Comments on: Sims 3 and Religion: The Answer that Isn’t

By: Simplex

Simplex — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:53:03 +0000

Being more of an amateur anthropologist and avid sci-fi fan, I’ve often thought to myself, if Sims *had* a religion, what would it be? Sims think about their kin alot, and in Sims 2 constantly want to bring them back to life. What I do is have my Sims practice a form of ancestor worship or animistic/ancestor worship simular to my readings on Shinto. Its easy to do in Sims 3, with that candle. I place a picture of the departed ancestor over a table with the candle on it and the Sim can light a candle to their dear departed parent or grandparent. It just seems to be the Sim thing to do. I think Sims would be animistic, I dont think they’d hold with a single God or a number of gods unless they were just nature spirits or spirits of things like the various careers. But that’s just the way I personally ‘roleplay’ religion in my Sim ‘hoods.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:26:36 +0000

PS. AdamBob, God is capitalized.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:24:07 +0000

I must say, has anyone remembered that the Sims 2 has already included certain religious implications that have not seemed to make anyone angry. Unless I am completely incompetent, I have noticed that the addition of ‘The Sims 2 Holiday Party Pack’ introduced 40 items that were nearly all linked to certain religious holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and Chaunakka. Why there cannot be SOME implications of a place of worship to certain major religious groups is ridiculous. Even an optional custom religious that simply creates a nonexistand supreme deity (or deities) that offers similarities to major religions like Christianity, Islam, or Judaism; similar to Simlish, a false language that bears resemblance to certain languages in the south Pacific. (please don’t quote me on that, I read that it was based on Thai) Also note that the edition of ‘The Sims 3 World Adventures’ also makes implications to the afterlife, a topic that has strong implications to many religions. The purpose of this would be to give players the option to make ‘The Sims’ more relevent to their life, if they so choose.

By: 2009 At Flash of Steel

2009 At Flash of Steel — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:12:36 +0000

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By: Morkilus

Morkilus — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:15:01 +0000

I for the first time last night found someone that responds positively to my evil genius Sim’s evil plotting dialog option. Turns out they have to be evil as well! This is the closest thing the Sims has to religion in the context of small talk.

By: Safyiah

Safyiah — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:55:05 +0000

i’m a Muslim. my opinion is that they should leave religion out of the oficial game but some programers or developers out there can make some cool mods or hacks if you ask them in forums =) or if you’re a developer yourself, you can try to do it. there are many believers that try to make some things for the sims according to their religion. i’ve seen the islamic headscarf done for the sims 2, the Koran and the Bible, i’ve seen the symbol of Judaism also, mosques, churches, etc. it’s only things you can install if you CHOOSE to (and if there’s any download option xD). i guess it’s quite cool ^^