The Sims!

[Milk Bubble]

Does anyone here play any of The Sims games? Not like SimCity or anything like that, the ones where you play God and control little Sim people.

I would have to say this is my favorite series of games. I started playing the original Sims 1 when I was about 8, and I'd sneak on my older brother's computer and play it while he was gone. I'm pretty sure everyone has played a Sims game before, if you haven't you probably live in a box.

What do you think of The Sims 3? I personally like the gameplay but the graphics are so ugly compared to The Sims 2 (I'm talking Sims 2 with tons of custom content).

Speaking of that, if you play The Sims series, do you download custom content? I think the custom content appeal is what really makes the game. And apparently it's really hard to make custom content in The Sims 3, which is why I think it's not doing as great as the other Sims games (from what I've seen on Sims forums).

Well, that's my 2 cents. Give me yours! Aaaand now you know how much of a Sims fangirl I am haha.

[Sage]

I dig the Sims. I only ever played the first one, though, unless you count the Sims 3, which I have on my phone.

I just need a less sucky computer. Some day I'll live that dream. Some day...

[Tyr]

I have my runs with it, usually only to live out some far out dream of having a long line of family where my first sim would be the Godfather, I just usually get too bored after completing the criminal line once to do the exact same thing again with no variation. There's simply not enough challenge in the game and with Sims 3 being even more silly than Sims 2 (which was actually serious enough) I couldn't find myself attached enough to even 'complete' one full life cycle of my character, 'Max Power'. Especially not with all those godawful secret ways to lengthen my life which I was far too lazy to go for.

[Vad]

I dig the Sims. I only ever played the first one, though, unless you count the Sims 3, which I have on my phone.

I just need a less sucky computer. Some day I'll live that dream. Some day...

I built my parents new computer for under 800 dollars and it could run Mass Effect 2 if I wanted to install it there. That and Crysis.

[Sage]

I built my parents new computer for under 800 dollars and it could run Mass Effect 2 if I wanted to install it there. That and Crysis.

Computers are expensive when you intend to participate in a racing series and save up for a trip to Europe, yeah?

Not to mention student loans, car loans, and the intent to purchase a new car shortly.

[Belle Hibiki]

I liked Sims 3 at first, but it was so aggressively easy that I lost interest quick. For me, most of the fun of the Sims series is bundled up in the hilarious disasters that happened with alarming frequency in previous games.

My very first 'big' game involved five dudes in a warehouse single room. Once I had put all the walls down, carpeted, got a toilet and put in some couches to sleep on (all I had money for), I suddenly realized that the game counted the only room in the house as a bathroom because the toilet occupied it... So literally everyone had to leave the house whenever someone wanted to take a piss.

The temporary solution was to move the toilet out to the front of the house in the yard. For the next couple days the neighbors had to endure the constant stream of men using said toilet when THEY were just out for their morning stroll.

Sims 3 gives you so much money and the moodlets are so easy to stack, though, that you pretty much have to try to fuck up.

[Super Buu]

It's a guilty pleasure that I don't indulge in often, but when I do, I do it proper. My main problem is that in 3 there seems to be a conspicuous lack of things to do that they're going to fill up with expansions that I'll never buy on principle. Maybe they deliberately made modding stuff in hard for that reason, who knows.

I kinda liked the new personality thing at first, but now I think it's perhaps too binary (don't get me wrong though, on the whole I still prefer it to the old). And the limit on the number of traits is as annoying/pointless/unrealistic as was limiting attribute points in the last two.

[Vad]

In the first one I did the tutorial house and because the idiots couldn't cook they caught the house on fire within the first half hour and killed themselves. In the Sims 3 I had to purposely end my Sim from cooking so it would catch fire. I also brought myself back from the dead...well my wife did.

[Milk Bubble]

In the first one I did the tutorial house and because the idiots couldn't cook they caught the house on fire within the first half hour and killed themselves. In the Sims 3 I had to purposely end my Sim from cooking so it would catch fire. I also brought myself back from the dead...well my wife did.

Oh my god the Newbie family! I had completely forgotten about them. I remember I kicked them out of their house because I thought the guy (Bob I think?) was fat and ugly. I know, what a weird stuck up little kid I was.



Does anyone remember the Goth family? The people who make The Sims apparently have this whole huge storyline with them. Like Bella Goth disappearing and Cassandra Goth growing up and having kids of her own or something. It's pretty interesting.

[Vad]

This makes me want to download the Sims 3 again...

I lost it in my HD wipe last year.

[Vad]

The Sims Medieval comes out Tuesday. I've pre-ordered it and I'll be playing. Going to be nuts.