Adult fans of The Sims.
Should they be catered for? One of my concerns with TS4 is that it is aimed at the younger crowds which is all very well but that age group will grow up at times and adding to the ever growing adult fans. I am not saying that the game as to be all mature but it should be taken into account that there are a lot of adult players.
Considering that the game is 20 years old this year there is now people still playing the game who have aged 20 years. These players are more likely to only the older games rather than the brash humour of TS4 but they are a valuable market. I would like the next Sims game to take AFOTS into account and not just focus on the preteens who might only get bored of the game after a year or two.
Creative features are defiantly requested by mature players. Silly walk styles and potty humour are not. We are players with money and EA will do well if they started to cater more for the AFOTS.
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But I belive that the Sims could take advantage of multi-pack nature to cater both. With something like flavor packs, like an adult flavor pack with adult patches. So there could be two flavor versions of the game.
Adult fans of The Sims. I didn't know either, but it's mentioned in the original post. so I think it is what it means
Good suggestion
Adult fans of The Sims
The most ranchy game that we ever had was TS1 if you have ever seen this:
I would love for them to stop trying to be ''trendy'' with the kids
but I also don't want game to become ridiculously ''mature'' to point of immature
like just fun timeless game that appeals with quality
not with ''being hip and cool''
back in ts1 and 2 days it didn't really bother me cause I was kid myself and now it just feels nostalgic
but like with ts3 and 4 the popculture and modern stuffs really irritate me for reason or another
and there is hardly a way to ignore all the modernities and just play like good old sims game
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The Sims is a sandbox which means a wide variety of scenarios and options is needed yet this game is strictly providing players with modern day era type play and that's annoying when the type of era you want to play in doesn't require tech for everything or the style provided doesn't fit. Especially if you're a player who doesn't use CC. There aren't a lot of options to break out and do something different unless you use CC and find the right mods, assuming the right mods exist.
I'm still in my 20's and it's annoying as heck that in The Sims 4 and The Sims 3 my sims are stuck with cell phones I never wanted them to have and that they can't abandon somewhere or throw away. I like landlines for some of my sims. I like the calender but I'd rather have my sims stick with a wall or desk calender or a little day planner. I'd rather my sims write little notes and letters and rarely send a text. I just need them to think outside the modern day, 21st century box.
I also like the little things, the level of detail in the animations of Sims 2. More creative control like editing textures and colors, placing new lots, the click and pull in CAS, and much more. I'm not saying they haven't done some good things in the current iteration but people who've played one or more of the previous games, the older players, know certain things can be better and that some mistakes they shouldn't still be making and should've learned from.
It's not just us not being satisfied because we're bitter or us putting on rose colored glasses and soaking in nostalgia when it comes to the old games. Present a better level of quality than the best all the games have to offer instead of pretending the previous games were worse than the current.
Well, it is said that history moves in a pendulum-like way. There are times of liberalization and times of strenghtening of social norms. And we DO are in a strenghtening one, because all the new changes (like our definition of marriage and what is proper in general) follows the current social norms, and even more, you can change them without a strong moral justification.
For exampe, In games the introduction of gender diversity is not being done due to liberalization, is being done to adjust games to the current social code. Its adjusting games to what is "right" and lawful. So we didn't go back to the 1950's we moved forward to the 2010's. I mean, we went from a hardening of norms period (the 50's) to a liberalization period and then to back to another hardening period. We move pendulum like.
Bachelor parties? The Sims 4 could never!
Look at those facial expressions. The emotions... the happiness of each Sim. None of this emotions system was ever needed. In my opinion... these Sims were a lot smarter back then.
I don't want an "adult-rated" game like The Witcher. If I want to play that fantastic game, I'll open it up. I just want the original feel of The Sims back in the franchise again.
This exactly from me too haha
The whole dying of emotions (embarrassment, hysterical laughter, etc.) is just ridiculous, which is why it's the first thing I modded out of my game. It's catering to the tween set. And as the OP pointed out, those same tweens tend to get bored after a short while, and then the ones left playing are going to be the long-time Simming adult audience. And you know what? Almost everyone I know has modded out those emotional deaths, because they were just absurd to begin with.
Tweens also do NOT have the disposable income that older adults might have. Sure, we have bills to pay, but we have INCOME, which tweens generally don't have.
I also completely agree with @Hestia: Sims in Sims 3 expressed emotions JUST fine. The Sims in that game have a lot more personality. I feel like I'm playing with mood swings, not with real personalities with my Sims in Sims 4.
And if you're wondering, I like both games pretty close to equally. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, although the fact that Sims 3 is a memory hog, takes about 15 minutes to launch, 5 minutes to save a game, and it often lags and/or crashes because the internal database of the game was poorly designed, has recently been making Sims 4 the one I play most, even though I really prefer the game play in Sims 3.
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You nailed it.
The last time that I died from embarrassment was after watching the TS4 preview back in 2014. That was just shocking!
I remember in TS1 that if an outgoing Sim was the first to go into a hot tub then they would go in naked and all other Sims getting in would also be naked. It was one of those things that you just had to try!
lol, you need to watch the ingame video in TS2 of woohoo with a Sim for the first time. It's pretty heavy compared to the high fives and giggles and cheers of TS4. Youtube removed it from one player's channel, it was considered too graphic for today.
lol I remember the streaking one when a Sim started at University and their parent would facepalm and when the Sim graduated and turned into an adult they would facepalm.
Now I just facepalm at Youtube