"crocobaura;c-17481332" wrote:
"PmlTry;c-17481318" wrote:
“But it would spoil things very much for me if they made the sims the way they are in, say, Sims 2. I have that game too and I can't play it without getting bored very quickly. I just can't be creative enough with it. The sims fight against me left, right, and centre to do their own thing when I want them to do something else. They have their own personality which makes it so that I can't be creative with them and tell stories in my game play the way I like to, which is really frustrating. If I wanted them to do their own thing I may as well watch a movie because my game play style is to create a story, not to watch them make the story.”
I found that element of free will in Sims 2 a spur to creativity. And you do know you could turn it off, right?
This is not about going back to Sims 2. (For the record, I prefer Sims 3.) This is about a newer version actually being an improvement rather than a regression that caters solely to people who want to build worlds of nothing but pretty people and fashionable clothes.
Some people are happy to just take pictures of their sims and post stories. They use pose player with lots of fake poses and interactions and, as long as they have their pretty pictures, they probably don't even notice that the actual gameplay is lacking.
And here's what I don't understand about this, (because I'm sure this is true for a lot of people). How on earth did they get those stories and pictures from games past? I certainly saw them around during sims 2 and 3 times. Surely they didn't have to "fight" with their sims to set this up. Is it just simply a matter of free-will off? I know mods for sure to set up poses but I dunno... I also don't really remember people complaining that their sims were having lives? Maybe it's a case of didn't know what they were missing?
For me, I do think the game is too childish but that's because there's little to no consequences. If something bad happens, I have to force it and fight with my game. Ha! Exactly opposite of people that don't think it's childish. :D I do want bad things sometimes though. That's real. I'd like some of it to be surprises too, I'm not a fan of how I have to do that all myself. I'd like some twists and turns. I miss backstories. I can understand why people can appreciate it as a safe space though. I was pretty annoyed with this version at first, but I've learned to live with it and appreciate it for what it does offer but sometimes I do miss the challenge. (Without having to think and create my own). In past versions, I could do this easily but the option to turn everything off was also there, so I could play both ways. In this version I have just this one way. I have learned to live with it, and I like this version a lot more than I did, but I still do think it's childish. No challenge does equal childish IMO, but that's just my opinion too. However, that said, just because I think it's childish doesn't mean I can't play it either. :D You like what you like and childish doesn't have to equal bad.
