Still planing with TS2 anyone ?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 16, 06:18:01
I do still love TS2 and there are things I miss about it. I especially miss the genetics.
Genetics exist much as they did in TS2, as far as facial features are concerned. Hair genetics have basically disappeared because the game has no record of "original" haircolor, and eyecolors have basically become random flip, since with the ability to pick totally arbitrary stuff, there is no longer a clear dominant/recessive/genetic system. However, let's face it: Haircolor is something you can change on a sim at whim, and absolutely no evidence remains of the original, as opposed to in real life, where it is VERY OBVIOUS when someone is a fake, and it looks terrible.
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 16, 06:18:01
They really need to get that down better for a game like this and the sims in TS3 tend to look VERY similar until they reach young adulthood.
That is because kids in real life tend to look very similar: Like little annoying maggits.
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 16, 06:18:01
I hate that. I used to live for my sims in TS2 to reach the teen years to see how they turned out because they were all so different from each other. Plus, the teens were PRETTIER in TS2 - both female and male. In TS3, they all have that exact same look.
There's a reason for this: "Vanilla Pudding Syndrome". If you're breeding your sims with random townies, you're getting Vanilla Pudding in your genepool.
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 16, 06:18:01
And forget about the children in TS3 - you can rarely see a difference between male and female at all.
There *IS* no difference between male and female in TS2 *OR* TS3. Both sims share the same bodies, and they are only distinguishable by hairstyle and mode of dress. If you don't make that distinctive, they are completely indistinguishable in both games!
Mimic:
I think for me, TS3 needs Aspirations. I liked how in TS2 there was that bar to the left that determined if your Sim was a loser or not. In TS3 the closest thing to it is the Ambitious trait "Anxious to Advance" moodlet. Which does not invoke Aspiration failure and mental breakdowns, so meh.
jonas:
As always, I'm overjoyed to be responded to by you, Sir.
And the thing is, you're right, of course!
After I posted this and played again, I gave a second look to the teens in one of my games and they're not as bad as I thought. I rarely breed with townies and all my sims tend to be good looking - and I recall having some nightmare-get them in surgery now!-sims in TS2 that drove me mad. I haven't had any like that in TS3 so far. I find that in-game sims in TS3 look much better than they do in CAS.
With genetics, I crave features skipping generations - which does not appear to occur whatsoever in TS3. It's Mom or Dad only. The random eye-color flip drives me mad. The hair doesn't bother me much as, like you say, can be altered at any time.
You also have a great point about the kids in TS2 and after looking around today - everywhere in RL too! It's kind of creepy, now that I've noticed it more how much kids around 7 to 10 years old look like any other kid, M or F! Only notable racial differences seem to make any large effect in facial features.
So now I'm back to just missing weather, mostly. *edit* And the occasional puppy.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 17, 10:08:48
With genetics, I crave features skipping generations - which does not appear to occur whatsoever in TS3. It's Mom or Dad only. The random eye-color flip drives me mad. The hair doesn't bother me much as, like you say, can be altered at any time.
Actually, color features do get derived from grandparents as well, with lower frequency, to simulate this behavior, so this isn't true either. Facial blends are mom/dad only...just like TS2.
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 17, 10:08:48
You also have a great point about the kids in TS2 and after looking around today - everywhere in RL too! It's kind of creepy, now that I've noticed it more how much kids around 7 to 10 years old look like any other kid, M or F! Only notable racial differences seem to make any large effect in facial features.
See? Little maggots, all about the same.
Quote from: jonas on 2010 June 17, 10:08:48
So now I'm back to just missing weather, mostly. *edit* And the occasional puppy.
Weather is prototyped in TS3 already, so it's coming.
The one thing to note is that TS3 has A LOT LESS PEE than TS2 did. They really did finally move away from peeing. In TS2, every expansion with the possible exception of FT gave us new ways for sims to pee themselves. In TS3, there are only two additional ways to pee, both fairly esoteric, and none of them are really special.
Nepheris:
Mh, it seems TS3 is slightly more 'serious' in more ways than just pee. A lot less wacky antics and general hullabaloo. I quite like this in TS2.
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