This is NOT meant to turn into a flame war or a fight - I'm genuinely curious as to what people think!
I was just curious as to what iteration you think has the better graphics? Sims 3 or Sims 4? I can never put my finger on it. Sims 4 has a softer tone to it, like, more cartoon style, but it fits the style of the game. The Sims 3 is going for more realism but I don't know, theres a lot of 'unnatural glow' and would anyone agree that it sometiems moves into 'uncanny valley'
Don't get me wrong though I absolutely adore both games (i'm one of those who cannot understand why we can't just have both and live in harmony) but I was really interested to see what you prefer!
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I actually started my uh.. "simming journey" I'll call it~ on TS3 but I've come to realized after awhile that the cartoon style is my cup of tea. I mean don't get me wrong, I totally like TS3 and it's graphics (I'm a dedicated lurker over at the TS3 picture thread) but I just like cartoon over realism! Though sometimes I find myself staring at glammed up TS3 sims and being like "Ohhhhhhhhh...nice."
I don't agree Sims 3 moves into uncanny valley. The definition of uncanny valley is "a hypothesis in the field of aesthetics which holds that when features look and move almost, but not exactly, like natural beings, it causes a response of revulsion among some observers." For me that's for instance the taxi driver in GTA when he looks over his shoulder.
He gives me the creeps. Like Yul Brynner did in Westworld (a film that handles about robots that get on the loose). I know CC can make sims in 3 (and 2 for that matter) highly realistic and therefore maybe uncanny, but that's a matter of choice. The vanilla game is far from uncanny, it's just not realistic enough for that.
What I prefer in Sims 3 (and I know it's the opposite for others), is that it looks more 'crispy'. It all seems a bit more mellow and 'sweet' in Sims 4. I can imagine someone prefers that (like people prefer different music styles) but I don't.
The result of using the randomizer is really horrible
A big problem of TS3 is also the sims in CAS has that shine to them, faces, clothing, eyes and hair but once you put them in the world they get the vampire eyes. I don't like that. TS2 and TS4 do not act the same way.
I like TS4 much better, by the way. Everything looks so vivid and the sims doesn't look like play-doh with dead expressions. But I really liked Sims 3 worlds and object details.
They save into your screenshot folder since the last patch
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Sims 3 is starting to look dated to me. But I still love Sims 3 (but I did require a lot of special CC to love how my sims look) and with Sims 4, the thing that bothered me the most about the art style was Sims hair. But now, I don't care for the realistic looking CC hairs. Some of the styles I still like, but I tend to favor the CC Maxis Match hair now.
I love both. I love the realistic settings and detailed Build/Build objects and textures of sims 3, but I also love the sims' looks and CAS and various Build objects in sims 4.
They're different styles, but I enjoy both.
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Worlds: TS3 no questions asked. TS3 has the best worlds of all of the games--mind blowing amazing worlds. TS4 has a horrible world, it's just fake--like the Truman Show. The only world that TS4 could probably beat is TS1
I'm totally pro-TS2 and I use CC, so my TS2 game is better in looks and in functional beautiful worlds than both TS3 and TS4.
Sims:
TS2 sims are better looking than TS4 sims in-game. I prefer the maxis match, cartoony look, and there are soooo many amazing creators who make gorgeous maxis match sims. TS2 Sims are lovely with CC. Without CC, TS4 wins hands down. TS4 has the best looking sims of the iteration. I hope this doesn't change with TS5.
Worlds:
TS2 worlds are fully customisable. I'm currently building Sunset Valley in one of my worlds, and I find TS2 is superior in regards to not having any rabbit holes, not having any fake back drops, and being able to actually play out all the things that in TS3 you can only read about. Again, this requires CC, without CC TS2 really shows its age.
I think TS2 requires a lot more time and obsessing over (last night I passed out in the middle of making a door for a community lot), but I reckon that is the point of video games. So for me TS2 combines the best sims and the best worlds to be the best game. I could see myself obsessing over TS3 in a different way (there is just so much to do in that game) if I got over the hideous pudding faces, but... but... the pudding faces!!! TS4 for some reason, despite its amazing looking sims, can't hold my attention for more than a couple hours. I think its boring and fake. That being said, I've recently started watching TS4 machinima, and it's pretty impressive, so I reckon there is definitely the means for exploring one's creativity in that game. Hopefully, the limitations in TS4 (fake backdrops, prozac'd sims) will go away with future development and it will give both TS2 and TS3 a run for their money, because it's a very polished looking game.