Feedback on Island Living

"simgirl1010;c-17188496" wrote:

"JoAnne65;c-17188290" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-17187982" wrote:
I've been playing since Sims 1. I currently have 2 and 3 installed with all packs and all store content. So I'm not some newbie Sims 4 player who doesn't know any better. This according to players who find it difficult to believe some simmers prefer 4.

For me it's not about the features. It's not about riding horses, and driving cars, and firefighters putting out fires. For me it's all about the Sims. This is the first version where I've actually felt a kinship for my Sims. It's not about looks, I care about them and this makes everything infinitely more satisfying and personal.

In one of my previous saves my Sim's husband flirted with his mother in law. She got the sad moodlet and I almost felt like crying. I immediately banished him from the household.

It doesn't matter that I can't zoom out to map view. It doesn't matter that my home isn't perfectly coordinated with a color wheel. What matters is that I'm perfectly content to just participate in my Sim's lives as they go about their normal day to day routines.

And now I'm missing my little pixel people so I'm going to load my game. ?

The game is about sims. Also when you want them to ride horses or drive a car or have them put out fires, at the end of the day it’s all about them. It’s things like that that will give them depth. It’s good that the wife reacted in this particular case, but quite often they don’t (and tbh, this is not unique for Sims 4, sims in all the versions will become sad and angry when their husband cheats). A colour wheel doesn’t mean a house is perfectly coordinated, it actually can also be nót perfectly coordinated. It’s personal, that’s the point (though I appreciate this feature will be more important to one than it is for the other). What I don’t really understand is why, when people explain why they love Sims 4, there’s always some counterposing in there. “I don’t need them to”, “it doesn’t matter that”, “I can live without”. What exactly is it that Sims 4 brings to the table that really sets it apart? Being able to live with its limitations can’t be all there is to it. What’s the charm.

I didn't use that example to infer that sims in the previous versions don't show emotions or that this is unique to Sims 4. I used it to indicate how I feel about these sims as opposed to sims in previous versions. I don't recall 'feeling' that way with my sims in 2 and 3. I included the 'counterposing" because it seems that no matter what one says there exists a feeling of disbelief from Sims 2 and Sims 3 players that someone could actually enjoy 4 over 3. Or 2. I could list all the features I enjoy in Sims 4 but the majority of those features are also present in 2 and 3. Cooking, gardening, learning skills, falling in love, getting married, raising a family, running a business, going on vacation. Just your basic game-play. I just prefer doing it in 4. I don't know how else to explain it.

But it’s not a matter of disbelief (because I do believe you, when you say you can’t wait to go back to your little pixel people I absolutely recognize that and of course I believe that). It’s a plain whát exactly do you love about the game. I genuinely don’t understand why that question seems to cause such sensitivity. I love playing Sims 3 and I could imagine someone not liking that game and preferring Sims 2 or 4 asking me why. Because - for instance - sims in the other two games are so much more lively and there is no endless travelling to empty spaces and you’re not stuck to one world. I’d understand that perception and I can explain that for me actually more neutral sims seem to work better because a sim that dictates their feelings too much interferes with my imagination. It’s too dictating somehow (which doesn’t mean I don’t like more expressive sims, them being more serious and neutral just isn’t a problem for me).

It’s also the reason why I don’t like parties in the game where I have to follow orders, after which the game decides whether my sim had a good time or not. And if they didn’t, leaves me with a feeling I failed. Maybe I wanted them to have a terrible time. But not because the sim in question didn’t jump through a couple of repetitive hoops, but because the girl he fancies was flirting with someone else, or because he became embarrassed for some reason (other than an aura please). You on the other hand might in fact like that. So, why. And I love to travel around with my sim, for me that’s gameplay and quite essential gameplay too. And the empty spaces make me feel they live in an actual world that also has places where there are no people (not lying, for some reason I love taking my sims there) and being stuck to one world actually has its charm for me as well because I grow attached to a certain world and link it to my sims that live there. In short: I can explain (and I don’t mind explaining) why the actual characteristics and features specifically Sims 3 has and that define the game, are what make the game my favourite. The fact it’s different for other players doesn’t feel threatening for me, because I realize that’s personal. It’s just curiosity, that’s all. Exchanging what matters to us in the game.

Asking for arguments doesn’t mean you don’t believe the other person. It just means you’re just curious what their arguments are.