Which graphic style do you prefer Sims 3 or 4?

My definite preference is Sims 4. Love the look of the sims and how they move and act. Love the vibrancy of the worlds. Despite being smaller, they feel, and look, much more alive.

I love the Sims 3 style and prefer it over Sims 4, but I love everything else about the sims 4. I love the UI (minus a few layout patterns), I love the objects in game, the structure of them (the difference in TS3 and TS4 coffee makers, for example), and the interactions between the sims. TS4 is a better Sims game, it feels like a natural step up from TS2, but I am not a fan of cartoony, at least not over the cartoon type realism of TS3.

Sims: Hands down, with or without CC, TS4. Death to TS3 pudding faces :confounded:

Worlds: TS3 no questions asked. TS3 has the best worlds of all of the games--mind blowing amazing worlds. TS4 has a horrible world, it's just fake--like the Truman Show. The only world that TS4 could probably beat is TS1 :disappointed:



I'm totally pro-TS2 and I use CC, so my TS2 game is better in looks and in functional beautiful worlds than both TS3 and TS4.

Sims:
TS2 sims are better looking than TS4 sims in-game. I prefer the maxis match, cartoony look, and there are soooo many amazing creators who make gorgeous maxis match sims. TS2 Sims are lovely with CC. Without CC, TS4 wins hands down. TS4 has the best looking sims of the iteration. I hope this doesn't change with TS5.

Worlds:
TS2 worlds are fully customisable. I'm currently building Sunset Valley in one of my worlds, and I find TS2 is superior in regards to not having any rabbit holes, not having any fake back drops, and being able to actually play out all the things that in TS3 you can only read about. Again, this requires CC, without CC TS2 really shows its age.

I think TS2 requires a lot more time and obsessing over (last night I passed out in the middle of making a door for a community lot), but I reckon that is the point of video games. So for me TS2 combines the best sims and the best worlds to be the best game. I could see myself obsessing over TS3 in a different way (there is just so much to do in that game) if I got over the hideous pudding faces, but... but... the pudding faces!!! :bawling: TS4 for some reason, despite its amazing looking sims, can't hold my attention for more than a couple hours. I think its boring and fake. That being said, I've recently started watching TS4 machinima, and it's pretty impressive, so I reckon there is definitely the means for exploring one's creativity in that game. Hopefully, the limitations in TS4 (fake backdrops, prozac'd sims) will go away with future development and it will give both TS2 and TS3 a run for their money, because it's a very polished looking game.

I like 3 better. 4 just seems sort of blurry, all the scenery looks hazy or out of focus. To me, the Sims themselves looks like cartoons. They make the most ridiculous faces, like Jim Carey in the Mask. I can't get past that. The ridiculous walks, the townies doing non-stop push ups in my yard, the entire game looks like it belongs on Cartoon Network. I don't feel like I am a part of my creations, I feel like I should be eating marshmallow cereal while playing. I keep expecting hearts to beat out of their chests, or smoke to come out of their ears. The TS3 'pudding face' argument for baffles me. Why would people want plastic, fake, cartoons over Sims that look like real people?

If I could add TS4 build mode to TS3, I'd never play TS4 again.

I prefer TS3's more detailed meshes. TS4's objects are too blocky.
I wish TS4 had more realistic skies and clouds and grass and tree bark textures. I mainly like TS4's sims.

I do like Sims 4 graphics and it was natural to improve on the graphics part and one of the options that evolutinised whereas other major options just went backwards.

"Piperbird;14590806" wrote:
Why would people want plastic, fake, cartoons over Sims that look like real people?

Simple.

It's a preference/taste thing. No one thinks the same, or likes the same things.

Some of us like our cartoons and anime, etc. *points at my own anime avatar*

"bunny-gypsy;14590829" wrote:

"Piperbird;14590806" wrote:
Why would people want plastic, fake, cartoons over Sims that look like real people?

Simple.

It's a preference/taste thing. No one thinks the same, or likes the same things.

Some of us like our cartoons and anime, etc. *points at my own anime avatar*

I love anime, too. But what I mean is, the cartoony Sims don't seem to match to the blurry back grounds. It is two different styled that don't seem to go well together. It just doesn't feel right to me when I play.

"bunny-gypsy;14590829" wrote:

"Piperbird;14590806" wrote:
Why would people want plastic, fake, cartoons over Sims that look like real people?

Simple.

It's a preference/taste thing. No one thinks the same, or likes the same things.

Some of us like our cartoons and anime, etc. *points at my own anime avatar*

Show me a person who looks like a TS3 sim and I'll show you a prime candidate for plastic surgery. TS2 and TS4 sims can be made to look like real people, can TS3 do this?

TS3 doesn't look real at all. Instead it looks unnatural. If "real" is what the game is going for, perhaps that is why TS3 sims always take me to uncanny valley. :fearful:

I like the attention to detail in TS3. Especially when it comes to the world, objects, and environments.