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Do you wish The Sims 4 would push more towards the Teen rating?
sims2freak737
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Hey Simmers. I feel like The Sims 4 hasn't been pushing the Teen rating quite like other generations of The Sims and I was wondering if anyone else felt this as well. The recent survey had a question about which things you enjoyed from previous Sims games and under "Other" I said the male/female cake dancers from The Sims House Party. All of the sudden I started taking a look at The Sims 4 and felt it doesn't quite play with the risky humor like The Sims 1-3. It seems to take a more family friendly approach. Even the trailers seem toned down. For example, The Sims 3 University Life trailer with Sims making out and WooHooing all over the place, or Island Paradise mentioning building a "watery love nest" where you can make the mistakes that will haunt you for a lifetime?
Remember The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff with all the new lingerie and underwear, The Sims 3 Late Night with Sims dancing on the tables and getting into bar fights, the Vibromatic Heart Bed from Sims - Sims 3, the suggestive Claire the Bear from Hot Date.
I'm sure there's more that I'm missing but I was just curious if anyone else would like The Sims 4 to be a little more bold with their Teen rating.
Remember The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff with all the new lingerie and underwear, The Sims 3 Late Night with Sims dancing on the tables and getting into bar fights, the Vibromatic Heart Bed from Sims - Sims 3, the suggestive Claire the Bear from Hot Date.
I'm sure there's more that I'm missing but I was just curious if anyone else would like The Sims 4 to be a little more bold with their Teen rating.
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I'm a fully grown and multi-faceted mature adult with a crazy sense of humor, and one-dimensional overly limited repetitive cardboard sims doesn't even really feel like gameplay at all. It's ridiculous that I can't be the grownup that I am whenever I want, I don't need a video game nanny to protect me from the cruel cruel world, and I hate living in bubble wrap.
It's my life and I want to be able to do whatever I want in my own game. I'm talking within reason of course, and I would love to see real adults return to the Sims the way we used to have them. It's a lot less drama and fun without it.
Remember when a boob slider was unthinkable? Or breast feeding. It was like oh it would push the teen rating. Clubs that can woohoo anyone and everyone isn't a T for teen game. Vampires that can feed and kill. Too much for teens. The cake dancers were so tame compared to what we have now.
I can make a trans man with a club of kids to clean his/or her (pronouns) house and it's all good.
So yeah, it's not like it used to be.
I'm not quite sure if you're being sarcastic or not haha
I've been playing The Sims for years since the first game (not exactly a Bob Newbie here) and I would still consider breast sliders, breast feeding and transgender Sims fairly tame in the world today. Those are more cultural aspects that have just changed over time and become more accepted and understood by society in real life and thus being added to a life simulation game. The cake dancers back in the early 2000's were probably considered a little more risky and fit the teen rating. I played at 12 or 13 years old and remember thinking it was funny but not quite grasping I was hiring male/female adult entertainer for my Sims' parties. Plus the music that played as they danced, their revealing outfits, the song that would play during a passionate kiss in The Sims, or the "raunchy" video that would play for a Sims' first Woohoo in The Sims 2, or the male/female entertainers you could hire for a bachelor(ette) party in The Sims 3 Generations wouldn't dare be added to The Sims 4 today.
Sure the little pixelated cake dancers seem tame now, but if those exact Sims were created identically with the same outfits, animations, simlish and music for The Sims 4, it would probably be scrapped or toned down to a more family friendly scene.
The Sims 2 First Woohoo Video:
The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff trailer:
Sims 4 couch makeout:
Sims 2 couch makeout:
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This is the worst thing about sims 4. I like the game anyway, but it lost it's insane humour and, as you so well said, they stoped being bold. I don't know how much this teen rating can hold them, or if they just push the trends of political correctness to the max, but i miss that part of the game. I think that's why this iteration gets more hate than others. Life needs that part. And so do the sims.
By their logic (which is true), they don't need to "waste" resources or money on anything you mentioned because players are willing to buy whatever they throw at us, regardless of the quality... sadly, we allow this to happen over and over again. Since the beginning, we've proven to them that we'd buy anything Sims related, so they figure they could release packs with less and less content/features every time.
It's sad, but true... us players are (unfortunately) partially responsible for EA's laziness and greediness. They noticed a trend that we set and have taken advantage of it ever since... and now the packs are lacking quality because they know we'll buy them anyway.
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