My Pre-Game Thoughts on The Sims 4

I'm worried. I wonder what is happening to my beloved game. I've played The Sims since it came out in 2000. I have migrated to each and every installment happily enthusiastically. When EA/Maxis announced The Sims 4, I was ecstatic! However, over the course of the last few months, I have felt a quite a bit disappointed. So much that made The Sims great for me with the most recent installment (The Sims 3) will not be in game, anytime soon or at all. After the lucky simmers came back from Creator's Camp, I started to feel slightly more okay with this new format...

...then I saw how few presets we actually got of things in the game. The fact that they were not as well thought out as some of the earlier iterations of the game that didn't have Create A Style. I am confused to how I am supposed to build in a game with so few ways to be an individual, to be creative.

I saw a build mode video on IGN this afternoon, with Graham Nardone, and while to tools seem more intuitive I was disgusted with the lack of a color palate to choose from on each item. This one couch had maybe 8 single color presets... 8!!!! On TS3 I have a choice of thousands, millions...hell I will go as far as infinite choices of colors, plus a very wonderful selection of patterns, that is if I don't choose to make my own (but not a fan of the Create-a-Pattern tool, so I don't use it much, nor do I use patterns from it in my builds/sims at all). I used to, but my game got so laggy with all the extras.

I can handle the plastic sims, the smaller world, the neighborhoods, really I can. Why? Because I build more than I play. I really don't like the plastic textures of the buy items and the cartoony style of the art. But, I could get used to it... if I had a color wheel or lots of selections of colors and patterns to choose from.

Things that also have made me sad:

• No CASt: WHY OH WHY??? I need CASt!!! I can't hardly live without it!
• No Color Wheel: Only presets, and a limit on those
• No Move Objects On: that means no clustering my decor to make more eye appealing groupings, no more natural landscaping, no more creating new objects out of old, or making awesome looking stove nooks. 
• No Constrain Floor Elevation: that means no more arched bridges or garages attached to foundation houses, no more interesting buildings that creators like GreenCats and Fischio make, that I am dabbling in slowly to learn. 
• No Terrain Tools: that means completely flat, boring landscape.
• No Pond Tools: That means exactly as it says
• No Swimming pool tool: ditto
• All or nothing foundations. Gone are the days of making houses with attached garages, tool/ gardensheds on the ground when you have a foundation house. 
• No toddlers (as of yet, and I saw somewhere that it will end up being DLC? DUH FUH!!!)
• No Cars- I guess it doesn't matter about garages if you don't have a car
• The Gallery: From the looks of it, it will be in game only. I prefer to save my files so I can scan them. I also don't like how fast the gallery seems to fill up. I want whatever I build to be seen... How will we be able to promote our things if there is no "link" to direct people to? Oh sure we have a search feature, but I don't want to say "search sherry_lynn1979 each time I want someone to see my stuff!
• BORING Create A Sim: Yep, I have the Demo, yep I have made several sims... Nope I don't like it. I hate the selection of clothes and lack of color options and I hate the tactile/push/pull/sculpt feature of making sims' faces. (I am going to add what I like soon)
• No toddlers... just REALLY?
• Babies as objects... tied to crib, cannot carry them around or go places with them. 
• Lack of careers... mostly not normal careers... and no community service type careers. I really liked how TS3 handled careers. 

Things I do like:

• Roof Sculpting: this is quite an awesome idea and I love it! This goes along with being able to add trim to roof lines, changing the eves, and roof decor
• Build-able chimney stacks! I really like this (though you only get a limit of different types and colors, it is still a good addition)
• Lots of clutter items, though I probably will be peeved that I cannot move them into places I want (MOO)
• Adjustable foundation, walls, doors, windows: I really love this concept, and that will be fun to try out.
• Adjustable curtain heights and the magnify tool (although it won't share the way you magnify it) I can see some really unique things happening with this magnify tool! 
• Footprints are nearly nonexistent! You can have 1/2 square between a wall and a bed and they will still route to it
• Overall better routing system
• Overall better multi-tasking system
• CAS Bust and Butt adjustments, this is just awesome... I love that I can make a sim have a bubble butt or a saggy chest! I don't like that every shirt/jacket sticks to the form, it should be able to loose drape down from the bust (i.e. jackets and "loose" fit clothing that has a normal drape on a less busty sim)
• Walk styles: though some are pretty stupid, I do like that I won't have a neighborhood full of the same walking styles... Though I wish there were MANY more

These both are short lists, but the dislike should be much longer... I just don't want to get all into it. I'm very displeased with the overall new game, even though I haven't gotten to try it out past the CAS demo. I'll still buy it. I will give it the good ole college try, if I don't like it, well my daughter is sure to... if she doesn't: Hey! I just bought a $70 coffee coaster!

Comment below and tell me what you are disappointed in or like about the new game. Please be  courteous  to fellow comment-ers, if you can't I will remove your negative post. Why? Because this is MY blog and I don't have to put up with negativity towards others!