The Sims in the mainstream media
Today a friend posted an article about the COVID pandemic that she had found. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/what-pandemic-doing-our-brains/618221/?fbclid=IwAR27cb_ESDso1_oUjec91G2...
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Hmm, in my opinion the Sims 2 and the Sims 3 never made choices for you. I think this is a misconception. You made the choices and the game simply played them out.
For example: A lot of people say they were annoyed that their sims would not want to clean and that the game felt like it was intrusive. But in reality, they are the ones who made their sims either "lazy" or "sloppy". The Sims 2 and 3 doesn't make choices for you, you choose the sims personality in the CAS, the game then plays it out for you.
Another example: If you want two sims to get together then give them compatible traits and aspirations? You have the choice. If you want two sims to like each other but you give them conflicting traits, then that's your fault, the game is basically doing what you chose.
The problem with the Sims 4 is not that it doesn't make choices for you. It is that it doesn't play out your choices. If I choose my sim to be mean, then I want them to do mean stuff, if I want my two sims to not get along because of their traits then I want to actually see them argue.
So yeah, Sims 2 and 3: You make the choices, the game plays them out
Sims 4: You make choices, the game ignores them and you have to manually instigate them and imagine they happened naturally.
For example: A lot of people say they were annoyed that their sims would not want to clean and that the game felt like it was intrusive. But in reality, they are the ones who made their sims either "lazy" or "sloppy". The Sims 2 and 3 doesn't make choices for you, you choose the sims personality in the CAS, the game then plays it out for you.
Another example: If you want two sims to get together then give them compatible traits and aspirations? You have the choice. If you want two sims to like each other but you give them conflicting traits, then that's your fault, the game is basically doing what you chose.
The problem with the Sims 4 is not that it doesn't make choices for you. It is that it doesn't play out your choices. If I choose my sim to be mean, then I want them to do mean stuff, if I want my two sims to not get along because of their traits then I want to actually see them argue.
So yeah, Sims 2 and 3: You make the choices, the game plays them out
Sims 4: You make choices, the game ignores them and you have to manually instigate them and imagine they happened naturally.
