Is anyone else often annoyed by the game's animations?

"MElleSims;d-989340" wrote:
This came up in another thread I made but I really wanted more opinions in a relevant thread. It feels like they tried too hard to make them "funny" but like...in a really forced way.

Not for me.

The funny cartoony aspect is why I love the Sims games.

If it wasn't funny, it'd just start trending into 'uncanny valley' and the sims themselves would actually be rather boring for me to watch. I mean, Sims is basically 'Reality TV' minus the good acting... and um... they don't even have good acting in reality TV... so yeah...

I was having a blast yesterday having a sim run around and tell 'dirty jokes' just because the 'choo choo train' elbow arm gesture is really funny and when I try to put a mental image to a dirty joke involving trains it gets very silly in my head. And that's what makes this fun.

You could probably make mods to replace animations. I don't know - but it seems like it could be done. I'm surprised the folks who like realistic CC mods don't already have that - unless they do.

"Mstybl95;c-17869728" wrote:

"Wolfium;c-17869555" wrote:

"Hauk150;c-17869174" wrote:
I find those comical animations very funny, but after a time I get tired of them, I would like to see more realistic animations, like when they cook in the sims 2 :*

I would get tired of all animations after some time. Gameplay is more important then opening drawer I think.

But for some of us, that's part of gameplay. I love TS2 because I can see my sims opening the cabinets and drawers. When they play chess, they actually play a game of chess that you can watch and see who the real winner is, which is reflected in the game. The clocks tell the correct game time. There are a lot of tiny details that make the game more charming, in my opinion. TS3 started cutting those animations and TS4 completely left everything out and then reused nearly every animation for other things at least twice.

Yea I LOVE the details. The more animations the better. I just personally don't like the extra silliness because it's hard to make a variety of characters without ruining the immersion

"Mstybl95;c-17869728" wrote:

"Wolfium;c-17869555" wrote:

"Hauk150;c-17869174" wrote:
I find those comical animations very funny, but after a time I get tired of them, I would like to see more realistic animations, like when they cook in the sims 2 :*

I would get tired of all animations after some time. Gameplay is more important then opening drawer I think.

But for some of us, that's part of gameplay. I love TS2 because I can see my sims opening the cabinets and drawers. When they play chess, they actually play a game of chess that you can watch and see who the real winner is, which is reflected in the game. The clocks tell the correct game time. There are a lot of tiny details that make the game more charming, in my opinion. TS3 started cutting those animations and TS4 completely left everything out and then reused nearly every animation for other things at least twice.

I suppose if there are too many little details like opening cabinets, all that needs time to execute and sim day is short. On other side, in Snowy Escape, I don't like how sims change into slippers with whirlwind. They should have real animation for that.

"MElleSims;d-989340" wrote:
This came up in another thread I made but I really wanted more opinions in a relevant thread. It feels like they tried too hard to make them "funny" but like...in a really forced way. When I flirt with another sim I want it to look like flirting, not like a sunday morning cartoon. When I have a friendly conversation with another Sim, it would make me extremely happy if my sim did not look like they were about to dislocate their shoulder from all the unnecessary arm moving. Who thought this was a good idea? Is there a mod for this?

With the unrealistic deadlines placed on the developers by EA, they are probably forced to use both stock models and stock animations. Stock animation saves time but it can sometimes be annoying because of the same animation applied to everybody for the action chosen by the player. If EA gave the developers the time needed they could watch videos of people eating drinking walking playing etc for reference material and use the reference material for creating animations. For example, let's say I want to make a 3d modelled animated movie. I want certain animations. I would reference animations of people walking. How people sit down etc. From there I would create the animations because I would be given the time needed to create the animations. Some companies in the video gaming industry, use tons of stock animations and stock models. Sometimes deadlines don't give the animators time to really tweak the stock animations to give them a more unique flair and are stuck with just stock animations those stock animations get recycled for other uses throughout the game. Unlike the sims team with deadlines, those who create custom animations aren't "cursed" with such deadlines. They have the time to make fresh animations that we want to look natural but cool at the same time.

I believe if given more time for creating what the sims team envisions they could have an amazing product with plenty of amazing gameplay, great animations and minimal issues in the game. But the sims team doesn't set up the deadlines for DLC Corporations as EA do.

I think there might be some stuff out there to do with facial animations or idles, don't have links on me. But for the animations themselves, I doubt it. Seems like a clear choice of style and I don't think you'd be able to do much, without redoing most of the animations from scratch. Maybe redoing some of the rigging too, idk much about 3d modeling.

Edit: I will say what I have noticed is from the little attempts at animation I've done on the models, it seems like it's very hard to do precise movements that are more subtle and realistic, as opposed to sweeping gestures. Might just be because I suck at 3d modeling or maybe it's the nature of the rig as well.

I really dislike the cooking animations. I know they did it to make cooking more interesting but I can't stand how long it takes to do all the tricks when my sim is high up in the skill. I don't mind the animations when their bad at cooking but I don't understand why any sim that's not a chef would do all the tricky animations.

"Bobisbae;c-17870151" wrote:
I really dislike the cooking animations. I know they did it to make cooking more interesting but I can't stand how long it takes to do all the tricks when my sim is high up in the skill. I don't mind the animations when their bad at cooking but I don't understand why any sim that's not a chef would do all the tricky animations.

Omg yes! If you're not a 5 star chef at a restaurant where people watch you cook, there is no reason to do all those wacky animations. Lawdy...most humans just want to get dinner on the table as fast as possible. Those animations should be for foodies and chefs in the chef career.

I'm not annoyed at all. Animations don't bother me. I love all the silly things, including pee walk.
Sims are Sims to me, they're like silly little aliens who do funny things. That's why I love Sims so much.

"Sharonia;c-17869137" wrote:

"logion;c-17869125" wrote:
"a-ha" that they added recently to show if the sim likes the room around them

Is that what that is? That has been bothering me for a while now. I hate it.

There are a whole lot of these idles.

One for entering a room with shoe rules, one for entering a green lot, one for entering a room with a working thermostat, one for entering a room when the Dust the Bust Kit is installed, one for when they notice the surroundings of a new room.

I mean there are mods to disable all of the above, but I don't get how EA is investing time in these idles while they could just skip that and give us something (whatever) else instead. I mean, I have not yet read about a single Sim player liking these idles.
Why not skip them and not adding new ones, please.

I don’t care about most of the animations but the idle ones really annoy me. They’re so repetitive and pointless.