Reality Players, How Much Is Too Much?
We often see many different threads about reality play vs occult and or things that are all in our imaginations being discussed for gameplay and argued here on the forums. That's a good debate to hav...
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"bizuktag;c-17873148" wrote:
This would be a more interesting general conversation if it didn't seem to be a discussion about "how horrible TS4 is" masquerading as a discussion on "realism in the games".
Not at all. I was trying to draw a distinction of how players say they don't want any occults in their games or fantasy and want a strictly reality game but we don't actually play a reality game in TS4 compared to older games do we? After all it's not reality to have seven years of Sims not being able to buy or drive a car is it? When in reality cars are all over the world. No matter where you go someone would have some sort of transportation. But not to dwell on that too much how much reality is too much, such as is it too much to watch a Sim open a drawer to be able to change clothes and see clothes folder inside that drawer all neat and pretty. Is something like that too much? Because if we cut that out (and TS4 did) what did we gain for it? Is it too much to expect Sims have to walk to a pc to be able to do something? Is it reality to say I want to play a reality game with no occults and or fantasy etc. but the Sim doesn't do anything but the player just clicks something and whatever it was it is done and over with? I'm just trying to gage how much we suspend our disbelief but defend we are playing reality when honestly we don't.
Then there are the extremes like real things such as cancers and or changes in what a Sim would experience as they age from child to elder. How deep would we want a game to go, or do we just want to play pretty Sims who don't have to drive to go somewhere, and or deal with life's challenges and or embarrassments and still claim we play reality? Something to chew on. Truth known we are all playing a fantasy.
