house plots are much smaller than in previous titles.
The graphics are pretty, but not breathtaking. The fast-forward to "Ultra Fast" the players also prescribes, as quickly as "Ultra". Asleep at the Sim in bed, it's really time "Ultra" from 12pm noon game time, however, this "Ultra" is reduced so that you can spend some time trying zuzugucken the Sim while sleeping.
Stupid, if you have chosen a profession where you get only example. At 6 clock morgends home.
The much-vaunted emotions give the player a small tool to the hand with which he gets additional opportunities.
However, the constantly on alternating. Is not it fast enough, you can take advantage of, for example. "Self-assured" not at all use because it of "self-confidence" on switches in the meantime "Flirty" or neutral.
Many furnishings are missing. Here EA can create his new money-making machine. After DLC flood alone at Sims 3 smaller DLCs are here probably soon be brought out, which one then also can expand its furnishings. In my eyes pure rip-off.
To play the game makes little fun, if only because the load times. Normal User with a laptop that is not exactly designed for high quality gaming, while its can go eat or showers go. Waiting times in minutes in length are there namely not uncommon.
I do not know why Maxis has learned nothing from Sim City. There, they have done the same, and it received from the gaming community upside down. And rightly so.
Here is "4 Sims" issued with the name not a game but a fraudulent scam that pays off apparently for Maxis and EA. Otherwise they would not have taken 4 all "error" of the Sim City part in Sims.
From me there for The Sims 4 definitely not a recommendation to buy, as long as the title is extremely curtailed.
Since I prefer to get out the good old Sims 3.