"EveryDaySim;c-16737681" wrote:
I can understand wanting to see someone like yourself in general, but including the dark and painful aspects just wouldn't add any benefit to the fun of the game, so I think that level of it would be more of a drawback than a benefit.
In real life, it might take 30 minutes just to walk across the room to the bathroom for a person who can't afford a wheelchair but still has to go the bathroom. Once they get to the bathroom, they are in too much pain to deal with their own clothing, and have to have someone help them. On days when the pain is too great, they can't make themselves food or get themselves something to drink because they can't even get out of bed. Because typing can be too painful for some, they have to use the onscreen keyboard, or go without communicating or using the computer until they get lucky and feel better enough that they can. Which sometimes can be forever.
There are a lot of things like this that would just add no benefit to being played out in a game, have no entertainment value whatsoever, and yes, they could make the game feel like a sad and depressing place to be if we were to start seeing it everywhere like with the sick pets.
I'm all for basic things like wheelchairs and motor chairs and general things of that nature. Basic aids for blind people, and things like that. But I think that going beyond a general surface might be a mistake, could never please everybody, and could end up taking things in the wrong direction because they took it too far and it backfired. Things like that should be left up to the individual to work into their gameplay using the already available game structures, because there's no way to emulate every tiny thing, and close enough in general is as good as they could realistically do with it.
I don't believe they would even tackle the hardships. .. or should. I think the main reason would be to represent in some way a segment of the population. Maybe to help dispel stereotypes... to give at least some representation that it's here. Disabled people are us or could be us. They are members of our families and extended families. They want all the things we do. Sure the game would show it all of this in more in a positive light. It does that with everything... that's a whole other reason to have an issue with the Sims though or at least Sims 4. One I don't go along with that opinion personally but it's out there.
It would be up to us as simmers to represent a disability differently if we chose. It might be up to us if we have those tools in our game to mod in things that won't be shown in the sims much like anything rated above teen most certainly wouldn't be shown in the games.
I can see modders extending this.. some in a positive way and some going the realistic route. That's okay download what makes it work for you in your game.
For those afraid that it will be mocked... guess what, it probably will in private games or in some stories. You can't stop the way people are, or where they are in their life and maybe that in itself will be some sort of teaching lesson for them later. In public though to do that would bring much fury down on those that attempted that without that being the story that is portrayed.
For instance I haven't seen any popular you tube videos that mock transgender folks without their being a story behind that that is specifically about that. There might be an audience for that.. but I'm pretty sure those that do it aren't accepted generally.
I'm of the mind that they shouldn't represent realistic mental problems at all.... there are too many and it could be a mine field. Traits could be made ... especially by modders to represent these if they aren't already in our game or don't show up as time goes on. A lot of those are already out there by the way.
I just see bringing some aspects of disability in this "game" being .. history making. I'm all for it if it happens. I'm not an activist.. I'm not very politically minded actually. I tend to be all over the place in that respect. It just seems like the right thing to do for me.
