What are your machinima preferences?

Ok here are some samples for those of you who don't know much about machinima. These are my favorites so I think you will enjoy!

First is the voice over by Rayplex pictures. This is an episode promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgucLNXIY0

Next the subtitles and my FAVORITE series. This girl is amazing at filming and story telling. Here is episode 1 of Season 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCiatEeLJXc&t=385s

And then for neither voices or subtitles, the absolute master of course - Remi. And the explanation of Bella Goth's disappearance! There are lots of videos about Bella but this is my favorite:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c8ym37agr4

Remi does some great machinama's, but haven't qite found another creator like that that can bring a story to just have sims play it out with no words.

I don't mind sub-titles in most of them less they start getting too wordy and boring to keep my interest. @SimStories I think does it fairly well keeping a pretty decent balance.

I like voice acted ones, even if all characters are done by the same person putting on different voices.
Not exactly the most refined example, but this is a guilty pleasure of mine, as far as Sim stories go.


I guess I don't really go for the super-serious stories, but it's not like I'm a connoisseur either.

Well yay! We finally got some votes for voice acting.

The reason for this poll is because the annual Sims Film Fest is kicking off and machinima just doesn't seem as popular as back when EA produced machinima themselves and also highlighted really good creators of machinima on their YouTube channel. Don't know why the change? They did some awesome stuff. Was curious about simmers' opinions.

"LadyKyn;c-16860936" wrote:
Remi does some great machinama's, but haven't qite found another creator like that that can bring a story to just have sims play it out with no words.

@LadyKyn Remi is the absolute best. I think he must be a professional because his editing skills knock the socks off of anything I've seen, even at the cinema. I've done a few episodes just using music. One was what happened on Erik Darling and Agnes Crumplebottom's honeymoon, and one was about why Cornelia and Gunther are estranged when Sunset Valley boots up. But my editing skills are nowhere near as advanced as Remi.

@lyasenu Well that is..... I don't know what to say!!

I prefer subtitles. All of my favourite simmers make lets plays with 2-3 minute machinimas in the beginning/end of the video that move the plot of the story. And they mostly use subtitles or nothing at all. I find voiceovers slightly cringey but maybe that's just me.

I've seen a few, some are really well done and I do like both voice overs, and subtitles, but sometimes I feel that some of them state too much of the obvious and could just let the pictures tell the story. Then it's up to an individuals interpretations, and I think that makes some of the stories more exciting. When I can imagine my own story to go with the pictures.

@ZeeGee unfortunately I don't know any English simmers who do that. Here's a couple of links to some Russian ones, just to give you an idea:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xmoGw3S6wl4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=91nonsqG3OY

Russian simmers seem to add machinimas everywhere. Build videos, CAS videos, lets plays... It's awesome :D

Okay so to be fair, I've only watched two series by one creator, so my opinion is absed on what she did since I really loved them (kitsparrow27 for anyone wondering, Sims 2 machinima from quite a bit ago. I just really loved her ability to tell story).

Back in the heyday of Sims 2 I also did like machinima that was done as a music video for the song that was playing, but copyright has probably ruined that ? the Bella Goth video is also excellent, though it's the only Remi video I've watched. I imagine I'd be pretty averse to voice actors, because they're not necessarily experienced as such, but I haven't seen any, and I'm sure there are quality ones out there.

Again, most of my opinions are pretty dated. I haven't watched any machinima since...like...before Sims 3. I don't know why, but I just kind of assumed it died off after the move from 2 to 3.