Sims 3 is probably the last Sims game for me.

@Cororon I have to agree with you there. I shudder to think of a sims game that is even more cartoony than TS4 :grimace:

I personally think 2 & 3 had a pretty good balance between a sort of realism and cartoony. I use "cartoony" in the loosest possible way.
Sims 4 already looks like toy story to me. Look at the TS4 sim eyes and at Woody's eyes. They virtually look the same.
It's unappealing, and something like you'd find on a colour-in placemat at Macca's. I don't know if they could possibly make future sims games any worse, but it's EA so it wouldn't really surprise me.

I don't believe I'm in their target audience any more and neither are a lot of older simmers. EA are really looking for the "omg they make this game so be grateful that they give you a cow pie on a plate and call it a diamond" crowd. They don't seem to want players that are going to challenge them on anything, are concerned about value for money or quality over quantity.

It's also probably much easier and cheaper to put out a bunch of textured plastic dolls rather than produce something like TS3 or even Sims Medieval, in which the sims looks absolutely gorgeous. I'd had high hopes those would be the sims we got for TS4. Instead, we got Woody v2 :(

I think unless its a direct promotional image from EA themselves, I'm not going to put much stock in how Sims 5 will look. Nobody knows, because it doesn't even exist yet (if ever).

Plus, there's always custom content :)

I do feel similar too. I always preferred the more realistic graphics. Sims 4 is a bit too perfect for me, to much colour and to many pretty boys / girls.
But I could live with a mix out of 3 and 4. A bit prettier than 3 but less Barbie/ my little pony.

I can't vote. The realistic pictures are too creepy for me. The cartoony are way too cartoony. There just isn't any balance in those options!
I do understand, given those options, why there are so many cartoony votes, but I don't see why there can't be a nice mixture rather than one extreme or the other.

"Pary;c-17298430" wrote:
I can't vote. The realistic pictures are too creepy for me. The cartoony are way too cartoony. There just isn't any balance in those options!
I do understand, given those options, why there are so many cartoony votes, but I don't see why there can't be a nice mixture rather than one extreme or the other.

Same!

I'm not voting because my top two choices aren't even represented in the poll and I feel disenfranchised. :/

Both: When we start a new game, we could be asked whether we want the Realistic or the Cartoony bases used for our sims. Although maybe they could be given better names than that like Classic vs. Stylized. Why not allow for player choice? Sure, that may double the size of the game program and the complexity of the subsequent EPs or other forms of added content, but that's for the genius game development talent to figure out how to work around. From a strictly cosmetic perspective though, that would give us two different games to play in one.

Neither: Depending on how they are counted, there are between 1 and 9 million species of life on our planet and I would guess an infinite number that haven't even been imagined yet. While it is true that sims games up through now have concentrated on humans or those with human characteristics being civilization's dominant species, maybe it's time to consider letting some other life form take over for a while?
:)

"KaeChan2089;c-17298446" wrote:
I voted real...but a mix between the two would be fine...the realism looked a bit creepy for me.

Yeah, the examples the OP posted were not the best. And there are many very realistic looking games, and they look creepy when you see the characters talk. Then they look like creepy robots.

I want Sims 5 to be a bit like Sims 3, open world, CASt, and upgraded sims. Pary mentioned Sims Medieval, so something like that but better. And more anatomically correct, and with that I mean how joints and muscles look and work. No clay figures or dolls. One should see that they are supposed to be humans and not dolls for kids.

"ZeeGee;c-17298451" wrote:

"Pary;c-17298430" wrote:
I can't vote. The realistic pictures are too creepy for me. The cartoony are way too cartoony. There just isn't any balance in those options!
I do understand, given those options, why there are so many cartoony votes, but I don't see why there can't be a nice mixture rather than one extreme or the other.

Same!

As I said before, you can vote and explain what you think. Or post your thoughts without voting. :smile:

"igazor;c-17298455" wrote:
I'm not voting because my top two choices aren't even represented in the poll and I feel disenfranchised. :/

Both: When we start a new game, we could be asked whether we want the Realistic or the Cartoony bases used for our sims. Although maybe they could be given better names than that. Why not allow for player choice? Sure, that may double the size of the game program and the complexity of the subsequent EPs or other forms of added content, but that's for the genius game development talent to figure out how to work around. From a strictly cosmetic perspective though, that would give us two different games to play in one.

Neither: Depending on how they are counted, there are between 1 and 9 million species of life on our planet and I would guess an infinite number that haven't even been imagined yet. While it is true that sims games up through now have concentrated on humans, or those with human characteristics, being civilization's dominant species, maybe it's time to consider letting some other life form take over for a while?
:)

Pfft, a human life simulator should be just that. There are many cartoony games out there, and a simpler Sims game with Bratz-like sims could always be made for phones.

There are simulators for other life forms. And I'm not sure I would want to make a self-beetle, even though the possibility of wearing three pair of CC shoes could be interesting. :wink:

Aw, now I'm getting depressed. :(
I've been trying to keep my hopes alive for TS5. (Hopes Alive For The Sims 5! :lol: )