The first time I brought my actual Puppy, who is a cat, remember, to the real life emergency vet it was because she’d eaten a small stretch of string. Now a black cat with a radioactive nose, Puppy clearly needed a vet. When my Sims-version of Puppy came down with Lava Nose -an in-game ailment that gives pets a shiny red noses - panic set in. If he’s sick, you’ll see one icon if he’s got to poop, you’ll see another. A thought bubble will pop up above the pup’s head with a clue. If you suspect your dog is ill, you click on the little guy and ask what’s wrong. You will be very thankful for these small gestures of affection.ĭecision-making in The Sims 4 is pared down to pointing and clicking.
They’ll learn to pee outside and to use the litterbox.
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They’re going to claw your furniture, sneak bites from your dinner plate and if you’ve got a real troublemaker, get into scuffles with your neighbors and their pets, leading to complaints.īut your animals are also going to cuddle up with you on the couch, bring you presents (somehow, cats have learned how to wrap gifts and tie bows) and lick your face. Your new virtual pet is going to pee on the floor at some point, and then try to lap it up as if it were milk. That’s leaving out the different mixes that can be created by the player.Īnimals act more like animals in Cats & Dogs. And there are nearly 50 cat breeds in the content pack. Cats & Dogs adds, well, cats and dogs more than 125 dog breeds, while leaving out Bassett Hounds for some ridiculous reason. 10, puts cats and dogs back into the game for the first time since The Sims 3 introduced its own pets expansion in 2011. They kinda look alike EA/Nicole CarpenterĬats & Dogs, released on Nov. It returned when I played the Cats & Dogs expansion. That stress of the first week, which includes the unrelenting fear that I would let down the other life that’s literally dependent on me, has passed.
We’re all past the puppy/Puppy blues, though everyone gets each others’ nerves at times. I realize these names could get confusing as the story goes on. I’ve been a kitten mom now - my cat’s name, conveniently, is Puppy - for a little over two years. I’ve had Major, my extremely long Bassett Hound–mix puppy, since July. They are their own bosses now, for better or worse. The unpredictability and lack of control in Cats & Dogs has an uncanny way of mimicking the messy, rewarding chaos of life with a furry companion. Pets can’t have jobs anymore, as they did in The Sims 2, and players can’t control their actions, like they could in The Sims 3. The Sims 4 ’s new expansion, Cats & Dogs, certainly does its own version of simplification, while still maintaining a unique form of complexity. Games often simplify the complex emotions of everyday life. You’re in charge of a life now, and that’s scary. You’ll think you’ve prepared by buying enough disinfectant to mop up the buckets of pee. Fans of their own pets don’t tell you how much you’ll cry during the first week, and definitely not much the animal will cry, or how much time you’ll spend consoling your partner after your new puppy tears apart their most prized possession. The reality of the situation rushes in quicker than many expect. The first few hours of life with a puppy are pure bliss.
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