This collectible card game is unlike anything you’ve ever seen in The Sims before.Ĭhildren will also find the Puppet Theater waiting for them when looking for an amicable social undertaking. Each competitor inserts their critter’s card into this electronic arena, and the digital screen springs to life as kids attempt to button mash their way to victory while the battle unfolds. Voidcritters are a brand new collection of twenty collectible (duh!) cards, which can be battled against each other in the Voidcritter Battle Station. …hold on a second, a Void-what? Voidcritters! As the story goes, these cute and occasionally ferocious monsters are mysteriously appearing in your Sims’ world, and it’s up to the children in your family to capture, collect, trade, and train them. The Sims 4 Kids Room Stuff: Official Trailer Kid At Heart? Check Out The Sims 4 Kids Room Stuff!Ĭhildish Sims and Simmers rejoice The Sims 4 Kids Room Stuff* is arriving on June 28th, and it's all about giving those little rascals more to occupy their time.Ī child Sim can put on a performance in the Puppet Theater to help with their social development, they can stoke their competitive fire by challenging their friends at the Voidcritter Battle Station, and they can go out exploring in the world to discover and acquire the new Voidcritter collection. I’m happy to hear you say that after playing for a bit it is not as big a deal as you feared.If you wish to discuss this upcoming Stuff pack, please go to this thread: I still think that it was the right decision, but as an animator I am not neutral on the issue We are listening to the community to tell us whether the trade off was worth it, and what we can do to improve the teen experience. Our decision to do away with the shorter teen was really driven by a desire to improve animation quality, be able to make more fun content for the game in general (children, I believe, benefitted the most from this), and add more special behaviors for the teens themselves. It’s hard to put a number on how much content we lost to this, but I can say with some confidence that teens in the Sims 2 and Sims 3 did have significantly fewer teen-specific interactions than we wanted to make for them because of the invisible work we had to do in order to support their size. Each case of this is “invisible” content, in the sense that it did not add any more stuff to do or special behavior to the game but ate up valuable animation time. In those cases we had to duplicate the adult animation and hand adjust it for the teen. Two, the height difference meant that there was a not insignificant amount of animation on Sims 2 and Sims 3 that could not be shared for technical reasons.
So in practice the shorter teen height meant that animations both on Sims 2 and 3 could never be as expressive as we wanted them to be. If you are an animator, you know that “extreme” (in the sense of fully extended) poses are important for expressiveness and animation quality. the arms could almost never extend all the way).
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Because the teen’s arms were shorter, this meant that animators could not hit the full range of poses possible for the character (e.g. One, all adult animations on Sims 2 and Sims 3 had to be animated so they played back without obvious visual issues on teens. Because of the height difference, this led to a couple of negative consequences for those games: I worked on all three projects, and I can assure you that that is not the case – teens in both games shared the vast majority of the animation content with adults. You seem to be saying (I may be misunderstanding you of course?) that Sims 2 and 3 had complete sets of animations for teens, in addition to the adult set. I wanted to clarify a couple of points you are making in your review about teens and animation. Admittedly that is not ideal in terms of immediate user feedback, but it might save you the time and simoleons for the drinks next time you try to pick up a stranger at the bar
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Pro tip though: you can always take a look at your social menu options – if your sim is an adult, the “Romantic” portion of the social menu will not be there if you are talking to a teen. SimGuruMarion hopped on The Sims Official Forums to explain more why do Teens have the same height as Adults, what’s the difference between them and Adults and what animations differ.įirst of all, I 100% agree that it is a problem that you can’t immediately and clearly tell whether a sim you want to date is a teen or an adult.