LGR will be reviewing Snowy Escape (Out Now)

You much have different standards then for how bulky a 40€ game should be

@SimmerGeorge
High standards. Different Interests.

Actually for the gondola ride they wouldn't even have to animate anything. They could (even though that isn't so immersive either) just do it as a rabbithole with the plumbob on top and the camera following the sims. The camera thing is absolutely nothing difficult or new, it already exists in the game, being in the air changes almost nothing from a coding point of view. In my opinion, leaving out easy to do details like that break the immersion 100% even if you end up fast forwarding the interaction, it's about immersion, you should never think too rationally about the sims because logic isn't what this game is based on.

A rabbit hole ride would be more reason to press the fast forward button. I'm all for immersion, so I'm not going by the game's logic. I'm going by the developers logic. Folks have no patience. They'll speed through the "interaction", so Company says: leave it out, because we're not wasting resources on this, even if it only means adding one simple line of coding.
If folks sign a petition to give that gondola ride an overhaul, then perhaps Maxis will consider adding it. But I doubt anyone cares that much. I'm sure folks have forgotten about that gondola by now and just want to get to the top of the hill and laugh at their sims failing and falling while flying down the hill.

I would argue even more of it is reused but that's just how I see it. I think people assume it is reused, since so many things in this pack are reused. Someone made a list of the packs and honestly they were features from more than 6 packs reused, from tents, to woohoo animations, to rock climbing, snow etc. can't remember everything. It really feels like EA is following the same plan they do with FIFA by re-releasing the same stuff with a different name and hope people won't notice. Maybe one day they will forget to change the name and re-release the same game like they did with FIFA 2020 lol.

Sure. I don't play FIFA and I don't really care how many lists folks create regarding re-used animations. I'm sure there are quite a few.
However, I did watch and compare the fitness wall motions and the rock wall motions all by my very self and although some animations have been used for the rock wall (it makes 100% sense from an animation point of view) there are some significant differences between both. They are very significant differences indeed. As a paying customer I wouldn't have been happy at all if that rock climbing skill included 100% recycled fitness wall animations, but that's just not the way it is, even if folks like to believe it is.
I was wary of these things before committing to the pack due to the critique it got. But I've seen it for myself and I'm quite happy with how that feature is executed. Trying to argue with me about that specifically is like trying to travel through a solid rock wall while hanging upside down in a immobile gondola....

Again, I haven't had the time to explore the pack enough to offer a general conclusion, but these are the things I observed so far.
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