My Sims girlies have always been ahead of the curve on this one, if I’m being totally honest. These games aren’t for me, but I can understand how they could be for others. Hell, life has gone sideways a million different ways, and a game enabling me to be delulu, remake myself, and act out my fantasies sounds like a wonderful gift.
I think it’s good that we all have something that we can have control over that routinely brings us some bit of joy or peace of mind. Sims is the blueprint, in this regard; the original feel- good game to relax withto and drown out the noise of the world with. The SiIms 4, like the rest of the series before it, is an exercise in complete and selfish control, a luxury so many of us are often denied, and risk having taken away from us at numerous disappointing junctures.
I don’t know about you all, but I could stand to pull a bit of a disappearing act right now. The Final Fantasy XIV Online icon on my desktop is looking mighty tempting, and while I’ve resisted it for some time now, maybe I owe it to myself to go somewhere better. At least, until the real world begins resembling my greatest fantasies a bit more. Anything but this, y’know?