- 30.11.2017
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It really is just as good as you make it out to be in your head. But after you ran out of scenarios to play, you come to this exact conclusion that it's very shallow.In sandboxes, you usually fix yourself an objective and work towards it, but LP lacks that. You get what you want very easily, or in the case of stats, you have to grind hours of the same activity.
Yes, you can go to Uni, but why? Work experience almost doesn't matter. Run a business? Hire enough employees (there's an action that tells you if you have enough) and it runs itself. Plus, money is useless. Dating is just spending time spamming the same few actions at an npc until they agree to it.
The quest system is even worse, it's just a few events with barely any impact on the rest of the game, those events doesn't take anything else into account. And be careful about your current SO, because you can end up married with someone else by the end with some choices. Plus, it's been abandoned AFAIK.
The closest content you can do is seeing events. Find things that takes time (work, study, workout,...) in different places and random events might trigger. Some actions trigger an event after the time is spent too, but most don't.
Unlike many cashgrab games, this one is actually under constant and pretty reliable development. However it seems at some point the dev's priorities have shifted from improving gameplay aspects to just adding basic content (mainly scenes) and bugs. It's gotten to the point of him delaying updates because he literally forgot how some mechanics even work but definetly not abandoned.
A UE5 demo was mentioned at some point, a possible second game but more towards fantasy side, hair physics and genital penetration animations as well but we never heard anything more about those sadly. Just scenes after scenes after scenes. It's like constantly adding sand to the sandbox without adding new tools to play with. And I don't think you can mod gameplay or animations or clothes, just scenes afaik so modders can't help with this side either. I suppose in this case the chances of any significant future update are quite low so it is what it is.
If you don't mind the cartoony style, try Sims 4 with WickedWhims. That one surprisingly kept on improving and now it's pretty great with loads of animations and other complementary mods too. Actually started playing LifePlay because WickedWhims was barebones at the time, how the turntables...