Opinions on Goth makeover?
Today the SDX was a makeover for the Goth family. Morty has Vlad's speedo and I don't know how I feel about it... https://i.imgur.com/S9V2dkb.png
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The Sims 2 version of Bella Goth and Michael Bachelor, that everyone all knows and love, is a whitewashed version of their Sims 1 versions. In the Sims 1, both sims use heads labelled Asian (In the Sims 1, heads came as a complete package, ie, no changing hair and facial features), as shown below via the Sims 1 Make a Date application which displays both head and body meshes and texture names.
https://i.imgur.com/fpX30r6.png
https://i.imgur.com/D08UexF.png
While in game, this may have gone unnoticed for Bella, given that it is difficult to see facial details for Bella in Sims 1 quality, for Michael, it is just inexcusable given how obviously and clearly east Asian he looks. In the Sims 2, they just give him a completely different face. If they decided to make Bella and Michael siblings, they should've gone the way that didn't remove his entire ethnic identity. In fact, the only thing the 1 and 2 versions have in common is a name, because they certainly decided to ignore everything else, such as making the fresh out of college graduate the older brother of a woman with a school age child, and have him die of old age 25 years later.
This was partly due to the limitations of Sims 2 CAS in that every sim essentially had manipulations of the same base face, and as such ethnic minority sims were much more difficult to create.
I just felt the need to post this in here because everyone loves the Sims 2 version, and during the whole discussion about the whitewashing of older characters in the Sims 4, they would often point to the Sims 2 version. People would say that she was Latina, native American, Italian, black etc (or worse, say she was canonically that ethnicity based on no evidence whatsoever), often based on the names of her parents and grandparents that were retconned into existence and nothing else. As far as I'm aware, the above game files are the only explicit description of her ethnic identity in the entire franchise. Sure she could be those other ethnicities in part, but the main part should always have been her Asian identity.
In addition, I find the whole comparison to the Addams family very limiting. Sure, Mortimer and Gomez are similar in that they are white men in suits and moustaches, and at a stretch Cassandra due to the pigtails. But it just seems forced on Bella, how in any way is she like Morticia? It feels like if some members of the family fit, they all must fit, they cannot have individual identities.
https://i.imgur.com/fpX30r6.png
https://i.imgur.com/D08UexF.png
While in game, this may have gone unnoticed for Bella, given that it is difficult to see facial details for Bella in Sims 1 quality, for Michael, it is just inexcusable given how obviously and clearly east Asian he looks. In the Sims 2, they just give him a completely different face. If they decided to make Bella and Michael siblings, they should've gone the way that didn't remove his entire ethnic identity. In fact, the only thing the 1 and 2 versions have in common is a name, because they certainly decided to ignore everything else, such as making the fresh out of college graduate the older brother of a woman with a school age child, and have him die of old age 25 years later.
This was partly due to the limitations of Sims 2 CAS in that every sim essentially had manipulations of the same base face, and as such ethnic minority sims were much more difficult to create.
I just felt the need to post this in here because everyone loves the Sims 2 version, and during the whole discussion about the whitewashing of older characters in the Sims 4, they would often point to the Sims 2 version. People would say that she was Latina, native American, Italian, black etc (or worse, say she was canonically that ethnicity based on no evidence whatsoever), often based on the names of her parents and grandparents that were retconned into existence and nothing else. As far as I'm aware, the above game files are the only explicit description of her ethnic identity in the entire franchise. Sure she could be those other ethnicities in part, but the main part should always have been her Asian identity.
In addition, I find the whole comparison to the Addams family very limiting. Sure, Mortimer and Gomez are similar in that they are white men in suits and moustaches, and at a stretch Cassandra due to the pigtails. But it just seems forced on Bella, how in any way is she like Morticia? It feels like if some members of the family fit, they all must fit, they cannot have individual identities.
