If the forum is so adamant about staying away from inappropriate topics, then a thread about the Sims game seems to be inappropriate to me. That's what I meant. If you're going to start a thread, you might as well say what you want.
First of all, the Sims is NOT an inappropriate game. Some players of Sims may be inappropriate, but not the game. I don't know where AK is coming from (seems to me she hasn't even played the game) other than the fact that she likes to be contrary and negative about everything.
The Sims, and games like it, are what you make of it. If you want your character to be trashy and perverted, then that's you're thing. YOU control the character's actions and choices, not the other way around. I personally do not play it much, but I have a few Sims titles at home that my kids play. You make the choices and your character evolves (he/she can have a job, go to college, get married, raise a family, buy a house) the way YOU want it to evolve. The Sims is what you want it to be.
My son actually just saw this thread and laughed and said "WHAT? the game is harmless."
I do not play the games much as I said, but I've actually used them as tools to teach kids to make the right choices. Choices like whether the character gets to smoke, drink, do drugs, or whether a character goes to college, gets scholarships, stays clean, marries and stays married, etc. When the wrong choices are made, you can see the consequences right there. for example, my son's character never wanted to learn to cook, and that was my son's choice. Well, one day when the character was hungry, she decided she was going to cook (cause she was broke to go out too). Because her lack of cooking skills, the character started a fire that burned down the house and sent her to the hospital. See? Little things sometimes have big consequences. The good thing is that it's all a simulation, so no one gets hurt and everyone learns.
The games in themselves are truly harmless. It's what's in the player's nature and heart that determines whether the gameplay is not family friendly. So what's in your heart?
