Talking Teenagers

"Rebbilina;c-17378216" wrote:
I mean, I would love more teenager gameplay, but I honestly don't think it's bad, at least not if you have parenthood. To me, the trick is to play your teenagers as teenagers, even though they can do the same things as adults. My teenagers tease their siblings, insult family members when they are in a bad mood and sometimes stay up playing video games very late, unless an adult comes in and tells them to get to bed. In the few cases where some sims have looked to adult (like being too muscular or too curvy), I've changed that in cas and changed it back once their YA. And like someone mentioned, shorter teens would mean less clothes. I personally haven't gotten taller since I was like 12, and when I worked with teens, a lot of them were as tall as me, and I'm pretty average. It's not unrealistic that a 14-year old would be about the same height that they would be as an adult.

Yeah I definitely agree that there is a trick to playing the teens as teens, but I guess I would like it more if I didn't have to direct them to do all of those things, so it felt more like they had personalities of their own.

Haha I worked with teenagers for 8 years and I was taller than most of them ;) Again, it's not about the "realism" of shorter teens for me, because we don't have the "realism" of varied heights for adults and I can't see that ever happening. It's more about the fact that this is a game and visual distinctions make a big difference; everything in the Sims is a representation, and on average I feel a representation of shorter teens would be better.

"Less clothes" is a weak excuse in my opinion. They literally get paid to create these games and content to go with them. The Sims franchise has earned over 5 billion dollars or something insane... they can do other clothes, or just tweak some of the clothes we've already got, to make it work.