Paralives got some really exciting new updates! (everything we know)
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- čas přidán 10. 08. 2023
- Paralives gameplay information, news and updates! Discussing the latest news about the upcoming life simulation game Paralives.
Paralives is a new life sim game currently in development. I talked about the gameplay of Paralives and recent gameplay updates.
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Personally I like the outline and art style. That being said, I still think the line work for features such as shoulder blades, collar bones, shoulder definition, and knee caps could be softened or the color adjusted to tone down those features. They look a bit harsh in my opinion. I think the "Kids" Shown might be some sort of preteen based on Eli's character model but they do need their features adjusted to look more youthful still. My favorite part was actually the expressions on Maggie and Sebastian. I think they nailed those expressions!
I am definitely modding the skin patterns to better suit my taste. If I recall correctly, the devs are giving us in-game options to change the three colour layers of the base skin, but I haven't seen anything about the outlines. Luckily, the game will be mod-friendly.
I think because they are cartoons we expect them have cartoony proportions, I mean bigger head, big eyes, narrow shoulder. They were shaped closer to irl kids proportion. But considering its a game I think slightly cartoony proportions can make they look cute.
Yeah I also think some of the lines could be smoother especially on the skin and I’d like less lines on the clothes they make them look wrinkly. I mean that’s ok if it’s supposed to be a wrinkly shirt but if it’s like a dress shirt it wouldn’t really suit to make it so wrinkly
Też tak uważam-wygląd postaci powinien być poprawiony,zbyt mocna kreska,zbyt komiksowo.Nie pasuje to do całości i za bardzo odcina się od tła.Większa płynność musi być,żeby to wyglądało dobrze.
I do like the cartoony style for this game.
Edit: I understand that the graphics need some work on them but it's still a beautiful & unique style. I can't wait to see it all finished.
I love it, I prefer this art much more than Life by you's artstyle.
I know everyone hates the Sims 4, but I 100% prefer Sims 4 character design and art style over the previous games.
Think this is just my aesthetic.
It's a very beautiful game ❤
Yea this art style would age better than the realistic style LBY is going for
@@valmiro4164 that's a matter of taste. LBY isn't going for realism, like The Quarry, DBH or the like. It's still stylized
It’s so nice and different from super realistic to sims 4 being well the sims looking the same. The outlines is so aesthetic to me and I like the gentle cartoony appearance. If people want realism they can just play life by you with how the characters look in that game
I really encourage people to help on Patreon if they're able. There's so much in the updates they share that are super exciting!
Same! They’re the first Patreon I’ve ever supported and it’s so cool seeing all the updates. Lots of hype
I'll believe it when it's available to play, not donating any money to a potential scam.
@@RedRoseSeptember22I agreed. If they're offer us to register or join the membership without need to pay, they could update us their progression. It would be more genuine. Still, some like to pay Patreon to support the game is risky especially we don't know how long will it be finished.
It sounds like I’m being a jerk or maybe sounds untrue but I was so stoked for this game, still am to a degree but when I was a patreon member I had a legit concern with something in their discord and Alex replied to me so rudely. Soo I oc immediately ended my support. Was very disappointing. And I don’t know why I feel like I’m the only one that has experienced this with them. I do have the messages on my patreon acc still. But this is actually the 1st time I’ve said anything. It’s been bugging me for a long time
@@lawrencekling8598 They are not a big company if it was free for everyone to instantly see updates how would the 9 or so employees be paid?
i know a lot of people are more excited for paralives. and i am too, but im just excited that the life simulation genre is getting more competition than just having the Sims franchise. i cant wait to play both life by you and paralives
Yes competition would be healthy
I’m sooooo excited for Paralives! It’s just so adorable and such a breath of fresh air! It gets better with a life sim games and I felt so hopeless with the Sims future, but to have new games like this makes me so excited for the future! ❤
I'm very very excited for Paralives sm, that it's getting better than before, and I like the graphics of this game more than LBY. As for gameplay, I love how they show us windmills and solar panels, photo mode, radiators etc. The hope the Paralives team will keep up their good work coz this is a masterpiece.
Yeah, Life By You gameplay that I've seen looks neat but the graphics just make me think of GTA on the PS2/3 and everything looks so dark, like even the interior lighting is very harsh & dark. But it's still in development so we'll see if it changes at all, and even if the graphics aren't my favorite, if it has good gameplay I'll still give it a shot. I love the graphics of Paralives, and what I've seen of build mode, so I'm very excited for updates.
@@BlueRoseFaery yeah same, i feel like Life By You's graphics are still in development but i agree it has cool gameplay features, and about Paralives, i agree with you that the updates are so exciting, hope both developers are doing a great job.
Agreed 💯 but we haven't seen the gameplay yet, hopefully soon.
Im the opposite and more excited for LBY, but it’s honestly so exciting to have options when it comes to the life sim category :). Like, I’m glad ppl that like more Paralives gameplay/graphics can get that and vice versa !!
I actually like paralives more than life-by-you
@@sheatemyheartt I honestly can't wait for paralives to have a public release 😍
@@sheatemyheartt they aren't going for realism tho?
Me too! Honestly I love the cutesy thing
@@ember9361They're... trying. Uncanny isn't an art style, it's when you try to make something realistic but it ends up looking creepy instead.
The figures and art style for life by you is completely ugly. And the fact that they’re marketing this towards gamers or people who have “serious” PC builds it’s funny. If you need heavy duty equipment to run that game and it looks like that,… they’re out of their minds. Maybe they’re still working on it? Lol
I can see all updates as soon as they're on their patreon, but I still love to see other creators react to them
I'm absolutely loving the art style of this game. Not too realistic (creepy) and not too cartoony (childish). They've found a good recipe between the two. Each new update brings us closer to that happy release day! 😃
I honestly love the outline look on the characters, I just think their features should be a little more subdued. Like unless your para is specifically meant to have a boney structure or something, I think stuff like shoulder blades shouldn’t be quite so jarringly visible. As everybody’s already said, kids’ features could stand to be a bit softer and more youthful in their look, but generally, they look pretty nice. I can’t wait for this game! It doesn’t feel soulless or like it’s begging for cash from its consumers, and that’s a vibe we’ve been missing for FAR too long. I’m genuinely really excited for not only this game, but the effects it could have on other future or upcoming life sims!
I adore the art style in Paralives! That’s why I’m looking forward to this more than Life By You. I really don’t like the art of the weird shoulders though…. What’s up with the shoulders/upper arms lol
I can understand about radiators, I was like oohhhh when I saw the Vampires pack one, in Sims. I like doing somewhat realistic builds, like I get sad when I can't make community buildings wheelchair friendly and stuff.
Adding in wheelchair game play would be worse than adding a new life stage they would have to animate every object every interaction decide what can be done or can't it's just such a massive feature that not really in high demand. Though I guess a "stairs" type ramp is possible but they would be setting themselves up adding that in without actual handicap Sims.
@@lance9249 It something I hope they'll think about adding in Sims 5 onward. Even just ramps would be cool. Even if it's tough, it's worth attempting, in some form.
The problem for me with the characters cartoon style is that nothing else in the game have that style, so they look weird against the backgrounds.
Agree!
I agree with you.
i think thats intentional bc it makes the charcters stand out or smth but idk
thats intentional, so i suppose it is a you problem but maybe you can look past it eventually
@@elisfangs Someone can express a polite opinion about something without it being a "you" problem. I suppose you will have a problem with me saying that though lol
Gives me wolf among us vibes, and I love it!
yessss
The extreme collarbones thing looks like normal old lady neck, imo.
Yeah
Lots of people look like that tbh. I don't see any problem with it.
The cartoon style is giving a little Miles Morales spider verse / Need For Speed Unbound and I LOVE IT 🤩
I totally understand this and now that you've mentioned it, I love this unique art style even more 😍
I feel like the photo mode is something that should come when the game is basically finished. Like sure, it's a nice feature and it's probably super easy to make, but people are waiting to see the gameplay. Photo mode is kinda like cherry on top, yk?
I think that it's needed for making post and advertising the game. If you are a big company maybe you don't feel the need to have a photo mode, but if you are small, and you have to advertise on social media, I suppose you should have a better pic to show. That's only my idea, tough.
The game is a scam, it will never come out, 34k is too much money for them to lose monthly
my issue from the start has been the mashup of 2d and 3d art styles. the parafolks look like stylized comic book characters and then you place them next to items that look clearly 3d when they themselves look 2d and it break all immersions. People can say what they want about a perceived lack of style for Life By You, but at least that game has an across the board feel to it.
You lost me at the last part, but I agree with everything else. The figures for para lives look more like those characters from The Walking Dead games from telltale. I really like the art style for everything else, but they need to work on the actual people a little bit more.
Love radiators too! My main interest is good gameplay. Thunderstorms shutting off electricity is a great feature and little things like that are what will make this game special.
Honestly I really like the look of paralives. But as someone who has worked with coding it worries me how they're going about it. You should always start by making it work _before_ making it pretty, because doing the opposite is usually a perfect recipe for making spaghetti code.
That’s why they’ll never finish this game.
I would love little town festivals in paralives, that sounds really fun and wholesome. Also, I really like the art style but I agree some of the lines are a bit harsh at the moment.
There are literally so many people that mod the Sims with reshaders etc to make their Sims have that outline so I'm surprised to hear people complain about it with paras?
This is such a cool looking game. I hope that it works well!
The thing that worries me with this game is they seem to be focusing on the sort of things that I would have imagined (although tbf i don't know much about game development) would come later in development? Like polishing the graphics and character creation. Adding loads of build mode objects and small qol features like the photo mode? But we're seen very little of the actual game play? Like the paras personalities, memories, emotions. What's the storytelling in this game like? Idk these feel like the big things in whether the game is fun. Everything else is just set dressing.
i kind of get a feeling this game will never actually come to fruition
Sims 2 was supposed to have a power outage challenge, similar to the headmaster challenge. I want to experience it so bad 😭
Been watching your videos for past few days and they are the only thing that make me laugh atm. Thank you for your humour and videos ❤ + extremely excited for Paralives!
Looking forward to playing this new life simulation game. 🎉
I've been a Simmer since the 1st "The Sims" and the many many changes ups and downs 🥺😳🥺for all of these years to this Sims 4 🤔 that EA just can't seem to get right, won't' 💸💸💸can't seem to get a team dedicated to knowing the Sims😢 yet they're dedicated to putting out things that never work properly, aren't complete and want big money sad hey, Sim Players need a union. 👍🏽👍🏽. Hugs 🌞
I’m surprised you’ve never thought of power outages in the sims before.! The Sims 2 was originally supposed to come with the rain in the bass game and power outages where you would have to perform certain Macs to get the power to turn back on. They scrapped it because it kept raining inside of the houses and I’m sad they never brought back the power outage scenario.
Power outages were meant to be a scenario in Sims 2 as well!
If only they never made Sims 3 and kept Sims 2 going it truly was the perfect game.
I wish I could combine the features of life by you with the aestethics of paralives
The problem with getting investors is, they could potentially lose creative freedom over the game. So, instead of creating a game informed by the players, it will be informed by the investors' need to recuperate their money. Unless they are able to get a publisher like LBY's (Paradox Interactive ) .
I think the Paras look gorgeous. I am super excited for this game.
I really love the art style so much, it's really illustrative and looks so expressive. I kind of agree with the children looking sized down but that can be fixed over time. Very excited to see these paras in motion!
i keep on getting more excited every sneakpeek we get!
I loooove the art style, reminds me of a studio ghibli movie 😍 very painterly backgrounds and outline characters in front
Life-by-you gives more of a GTA vibe 😂
Yes 😂😂😂 I don't like it
which is awesome
If it really look like GTA it would be cool. Untill now it look like second life.
Honestly it just gives me weird vibes
I’m interested in life stages,pregnancy,higher education and how many characters allowed in a family home.I also want to be able to open and close windows,curtains and blinds
I love the look of Paralives and cannot wait to try it; Sims4 IS my intro to sim games…and in that franchise I do prefer the look of 4…but players need OTHER GAME OPTIONS and EA needs competition so they stop fleecing their players for mediocre and LACKING content!
It's not about the style, I love the style. Its The detail work. The lines on the body dont make sense or are way too defined
I personally dig the outlines ❤ seriously needed something different to look at.
Finally, I can learn taxes, if not from school, then from the game 🎉
Thank you for the Paralives info! Your hat is very cute. You can get some short bobby pins and use them to attach your hat to your hair to keep it in place
Paralives is an incredible product for an indie game. Lots of indie games get over looked and I’m glad this one is getting the attention it deserves
WOW,I love that you're also covering Paralives! Its a nice game,I see huge potential!❤
I love the art style!
i really love how u convert things to usd or converting terminologies to usa saying
I’m genuinely so excited for this game, I love the art style and how it looks kinda drawn, and there hasn’t been an update that has disappointed me yet!
Do like the hat. I had a pink and green one as a souvenir when I was about 7, it's now a staple dressing up item for my nieces and nephews - they love it. Love the aesthetics of paralives, always excited for the updates
stuff like social benefits, alimony/child support, paying a percentage of bills based on your build are all thing that exist in the sims through mcc command center. so it's not something the sims team would have much difficulty implementing because there's already a mod that does it
Except the sims team keeps proving they have zero interest in giving the players what they want! Could you imagine Disability benefits? Wheelchairs, etc?? I wish!❤
Economy in the Sms 4 really is broken. Imagine my sims were working as a sales person and a lawyer and they both quit, only to make way more money selling art...
Being an artist or gardener are like the best paid jobs
@@grice478 haha...the wife is a artist, hubby is a writer and they both garden...in five sim days the saved up 40,000 simoleons
I like to try new things so outlines don't bother me - as a matter of fact, the art style is for me the main selling point of the game ATM. But of course the game will stand or fall on interactions/gameplay, and I agree the developers should show as much of it as possible as soon as possible; so far, I don't even know how how "Sims" will speak. Or, for thar matter, what they will be called.
Their channel and socials do mention their language and it’s name, and I believe the characters are called parafolk.
Thanks for your great video, I'm glad to hear more info on Paralives. I agreed there is great improvement in the game, yet when will we see the gameplay? While there is few things like you've mentioned, need to work on it. Game should be ready in a year or two not 10 years, lol.
They’ve been in development, what, 5 years? And folks are excited about it. Lol, why? It’s not real.
As far as the artwork of the avatars with the lines around them. I am sure that was intentional because it i how comics are drawn and I feel the creator wants that looks..... Not everything has to be life-like and realism focused =) I agree with you Satch
Edited: Your hat is gorgeous!!! Pride day wear for sure!!!!
I would love for the sims to bring in something like weekly grocery shopping where you have to buy diapers, school supplies, and any food you might want for the week, and if you forgot you would maybe have to pay more or go without. It would make gardening way more worthwhile if it actually supplemented something.
Howdy, wow congratulations on your transformation. You look Great and your video are very entertaining. Keep wining xo
As excited as I am about Life By You, I think Paralives ranks higher on the game I'm looking forward to most! The aesthetic is so beautiful!!
Honestly I love their artstyle - i hope they keep it :3
I love how satch stands up for the game
In the US we do get government benefits (based on income and household composition). Welfare has a negative connotation. We don’t get any benefits for children specifically but child allowance is what kids get from parents for spending money. If that’s what they meant, it sounds like different household members can keep their finances separate, which is very interesting! Or our child sims can have a piggy bank in their inventory or something.
I love the art style of Paralives and I’m really looking forward to it.
I would like to try this game out but not getting my hopes up until I actually do.
I'm so excited for this game omg ❤️❤️❤️
i still remember when paralives was first announced years ago and people thought it was a scam
I really like the art style of the parafolk and the game in general!
I really do hope this game dose release on consoles too... 🥺
this game's artstyle really reminds me of mysims animals on the wii!
In the US there’s a ton of regulation that goes into selling shares to the public. Like even just preparing for that would cost them a years worth (or more) of their income in legal fees lol
Paralives looks like a very pretty game. I agree with you that they may want to release something to compete with Paradox's upcoming Life by You.
I can’t wait for this game to be out!!
I don't mind the cartoony style of the game,but I'm not liking the way the avatars are drawn. The lines are very harsh,the knees and collar bones look painful and I don't understand the line on the arm? it looks like a shoulder that fell down and is just sagging on the arm lol and I do agree the children look like scaled down adults,I didn't even know I was looking at a child until you mentioned something lol. The creation of all the objects is amazing,but the avatars themself need a ton of work
Would be cool to see Holidays in the game.
small thing but I really appreciate how you translated pounds into both euro and dollar and I use neither
I've been excitedly following both Paralives and Life By You and I personally also love the style of the Parafolk. I know it needs work, but I generally even prefer it to Sims 😅
Yes, agreed, I want a "Life" simulator.
8:20 Paralives can go really far with simple clothes sicne you can have a lot of layers and make some unique outfits with that. Also, with the cloths working by layers the clothing mods will be great
I wonder does this mean that if you click on a para and see how much money they have not how much money the WHOLE household has like you have your own bank account and when you click on them you see how much money they have idk that’s something I would love
I really, really love the looks of this game. I´m dying to play with it.
I want this game so bad
THERE ARE DIFFERENT HIGHTS FOR DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OMG
I love this style more! I guess as a artist I enjoy it more Dx
i’m so excited to see what this game turns out to be!
also i’m wondering how much it’s going to cost ( i mean, it looks like there’s gonna be so much in it)
it said that game is going to be free, «base game» going to be free for sure, i guess all the things we have now are base game features
@@user-rs4qd4kz2c We haven't announced the price yet! This won't be a free-to-play game but we want to keep the price within the usual range of other life-simulation games. Paralives will have free content updates during the Early Access period after the full release!
@@Paralives Ohh wow thank you for the answer! you’re awesome!💜
@@Paralives Any idea on a rough date where we might be getting early access? How close would you guys say the game is to being ready for Early Access??
i feel like itll be 3 years before paralives hits early access. ive been following its development for at least that long 😅
I may be one of the few who still can't find their way around the art style 😅 I don't find it ugly or anything (Walking Dead looks good for example) but some of the additional lines on the characters and clothes look a bit harsh and unnecessary (8:18, 9:34)
I very much diskike the art style. But I also hated the Sims 3 look but the gameplay was great, so it didn’t bother me while playing. You will get used to the most looks but bad gameplay cannot be overlooked. So I will be happy with whatever look they go for as long as it will be fun to play.
we HAVEEE to get a shanice shanice playthrough of paralives
I love Paralives` art direction and style. It`s,in my opinion way better than Life by You in that regard as of NOW. The characters` models remind me of Tell Tale games(like Wolf Among Us) and the harsh lines,for me,just add to that experience. I love the 3D modelling of the furniture(such as the sofas and curtains) and every lot they`ve shown us in those terms looks amazing. The art direction is this game`s STRONGEST point right now. I do hope we get more worlds(a metropolitan area,a Japan inspired(maybe DLC?) world etc).
I hope Life By You reigns it in in regards as to HOW MUCH they`re trying to implement and first focus on the basics. Right now I`m most excited for Paralives because of how much creative identity it has right now.
I have no problem with characters having cartoony, outlined style that sticks out. I just felt the style is a bit too harsh; just look at shoulder joints & neck.
Like, the environment are in soft & friendly 3D style then we have Paras who look like they're out of anatomy textbook or Marvel/DC/Shounen gritty comics.
In drawing and painting, you don't draw the entire drawing with the same level of shading texture and vividness in colours but you will intentionally stress the parts that you want the viewer's eye to wander to. I think this works perfect for Paralives honestly because we want the characters to stand out from the background just a tiny bit.
I didn't think this game was due out for a good 4 or so years, so probably won't see any gameplay yet, they could maybe do a kick-starter, issue with that you have a very strict process and time to do everything in, usually need a working prototype. But I'm surprised there isn't grants for small businesses
I don't think people were complaining really about the artstyle as a whole, but more about how some of the outlines look weird on the paras. Like the bride's shoulders, they look like lose skin instead of muscle.
Yeah how the paras look compared to their environment or the art style of the items around them is very different, and a little jarring. It doesn’t quite fit, so I hope they’re still working on how the actual Paras or people look. The art style of the items (like the plant life, decor, and interior home goods) looks amazing.
is this game out yet? or do we know when it is gonna be??
and how much is it gonna cost?
I am so excited for this game!! I really hope that they don't rush it though because I would rather wait years to play a game made with love
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I don’t mind the cartoony outlines, I think they look great! However, the lines within are too dark and needs adjustments (ie: shoulder, collarbone and knee)
I ❤ where this game is going! Also, I hope Paralives has additional funding outside of Patreon because $35K is barely enough to pay a staff of 10 properly, never mind overhead, power bills, equipment, property lease for their business location, etc.
personally, i would wait YEARS for this game if that meant that it would come fully fleshed out. i would hate for them to feel pressured and rush the game
It still feels a bit “off” for me… I’m probably biased because I do prefer a realistic character than a cartoon like appearance. But I think it bugs me most in this case because it’s not consistent. The houses, furniture, etc. are realistic, but the characters are not. I think the mismatch of that is going to be the hardest for me to get used to, but I’m still looking forward to playing it!
When artists draw or paint something, they will intentionally make certain areas of a painting more textured/vivid in colour/harsher to make it more noticeable and draw the eye to that particular detail. I think it works perfectly in this game and if you made the characters the same design as the background they would look washed out like the sims 4.
@@cattiemaxie7160 I’m not an artist, so I don’t speak that language - but as someone who is capable of viewing art, the way it is now reminds me more of a painting that is half Picasso, and half Rembrandt. I prefer 100% Rembrandt, and if the sims are ‘washed out’, then I prefer that too. That’s just my opinion, and I’m entitled to it. Have a great evening.
@@cattiemaxie7160what? No. The art styles are disjointed, which is one of a million reasons this game is still years from release. Y’all will make every excuse in the world for these developers who will likely never get this game fully to market.
@@JKyallit's Not excuses though? There was a patreon post where they explained it. It has been Public for a while. Basically the Style is inspired by anime in the Sense that the Backgrounds in anime tend to have little to no lines to make the stylized characters stand out. It's Just an artistic choice really. Also Just because a game is far from Release doesn't mean it will never come out
Satch… you need to continue wearing that hat from now on 💅
All i can say if they do what they doing in a good slow pace, do a trial run on the game to see what bugs or things they would like to add or fix in. and after year of launch, then they make DLC to add to the game. for now, they doing great being only 12-14 people
Edit: Also 8:32, I don't get why people hate on the style the character are either. they actually reminds me of telltale games with the walking dead, batman, and other games they made.
I think a good idea regarding the lines on the characters would be having a toggle system, so you could toggle it on/off.