Wanted to make a poll but can't on this board. Oh well. Which do you prefer?
For me, in The Sims 4, Maxis Match 100%.
I hate how Alpha sims look, and yet I feel like an odd one out because I see people endlessly praise them, particularly on YouTube where the only Maxis Match or no CC simmers who seem to be popular are incredibly talented builders or make comedy-based content. Pretty Maxis Match sims generally get glossed over completely, I find.
Why do I hate alpha you ask? I find them uncanny, and the games' animations don't match with them whatsoever (everything is animated bouncy and cartoony unlike TS3) and the entire environment and every object is mismatched with them so you have to replace everything for the game to look right. Go hard or go home, so to speak
In fact, I feel I'm just going full on Maxis Match in all games in general now. I filled my The Sims 3 with alpha CC as a teen. I look back and hate how the sims I made look.
That said, I don't mind alpha CC for furniture quite as much. Some of it is a lot less jarring from what I've seen, and there's quite a few pieces of Maxis default items that blend in fairly well with alpha stuff. But for CAS? Absolutely no.
So how about you? What's your reasoning too?
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Personally I feel that alpha has more options, and realistic gameplay and clothing.
Maxis match is cute, but usually dosen't have as much detail, but it makes up for the staying to the sims theme.
In my opinion I think both are great, I mostly use alpha for the clothes, and maxismatch for the hair, because it's way easier to edit in photoshop.
While in my personal opinion everything from maxis looks like smooth plastic barbie houses. Or at worse fisher price toys 🤣🤣And the hair looks like plastic wigs or something. (Though I do like there wavy/curly ones)
Both are okay as long as they are not mixed. I don't hate the maxis look I just think alpha is better.
One more thing I want to mention. I agree with you about the animations. They move and behave in silly childish ways which does not look well with alpha. But I use a lot of posing and story telling so it hasn't been much of a problem.
Same! I use Alpha hair and make up but everything else is Maxis Match and I think it fits really nicely.
Clothes and hair I go either way.
You see, these things that you dislike are things I personally like about TS4 and its graphics. I love TS4's art style and to me its like, one of the only things it gets right over the other games.
The Sims 3 is a good game, but man, the sims are uncanny and ugly to me, with the exception of a few if their features are made exactly right (i.e. Gunther Goth is pretty). The more plastic kind of look to the sims, making them doll like, eases that and makes them more fun to me. It allows them to be expressive and cartoony, and allows for more silly and ridiculous animations and scenarios - though EA hasn't done much with this.
To add, it means that fantasy based CC doesn't look ridiculous or creepy, and things can be easily transferred from more cartoony games or shows. I.E. I use a model rip of Illidan's horns in my game. I don't think it would like right in a realistic game like TS3, nor a game full of alpha CC, because Illidan's model is so cartoony.
Magnezone, the lover of Calientes, Lotharios, Landgraabs and Curiouses everywhere.
Alpha is CC that's realistic - doesn't match the games art style. Uncanny Valley is a phenomenon that has existed well before The Sims, where non-human things that look very humanoid but something about them is wrong or slightly off, can induce fear in people.
Androids tend to be the biggest examples of this, a lot of people fear humanoid robots. But for a more fictional example, if you've ever seen the animated films The Polar Express or Mars Needs Moms, critics were critical on both those films for entering Uncanny Valley with their animation styles.
Magnezone, the lover of Calientes, Lotharios, Landgraabs and Curiouses everywhere.
It depends on what sort of look I am going for as to what I choose to use in my game. I have a small selection of CC as my computer doesn't run super well when I have a lot but I am very selective with what CC I download as if I am not 100% sold on how it looks it isn't something I will download for my game
I love realistic hair, clothing, skin, makeup, etc. I use a mix of MM and realistic default eyes, and I found a very nice default MM skin that I use as well.
That being said, for my own game and not looking at others pictures/screencaps... I'd say none. I don't use CC at all. Tried it a couple times, not worth the hassle of downloading it so I removed it all.
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