Please give the Teens unique voice actors
The teens are a joke in this game. I know everybody goes on about the babies, but the teens are absolutely awful. The only thing that makes them even remotely playable is Parenthood.
If they refuse to shorten the teens then so be it. There are other ways to make teens stand out from adults besides height. Give them actual acne instead of just an option in cas. Add the school buses back, prom, learning how to drive, parents getting a chance of vacation, running away, open up the schools more, add sneaking out etc.
But one of the biggest things that could improve them in my opinion are unique voice actors. I can't imagine this would even take much work. I'm not saying voice acting isn't hard work, but there is little coding involved, just hire two unique voice actors per gender, I'd even be happy with one voice per gender like with children.
In sims 2 Teens had a unique voice actor different from other life stages. In sims 3 they had the same voice actor, but it wasn't as big of an issue because you could actually tell teens apart from adults in that game.
The game has no distinction between adult and teenagers for voices, it does admittedly pitch them up slightly, but it's not noticeable. With singing it's ESPECIALLY bad, it doesn't matter which voice you have for singing or the pitch, every voice sounds the same, which makes it horrible for teens. Here's a video I took of a teenage sim singing. This is awful. This is not how most teenage boys sound.
With women it's less noticeable, but teenage boys sound scratchy as they're going through puberty. Their voices crack. There is a reason that in most cartoons/anime that younger boys are usually voiced by women, and it's because they do not sound like grown men. I am tired of the treatment teens are getting. In the beginning we were told that teens being the same height would mean they would get more unique fleshed out content, this was a lie. The only pack to ever really improve on them was parenthood. Please, I beg of the devs, change the teens. Do the right thing.
(keep in mind I use a shorter teens mod, so my teens actually look like teens.)
https://youtu.be/D6j0HcDshD4
If they refuse to shorten the teens then so be it. There are other ways to make teens stand out from adults besides height. Give them actual acne instead of just an option in cas. Add the school buses back, prom, learning how to drive, parents getting a chance of vacation, running away, open up the schools more, add sneaking out etc.
But one of the biggest things that could improve them in my opinion are unique voice actors. I can't imagine this would even take much work. I'm not saying voice acting isn't hard work, but there is little coding involved, just hire two unique voice actors per gender, I'd even be happy with one voice per gender like with children.
In sims 2 Teens had a unique voice actor different from other life stages. In sims 3 they had the same voice actor, but it wasn't as big of an issue because you could actually tell teens apart from adults in that game.
The game has no distinction between adult and teenagers for voices, it does admittedly pitch them up slightly, but it's not noticeable. With singing it's ESPECIALLY bad, it doesn't matter which voice you have for singing or the pitch, every voice sounds the same, which makes it horrible for teens. Here's a video I took of a teenage sim singing. This is awful. This is not how most teenage boys sound.
With women it's less noticeable, but teenage boys sound scratchy as they're going through puberty. Their voices crack. There is a reason that in most cartoons/anime that younger boys are usually voiced by women, and it's because they do not sound like grown men. I am tired of the treatment teens are getting. In the beginning we were told that teens being the same height would mean they would get more unique fleshed out content, this was a lie. The only pack to ever really improve on them was parenthood. Please, I beg of the devs, change the teens. Do the right thing.
(keep in mind I use a shorter teens mod, so my teens actually look like teens.)
https://youtu.be/D6j0HcDshD4
