Recycling animations.
There have been complaints at times about The Sims 4 recycling animations. This is common practice and not just in video games. Animation is expensive so many game, television, and movie studios will ...
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"Wolfium;c-17876518" wrote:
In disney it's less noticeable because it is movies you watch once/twice and some details are changed. The Sims is sandbox game that you can play for a long time, and it will be stale fast if lots of animations are reused. I noticed some animations in sims 4 are reused, like every complain is same, be it about weather or love life, and some of them don't make sense like same animation for melancholy thoughts and fake bad news.
You only watch movies you like once? I have Aristocats and Robin Hood memorized from repeat watching, and I absolutely noticed this in the days before the Internet too.
Not to mention the many animated TV shows that would reuse animation cells against different backgrounds. Warner Brothers, Hanna Barbara, various Japanese animation studios... they all do it.
