Recycling animations.

"Onverser;c-17876792" wrote:
I've never understood the big deal about animations being reused. I've played the game for years and haven't noticed it in play unless people specifically point it out and it doesn't remotely affect or make my gaming experience worse. We all know how restricted they are by EA so if that's what they gotta do to get more content in I have no issue ?

It depends on how you play. I love snapping pics during play sessions, but over the years, I just notice a lot of pictures are always the same. Not just social interactions, which are meaningless because so many just have the same animations, but because their facial expressions are always the same. A sad sim will still smile through a social and then go back to frowning. Same for angry and every other emotion. I'd like some variance.

And another thing that annoys me is that we also keep getting individual animations for sims. They barely interact together. Like in TS2, kids could dance on their parents feet, be spun around by a parent, they could play hand clapping games, they could play tag. Teens could rub their feet on a carpet and go shock someone. Everyone could play punch you, punch me, tickle, and so many more things I'm forgetting. Those are all things I do with my real life family and I'd like to see some of that togetherness and bonding reflected in the game. Little kid me didn't stand in a group talking to my friends. We played games. Lots of different games. And TS4 sims don't do that unless they're at a playground and even then, the objects are still being used individually instead of together. For me that makes the simulation feel very broken. Because life doesn't look like this. Life is interacting with people we love. Touching. Holding. Joking. All those have ways to be close with a quick hug, a slap on the back, a noogie on the head. Siblings should interact together without toys and not just talking. The game is seriously lacking for certain types of players.