How "realistic" is your game?
The topic of "realism" often comes up in various discussions, but it's not always clear what's meant by that term unless we happen to remember previous posts we've read by other individual simmers. So...
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Interestingly enough I'm a big occult and fantasy lover but I play pretty realistic as possible. Though I'm not afraid to throw occults or anything else totally unrealistic I want in and aging is always off.
Occults are more rare amongst the humans in my game. Or hidden with human forms.
My stories are always of my own fiction but deeply based on the real life hardships of reality.
Except for the rich famous royals in my game, every other sim has to make ends meet and struggle to get through life. It could be surviving off the grid in a broken Sulani village, or teens taking care of younger siblings after their parents death, or a cast out alien struggling to raise orphans.
Sims staying in a haunted abandoned house with nowhere else to go during an apocalypse.
So I'm pretty flexible and I'm not against any type of playstyle. To be honest if we had more elements of fantasy I would love to set up an awesome totally unrealistic storyline. But using what we have its mainly realistic and/or family stuff. And even the occults we do have seem more like humans with a bit of power. Plus they are non invasive. You wouldn't even know they exist in the game.
I tried to set up an occultish fantasy world but it just didn't work. We don't have a fantasy world and everything looks too suburban or just "normal" we don't have any fantasy b/b or not much I can think of and any kind of fantasy build just looks "off" in such a normal world with occults walking around in disguise.
Sure I could undisguise all of the occults but then the problem becomes that when I switch families and my sims are chilling at a restaurant, here comes a monstrous looking sim with blood on it's face and scars everywhere, or a weird looking alien talking to everyone and dancing like everything is totally normal??? if sims could be afraid of undisguised occults or occults could act less silly and human I would enjoy the fantasy aspect much more.
I sometimes feel like people mistake realistic family play for wanting more things for kids, teens and babies. Because almost everything in this game is realistic/family. We just have lacking life states.
anyway not debating anybody just sharing my thoughts?
Occults are more rare amongst the humans in my game. Or hidden with human forms.
My stories are always of my own fiction but deeply based on the real life hardships of reality.
Except for the rich famous royals in my game, every other sim has to make ends meet and struggle to get through life. It could be surviving off the grid in a broken Sulani village, or teens taking care of younger siblings after their parents death, or a cast out alien struggling to raise orphans.
Sims staying in a haunted abandoned house with nowhere else to go during an apocalypse.
So I'm pretty flexible and I'm not against any type of playstyle. To be honest if we had more elements of fantasy I would love to set up an awesome totally unrealistic storyline. But using what we have its mainly realistic and/or family stuff. And even the occults we do have seem more like humans with a bit of power. Plus they are non invasive. You wouldn't even know they exist in the game.
I tried to set up an occultish fantasy world but it just didn't work. We don't have a fantasy world and everything looks too suburban or just "normal" we don't have any fantasy b/b or not much I can think of and any kind of fantasy build just looks "off" in such a normal world with occults walking around in disguise.
Sure I could undisguise all of the occults but then the problem becomes that when I switch families and my sims are chilling at a restaurant, here comes a monstrous looking sim with blood on it's face and scars everywhere, or a weird looking alien talking to everyone and dancing like everything is totally normal??? if sims could be afraid of undisguised occults or occults could act less silly and human I would enjoy the fantasy aspect much more.
I sometimes feel like people mistake realistic family play for wanting more things for kids, teens and babies. Because almost everything in this game is realistic/family. We just have lacking life states.
anyway not debating anybody just sharing my thoughts?
