Blast from the past. What the sims used to be.

I miss this so much. I feel like somewhere between the Sims 3 and 4 the franchise has lost it's identity. It's not even about the sims anymore. It's more about representation, political correctness and creating ones self than it is about telling stories and having fun with the actual sims. I miss the humor and I very much miss the quality.

I'm enjoying the Sims 4 currently but my enjoyment isn't found without the creativity of our wonderful modders and lot of effort from me to keep these mods updated in my game with each new patch or pack release. I must have around 50 mods or so installed in my game in order for the Sims 4 to be enjoyable and even with all these mods it still lacks a lot. I never needed anywhere near this number of mods to enjoy the previous iterations.

The development team seem to be taking the franchise in a different direction and I don't think I like where it's heading. It's only survived this long because it's still riding on the back of the previous games reputations and it so far it has no real competition. I think it will be interesting to see what happens when some actual competition does arrive on the life simulator scene. I've started following the development of Paralives and Little Sim World because I feel like I'm getting close to jumping ship from this franchise until I see some real improvements.