

Let us pop over to our neighbours for some woohoo, take a stroll in the park, or head out for drinks all in one session, please.

Having to sit through a loading screen whenever you leave your lot is exhausting, so even though the neighborhoods boast more variety in terms of buildings and things to do, they also feel fragmented and false. The decision to do away with the seamless open-world design of The Sims 3’s towns for the Sims 4 is one we’re still feeling a little sour about. It would be great to have that transfer over to the new game in some form, especially as it’s likely that many of the features and ideas introduced in the DLCs will be missing in the next entry, at least in the base game. It’s no secret that the volume of The Sims 4 DLC is overwhelming, and frankly rather expensive. This is probably the least likely entry on the list, but it’s also the one that would be the biggest acknowledgement of commitment that The Sims fans have been shown throughout the last few years. We’re not saying we know better – we definitely do not – just that we’d like these to be included if that’s okay please and thank you. Hopefully, Maxis Studios knows exactly what it’s doing, and craft something beyond our wildest dreams, but we also really want them to include a few features that fans have been asking for since the earliest days of the series.

While there’s very little we know about The Sims 5 – there’s not even solid confirmation that’s it’s being made – we can only dream of a world in which all of our requests are listened to, and we somehow we get the perfect Sims game up front, rather than waiting for several DLC packs to fix it. After all, we live in an age now where the game that releases is different from the one that players experience several years later. While The Sims 4 did well, it’s very hard to overlook some of the things that feel a little scaled down from previous entries in the series, not to mention all of the features that could have been implemented since in the form of post-launch content and patches.

With The Sims 4 coming up to its 7th birthday this year and still no Sims 5 release date to speak of, it’s about time we look ahead and start thinking about what we want from the next Sims game.
