01-18-2008, 10:57 PM | #21 |
Former ghost
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Kinda of a disapointing expansion, I always expected the last expansion pack would be the most amazing one.
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01-19-2008, 12:55 AM | #22 | |
Solar Max
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: England
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Greg I think I've heard you say this before... isn't the Sims about consumerist society? as in 1950s Western culture? that's how it looks to me - you know, buy it, throw it away, buy a better one, break it, buy it - money makes the world go round. And yes SIms 2 brought in some rather wretched motives. Sims 1, which I am playing at the moment, is PURE consumerism ) while Sims 2 for me is closer to a model of "real" people, but still a VERY long way away. Mind you, psychologists and sociologists can't agree on a model so how can we expect EA to find it?
Oh, and I hear that the Japanese and other Far Eastern players love the "potty" emphasis of Sims. (But I too am relieved they left menstruation out of it!) I still dream of someone making a better model. But I'm sorry to say all the "games" I've seen that try to, make a far worse job of it than Sims 2, even with large expenditure of $$$. Somehow, amazingly, EA have got something nobody else has. Quote:
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01-19-2008, 02:35 AM | #23 |
Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,566
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Sita, naw, human society has never been either as bad as The Sims 2 or even a hint of the media-hyped notion of a "consumerist" society. That's just a strawman that people invented so they would have something they could feel superior to.
Hey, maybe that's the real value of The Sims! No matter how nutty you are, you'd have to totally out the window to be as bad off as a sim!
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