Making things 'easier' doesn't feel like it fits, but I'm prepared to eat my words on that. I will absolutely use it to see how an AI thinks a Sim version of myself would look in-game, and there are a lot of dedicated fans of actors and musicians who will be keen to scan members of BTS or Timothée Chalamet into the game as neighbors and housemates. And then mess with them using the entire suite of The Sims 4 cheats.īut a huge appeal of playing simulation games is the work that goes into them. It's unclear if the tech will be able to utilize mods too, which would restrict its appeal to gamers who only use the vanilla game content. The Sims has a rich modding community built off the back of how people like to customize their characters and environments, so an automatic 'character creator' could be fun for one or two uses, but I see this being shelved by most of the dedicated player base. After all, if you find character generation to be a bore then you're not likely to be the target audience for The Sims franchise. AI character generation does sound petty neat, but I have my doubts on how much the feature will actually get used when it's implemented.
