I don’t think there’s many complaining about “life” elements like seasons and university being recycled. Those are a big part of people’s lives. What I do object to is how these are given to us. Being separated and sold off into stuff packs and game packs does not equate to more depth and game play replay. The biggest factor in what’s different about it is that we are paying more money for it.
The recycling of basic animations annoys me more than I can say. Watch a sim do the “show photos”interaction. Then watch a teenager do the “show selfie”interaction. In previous games you could hazard a guess what they were discussing based on the animation or the speech bubble. In this game it could be anything and that’s not a compliment.
Vets re using the same animations as doctors and the sloppy retail system being copied over? I’m sorry but that’s not something to be bragging about. It’s not really acceptable that even now in the Doctor career the staff just stand about talking to a patient. Vets ditto.
The food carts being recycled is getting very old. No doubt there are more coming because it’s probably easier to re skin a static food cart then give us other choices.
Clothes and hairstyles are re used all the time. My first pet show cases that exactly. In The Sim Supply’s review of the pack, James showed how quick amd and easy it is to do re-colours.
Recycling is a huge problem in this game. And it will continue since cutting corners and re using old concepts seems to be popular.
