LGR will be reviewing Snowy Escape (Out Now)

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17733746" wrote:


High standards. Different Interests.

I know a lot of people say that but honestly I can't see it with this game. The Sims 4 doesn't offer less in compensation for offering more in another category, it just offers less in general. So I don't see how that would apply sorry.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17733746" wrote:


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.

Again this is using too much logic. The truth is they could just leave out the using toilet and showering animations too since everybody fast forwards them but many players just like to know certain things are taking place even in 3x times speed. The rabbithole thing is literally such an easy way to satisfy that interest without wasting almost no resources. It's so easy to do.
And to be fair they could have also added those open gondola rides, so we can even see the Sims sitting and talking and stuff. And in order to create that they would just have to use the already existent sitting and talking animations, just on a certain height. This is so easy and such a missed oppurtunity. More fine tuning would be apprieciated, especially for the price of 40€ which let's not neglect to say is the same price as tons of new full games out there.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17733746" wrote:

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.

Listen it does absolutely make sense and this is where I agree with you completely, but if you reuse something you should make sure you are stepping it up a bit with the rest. They just also made the poor choice of putting in hot springs as a feature of this pack which uses the same water, woohoo animations as other packs and is in its concept very similar to Spa Day. Also the Zen thing is very similar to the wellness thing from Spa Day.
And unfortunately with the skiing and snowboarding they didn't step it up as much. There's tons they could have added with all that budget they got like creating competitive extreme sports. I know a lot of people wanted to make proffesional winter athletes with this pack and if this isn't the pack to add that, then what is?
Also it would be so cool to have like a GoPro feature for your adventures to then post on your blog, or that whole Simstagram thing from the gameplay trailer would have been a great idea as a gameplay feature.
I'm thinking of these things off the top of my head so I don't see how people who get payed for coming up with cool ideas like these can only come up with "okay, let's have them snowboard down a slope and as the sims get better, they get more advanced animations, cool, cased closed, nothing more". This is the Sims 4, let's step it up a bit now.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17733746" wrote:
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....

That doesn't really bother me, this is what the forums are for anyway. If I get tired I just won't respond anymore.