168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Amazon and EA are making a Sims movie, but I can’t imagine any simulation game translating to the silver screen well without embracing the fact it’s a simulation, since the genre is — as you’d guess — about imitating ordinary life. The Sims c❀ould be a fun sitcom, but at that point, why not just make an original show? For the mo𒁃vie to stand out whatsoever, it needs to lean into its origins.
The series is about an all-seeing god, you, who controls the most miniscule aspects of a Sims’ life. You determine what they do in every moment, who they love, and in some cases, even how they die. There is no free will. These are NPCs for us to play with, and unravelling that in a movie could make for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the next Truman Show.
Sims being aware that someone is making them commit all of these acts isn’t unprecedented. The Sims 2 had several fourth wall breaks, as characters were keenly aware that they wer🐬en’t fully in control. For instance, if you make a shy Sim kiss their partner in public, they will look directly at the camera, irrไitated and disgusted with you. It’s uncanny, but moments like these have paved the way for a movie that leans directly into the true reality of Sims, their lack of autonomy.
Sims even look to the camera in desperation when the🎶y’re in dire need for fไood or sleep.
You could embrace the horror of an all-powerful overseer who strips away pool ladders to drown characters or makes doors vanish as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:fire engulfs a home, but this is probably too dark fꦉor the family friendly vibes The Sims has spent years cultivating. The characters coming to learn that everything in their life is A) controlled, and B) a simulation, opens the door for more internal conflict than sheer terror.
We’ve seen this idea used fairly recently with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Free Guy in 2021, but that was loosely based on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:GTA Online, until it became a big sandbox of Ryan Reynolds’ and Shawn Levy’s favourite IP. The Sims 🐲is far more subdued, so an NPC gaining sentience and realising the world around them is manufactured and carefully run by someone ‘real’ would be far more isolated. It wouldn’t be the smorgasbord of zany references and viral Twitch streamers that Free Guy fell into, or at least I hope it wouldn’t.
Everything being a simulation would al🌼so allow for some꧂ of that iconic imagery to come through, like the giant floating green diamonds.
Instead, we’d see Sims ‘waking up’, trying to shake others out of their conditioning and break from the control of this overseer. If anything, it’d be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:closer to Barbie than Free Guy, as these unsuspectin♓g otherworldly creations of humanity trigger a revolution among themselves and earn true independence. Or maybe the green diamond blinks above their head and a queue starts to form, and hope dwindles. Wherever the story goes, embracing that it’s all a simulation is far more interesting than a family of four bickering at the park.
The Si💜ms can’t just be a suburban story about one of its famous families, loosely based on some in-game lore, because nothing about that says The Sims at its core. The families in the worlds come and go with each game, but The Sims' heart is in its mechanics and its plumbob. In a world where video game adaptations are starting to embrace their origins more faithfully, it would be a shame to see E🎉A and Amazon do the opposite here, skirting the very foundation of the series to tell a bog-standard story in a bog-standard world. The Sims is a simulation — it’s in the name.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: The Sims 4
- Top Critic Avg: 70/100 Critics Rec: 26%
- Released
- September 2, 2014
- ESRB
- T for Teen:🎶 Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, V😼iolence
- Developer(s)
- Maxis
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Electronic Arts
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
Developed by Maxis, The Sims 4 is a life simulation game in the vein of its predecessors. It launched in 20🐲14, becoming one of the biggest-selling PC games of that year. In 2022, the base game became free-to-play, while paid DLC continues to be released on a regular basis.
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