How young fans of The Sims imagine adult life
September 4 comes the game The Sims 4, and it seems that everyone who is more than 10 and less than 20 years old is waiting for her. In the ranking of the best-selling computer games current, the third version of The Sims is the fifth largest. In fact, this game for the modern generation is the same sign as for someone Super Mario on the "Dandy". The Sims are played by the very teenagers that we know nothing about and consider either the next lost generation, or the super-talented millenials. We talked to teenagers about The Sims, to understand how they envision a family, relationships and careers, and what behaviors they want to be like in the future.
Darius
15 years
At the moment I am playing for a family in which not so long ago three children were born, namely three girls: Ira, Nastya and Kira. Parents of babes Alent and Mike. She really loves books, so she started writing hers, while, of course, she didn’t write very well, but she was able to write several hits and she already had several hundred fans. Allent really likes the genre of mysticism, most of her books about ghosts, about some extraterrestrial forces and, of course, about love, where to go without her.
Mike always attracted the sport, he adores his work as a football player, and his family supports him in this. The little ones already know how to walk and talk, at the moment Mike and Alent are teaching their children to go to the potty. Alenta spends a little more time with the children than Mike, but sometimes he takes a day off and the whole family goes for a walk in the park. Alenta works from home, so it is easier for her to look after children. Mike is a little more difficult, but, after returning from work, he immediately after the shower goes to the children and plays with them with pleasure while Allent is busy with dinner.
Naturally, Alent is working at home, but Mike helps her as much as she can. After his workouts, he himself washes his clothes and washes dishes after himself, if he suddenly wanted to have a snack. A big, friendly family, warmth and comfort in your own home is Allenta's dream, but Mike wants to reach the top of his career, and Alenth supports him with all his might, and Mike is also not lagging behind. To be honest, I would be very happy if I were so in my life. Well, do not all simovody not create your ideal family image?
Dasha
15 years
I like the additions “University” and “World Adventures” most of all, but I also play in “The Seasons”, “Show Business”, “Career”, “World Adventures”, “On Rest”. In the "University" you can study for some specialty, live in a dormitory, have a lot to communicate with, and in "World Adventures" you can go to Egypt, France and China. There are special tasks and things that can be bought only for ancient coins. Usually I start playing with one character, and then I look for a couple for him, and it turns out the family.
Now I play for the girl, her name is Lina. She has no parents, she has a sister, Dina. Lina is sociable, and Dina is very closed. Lina is currently studying at the Faculty of Communications, and her lifelong dream is to get three scholarships. After university she will work in politics, maybe she will become president. And her sister is studying for a businessman. Neither the boy nor the children have either, while Lina was a teenager, she had a boyfriend, but they broke up, because Jack found another. Lina has no friends, but she likes to go to cafes and generally walk, for example, in parks, and Dina likes to read.
Sabina
12 years
Earlier, when I was smaller, it was not I who played, but my sister, and I watched her play. I myself was scary to play, and therefore I only created characters. And I always created very similar characters, for example, they all had the same nose. I chose the third nose from the list, and I liked it. And recently I noticed how much I didn’t like this nose! In general, all the characters I played 2-3 months ago had to be changed. During this time, my taste has changed so much that their eyes began to look huge to me, my head was of an incomprehensible shape, but I didn’t even pay attention to my nose in the midst of this horror.
The image of the family I am playing now has come to my mind recently. I decided to make this family in the style of the future - I have the addition "Forward to the Future". The family consisted of mom, dad, teenage daughter and youngest son. I built a house for them for a very long time, the house had furniture only from this supplement. I'm so exhausted! But I am pleased with the result. They traveled to the future with the whole family. Parents have found a job in the future, they are working in the arena of bots. Parents work at night, so during the day they have plenty of time to relax and watch TV. And the children went to school, but since there are no schools in the future, they do not go there and rest. Well, as they return, they will learn, but they do not seem to care.
Children love video games, and they do the tasks that the time traveler gives them. For example, when you arrive there, he gives one of the family members the first task - to fly on a jetpack. If you accept the task, then you will automatically appear in the baggage jetpack. In this housework housekeeper performs, but in the future you arrive at a huge house of the future, where a lot of people live besides you, so there is a lot of fun, and these people are cleaned. It seems to me that if it were possible to travel in time, I would rather be afraid.
In this game, I can create a singer or actress, not because I dream of becoming them, but simply because I want to see how this will happen in the game. Although in general I have a good voice, and I would like to become a singer or an actress. But I'm still good with accurate calculations that would be useful in business, but in general it would be nice to do journalism. I have not yet chosen my life goal. It sounded so simmerian now!
Julia
14 years old
My favorite is the Supernatural and Paradise Island add-ons. In the "Supernatural" we can create a mystical creature who has more opportunities than ordinary Sims, and in the "Paradise Islands" there are boats, you can go diving, there are mermaids. Also there are floating houses and islands that can be opened by completing a specific task :)
Most of the time I play a lonely character, and this is a girl. But I love to play and a big family. Once I created a vampire girl in the Supernatural supplement. She lived in the town of Moonlight Falls and was unemployed, and now I really liked her. But, unfortunately, I didn’t play her for long, some problems arose, because of which I had to reinstall the game, and all the families were erased. Now I play with another family, which consists of one girl, and I also like her very much). Her name is Emma. She works as a singer, loves traveling, playing the guitar, makes new acquaintances and friends, likes to perform on stage in front of an audience. At the moment she is alone, but her mail often receives declarations of love. Maybe someone will be in the future, but for now she is alone.
Tatusha
11 years
There are four characters in my family. Mother Eliza Thomson, her brother Constantine Casting, husband of Eliza Seth Thomson and a child, a girl named Ashley. They have a collie breed dog named Milo and a white unicorn, whose name is Apple. Eliza is an artist who loves writing books and playing with her daughter. Konstantin is a writer, he often walks a dog and rides a unicorn at sunset. He is a collector, collects butterflies, minerals, beetles and all that.
Seth is a journalist, and he devotes his free time to his family. House chores are mostly handled by Eliza. Ashley is the perfect example to follow. She is an excellent student, is engaged in baking, is friends with the whole class and loves her family very much. Ashley equally loves mom and dad, and tries to spend time with them equally. The whole family likes to gather on weekends in the park or at the festival. Well, if it rains, Eliza prepares a delicious meal, the whole family gathers for dinner and watches favorite films. I think I would like to have the same family when I grow up.
Anastasia
13 years old
I have a family that I have been playing for more than a year now, but sometimes I create a character for the rest. At first I created two lovers, and then it went away. Now the family is already so large that it will be very long to talk about everyone. At the moment there are two sisters, Nastya and Katya, their husbands, Travis and Sean. One has two children, a son and a daughter, and the second has a son. Those in love with these sisters are great-great-great-grandfather and great-great-great-grandmother. In information about Sime, you can usually see the pedigree, but due to the fact that the family moved to different cities, she got off. So I drew myself a tree in Paint, although nothing is clear there.
Nastya is an artist, works at home, Katya works in the police, Travis is engaged in medical activities, and Sean is a musician. Nastya is mainly caring for her children, because I like her the most, the more she works at home and she has two small children. Katya collects stones in her free time, Travis spends on chess all the time, and Sean practices magic. There is a butler, but he does not do all the work. Nastya is finishing up some business and caring for children. While the children are playing, and the butler is working, she paints pictures. On weekends, the sister sits with the children, and the husbands bring a good profit. Husbands earn more - it just happened. Draw a long time and get a little at first, and Katya changed jobs very often. Husbands all happened faster.
At the very beginning, the family invested well in the buildings in the city, you can make a profit from the establishments, and it turned out that they became rich. Until now, the money remained, but not so much. The ideal family to create is boring. Someone will be bad, but someone I want a good family. It happens, I specially play "according to a bad scenario."
I would not want to live like them. They are all too smooth and equal, and I want to have everything, a little bit of bad and good, they are always good. And then it is too difficult to live in such a family, it is very large, although I myself would not have refused this.