"Cinebar;c-17886555" wrote:
"GreenTurtle;c-17886551" wrote:
@Cinebar I absolutely get what you're saying. The focus on being able to make yourself is a lot. There are too many people and too many differences. It may not even be possible for the devs to reach that target where EVERYONE is able to make themselves.
The problem lies with the direction they've taken. The universe is no longer a 50ies American sitcom with aliens and cowplants. It's now: real people across the whole world. The scope has gotten too big. You can't have the whole world in a single game. Not even if that game runs for a hundred years. They're still going to miss something.
That said, at the very least the things they do include shouldn't be insulting. I'm glad things like the cauliflower hair are finally getting fixed.
Yes, the hair was horrible. But lately it seems we can't get past one article and or update without some new announcement about representation. Do you remember The Sims ? We just played and never thought about stuff like we have to think about now. We were never asked in zillion threads, how many gays, or trans or other races we played. It was oh, heck, my Sim is on fire! lol, how do I put that out! That's game play.
We never looked to see or count if there was a trans or black Sim in a trailer. It was just omg, it's the Sims! look at that crazy Sim, what are they doing? omg, they farted! Now, it's all about are you represented in The Sims? How does that representation make you feel? But if we are going to stay on this road then the game is failing to represent any one other than the things they brag about.
Why do people love the older games? Because there is no such requirements to meet those expectations. We could always create gay Sims, we could always play many diverse nations of peoples. We were not required by other players to state whether our game had a diverse population or not...we were the masters of our own Sims destinies and no one ran around saying how diverse they were and trying to prove it with pictures. It was just always omg my Sim is a pain, and or my Sim is hilarious and or my Sim is driving me crazy, and or my Sim is not smart and or my Sim just did this or that. That is why people play and love the older games, because representation was not the focus.
This exactly. Between the pc culture/nerfing and over representation I don't know what this is turning into. Though sadly it's not just the sims. I think EA feels like they "need" to do this just to keep up with what's popular in 2021 and I can't blame them entirely because people will trash them for it like around the time some political stuff blew up I saw tons of simmers tweeting at the sims how horrible they are for not speaking out about it until they finally did.
And I'm thinking to myself you guys know this is a VIDEO GAME right??
Sadly I feel people have pushed them here little by little and it's not much I can say because nothing we say will turn it back into the old sims. Everything is race and gender driven in 2021. I don't understand it myself?♀️
I played games ever since I was a child (mainly Japanese) and never once saw anyone who looked or resembled me in any shape, form, color, religion, culture or race. And I didn't think twice or even once about it. I had a blast and loved the heck out of those fun games. Became so engaged in the characters and their stories??
It's what made me fall in love with story telling in the form of games. And ultimately the sims!!
