Sims for Men
I noticed The Sims 4 became very girlie. I don't remember the previous versions being so girlie. I picked up my first Sims game because it was an amazing game to build houses. I don't know if it was C...
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"Antwerpo;c-17856480" wrote:
I want to be this modern man that doesn't think all girls are hookups but what happens every time after I talk to whomever they start to flirt. I remember the sims being hard work to make 2 sims fall in love. Not in the Sims 4. I'm always like? "Who plays this? This is a teenage girl fantasy or something".
It's not about being male or female being able to do the same thing, it's about forcing both do to the same time. Like forcing a boy to play with a car when he prefers a doll.
Ooohh I agree with flirting and dating in Sims 4. It caters too much to fantasy, although I'm not sure if that fantasy is necessarily a feminine one. In the Sims 2, flirting and finding a compatible match is actually tricky to force. Obviously sims with great chemistry will melt all over one another, but actual little girl me was VERY stricken when my simself and my perfect man were gagging at the sight of one another. It's also hard in Sims 3, but that's because non-playable sims always seem to be in too bad a mood.
I agree that a lot of things typically gendered as masculine are missing from Sims 4, although I admit I never looked at it that way. Even my girly self misses being able to fix up and sell cars in a garage~
edit, read further and didn't want to double post: I only play Sims 4 in really short spurts, but I agree to an extent with the social animations. In past games, the initiator took on the more... dominant? animation and I always wished I could override that so that certain sims would always have certain animations. It was always weird seeing a super shy and earthy sims manhandle their romantic interest if they were the initiator. I'm not sure how other social interactions could be different. I also don't play 4 with packs, so I didn't realize how much stuff was still missing. It's not even a gender problem at this point.
However, from previous SimGuru statements, the direction of the team seems more focused on appeasing the statistically confirmed audience than diversifying and reaching untapped audiences.
