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Old 03-23-2004, 02:54 AM   #1 (permalink)
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so I just tried the sims...

After all these years of reading how great that game was and seeing as its probably the best selling game of all time, I finally decided to give it a try... Can someone tell me whats so great about it? I only played like an hour or so, but I was bored to hell with it. Seriously, I get the impression that im not playing the game right cause I just dont find anything fun in the game at all. Everything is just so slow... the delay before each action... god I just cant stand it. Funny cause I did like sim city 2000. Can someone tell me what they liked about it?
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:28 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm pretty mystified myself about the sucess of the game and its addon packs. I bought it the day it came out because it was hyped to sound like a true AI game where the characters actually learned and began to think for themselves. This I had to see! About 3 hours after I got it installed, the characters still weren't thinking for themselves, and all I was doing was micromanaging the idiots, telling them when to go to the bathroom so they wouldn't piss on the floor.

I think the trick is that somehow the Sims creators have managed to hide the fact that all this is is a video game version of playing dolls. If more people figured that out, I think the only people interested in it would be girls up to 10 years old
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:55 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I think to really get into it you have to get into the whole "I need more stuff" thing.

Getting more stuff is the real addictive factor in the game, plus it's got a pretty good house building feature. I got pretty addicted when I first got the game, but I'll never pick it up again.

It's one of those games that you get addicted to, and a week later you realize, "What the hell am I doing?"
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Old 03-23-2004, 07:46 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I liked building and decorating the houses more than playing with the characters. When we got "Unleashed" I found it amusing to train the pets.

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It's one of those games that you get addicted to, and a week later you realize, "What the hell am I doing?"


heh...well, it took me a little longer than a week. We ended up buying all the expansions up to Unleashed (excluding Vacation.) Yeesh...
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Old 03-23-2004, 07:52 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Its a very original game. And I guess female gamers like to play games related to doll house. Which contributes to its numberous expansion packs. Hell, this game has more expansion packs than Ever Quest.
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Old 03-23-2004, 09:57 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I'm pretty mystified myself about the sucess of the game and its addon packs. I bought it the day it came out because it was hyped to sound like a true AI game where the characters actually learned and began to think for themselves. This I had to see! About 3 hours after I got it installed, the characters still weren't thinking for themselves, and all I was doing was micromanaging the idiots, telling them when to go to the bathroom so they wouldn't piss on the floor.

I think the trick is that somehow the Sims creators have managed to hide the fact that all this is is a video game version of playing dolls. If more people figured that out, I think the only people interested in it would be girls up to 10 years old
I agree. Itd just be so much better if your character could think for himself. Just like in sim city where you dont have to micromanage the construction of every single building, you shouldnt have to micromanage him going peeing and then flushing the toilet. Talk about fun. I think thats what turned me away from game the most.
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Old 03-23-2004, 11:35 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I've only played a Sims game once, it was Bustin out, and it was the most boring 3 hours I've endured.
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Old 03-23-2004, 01:26 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I dunno, at first i found the micromanagement kind of compelling, especially because career rewards come pretty thick and fast if you play a lot. But once I'd settled into the routine of how a sim's life goes, and I could play pretty much any family with my eyes closed, the interest was in customising the game in terms of new furniture, walls etc, and also documenting my sims' lives so eventually i almost had a whole soap opera based around it. Plus I liked the house building element. But for some reason, I lost interest in it really suddenly, and none of the expansions since Livin' It Up/Livin' Large etc have really grabbed me. But I'm looking forward to the sequel.

I dunno about Bustin' Out, that's less open ended unless I'm mistaken. If you didn't like that, you're unlikely to enjoy a bona fide sims game.
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:07 PM   #9 (permalink)
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you just have to use fast forward a lot
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:12 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I was super addicted to this game... and ill probably be super addicted to sims 2

it was all about bulding up my sims stats so he was super good at everything in the game.... aside from getting more stuff

my ex girlfriend was addicted to it as well
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:33 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Is it possible to be a deranged serial killer? That would truly kick ass.
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:40 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Is it possible to be a deranged serial killer? That would truly kick ass.
sims 1 or 2?

I know in The Sims you could invite people over and trap them in a room and they would die eventually (ir is that only if they are in your family? oh well)

but then you have to deal with them hauntin your killer ass
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:47 PM   #13 (permalink)
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all I was doing was micromanaging the idiots


I think the trick is that somehow the Sims creators have managed to hide the fact that all this is is a video game version of playing dolls.
my thoughts exactly
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Old 03-23-2004, 03:51 PM   #14 (permalink)
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The Sims = Worst Game Ever. . . .

Don't know why it sell so many and there are 10 expansion for it.
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Old 03-23-2004, 05:41 PM   #15 (permalink)
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You people have no imagination.

The secret was to manipulate the game and turn the whole thing into a sick twisted episode of 'The Bold and the Beautiful'.

Cause fights, infidelity and more. Have one of your characters descend into madness and become little more than a depraved bedroom dwelling voodoo priest. Start a lesbian affair, or a love triangle which ends in murder. Make a Sims Survivor, and make them do all sorts of fucked up shit.

And take photos of it all and make an album.

Ok, so maybe I have an overactive imagination and sadistic tendencies, but the point is...

OK maybe I don't have a point, BUT, you have to understand that the reason it was so popular was because it appealled to people sick desire to be God.
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Old 03-23-2004, 05:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
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i fucked with my sims lives to no end, it was good fun

and yes... you document it all with pics
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:11 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I have just the original the Sims disk somewhere around here..
I got to say its fun once in awhile to live the life of a bachelor
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:32 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Is it possible to be a deranged serial killer? That would truly kick ass.
I had a serial killer character. I made a house with a dungeon where he would trap people so they would die. I had to keep creating new characters for him to kill. When they die they leave behind an urn or grave, so I made a graveyard in the backyard. It was pretty cool, especially when the ghosts start haunting the shit out of the place.
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Old 03-23-2004, 06:45 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I once made a family of 8 and put them all in a house with no doors and nothing but a stove and put them on "free will"

fast forward, go grab a glass of milk... by the time you get back they will all be burned to death
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Old 03-25-2004, 07:52 PM   #20 (permalink)
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heh...well, it took me a little longer than a week. We ended up buying all the expansions up to Unleashed (excluding Vacation.) Yeesh...

Heh...that's the same time it took me to stop playing The Sims. For me it would seem to die out in between expansions, then the interest rekindled with each expansion pack. I skipped Vacation because it didn't seem interesting and I just stopped playing after Unleashed.
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Old 03-27-2004, 09:00 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I like the sims ok. My favorie part is building my house. Everything else is so so.
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Old 03-27-2004, 10:58 AM   #22 (permalink)
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I like the sims ok. My favorie part is building my house. Everything else is so so.
quoted for truth
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Old 03-27-2004, 01:02 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Check out Singles: Flirt Up Your Life, real uncensored CG sex!

I've never been a fan of The Sims, far too slow paced and no bad guys to kill.
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Old 03-27-2004, 01:56 PM   #24 (permalink)
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I think the trick is that somehow the Sims creators have managed to hide the fact that all this is is a video game version of playing dolls. If more people figured that out, I think the only people interested in it would be girls up to 10 years old
That's a damn good way to look at it Shakran.

There is just something terribly wrong and disturbing about the Sims. Singles is even worse.
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Old 03-27-2004, 09:30 PM   #25 (permalink)
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I use copies of The Sims to lure pretty young girls into my Dungeon and force them into playing Manhunt.
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