Viral Sims Tweet with Over 100,000 likes

I think it's a given that people prefer more detailed assets but lack of detail is not a deal breaker. The gameplay is more important for me. And 4 comes in first for me.

Since I'm a greedy little person .... I want both?

The Pizza meme works so well because it condenses the debate into a catchy format that also gamers (and non gamers) who never played either sims game can understand. They immediately know that the new iteration is viewed as inferior by the fandom without needing to go into the nitty gritty details. And if one already is dissatisfied with Sims 4, then for that person the ugly pizza works nicely as a symbol for everything they find wrong the game.
More personal answer:

These are my two favorite/most emotional scenes from videogames:

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The first (Disco Elysium) is in no way inferior to the second (Detroit Become Human) just because it doesn't use fancy computer graphics. Disco has the better writing, but both games know exactly how to hit in the feels. So, no, more sophisticated graphics don't mean much to me in themselves. I value a complex gameplay system (Disco) and characters I can attach myself to (Detroit & Disco both).

Now the two screenshots I've posted showcase two very different artstyles, whereas the Sims 4 pizza is also bad in the context of Sims 4's artstyle. I like to compare Sims 4 to Lego Duplo and Sims 2 to Lego Constructor or regular lego. One cannot dismiss Duplo as the worse Constructor, because they both serve different purposes. Just that pizza... it's really bad. Like a Duplo figure that is just a blob with no discernable head or paint coming off.

Attention to detail is something that I have often liked in video games, it adds to the immersion that you actually are in the world and doing something or eating something...in this case. Good graphics adds to that immersion.

The food in The Sims 4 can look pretty different, some food that they added in Cottage Living like the beef wellington looked great while some food like the pumpkin soup looked really bad in my opinion. It probably comes down to some things in the game getting more worked on than others.

As for the rest of the game, I think the detail in the Sims 4 is okay, they probably have to reduce some things like texture detail so the game will run decently on computers and console. Sometimes I think they go too far with some objects.

I also think that the graphics are not sharp enough. In this picture that I have posted before the left picture is how the game looks as default and the right picture is the game running with reshade with a setting that makes the graphics sharper.

https://i.imgur.com/pUYUi3Z.png

As for the rest of the game, I think the detail in the Sims 4 is okay, they probably have to reduce some things like texture detail so the game will run decently on computers and console. Sometimes I think they go too far with some objects.

I am a bit concerned that they've hinted that they plan to have the same TS5 to play on both PCs and mobile phones. We have more than 32GB of RAM on our gaming PCs as well as personal video cards that alone can do super-computing, so can we please get at least one sims game that leverages this and stop pandering to those who still try to play games on toasters, please? ?

While gameplay is, or at least should be, the bread-and-butter, good graphics for the technology level of the game and other detail things like quaity of animations are still important. For TS4 pizza to look much worse than TS2 pizza even though the technology bar in 4 is much higher says a lot about the attitude towards players by the game makers. They don't care. For all its imperfections, TS2 is obviously a labor of love with attention to detail, including the little ones. Thus, its huge and vocal fanbase.

As for gaming platforms, There should be a different version for each platform the game is intended to be played on. There is no one size fits all. EA better not even think about trying to tow an 18-wheeler with a Toyota.

I like good graphics and I think one's video card has much to do with it. As for what truly matters to me, is the Sims, themselves. Those cute, crazy, sometimes perky, pixilated characters. I got introduced to the Sims franchise with Sims2. The Sims were lively, silly, and almost always surprising. The ones in Sims3 lost that. No more tantrums when a lazy Sim was given a chore to do. Rarely, if ever did they break that 4th wall. I had a love/hate relationship with that game, due to the lack of wackiness. I was tentative about Sims4, as a result. I told myself, and others, that if the Sims aren't more like they were in Sims2, I wouldn't purchase anything else, Sims4. But, EA came through when they evaluated what to take from the three previous iterations of Sims. While the Sims aren't exactly the same as the way the ones in Sims2 behaved, the fact that they were so much better than the previous ones, mattered a great deal to me. As the packs started rolling out, I began to play more and more. My playing was rather sporadic at first. Now, I play everyday, sometimes even on Sundays, if I'm not too worn-out after church.

@Oldeseadogge I fully agree with you on the platform issues. A version for each anticipated platform would be good. In this day and age, one would expect this to be reasonably easy. We paid dearly for the Base game. I know I did.

The graphics settings are not the same in those two pizza pictures.
From the look of the diagonal edges of the pizza box, I'm guessing the one on the left is at low graphics settings, and then zoomed in quite a bit.

The Sims 4 pizza seems to have more cheese on it. What’s wrong with more cheese? ??‍♂️

Things tend to be a bit more blurry or Pixelated in TS4 but the overall graphics on max settings look really good. People complain about lag and stuttering in sims games overall so maybe the devs knew this game was going to go on for a long time and decided to keep graphics lower so that different computers can handle it.
It's not a big deal to me but I remedy the problem with food graphic replacements and other replacements cc creators make, since my sims like to eat a lot.
Really the only reason it went viral is because it gives people more reason to hate on aTs4 which is something they love to do as a pastime hobby?‍♀️
It's not a reflection of the game itself and the devs are always proving that they put a lot of love and effort into Ts4. Rather or not one recognizing that depends on the individual.