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Sil3ntCyborg's avatar
Sil3ntCyborg
6 years ago

Redesigning the Redesign.

Love the idea of an S4 rebranding, but find the redesign upsets your design sensibilities? Feel free to Post your version and/or suggestions here! (First time creating a discussion, so hope this is in the right section!).

Here's mine. I was lazy and only did one for each DLC type though.
https://i.imgur.com/OhaQvwr.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8rwOVbY.jpg

These are the GP and SP covers. I really liked how the redesign had a colourful background, but found the colours didn't match, and were too busy, so here, I used the original colours behind, but didn't bring it all the way. I thought this helped the sims stand out a bit, without it being too overwhelming. On a side note, I hated doing parenthood because the new cover has the teen closer to her mum, but I couldn't find a render for that, so I had to do some editing, so it took a little while.

https://i.imgur.com/PYRld9o.jpg

Here is my version of the XP cover. Again, I loved the brightness of the re-design, but found the EP covers waaay to similar to the GP covers, which sucks a little for people with colour blindness. That said, this cover still isn't great, as I'm sure people with red-green colour blindess would have difficulty seeing the logo, but I wanted to keep the get famous colours. I pulled the background all the way across the cover this time, because it's an EP cover, so it's something exciting, and should stand out on shelves.

I'm not sure how it works in America, but in Aus, the rating is generally down the bottom left, which is where the S4 logo sits in the redesign. Obvs, this had to be changed so I kept the logo big, and up the top across all 3 covers.



  • Saneksemoo's avatar
    Saneksemoo
    6 years ago
    "ClarionOfJoy;c-17159099" wrote:
    "Techbilt;c-17159085" wrote:
    from a wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Classification_Board

    Mature (M) – Recommended for people aged 15 years and over. People under 15 may legally access this material because it is an advisory category. This category contains material that may require a mature perspective, but is not deemed too strong for younger viewers. The content is moderate in impact, although the "Moderate" indicator prefix is no longer used in the consumer advice, eg. "Moderate violence" is referred to as "Violence".

    • Themes may have a moderate sense of threat or menace, if justified by context.
    • Moderate violence is permitted, if "justified by context". Sexual violence should be very limited and justified by context.
    • Sexual activity should be discreetly implied, if "justified by context".
    • Coarse Language may be used. Aggressive or strong coarse language should be infrequent and justified by context.
    • Drug use and nudity should be justified by context.


    My guess is Woohoo and "Juice"/Alcohol.



    Ah, I see. So it's rated M in Australia. In the US they break it down further to T (Teen) or M (Mature).

    People are saying that EAxis is trying to rebrand TS4 as a game for younger children, pre-teen and below. Others are saying the rebranding is aimed mostly at young women.

    So exactly what plans does EAxis have for this game?

    This game is such a mess!


    I guess it applies both, young audience and accordingly literally by SimGuruDrake - anyone young (so not just teens?) that's female is their target audience they're aiming for (besides, gender rating doesn't exist). Magority of players are female? Possibly true. Foolish (euphemism to evade a warning) move to target and cater onlyspecific gender group? Yes (albeit I don't how they can and are doing with what they release so far. How any of present content is specific to the player's gender and how they're making it cater said audience (clothing sex ration doesn't count, as females in real life have large assessment of fashion variety) - I'll never know)
  • OldeSimsFan's avatar
    OldeSimsFan
    New Traveler
    6 years ago
    I read somewhere around 2015-16 that the target audience is young teen females (13-14) which almost guarantees those a bit younger will get it as well, or at least have access. This goes a long way to explain the nature of the game as we now have it, bland and simplistic. The game is a cash cow that EA will continue to milk as long as it stays on the profitable side of the curve. As all products do, sooner or later this will go to the liability side of the curve. I agree with you. Not appealing to a wide market not only shortens product life but gives users of that product less incentive to stick with it. This rebranding says they intend to drag TS4 out for as long as possible, making it increasingly likely your concern will happen. All very sad.
  • ck213's avatar
    ck213
    Seasoned Scout
    6 years ago
    Too late though.
    They are already packaged games with the new branding.

    Do they market test this stuff?
    Besides people who will say yes to anything they do because of the perks they can get?
  • Sigzy_29's avatar
    Sigzy_29
    New Spectator
    6 years ago
    "CK213;c-17160494" wrote:
    Too late though.
    They are already packaged games with the new branding.

    Do they market test this stuff?
    Besides people who will say yes to anything they do because of the perks they can get?


    I have thought of the same thing.

    Why not test it with the public, after testing it internally, to see the reaction of the majority of the player base, and THEN send the package prints to the manufacturers to produce the physical copies and promotional billboards to retailers ? EA just does the opposite of everything logical.
  • OldeSimsFan's avatar
    OldeSimsFan
    New Traveler
    6 years ago
    When have they ever learned from their mistakes? It should have been obvious within a year of launch at the latest that TS4 was a wreck, and put full effort into building a game based on a proper platform/engine. Proper internal testing would have revealed that. But no. They did what they have done, leaving us with a shallow, buggy, broken mess that gets worse with each new pack release and preparatory patch.
  • OldeSimsFan's avatar
    OldeSimsFan
    New Traveler
    6 years ago
    Agree with the majority your covers are better. Am presuming your ratings are for California, not the rest of the world.
  • Sigzy_29's avatar
    Sigzy_29
    New Spectator
    6 years ago
    "Renato10;c-17158852" wrote:
    I still think the original current ones before the patch are better. I must be alone on this but it bothers me so much seeing the sims 4 logo so small in the bottom of the box, the renders doesn't look good in full view and the colors are horrendous.


    Yeah idk why they made them so small lol
  • Sil3ntCyborg's avatar
    Sil3ntCyborg
    6 years ago
    Wow! Thanks for the comments and feedback everyone!

    @ClarionOfJoy Yes, Sims4 is M in Australia (sorry for the confusion, all of you American simmers!), for the Woohoo and online features (according to my covers), but surprisingly not the juice (alcohol reference) or the 'bubble blower' (drug reference).

    I think someone in another forum told me our M is like the American T rating, but some parents, if they're strict or conservative, would be a bit unhappy with letting a 12-14 yr old play an M-rated game, or at least, would want to play it through first. I still think rating sims 4 as M is weird, as it's in with games that show more blood/themes such as sherlock holmes (murder?!) and the final fantasy games, as well as online games such as elder scrolls, where the chat, I imagine, is a lot worse than S4's gallery.

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