"AncientMuse;c-17934509" wrote:
"Babykittyjade;c-17933362" wrote:
"kaiwrysims;c-17932616" wrote:
"ncisGibbs02;c-17932287" wrote:
I feel it’s not as well known. I don’t know why. ??♂️
I bought Sims 2 in 2007, I used to tell people I played it and most people knew what I was talking about or I play that too.
Sims 4 I have to explain and there’s few people who I know play it.
Idk but I never knew the sims existed until about 2017. Which is unfortunate because it was a game I always wanted but I thought no one thought to make a game like it lol. And I never seen sims advertisements, not even on YouTube.
Lol intersting!! Welcome to the world of sims!!?? honestly I always wanted a game like this as a child. Sims series is a dream come true.
It's definitely an isolated community. I don't know ANYONE outside of my tiny tiny circle who knows about the game. And the few people that saw ne playing was like it's so booooooooorrrrrrrriinnggg how do you play this?!! How can you never get tired of clicking over and over????
I'm like let me be at peace?
Meanwhile those same people play 400 different versions of the same type of shooter games where all they do is run, shoot, jump, crouch, duck, shoot, swing, punch, kick, shoot, grab an item, shoot, upgrade their weapon, shoot, talk to some NPC for information, run, jump, punch, crouch, swing, jump, run, shoot some more...... click click clickety click pew pew click click..... for 12 hours straight.
:|
While this is definitely a fair criticism of someone throwing stones while living in a glass house, this personally sounds like someone that doesn't play games. I think it is also a more charitable position to take since it can be difficult for people to understand the enjoyment derived from clicking a mouse if they have never done it themselves. Though I might be wrong, since this happened to someone else only (s)he can say.
But this kind of hypocrisy absolutely does exist. My own brother, a man that loved to watch me plays the Sims in his wee youth, and has played some himself has gone through several stages of gaming elitism through the years. As if what and how anyone else plays plays a game affects you. (Though I think real world constraints and age have been taming that mindset.)
The only thing really mitigating I can offer is pacing. 400 hues of shooter probably has a far different sense of pacing, and most definitely level of competitiveness, that could make the Sims one of the last thing these type of players want to play.
