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

"Dianesims;c-17156641" wrote:
I don’t like it. I prefer how it is now with the different colors for EPs. And why blue ??

Blue and green from The Sims logo.

Ew, I'm sorry but this is just so bland! The current cover arts were pretty nice already. Now Expansions won't have unique colours to help differentiate them??? The text is smaller, especially for the pack type and the icons are just tossed in the upper right corner... I've loved most things the Sims team has done, but this... WHY??????

Loading screen is bland too, the current one is so much nicer!

I actually quite like the design of the main menu though, but I'm hoping it doesn't carry over to console, because having all this clutter in the way of my game starting options will be annoying (probably for PC users too).

Alright, this is getting ridiculous. The game needs MANY things to be fixed, but the one thing that wasn't even broken, the one thing that wasn't negatively affecting the experience of players, they're deciding to overhaul. For seemingly no reason. And it's not even good. In just a few hours of studying graphic design, I could probably recreate this "new" look. And I'm not a graphic designer.

Granted, it's not the studio itself doing this redesign, but I'm wondering who thought this was something that was absolutely required.

"alanmichael1;c-17156369" wrote:
I like the new look, though I would have maintained the EP colours. The initial design started to look like 1976. However, this midway change is not good for people who are collecting the boxes.

I happened to be around in 1976 and if anything, it’s this new art style that reminds me of those days ;)

https://images3.images-speurders.nl/images/15/1515/151598973_1_big.jpg

I wish they would have given us body hair instead... This is just sad.

Only thing that makes me a bit excited is that new hairstyle(the girl with the pink hair).

"alanmichael1;c-17156384" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-17156371" wrote:
Can anyone post screenshots? How is the new loading screen, main menu and cas?? Theres a story mode???!!!!

Yes instead of creating a Sim from scratch you can answer some amusing questions and then the game will create a Sim with fitting traits and a career for you.

Haha, as an Elder Scrolls fan that brings back memories of character creation in Daggerfall and Morrowind (not sure if Arena had it, too, I started with Daggerfall)! Sounds like a fun addition. Nothing deep, but fun.

In reality it's really not a big deal, but to me, it is. It looks terrible. The plum bob looks like it took 2 minutes to make, and I am definitely not a fan of the blue. The main menu looks really empty and has a lot of wasted space compared to the one we have right now, not for long though. And they just gave us the ability to change the main menu picture, now they take it away. Also, I am not a fan of the new people on the cover art, I want the other people back. The pack art... I liked the pack art the way it was. It looks bad now. There is just so more they could do than a dumb redesign to spice things up. Everyone in the community (Well, not gonna speak for everyone but I'm gonna say most) were happy with the way things were. This redesign just upset people, including me. SOOOOO much more that needed to be done to the game. This was just unnecessary...

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17156424" wrote:
I don't know why people think TS5 is happening. They have said repeatedly that they still have years worth of content for TS4.

Yes, this. Although I know there were positions advertised last year for a Sims type game, I have felt for some time they have not even really started on Sims 5. I actually think Sims 5 is not even in the works... instead they will drag Sims 4 out indefinitely and it may be the last in the series.

"Prink34320V2;c-17156671" wrote:
Ew, I'm sorry but this is just so bland! The current cover arts were pretty nice already. Now Expansions won't have unique colours to help differentiate them??? The text is smaller, especially for the pack type and the icons are just tossed in the upper right corner... I've loved most things the Sims team has done, but this... WHY??????

Loading screen is bland too, the current one is so much nicer!

I actually quite like the design of the main menu though, but I'm hoping it doesn't carry over to console, because having all this clutter in the way of my game starting options will be annoying (probably for PC users too).

It's coming to the consoles as well. Its been confirmed from SimGuruLegacy.

Sims team has a bit of an issue with priorities.