Talking Teenagers

"Babykittyjade;c-17385196" wrote:

"bethyGrace;c-17384170" wrote:

"Babykittyjade;c-17383394" wrote:
I heard a lot of people say teens in sims 3 looked more like teens but I just cant see it? I tried making some myself just to test it our, plus I looked at pictures online and NONE of them looked more like teens besides the height or serious cc added. I actually think look wise you can get more younger looking teens in sims4 it just takes a few tricks which I'm getting the hang of. Lately I've had more success as learn. Plus I use height slider.

I'm a bit confused by what point you're making here? haha. Are you saying that you use a height slider in the Sims 4 and it helps your teens to look more realistic? ... Cos that is just supporting the idea that they ought to be shorter, which was my original point haha.

Interesting to read that a lot of you aren't bothered by it though. I have to admit that it doesn't stop me from playing the game (obviously) but I still feel like the life-stage could be overhauled and the game would be much better.

Or perhaps if we got "pre-teens"?

It's crazy how huge the jump was from The Sims 1 to the Sims 2, with the life stages and aging and everything it introduced. I guess I'm hungry for bigger innovation, more risks and bigger jumps forward from the dev team. I totally understand that I'm talking about a very different time there, with super different technologies making things possible, but I'm sick of the "less less and less" content and gameplay we seem to be getting with this franchise compared to days gone by.

To be more clear I only use height slider on 3 specific teens to make them shorter because I don't believe all teens should be short either. In real life teens come all sizes. And to be fair I use it on ALL ages of my sims to get varying degrees of height from average to extra tall including kids and toddlers. Just like in real life. So I would honestly not like teens to come short by standard.

My point was that in sims3 teens did not look like teens face wise as many people claim,in my opinion. And I have an easier time making them in sims 4. I just use the height slider for the three I want to look the youngest and shortest.


However,I would be open to a teen overhaul with many of the suggestions people have here to make them more distinguishable. ?

In Sims 3 my teens clearly look different than they look as adults (face wise). Whether that’s a teen look or not could lead to long and fruitless discussions (my males usually aren’t very attractive as teens in the game, they sure don’t look like their adult version), but you can see a clear difference. In Sims 4 they seem to have chosen for an older teen, so the difference simply is less clear. Height wise they’re the same, outfit wise they’re the same and facial wise they are. Not only real life teens come all sizes, real life people in all life stages come all sizes. That realistic detail is not in the game, there are no height sliders. To use that as an argument to defend the teen problem described here, sounds like explaining away an issue that has only one cause: they didn’t want to bother with more animations and more clothing. They didn’t want to bother. Four life stages in the game are practically identical, they just have different labels. As for long teens in comparison to adults, that’s not a biological thing. That’s circumstantial and individual. But a teen will always be shorter than him- or herself as an adult. For Sims 4 they decided to jump from an 8 year old to an 18 year old because it was easier. Not because it was more realistic.