The Sims

LazarusOwenhart said:
I used to play all sorts of terrible psychological games with them in Sims 2. I used to make a 'Big Brother' house with the maximum number of sims all with ridiculously exaggerated personalities and seal it off from outside. I'd use the money cheat to make sure they A) Were fed and B) Had EVERYTHING they could possibly want. Then I minimally interacted with them and just watched them tear themselves apart and lose their little simulated minds being stuck in a house with a bunch of people they were either fucking, hating or hate fucking. Once my house was too harmonious so I made a stupidly desirable male and female sim, had them individually seduce every sim in the house THEN marry one another with all the housemates present. Shit was chaos. Oh yeah I also once made a Josef Fritzl style dungeon and lured a non household teen girl into it, locked the door and tried to keep her alive as long as possible.

I should not be allowed to play this game.
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At least sims in the Sims 2 are semi-capable of taking care of themselves when left alone. Once I fell asleep around midnight playing Sims 1 on my old netbook and woke up at about 6am. The game had been running the whole time and my sim had lost her job from not going to work and was about 5 IRL minutes away from starving to death.

Sometimes in Sims 1 I'd spend all the sims's money on non-refundable shrubs so that they only had $320. With that $320 you buy them a grill for $300 and leave the $20 as enough money to make themselves 1 plate of hamburgers. Then they have to get a job and survive. In later games you can do the same thing but leave the sim with no money at all but the needs go down so fast in TS1 that they need the means to make at least 1 plate of food or they'll starve to death before the end of day 1.

I had a sim that married Eldon Hick and adopted a child. The child teleported into existence in front of the wall phone in the kitchen, and immediately afterwards the kitchen set on fire. Eldon slept soundly in the room next door the whole time while the fire truck came and the sim I made freaked out about the fire and the safety of the child they literally adopted 5 minutes ago.

One of my favourite ways to play in Sims 2 or 4 is to do the "Earn Your Home" challenge where your sim gets $2,100 to start with and they can only live in a 4x5 room. When you satisfy a lifetime want/aspiration thingy you get to add another 4x5 room. No furniture can go outside the house and if you move someone in they have to stay on the lot until they die naturally. I bent the rules slightly so that I can have any size room as long as the total surface area doesn't exceed 20 squares and I can use up extra rooms to merge rooms or make a lil patio/garden area. Basically you end up with a house after multiple generations.
 
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@Elysian I just can't find my love for the Sims anymore. Sims 4 finished Sims 3's job of totally crushing the creative aspect of the game and turning it into a bland, unappealing soap opera simulator. I've got sims 4 and a few expansions. I tried opening a business, it quickly becomes a chore. Sims 2 businesses could become self sufficient or be home based but no, Sims 4 you have to buy a premises and all sorts of shit. I was happy with my gardening obsessed Sim running a little flower/fruit shop out of her garage and making phat bank doing so. The game has lost its innocence and simple joy, it's a bloated mess of gameplay features that aren't fun and it comes with so little actual content these days every starter house looks the same. You either play it as a soap opera and get bored or play it like it's fucking Jersey Shore and get bored. I'm done for now. One day when I have some HDD space I want to fill I might re-install my entire Sims 2 collection and light that back up, maybe when my kids are older. We'll build a town together and revel in a perfect game.
 
bird said:
EA just announced at gamescom, for 40$ buckaroos the next expansion is Dogs and Cats! It's just dogs and cats though. No horses, birds, small animals (like in 3). But that's ok, you can be a vet!

for $40.

Hahah
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i can live with that
 
bird said:
EA just announced at gamescom, for 40$ buckaroos the next expansion is Dogs and Cats! It's just dogs and cats though. No horses, birds, small animals (like in 3). But that's ok, you can be a vet!

for $40.

Hahah
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Couldn't they at least include the womrat?
 
It's funnier when you realise that the Unleashed EP for the Sims 1 had enough content in it that it made the game's neighbourhood go from this:
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To this:
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They are working on Sims 5 and while there is a sliver of hope that EA will learn from their mistakes, but I also feel very cynical. (Given how much they ruined the SSX series and this one.)
 
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Ever since they introduced a "genetics" mechanic in Sims 2, I've been trying to breed a race of superSims. Only blond haired, blue eyed and elf eared Sims were allowed to breed in later generations.

I feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed 3.
 
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Titan Lithos said:
Ever since they introduced a "genetics" mechanic in Sims 2, I've been trying to breed a race of superSims. Only blond haired, blue eyed and elf eared Sims were allowed to breed in later generations.

I feel like I'm the only one who enjoyed 3.
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How much Sims 2 did you play?
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
How much Sims 2 did you play?
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Had every expansion. Would take them to University, have one guy obsessively make flower arrangements to get the snapdragons, put them all over houses. Made sure to get the spells of friendship to make job promotions easier later on. I have to admit, I loved the Professional Slacker career.

Yeah, my eugenics program began there, only it was elf-eared aliens. If I remember, the alien genes only lasted two generations.

Perhaps why I'm fond of Sims 3 is the up and visiting neighbors thing without a loading screen. Because that's one of the reasons I cite for never having touched 4. Moment I heard loading screens to go anywhere were part of it.

I suppose one of the weirdest things I liked about Sims 2 is the rather touching scene when your Sims died of old age.
 
Titan Lithos said:
Had every expansion. Would take them to University, have one guy obsessively make flower arrangements to get the snapdragons, put them all over houses. Made sure to get the spells of friendship to make job promotions easier later on. I have to admit, I loved the Professional Slacker career.

Yeah, my eugenics program began there, only it was elf-eared aliens. If I remember, the alien genes only lasted two generations.

Perhaps why I'm fond of Sims 3 is the up and visiting neighbors thing without a loading screen. Because that's one of the reasons I cite for never having touched 4. Moment I heard loading screens to go anywhere were part of it.

I suppose one of the weirdest things I liked about Sims 2 is the rather touching scene when your Sims died of old age.
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Yeah the no loading screen thing was amazing but it came at a hell of a cost in terms of neighborhood persistence and stuff like that. I always felt like the world was more open but less alive.
 
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I played TS2 recently after seeing that Origin gave me the complete edition for free and for some reason it wasn't as fun as I remembered. Maybe I'm spoiled by the open world and create a style from TS3. Despite being a massively buggy mess that required mods to even be playable I really enjoy the third game out of them all.

I do love the salt being produced over TS4. The fan base screeches about EA being lazy and greedy yet are the first in line to throw money at the latest stuff pack. As long as they're giving EA money they'll continue to see over priced game packs with shallow content. I'm aware people pirate the games but you would be surprised at the amount of fans who don't but continue to complain anyways.
 
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People used to have weird runs on 2 like kill everyone with the cow plant end games.
Or have a baby with everyone .

Sims 3 was fun .I made a character with elf ears and a huge man jaw . He was bright green and was named Bob specialneedsgoblin . He wore bicycle helmet and rabbit costume. I gave him the most terrible traits including childlike and he was hydrophobic and lived on a boat. Until he got too much to handle and I switched his traits with the brain scanner chair thingy . I built a plumbot in the Dystopian future named Master byte and he lived in a mansion with a bunch of human/Bob's descendant slaves with evil trait chip and free will So he just walked around shocking the people who lived with him and created flame fruit lifefruit juice/wine for him. I am a terrible person. I'm not sorry.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
Yeah the no loading screen thing was amazing but it came at a hell of a cost in terms of neighborhood persistence and stuff like that. I always felt like the world was more open but less alive.
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I'll give you that. It is rather annoying that there is the option for a story mode progression, no one seems to get married, nor do they have offspring.
 
I had this weird glitch one time where after the Traveler family had their second child (in game), they became an Elf (with the ears and facial template. Since I like Elves, I ran with it and by the time the child became an adult, he turned back into a human and now had the facial features that he would've normally had from his parents. Same happened with the third child. So I had it where Pointy the Elf God had laid his finger upon them and temporarily made them like his race.
 
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