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Why Project Rene Should Include Apartments as a Base Feature

One key feature from The Sims 4 could significantly enhance Project Rene's appeal and gameplay.
Why Project Rene Should Include Apartments as a Base Feature

Highlights

  • The Sims 4 add-on content has improved the game with quality-of-life enhancements and themed additions.
  • Integrating the ability to create apartments, as seen in The Sims 4: City Living, would enrich Project Rene's base game.
  • Including apartments in Project Rene would introduce new dynamics and better mirror real-life living situations, ultimately enhancing the overall Sims experience.

The Sims 4 has seen notable enhancements through both free and paid add-on content, offering quality-of-life improvements and themed expansions. While additional content is a standard part of The Sims series, certain features that are currently add-ons should be integrated into Project Rene's base game. One such feature is the ability to create apartments, first introduced in The Sims 4: City Living.

Evolution of Apartments in The Sims 4

Apartments in The Sims 4: City Living

Build-mode in The Sims 4 has predominantly focused on detached houses. Even with The Sims 4: City Living, options for creating apartments were limited until The Sims 4: For Rent. Players could only modify pre-made apartments in San Myshuno, constrained by fixed window placements. The lack of dedicated tools for apartment creation persisted until The Sims 4: For Rent, with pre-made apartments exclusively bundled with The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle.

Apartment Landscape Pre The Sims 4: For Rent

Most pre-made apartments were disproportionately large, lacking realistic representations of typical living spaces. Given the prevalence of apartment living globally, these spaces should have been integrated into The Sims 4 much earlier. Apartments exist beyond cityscapes, varying in size and location, from urban to rural settings. Linking apartments solely to urban expansions is a narrow approach.

Apartments in Project Rene

Inclusion of Apartments at Launch

EA plans to introduce enhanced customization in Project Rene's Build mode. Leveraging a robust system for customization, incorporating pre-made apartments and apartment building tools in the base game would be a valuable addition. Apartments mirror diverse real-life living scenarios and excluding them in favor of paid city-centric content contradicts The Sims' life simulation essence.

Fresh Sim Interactions

Proximity of multiple Sim households in apartments could create engaging dynamics absent in The Sims 4 due to frequent loading screens between neighborhoods. Players have noted that Sims often remain confined to their home lots, exacerbated by loading screens in The Sims 4: For Rent.

Upholding The Sims Essence

Prolonging a paywall, as seen in The Sims 4, for fundamental features like apartments restricts content access unnecessarily. Apartments, akin to weather systems, have become integral to The Sims series, warranting their inclusion without barriers.

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