Brooms are disapointing

"ravynwolvf;c-17345846" wrote:

"halloweenchild;c-17345821" wrote:
The brooms function exactly as they did in TS2, there was no flying animation like in TS3 (which was basically just the bicycle/car animation reskinned), it was just: sim hops on their broom, flies up into the air and then arrives at the destination via loading screen. It seems like a lot of people have forgotten this, or are too young to remember.

IMHO, games should never take steps backwards...Sims 3 might have had it flaws (especially the way it ran at times) but it was ambitious and tried to stretch how sims acted and what they could do. The Sims 4 played it very safe...and still so many things don't work right.

That's more of a failing with the way TS4 has been constructed, the whole design of the game went backwards. So it makes sense that brooms and bats behave this way because of the limitations the devs designed themselves into a corner with this version of the sims.

"CelSims;c-17346396" wrote:

"halloweenchild;c-17346292" wrote:


Ok, I concede on that point, but still, I don't think brooms are all that great tbh. They don't really fit with the more modern theme of RoM. And you can tell that TS4 is not built with vehicles in mind. Though you do many an excellent point about how funny it would be to watch Spellcasters zoom around on their brooms, pathing errors and all.

Yep purely a smile factor with very little use. My uni student used a bike just long enough for me to see the animation. I don't see much point in vehicles either.

I find that the bikes work well in the larger suburban areas of the game, but seem horribly out of place in Britechester, granted it works on the
Britechester campus but it's so annoying at Foxbury, because of the more modern design of the campus. XP

As I am just now playing with Vampires and Bat Form I didn't realize that brooms were just a reskin of that animation. I wouldn't say I'm bothered by brooms though. For me if they changed them to be like bikes that would be awesome but I also don't want magic to appear in the game when I don't want it. You know as a purely story based thing.