December is a hectic month. 
With all the festivities and having 4 kids at home for two weeks, there's not a lot of time for side activities of my own. But with all that behind us, I thought I would start off the new year with a review of The Sims 4.  Note that I have been an avid "The Sims" player ever since the original "The Sims" was released. I've played all of the PC titles: The Original Sims, The Sims 2, The Sims Stories (Life, Pets and Castaway), The Sims 3, and now The Sims 4.`

You may think a review is long overdue, especially for an avid "The Sims" player, but I have to admit: I wasn't impressed with "The Sims 4" when it was first released. Granted, I had never been able to properly play its predecessor because my PC simply couldn't run it. When "The Sims 4" was released in 2014, I had just upgraded to a mid- to high-end PC and I could finally run "The Sims 3" with all DLC, and without much trouble. So the base game wasn't very interesting to me at that point. I must've played it for a few hours, but got bored with it rather quickly.  I decided to let it be for a while, at least until more content was available.


And here we are, it's 2017 and the game now has a couple more features that could be interesting. Still not that which would interest me most (which would be weather/seasons, and pets), but oh well. Note that I have the game with all DLC.

Character creation
It started out fair enough I guess. I created one sim. Didn't spend too much time on her, I just wanted to test the game so I basically randomized her appearance until I liked what I saw, changed a few minor things and gave her personality. Overall, I didn't think CAS (Create-a-Sim) was very much improved, compared to TS3. Sure, there are different hairstyles and outfits. Body shape and face can be changed, but the process was "meh" to me. If you don't want to pick a preset, careful dragging is in order.
Changing a style was way too simple for me. There's not much opportunity to be original.

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