Should the next Sims game go above the T rating?

I think the problem with this version of the sims it too PC. (No I do not mean diversity) They had the insanity trait turn to the erractic trait. It feels like the game is making sure players don't feel stress or upset. My sims feel like they are in happyville. Nothing bad happens or going happen. Let my sims that do poorly get fired.Let my sims have disasters like meteor showers, or earthquake that actually destroy things.Let my sims get robbed.Yes it can be a challenge, but it adds excitement

'More mature' doesn't necessarily mean an M-rating. I'm super okay with it staying T. If I want more adult stuff sprinkled in (like sims getting drunk), I'll mod it.

I think that they don't need to change the rating to M, BUT, I agree about the current game being a little immature because the emotional stakes are pretty low.

I'd like the emotional stakes of certain interactions to be greater. They sort of incorporated this into Get Famous with the Celebrity Quirks. So if a sim uses her phone all the time, she develops a phone obsession quirk or if a sim is constantly primping in the mirror, she develops a vain quirk.

What if, when a sim loses a loved one, they develop a quirk where it's harder for them to love again? Or if they experience a lot of mean interactions or bad luck they develop a quirk where they feel rejected (sort of like the Loser trait in the Sims 3). It doesn't have to be too dark or even veer off into depression, and can still keep its quintessential absurdist Sims vibe.

Im also of the opinion that the "T" rating is fine as is. I already have a couple mods for more mature scenarios that Im fine with. It doesnt make sense from a business perspective to so drastically change the Sims in such a way that a child would need his parent's permission to buy. Plus you know, there are plenty of adult simmers that dont gravitate toward mature games.

I agree though that the Sims 4 is a little too "friendly". I mean sheesh if you just had a huge argument with someone suddenly being on friendly speaking terms with them immediately after makes no sense. If one sim catches their SO cheating I dont want them "fine" a little while later! I want it to be harder to patch up the relationship. I want my sims upset that their ex just left and took the kids! What kinda breaks a little immersion for me is that Sims' problems dont escalate much higher than being wet in the rain. I love my families, but their lives are too perfect. And real life isn't perfect. Real life has problems and struggles, and either you get through it or you wallow in it.

The Teen rating is fine, but dang it sims need some heavy problems that dont just go away soon after.

I'd be interested in a game like that, but really, all I need are some certain mods to do so. The emotion system in the Sims 4 needs to be fixed so that they don't overwrite each other so easily and then the game needs more practical consequences. Do these and you'll have your solution.

Personally I feel like T should be okay but another thing is that they are overly cautious with it

or then I just had very weird childhood where kids shows had much more disturbing things than sims :confused:

so if I could actually have realistic things in game with higher rating I'd prefer that to having sugar coated happyland

I would be fine with a spinoff like The Sims Medieval being rated M, but I want the main game to remain T. Crime and dark humorous deaths are fun in the Sims, but I don't want nudity and gore in my game.

"mika;c-17114800" wrote:
I would be fine with a spinoff like The Sims Medieval being rated M, but I want the main game to remain T. Crime and dark humorous deaths are fun in the Sims, but I don't want nudity and gore in my game.

Agree, make a spin off.But the main should be teen.

id like more realism in some areas like

more passionate romance interactions (not more explicit than the ones we already have just more passionate versions of them)

giving birth not being super weird??? like you dont have to see the undercarriage but like a "normal" birthing pose and the person you bring along holding your birthing sims hand and the doctor at the end of the bed. (also homebirth on the bed in a simillar way maybe?)

being angry with someone having more lasting impact, same with loosing a friendship. (buffs last longer)

drinking too much juice gives you the goofy walkstyle for the duration of the "too much juice" buff and that the addicted to juice or whatever its called quirk from get famous is a temp trait you can get (like the infected trait from strangerville). if you drink too much juice too many days in a row and then gets a "tense" moodlet when your sim with that quirk/temp trait stop drinking all toghether and you sort of have to weather it out to get "clean" again. would make great storytelling potential etc.

an attraction system!

just stuff like that.

"Dannydanbo;c-17022136" wrote:
Absolutely not. This is a fun, life simulation game, not a plum game. There are mods for that kind of sad game play.

you do know that a M rating does not mean wohoo simulator game right? it means showing mature themes, themes that sims already have in it (death, romance, wohoo, drinking badly disgused alcohol, birthing(?) etc) but now for alot of people they seem to have gone a bit too far into kid-friendlying these themes to the point that these subjects are almost handled a bit TOO lighty.

as someone who has played since sims 1 id say that the games have gotten less and less mature when it comes to these things. (mixed bag for different themes of course over the previous 3 games). ill just say that without the lows the highs mean nothing.