We all know that an ideal game would include both amazing graphics and in depth, interesting gameplay but which is most important to you? For me gameplay that keeps me interested comes first. I don't care how pretty your game is I won't play it if the story or gameplay doesn't keep my attention. I'm curious to know what is most important feature for everyone else? Gameplay or graphics?
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As for art style i like the slightly realistic look a lot more and i hope sims 5 takes a more realistic appearing art style .Once i can post images , ill share a photo of a current game, that looks like how i dream of sims 5 looking.
If a game is visually unappealing to me then I usually loose interest. I couldn't get into the Sims 3 back when it was the current game because my PC hated it and I couldn't have the graphics set on a standard that I wanted. I'm currently playing TS3 now though and I'm enjoying it for the first time since I bought it.
Sims 4 is gorgeous. I'm so in love with the graphics but the game play lacks so much. I need a ton of mods to make the game enjoyable.
Sims 4 has some style but not so much substance (Mods and CC are what saves this game) but I want more gameplay, new stuff... I love finding CC and default replacements but only if I’m passionate about the game and want to make it look as good possible because it’s a blast to play!
I am guilty of judging a game by what it looks like and if I don’t like the aesthetics, I’m usually not interested. Graphics mean a lot to me.
Often times though I’ve gone back to playing old Atari games or interactive fiction such as Zork. These are games with minimal to no graphics but can be just as engaging as any stunning, graphically demanding game.
A pretty girl in a pretty dress doesn’t automatically make the girl an interesting person. If she turns out to be a complete nut case, I’d stay well away from her.
Like I said once in another thread, It’s like many blockbuster movies. If the story doesn’t work and the characters are shallow or stereotypical, I don’t give a flute about how well the film looks, because I don’t care about the story. In those cases the looks are only there to cover up the lack of good storytelling.
If the essence of a story can be captured and still work perfect without all the fancy CGI, it’s just a good story and it should work well in any genre, in any form.
Same with games. One can’t hide the lack of gameplay behind beautiful graphics. Obviously this depends on personal preference, but in most cases folks will lose interest and the game won’t last long.
It's a 30/70 situation for me, graphics is 30% important, gameplay is the other 70%.
I agree we should have both in Sims games, games make on a shoe string budget have both, apps have both (Heck when Sims 2 came out I bet it was magical in every area, but in 2020 so my game needs a face lift, although I am a maxis match player, so I also like the original style) but it’s honestly my favorite game. So most simmers don’t have to choose in Sims 2 because we get the game play and thanks to the community can make our games look amazing! (You just got to do research first)
But this is EA in 2020 so we gotta kind of choose what we want (even if they don’t listen). So if we are lucky Sims 4 will either step up its game (and give us packs and updates that give us more to do while fixing issues that also don’t break our games) or other life Simulators will come out and get all of us as customers so EA will really have to step up their game for Sims 5.
The build mode in this game is also...truly, impeccable. It has no use for any mod like the tool mod, it can do what tool mod can do, its built into the building mechanism, in fact its more advanced than any building mod for the sims
But that's a double-edged sword. If they improve the graphics enough, it may get to the point where one would need a video card to play the game. That might leave many laptop users out of luck, unless they upgraded to an expensive one (like a gaming laptop)
The sims 4 runs poorly on non gaming laptops anyway. I run sims 4 on ultra on a gaming laptop and its flawless. I also agree that Sims 4 gameplay is pretty good too. Just make sims 5 phenomenal graphics wise and also give back the create a style tool. Open world also.
For instance, I wouldn’t want the game to have deep gameplay but look like Game Dev Story, or any other Kairosoft game.