I have a mix of people I play as but the most common characters I play are a white female who lives with her girlfriend, a white male who lives with his wife and two daughters and a mixed race female who lives with her pet dog.
Hm. I suppose I usually do the sterotypical white female myself, but I noticed I do not pay as much attention as I thought to race in particular (so I doubt I paid more attention to it in my childhood Sims games). When I looked through my library to check there was more diversity than I expected after thinking about it. I just found, randomized, and designed until a Sim looked pretty to me.
In fact, my main favorite Sim had arguably Asian skin until the Vampire pack. Now I normally play occults and she is ghostly white. Her de facto "husband" leads to a mixed race marriage, but kind of like the OP pointed out this would not be odd to me because it is in my own family.
Honestly? This might be a little corny, but I tend to create Sims based on celebrities/characters I enjoy, and tbh they tend to be white. As far as gender goes, I don't tend to lean toward one or the other - I simply choose which person I feel like being at that moment.
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All kinds of people. Why limit yourself to one gender or race when the game offers so many other opportunities to explore.
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Why limit yourself to one gender or race when the game offers so many other opportunities to explore.
Sure, but everyone plays their own game.
Yes they do and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I was not passing judgement but merely saying there are alternatives to explore should anyone want to.
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I am an elderly Japanese/English female and make only male sims with the exception of making three versions of my SS (YA, Adult and Elder) although my favourite is the elder version who is often added to the active household as live-in nanny. My sims are predominantly white because my eyesight is failing and I want to be able to see my sims' facial expressions. Although my males live as married couples and have children I don't see them as gay. For me it's a means to an end because I don't want to play female sims but want to play generational saves and love raising sims from birth to grave.
In real life: As per my user-name. I'm an Asian (male) and my wife (in real life - I'm straight) is Caucasian (of Irish descent). Since I play Sims 3...as you can tell by my avatar and my sig that I tend to gravitate towards River McIrish. Which is essentially just like in real life. My wife is a redhead. On top of that she supports my Sims Addiction.
...So...the upshot is...
I play what I know.
Plus on top of that, I'm OLD. Just to give you an idea. I missed the Neil Armstrong moon landing by 327 days. So. I play my sims as young adults to recapture my misbegotten youth.
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Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
I'm a half & half mexican/white woman ....and probably older than you simmer. If I'm making my own story I'll usually make a guy with darkish hair and a good or skinny build to be my main character. They are usually white to tan. Sometimes they are deathly white if I'm going all Tim Burton which I do fairly often. They are usually but not always hetero. I do make other types but it's my go too especially if I'm just dabbling in playing.
Otherwise I create or download and play my favorite characters from tv and movies and video games and the race, age and gender are all over the place there but usually teen and up.
I'm part English/French/Sottish/German/Prairie Cree woman.
I make a lot of mixed race females & some very muscular tanned & dark skin males.
I also love to give some of my sims a mixed hybrid occult traits.
Most of my human sims have tanned, copper & brown skin tones cause I don't like pale ivory skin tone which I have.
I'm a white woman, I mostly play kids and tots, but overall my families are quite a variety of races. Not sure if some are more common than others, they are pretty all over the place. The only think I do is make sure they don't look anything like me. I hate the idea of playing with myself in the game, it's not that I dislike how I look, it's just that I find it weird to have another cartoon version of myself haha. The real me is the only me!
I'm white and nonbinary and I play anything and everything in both TS2 and a very heavily Modded TS3 which is played rotationally with my playing the entire town like in TS2.I was female at birth and found I didn't quite identify with that gender at about three years of age when I deicded to become a boy for a few monthes.I used to switch genders from boy to girl inermittantly growing up.
I'm a white male, but I tend to create all races pretty much equally...I just think it makes the game more interesting to have variety. My latest Sims are a young black couple. The wife is an aspiring artist, and she's doing quite well. I still haven't decided on the husband's vocation. I gave him all of the right traits to become financially successful, I just have to figure out which career to place him in
I used to default to playing as white female sims. While I still usually play as female sims over male sims (I suppose I gravitate towards female sims because I am female) but I do try to mix it up and create a sim that is completely different to the last one I made.
I also had the issue of doing 'same face' all the time, where you'd often select certain features or styles without really thinking too much into it. To avoid this, I like to use those reference images of men and women around the world, and it's helped me to create sims that don't all look the same as each other, and since doing that, I've grown really fond of the sims that I create.
It also depends on what packs comes out. For example, when Island Living came out, I knew that there was a lot of inspiration drawn from Polynesian culture, so I researched the culture before creating any sims.
Here's a few of my sims that I've recently played:
I just need to get into the habit of creating sims with different body types, because I've noticed that I don't create enough variety when it comes to shape and size.
Sims 4 Wish List:
> Option to toggle on/off random townie generation.
> Turn vacation worlds into residential worlds.
> Option to purchase separate worlds or a world pack.
I play everything from Sims with the palest white skin to the darkest ebony skin (as well as blue and other colors). I tend to prefer the more extreme cc skin tones. My game is probably half female and half male.
Admittedly the sims I play with aren't very diverse. Basically all of them are usually generic model white sims, don't really know why but I just do. Some sort of imposter thing or something I guess, I always feel like playing with darker sims is for darker players. I made some Caribbean sims for Sulani a while back and that was fun though
All kinds of people. Why limit yourself to one gender or race when the game offers so many other opportunities to explore.
No it doesn't. TS4 sims are all the same. There is nothing different about them or any tradition and or actions or beliefs and or repsonses or reactions or interactions or anything. Changing hair, body type and or skin color doesn't make a game diverse nor represent anyone. Fluff doesn't offer "so many other opportunities" at all.
And the comment right above mine claiming they are all white Sims is remarkable that anyone would think a moodlet was a white thing. No, the problem with The Sims these days is there is no personality or trait and or belief or root of the Sim that would make them seem any different than the next one.
If people want diversity they are going to have to come to terms with no two people are alike. They all have different value systems, different traditions, different deep seeded beliefs, faiths, and desires of where they are headed. Visuals will never make a game diverse until Maxis addresses these things. And if they want to pretend this game is diverse then ok, but no two Sims are different in TS4, to say the least, and until they accept there are billions of other people who don't believe nor think like others and also add them to the game, then this whole diverse gameplay nonsense is just that. ETA: And to tie this into the topic of which gender and which race, it really doesn't matter does it? because they are still the same Sim.
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"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
I don't "play as" any Sim. I like making a Sim and playing the game with it. I think of them as Sims and not a human race.
I make either gender and pick a color, usually what the game starts with or which goes with the face I create. Most of the the Sims I make are not what some would call "normal."
I don't "play as" any Sim. I like making a Sim and playing the game with it. I think of them as Sims and not a human race.
I make either gender and pick a color, usually what the game starts with or which goes with the face I create. Most of the the Sims I make are not what some would call "normal."
I have never seen Sims as the human race, either. It's why it's not hard for me to make some of them suffer. I have always held them out at arm's length. They aren't real to me and never will be. I don't play as a Sim, either and never have and never will. It's healthy not to see me and or my friends and or people I know in the game, it's all abstract to me and actually much more fun to me in The Sims original and all others if someone doesn't play as themself and or seeing them as humans...that will certanly hinder a lot of unexplored gameplay in my opinion. And frankly I think it's very mentally unhealthy to think that is ourselves in the game. It's one reason I don't need representation in a game..it's a game, and they aren't real, it seems only TS4 is the representation game.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
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In fact, my main favorite Sim had arguably Asian skin until the Vampire pack. Now I normally play occults and she is ghostly white. Her de facto "husband" leads to a mixed race marriage, but kind of like the OP pointed out this would not be odd to me because it is in my own family.
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Sure, but everyone plays their own game.
Yes they do and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I was not passing judgement but merely saying there are alternatives to explore should anyone want to.
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...So...the upshot is...
I play what I know.
Plus on top of that, I'm OLD. Just to give you an idea. I missed the Neil Armstrong moon landing by 327 days. So. I play my sims as young adults to recapture my misbegotten youth.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Otherwise I create or download and play my favorite characters from tv and movies and video games and the race, age and gender are all over the place there but usually teen and up.
I make a lot of mixed race females & some very muscular tanned & dark skin males.
I also love to give some of my sims a mixed hybrid occult traits.
Most of my human sims have tanned, copper & brown skin tones cause I don't like pale ivory skin tone which I have.
my favorite sim is male I'm female
I also had the issue of doing 'same face' all the time, where you'd often select certain features or styles without really thinking too much into it. To avoid this, I like to use those reference images of men and women around the world, and it's helped me to create sims that don't all look the same as each other, and since doing that, I've grown really fond of the sims that I create.
It also depends on what packs comes out. For example, when Island Living came out, I knew that there was a lot of inspiration drawn from Polynesian culture, so I researched the culture before creating any sims.
Here's a few of my sims that I've recently played:
I just need to get into the habit of creating sims with different body types, because I've noticed that I don't create enough variety when it comes to shape and size.
No it doesn't. TS4 sims are all the same. There is nothing different about them or any tradition and or actions or beliefs and or repsonses or reactions or interactions or anything. Changing hair, body type and or skin color doesn't make a game diverse nor represent anyone. Fluff doesn't offer "so many other opportunities" at all.
And the comment right above mine claiming they are all white Sims is remarkable that anyone would think a moodlet was a white thing. No, the problem with The Sims these days is there is no personality or trait and or belief or root of the Sim that would make them seem any different than the next one.
If people want diversity they are going to have to come to terms with no two people are alike. They all have different value systems, different traditions, different deep seeded beliefs, faiths, and desires of where they are headed. Visuals will never make a game diverse until Maxis addresses these things. And if they want to pretend this game is diverse then ok, but no two Sims are different in TS4, to say the least, and until they accept there are billions of other people who don't believe nor think like others and also add them to the game, then this whole diverse gameplay nonsense is just that. ETA: And to tie this into the topic of which gender and which race, it really doesn't matter does it? because they are still the same Sim.
I make either gender and pick a color, usually what the game starts with or which goes with the face I create. Most of the the Sims I make are not what some would call "normal."
I have never seen Sims as the human race, either. It's why it's not hard for me to make some of them suffer. I have always held them out at arm's length. They aren't real to me and never will be. I don't play as a Sim, either and never have and never will. It's healthy not to see me and or my friends and or people I know in the game, it's all abstract to me and actually much more fun to me in The Sims original and all others if someone doesn't play as themself and or seeing them as humans...that will certanly hinder a lot of unexplored gameplay in my opinion. And frankly I think it's very mentally unhealthy to think that is ourselves in the game. It's one reason I don't need representation in a game..it's a game, and they aren't real, it seems only TS4 is the representation game.