What are your machinima preferences?

I really just love watching the Sims and what they do, how they react, to see how the story plays out. I can use my imagination in what I see to figure out the story and it really moves me. If the story is played out well, like Remi's, it really says it all. I don't need words or explanations to understand what is going on.

For that reason, I feel that if it has to be explained with voice over or subtitles, the picture story just doesn't show all that should be. I'd rather just read the story in that case. I don't really like it when the sims mouths are so robotically moving to imply talking. It is too fake and distracting to the story. Yes, I do agree those other stories are also very good and each one has their special place. It's just simply a preference for me.

My absolute favourite thing about machinima is the word itself. I love it even though I don't really even know how to pronounce it, I think it's a funny word.

Partly bc I’m used to reading subtitles to certain shows, I’m not always fond of voice acting bc sometimes the recording is poor quality.

Appreciate the recommendations. I haven't watched any machinima yet. (Machinimas? What is the plural here?) Not against it--just haven't gotten around to it. It feels a bit like the world of fanfic to me--there's lots and lots of stuff out there and some is really good, but finding the good stuff can be tricky without someone to help navigate it.

Probably subtitles would be my preferred version to try first.

Before I discovered Remi, this machinima was my absolute favorite. Jaydee was the master in my opinion.

https://youtu.be/f6PWfZWQ9R4

Yours is a very good one @Karababy52. I started out only from a dance machinima which was really cute, and I liked it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YylMviddbvk

It actually got me interested to see more. Then I saw Remi's BELLA GOTH: THE LAST HOPE, and I was blown away. I love watching them now. There really are good ones out there.

@Simberella777 I agree! It's one of the best, if not THE best for it's day in my opinion. It amazed me what Jaydee could do with what little was available to work with in that game. She was very talented. But anyway, yeah, Remi is the current master, I absolutely adore his series on Bella, it's a machinima masterpiece. I've made exactly one, a music video using TS2 and it took me months to do and it wasn't anywhere near those machinimas. I still love mine though, it was a labor of love to my favorite recording artist. :)

BTW, I've seen that one you posted, it is cute. There's some TS2 KPop music/dance videos that are really good too I found when I was looking around for dance mods when I made mine. I'd have to do some digging to find them though. They were quite popular back then so shouldn't be hard to find. I personally don't care for that music genre, but the machinimas were very, very well done!

Happy Simming Y'all! <3

Sorry I'm getting through your comments so slow. Between work and trying to watch some of the videos y'all have recommended it's slow going!

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-16869379" wrote:
My absolute favourite thing about machinima is the word itself. I love it even though I don't really even know how to pronounce it, I think it's a funny word.

@AlbaWaterhouse 'muh-SHIN-uh-muh' :wink:

Subtitles, because really bad voice acting would ruin it for me.
If the voice acting was good, I'd prefer that, but it's a gamble. So it's better to just be safe.

I prefer creating movies with game sounds and not even poses, so I naturally need subtitles. But basically, if the story and production is good I think it's less important if the creator used voice over or subtitles. Voice acting needs to be convincing, though, and sound level should be leveled.