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New Style?
doogerie
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If Maxis decided to change the art Style for The Sims 5 what would you like to see?
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New Style? 65 votes
More realistic like the sims 3
29%
19 votes
Less realistic a more cartoony style
38%
25 votes
Ultra realistic really showing the power of Unreal Engine 5
18%
12 votes
Pixar style think inside out
13%
9 votes
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I like the ts2 and 4 style where its nice mix of realistic and cartoony
would hate to go too realistic cause that ages really fast as soon as something else has more realistic graphics and most of the time what we call "realistic" is just unrealistic in non cartoony way
and again I would hate to go more cartoony cause then you start losing detail and sims start looking like kids show
i wouldn't be against more detailed version of the current artstyle though
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Most definitely NOT more cartoony .... pretty much over that (it took a really long time for me to not cringe at how bright and happy TS4 was with all of the playschool color choices in the swatches, the overly exaggerated facial expressions with the constant joker grins and raising of eyebrows clear up to their hair line and their huge bugged out eyes with certain emotions when I first started playing. I also HATE the smeary grass and environment textures. The whole vibe of TS4 to me is already super cartoonish.
Absolutely NOT ultra-realistic, I can't stand those skins and skin overlays that have pores and stretchmarks and literally looks like you photoshopped a RL skin onto a Sims 4 character model, etc. That looks absolutely horrible to me. The Sims is not some "gritty" realistic game and they just look ridiculously out of place, not to mention the way sims act just look and their facial expressions make those realistic sims details look even more du-mb.
While I didn't mind TS3's graphics when that was the current game, now I feel like everything looks sort of dirty and grungy. So the lighting would need to be super improved, plus if they ever gave us a CAST type ability again they need to tone down their shadows and shading on things because sometimes they were WAYYYYY overpowering which would cause the dirty look. But I still do really love the environment looking a little more realistic.
My choice would be a more realistic stylized look, cartoony but not "kids cartoony" which is how I feel TS4 looks in it's unmodded version, more realistic meaning ... No Clay Hair, REAL FREAKIN' EYELASHES!!!!!! ..... better clothing and object mesh models details, none of this drawn on details. And regardless of the style they choose, for the Love of all things Sims ...... Please make furniture and objects SIZED TO SCALE!!!!!
So something like this would make me super happy:
You can clearly tell it's a game and not real people, it still has a cartoon/game look just not a childish cartoon look,
So yeah, that would be my preferred style of TS5.
But improved textures that are more "Painterly real" are certainly doable, and a direction I hope they go.
2. I certainly don’t want a less realistic style. No chibis or anime please.
3. I definitely don’t want a hyper-realistic style either. I find a lot of uncanny valley in the hyper-realistic style and it would definitely put me off.
4. Pixar and Disney have texture rendering developed to an incredible level, but I don’t particularly like Pixar’s recent adoption of the CalArts style for their character design, so no on that. Disney Animation’s characters are great, but still a bit too exaggerated for a Sim. But a toned down Disney style character design, without the exaggerated features and proportions but keeping textures in hair, skin and clothing, would be awesome. If you don’t believe me, take a look at Encanto. The hair is to die for, clothing has texture, weight and movement, skin has texture but isn’t hyper real, and characters are expressive. I realize this is Disney and not a game, but anything getting close to that would be awesome.
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Also a variety of thick and thin detail to objects instead of everything being thick and blocky.
They have been doing this with some objects later in the game.
I don't mind the look of Sims 4, just wish it had the things that past games had that made the game really fun play. I could spend hours and even days playing Sims 1, 2, and 3 but when I play Sims 4 I only play a couple hours then don't even play for weeks or even months at a time. Now that could be because of real life stuff going on that prevents me from playing or even being interested in playing but I also think, and this is my personal opinion, it lacks in certain gameplay that really kept my interest the others have.
But I like the option for simmers to choose, so why not have two sets of skins? That would do a lot for those who like a smoother, cartoony skin, and those who want more detailed skin.
I didn't consider it that realistic on it's own but it was kind of a nice middle ground between cartoon and realism imo. Which I thought especially for CC users was amazing because you could go a little more realistic or a little less whatever you preferred without it looking wildly out of place, even without CC with the wealth of customization options and depending how you worked those sliders making sims you could still find a little more or less realism.
I like a little more realism personally but not ultra realistic. I find it a little unsettling and also I can't afford the computer that could handle that.
Ultimately art style isn't the biggest priority though. I wasn't a fan of TS4s art style but mostly I would have accepted it for an otherwise great game. But to go back to something along the lines of TS3 maybe a little more realistic would be a dream.
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