WarpZone said:
lacktheknack said:
WarpZone said:
Hey, wait a minute. Why don't we just mod the original Sims until the graphics are current?
Because Sims modders are generally terrible people who are low on talent and future-vision?
Also, there are barely any graphic mods for the game. The Sims modding community is a pretty massive joke.
What?
Your response doesn't make any sense to me. You're suggesting that unlike all those other sims modders, you're talented and forward-thinking, right? So my question stands. Why don't we just mod The Sims (or The Sims 3, if that's where your nostalgia starts and ends) to have better graphics so that there is no need for The Sims 4.
Then you go on to say that one of the reasons we can't make a graphics mod is because nobody's made a graphics mod. What?
I never said anything about my own abilities, but otherwise, yeah, exactly.
The Sims modding community is a massive cluster of in-fighting, legal threats, and clothing mods. Almost no major graphics mods have been made for the game beyond stuff like "cleaner skin".
It's difficult to start a modding project with absolutely no support, after all. ESPECIALLY with a game like "The Sims", where you have to purchase and retexture/remodel every. Single. Thing. That EA has ever put out.
Then we have the problem where it would all slow to a crawl. The Sims is already pretty badly optimized (all of them are), and adding 4K textures would make the game's loading ludicrously slow, from what I can tell.
And even then, some visuals simply can't be upgraded to modern day standards due to engine limits and restrictions.
But by all means, if you want to assemble a team that owns everything EA has ever released for one of the games, and will A. remodel/retexture everything, B. break into the game's code and optimize things to the point that it can properly run massive graphical data, C. hack-around, or better, completely rebuild the engine, and D. stave off massive lawsuits from EA due to your engine dickery (in which they'll be entirely in the right) as well as staving off the thieving, blood-sucking little turds known as the "Sims Modding Community" who will steal anything and everything you do and call it their own before trying to sue you for stealing...
...then go ahead and try it.
You might be better off just making a whole new game at that point, though.
Modding isn't the "magic mystery process" that you're treating it as. You're asking for a multi-year overhaul of a game, the likes of which we haven't seen since Skyrim, the king of modding. Your expectations are unrealistically high, comparable to someone who asks a grocery store to provide limosine rides back home.