I'm respectifully going to have to disagree with some. The game that depicts reality more than any other was probably TS2, however, TS3 also is more about reality than TS4. For instance the rabbit holes are buildings where you see your Sim drive up and or walk up and enter buildings to go to work. It also has more hands on career buildings to enter and play what goes on in there. I think TS4 only has three now, right? Can't remember. I can understand if some want some animations removed (I think TS4's cooking has way too many cooking animations taking up too much time) however, removing the animations and or simulation of what has to be done such as like changing clothes, and or cooking and or having to use an object etc., is the whole point of a life simulator, isn't it? If not it become a point and click game that only rewards the player in some way that helps them gain a goal or finish a project or something. The animations and or rather simulation (even if time consuming) is what people have to endure in real life and to downplay all that in a game seems to me it just becomes set dressing. But I guess that's a different argument to be had.
I'm not sure how a vampire walking around in a town where your Sim never has to speak to it justifies it's no longer reality if a mythical creature is in the town when we just go ahead and accept it's not mythical to never buy groceries. Again, I think TS3 probably did this the right way more than even 1 or 2 by making the Sim have to go get some groceries for particular groups of food before they could cook something other than waffles. And as far as not wanting more myths in game, even if your Sim never has to engage with them, seems sort of funny sometimes when we see how townies dress in TS4. It's already weird, beyond belief some would walk around or show up in some of those outfits they pick, but ok as long as they have a human face. I'm not sure I see the difference. lol
I'll add this, I'm not sure people actually want reality either, when they say it, or there would be more requests for reality. I think they really mean Utopia, no matter the short cuts and or lack of simulation, as long as it really doesn't contain any consequences and or reflection of real life, and that's ok, if they would just go ahead and say it. They want Utopia, and no longer cloak it with a word like reality.
