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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Sims 1 is an important piece of software but canonically it was obsoleted by Sims 2. The developers adopted the lore from the first game and retconned it. This worked in part by taking branched discombobulated lore and making it more cohesive; as a result the world building in Sims 2 was phenomenal.
Note I said retconned. I don’t think the term whitewashing is applicable in that situation. Neither character had any kind of established racial identity and neither were light skinned in Sims 2. In Sims 2 Bella was “medium” skinned and Michael was “tan” skinned. Their retconned lore didn’t establish them as any particular race either, seeing how the fathers name is Hebrew and the mothers was Greek. In the end none of them were playable characters, aside from a duplicate of Bella Goth who was a townie in a separate neighborhood.
I also don’t agree with calling the Goth family in 4 “whitewashed”. Sure Cassandra may have had a lighter complexion than her Sims 2 counterpart but that’s really the only thing I give in that regard. Is a lighter skin tone really a big problem when the developers retconned the entirety of their lore out of existence? I don’t really think so. All in all I thought they looked the part.
I’m not sure if it was the developers who made the statement that Sims 4 goths were whitewashed or if that’s something players are running with, but I think they got a little carried away here in the name of representation marketing.
Note I said retconned. I don’t think the term whitewashing is applicable in that situation. Neither character had any kind of established racial identity and neither were light skinned in Sims 2. In Sims 2 Bella was “medium” skinned and Michael was “tan” skinned. Their retconned lore didn’t establish them as any particular race either, seeing how the fathers name is Hebrew and the mothers was Greek. In the end none of them were playable characters, aside from a duplicate of Bella Goth who was a townie in a separate neighborhood.
I also don’t agree with calling the Goth family in 4 “whitewashed”. Sure Cassandra may have had a lighter complexion than her Sims 2 counterpart but that’s really the only thing I give in that regard. Is a lighter skin tone really a big problem when the developers retconned the entirety of their lore out of existence? I don’t really think so. All in all I thought they looked the part.
I’m not sure if it was the developers who made the statement that Sims 4 goths were whitewashed or if that’s something players are running with, but I think they got a little carried away here in the name of representation marketing.
