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My Opinion on the Graphics - Picture Heavy
SweetieTreats
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Before TS4 was announced I always thought the graphics for the new game would look like this:
Maybe a little better. These graphics are better than TS3 in my opinion:
Instead the graphics we get are similar to this:
Maybe if the graphics were like this, then the game would look better:
Even in The Sims Freeplay, the Sims have a realistic looking aspect to them. The Sims look more like the Sims in the original game:
The Sims 4 reminds me more of The Sims Social's art style or the art style for a console game:
Even The Sims 2 was more realistic than The Sims in terms of graphic style. It seemed the franchise was heading in a more realistic direction for a minute:
I guess in the end beauty is subjective.
Maybe a little better. These graphics are better than TS3 in my opinion:
Instead the graphics we get are similar to this:
Maybe if the graphics were like this, then the game would look better:
Even in The Sims Freeplay, the Sims have a realistic looking aspect to them. The Sims look more like the Sims in the original game:
The Sims 4 reminds me more of The Sims Social's art style or the art style for a console game:
Even The Sims 2 was more realistic than The Sims in terms of graphic style. It seemed the franchise was heading in a more realistic direction for a minute:
I guess in the end beauty is subjective.
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I didn't mind the graphics of TS4 though when it was revealed, didn't love it or hate it. But now when I see the picture you posted of free-play edit: when it comes to the furniture as the girl in cas looks nice to me), I seriously see the unfortunate resemblance. But I also heard it was in the works of becoming a online game, until that idea got the axe and they kept the "online looking"graphics.
Anyway, I really don't mind the look of the sims so much in TS4. I think they have very nice bone structure, if that makes sense. The overall look and shape of their faces is nice. I can understand that it's a different art style, but it's the world that I'm having difficulty with. It really does look like a slightly tweaked version of The Sims Social or something. Even the world in TS2 didn't strike me as so... flat. I don't know how else to put it. Anyhow. I've said all of this before, so I don't want to rant or be tiresome. At this point, all I can say is that I need to see more of what TS4 has to offer before I can make a decision on it. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy TS3 (and now that I've looked at those pics, probably TSM too. :-) )
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Maybe because the hair looked like hair and not an extremely stylized blocky representation of hair.
I like the sims, but still I would like to see better textures for the world. I just don't like blurry and smeary.
TS4 does look like a spiritual successor to SimSocial.
Sims 4 could still be neat, as long as they don't nix open town. Not going back to the single lots.
It's hard for me to explain it, but I see it. And now that I've seen it, I can't unsee it. :?
Sims Social
Sims 4
It's that matte, cartoon look, I guess. Whereas in TS3 and TSM you had things like fabric textures, wood grain, etc. I don't see that in TS4. The lack of those things reminds me of TS Social. Best way I can put it.
As for TS4 graphics, I don't believe it looks like the sims social, in fact i don't have a problem with the graphics so far, but we all have different views
Not as sandboxy as I'd like though.
There is something very cartoony about the graphics of the sims 4, it looks almost like an updated version of the sims social :x
O.K. take a real good look at the pictures of the Sim Social game posted.
Do you see the word "inspired" on the right hand side above the UI..remind you of anything? even the font?
Do you see the oversized avatar of the Sim on the UI on the left bottom side? Does that ring a bell?
Do you see any familarity at all with the 'skin' icons? {Perhaps it is the childlike circles, or the childlike little boxes?
O.K> now move over to the picture showing the houses in the Sim Social. Do you see in the middle of the street..what looks like longated shurbs boxes, or flower boxes on the median? Do you see the grate next to them? Hm...remind you of any house in TS4 you have seen lately (outfront in the street?).
Do you see the shiny on the fridge? Hm...that looks familar, too..Do you see the overely saturated colors of the walls, funiture, and objects? Does that not speak something to you at all? O.K> how about 'what ccolors' are presented in the house pictures..deep purples, deep pinks, deep, deep reds...? Getting the picture?
No? then move over to the mirror on the wall in the SS bathroom..see the reflection? It is 'drawn'...no real reflection does it not say 'hello' to you?
Please don't take 'how I have said things' wrong..I'm just trying to get you to open your eyes.
Now, I don't really have a problem with TS4 graphics, but I understand where people are coming from with their disappointment.
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Yes Gabby, it's quite hard to explain. When the first time I saw the graphic in TS4, my gut told me "Oh that looks like Sims Social / Sims free play".
I just couldn't pint point where but I have always had that feeling whenever I see TS4 graphics.
Yeah, I played TSM too
Thanks for the pictures, some of them was very nostalgic.
I want a game that I can call my own , and I want it to look somewhat realistic. You can rant and rave over my answer if you want, but facts are facts.
I personally like the way TSM looks, but i'm not too bummed by TS4 graphics anyway. I still play old games, for me, it is never about the graphics. It's just a plus for me. I wouldn't let myself miss the actual fun in playing a great game, if TS4 will be, just because of how it looks.
I too was hoping that the objects would be more textured, I'm fine with the sims, but if they are not, it doesn't matter.
The furniture in The Sims 4 definitely looks like the Sims Social...extremely blocky, and box like or whatever the word is.
I didn't want super realistic but The Sims themelves and the atmosphere is too chilish looking, in my opinion.
The TSM map is an open neighborhood. But much, much smaller as in how many homes/hero buildings are in the world. People come and go, interact, and walk around everywhere. I don't think they are merely 'agents' as in SC, because they do form relationships (those you can't play) etc. The 'townies' go off world at a certain time of night..when you mouse over them it says they are going home. But, yeah in one sense TSM's map is very much 'open'. And the background drop and the map seems to be just as big as one from TS3..small towns.
The NPC/Townies in that game do basically everything you see the TSM NPC do..but once you marry one you don't have control over them or your children..
So, when I heard TS4 was in the making I half expected them to expand on the wonderful graphics and 'style' of TSM..use a smaller world map and it still remain open like TSM's world which isn't too hard to get around...it takes just as long to walk across the entire map as it does or maybe longer (no cars and horses) than in TS3, but then they went a totally different direction for what seems to me no matter how much someone tells me this game is in prealpha was meant for a FB game etc.