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    Anyone else not like the way food in TS4 looks like?

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    dearie_blossomdearie_blossom Posts: 707 Member
    edited January 2022 in The Sims 4 Game Feedback
    The food just looks so unappealing and most of the times I cannot tell what it‘s supposed to be. I just came across this post on Reddit and boy, how great would it be if the food looked like in Animal Crossing?


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    Link to Reddit thread:

    https://reddit.com/r/thesims/comments/rucip0/i_think_i_would_enjoy_cooking_in_the_sims_4_a_lot/

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      greydonngreydonn Posts: 717 Member
      Yeah, the food does look a little gross sometimes. Problem is, if it looked like these foods do in animal crossing I think I'd spend more time being hungry then playing the sims! That pie reminds me that I need to go get some lunch, and that pizza's making me rethink my whole existence. mmm olives.
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      logionlogion Posts: 4,720 Member
      edited January 2022
      They use very low textures for most of the food in the sims4. I think it looks okay for some food but sometimes it doesn't look great. I remember when looked at the Cottage Living trailer and I could not tell what was in this bowl.

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      I'm trying not to be too harsh towards Maxis but I have always felt that the food in the sims4 was never designed to look good up close. If it was supposed to then the food should have higher resolution textures.
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      SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,673 Member
      I don't pay a lot of attention to the food, and instead of better graphics I'd want the steam from hot dishes like we had in TS2 (not sure about TS3). It felt so real when the serving was steaming hot for a short while.

      Generally thee are more food variety than I could ever ask for, plenty of dishes my sims never ever cooked or tasted. It got more interesting with Farming pack, but still I prefer to focus on other matters when playing :)
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      crocobauracrocobaura Posts: 7,385 Member
      I agree that food doesn't look particularly appealing in TS4, but I always thought it must be my graphics settings playing on a laptop and what not. It's good to know other people find it unappealing too. I particularly hate the food bowls as I can never tell what's in them. Would also love some more variety in the plates and serving platters. I like how in the Animal Crossing bread is presented in a basket and pizza on a wooden board. Would be lovely if we had something similar in TS4, maybe not for every dish, but for a range of dishes, it would be lovely. Like the cupcakes from the cupcake machine could come placed in a paper box instead of the porcelain platter.
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      StormkeepStormkeep Posts: 7,632 Member
      I love food...foody sims and cooking are two things I tend to do often in my games and yah, I WISH the food looked like the images that you shared from Animal Crossing. That'd be amazing!

      I actually use mods that replace almost all of the food textures, but I'd be happier if the game itself did that instead of needing to rely on a modder for it.
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      SimmingalSimmingal Posts: 8,963 Member
      tbh i don't really care my sims eat it not me

      but also the tea being in coffee mug instead of tea mug annoys me deeply :sweat_smile: hard to get in tea party mood using coffee maker looking machine and drinking from coffee mugs
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      HarukotyanHarukotyan Posts: 513 Member
      Though overall I like the way the food looks I don't like how low poly textures are indeed. So instead of default replacement food mods that change dishes to something very different I use mod with just AI upscaled textures. To me it makes the difference.
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      LynnPlayz1LynnPlayz1 Posts: 548 Member
      I like the way the food looks. It makes me hungry.
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      cynciecyncie Posts: 4,656 Member
      Doesn’t bother me. My sims cook and eat what they want, and I rarely pay attention to it.
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      invisiblgirlinvisiblgirl Posts: 1,709 Member
      The only one that bothered me was the avocado maki rolls...they definitely looked kind of gross. Otherwise, I'm happy enough with the food. I don't zoom in that close, for the most part.
      I just want things to match. :'(
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      LiELFLiELF Posts: 6,449 Member
      I honestly don't care that much about the food. It doesn't do much for my gameplay so I'm not bothered by how it looks. I just want my Sims to get their meals over with so they can go do more fun things, lol.
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      Nate_Whiplash1Nate_Whiplash1 Posts: 4,123 Member
      It doesn't matter to me, my sims are the ones that have to eat it, not I lol
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      RouensimsRouensims Posts: 4,858 Member
      I don’t like games with too much emphasis on food because it can trigger unhealthy hunger, so I’m happy with the way food is handled in TS4.
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      StrawberryYogurtStrawberryYogurt Posts: 2,799 Member
      I think the Sims 4 food looks good :)
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      bshag4lvbshag4lv Posts: 9,378 Member
      I know, in the grand scheme of things, food is a minor asset, but to me who loves the foodie trait, I'm supposed to have a sim who is a celebrity chef and some of the food looks unrecognizable. To the OP who posted the pictures of the food from Animal Crossing, that's just cruel! :D
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      ignominiusrexignominiusrex Posts: 2,680 Member
      I was stunned how much more realistic and detailed food in Sims 3 was once I tried that after playing sims 4. Still polygonal but with more detailed graphics mapped on.
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      ElliandreElliandre Posts: 2,468 Member

      I could never play on high graphics so I guess I never thought about the details, but the animal crossing food does look nicely detailed although I don't play that game. Can you cook and eat the food like in the Sims? Those pizza toppings are so great. I would love a food graphics update in the future. I never zoomed in on their food bowls but it would be a nice touch to make them a little more detailed I would probably zoom in more close when they eat.
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      comicsforlifecomicsforlife Posts: 9,585 Member
      logion wrote: »
      They use very low textures for most of the food in the sims4. I think it looks okay for some food but sometimes it doesn't look great. I remember when looked at the Cottage Living trailer and I could not tell what was in this bowl.

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      I'm trying not to be too harsh towards Maxis but I have always felt that the food in the sims4 was never designed to look good up close. If it was supposed to then the food should have higher resolution textures.

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      mightyspritemightysprite Posts: 5,889 Member
      I guess I never thought to try zooming in close on the food... just not a big part of my gameplay. When my sims go out for experimental dining and take photos of the experimental dishes, those always turn out great...

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      DaraviDaravi Posts: 1,144 Member
      It's better for me, if the food isn't so well designed. It reminds me on another games, which had chicken with peanut sauce included, I've got always hungry when I just saw the icon or read about it.
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      logionlogion Posts: 4,720 Member
      comicsforlife wrote: »
      logion wrote: »
      They use very low textures for most of the food in the sims4. I think it looks okay for some food but sometimes it doesn't look great. I remember when looked at the Cottage Living trailer and I could not tell what was in this bowl.

      MinCzi5.png

      I'm trying not to be too harsh towards Maxis but I have always felt that the food in the sims4 was never designed to look good up close. If it was supposed to then the food should have higher resolution textures.

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      That's supposed to be pumpkin.
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      dearie_blossomdearie_blossom Posts: 707 Member
      bshag4lv wrote: »
      I know, in the grand scheme of things, food is a minor asset, but to me who loves the foodie trait, I'm supposed to have a sim who is a celebrity chef and some of the food looks unrecognizable. To the OP who posted the pictures of the food from Animal Crossing, that's just cruel! :D
      Same. My favorite activities in TS4 are gardening, cooking and throwing dinner parties so to me food is a big part of the game. It‘s a shame that the food isn‘t pretty.
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      dearie_blossomdearie_blossom Posts: 707 Member
      Elliandre wrote: »
      I could never play on high graphics so I guess I never thought about the details, but the animal crossing food does look nicely detailed although I don't play that game. Can you cook and eat the food like in the Sims? Those pizza toppings are so great. I would love a food graphics update in the future. I never zoomed in on their food bowls but it would be a nice touch to make them a little more detailed I would probably zoom in more close when they eat.
      You can cook and eat it. The animations aren‘t as detailed as in TS4 though. Go to 2:45

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      ElliandreElliandre Posts: 2,468 Member
      dearie_blossom wrote: »
      Elliandre wrote: »
      I could never play on high graphics so I guess I never thought about the details, but the animal crossing food does look nicely detailed although I don't play that game. Can you cook and eat the food like in the Sims? Those pizza toppings are so great. I would love a food graphics update in the future. I never zoomed in on their food bowls but it would be a nice touch to make them a little more detailed I would probably zoom in more close when they eat.
      You can cook and eat it. The animations aren‘t as detailed as in TS4 though. Go to 2:45

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      Oh so cute! :smiley: We need those sugarcane and wheat crops though, to make sugar and flour.
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      MareahMareah Posts: 792 Member
      I either forgot, or did not much notice in the first place, how good the food looks in animal crossing :o I would not hate for sims 4 to have this same quality, but it is not a priority to me now, really.
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