"Kalen615;14590477" wrote:
I definitely like the Sims 4 style better. To me it seems more cohesive than previous games. I feel like it's easier to make sims look different, they all kind of looked the same to me in TS3. And I definitely agree with you about the uncanny valley - definitely something to steer clear of!
The whole style of TS4 is more cohesive. I think, no joke, one of the developers even said that TS3 had no set art direction, which was why some stuff looked hyper realistic and some didn't.
I like the fact that everything in TS4 looks more cartoony, yet at the same time it can look a lot like real life. Sometimes even more than TS3 because of shading, detailing in the worlds ( like Granite Falls and Windenburg ), etc.
Same goes for CAS. While I have my opinion about TS3 CAS ( too uncanny valley and they all look the same ), I gotta say just from the possibilities 4 is better IMO. You can create both cartoony and realistic looking Sims, and TS3 tried to be realistic so much that that wasn't really possible.
TL; DRFor me, the graphic style of The Sims 4 just fits the franchise better. The Sims is not a super realistic life simulation, but it's also not your typical roleplaying fantasy action adventure - and this style expresses exactly that. Somewhere between real life and fantasy.
