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The teens are ruining the game
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Hey guys,
I was playing with this great family and was having a lot of fun. There were the parents, the big sister (my first toddler ^^) turned into a child and her little sister (also a toddler now).
Then the eldest child grew up into a teen and the magic was gone the moment she blew out the candles. She looks so old now, it's game breaking.
How do you guys do?
I can't play with families past teens. I hate the teens. I really do. They absolutely need to be revamped.
I find the teens even worse than the used-to-be toddler absence... And that's saying... Because I really missed toddlers.....
I was playing with this great family and was having a lot of fun. There were the parents, the big sister (my first toddler ^^) turned into a child and her little sister (also a toddler now).
Then the eldest child grew up into a teen and the magic was gone the moment she blew out the candles. She looks so old now, it's game breaking.
How do you guys do?
I can't play with families past teens. I hate the teens. I really do. They absolutely need to be revamped.
I find the teens even worse than the used-to-be toddler absence... And that's saying... Because I really missed toddlers.....
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I doubt this will be changed, though, other than maybe adding a pre-teen life stage. It's easier to fill in a gap than make such a huge overhaul of a facet of the game...
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Exactly. That's what I do too and I feel like my teens do look like teens. Just because all the clothes and make up options are available for teens it doesn't mean you have to use them. Also there are some outfits (e.g. The football jacket) that I only use on my teens, so I feel like they're different somehow.
I do that too but still, there is so much missing. They barely have any special interactions and don't really feel like teen, even if you dress them like one. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.
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What gameplay? I'm genuinely curious. Because teens have nothing to do in my opinion.
You can try to dress them in more "teen appropriate" clothes and hairstyles but they're a still far too old looking. Sure, some may look like the ones in this game but for the most part, teens are very obviously teens in real life. There's nothing in the game to make teens distinct whatsoever.
I don't much have any problem distinguishing them from the young adults since they are more light frame.
That is also what I do , so I can tell which one is which in My game,
A pre teen stage might not help much either
I don't think dressing them 'as teens' is a good solution. Because, some of my sims have a certain style, they should still look like teens no matter what they wear.
I tend to turn a blind eye to it because the amount of work to fix teens would be immense, but I'm hoping they'll do it for a generations EP? Still, that would be a few years down the line.
The teens being the same height as the adult doesn't bother me as much as it bothers others, my and all of my siblings were taller than our mum by age 12. For me the issue isn't with the height, it's the lack of unique clothing options and interactions.
I do the same. Sometimes I even dress them rather outrageously, since many teens use this time in their life trying to express themselves or just trying to find out who they are. Once they age up to YA, I change their clothing to something a bit more conventional.
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I do agree with you that it's slightly disturbing that they are the same height and more or less have the same interactions as adults. I think it's quite easy to see that the devs either ran out of time prior to animating a teen model and/or they were just straight up lazy about it. I know that EA sent out a survey awhile ago about the possible addition of pre-teens but I wouldn't put any eggs in that basket.
I am opposite. I simply love the teens. They sometimes are a bit too skinny for my taste, but I can easily change their bodies in CAS. What I do? I make them move out on their own, if I think it's nice. Some of them move to a university I have downloaded. Some of the teens I have at the moment are my orphan kids growing up. They are staying at the orphanage for a while, because they are such good friends with the other kids. I don't think the height is "disturbing". My own kids have been as tall as their parents from around the age of 14, so to me it looks ok.
But I truly like my teens, and I'd rather have pre-teens to fill the 10-14 yo stage. I would be sad if they change the teens' height instead because I really like them as they are.
I don't recall them being all that better in behavior in TS2 either. They had the acne which I would like to see return, but that's pretty much all I miss from their TS2 version.