I just felt like putting this together. (:
They honestly sound so nice and fun to me!
(I tried uploading this short video before, but it didn't seem to be processed by Reddit.
I hope it works this time.)
Hey everyone,
I recently noticed strange things and now I'm not sure if something has changed in my game or whether this always was like this, but I didn't notice it before.
What I mean:
(GIF on slide 1) When you sit down at a bar and order drinks, your date will also sit down and both will talk until the drinks arrive. But in my game, there are strange jumps in the animations, when the talk goes from one sim to the other. In the GIF you can see what I mean:
The sim suddenly will be sitting in a completely different way with no smooth transition.
There will be these jumps and then the animation continues normally.
This doesn't occur in any other conversations, I think. For example, when your sims are sitting in a restaurant, then there never will be strange jumps in the animations. The transitions will always be seemless and smooth.
Do you also have these chunky bar animations in your game?
(image on slide 2) When you are at a bar without tables and chairs and wait for cocktails and talk to your date, one sim will be completely motionless for some time. (Like I described it below the image.)
Is this normal?
(image on slide 3) The Bar interaction can be over for some reason after the drinks are served. In the picture, both sims didn't grab their drinks from the table.
I also had a situation, in which only the main sim would take their drink and the invited sim didn't. (In that case, it seems as if the Bar interaction only was cancelled for the date, for whatever reason.)
(no image/slide) Sometimes it doesn't work at all to get drinks for your sim and your date (at a bar without tables and chairs). I assume this is when too many other guests are there and counters are blocked. Then the bartender has not enough surfaces to put down your and your date's glass and therefore the bar interaction is suddenly cancelled. I think that this is completely normal.
Do you know these situations from your game?
It would be nice to know whether this is normal.
I hope, there's nothing wrong with my game. :(
Since Unleashed came out, it is possible to build houses on vacant residential lots and to modify (or to just explore) unoccupied houses.
I really like this possibility, because I like to prebuild houses, because then I can try everything as often as necessary and I don't lose money when I remove and re-apply and test wallpapers and so on. :)
And I sometimes like to change to the neighborhood view to check whether the house also looks nice on the map. Or whether its position is good.
This changing between the lot and the neighborhoodwouldn't allow to undo build actions and this would make me losing much money if a family was already living there.
But the music that is playing when you prebuild a house is a bit strange, isn't it?
Somehow I think, that the normal neighborhood music would be more appropriate. Or perhaps the Zydeco music from Unleashed, which plays when you modify a community lot.
Or what do you think? Have you ever thought about that? (:
What I also wonder: What music would be playing if you only had the basegame and Unleashed, but not Hot Date? (Perhaps the Downtown music was also on the Unleashed CD? But I'm not sure how likely this is.)
For me, the Stars like Christina Aguilera or Jon Bon Jovi don't feel right in a game like this and I don't enjoy seeing them in Studio Town. They just are simple NPCs without specific behaviors.
To be fair, Marilyn Monroe also doesn't have a special personality. But altogether with Andy Warhol, I like it, that these timeless and immortal legends are in the game. And it's always great when she appears in front of your house and gives you an award. :)
However, for Andy Warhol they created funny reactions and a nice unique voice and I really like him at the Photo shoot set. :)
Oh, and it bothers me when these other Stars occupy the trailer when actually my sim desperately needs it!
But if Marilyn Monroe needs to use it, I don't get angry. (: