Unpopular opinions about ts4

"Writin_Reg;c-16219858" wrote:


Will's partner Jeff Braun and the Maxis Board rejected that name - in fact they rejected the whole idea and didn't want to fund it. So Will went to EA with the Idea because his Sim City game was doing so well at EA. EA fell all over the idea - seeing they were already publishing the Sims City and the idea to go more indepth with the people in Sim City got Will the financing and publishing he wanted. EA never had any qualms over Will making this game - not once according to Will Wright himself.

What actually caused him to change the name was the reaction he got out of the test panel when all the 12 year old boys in the test group heard that the projected name of the game was the dollhouse - they all ran out of the room not even trying the game -. That's what made Will change the name - as he wanted the game to be a game for everybody, and when young boys wouldn't even try the game because of it's name - he knew he needed to change it.

I think that drives the point of why Sims 4 focusing on the dollhouse aspect only are driving customers away. Sims used to be a game that all genders and ages and races and religions could play. Focusing just on the dollhouse is going to drive a lot of male customers away. I know Sims 3 audience was pretty 50/50 at attracting customers both male and female. I know there are guys that do play the Sims 4 and would be an interesting poll on forums to do to see how many there are. If I had a guess, I think the target audience for the Sims 4 are girls. Thing is not all girls play the same way. Sure my sister is someone who would focus on CAS in her Sims 2 and 3 games, but my playstyles are completely different from hers. My brother was mainly a builder and stopped with the Sims 2. Neither have played the Sims 4. So in some cases CAS players didn't move on from the Sims 3. Either way from what Will Wright designed the Sims to be it was neither CAS or build focused, but a nice blend of all three modes.

With above going to be the unpopular opinion I guess I like the vet career and when I saw there was no dog houses I built my own. I actually prefer the vet career over active careers so when it is compared to the medical career I don't agree with it. Medical active career is boring and too grindy for my tastes. I mean I can't even build on that lot without the help of mods and cheats. With the vet career I can make treats, cure patients and feed my vampire's thirst so I find their work day can be a lot more fulfilling and I can get a lot more done within their work day. Plus the financial system in the game is a thing of beauty seeing it as an accountant. I am able to do rags to riches offices so better range with that too. I much prefer cheaper builds because it does make gameplay a lot more interesting not having happy buff override everything. I also would love to have a fear emotion too. I don't like having my Sims be happy all the time as it makes them feel like the Sims 3 Plumbots. It is actually quite interesting to see the trait chip system in that game be very similar to how Sims are designed now in the Sims 4. So I call these Sims Plumbots except shame they don't have seven trait slots like the Plumbots did. That Into the Future pack was very foretelling of what the Sims 4 was going to be like especially the Utopian world. I guess how I make it work is saying how Sims are trapped in Utopian hell with no way to escape their bubble, programmed to be Plumbots, and are stuck in a Truman Show set. So at least it is easy to make Fahrenheit 451 stories except I still need a fireman to make it work better.
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I think one fun theory I have is Sims 4 is where Bella Goth got abducted to. It isn't Earth but a film set ran by aliens. Some hints of that are social workers being beam of lights, moodlet influencers in rooms to keep the Sims in a single state of mind so they don't come to realize they aren't living on Earth anymore, and aliens use disguises to spy on Sims.