#it's a bigggggg regret of mine and it's such a big thing that it's hard to retcon it

[softpine]

omg i was scrolling through older posts bc nostalgia and all that stuff... but now i’m wondering if the family is ever gonna visit selvadorada again?

ahh that makes me happy that you were looking back ;-; and mayyybe? the issue i'm having is that i'm really unhappy with the way i wrote selvadorada / the culture surrounding it. i very much used the information that the jungle adventures pack provided as a blueprint, but as time has gone on, as my story gets more realistic, and as i deal with so many real issues, it just doesn't feel appropriate to write such a one-dimensional view of this fictional country that ea has given us. looking back on it now, i just don't like the way selvadorada is portrayed and how they conflate so many latin american countries all into one, which i thereby did as well. there's not much i can do to fix this issue retrospectively. i've actually been thinking about this really hard lately because i'm sooo sick of using in-game "canon" names for locations. i so badly wish i had just chosen real life locations so that i could accurately portray an experience and a culture, not a generalized view of a fictional place. or i at least wish i had invented my OWN fictional place instead of using ea's. idk ahhhh i just wish i had done a lot differently and it's really holding me back from wanting to revisit selvadorada :/

one day i might just say fuck it and start using real-world location names without any mention of the change jfksjd idk UGH it's such a dumb thing to stress about, but i do...

#it kills me inside whenever i have to say del sol valley instead of LA or brindleton bay instead of maine #and i'm not into the way EA uses non-US countries exclusively as vacation spots and waters the culture down to 1 homogeneous thing #it's a bigggggg regret of mine and it's such a big thing that it's hard to retcon it #:( #asks #anonymous #saviorhide #brandi answers