"Cynna;c-17224666" wrote:
Meh.
The initial purpose of the series as a game has been totally lost. Apparently, it's now in the hands of people who feel that they're saving the world, one DLC at a time. It's a tool for self-soothing.
The Sims series has officially jumped the shark.
The sad part is: if they want to provide a tool for introspection and analysis of self and others, they simply refuse to move beyond the superficial. A person's sexual preference, gender, and physical appearance do not determine who they are. It doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. If he wants to do what he says, more focus should be placed on delving deeper into personality, emotion, and actions vs consequences -- all thing that, IMO, TS4 fails to do.
EA needs to determine what the purpose of this program is and do the best job it possibly can at attaining that goal. Right, now it's not succeeding as a game or as a tool for whatever it is that guy says that he's trying to accomplish. I suggest as a first step, they hire behavioral psychologists to help add perspective and stop futzing about.
Superficial, superficial, superficial.
Exactly, 100 % agree. I thought the selling point of TS4 was the Emotions, as we were told we had never seen emotions like these...well, after five years of recycled 'tense' for just about anything new they add in a pack, I think I have seen enough of that 'emotion'. Some people never get tense but they never thought once of a trait that would magnify that. Any trait, any Sim becomes 'tense'...it's the go to emotion when they just want to recyle basegame emotions and not put in the work to understand human behaviour. And I can't agree more, is this a game about the Sim or a game to make Maxis feel good abou their causes and agendas.