So Sims 4 is a young adult simulator ?

"Beardedgeek;c-17444438" wrote:
I keep hearing this and I... only partly agree.
It's an ADULT Simulator; kids are an afterthought. But:

1. There is absolutely no difference between YA and A in the game except wrinkles that you can remove in CAS without cheating.
2. I don't get the "Lack of activities for elder Sims" complaint. Except for Excessive Woohooing and going to the Gym, Elderly Sims can do everything Adult Sims can. And more importantly, I am 47 years old. My parents are almost 80 and they do the exact things they have always done. The "Classic Grandma" type of Elder literally died 30 years ago IRL. Today's elders are just like today's 50 year olds but listens to better music.

But yes, kids are an afterthought. TEENS are okay, because in this game, unlike sims 2 and 3, they actually look like realistic teens (that's a pet peeve of mine: people who think teens should look like 12 year olds and think that's "realistic").

That's exactly what I was thinking and already partly addressed in my own post. It's actually quite infuriating to see people constantly asking for "elder activities" (that's probably also a big reason why knitting won the recent community vote), or complaining about elders in the game constantly being on the phone or the computer since they "can't know about this stuff", which is just a really ageist thing to say. People who wish for this stuff don't really seem to understand that today's elders are often really tech-savy and still do the same things they did when they were young, if it isn't too physically demanding. It's not like someone stops their lifelong hobby of fishing the day they turn 70, just to get in their rocking chair, start knitting and completely forget what a phone is.

I also agree with you on the teens. Actually, the more adult-like they are, the more I like them. I disabled Parenthood from my game because of the mood swings the teens had because it just looked like a huge parody of what actual teenagers are like (I've been one myself not too long ago and never experienced such random mood swings like the teens in the game). Concerning their heights, I also prefer them in TS4. In TS3, they look really really young and short and like they just recently became teens, like around 13 or 14 years old. They just look like shorter, unproportional adults which just seems weird to me. That's just not what they look like in real life. Don't get me wrong, I know there are teens in real life who are shorter/look younger than they are (I am myself really short and don't look a day older than 15), but those are the clear minority. I also don't get the people who say that the teens often look the same age (or even older) than their parents. Many years ago, someone here posted a selfie of a mother and her daughter to "prove" how they look the same age, but to me, they just looked the same age because of the mother's clothing style being very teen-like. Don't even get me started on all the preteen threads back then, a lifestage that really isn't needed in the game and whose only purpose would be purely cosmetic to close the huge height gap between children and teens.