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Post by hinatakai79 on Aug 17, 2022 7:59:32 GMT -5
I’m gonna take so much poo for this but it is what it is. I think ppl push EA too much to not focus on America. At the end of the day, it’s a USA oriented game and I don’t understand why that’s bad. It’s an American company and has always been an American game franchise. It’s like Animal Crossing New Horizons, the Japanese culture is still pretty obvious and that’s okay! I think it’s fun to have these other cultures in TS4 (why we still don’t have more Jewish content is beyond me, and this is coming from a Christian) but I don’t understand people complaining that the high school pack is like “ American high school simulator” … okay? Every country has a different school experience, they had to pick something, and America just makes the most sense. VidMate MobdroThis is also how I feel about people who complain/complained about cottage living and everyone who wanted farms because “Sims isn’t farming simulator” … most of the USA is rural and has a foundation based in agriculture. I can’t speak for the rest of the world on that front but I’ve always thought it’s kind of insane that a HUGE chunk of the USA is farmland and in TS3 and TS4 both, a rural farming world is DLC. I think Henford-On-Bagley was a creative way to give us farming girlies what we wanted without ostracizing anyone. But the USA high school experience is so romanticized, if they were gonna do anywhere, this had to be it.
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Post by Sparkiekong on Aug 22, 2022 19:44:44 GMT -5
You're not wrong at all.
I live in the US and I don't feel like my high school experience is even remotely close to what was given to us in the game. I went through it a couple times and experienced a "HSY day" and I got maybe 1 class in, the rest was empty halls and about 8-10 students with 1 teacher. No options to interact with the teacher or other students other than during I think was a 2 hour lunch and an hour before class started. Everyone was wearing the same T-shirt other than my high school student I was piloting. I thought the T-pose thing was a bug until I realized later in the social bunny thing that it was like a dabbing thing or something along that lines.
My US HS experience was 45-60 minutes in a single room with roughly about 20-25 students and 1 teacher with about 3 minutes between each class (A variety of the usual suspects with some skill building classes). 6-8 classes depending on the year in school. (9-12) I was there for about 8-9 hours a day and I did not have an hour before or after unless you count the 45 minute to and from school on a bus. I live in a rural area and my graduating class was a total of 80 kids. Granted this was many moons ago...
I think they were going for a more tv high school depiction than realism. Either way I was a bit disappointed with the vast emptiness of the school. I will be rebuilding mine. Even if I have to put deco high school kids in the halls.
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Post by mauvemorn on Aug 23, 2022 6:31:44 GMT -5
When the sims 1 was introduced, the developers said they based the reality of the game on American TV culture because almost everybody in this world is familiar with it. So it is not so much about resonating with USA audience as it is about every the sims player knowing how USA school system works ( the system is very different in my country, for example)
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