Please do something with The Sims
Hi, I’ve been playing The Sims for a long time since The Sims 2. I think it is the game I’ve played the longest time. I love, The Sims, but I’m sad watching the game getting into the direction it i...
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"DragonCat159;c-16335318" wrote:
@Erpe though I think it's pretty reasonable to believe that lack of sandbox also took as a factor for having veteran players putting the game back on the shelf or never to play, and it still is a popular complaint up to now. Frustration happens when you realize what customization you loved doing isn't possible: to change/add/remove the layout of lots, to build or change apartments/skyrises. It's one of the reasons, along with what I agree on you: lack of challenges is what driven the game to be and remain shittier.
I don’t even really know what people mean when they say “lack of sandbox” because to me “sandbox” just means “without goals or challenges”? I can understand that this is what simmers maybe want if they mainly just want to build, decorate and dress up sims and just want them to act on their own a little before they make the next house and a family for that house too. But it is just not at all what I need myself!
Customization isn’t for me because I am a perfectionist when and if I do such things. I tried it a little in TS2 but soon realized that I couldn’t make sims that really looked like myself or people I know - anyway. Now I know that the reason is that EA wants to target the Sims games mainly at young teen girls who can’t be expected to have neither much patience nor artistic skills at all. So those girls would most likely just become angry with the game if all their sims looked terrible for those reasons. So the Sims games are all designed such that it is quite impossible to make ugly looking sims or sims whos eyes aren’t at the same vertical level or whos faces aren’t symmetrical even though such asymmetric faces exist in the real world. There are other limitations too. But to a perfectionist like me it isn’t satisfying at all to make sims who don’t look like I intended anyway. So I don’t waste my time trying to do it anyway. It is much better for me to just get it done in no time such that I can concentrate on other things instead :)
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