Thread 720194645

Has The Sims lost its soul?

yeah when 2 came out

I remember I made a girl sims, put her in the outfit that made her have big boobs, did the glitch I read about online to make her naked, and then took a picture of her in an empty room with space themed flooring/wallpaper. Feels silly in retrospect.

>>720195016
Couldve been worse

>>720194645 (OP)
Can't lose what it never had to begin with.

>>720194645 (OP)
Hey that's Tomar and Betty

>>720194782
i was so excited when 2 came out
i could build houses with more than 2 floors but it just made everything harder to manage

>>720195016
Ah, the things adolescent boys did before Internet gave everyone access to free porn. I used to look up nude paintings on encyclopedia.

>>720194645 (OP)
Yeah 20 years ago

>>720195517
Who

>>720194645 (OP)
4 definitely lost its soul after it stopped being a Maxis game and became an "EA" game.

However I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even 3 partially lost its soul. For many people it's considered the "best" Sims game, largely in part due to the open world and how everything became so much more fantastical and silly. Less a life sim and more "My vampire ghost hunting tomb raiding super Sim who knows kung fu and can time travel into the future!" Just too much dumb shit. Don't get me wrong though as I do think 3 is a fantastic game still, it just doesn't feel like the first game or even second.

2 partly headed that way for sure but was a nice middle-ground between 1 and 3, yet still closer to 1's vision.

>>720195412
Been a while since I read the saga of chinman.

>>720195465
Sims 1 had plenty of Soul, but i can't really blame kiddies who weren't there for writing it off on account of what it ended Unleashed as a consequence for it and its expansions success and the absolute travesty that is 4. 4 is over 11 years old now BTW.

>>720195412
Bruh if you post the first you are legally required to post the rest.

>>720196192
4give me

I can't get into any other Sims game other than 1st one.

kinda wish inzoi had been actual competition to light a fire under EA

>>720196315
Unfortunately koreans are physically incapable of making good games.

>>720196265
>>720196346
>those reaction imgs
I really wish I discovered /v/ when anons still posted like that

>>720195016
I would use that mspaint-esque custom outfit designing tool to simulate sim nudity with a little line for the vagina and a single pixel for the nipples cause i didn't know what lady bits actually looked like

>>720196265
>>720196346
Much better. It's just not the same without the arson part.

>>720196604
Why did I never think of doing this?

>>720194645 (OP)
Sims 1 has generational soul. I don't blame them for being unable to match it.

>>720196575
it was very common

I posted this in another thread, but one of the things that bothers me is the evolution of logos over time to become more generic and lose the personality of the original. The classic The Sims logo has a house roof and window on top, representing the game's domestic life simulator purpose. But its removed in successor logos. Not to mention, the font also has less personality and more plain.

Worse, it lost its soulsoul

>>720195861
The couple in the middle of the picture

>>720196357
In hindsight, we were fools to expect soul from soulless bugs.

>>720194645 (OP)
Never had

>>720197763
t. zoomer who didn't play the original
https://youtu.be/F2MFv2xe8yQ

>>720194645 (OP)
Sims 1 had the most soul. it had unique music and feel. the other games are unoriginal and not very soulful

Why don't modern games have the same design cohesiveness all the Maxis games had? Not only the Sims, but all their other games had these unified aesthetic that was really unique, why don't modern studios try for that anymore?

>>720198706
most games today use photoscanned assets. some just buy the assets sold in the unreal store. they are garbage and the reason most unreal games look like shit

>>720198883
>had a short trimmed beard my entire adult life
>basically designer stubble
>recently shaved my head because I couldn't hide the thinning anymore
>people now keep telling me to grow my beard out
>refuse because I know I'll end up looking like this redditor

>>720198883
i get the picture but it could just be a black wife the dude banged, instead of it being cuckcity raising black ex's kid

>>720198962

Nobody told me going bald was a fucking death sentence for dating :(

>full trumptard mode
>based beardboi
my two options i guess

>>720195861

https://youtu.be/82Ig4_avU44?si=2lULO5jf8BRhiRwD 7:44

>>720199319
Take the toupee pill. Women wear makeup, draw on their eyebrows, have false eyelashes and hair extensions. Why can't you wear a wig?

>>720198962
>>720199319
Embrace the Kane look.

>>720199605
You can't imitate the Messiah.

>>720199319
>bald
You should see her simps.

>>720195412
Sims 3 mogs tf out of the others in case this didnt already convince you

>>720195016
Kino

>>720199784
guy with the red hair and pink shirt looks like a Starfield NPC

>>720194645 (OP)
When 2 came out despite it being a good game. 1 has a unique atmosphere and vibe which they mostly got rid of with the sequels.

>>720199319
Why are you not married by the time you start going bald? Do you hate God?