"SimGuruBChick;12997960" wrote:
The vision for The Sims 4 was to refocus attention on the Sims. What makes them intriguing? How to make them feel more alive? How to bring the inner Sim to the surface? Not all the decisions the studio make will be popular with all the players. That's a universal truth.
For family players, raising sims from baby, to toddler, to child, to teen, to adult, to elder - all with unique and fun developmental milestones to achieve and different sorts of things to do, is what focusses the attention on the sims, and brings out the inner sim. I don't feel like I 'know' my sims that well anymore, or that they're living their full lives because of the jarring jump from a helpless baby (tied to a crib!) to a fully fledged child who is almost self sufficient. And then the jump from child to a "teenager", who is the height of an adult, who really doesn't have anything that is special to them as a teenager, upsets me again. Their clothes are the same as an adult's, their interactions are basically the same, their height is the same, and their
emotions are the same. I'm pretty sure that as a teeanger, my emotions were all over the place. They were
stronger, highly variable, and influenced greatly by hormones. And I definitely wasn't as tall as an adult.
For the sims to feel alive, to be intriguing, and for us to connect with them, we can't be skipping life stages.
I understand that you can't please everyone. But this is a massive issue.
"SimGuruBChick;12997960" wrote:
And, as we have said all along is, this is just the beginning. A Sims game is a massive undertaking. The base game is the foundation for everything that follows. Look back at The Sims 3 or The Sims 2 when the base games first launched. Then look at them again after 5 years of added content. They are so different at the end of that journey from when they started.
I understand this as well. But the thing is, we ARE looking at the base games of The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. And guess what - they had toddlers! Brandi Broke's family was my introduction to 'family play'. Could the Sims 4 have anything remotely similar? No. And that was the base game.
But thank you for popping in and telling us you are listening. I actually really like the foundation you have built with The Sims 4. It is just missing so much at the moment :(
