I even more not embarrassed as I'm more than double this and still don't feel mature in many ways. Age is a bit of an illusion and it's only your bones that age, in my experience anyway!
Embarrassed by playing Sims 4 in your 30s plus?
It must be true because scientists say it......
People are not full adults until their 30s, scientists say.................
"‘There isn’t a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they’re on a trajectory’.....................“What we’re really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd,” Professor Peter Jones, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, told journalists at an event in London.
“It’s a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."
I agree with this. I'm nearly 22 and I still feel emotionally immature. I feel like your adult life REALLY starts at 30 nowadays (we millennials don't want to grow up!), but that may just be me. Everyone matures at their own pace - years ago people got married and started having children as young as 13.
From what I've heard, the human brain generally finishes developing at the age of 25.
I even more not embarrassed as I'm more than double this and still don't feel mature in many ways. Age is a bit of an illusion and it's only your bones that age, in my experience anyway!
I've always adopted the notion 'you're as old as you feel.' Sometimes I feel 82, other times way younger. Body is older, brain is just fine, despite what it has been through. I thank the Maker for that.
Embarrassed by playing Sims 4 in your 30s plus?
It must be true because scientists say it......
People are not full adults until their 30s, scientists say.................
"‘There isn’t a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they’re on a trajectory’.....................“What we’re really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd,” Professor Peter Jones, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, told journalists at an event in London.
“It’s a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."
I agree with this. I'm nearly 22 and I still feel emotionally immature. I feel like your adult life REALLY starts at 30 nowadays (we millennials don't want to grow up!), but that may just be me. Everyone matures at their own pace - years ago people got married and started having children as young as 13.
From what I've heard, the human brain generally finishes developing at the age of 25.
That could be true on it's face, but one is never too old to learn.
Embarrassed by playing Sims 4 in your 30s plus?
It must be true because scientists say it......
People are not full adults until their 30s, scientists say.................
"‘There isn’t a childhood and then an adulthood. People are on a pathway, they’re on a trajectory’.....................“What we’re really saying is that to have a definition of when you move from childhood to adulthood looks increasingly absurd,” Professor Peter Jones, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, told journalists at an event in London.
“It’s a much more nuanced transition that takes place over three decades."
I agree with this. I'm nearly 22 and I still feel emotionally immature. I feel like your adult life REALLY starts at 30 nowadays (we millennials don't want to grow up!), but that may just be me. Everyone matures at their own pace - years ago people got married and started having children as young as 13.
From what I've heard, the human brain generally finishes developing at the age of 25.
Perhaps we should all start referring to you as Peter … Seriously, I allowed myself to be a child until I was 21. I got married at 19, and was mature enough for the task, evidence being we just celebrated our 45th anniversary. I'm an Empty Nester again, these days and just love to have some fun. So, I play my game, or I'm over here reading threads that look interesting.
I love that there is such an age diversity! To me Sims/gaming is a hobbie, and hobbies don't have age limits.
I would love to see some data on whether different aged simmers get different things out of playing, or enjoy different aspects of the game, that would be interesting.
Let's just say I'm pushing 60. I started playing with Sims 2. Never tried Sims 3. I'm enjoying 4, but miss some of the richness of character from Sims 2 and the Sim 2 babies. I like the Sims 4 worlds and hope to add more expansion packs soon.
I'm 50. I'm glad to see I'm not the only "mature" gamer here. I only started gaming few years ago and I've been loving it ever since.
No, you're not. I've got fourteen years on you. But I am dismayed that EA seems to be softening the game to suit the much younger crowd. I want ghosts to be ghosts as they were in Sims2. Yes, it's hard to lose a favorite Sim, but there's always the classic restart. I view it like I do writing. No matter how fine the manuscript, there's always a revision/rewrite/edit to be had to make it better.
Let's just say I'm pushing 60. I started playing with Sims 2. Never tried Sims 3. I'm enjoying 4, but miss some of the richness of character from Sims 2 and the Sim 2 babies. I like the Sims 4 worlds and hope to add more expansion packs soon.
Oh, I couldn't agree with you more. Especially how, if you played with the baby too soon after a feeding (and failed to burp them) they would managed to spit up all over the Sim holding them. It was uproarious and so much fun.
Mid -20s here! Have been playing since start of TS1.
Played a couple of years in to TS3, but didn't enjoy it as much as TS2 so went ba to that. After working, doing a degree and starting a family, I finally started playing TS4 in December last year.
I've tried to introduce my 3 year old to the Sims but she's not so fussed about it, unless my families have babies as then she likes playing with the toddlers!
With the new rebranding for TS4, it's clear more than ever that they're targeting the game to a younger audience. All the Sims on the main menu are young adults, doing young adult things and that seems kinda lame IMO. The previous Sims were at least different ages and had different personalities. It's like they ignore older Simmers on purpose.
Doesn't surprise me that most of simmers are around my age for some reason, it's nice to know, I guessed before answering and was right.
I played The Sims first time in 2000 with my friend because she wanted to install it to our computer so we could play it and 2001 had bought/got as a present my own expansions for that (that time we would share them, because didn't have money to buy everything and had them installed in each others computers).
The Sims 2 was after that and that I have played the most, I played that until I bought The Sims 4 in 2015. I thought about installing The Sims 2 again with The Sims 4 at first because it was missing many things back then, but I didn't have much time to play anyways so I never did, and now there is no need even. Still don't have too much time to play, because of life.. but also can't let my self play at times even if I had time, which is unreasonable.
Also have played some The Sims 2 for PS 2 and The Urbz: Sims in the City. The Sims 3, I've only played in CAS a little and just watched others play it because I just couldn't get into it.
The Sims games are something that I can just play all years, they have just the right things for me that some other games can't offer, even though I do like other kind of games a lot too and wish that I could spend more time playing other games also.
I'm 21, and I've actually only been playing since November. I wanted to before then, but I didn't have a good enough laptop until I got a new one as an early Christmas/birthday present (my birthday is in December).
I have to say that by the time I was introduced to Sims2, making my purchase of the game through my hubby's prodding, surprisingly enough, it already had the University pack out and Night Life was due out that fall. I didn't have to fuss with just a base game for too long, as a result. I wouldn't have actually realized what I was missing, as Sims2 was my first serious venture into the realm of gaming. Welcome aboard!
I'm actually surprised that the 40-59 & 60+ percentages aren't higher... simming is such a great hobby and might actually have more appeal the older I get. You can make it challenging, creative or relaxing. I wonder how many people who don't use the forums play.
With the new rebranding for TS4, it's clear more than ever that they're targeting the game to a younger audience. All the Sims on the main menu are young adults, doing young adult things and that seems kinda lame IMO. The previous Sims were at least different ages and had different personalities. It's like they ignore older Simmers on purpose.
And this comes from a 21-year-old.
I remember back in the good ol' days of Sims 2 how they always made sure every age stage was represented. I think it is weird how focused they are on YAs now, I think all of the stages are important.
I am 23 now and I've been around since TS1. I think I was 8 when I got it. I remember when I bought the Sims 2 basegame that a T-shirt came with it with the sims logo on it. Back then when I got it, it so was big that it reached my ankles like a long dress. Today it is a tight-fitting T-shirt. Funny how time goes on.
I'm 50 and have been playing ever since the series started and quickly realise that there is a whole range of us playing, it really is terrific how one pastime can bring everyone together like this, love it
28 over here, I started playing this game when I was close to nine years old. I think that I'll stop playing only the moment they stop creating sims and my computer system doesn't support the games anymore or something.
Huh, @DiamondPandaDP , I thought it ended when you technically became an adult, at 18.
Guess I must be technically incorrect (technically impossible though).
@TotallyABrobot Teen is a descriptor of age, the life stage is technically adolescent. Because they overlap a lot when it comes to age brackets, teen is often used as a synonym for adolescent (which ends at the point of becoming an adult, so at 18). You can be a teen and an adult at the same time, but not an adolescent and adult.
With the new rebranding for TS4, it's clear more than ever that they're targeting the game to a younger audience. All the Sims on the main menu are young adults, doing young adult things and that seems kinda lame IMO. The previous Sims were at least different ages and had different personalities. It's like they ignore older Simmers on purpose.
And this comes from a 21-year-old.
I remember back in the good ol' days of Sims 2 how they always made sure every age stage was represented. I think it is weird how focused they are on YAs now, I think all of the stages are important.
I am 23 now and I've been around since TS1. I think I was 8 when I got it. I remember when I bought the Sims 2 basegame that a T-shirt came with it with the sims logo on it. Back then when I got it, it so was big that it reached my ankles like a long dress. Today it is a tight-fitting T-shirt. Funny how time goes on.
I would love a The Sims T-shirt! Maybe with a big plumbob or several plumbobs on it.
26 years of age right now and I began playing when I was still in elementary school.
I’m still waiting for the day Maxis creates a successor of The Sims 2 with a semi-open world game. Not fully open world like The Sims 4, cars that can open doors, clothes shopping and grocery shopping.
How about seamlessly entering and leaving lots within your block and only load screens if you’re traveling in a different town?...
I’d like some of the mature tongue in cheek content from The Sims 1 brought back.
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I've always adopted the notion 'you're as old as you feel.' Sometimes I feel 82, other times way younger. Body is older, brain is just fine, despite what it has been through. I thank the Maker for that.
That could be true on it's face, but one is never too old to learn.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
Perhaps we should all start referring to you as Peter … Seriously, I allowed myself to be a child until I was 21. I got married at 19, and was mature enough for the task, evidence being we just celebrated our 45th anniversary. I'm an Empty Nester again, these days and just love to have some fun. So, I play my game, or I'm over here reading threads that look interesting.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
I would love to see some data on whether different aged simmers get different things out of playing, or enjoy different aspects of the game, that would be interesting.
No, you're not. I've got fourteen years on you.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
Oh, I couldn't agree with you more. Especially how, if you played with the baby too soon after a feeding (and failed to burp them) they would managed to spit up all over the Sim holding them. It was uproarious and so much fun.
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
> huh, seems like there aren't many teens here! this makes me relieved to know i won't love my love for the sims as i age :)
lose my love... nice one
Played a couple of years in to TS3, but didn't enjoy it as much as TS2 so went ba to that. After working, doing a degree and starting a family, I finally started playing TS4 in December last year.
I've tried to introduce my 3 year old to the Sims but she's not so fussed about it, unless my families have babies as then she likes playing with the toddlers!
And this comes from a 21-year-old.
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I played The Sims first time in 2000 with my friend because she wanted to install it to our computer so we could play it and 2001 had bought/got as a present my own expansions for that (that time we would share them, because didn't have money to buy everything and had them installed in each others computers).
The Sims 2 was after that and that I have played the most, I played that until I bought The Sims 4 in 2015. I thought about installing The Sims 2 again with The Sims 4 at first because it was missing many things back then, but I didn't have much time to play anyways so I never did, and now there is no need even. Still don't have too much time to play, because of life.. but also can't let my self play at times even if I had time, which is unreasonable.
Also have played some The Sims 2 for PS 2 and The Urbz: Sims in the City. The Sims 3, I've only played in CAS a little and just watched others play it because I just couldn't get into it.
The Sims games are something that I can just play all years, they have just the right things for me that some other games can't offer, even though I do like other kind of games a lot too and wish that I could spend more time playing other games also.
https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/public/616a83a072616b1d18fb3268
http://www.getfreeebooks.com/star-trek-original-series-fan-fiction-trilogy/
I remember back in the good ol' days of Sims 2 how they always made sure every age stage was represented. I think it is weird how focused they are on YAs now, I think all of the stages are important.
I am 23 now and I've been around since TS1. I think I was 8 when I got it. I remember when I bought the Sims 2 basegame that a T-shirt came with it with the sims logo on it. Back then when I got it, it so was big that it reached my ankles like a long dress. Today it is a tight-fitting T-shirt. Funny how time goes on.
@TotallyABrobot Teen is a descriptor of age, the life stage is technically adolescent. Because they overlap a lot when it comes to age brackets, teen is often used as a synonym for adolescent (which ends at the point of becoming an adult, so at 18). You can be a teen and an adult at the same time, but not an adolescent and adult.
I would love a The Sims T-shirt! Maybe with a big plumbob or several plumbobs on it.
Check out my SimLit blog here: https://ageekylegacy.wordpress.com/
Follow me on Twitter @divanthesimmer
Follow me on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/divanthesimmer
Origin ID: divanthesimmer
I’m still waiting for the day Maxis creates a successor of The Sims 2 with a semi-open world game. Not fully open world like The Sims 4, cars that can open doors, clothes shopping and grocery shopping.
How about seamlessly entering and leaving lots within your block and only load screens if you’re traveling in a different town?...
I’d like some of the mature tongue in cheek content from The Sims 1 brought back.
That’s just my opinion at the end of the day.