![]() Curing a toddler's rage is stressful to other Sims, but taking care of the tots (and sometimes playing as them to wreak havoc) present a fun challenge. Their personality traits greatly determine their demeanor, almost more so than the adults, and identifying what keeps them happy early on is crucial. Toddlers do add another good layer of difficulty, as they are so dependent on their caretakers and require micromanagement from you. “The console version of The Sims 4 does at least come with all the free added features from the past three years, including toddlers, pools, dishwashers, and other features that it was called out for omitting on PC in 2014. While all of these issues may not be isolated to the console version of The Sims 4, I certainly experienced them far more consistently than I’ve seen on PC. Even moving around the lot too quickly can result in a small hitch. Audio and animations sometimes get out of sync when fast forwarding, and loading into a lot or into build mode can take a while and sometimes starts with dropped frames, especially in locations that have a lot of furniture or Sims. The Sims 4 also has plenty of other general performance issues too. That happened in my first hour and a half of playing. The Sims 4 did seem to run a little better on PS4 (though I did play far more on the Xbox One), but I still encountered a menu bug that prevented me from closing it without completely restarting it. I also inexplicably lost an in-game day of work when my game refused to save. ![]() Then there’s also the issue where The Sims 4 can’t decide which menu I’m in. Other times menu descriptions and pop-up notifications would randomly stick on the screen for long periods of time with no way to close them. Sometime my Sim’s skill bar would hang overhead and wouldn’t go away until I loaded into a new area or reload my game. ![]() “The biggest issue I’ve had with the console versions, though, is the bugs. I would have appreciated a way to change the speed of the cursor, though. It takes awhile to get used to navigating the menus, but pressing the left thumbstick for a quick control guide reference made learning them a bit easier. Original developer Maxis and console port developer Blind Squirrel Games make an admirable attempt by using the View button/touchpad to toggle between two sets of controls: the menus that border the Sim world are one set, and all in-world actions are done with the other set with a cursor. Even so, I did stay up embarrassingly late playing on a few occasions because building and guiding my Sims’ lives is still fun.The Sims 4 first launched on PC in 2014 ( read our Sims 4 PC review), and the transition from mouse and keyboard to a controller for the console version comes with expected challenges when condensing all the functions into so few buttons. That is just one of the many small but constantly aggravating issues I had with The Sims 4 on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It was tense for a moment there: I nearly lost a few in-game days of hard work. ![]() After struggling to get the cursor to select the “Save” button in the foreground menu instead of toggling between my Sim’s aspirations menu in the background, I somehow finagled a way to save my progress.
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