LGR - The Sims 4 CAS Demo Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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setsukiFR
2: 03
Yeah I know, I'm quite late, and maybe someone already reacted to this.
I'm also sad that this feature was removed, but it wasn't a 'simple palette' change. In The Sims 3, you could apply any texture with any material and any color combination to clothes and furniture. I mean, you could have a shirt made of wood.
So, when the game loads a sim, it needs to load the sim, its facial parameters, and then the clothes: the model, the material used, the textures, and the colors. Then, on each frame rendered, it had to load the texture light and color it properly.
Yeah, for one character, it works, but for all the models, plus real-time loading? It must have been an absolute nightmare to make, and I honestly am still impressed with The Sims 3 in that regard.
A great example of a tool used to make those -new-gen textures- is Substance Painter
Now with the sims 4, The material is simply made of textures instead of -textures + colors + parameters-. Sure, it's limitating, but it's a lot smoother, and as you state, you can still mod the game anyways.
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Yeah I know, I'm quite late, and maybe someone already reacted to this.
I'm also sad that this feature was removed, but it wasn't a 'simple palette' change. In The Sims 3, you could apply any texture with any material and any color combination to clothes and furniture. I mean, you could have a shirt made of wood.
So, when the game loads a sim, it needs to load the sim, its facial parameters, and then the clothes: the model, the material used, the textures, and the colors. Then, on each frame rendered, it had to load the texture light and color it properly.
Yeah, for one character, it works, but for all the models, plus real-time loading? It must have been an absolute nightmare to make, and I honestly am still impressed with The Sims 3 in that regard.
A great example of a tool used to make those -new-gen textures- is Substance Painter
Now with the sims 4, The material is simply made of textures instead of -textures + colors + parameters-. Sure, it's limitating, but it's a lot smoother, and as you state, you can still mod the game anyways.
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RossOriginals
I have to say. I was disappointed by Sims 3. I never liked the graphical style but I wanted to give it a chance after hearing so many things about it. but, apart from the create a style, I still don't think it compares at all with The Sims 2. The open world wasn't as seamless as I'd hoped, the textures all suffer from gross-looking over-detailing and the sims themselves look like wax dolls, I just couldn't play it for long without feeling physically ill.
Sims 4 lacks -SO MUCH- content compared to Sims 2, even with all the expansions out it doesn't have half the content 2 and 3 had at this stage in their life, but the base game at least looks nice and does now have most things it was missing. We just need landscaping tools, lot size customisation and neighbourhood customisation and we're good.
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I have to say. I was disappointed by Sims 3. I never liked the graphical style but I wanted to give it a chance after hearing so many things about it. but, apart from the create a style, I still don't think it compares at all with The Sims 2. The open world wasn't as seamless as I'd hoped, the textures all suffer from gross-looking over-detailing and the sims themselves look like wax dolls, I just couldn't play it for long without feeling physically ill.
Sims 4 lacks -SO MUCH- content compared to Sims 2, even with all the expansions out it doesn't have half the content 2 and 3 had at this stage in their life, but the base game at least looks nice and does now have most things it was missing. We just need landscaping tools, lot size customisation and neighbourhood customisation and we're good.
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mjakes20
Look, when a new Sims game is coming out it will always seem relatively dwarfed by its predecessor which is buttressed by a plethora of expansion packs, stuff packs and downloadable content, but I definitely don't remember feeling this skepticism before the release of The Sims 3. Back then, the new features actually excited me and I knew that what little I was sacrificing by switching from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3 would inevitably return in time. Now, I am not so willing to exchange Create-a-Style, Open World, Swimming Pools, Toddlers etc for emotions or whatever meaningless addition this game offers. Nevertheless I will purchase this game in the vain hope that my assumptions will be proven wrong, but for the moment I sit on the fence.
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Look, when a new Sims game is coming out it will always seem relatively dwarfed by its predecessor which is buttressed by a plethora of expansion packs, stuff packs and downloadable content, but I definitely don't remember feeling this skepticism before the release of The Sims 3. Back then, the new features actually excited me and I knew that what little I was sacrificing by switching from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3 would inevitably return in time. Now, I am not so willing to exchange Create-a-Style, Open World, Swimming Pools, Toddlers etc for emotions or whatever meaningless addition this game offers. Nevertheless I will purchase this game in the vain hope that my assumptions will be proven wrong, but for the moment I sit on the fence.
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SparkleMotion
I was SO excited for Sims 4 and to see what they look like, but taking away CAST AND pools AND toddlers. I'm just so disappointed. I'm not buying it. I'm about to start trying my hand at CC for Sims 3, so Sims 4 just does not interest me at all. They're ugly and that fro is straight up racist. Even tho they've already sent me special incentives to buy it's not gonna happen. Boo to EA on this. I also noticed as I take random Sims from around town into CAS to change skin tone and just make them look prettier, The names they choose for those of different ethnicities in WA is just SO wrong. Any african american is Reeva Parks or Rhoda Parks. Shang Simla is home to Chen Ching. I mean come on, EA. Do you have to be so racist?
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I was SO excited for Sims 4 and to see what they look like, but taking away CAST AND pools AND toddlers. I'm just so disappointed. I'm not buying it. I'm about to start trying my hand at CC for Sims 3, so Sims 4 just does not interest me at all. They're ugly and that fro is straight up racist. Even tho they've already sent me special incentives to buy it's not gonna happen. Boo to EA on this. I also noticed as I take random Sims from around town into CAS to change skin tone and just make them look prettier, The names they choose for those of different ethnicities in WA is just SO wrong. Any african american is Reeva Parks or Rhoda Parks. Shang Simla is home to Chen Ching. I mean come on, EA. Do you have to be so racist?
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TheDiamondRaccoon
Ok 1 thing. NO FLIPPIN TODDLERS! I mean seriously! Like how does the kid come out as? A child? We all know that is not true. No pools? I dont really care because one of my sims drowned in my first world. I never put another non-mermaid in the watert again. Ok now with the gid damn no BLAH. I cant flippin go looking for my perfect house without going though 10 different loading screens. And i dont have time for that shit. When i play i play. And also just being real. These things look alot like cartoons. I dont like this because personnally i loved the sims 3 because of how realistic your sims could look. These are way too snimated.
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Ok 1 thing. NO FLIPPIN TODDLERS! I mean seriously! Like how does the kid come out as? A child? We all know that is not true. No pools? I dont really care because one of my sims drowned in my first world. I never put another non-mermaid in the watert again. Ok now with the gid damn no BLAH. I cant flippin go looking for my perfect house without going though 10 different loading screens. And i dont have time for that shit. When i play i play. And also just being real. These things look alot like cartoons. I dont like this because personnally i loved the sims 3 because of how realistic your sims could look. These are way too snimated.
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Singular8ty
The open world in TS3 was the reason the town looked like a ghost town, but I would have hoped they would have fixed it by (1) optimizing the engine and (2) adding more sims in a town. Then again it is EA. If they can take 10 steps back and save a few bucks, they'll do it, even if it alienates the fans.
Anyways, the -empty lot syndrome- seems to have a pretty obvious root cause. Forcing smaller zones with loading in between will ensure that the lots are more lively, but as I said, I think if they delayed the game by a year or so, they could keep the open world and improve it.
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The open world in TS3 was the reason the town looked like a ghost town, but I would have hoped they would have fixed it by (1) optimizing the engine and (2) adding more sims in a town. Then again it is EA. If they can take 10 steps back and save a few bucks, they'll do it, even if it alienates the fans.
Anyways, the -empty lot syndrome- seems to have a pretty obvious root cause. Forcing smaller zones with loading in between will ensure that the lots are more lively, but as I said, I think if they delayed the game by a year or so, they could keep the open world and improve it.
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MC
I personally liked CAS of TS4 better than TS3, the reason is, the CAS of my TS3 game is as laggy as hell! Takes forever to create a woman with full makeup, pretty face and fully accesorized and decorated attires! For CAS. I'm going to give it for TS4.
Also, I wished they didn't add too many leopard prints or other weirdly colored prints, I wished some. well, sort of. normal colors? -cringed at self- were available in the options. So I have to give the customization to TS3.
I wished TS5 is a combination between both TS3 and TS4, if it does happen, my life will be complete.
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I personally liked CAS of TS4 better than TS3, the reason is, the CAS of my TS3 game is as laggy as hell! Takes forever to create a woman with full makeup, pretty face and fully accesorized and decorated attires! For CAS. I'm going to give it for TS4.
Also, I wished they didn't add too many leopard prints or other weirdly colored prints, I wished some. well, sort of. normal colors? -cringed at self- were available in the options. So I have to give the customization to TS3.
I wished TS5 is a combination between both TS3 and TS4, if it does happen, my life will be complete.
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Faramir
Imma get lot of shit for this but honestly, I've been playing sims 3 for a long time and never used create a style. Okay on some occasions I did but most of the time everything was set to default. Also the open world of sims 3 was barley used by me, since I mostly focused on having my families bigger and money stable, along with the making them look good. You can get all that sims 3 shit into sims 4 from CC and I am actually glad that I no longer have to wait 10 for it all to load into the game before beginning the game. I honestly love the sims 4 more than sims 3
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Imma get lot of shit for this but honestly, I've been playing sims 3 for a long time and never used create a style. Okay on some occasions I did but most of the time everything was set to default. Also the open world of sims 3 was barley used by me, since I mostly focused on having my families bigger and money stable, along with the making them look good. You can get all that sims 3 shit into sims 4 from CC and I am actually glad that I no longer have to wait 10 for it all to load into the game before beginning the game. I honestly love the sims 4 more than sims 3
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Bertie_Rose
personally, i don't mind terribly that there is no colour customization and no toddlers and pools bu the thing that really gets me is the no open world problem. one of the best parts of the sims 3 was that you had a giant sandbox to play around with and it did really feel like one world, now everything will feel like each lot is its own world with no access anywhere else. also i have zero patience, so i have no idea how i will survive one loading screen let alone several in just one game. its safe to say my sims will not be leaving the house too much anymore
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personally, i don't mind terribly that there is no colour customization and no toddlers and pools bu the thing that really gets me is the no open world problem. one of the best parts of the sims 3 was that you had a giant sandbox to play around with and it did really feel like one world, now everything will feel like each lot is its own world with no access anywhere else. also i have zero patience, so i have no idea how i will survive one loading screen let alone several in just one game. its safe to say my sims will not be leaving the house too much anymore
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Meskyte
Well I suppose it could be worse, Sims 4 was going to be a online game just like the new SimCity. But it seems like that idea was scrapped, thank goodness. However, why remove toddlers in a -LIFE SIMULATOR-, why remove pools when they have been in -every base game since Sims 1-? Also, why -remove/downgrade- some of the biggest features from the Sims 3? And for what? A better CAS and emotions? This is supposed to a -sequel-, it's supposed to improve from the previous game, not downgrade it like some of those crappy movie sequels.
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Well I suppose it could be worse, Sims 4 was going to be a online game just like the new SimCity. But it seems like that idea was scrapped, thank goodness. However, why remove toddlers in a -LIFE SIMULATOR-, why remove pools when they have been in -every base game since Sims 1-? Also, why -remove/downgrade- some of the biggest features from the Sims 3? And for what? A better CAS and emotions? This is supposed to a -sequel-, it's supposed to improve from the previous game, not downgrade it like some of those crappy movie sequels.
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