Is the sims appropriate for kids?
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For the Sims 3 and especially the Sims 4 most definitely. 2nd had some really risque animations for making out, and that whole woohoo cutscene that really hits the T for Teen rating, people have sass, people aren't always so kind and the Repomen are psychos!
I would say the first game is on this weird fence on if its even anything but 12+ with all the half naked cake dancers, "dance" cages and those bloodcurling screams when a Sim dies. (Plus pet death from more than old age!)
Nudity was always comically censored personally especially in the Bustin Out nudist colony, might be more hilarious for a young child than anything, although there always has been cases with TS3 where Sims lack censoring at all due to a few bugs.
Bad language never existed minus a text popup box calling you mental related (can't say it on the forums anyway!), if they're low on nice points, and called before 8am. Though Bustin Out and TS4 "have" bad language, BO just does loud censor bleeps and blurs a sims hands, and TS4s is just unintelligence words as usual.
If you think something might be too much for your child you can easily find mods to hide the woohoo option entirely for the games. But even if deaths mostly comical the fact children can drown (and starve or burn in fires in TS1) might not make it too easy on a child to watch, and if you don't think someone being able to create a house full of men and making them flirt is childfriendly, it'd be something I know was shared with many parents back in the day.
...I didn't mention either it might not be childfriendly in a regard if you consider children could be making people they don't like and intentionally killing them... As I remember all too well
I would say the first game is on this weird fence on if its even anything but 12+ with all the half naked cake dancers, "dance" cages and those bloodcurling screams when a Sim dies. (Plus pet death from more than old age!)
Nudity was always comically censored personally especially in the Bustin Out nudist colony, might be more hilarious for a young child than anything, although there always has been cases with TS3 where Sims lack censoring at all due to a few bugs.
Bad language never existed minus a text popup box calling you mental related (can't say it on the forums anyway!), if they're low on nice points, and called before 8am. Though Bustin Out and TS4 "have" bad language, BO just does loud censor bleeps and blurs a sims hands, and TS4s is just unintelligence words as usual.
If you think something might be too much for your child you can easily find mods to hide the woohoo option entirely for the games. But even if deaths mostly comical the fact children can drown (and starve or burn in fires in TS1) might not make it too easy on a child to watch, and if you don't think someone being able to create a house full of men and making them flirt is childfriendly, it'd be something I know was shared with many parents back in the day.
...I didn't mention either it might not be childfriendly in a regard if you consider children could be making people they don't like and intentionally killing them... As I remember all too well
