They aren’t anti-homosexual, or they wouldn’t include it in the game it all. They do it this way to give you a choice, just like you get to choose what ethnicity your characters are–they obviously want to sell their product to as many people as possible, including racists & bigots. Smart business, if you ask me.
Falcon:
I didn’t know that! That’s kind of cool though…so the game caters to both homophobesand mature intelligent people. But do you have to start a gay relationship for each sex in order for both sexes to have the possibility, or does just any one same-sex relationship work?
nevermore, just one same-sex relationship will do the trick. Like you said, this way both homophobes and regular people can play the game without getting all pissed off.
rushtopher, my sims tend to indulge in all those activities, but only to impress my real-life guests. I’m nice to them all the rest of the time, but if I want to show the game to friends, I start torturing and killing off sims like an old-school deity.
I had one friend get actively upset at the sim I had imprisoned in the front yard, because he kept sobbing and wetting his pants (the sim, not the friend). I tried to explain that it was just a computer program, but he still thought I was a monster. (He laughed when I kept making one my sims scare the neighbor and make him cry, though.)
If you buy the “Living Large” expansion pack, your Sim couples can buy the Vibromatic bed. Then they can “play in bed”. It’s pretty funny and it works with same sex couples, too. The two Sims just have to be in love with each other.
What Christian homophobe went through the game trying to see what s/he could get the sims to do that was impure. I wonder how long they sat there tittilating themselves before they damned it to the devil and took it to titillate their pastor.
It sounds like you have to make a concious decision to allow homosexuality, so how was this discovered by the pious christian right if not through “experimentation”
Can you make your sims get hairy palms and sudden blindness?
You guys have piqued my curiousity. My niece got this game for Christmas and loves it. I’m visiting the family in a few weeks; I’m dying to check it out in person so I can torture computer simulations of people… that is, so I can see how this works. I won’t buy it for myself, though. This sounds far too addictive.
Holy shit, I never though about that…the sims actually die!!! HAHAHAHA. Locking them up in the front yard, haha. Drowning in the pool, they actually drown?? OMG I can’t wait to get home to try.
This would make it worse than anti-homosexual, though. And it would even be useful in a free will vs determinism debate!
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Maybe you need to open some Gay bars in the game though, that should lighten them up some. I’ve never played the game and I’m suprised too that they have gay characters in it.
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Maxis is old hat at this, apparently: There was also the homosexual content that was placed in the oft-belaboured ‘SimCopter’ a few years back. Apparently in the pre-patched version, certain game characters would engage in homosexual acts after the player won the game.
(Would you like to know more? http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0,3,0-385,00.html )
I didn’t find ‘The Sims’ game remotely offensive, but then again I say it’s long past time that a game simulated every player’s desire to open up their own lesbian harem. The firefighter discussing ‘soccer’ with one of my sims instead of just possibly stopping my house from buring down, now that’s offensive. =)
This is one of those rare opportunities to post a relevant link to a web page I actually authored. Okay, so it’s slightly off topic to the OP, but it certainly addresses ways to kill your sim.
I saw the title to this thread no more than (I swear to Gawd) an hour after my son was telling me how great it is in the game if you put a pink flamingo on the lawn.
Heh, when I first got the game I accidentally started a homosexual relationship. One of my bachelor characters had a friend who came over a lot. They became good friends, and I did not know that the ‘Compliment’ selection could lead to romance - I just thought it would be good for their friendship if they complimented each other occasionally. Next thing I knew they were madly in love. I erased the one that was based on me and created a new one (nothing against gays, but I was trying to simulate myself and I’m straight).
Yeah, you know how we capitalists are…killing my guys never even occurred to me. “Hey, I can get a huge TV? I can build a second floor!” I went straight for the pinball machine in the bedroom and a hot tub. Dead people can’t buy much hahahaha
I’m guessing the reason why you have to start the first one is . . . if I put two guys together in a house, and I just intend for them to be two wild and crazy roommates then I don’t want them to be making out with each other when they should be focusing on more pressing issues at hand, like getting American foxes.