Is The Sims A Virtual Dollhouse?

@TheGreatGorlon I don't disagree with your take, and I won't gripe on your and others' preference to call it a virtual dollhouse. I guess because my entire childhood, or what I remember of it, centered around video games rather than physical toys, there's definitely a disconnect to me, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Sure, technology has developed, but this development to me exists within the gaming realm and doesn't translate back and forth between a virtual game and toys of reality. I see the Sims as more just a video game inspired by life, just like a dollhouse is a toy inspired by life. The Sims's dollhouse-like features are inspired by actual humans' ability to influence architecture and decorate houses, as well as our own social interactions. Just as a child's imagination is inspired as such, so I feel I'd be giving too much credit to dollhouses for something that simply happens in (or is inspired by) reality. In the same vein, I haven't heard of people calling shooter or battlefield games "virtual action figures". And if you do know someone who does do that oof, well, I guess the problem is too much correlating things to other things when we should just view each entity as its own unique concept.

Now if you were consistently using a pose mod...lol. In the end, agreeing to either side is fine and reasonable, to each their own and this topic was based on feeling in the first place, so no one's opinion is any less valid no matter how literal they're taking it.