The Comparison Thread
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"fullspiral;c-17267343" wrote:"Sk8rblaze;c-17267314" wrote:
I don't think traits belonged in The Sims 4, at least with their vision of emotions. We were given only a fraction of traits available from the huge list of TS3's traits, and each one felt less fleshed out than their TS3 version. Really, it just seems like they did not think the whole personality aspect of our Sims beyond emotions.
I think the solution is to work from TS2's personality point system upwards. Maybe they could infuse the interest system of TS2 with the trait system of TS3. I don't see much value in recycling emotions for TS5, that's for sure.
Their vision of emotions? That doesn't go beyond the animations of slamming a fridge, or stomping around, or sadly eating with quivering lips....
Emotions in TS4 are terrible. Sims don't have personalities due to how the moodlet based play works. Traits don't matter. Every Sim is whatever emotion they're currently experiencing, and every Sim responds to the same emotions in the same way, which is where complaints about all Sims being carbon copies - just with different paint jobs - comes from. It's so flimsy.
In TS3 Sims actually had emotions and responses that were determined by their traits. It wasn't a perfect system by any means but it was much better than what we have now, with the core of TS4 being dull.
