I always do. Johnny Zest moves back in with his parents and brother and reassumes his birth name, Johnathan Landgraab, in most of my saves. It usually creates a lot of drama, as he is so different from the rest of his family.
And for the record for those who have drawn a connection, Dudley and Mimi Landgraab are Malcolm's future children, not Malcolm's siblings. They were featured as Malcolm's adult children in the game The Sims Bustin' Out for PS2. Dudley lived in a trailer (similarly to Johnny, which is probably why some make the connection they do) and Mimi lived in a little pink house. Both were very messy Sims and commented in the game that their father (Malcolm) had cut them off for mooching his money and never doing anything with their lives. When Malcolm grows up in my game, he always ends up with Dudley and Mimi as his children. I make sure of it.
I get that TS4 is supposed to be an "alternate reality" compared to past games, but I'm a stiffler for game lore. I've been playing the Sims since my early childhood across PC and console, so I tend to "fix" my saves to fit in with previous iterations.
