Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?

Not sure if that author isn't feeling more a need to just give a name to something to make them feel comfortable. Will Wright was going for simulation, but in the end it is up to the player as to what they see and experience. I honestly don't care what to call it. Sims is just fun to me. Even the current devs are keeping it a bit ambiguous with adding the first-person experience into the whole shebang.
Give it another decade or two, and we may be calling it a holographic AI room experience. Perhaps a....holodeck?

"Cupid;c-16942966" wrote:
That's pretty much what it is. We can bounce away from calling it a "Virtual Dollhouse" to make it sound less emasculating for male players, but the fact that people (like the author of the article) feel a need to do that in the first place points to a bigger societal issue in my opinion.

On a side note the grammar in this article is horrendous. Journalism seems to be a dying art :D

Kotaku and its sister sites like Jezebel have always been nothing but a farce. If they draw attention to something interesting, then there is likely a better article on the subject written elsewhere. Even PCGamer has decent features now and then.

"catloverplayer;c-16943223" wrote:

"duhboy2u2;c-16942958" wrote:
Gender role stereotypes aside, (I don't believe dollhouses are just for girls) I think in a very real way, a life sim and a dollhouse are pretty much the same thing. Children playing with dollhouses mimic the world they see around them when playing. Isn't that wat the Sims does? Either way I agree its fascinating, but then, I've always found human interaction fascinating.

The differences though is you can make your Simself and live out your fantasies in this doll house.

Can do the same with a live dollhouse, too. Especially if you are crafty enough.