Because Pixar-esque doesn't mean flat and bland. I would never expect the sims to look 100% exactly like, say, this:

But look at the differences in texture -- the underside of that table is more detailed than most of the wood in TS4. Same with the cardboard box, and Woody's shirt, and Jessie's braids. Some things are flat, sure -- the walls, Jessie's shirt and hat -- but it doesn't matter as much because there are so many interesting things done with the simpler art style. Whereas in TS4, there's no fine attention to detail. Nothing stands out, nothing catches the eye, nothing inspires a second look or a closer look. A cartoony Sims game is a great idea in theory, but EAxis have bungled the practice.

My confusion about the woohoo vid is that you select the sim you are going to woohoo in a menu. So if you are home alone do you get the ultimate booty call where the partner instantly and magically appears in your house?

No, we sext them with our super smartphones and then their smartphone teleports them to your house.

Oh so sexting is now floorplay and when the sim teleports it is game on.....ok weirder I guess :/

Reminds me of the Golden Girl's episode where one of Rose's dates has a heart attack after woohoo. Ironically, Rose's husband died that way, too. I guess she's not the prude everyone thinks she is:



So, death by woohoo would definitely make for a weirder and emotional storyline.

I like the idea of choosing foreplay/no foreplay. As someone mentioned earlier, sometimes you just want a quickie.

Yeah, I was being sarcastic. "Uncanny valley" was one of the terms they tossed out when they were justifying TS4's art stye.

But the real reasons for the art style are: make the game run well on low-end computers, and keep the game's budget as low as possible.

If The Sims had graphics on par with Battlefield 4, I don't think we'd see a lot of people complaining. I think we'd see more people saying, "this looks fucking incredible."

The thing I find hilarious about that pic is the interface has 9 slots in it. For some reason, I thought you could multi-select and woohoo with 9 other people at the same time.

Yeah, there's nine slots in that menu...........This is deeper gameplay? Maybe the target sim can refuse? I would have to see more. (But then again, why bother?) Feel sorry for Shania Twain.

Well they wanted the sims to stay home more, so orgies are now emotional, weird, and a group activity.

Also look at the filters, you seem to be able to filter your potential prey by Friends, Family, Romantic Interests or All. I'm waiting for the day when Grandpa appears on the Family list "by accident".

That's one of the results of them secretly filming the developers' parties. They counted that 9 was enough for a full circle

Regarding the talk going on about TS4 graphics, I personally wouldn't want it to look like Battlefield 4, or Dragon Age or whatever. Those graphics are great, but they are too realistic for my liking. What would I want it to look like, you asked? No? I'll show you anyways,

Maybe someday?
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A bro can never have enough hoes to choose from.

Thanks for that mental image of the TGIF parties.....ya know there are things that can't be unseen!

Well that will never happen, there is clearly a toddler in the first picture!

Except for the character design that's not that far away from Dragon Age or any other AAA game.

Aw, can't put my household on the Gallery because apparently my Sim's name is slang for the female reproduction organ in Portuguese. O.o

Vss2eip - Bahaha oh you can't just tell us that and not tell us what the sim's name is.

My bet is on Xana :D

Wait.. where did they confirmed that there are no "family trees"?

Yeah I wouldn't want the character design to be so cartoony. A more realistic stylized would do it for me.

Which reminds me that the new forums now censor words not with asterisks anymore but by replacing the offensive word with "plum" - which just happens to be one of the slang words for the female reproductive organ in my language

I'm guessing your language doesn't really do a translation of Little Jack Horner as a popular childhood poem then...

And whoever set up the censor words obviously couldn't type. I just saw a thread where the word "Pizza" was censored right below a thread that was filled with all kinds of "shittys" and "bullshits".
I know it's off-topic, but the new official forum design is providing me with some serious laffs.
Good times.

There was a thread title that said "Damn" in the topic list but became "Plum" in the header.

"Cocktail" was also once censored. Would have made it hard to talk about the Mixology skill and career.


I imagine Bella or Amber saying "Plum!" in a really high voice instead of a bleep.

Regarding the woohoo video, the sims look like they are just laying under the covers on their own side of the bed flopping about. They don't even look like their touching. Maybe they decided it would be to mature to have them make out and touch.