No "Simish" for The Sims 4. Be able to speak real languages.

No, OMG! NO NO NO!

Can you imagine? "It's time to go to work" or "I think you're hot" or "Some other mundane comment" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

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Rorshock wrote:
No.

Just no.

The game would get boring to listen to, and IMHO the sims would lose some of their charm.

Totaly agree with this.

I agree with the people who want to keep Simlish.

Simlish is an integral part of the Sims-Series
It has been with the series from the beginning on and well known artists undertook the effort to rerecord songs into Simlish, so they could be included into Sims.

Jot being able to discern what the Sims are saying helps to mask repetitivness and stimulates your fantasy, insofar as you can let your ofwn fantasy fill the dialogues around the few hints you get about what your Sims are talking about ).
And it means, just as others said, that EA/Maxis doesn´t need to spend lots of money into localizing spoken dialogues, but instead can put the money into more useful features.

So I am definitely pro keeping it as it has been in the past 3 parts of Sims

I think this is a bad idea. What languages would be chosen? English of course, then what? French and Spanish most likely? Maybe Italian, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese IF you're lucky. What if you speak Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Indian, etc etc?? They're not going to make voice recordings for every language. Many people would feel left out.

Not to mention the cost that would go into creating vocalizations for the languages involved, which is why I say there would be three most likely and maybe the additional five if very lucky.

Besides, Simlish is fun. It's a language that no one really knows what exactly what is being said but you can be intuitive based on the game itself. You could argue that this is what people whos languages are not being represented do, but that kind of takes away from the point of "being able to speak real languages."

Imagine: Hear the Sims speak Real Languages!!!! JUST NOT YOURS. :? Great selling line.

I have to agree with the majority. I would not want to hear the same words in my native language over and over and over again. It would get old so quickly. As it is, I'm looking forward to a few new Simlish phrases as the ones we have are getting pretty repetitive.

They are Sims they should speak simlish. It's so fun to listen to music in simlish and remember all the words. :lol: That for me would ruin the game.

Chris3000 wrote:
I'd like to see the end of "Simish" for The Sims 4. Sims 4 sims should have the AI to be able to speak English, French, German,...

So... what you're saying is, make The Sims not The Sims. See, the problem with this and ultra realistic graphics is that it will be too realistic and weird.

No, just no. There is no way they could make the conversations relevant, intelligent and not repetitive.

Besides, I like Simlish!

jcp011c2 wrote:
I think this is a bad idea. What languages would be chosen? English of course, then what? French and Spanish most likely? Maybe Italian, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese IF you're lucky. What if you speak Swedish, Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Indian, etc etc?? They're not going to make voice recordings for every language. Many people would feel left out.

Not to mention the cost that would go into creating vocalizations for the languages involved, which is why I say there would be three most likely and maybe the additional five if very lucky.

Besides, Simlish is fun. It's a language that no one really knows what exactly what is being said but you can be intuitive based on the game itself. You could argue that this is what people whos languages are not being represented do, but that kind of takes away from the point of "being able to speak real languages."

Imagine: Hear the Sims speak Real Languages!!!! JUST NOT YOURS. :? Great selling line.

I agree!

Hehe, When you mention it, it has already happened. I am Norwegian, and some other Norwegians have long complained that they did not translate the names of sim in TS3. In TS2 ready-made sim (Like Darren Dreamer) had a Norwegian name but on TS3 him just has the English name.