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Post by emsev7 on Feb 23, 2020 13:18:21 GMT -5
Hi! I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that gets a bit frustrated at the Sims 4. Even though it's a fairly good game, it feels like the creators has started to cut corners and the sims are lacking personality etc... especially if you think back at the sims in the Sims 2 serie. Not saying the Sims 2 was a perfect game but the sims in it had a lot more personality and the games were full with fun small details that made them more complete. Would be fun if it was possible to add a bit of that quirkiness into the Sims 4 games. To make the Sims 4 sims act more like the sims in the Sims 2. However I don't know how hard this would be or how big the mod would turn out. (Maybe split into several smaller mods?) Sadly I'm not a modder or I would have loved to give this idea a go, buuuut I bet I'm not the only one missing the characters and animations in the Sims 2. Hopefully this is something that someone out there might be able to create.
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Post by simadream on Feb 24, 2020 16:51:26 GMT -5
Yeah, TS4 vanilla sims don't have much of a personality. There's many mods that try to remedy the problem -- within the confines of what the sims lets us do. I've found Triplis's Love and Hate and SkillLock mods to be the ones most useful in giving sims actual personalities -- check them out! triplis.github.io/
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Post by simmerish20 on Mar 6, 2020 14:27:40 GMT -5
I think the main problem is how the emotions and traits are handled by the game. They don't have a lasting impact on a sim, and most sims react similarly to the same situations because most of the traits or emotions don't set them apart in any way. Three basic traits just don't make an exciting sim.
TS2 has several layers of personality (personality points and aspirations, plus secondary aspirations) with a variety of options that could go several ways (wishes and wants triggered by aspirations and things that happen to the sims, along with needs that are in several ways harder to manage than in TS4, and the possibility of aspiration failure and fears, which makes it a bit harder but also more interesting to care for the sims). Sims 3 lacks some of this, but does have more traits per sim, more choices, they're more impactful, and they are also more useful than in TS4 (where several tend to become more of a nuisance after a while).
I guess you could go around some of these problems with mods and work with what you have, but you can't make a completely new game out of it. You could probably make it a somewhat more interesting game, though (doesn't take a lot).
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