"@Cinebar;c-17407781" wrote:
"ButteredToast;c-17407779" wrote:
One thing to consider: Adult fans of The Sims (without children?) are not the only ones with incomes. All younger fans have parents/grandparents who also have incomes. Would all these parents and grandparents buy Sims games for their kids/grandkids if they are rated "Mature (whatever that entails)" instead of "Teens"?
I don't think the OP is trying to request Mature, but at least return to the roots of The Sims back in TS1. How is it bad to show a girl jumping out of a cake (in TS1) but good for a couple (maybe even strangers) high five each other when they decide to woohoo. Seems a bit more childish this time around. Like nine year old boys hiding and giggling, type humor.
Differences here to me are the fact I think TS4 caters in low brow humor where the others had more of a sophistication of some of it's humor, not all, but enough to appeal to those who aren't fans of low brow humor/ laughing at farts, talking toilet etc.
Remember that when you woke a Sim up in TS1 they would always get angry? Both adults and kids? It was lighthearted humour but one of those things which made the game funny.
I saw someone mention this years ago and they said that Will Wright put a lot of his humour into the game which you can clearly see in TS1 but not as much since.
Seedy things like a burglar in the old stereotypical black and white stripes was part of that humour while the Grim Reaper turning up a Sim died did not get introduced until the first EP it carried that type of humour forward. Of course The Sims had ghosts as well
