"@ClarionOfJoy;c-16994735" wrote:
From what I've seen, I think the devs have made the iterations as clean or neutral as possible to make it as appealing to as much of the public as it can. But yeah, I think they need to work on the reactions to better reflect life. I liked the way the sims reacted in TS2 and TS3. Hopefully the devs will consider that for TS5 and enhance them somehow. I don't understand why devs tied emotions to objects in TS4 - that doesn't make sense at all and I hope that they don't add that to TS5.
The violence or more adult themes I wouldn't want to be a regular feature of The Sims though, but I like that the devs do allow for it in the coding so that modders can add it in. I don't play TS4 but I do know there are mods for adding violence to the game as well as a serial killer. There's definitely mods to add violence/drinking/adult themes to TS3. One of my sims was a demon (actually a fairy with black dragon wings and has the evil and kleptomaniac trait) that was in the assassin career. She knocked off other sims on assignment (using gun mod or violence mod or powers gained from leveling up the assassin skill), shaked down other sims (which lost 50 points off their current relationship with that sim) for money and she did cat burglary on nights when there was no assignment. It was very fun, lol! That was all possible with mods.
So for the next iteration in The Sims franchise, I hope they work on the reactions/emotions of the sims better and just design the game to be as mod-able as possible to allow for all the things we want but can't have without upping the T rating to something more.
