"Neia;14055725" wrote:
It seems a lot of people consider "life simulator" is the same as "real life simulator". The Sims serie is certainly not a real life simulator serie and never intended to be one. It's a life simulator, inspired by real life but the Sims live in their own world, with its own rules : a world where spinning makes one change clothes, where there's no dust, no toilet paper, no towel, where you can move walls, and furnitures seamlessly, where you don't have to make sure everything is electrically connected or have a sewage disposal, etc
Could some of those rules be changed ? Sure. Should they be ? Only if it makes the game more fun, not just more realistic.
In my mind, only details that can lead to more storytelling and gameplay are worth being put into the game : mowing the lawn, doing laundry, trimming bushes, laying the table could be interesting. Having to use toilet paper or towels, or having to paint the wall again each time you move a piece of furniture, not so much.
@Writin_Reg
Ice cream makers that have to be put into the fridge definitely exist, I have one myself. The canister is storing cold by being put into the freezer several hours before you want to use it.
In a Sims world where a fridge can produce cold without being electrically connected, an ice cream maker that does the same seems logical to me, so I don't have any problem with it.
@Neia, I'm not asking for the moon. Of course pulling things from the rear end has been going on since day one in The Sims. However, what has never, ever happened (to my knowledge) in the other 'simulators' is the Sim no longer has to actually get up and go do the command but the player just taps the object and picks choices and it gets done. That is a fact to the best of my knowledge that and quite evident all over the TS4. For the first time ever, the Sims are no longer having to do something You would think 'they had to do' but the player does it.
Yes, we all know Sims don't turn on their own lights, we do, however there are a few in the TS3 they do turn on? or am I thinking of another game, wait, yeah I am never mind.
But in the fifteen years this game has been going it never left out or omitted when you give the Sim a command it would not have to do it but you have to do it.
That is when it starts going the way of those little casual games where the player makes the food by clicking this or that instead of Flo. That is when it goes too far into a different genre.
And besides someone years ago wrote a wonderful feed back on the TS3 about was this or that necessary and no some things aren't but the unnecessary is what the others games 'had' and why they have so much more umph than the TS4 does. Things may no longer be necessary but those things sure make them or help a player to suspend their disbelief and go ahead and belief it's Sims' game and not Dinner Dash Or Beach Party casual games. Or ETA: For those who don't understand what I mean perhaps Cake Mania is more familiar. Where she doesn't add the toppings the player clicks to add the toppings the 'sim' doesn't have to move an inch.
This is what threw me off my game, because at no time in the past did a Sim never have to walk to go do something. But now they don't. That is a very strange and unfamiliar territory in "The Sims". And why I was sitting here wondering why haven't they got up or moved to do this.
ETA: I will take that back, in the TS3 Sims don't have to walk to turn on the tv or stereo. I assume people love those animations and simulations are omitted in the TS3. But here we are now in the TS4 and they no longer have to walk to a pc to do something, viola the player did it instead. And why I complain all the time about a game becoming something else the more it gets watered down and built to resemble any ole game out there for $4.99 or free now in browser games if they are older games.
As my signature says. Always be a first-rate version of yourself......instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. This goes for games, too.
