Hey Simmers. I feel like The Sims 4 hasn't been pushing the Teen rating quite like other generations of The Sims and I was wondering if anyone else felt this as well. The recent survey had a question about which things you enjoyed from previous Sims games and under "Other" I said the male/female cake dancers from The Sims House Party. All of the sudden I started taking a look at The Sims 4 and felt it doesn't quite play with the risky humor like The Sims 1-3. It seems to take a more family friendly approach. Even the trailers seem toned down. For example, The Sims 3 University Life trailer with Sims making out and WooHooing all over the place, or Island Paradise mentioning building a "watery love nest" where you can make the mistakes that will haunt you for a lifetime?Remember The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff with all the new lingerie and underwear, The Sims 3 Late Night with Sims dancing on the tables and getting into bar fights, the Vibromatic Heart Bed from Sims - Sims 3, the suggestive Claire the Bear from Hot Date.I'm sure there's more that I'm missing but I was just curious if anyone else would like The Sims 4 to be a little more bold with their Teen rating.

I know what you mean. Even as someone who usually plays the family route, I still miss making my crazy aunt dance on the table/counter at family parties and the steamy couch makeout interaction for couples. TS4's couch makeout is very... PG. :D

Sims 4 is definitely rated T for Toddler. ?

I prefer it how it is now tbh but I know a lot of others feel the same way as you.

I think for the sake of humor that past games have had it should push more towards the T rating.

Frankly, I don't care about the vibrating bed (I think it's tacky as heck anymore since we have more ways to have children), but I do like the more adult humor from the earlier games.

Do you wish The Sims 4 would push more towards the Teen rating?

101 Replies

keenow
Rising Ace
6 years ago
I know what you mean. Even as someone who usually plays the family route, I still miss making my crazy aunt dance on the table/counter at family parties and the steamy couch makeout interaction for couples. TS4's couch makeout is very... PG. :D
Lemon405
Rising Hotshot
6 years ago
Sims 4 is definitely rated T for Toddler. ?
SimAlexandria
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I prefer it how it is now tbh but I know a lot of others feel the same way as you.
brenjay91
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I think for the sake of humor that past games have had it should push more towards the T rating.
Fluteline24
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Frankly, I don't care about the vibrating bed (I think it's tacky as heck anymore since we have more ways to have children), but I do like the more adult humor from the earlier games.
BayouGir1
6 years ago
I too, miss the crazy cake dancers and the dance cages that you could make seedy bars and clubs with, and being able to make T&J kinds of places and characters. Those days were so silly and irreverent and fun, and that I lost that whole side of my gameplay in this iteration has definitely left me with very little to enjoy.

I'm a fully grown and multi-faceted mature adult with a crazy sense of humor, and one-dimensional overly limited repetitive cardboard sims doesn't even really feel like gameplay at all. It's ridiculous that I can't be the grownup that I am whenever I want, I don't need a video game nanny to protect me from the cruel cruel world, and I hate living in bubble wrap.

It's my life and I want to be able to do whatever I want in my own game. I'm talking within reason of course, and I would love to see real adults return to the Sims the way we used to have them. It's a lot less drama and fun without it.
LiELF
Legend
6 years ago
Definitely. I feel like the game is catered to a much younger player base. Even the romantic interactions are extremely chaste and lack the passion of past games. I feel that in order to stay with recent trends, they pandered to the "safe space" generation to add an extra layer of superficial happiness to avoid any "unpleasant" emotions because people are so melodramatic about it. To this day, there is still no real Fear in the game and the emotional spectrum continues to have gaps. So depressing. :(
LiELF
Legend
6 years ago
P.S....Has anyone noticed that we don't even have an angry emoji for the forums? Pretty weird, right? :#
logionX
Legend
6 years ago
I think they should, the game could use more serious emotions and reactions. This is a life simulator and we should be able to have the option to add things to our game that are from the more serious and realistic aspects of life. The sims4 feels sometimes little too much like a dream world.
stilettoblack
Seasoned Veteran
6 years ago
Aw, newbies.
Remember when a boob slider was unthinkable? Or breast feeding. It was like oh it would push the teen rating. Clubs that can woohoo anyone and everyone isn't a T for teen game. Vampires that can feed and kill. Too much for teens. The cake dancers were so tame compared to what we have now.
I can make a trans man with a club of kids to clean his/or her (pronouns) house and it's all good.
So yeah, it's not like it used to be.