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...
Forum Discussion
I would like someone who states TS4 gives them more control over their Sim to please explain this because in the three years I did play TS4 regularly I didn't see it.
There were times I turned off freewill, (you can also turn off freewill in all the other three games) they still got up out of a seat I had commanded they stay put and move to interfere with the Sims I was filming or taking screen shots about and or just playing for a moment. They couldn't even stay seated for two seconds. Freewill Off.
In other instances how did I have anymore control over a TS4 Sim when I was making them all have a lovely dinner when one or two (freewill on) would jump up and run outside to go hug a Sim passing the house and or go up three flights off stairs to a third or fourth level to sit on a bed?
I'm sorry no, TS4 does not give the player more control. What it is infamous about is it never presents the player with any life simulation situations like TS2 or even TS3 did.
It's not a life simulator because we all know stuff happens in life we were not expecting...and in real life we have to deal with it. TS4 has very little of this type of life simulation.
TS4 is a glorified dress up game, where you play out an avatar and hope your evil, mean, monster Sim doesn't want to hug their arch enemy. Or where the cheating spouse or partner (if not married) can get away with making the other Sim a doormat. It's almost like the wife saying, 'oh, your girlfriend is so lovely, I hope she likes me, too, and we become friends.' :o
It's really nothing more than a way to skill, level up, and gain a goal and then drop all that and start another when a new pack comes out. TS4 Sims don't even Know or Care they filled any aspiration and you know what they don't even talk about them or if they ever did gain one, they don't even mention it to other Sims...life simulator is a joke when it comes to TS4.
And most of the things that people talk about in TS4 is imagined. None of it actually happened, TS2 can rest assured that yes, someone did cheat and someone is mad for weeks and someone does know about it, and someone did go punch somebody over it. TS4 is like a stage where players take screen shots and pretend any of this even happened. That is not the only way to play but it is also a fact Sims in TS4 don't even have a thought bubble about anyone else on their minds..because they don't have one.
I don't have to fill aspirations in TS2, I haven't done that part in years. They dance to my tune. TS4 doesn't even care if the Sim nor does the Sim care if you fill any of their own wants and wishes or dreams. They don't have enough AI to even know they are just being pushed around by a player. In TS2 Sims are miserable for a time if they don't fill an aspiration (it's their life not yours) or go to college and or get an A or whatever it might be. Or get married, have grandkids or whatever. The player doesn't have to do any of this but the Sim is very aware you didn't do it. In TS4 Sims are like oh, there is a cup on the table, I'm very happy.
ETA: But I was in control, I chose what they would care about when I built them in Bodyshop (looks) and in CAS (attributes to personality). So, I had all the control of what they would feel if I didn't do any of it...that is player control. Whether I fill or live up to any of what I chose, I chose what those things would be to bother them or make them happy so I had control from the date of creation of them.
There were times I turned off freewill, (you can also turn off freewill in all the other three games) they still got up out of a seat I had commanded they stay put and move to interfere with the Sims I was filming or taking screen shots about and or just playing for a moment. They couldn't even stay seated for two seconds. Freewill Off.
In other instances how did I have anymore control over a TS4 Sim when I was making them all have a lovely dinner when one or two (freewill on) would jump up and run outside to go hug a Sim passing the house and or go up three flights off stairs to a third or fourth level to sit on a bed?
I'm sorry no, TS4 does not give the player more control. What it is infamous about is it never presents the player with any life simulation situations like TS2 or even TS3 did.
It's not a life simulator because we all know stuff happens in life we were not expecting...and in real life we have to deal with it. TS4 has very little of this type of life simulation.
TS4 is a glorified dress up game, where you play out an avatar and hope your evil, mean, monster Sim doesn't want to hug their arch enemy. Or where the cheating spouse or partner (if not married) can get away with making the other Sim a doormat. It's almost like the wife saying, 'oh, your girlfriend is so lovely, I hope she likes me, too, and we become friends.' :o
It's really nothing more than a way to skill, level up, and gain a goal and then drop all that and start another when a new pack comes out. TS4 Sims don't even Know or Care they filled any aspiration and you know what they don't even talk about them or if they ever did gain one, they don't even mention it to other Sims...life simulator is a joke when it comes to TS4.
And most of the things that people talk about in TS4 is imagined. None of it actually happened, TS2 can rest assured that yes, someone did cheat and someone is mad for weeks and someone does know about it, and someone did go punch somebody over it. TS4 is like a stage where players take screen shots and pretend any of this even happened. That is not the only way to play but it is also a fact Sims in TS4 don't even have a thought bubble about anyone else on their minds..because they don't have one.
I don't have to fill aspirations in TS2, I haven't done that part in years. They dance to my tune. TS4 doesn't even care if the Sim nor does the Sim care if you fill any of their own wants and wishes or dreams. They don't have enough AI to even know they are just being pushed around by a player. In TS2 Sims are miserable for a time if they don't fill an aspiration (it's their life not yours) or go to college and or get an A or whatever it might be. Or get married, have grandkids or whatever. The player doesn't have to do any of this but the Sim is very aware you didn't do it. In TS4 Sims are like oh, there is a cup on the table, I'm very happy.
ETA: But I was in control, I chose what they would care about when I built them in Bodyshop (looks) and in CAS (attributes to personality). So, I had all the control of what they would feel if I didn't do any of it...that is player control. Whether I fill or live up to any of what I chose, I chose what those things would be to bother them or make them happy so I had control from the date of creation of them.
