How would you improve Teens?
Just curious how or if you guys would change the teen life stage.
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Very annoying how some people act like height is the essence of teens.
To me it's irrelevant. They're fine as it is looks wise. I don't care about the picture, I care about gameplay and it's what teenagers need.
When you look at it, a teen's life mostly focuses around school. That's where they often spend more time than they do at home, unfortunately. That's where they get their first crushes, where they discover their hobbies...Why not focus on that? School projects in Parenthood was an excellent direction! I'd like to see this idea get expanded. Extracurricular activities/school clubs. New teen exclusive hobbies. Perhaps more chance cards with some random teen drama, but with way more consequences than just a moodlet.
I feel like the lack of hobby activities is one of this game's biggest issues overall.
Unique interests help you with creating unique personalities. Teens don't have any personality at this point and this is where devs should put their effort. Just give them something to do that is exclusive to them. No re-using already existing concepts. How fun would it be for a sim teenager to be able to start their own, cringy pop punk band so they can sing about how much they hate their town? To have some sort of popularity system where you could do little quests to improve your school reputation? For a goal oriented game like TS4 that would be perfect. Let's say the popular kids dare your teen sim to pull pranks on people in order to be accepted as one of the cool ones. Any basic american teenage drama is a good place to draw inspiration from.
To me it's irrelevant. They're fine as it is looks wise. I don't care about the picture, I care about gameplay and it's what teenagers need.
When you look at it, a teen's life mostly focuses around school. That's where they often spend more time than they do at home, unfortunately. That's where they get their first crushes, where they discover their hobbies...Why not focus on that? School projects in Parenthood was an excellent direction! I'd like to see this idea get expanded. Extracurricular activities/school clubs. New teen exclusive hobbies. Perhaps more chance cards with some random teen drama, but with way more consequences than just a moodlet.
I feel like the lack of hobby activities is one of this game's biggest issues overall.
Unique interests help you with creating unique personalities. Teens don't have any personality at this point and this is where devs should put their effort. Just give them something to do that is exclusive to them. No re-using already existing concepts. How fun would it be for a sim teenager to be able to start their own, cringy pop punk band so they can sing about how much they hate their town? To have some sort of popularity system where you could do little quests to improve your school reputation? For a goal oriented game like TS4 that would be perfect. Let's say the popular kids dare your teen sim to pull pranks on people in order to be accepted as one of the cool ones. Any basic american teenage drama is a good place to draw inspiration from.
