The Sims has long helped people realize their innermost desires. Not only could I be pretty and cool and successful and independent, I could also be, for a then-unknown reason, constantly queer. The ability to craft a dream – or nightmare– world, one as beautiful and mundane or absurd and magical as I wanted, was a dream to me as a socially awkward ugly duckling with more bullies than friends. I still remember my first time playing The Sims, and the way my life was forever changed. There is currently no other single player life simulation game that can compete with The Sims, though there is at least one game in development trying to.
Now old enough to legally drink pretty much anywhere in the world, the franchise now has two generations of dedicated players who grew up playing. So whether that's your skin tone, achieving things in the game, it's really almost a reflection of yourself.The Sims is one of the greatest video game franchises of all time. In the way that you play the game as being able to live out your best life through this video game, you'd also want your "Sim you" to live out your best life, in a way that feels accurate and authentic to you. But in a game, why is it important that you are able to create a character that looks as close to you as possible? And in real life, I mean, we know how we look and that's important.
It's frustrating at times because as a life simulator, you want it to look like yourself, and kind of that's your mini-you in the game.Ĭould you tell me more about that? I mean, for people who've never played this game before, you can imagine they might say, well, it's a game and it's a simulator. So that's definitely something that comes up. And then in the mid-tones, just not quite right. So especially in the deepest, darkest categories, some of them look kind of grey, kind of purple. Urumangi Generation explores 'Indigenous resiliency' and climate change in a cyberpunk setting.Sea of Solitude is the latest high-profile video game to artfully explore mental health, trauma and isolation.
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