Summary
ASims 4player has given the Goth family a overhaul that will makeSims 2players nostalgic. The family has gone through some redesigns over the years, and someSims 4players prefer how they looked in the second game.
As one might expect,The Sims 4’s new style and graphical overhaul from the older games led to some characters looking a bit different than fans remembered them.The Sims 4launched way back in 2014, but there was enough controversy surrounding the family’s new looks that EA and Maxis made the surprising choice to overhaulthe iconic Goth familyin 2022. While some of the changes were arguably an improvement, not all fans liked this redesign either, which may have partially led to this fan redesigning the family to look more like theirSims 2versions.
Reddit user andSimsfan GabeTomatoes uploaded images of their Goth family overhaul, specifying that they’d tried to make them look more like theirSims 2selves. The images show the currentSims 4incarnation and GabeTomatoes’s new versions, along with small thumbnails to show what the characters looked like withinThe Sims 2. The differences are apparent, with most of the changes going into facial shape, features, skintone, and hair styles.
Bella Gothand Cassandra both have narrower, more oval-shaped faces, with darker skin tones. Their hairstyles and outfits have also been revised, making them more faithful to theirSims 2looks. Meanwhile, Mortimer Goth simultaneously looks older and younger, with a touch of gray added to his hair, but fewer wrinkles and age-lines on his face. Alexander Goth looks a bit paler, his hairstyle and glasses have changed, and his outfit is closer to how it looked inThe Sims 2.
The Sims 4’s Changes to The Goth Family
Fans have been interested in the overhauls, with one calling GabeTomatoes’s efforts a “great job.” However, many players have honed in on how much they dislike the fact thatThe Sims 4altered the way that the Goths lookedin the first place. While fans weren’t overly receptive to their looks whenThe Sims 4came out, particularly due to their lightened skin tones, some argue that the official overhauls changed too much. The players lamented that while some thought that darker skin would be more faithful to theirSims 2appearances (with the exception of Alexander, who was originally fairly pale), their overall designs were tweaked too much by EA.
Thankfully,The Sims 4has an extremely extensive modding scenethat can help change the game to fit each player’s esthetic. Players are at their liberty to play how they like, which includes downloading overhauls for the family to make them look different.
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