The Sims in the mainstream media

"Sallycutecat;c-17829572" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-17829315" wrote:

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.

The Sims 4 is a game. It was never intended to replicate real life. For me Sims 4 is an escape from having to deal with unexpected events that happen in real life. I can plan what will happen in the game and it usually goes exactly how I planned. I don't have some unexpected event ruin it all for me. I do not find things not going to plan fun at all. To have such a thing happen would be taking away player control.

Do things really go your way in TS4? Are there never visitors who show up at your Sim house you wish didn't show up? c'mon, life is full of surprises and hardships. TS4 has it, too, but on a much smaller, neater, happier scale. You can't tell me just when you planned a perfect screenshot of something in TS4 another Sim you were not controlling didn't ever step into the picture and ruin it...well, maybe that might be true in TS4 since the camera options are so limited.

A townie never interrupted your Sim in TS4? Surely you have seen it, when you had plans for your Sim to just stand and talk to one Sim on a community lot that you were hoping to build up a relationship? TS4 does have 'life' in it, but not as disruptive as the other games, but it's not exactly true that the player is never interrupted from the fine laid plans they started out to do.

I'm convinced what people really mean is Motives are no longer a thing they have to deal with so much so they find the game more enjoyable not that there is nothing that ever happens to mess up the player's immediate plans because even TS4 throws in some monkey wrenches to throw the player off track, once in awhile. If someone is playing to escape life then all Sims would just stand and wait for your Sim to interact with it, but TS4 isn't built that way at all but overly social Sims who butt into everything. So, it's not exactly true to say TS4 is an escape or you would just be pushing around one Sim go here, go here, go here etc. and that be the end of it. If anyone is playing to escape 'life' then the Sims would not even have any emotions at all, and or interactions and or want or need anything...that is life, the problem to me is TS4 is too neat, pretty, and Sims are way too happy, so many hated the patch that added more emotion and time to a death in a household, so much so they went back to not caring at all just like when the game was first released.