"ScarletSimEater;c-16736545" wrote:
"Hermitgirl;c-16736476" wrote:
I'm not fighting hard to have it but frankly I'm getting a little angry here... it would be good for those that want it to tell their stories and those who just want it to tell stories in general. They are out there. Functional people with disabilities are among us, deal with it. They want to be represented in some way, deal with it. I really don't see what the problem is here.
What disabilities, and how would you express them in game?
Very few people are saying that they are against the very principle of disabled sims. They're just saying that it would be a nightmare to program (many physical disabilities like needing a wheelchair), and/or a nightmare to pull off without potentially offending lots of people (most mental disabilities). If you have thoughts how you'd try to pull off any form of disabilities, I'm curious to hear how you'd implement them in game.
Well people may think it's shallow and that's their issue.. but the way I would suggest pulling it off is to just animate around the implement needed for a physically disabled sim to be mobile. They feel the same things everyone else does otherwise if they are healthy. Disabled doesn't mean they aren't highly functioning individuals. The game could show that. Sure it might not show every nook and cranny of problems disabled may have but it doesn't show that same reality for others either and frankly it never will. Not in this iteration... it won't in any iteration I dare say.
They don't need to show every disability just as they didn't show problems people might have with gender dysphoria. They just gave some tools for the expression of that.. it doesn't begin to cover everything.
They could use the most common disablities people have.. and if they link it to mobility it does not have to be all that complicated. Will people feel left out? Sure... but it's a step. I guess I got affronted in some way because people seem to want to shut off that step completely.
No game will be made that will suit everyone or give everyone what they want.
