TS4 is getting a complete "refresh" in design and look. I guess TS5 isn't happening soon....

"bizuktag;c-17156489" wrote:
Everything about this new design is ugly as sin. The new covers look like they belong to PS2 games, and the new plumbob looks like it was designed in MS Paint in about fifteen minutes.

I can get over the ugly design, because it mostly won't affect me in game, but I feel like I'm also going to get annoyed having to click "no" every time I create a new sim and it tries to get me to use this story feature. I hope there's a toggle, or at least a mod to turn it off. Adding more background to your starting sims is a good idea in theory, but I don't think it looks well implemented. This isn't going to let me create the sims I want in CAS; this is just a fancier trait randomizer.

Honestly why not make two buttons on the main menu? One for the story thingy and the play button to go into CAS? It just seems once again that they didn’t want to work things out!

Hideous

Expect expansion pack sales to drop, the different colours helped give each one its own identity in people's minds. Now all the icons look too similar and that makes it a chore to distinguish between them.

I know most of the players of this game are female but with two thirds of the characters on the new base game render being female and the new clothing items in each pack being so weighted in favour of female Sims... I just cant help but feel they are actively trying to exclude male players.Which is a shame since i've been playing since TS1

I'm sorry, this is pretty ugly. Looks like something a first-year design student would make. The colors are way too flashy, and the designs themselves feel very flat. That plumbob looks like it came straight from 2003, which I'm not sure was intentional or not.

"The people want university and fixed musical chairs."
"Not on my watch. Let's give them Moschino and a new graphical design instead."

Will the forums get an update too???

This feels like a poor attempt to make a five year old game feel new. It's like you are painting an old car with blue paint.

I thought EA only hired the best designers?? Where does the money go? Obviously not towards the game :/

Maybe they decided to get rid of the expansion pack colours because they realised that there aren't enough wavelengths visible to the naked eye for the eleventy billion DLCs that they have planned so they just decided to make them all the same colour and call it a day?

I think it isn't a terrible idea of rebranding The Sims 4, but I just loved the old design and I really don't like how all the Expansion Packs have the same colors now. It looked so much better, when they had different colors. It made them more special.

I don’t like it. I prefer how it is now with the different colors for EPs. And why blue ??