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8 years ago
"JoAnne65;c-15986676" wrote:"Erpe;c-15986600" wrote:"ClassicalSim;c-15912827" wrote:"Huiiie_07;c-15912744" wrote:"DragonCat159;c-15912700" wrote:
This is TS4! Don't expect everlasting negative consequence in this game? It's happyville utopia.
Unfortunately :/ Sometimes the game seems like it was made for 6 year olds.
I started letting my niece play The Sims with me when she was 7 (now 8). She very much prefers TS3 over TS4, as does my 10 year old nephew. I can't quite figure out what the target audience is supposed to be, unless it's the mobile game community.
Why would they target the game at mobile gamers who don't play PC games?
I don't see the logic in this. But TS4 sure can't be targeted at simmers who loved TS3 either. Therefore I only can see one option which is a hat TS4 must have been mainly targeted at new simmers who don know TS2 or TS3. If this is correct then everything make sense. Even why they simplified TS4 so much that it would become so simple and uncomplicated that even an unexperienced 10 yrs old could play it without much help.
I think Sims 4 was targeted at simmers who loved Sims 2 and hated Sims 3. There are all kind of signs proving that. And I think they succeeded in a way, considering the high level of Sims 3 bashing in this section (starting a year before Sims 4 was released).
I don't think so because TS4 is more like TS1 than it is like TS2. If TS4 was targeted at TS2 lovers then they would never have omitted toddlers, bound babies to their crib and omitted family stories, family trees and neighborhood stories.
So as I see it TS4 is mainly a new version of TS1. But with better graphics, easier gameplay, less need to control the sims, and much more autonomous behavior of the sims.
Still TS4 can't be mainly targeted at simmers who loved TS1 because that was way too long ago. So TS4 must instead just have been targeted at the same types of simmers who loved TS1 - which was new simmers who never had played a Sims game before.