"TOLKIEN;c-17379814" wrote:
I suppose if you wanted to play devils advocate, the designers might hold this emotional system in high regard and can't imagine changing it. I remember back a couple years during a developers conference, the Sims 4 team presented how they developed the emotion system (as a big achievement) to other developers and very proud of it.
I'll agree it was an accomplishment, but its also become very clear that more then emotions are needed to simulate a sim as unique.
Most definitely. Emotions are not personality. I wish they would focus on giving the sims personalities. Emotions aren't new, anyway. Sims 2 and Sims 3 had deeper emotional systems, with their individual traits influencing their reactions so much more. And I'd argue that Sims 2 memory system added an additional depth that Sims 3 couldn't quite reach.
What's baffling to me is how a few basic emotions have been left out of Sims 4 completely that were in previous games. In Sims 3, if your sim got scared, you certainly knew it from their reaction -- no shiny UI icon needed.
