Teens in TS4...

Not youthful enough? 'Eh, I'm not so sure about that, it's really about what you can do in CAS. Here, Billy Joe is 15 and Ellie is 13, and I think they look pretty close to those ages

https://i.imgur.com/7Oi4YYg.png

"CK213;c-18029524" wrote:





"A Man!"


"Yesterday, I was twelve, but today...
...today... I'm thirteen. So, what are you doing tonight?"

That's the point tho. Players need to stop thinking of teens as "13". As pointed out above, Children have all the same "Problems" as teens, but nobody complaints about them? I mean nobody seems to have an issue that "this morning I was 2 yrs old and now I'm 10", but for some reason everyone insists that the very very obvious 17-19 yr olds "are undrealistic 13 yr olds"??

"Beardedgeek;c-18029610" wrote:

"CK213;c-18029524" wrote:





"A Man!"


"Yesterday, I was twelve, but today...
...today... I'm thirteen. So, what are you doing tonight?"

That's the point tho. Players need to stop thinking of teens as "13". As pointed out above, Children have all the same "Problems" as teens, but nobody complaints about them? I mean nobody seems to have an issue that "this morning I was 2 yrs old and now I'm 10", but for some reason everyone insists that the very very obvious 17-19 yr olds "are undrealistic 13 yr olds"??

Doesn't work for me.
That's why I modded them and I am happy with my modded teens.
I'll just use YAs to cover the 17-19 since that is what they look like anyway and are headed for Uni.

No version of the Sims has not had this issue...it's just been a question of which specific age within the lifestage the actual sim model reflects, but every one of them hasn't properly reflected some of the realistic age range within any given lifestage.

I've dreamed of a Sims game where the aging process is gradual rather than hard-change stages since the Sims 1. Maybe someday, before I die, it will happen. Be quite the chore to code and make work properly with clothing though, that's for sure.

I have always thought that teens in the sims4 were supposed to be 16-18. I dunno, maybe Maxis never really gave it much thought, they do seem to leave some things left for the player to decide for themselves.

I feel that the game gives us more tools to make them look more like young adults than teens though. Combine that with the fact that they have very few things that they can do that Young Adult sims can't do and it feels like we are playing them at a very late stage in their teenage years.

This is such a cool topic because it is true that norms are so variable from one family or group to the next that it's useless to try to settle on a single norm for teens. @MoonlightGraham I come from an extremely male-heavy family (each generation produces almost nothing but boys, it's weird) and the guys at least, have things like losing baby teeth a couple of years earlier than other people's kids, starting pubertal changes at 7 or 8, getting wisdom teeth in the early to mid teens instead of late teens or early 20s, and being 5'10" at 14, is normal for us.

I looked 17 at 14, and by 17 almost never got carded.

So that first pic doesn't look anything like a teen to me, more like a young-faced 8 year old. I also wonder if it's photoshopped because of the way the lower face doesn't match the neck, but that's irrelevant.

Another thing of note, is that if we're being realistic, girls start out taller on average than boys their same age, in the tweens to early teens, because girls start and finish their growth younger, and are usually at adult height by around 16, whereas boys continue growing and gaining height between 19 and 24.

But the game makes things simple by making all genders the same height at the same age. So is it more realistic to say that "teens" should look like 13-14 year olds (which in both boys and girls is usually shorter than adults), or make them all look 16-18, in which case, girls are already at the adult height of women, and boys are already taller than most adult women and either as tall as most adult men, or in some cases taller?

I figure since 13-14 is just 2 of the teen years, but 15-19 is 5 of them, having them appear more as 15-19 year olds is more realistic and that's what the Sims4 teens look like to my eye but again, I'm not used to thinking of teens as looking or acting like children.

I like how the teens are in Sims 4. They're much more realistic. Teens in Sims 4 are more like 16 year olds, second to last year of high school. When I was in High School most 16 year olds were at their full adult height and a lot of the boys were growing facial hair. With the University pack teens are thinking about and preparing for university which is something usually done in the later years of High School. In Sims 4 the teens do look younger than the young adults: their faces are more youthful and they are skinnier. Not much actually changes in looks between a teen and young adult in real life. I've always been able to tell the Teens apart from the young adults in Sims 4.

In my game teens look like teens. You can do a lot with proper clothes and appearance in general. If you give them beards and dress them like adults of course they're going to look like adults.
That being said I would really like to have more clothing options for teens. We had some with Parenthood and there are some other options too, but it's not enough. Teens and men (adults) are lacking a lot on Sims 4.

Also keep in mind that at least here in the US, 18 is considered an adult by law. In terms of real-life appearance, I see little difference between someone that's 18 and someone that's 22

"Elliandre;c-18029528" wrote:
What on earth did they put in the tap water at your school??? :smiley: That is awesome that you know someone practically 7 feet tall. I imagine they would have all been good athletes? One of my nephews is quite tall, I'm not sure his exact height but he is very involved in a lot of sports and got offered a few scholarships for University because of his height and athletics

@Elliandre Whatever they put in the water apparently never made it to me, or at best, I quit getting it at 16 or so. I'm only a little taller than average.

All four of those guys were/are good athletes. The best of them was actually the "shortest," if you can use that term to describe someone who is 6'5". He was a very good soccer (football) goalkeeper, who went to university on a scholarship.

My 6'11" friend would probably say his experiences with his height have been mixed. It was certainly an advantage in basketball and volleyball, the two sports he played best. While he decided to attend a university that doesn't award athletic scholarships, the fact he was recruited to play basketball there might have helped him gain admission. His wife is 6'2", and she was delighted to meet a great guy who was so tall. They have a daughter and a son, and they are both tall for their ages.

But, at the same time, he's been asked "How tall are you?" as long as he can remember. They'll ask "Do you hit your head on things?" Or people will declare "You're really tall!" as if he is completely unaware of this fact. He's amazingly patient with these people. There are more online retailers for very tall men now, but it used to be really difficult for him to find clothes that fit him well. I get cramped in an airplane seat on a long flight, so imagine what it's like for him. Even looking in a mirror is a challenge.

The posters who take steps to make their younger Teens look less like adults have found a great work-around. I've started going into CAS and making some of the Teens resemble young Teens, and it's actually fairly easy to tell the difference now.