Comments on: The Sims 4 “Gamescom Build” in Pre-Alpha

By: Gem

Gem — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:13:45 +0000

I’m hoping children and toddlers will have more interactions and things to do. In sims 3 I feel it lacked it that aspect. They should also change babies from blankets to actual clothes..it just looks silly. I also hoped for the sims actual look would improve but raising the graphics to extreme measures would make game play difficult for some simmers. Just gotta wait and see when it’s released I guess.

By: CodyIsInLove

CodyIsInLove — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 20:34:50 +0000

The plants are very strange in S3, It makes total sense they are made out of wa water resistant cardboard.

By: Jess1281

Jess1281 — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:23:07 +0000

And plants, no more of the weird cardboard prop feel from seeing the 2 sides of the plants crisscross. It always got me when players said S3 plants were better looking then S2 plants…. And I still like Sims 1 plants in terms of gardening. Granted they were static but it wasn’t all the same 2 plant shapes with different fruit/veg on them…Like sims 3, till Supernatural and University.

By: niac1234

niac1234 — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:05:31 +0000

**Crossing fingers that trees will look a lot better**

By: Jess1281

Jess1281 — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:42:16 +0000

If it was as easy as that, it’d be in the game. I fathom the amount of time and money needed to accomplish this would kill 20 other features in the game. I can live without height differential, even if it would be nice. I’m learning you have to look at the bigger picture with a game like this, yeah height sounds super simple and they could just squeak it in with everything else, but think about it from animation POV.

They already have infants, toddlers, children, teens, YA, Adt, & elder each with a metric ton of animations and interactions. Now for heights, it’d probably cover teen to Elder, and require 3 whole new sets of animations for each age group (Even if they did just 3 preset heights) say one is the current sim height, so AVG. That’s still 2 extra sets of animations per each age group, and with that in mind…What would they have to cut from the game to add heights even if it were possible at this time ??? Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. There’s only one height mod I know of and it isn’t stable for a lot of players in the current Sims games.

Soo….What does that tell you logically? If it was easy to do, and do well, it would be in the game already. If height was already a Sims feature, I could see saying, “well why can’t they do this?” Like car doors (A gripe of mine too) It was tied to the parking space, and since the parking spot could go wherever, they couldn’t link animations to it like in the Sims 2 with it’s parking spot. There’s always a reason why not…

By: Jess1281

Jess1281 — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:27:53 +0000

Wait??? The 90’s are back…. That would explain all those neon colored clothes I remember as a 10 yr old….

By: Jess1281

Jess1281 — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:23:58 +0000

I don’t think the basic look of the Sims will change, and it is unreasonable for haters to think it will. But they are saying that the Sims aren’t finished yet. What I seen from Gamescom looks great. I’m more interested in the world, the gameplay, CAS (which is amazing…Totally resentful of Sims 3’s CAS now….) By the time release gets here, the game will be polished and finished.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:58:35 +0000

The only real problem I have with this is the hair. It looks kinda like plastic. I hope the final game, the hair is textured a bit better, If not, I know I can count on the modding and custom content community to create the textured hair. Even though that could be years before decent CC comes out for sims 4. XD

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 17:51:39 +0000

It would if EA could figure out a way to make users pay more for extra ones!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:39:59 +0000

THIS. I want TS4’s looks to change drastically but think that what we’re seeing is fairly close to what they’ll look like upon release. I could live with the graphics if we can tone down all the crazy looks and animations. Many of the renders I’ve seen show insane Sims with crossed eyes, eyebrows shooting up into their hair, and zombie poses. Ick.