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logionX
5 years agoSeasoned Vanguard
Here is the article: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74zk4/20-years-of-the-sims-keeping-up-with-our-bizarre-reality
I feel that the article mostly talks about how the sims changes with the times, how in the first games we had jobs like law enforcement, firefighter etc. people subscribed to newspapers and had larger blackberry phones, we didn't talk so much about representation and how to express ourselves.
In the sims4 you can do things like being a freelancer, style influencer, internet personality and you have more options in how you can choose to express yourself, we have more gender options, more culture influences etc.
I think the article is okay, however I agree that they need to focus on how to reflect this when it comes to gameplay, the internet personality career is so bad when it comes to earning money for example and I don't see the point in adding clothing from other culture if the game is just gonna randomize the outfits into a mess for all the townies anyway.
Their focus of these trends and them trying to appeal to everyone takes away from what people liked with the old games as well. We still have no burglars or firefighters for example.
I feel that the article mostly talks about how the sims changes with the times, how in the first games we had jobs like law enforcement, firefighter etc. people subscribed to newspapers and had larger blackberry phones, we didn't talk so much about representation and how to express ourselves.
In the sims4 you can do things like being a freelancer, style influencer, internet personality and you have more options in how you can choose to express yourself, we have more gender options, more culture influences etc.
I think the article is okay, however I agree that they need to focus on how to reflect this when it comes to gameplay, the internet personality career is so bad when it comes to earning money for example and I don't see the point in adding clothing from other culture if the game is just gonna randomize the outfits into a mess for all the townies anyway.
Their focus of these trends and them trying to appeal to everyone takes away from what people liked with the old games as well. We still have no burglars or firefighters for example.
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