Death and Danger in The Sims 4!

How bout cancer, heart attacks, etc like in the real world old and new ways death can happen cruxifiction, etc

Just curious as to why that would be going too far :/ We experience death and sickness in real life and the sims end up dying in the game.... sorry if I sound stupid :(

"Sassycotton;c-16255910" wrote:
Just curious as to why that would be going too far :/ We experience death and sickness in real life and the sims end up dying in the game.... sorry if I sound stupid :(

You don’t sound stupid.
I get that death is a part of life. I just personally wouldn’t want to see something like cancer which is a real life illness imitated in game. It’s not something in my view to “play with” and to have it in a game would be demeaning how serious it is. I don’t just apply that to cancer. For any long term illness. I’ve lost too many people I love to cancer, I wouldn’t find it fun to see it in a game. I would find it upsetting.

I have a long term illness myself, it’s not as serious as cancer and I won’t die from it but people have. I hate to see it portrayed in people’s lets plays because more often than not an episode later the sim is “fine” and the sim has just gained weight, problem solved. It’s a bit insulting personally for me and if cancer was in game I would find it Insensitive. I find it really weird when people use it as a storyline In lets plays on YouTube. People play video games to escape real life Illnesss not to have the game portray them in a humourous light. It’s why in the sims 2 the most serious illness was the flu or food poisoning, they could die if left untreated but it was easy to treat and even easier if your sim made Grandmas comfort soup as it cured it instantly. Not everyone feels this way but there’s a fine line I think between more deaths and danger to resorting to real life diseases and thankfully EA have never ventured into that territory other than food poisoning/flu.

Ok I understand. I'm so sorry I brought up a painful reminder for you. I have lost a lot of people to cancer as well. I was just thinking that if it were in the game maybe it would help us with our own grief? I didn't mean to hurt you :'(

"Sassycotton;c-16255960" wrote:
Ok I understand. I'm so sorry I brought up a painful reminder for you. I have lost a lot of people to cancer as well. I was just thinking that if it were in the game maybe it would help us with our own grief? I didn't mean to hurt you :'(

Don’t apologise you have not hurt me in anyway. Maybe for some it would be an outlet but for me it would be a little too close for comfort.

Hugs! What else could we have?

"MidnightAura;c-16255446" wrote:
Death badly needs an overhaul. Since launch I’ve had two unnatural deaths. I.e wasn’t from old age. But this is a game that nerfed alien abductions so I’m not expecting any great advances in this score.

Ditto with danger. I want danger in my sims lives, I want burglars and an unsavourily charlatan character back and when my sim with no handiness skill whatsoever fixes her broken fuse box perfectly I cringe. It shouldn’t be that simple every time, there should be a risk there.

I'm so sad that they nerfed the alien abductions! It was such a fun and cooky touch!!

I'd rather be nervous about unprepared sims fixing electrical components than my sims getting too playful and dying of hysteria. :/

1. It takes too dang long to kill sims via pool. I mean, seriously, it takes basically a whole day and night, plus you have to wall/fence the pool in to do it. Come on, now.

2. It takes too dang long to kill an imprisoned NPC via starvation. They keep whipping out magic sandwiches! It's like The Amazing Mumford up in here!

3. It takes too dang long to deliberately kill an NPC sim with any negative emotion. Oh, want to kill with anger? Sadness? Embarrassment? Nope. Not today, friendo. Not without, like, 40 angry pieces of art, at least...

4. Ghosts are too socially active in mainstream venues. Clubs, bars, parks...they just keep doing everything and going everywhere they did in life. That syphons all of the mystery and spookiness out of them!

5. Ghosts act too much like normal sims in general. They rise from the grave and what do they do? Go right for the computer like any other sim. Lame.

6. Life's not as exciting without the burglars. Sure, they could be annoying sometimes, but a burglar alarm does wonders for catching the scoundrels in the act and carting them away. Plus, they make great targets for spell-casting practice if you have a witch/warlock sim in the house... >:)

7. We need death notifications for our sims' friends and family members who aren't in the same household or on the same lot when they kick the bucket. Say, they get a call on their ever-present phone that tells them that their mom or dad or sister or bowling buddy just bit the big one and they get an appropriate moodlet afterward.

8. Sims with bad relationships go right for the friendly actions autonomously, just like if their relationship was good or neutral. They should go for mean and mischievous actions primarily...especially when their relationship bar is entirely or almost entirely red.

9. Not enough subtle mean interactions. Most of them are really childish and over-the-top. Where are the snide, sarcastic, catty options that our sims spout off with a devilish smirk and crossed arms or a quirk of an eyebrow? How can we make conniving, charismatic villains when all of the mean interactions are so rough and rowdy?

10. We really should have a fighting skill that makes for more dynamic fight scenes. The normal fights are so lame, but the vampiric duels and sparring matches are more dynamic, mainly because of the moments where a sim will slide out of the fight cloud in a cool pose and the way they launch themselves at each other when the fight starts. Normal fights have no oomph to them at all. It's just a cartoon dust cloud and a couple of floundering blows here and there, and it's all over. Maybe my mind has been rotted by 20-some-odd years of kung fu movies and shonen anime, but I want more action out of my brawls...and a swordsmanship skill...

11. Keeping NPC sims prisoner is impossible. Just...dangit impossible.

I agree as well

"the_greenplumbob;c-16260612" wrote:
I think Graham did say during the livestream that they have realised that we want more danger in The Sims - which is why the tumble dryer has a chance of setting your sims on fire... this is a good start in my opinion!

If this is true, that's good, at least.