"MiaSkywalker;c-17402613" wrote:
"TamakiSakura84;c-17400866" wrote:
That depends on what "catering to adult fans" means. If it means more focus on family play rather than just YA Sims, sure, but I don't want to see The Sims add raunchier content than what was present in TS2 or TS3.
I don't think that's what the OP meant. In fact, they specifically stated that they don't want more potty and other immature humor, which is where the humor of Sims 4 sometimes seems to be heading. The whole emotional walkstyles thing - including the bathroom walk - is pretty immature. Emotional deaths? "Oh, I just died of embarrassment!" How many times have you heard a tween say that, and how many times have you heard an actual adult say that?
The whole dying of emotions (embarrassment, hysterical laughter, etc.) is just ridiculous, which is why it's the first thing I modded out of my game. It's catering to the tween set. And as the OP pointed out, those same tweens tend to get bored after a short while, and then the ones left playing are going to be the long-time Simming adult audience. And you know what? Almost everyone I know has modded out those emotional deaths, because they were just absurd to begin with.
Tweens also do NOT have the disposable income that older adults might have. Sure, we have bills to pay, but we have INCOME, which tweens generally don't have.
I also completely agree with @Hestia: Sims in Sims 3 expressed emotions JUST fine. The Sims in that game have a lot more personality. I feel like I'm playing with mood swings, not with real personalities with my Sims in Sims 4.
And if you're wondering, I like both games pretty close to equally. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, although the fact that Sims 3 is a memory hog, takes about 15 minutes to launch, 5 minutes to save a game, and it often lags and/or crashes because the internal database of the game was poorly designed, has recently been making Sims 4 the one I play most, even though I really prefer the game play in Sims 3.
It used to but not on nowadays computers. Well, probably on low end computers but it’s really hard for me to accept people are prepared to invest in a good computer for one game but not for the other (that happens to be the kind of game I like). My Sims 3 game loads in 4 minutes and saving takes like 30 seconds (I don’t clock it)? Five years ago loading lasted 11 minutes for me (which by the way was fine by me as well, waiting for 11 minutes and then play non stop for hours). Crashes I hardly ever had, nor lag. The reason for that was that they figured it was a good idea to make the game mod unfriendly. That, of course, was a very bad idea, not a good one. Since I’ve never been very interested in CC, I hardly had crashes and apparently with the amount of CC/mods I have now the game’s fine as well. As long as I clean my cache files first.
