My grievances with each game in the franchise
Ive been playing a lot recently, but losing the motivation to stick with any one family or sim or group of sims long term. The issue is, there's no such thing as the "perfect" sims game and it's becau...
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Hello Magnezone, great thread. As someone who has played all 3 games extensively, I agree with you on all the above points. After playing back and forth between the 3, I finally abandoned TS4 completely, left TS2 for nostalgia-gaming and now focus on TS3.
One thing to add about ugly TS3 sims; I agree with you about their uncanniness, there's no way to fight it. The facial animations, interactions with each other, they are no way close to TS2 in terms of quality. However you really can fight the "ugliness" and "puddingness" of their faces by using custom sliders, custom make-up and better lighting mods. I use a lot of Maxis-match cc (not Alpha) and I believe they make a huge difference in playability. They don't however save the ultimate uncanniness of the sims themselves...
One thing to add about ugly TS3 sims; I agree with you about their uncanniness, there's no way to fight it. The facial animations, interactions with each other, they are no way close to TS2 in terms of quality. However you really can fight the "ugliness" and "puddingness" of their faces by using custom sliders, custom make-up and better lighting mods. I use a lot of Maxis-match cc (not Alpha) and I believe they make a huge difference in playability. They don't however save the ultimate uncanniness of the sims themselves...
