"Mindsimscreate;c-17000442" wrote:
This is all very interesting, thanks for all of the replies. I think the reason why I’m not in the majority is because I give my sims all kinds of personalities they could have, because I like playing around with every trait, aspiration, career, etc. It’s always been like that for me, so that means sometimes I have to deal with scandalous simmies who get married and then are tempted by others- (like how Don Lothario tempts sims)- so I end up with more failed marriages. I also make a story out of my sims, and I really love how all the pieces of a sims life fits together in the end. This means I love storylines that aren’t the usual- (childhood, career, marriage, children, death) and if divorce is a part of a story, it happens in my games :D
I played like you back in Sims 1 and 2 as the emotional system in the game - especially in Sims 2 was rather amazing so I used every trait possible - and loved the sliders. I remember well how Cassandra reacted even years after Don had left her at the alter, even after she was happily married and had kids with someone else - she was still furious at him. It never ceased to crack me up when she would remember and relive the event (loved the memory system in 2) and go kick his trash can over. If he dared step outside, she'd slap him silly, then stomp off home. Always left me laughing. But not all simmers liked all that and complained - so when Sims 3 came out the memory and the reaction system were pretty dead - so I adapted by changing the way I played as it was not fun to play that way any more - like it had been. I cut out a number of traits and instead of focusing on the whole neighborhoods I focused on just a few Sims households and just good relationships.
Sims 4 took memory and emotion completely away - it was dull and void, with next to no relationships with their neighbors at all outside of over the top silly smiles - even when they were angry - as they have no memory on why they were angry. For the first two years I went back to playing between Sims 2 and Sims 3 - but toddlers brought me back and Vampires made me stay. I finally found a Sims 4 I could play - but there is no natural way the game actually breaks up the Sims as even when they cheat the other Sims keeps smiling. They may cry a bit but there is nothing natural about how they should be feeling - so it annoyed me even more than the lessening of reactions in the Sims 3. To stop the annoyance more than anything - I stop giving traits like flirty or making romance Sims. Stopped having early marriages, so my Sims were more ready for a one on one real relationship. At least in my mind they were - and the marriages in Sims 4 last - never break up with me doing nothing else at all - nothing special anyway.
