"Prink34320;14046227" wrote:
The Sims 4 is a life simulator, it may not be as good as other ones but that doesn't change the game's genre.
Far from it! It supposed to be, but it sure is nothing at all like a real life simulator. I don't know about you, but I cannot teleport where ever I want to go, or have things materialize out of no where. How exactly is what goes on in Sims 4 remotely like real life? Do you leave your house and just magically appear at your destination? Do you have food magically appear in your fridge or books in your book cases? Do your babies magically jump out of their cribs into full fledged 10 years olds that magically never needed learning to walk, talk, or be potty trained or any other baby needed skills? How is the Sims 4 remotely like your life? I can name you hundreds of games where the characters sleep, eat, wear clothing and gear and that alone does not make those a life simulation game - in fact most of those are either first person shooters, adventure games, or anything but a life simulator. JUst having bits and pieces of human life does not make it a life simulator. My husband plays WOW every day - his toons talk, eat, sleep, travel places, fish, dance, swim, and do lots of things our sims do - they even have their toons taking kids trick or treating, on easter egg hunts. They have pets of all types. Mounts they ride and even armor/clothing their mounts can wear - Is WOW a LIfe Simulation? Course not. Not even close, even though many things I see going on in his game is even more like a life simulator than the Sims 4 is - and that is purely shameful seeing Sims started out in Sims 1 with lots of real life like simulations. By Sims 2 the devs had it down pat and we had a full fledged life simulator. I mean sims 2 just brimmed over with life simulation and we were their Gods who they even acknowledged quite often in the game. Never, ever see them acknowledge us at all in Sims 4. They did now and then in Sims 3 too, but not Sims 4.
Sims 3 was not quite as much a life simulator as Sims 2 - as the sims team used a bunch of short cuts here and there, but they also added a bunch more bits of life to simulate in Sims 3 that Sims 2 did not have. Sims 4 lost everything and gained nothing. It is less a life simulation than WOW which is not even remotely a life simulation game - so I fail to see how you can call it that because the Sims team branded it a life simulator - does not make it one. They are simply fooling themselves with more linear play than even most actions games have and trying to convince us it is still a life simulator. Most of us were not fooled - we know better - but apparently not all of us.
I can fully understand if you are new to the Sims then you might see it as an life simulation seeing it is listed as one - and is not your fault you do not realize it is no longer what they deem it to be. Now they are just party hardy bros and definitely not even remotely simulating my life or the life of anyone I even know. Even Sims freeplay is more of a life simulator than Sims 4 and I don't play anything that does not work on my pc or honestly I think I would be playing Sims free play over Sims 4 if I could. At least aging is simulating life - not at all like Sims 4 - where I had to just shut off aging to keep this foolish game from turning infants into 10 year olds. Not the least bit realistic at all or like life as I know it.
So praytell please, I am eager to know - how does Sims 4 remotely mirror your life? I wouldn't mind teleporting to where ever I want to go - if you know how - please share. My friend would probably love to age up her 11 month old twins to 10 year olds - if you know how - I will pass it on, as well as the ability to whisk the babies off to day care the minute she steps out her door to go to work (that is apparently free) or the ability to never need to go to a grocery store ever or a doctor for that matter.... Really, share if you can.
