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

"logion;c-17869125" wrote:
I mostly dislike idle animations that are repetitive or reused and feels like they are very out of context, like the "yawn" and "a-ha" that they added recently to show if the sim likes the room around them, or the laugh that sims do to show that they are happy, it makes them look like psychopaths. I use a less smiling mod to tone down sims smiling all the time too.

Reused animations bother me a lot when I feel that they don't make sense, like when the cafeteria vendor in Discover University shouts like they are standing in a market stand like...why? Imagine if someone did that in a cafeteria. Or the fact that some animations are the same but they talk about different things, you should be able to somewhat tell what they are talking about. I think for example that "discuss good book" and "compliment appearance" are the same animation, like...whuh?

Sometimes they do a good job, like the "talking about crafting" animation from eco lifestyle, and sometimes they don't... like the reused sims sniffing in the air in bust the dust, which looks weird, and they seem to do it way too often too.

Oh yes, had to put a quick stop to that cafeteria nonsense. I placed those vendors in the dorms of my game and the constant shouting was so out of place.

The sniffing animation is the same for sims that are smelling good food placed in a room, so I've come to associate that animation for the smell of good food, not walking into a room and smelling... its cleanliness? Yeah, sure, that can be a thing but whenever I saw my sims do so it make me think of the room smelling like some good spaghetti. Got rid of that so fast with mods.

What I think would help this game greatly is more attention to little details. Putting more resources into animations, even those that vary ever so slightly would make interactions feel more special and unique. The notorious arm swipe animation for grabbing things/placing objects in the world is used far too often. If it must be used, a little variance to the animation would be not only noticed but a nice touch.

I hate the crying animation for teens and up ^^' When like, someone's child has died for example and the way they cry is they put their knees together and super dramatically cries LOUDLY into their hands and then pouts and wipes a tear away. It doesn't look good at all.........

"Justin;c-17870572" wrote:
I hate when the pass out with their behind up in the air.

This so much!! Omg. It's not silly in a fun way, it's just weird in a bad way. In TS3 I think, when they faint, they actually lay down on the ground normally? If I'm not mistaken. I hate the 'bum in the air' faint of TS4. It really shows just how low intended age group is for the game

Man I adore the pass out sleeping animation in this game lmao.

I might be wrong, but I think all sims regardless of personality will do the same idle animations if the surroundings or their age supports it. I think such idles would be a lot more interesting if they were more personalized. I'd love that some sim with an artistic mind , or snobby mind set, reacted to room scores all day long. But a slob should not care less. I also would like that elders have extreme back pains if this mostly happened to elders who were not so healthy or very old. My elders "break" their back more or less constantly. They also make a huge number out of being confused (looking left and right and obviously not quite understand what is going on), which I hate with a passion because it is so overdone. This could be limited to goofballs and coach potatoes, while intellectual sims who most likely learned to trim their brain through a long life, should not be totally lost just because their hair turned grey.

Idles could be great if happening only to a few sorts of personalities. There's plenty of personality+skills+traits+health scores to calculate whether a sim should do each idle animation or not.

I limit the amount of female sims I play bc of the over done giggling. I can't stand it. They do it while painting, writing, flirting, talking, its all the time. It is super annoying.

I think it goes hand-in-hand with the problem of tone The Sims 4 has.
It tries really, really hard to appeal to children, even though The Sims is T for Teen.
In Australia, it's M15+. That implies a level of maturity that TS4 doesn't have.

It gets the 15+ rating automatically, because Sims can have sex, and Sims can die, and I assume the T rating is for a similar reason. Right off the bat, that's never going to be appropriate for young children, yet EA tries so, so hard to make the Sims act like cartoon characters.

This isn't Pokemon, where two Sims "play" with each other off-screen and then an egg appears, and nobody knows where the egg came from.

In The Sims, we see the Sims go under the covers, we see the shower steam up, we see them make come-hither motions at each other and then disappear into the wardrobe, while the door nearly gets knocked off its hinge while sexy bass guitars and saxophones play. That's adult. It's presented in a humorous way, but it's adult.

I mean even this forum is so geared towards children that we can't even call people j e r k s, which we all know is the worst thing you can possibly call someone!

You can't have it both ways, otherwise you end up with this odd tonal dissonance, where a game is too adult for children, but too childish for adults.

Not an animation, but I could do without the family photo pose in Manage Households where a parent is plugging his/her nose and holding a smelly baby at arm's length. With the current baby skin color bug, it's particularly cringe-inducing when you have a white family appearing disgusted by a black baby. :# EAxis might want to get on that if they're concerned about their racially inclusive image.

yes,
- there's very few, half the animations are recycled so it turns repetitive to see
- they're too childish and sometimes too extra. seriously there's no need to mount a circus every time i command the sims to cook
- they are always the same on every sim which show no real personality unlike what the walk types or the traits themselves try to pretend

i don't have as much of a problem with the cartoony aspect because the sims has always had some cartoony and silly animations, even on sims 1. but it would be nice if at least some normal tasks could be done without looking so extravagant and exaggerated.

"Simmerville;c-17869116" wrote:

"Onverser;c-17869107" wrote:
I'm not so bothered about how they look, just when they do them. Do anyone elses sims just walk into a room and then stop, perform an animation and then carry on with what they were doing? My sims just seem to enter the house, then stop for 5 seconds and carry on at the moment :s

Sounds like the terrible Eco Living animation. I hate it when my sims do that thinking and puts a finger up in the air, especially when they all do the exact same animation in sync... Yes, it often happens when they enter a new room.

that one kills me!!!??? I cannot stand it for some reason. It does something to be deep down. I modded it out??