Teens in TS4...

The funny thing is that I've known 16-17 year-olds who look like the first picture (which, if you ask me is 14-15) ... and 16-17 year-olds that look like the second.

Teenagers IRL are terribly inconsistent in what's "normal" in how they look.

"DaWaterRat;c-18028669" wrote:
The funny thing is that I've known 16-17 year-olds who look like the first picture (which, if you ask me is 14-15) ... and 16-17 year-olds that look like the second.

Teenagers IRL are terribly inconsistent in what's "normal" in how they look.

I have never seen a teen that looks like the bottom so I'm going to have to disagree here. Some teens look a little older then their age but never like a grown man or woman, you can usually always tell they are young, especially by their behavior and the way they carry themselves...

"mika;c-18028676" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18028669" wrote:
The funny thing is that I've known 16-17 year-olds who look like the first picture (which, if you ask me is 14-15) ... and 16-17 year-olds that look like the second.

Teenagers IRL are terribly inconsistent in what's "normal" in how they look.

I have never seen a teen that looks like the bottom so I'm going to have to disagree here. Some teens look a little older then their age but never like a grown man or woman, you can usually always tell they are young, especially by their behavior and the way they carry themselves...

Social media (with plenty of filters) definitely makes it more difficult... But I've never had a problem in person, myself haha I always looked a bit older growing up, but never older than my 20s when I was about 16!

Teenager is a really difficult life stage, I think, because so much happens... You literally go from child to adult in the teen years, so just one phase isn't ever going to fully cut it in terms of realism.

The meme is hilarious! I got a good chuckle :D

"mika;c-18028676" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18028669" wrote:
The funny thing is that I've known 16-17 year-olds who look like the first picture (which, if you ask me is 14-15) ... and 16-17 year-olds that look like the second.

Teenagers IRL are terribly inconsistent in what's "normal" in how they look.

I have never seen a teen that looks like the bottom so I'm going to have to disagree here. Some teens look a little older then their age but never like a grown man or woman, you can usually always tell they are young, especially by their behavior and the way they carry themselves...

I've never seen a teen that looks like the bottom picture, either. But then, memes do more than rhyme with "extremes" for a reason. And I've not only seen plenty of teens that looked older than their age, I was one of them once.

Yeah, teens in the sims4 look like resized young adults to me.

And I know that teens can be tall in real life, but all that the game seems to do is just slightly changing the same model that the game uses for young adult and adult sims.

How tall they are never bothered me, most people reach their final height in their teens, but I do agree that there are very few things separating the ages after teen, it's way too subtle. For me teenagers could be more lanky - like they have grown a bit too much in too short time - as many have that feature in real life, but mostly I'd love for some clothing and some hairstyles to be reserved for teens (maybe through a tag), so they don't go around looking like adults. Some hairstyles or clothes could make a teen look middle age (and some could make someone close to being an elder look like a teen).

Not this again.... I LOVE how teens look i Sims 4, it's the first Simsgame with realistic, non-11year old looking teens.

Also...
https://cdn.player.one/sites/player.one/files/2017/05/16/sims4parenthoodgrounded.jpg

These kids definitely does NOT Look like the 2nd image in the meme. I have seen "teens" looking like that on screenshots, but they have all used alpha CC and that is on the player, not the game. I mean if you use alpha CC you really have no idea how the game actually looks.

There is a minor difference in the face, it's rounder than the face from a young adult and they are more slacked but I wish the difference would be more visually.
I think it's the missing point is the height, some teenager are higher than their parents, other are at the same height.

They would never be able to please everyone with teens, no matter how they did them because you can't make them look 13 years old and 19 years old in the same stage lol.

It does seem like a big difference between child and teen stages, I would have liked to see either tweens or young teens, but I appreciate the amount of extra resources that would have taken.

As professor Agebert Timestein once said:

Teen is Relative.