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Greetings and welcome to another Sims 4 reveal trailer of some kind here on LGR
and this is the build mode official gameplay trailer narrated by John Berges.
Well it would be except it's now narrated by me, because I'm a YouTuber and that's what we do.
That makes this original content!
Anyway, with the reveal of the Create-A-Sim trailer not too long ago that we previously covered on LGR;
I know a lot of us were actually hoping to see the build mode one come soon and here it is!
That's good. I was really hoping you'd be able to build things in this game but y'know, with EA you never know.
Ha! Jokes. Lolz.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this actual content here that they're revealing.
They started out by making a house from scratch for Bella and Mortimer Goth.
And at the very beginning, they actually show what looks like placing of premitives (?)
Instead of just being able to place down walls or walled-in rooms, these actually have some different shapes
There's still no completely round walls, dang it! But it's neat that you can actually just place these things down,
get some sort of "base shape" of a house, overlap them and click and drag them to your heart's content
and then also be able to place what looks very similar to the blueprints mode from the Sims 3:
you can just place different styles of different types of rooms right there in the house and then also click and drag those walls
and then the contents of those rooms will actually be snapped to the walls
and moved and scaled as you change things around to however you like,
which, man, that's really cool! You couldn't do that in the Sims 3's blueprint mode!
And although you can choose from a few select pre-made styles,
and of course, like, custom wallpapers and stuff, it doesn't look like the Create-A-Style is in here at all.
as pretty much confirmed from the last video and things that I've been reading online since then and that sucks.
Whatever. Maybe they've got something else as a replacement for that, we will just have to see
'cause they're not saying much on it. But yeah, this clicking around and sort of automated system for making more complex styles of rooms:
it seems like that's kind of the thing with the Sims 4. Not only in Create-A-Sim can you just click wherever you want
and drag it and move things around to make things more customised, but you can do the same thing here with floor plans and walls and even the height of the walls.
There are three heights you can choose from and that's really cool. That's something that's been asked for for a very long time.
Not just half walls but y'know you got like regular walls and really frickin' tall walls and it looks like everything else scales to that.
Or at least the wallpaper does. It does not appear that windows and the curtains and things like that that are on the walls actually scale with those walls.
There is this new window-adding feature so that windows are actually automatically placed there
so it doesn't look like it's going to be as big of a pain to replace all of these windows: just do it in one click.
There are some new outdoor-like flourishes and decor touches though which is pretty cool.
You have all these pillars that you can place right there on railings as well as these decorative overhangs right below the eaves on the roof.
Possibly even things like gable decorations and whatnot. All of these different trim options really do make a house look more believable or at least more fancy.
I'm still secretly hoping for my lower middle-class and hungry hobo content but whatever. This is really cool stuff.
I mean, look at this roof moulding and whatnot!
You can make these crazy-looking rooves that look like something straight off of Aladdin's palace.
And a little more on-the-fly adjustments of things like foundation heights which can be adjusted
to what looks like three different heights as well. You don't have to set that in stone beforehand.
Haha, "in stone" 'cuz it's like stone foundations.
Honestly, all of this build mode stuff looks pretty frickin' awesome so far.
And I also like the fact that you can actually take entire buildings
and move them around on the lot without having to just
get all pissed off at everything because you placed something, like, one tile over to the left that you should
have had to the right and you've got to move EVERYTHING over, and man that was such a pain in
every other Sims game so far.
And I also just like the environment that this appears to be taking place in.
It appears that there are actually, like, pathways winding in and around these houses
and it's not just like a road in front of your house.
Some of the houses are sorta caticornered (?) in there as well,
like they're sort of placed towards these pathways instead of just towards the road
It makes it look like a more believable housing development that everything is placed in.
You also have what appears to be an actual working, moving tram out in front of the road.
There's like a split roadway where there's an island in the middle and you've got that tram going down.
I hope you can actually use that thing because, uh, that would be cool.
As for the actual gameplay though, man, we are still kind of lacking on what in the world that's actually going to be like.
I mean, I assume it's going to be just like the Sims, right? But with more multitasking and whatever
more emotion they decide to put in here.
Well anyway, that is it for the Sims 4 build mode reveal.
A-and once again, it's pretty much just what they have shown so far,
just in more detail and with a supposedly more finalised build of the game.
In fact, it looks like there's still going through some iterations of this
because if you look down here, you can actually see the
UI change subtly throughout this demonstration of this
build mode gameplay so I don't know, I mean, they're constantly tweaking things and we're just gonna have to wait until it comes out.
Not only that but look at this! It looks like there's a button for chairs!
And rooms with chairs!
Glad to see they're still keeping chairs such an integral part of the Sims experience.
But, yeah! Feel free to continue watching LGR and I'll update on whatever else comes out
if anything else comes out. I'm sure E3's gonna have a bunch of junk.
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