Relationships and consequences
I was playing a sim of mine last night. He's a restaurant owner, owns 3 now. Anyways he had an affair with Bella Goth. I decided to go over and play her until she had the baby that was obviously going...
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"KatyJay88;c-16248885" wrote:
But see this is the thing. The developers almost can't win. Let's say, in the case of the OP's situation, Mort was upset and divorced Bella. Many simmers would complain that they can't tell their own stories, and that situations are being forced on them.
But then you get other players who want the game itself to put its own consequences in. Not judgement to other simmers, but I never understood the "I want to tell my own stories" argument. Like the OP, it feels forced and contrived. It's what I loved about the cats and dogs ep. The pets are totally surprising. You don't know what they're going to do. I still don't think I've seen every pet animation, in fact I know I haven't as I haven't started training dogs yet.
So which is it? Player controlled drama, or uncontrolled drama from the game?
Though did many complain there was drama in TS1/TS2/TS3 ? I don't think out of the blue, the 'many' would be outrage that a patch came and brough consequences to the game, and even instead those who didn't mind the absence of dysutopia game would appreciate the drama put in the game. I feel implanting such a feature would do more good than bad, because I think If the game, for one of the reasons it is heavily critize, didn't had at the very start up to now this whole happy-villy sort of stuff it wouldn't be most bashed game in the sims franchise. Though seriously, I haven't really ever heard from my experence of a player complaining that 'Previous game are such a disaster, because they have too much drama and sims aren't oblivious to the death/affairs happening around their loved one's, which is why I like TS4 a lot better'.
