Anybody play themselves in The Sims?
I played Second Life a long time and in Second Life, players not only make their avatars look like themselves, they many times believe and act as if their avatars are them. The game is even advertised...
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"surraaaaaa;c-16095847" wrote:
I think its so interesting how many people don't play as themselves!
I think there are deeper layers to it as well. When I say I play me, I don't mean I try to be the same as my real life me. I would never make 100 grilled cheese sandwiches in real life but I did in sims for example. I also don't try to make my sim look like me. Sims is a fantasy life. What I mean is, I mostly play one sim as my "avatar" which represents me, that I play as. This sim basically runs the game. It's like how in almost every video game that exists, you play one avatar. I guess in some games like Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy, sometimes "I" controlled a "team" and in each fight you picked which one to fight as.... but you still had one avatar per level pretty much that represented you. But yea I think some people don't play as a character in the sims games, they play as a kind of god/overseer of all the sims. No one sim is more "them" than any other.
Then of course some people do try to make their sim look like their real life selves and people they know in real life, they recreate their actual real life houses and relationships etc. I thought about trying to recreate my childhood house. Seems like it would be a fun project to do sometime. When cats and dogs comes out, I could make my childhood cat and dog...but then it kinda makes me sad lol, yea I'll just make a new dog and cat.
