"Pary;15447179" wrote:
"PHOEBESMOM601;15443507" wrote:
Maybe I'm the odd one out but I never wonder about the player who occasionally does mean things to a Sim, kills them off or builds a jail in their basement. I do wonder about the ones who make the whole game into a virtual torture chamber and nothing else. Then again maybe it means that the small animals in their neighborhood are safe.
No you're not the odd one out. I wonder about this too. What makes it more disturbing for me is when those types of players put Sims of real life people into their "nothing but torture" game.
I am with @Cinebar when it comes to self sims and / or sims of people I know. I find the very idea of self sims and playing a self sim somewhat creepy. I've handed out Pary sim in the past for folks to toss into their games, but she is a representative of me, she is not meant to BE me.
I couldn't ever imagine playing sims just to torture any sims, let alone sims of people I know.
Edit - What I also found disturbing about that article is that the author seems to equate unconventional play styles as only killing and torture, without noting that playing outside of convention can also include a range of other ways to play.
When playing TS3 I once filled a town with just friends and family. I'd never done a Sim self or people I actually knew. I played with it for about an hour and it all just felt too creepy and voyeuristic to me. I just deleted the game.
