Avoiding (ultimately) “cookie cutter” Sims…
Anyone else find their many, many Sims end up much the same as each other? I’m not taking in looks (though to a certain extent that can happen too) but the way they can end up living and reacting t...
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I will say this - in Sims 2, I always had a "deviant" save. One where everything wasn't sunshine and rainbows, sims weren't always working at maxing skills or careers or legacy sims. I let them live out their aspirations, or had a black widow, or whatever floated my boat - but it was so much easier then. A mean sim was MEAN. Enemies galore, and often started fights whether I was playing them, or in the background of a community lot. A sim with a romance aspiration started trouble often, either by wooing the wrong person or wooing someone in full view of 5 other girl/boy friends. It was alive in a way that Sims 4 isn't.
It's a lot harder to do in Sims 4 - mean sims aren't mean, evil sims aren't all that evil, and almost no one starts fights even with sworn enemies. Flirting in front of your beloved means nothing. It's almost impossible to get away from sunshine and rainbows, unless you actively use your imagination. Which I'm not against using, but this is a game - I'd like mechanics to actual mean something as well, you know? Oh, this black widow just killed off her fourth husband, no one cares....and that is the tagline for Sims 4. No one cares.
It's a lot harder to do in Sims 4 - mean sims aren't mean, evil sims aren't all that evil, and almost no one starts fights even with sworn enemies. Flirting in front of your beloved means nothing. It's almost impossible to get away from sunshine and rainbows, unless you actively use your imagination. Which I'm not against using, but this is a game - I'd like mechanics to actual mean something as well, you know? Oh, this black widow just killed off her fourth husband, no one cares....and that is the tagline for Sims 4. No one cares.
