The Comparison Thread
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"PrincipleOfEntropy;c-17267630" wrote:"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.https://i.postimg.cc/zfbWy2Fm/Emotions.png
Besides this all being false advertising of how the game really plays, note the mood bar, it says the bar falls and produces uncomfortable etc. The problem with TS4 to me is the mood bar rarely falls in my game, and the Sims were always elated and happy, happy. Uncomfortable (ooh, how much excitement something bad might happen is that?) is easily solved by walking to the next room with silly decor. The whole ad is such a joke, I can't even. And I have news for them, If I'm grumpy (from pain) I am not going to get sad first, before mean or angry, I'm going to get rude and more grumpy, instead of sad. They have no idea what happens to real people's emotions in my opinion. Grumpy brings smart alec remarks, short tempers, and irritation (especially if it's from any sort of pain when you can't do something) and produces less patience in a person. They really have no idea what happens and it's not 'sad' as the logical next step of emotions.
