"Candyd;15472789" wrote:
"PHOEBESMOM601;15472633" wrote:
"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.
I really like playing with my simself, because it makes the game more immersive. It's fun to imagine what would happen to me if I were a sim, especially if there is the perspective of crazy stories and supernatural stuff. I've made it some sort of RPG. And so many people create sims with similar traits to themselves so they're still simselves but with a different physical appearance. I even enjoy to give my simself her own family and make her a character in my stories, although I give her a different name to truly separate her from the real me. But it's just a character made for fun and I find it a bit disturbing when I see a few people using their simself as a pretext for serious fantasies... To each their own but it's just too weird for me.
Friends and families, however, I just can't. I could create their sim if they asked, but I'd never play with them even if they asked. It's just much too creepy. Even pets. I tried a bit in the past but I don't even want to control my pets, I just like to create them in CAS but it doesn't go beyond this.
Same thing with celebrities or historical characters. Fictional characters, fine, but not real people. I just can't.
I don't have a problem playing with celebrity Sims....my problem is familiar Sims. If I want the Sims in the game to have families I have no problem with that....but when it came time to have familiar Sims have a family it was just too creepy. It's just voyeuristic to be watching familiar Sims woo hoo.
