Hey everyone. So I haven't seen a discussion topic dedicated to the Sims for a while so I thought I'd start up a new Sims Megathread and hopefully we can have some great discussions about the series here.
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[b]About The Sims:[/b]
The Sims was a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It was created by game designer Will Wright, also known
for developing SimCity. It is a simulation of the daily activities of one or more virtual persons ("Sims") in a suburban household near SimCity.
I don't think the original game was expected to become so popular. But when it did Maxis made the game even better with the addition of expansion packs.
[b]The Sims Expansion Packs:[/b]
[b]The Sims: Livin' Large[/b]
Livin' Large was the first major expansion to the Sims base game. It focused on making the game more fun and full of content with additions like Genies, new careers,
and other fun features.
[b]The Sims: House Party[/b]
The Sims: House Party is the second expansion pack for The Sims. House Party gives players the ability and facilities to hold elaborate parties and gatherings in their
sims' homes. For example, sims can purchase dance floors, costume trunks, and buffet tables complete with hired caterers.
[b]The Sims: Hot Date[/b]
The Sims: Hot Date is the third expansion pack released for The Sims. This expansion pack introduced dating to the Sims game. You could now take your sims out on
dates and even give gifts to other sims! And as always, new items and clothing were added to add more variety to the game.
[b]The Sims: Vacation[/b]
The Sims: Vacation is the fourth expansion pack for The Sims. Vacation introduces a new destination called "Vacation Island" where Sims can take vacations with family
members or with other Sims. This marks the first time sims can stay on lots away from home. As with other expansion packs, Vacation introduces new items, characters,
and features pertaining to the theme of vacations.
[b]The Sims: Unleashed[/b]
The Sims: Unleashed is the fifth expansion pack developed for The Sims. Unleashed introduces pets into the game. Furthermore, Unleashed introduced gardening,
allowing sims to grow and nurture plants that could later be harvested and consumed.
[b]The Sims: Superstar[/b]
The Sims: Superstar is the sixth expansion pack of the seven released for The Sims. This expansion allows the player's Sims to become entertainment figures and
includes representations of several famous personalities. They can impersonate several great stars like Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Christina Aguilera,
The Beatles, Richie Sambora, and Avril Lavigne.
[b]The Sims: Makin' Magic[/b]
The Sims: Makin' Magic is the seventh and final expansion pack released for The Sims. It introduces magic to the game and allows Sims to cast spells, forge charms,
brew potions and buy alchemical ingredients. Baby dragons are also available as hazardous pets and it also introduces a new neighborhood area. In addition, it introduces
baking and nectar-making.
[b]The Sims 2![/b]
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[b]About The Sims 2:[/b]
The Sims, now in 3D! I remember this being one of the most exciting things about The Sims 2 along with improved pathfinding.
The Sims 2 has the same concept as its predecessor. Players control their Sims in various activities and form relationships in a manner similar to real life. The Sims 2,
like its predecessor, The Sims, does not have a defined final goal; gameplay is open-ended. Sims have life goals, wants and fears, the fulfillment of which can produce both
positive or negative outcomes. All Sims age, and can live to 90 sim days depending on the degree to which their aspirations are fulfilled. The Sims 2 builds on its predecessor
by allowing Sims to age through six stages of life.
[b]The Sims 3![/b]
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[b]About The Sims 3:[/b]
I remember back when I used to play the Sims 1 me being 12 years old, wondering what the Sims 2 would be like. I used to imagine being able to ride a bike around town
and go wherever I want when I wanted. Visiting another Sims house was a possibility or even going to public parks.
When the Sims 2 came around those dreams were crushed. But then there was the Sims 3. Players can explore the world outside their Sims' homes without having to
face strenuous loading times. Every house lot is now synchronized with the main neighborhood time. The game also includes an optional feature called "Story Progression",
which allows all Sims in the neighborhood to autonomously continue as if the player were controlling them, such as grow up, get married, get jobs and promotions, have children,
build or buy their dream house while the player isn't playing.
The Sims 3 ROCKS!
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I will be adding more info about Sims 2 and Sims 3 expansion packs in the next few days. I hope all this info is enough for the time being. Enjoy :)
I remember being like 12 and buying every expansion pack I could find for the Sims 2 and spending 8 hours making a house from the ground up.
Time flies faster on the Sims than any other game i've ever played. Look up once, it's 5 pm. Look up again, it's 4 in the morning.
Goddamn, I actually quite liked these games for awhile.
Then again, I got bored pretty fast, too. I wonder why that is?
Oh by the way OP, here's a list of every expansion pack for the sims.
[url]http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_The_Sims_games[/url]
Heh. I was just thinking of a megathread for the Sims since I've been playing Sims 3 recently. And voila.
I've got a question for anybody who plays/played. What lifespan do you usually play at (for sims 3)?
I play at epic personally, but the baby/toddler years always seem so boring and slow. With the new expansion, Generations, you can make the spans shorter for specific points of life. (Make the teenage years shorter, baby years, etc.) So that's nice.
[QUOTE=Xed;30381016]Heh. I was just thinking of a megathread for the Sims since I've been playing Sims 3 recently. And voila.
I've got a question for anybody who plays/played. What lifespan do you usually play at (for sims 3)?
I play at epic personally, but the baby/toddler years always seem so boring and slow. With the new expansion, Generations, you can make the spans shorter for specific points of life. (Make the teenage years shorter, baby years, etc.) So that's nice.[/QUOTE]
I'm probably a giant nerd for it but I like playing out a whole sim's life without Generations speed-up.
I have felt like playing the original Sims lately but cannot find the disc.
I still have the big giant box, though. :clint:
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automerge broken.
I/we (family) got the original game ( thanks to my cousin) and house party an the cd's inside a cd rack , gonna install later.
Was playing the Sims 3 earlier.
My sim got killed by a fucking meteor :frown:
[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Xed;30381016]Heh. I was just thinking of a megathread for the Sims since I've been playing Sims 3 recently. And voila.
I've got a question for anybody who plays/played. What lifespan do you usually play at (for sims 3)?
I play at epic personally, but the baby/toddler years always seem so boring and slow. With the new expansion, Generations, you can make the spans shorter for specific points of life. (Make the teenage years shorter, baby years, etc.) So that's nice.[/QUOTE]
I made the baby, and toddler years short. Like, 2 days. Children are around 6, teens 15. Young adults and adults are maxed out, and elderly are 5 days.
I don't have Generations yet (the ability to tweak the exact years was an engine update, so you get it regardless of owning the expansion), so I don't have much to do with the baby, toddler, children, and elderly years.
I should probably mention my tradition that spans all main Sims games (I have never bothered to buy more than 2 expansions for any of the games)
Ever since about 2003, I have made a prison in The Sims and created prisoners and a warden. The original Sims' wasn't very good and was very hard to tell it was a prison, but this was the birth of my tradition. When Sims 2 came out, I made a few regular families then decided to make another prison. This one was far better, actually starting to look like a prison and the warden was looking more and more like a rich old fat cowboy.
Sims 3 was perfect. I could finally have all of my prisoners in orange jumpsuits, fucking [i]barbed wire fences[/i] around the prison, I could make my prisoners mentally unstable and all mean, it was amazing. I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;30382004]I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.[/QUOTE]
I am hoping to see a Seasons expansion before the Sims 4.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;30382004]I could finally have all of my prisoners in orange jumpsuits, fucking [i]barbed wire fences[/i] around the prison, I could make my prisoners mentally unstable and all mean, it was amazing. I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. [b]I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.[/b][/QUOTE]
Make it more interesting; make like a story connecting the both of it. Like TS3 could have characters imprisoned for some reason, and they would be relatives to imprisoned Sims in Medieval from hundreds of years ago.
EDIT: \/ Then I guess you could at least use the characters the game gives you? ...then roleplay the scenario.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;30382004]I should probably mention my tradition that spans all main Sims games (I have never bothered to buy more than 2 expansions for any of the games)
Ever since about 2003, I have made a prison in The Sims and created prisoners and a warden. The original Sims' wasn't very good and was very hard to tell it was a prison, but this was the birth of my tradition. When Sims 2 came out, I made a few regular families then decided to make another prison. This one was far better, actually starting to look like a prison and the warden was looking more and more like a rich old fat cowboy.
Sims 3 was perfect. I could finally have all of my prisoners in orange jumpsuits, fucking [i]barbed wire fences[/i] around the prison, I could make my prisoners mentally unstable and all mean, it was amazing. I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. [b]I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.[/b][/QUOTE]
Not sure if you've played Medieval, but you don't have families in it. And the characters you control depend on the quest you're on. Also, there isn't a real build mode, so you can't build a prison type of building.
Based on that, I'm not sure what you'd want to do would be possible
[QUOTE=Xed;30381016]Heh. I was just thinking of a megathread for the Sims since I've been playing Sims 3 recently. And voila.
I've got a question for anybody who plays/played. What lifespan do you usually play at (for sims 3)?
I play at epic personally, but the baby/toddler years always seem so boring and slow. With the new expansion, Generations, you can make the spans shorter for specific points of life. (Make the teenage years shorter, baby years, etc.) So that's nice.[/QUOTE]
You know you can just buy them a cake and age them up whenever you want right? they don't have to be finished with that span.
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;30382004]I should probably mention my tradition that spans all main Sims games (I have never bothered to buy more than 2 expansions for any of the games)
Ever since about 2003, I have made a prison in The Sims and created prisoners and a warden. The original Sims' wasn't very good and was very hard to tell it was a prison, but this was the birth of my tradition. When Sims 2 came out, I made a few regular families then decided to make another prison. This one was far better, actually starting to look like a prison and the warden was looking more and more like a rich old fat cowboy.
Sims 3 was perfect. I could finally have all of my prisoners in orange jumpsuits, fucking [i]barbed wire fences[/i] around the prison, I could make my prisoners mentally unstable and all mean, it was amazing. I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.[/QUOTE]
Medieval IS NOT at all like the normal Sims games. Don't bother with it if you want to do the whole prison thing. The game is more like The Sim's Bust'in Out story mode.
[QUOTE=Reaper3_3;30382274]Medieval IS NOT at all like the normal Sims games. Don't bother with it if you want to do the whole prison thing. The game is more like The Sim's Bust'in Out story mode.[/QUOTE]
Which is usually how they do the console versions of The Sims, it confuses me as to why they did it on the PC.
Has anyone ever used a Story Progression mod like this one? And if so was it worth it?
[url]http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?PHPSESSID=57e29223e9760088b7c6495ab3cae73d&topic=929.0[/url]
"Dollhouse Simulator"
[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]
I spent dozens of hours on Sims 2: Pets. Never got a chance to play the original :saddowns:
Aw Medieval sounded really good.
[QUOTE=simazzarome;30382815]Has anyone ever used a Story Progression mod like this one? And if so was it worth it?
[url]http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?PHPSESSID=57e29223e9760088b7c6495ab3cae73d&topic=929.0[/url][/QUOTE]Yes. Nraas Story Progression is much much much better than EA's terrible story progression.
[editline]10th June 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=A big fat ass;30382004]I should probably mention my tradition that spans all main Sims games (I have never bothered to buy more than 2 expansions for any of the games)
Ever since about 2003, I have made a prison in The Sims and created prisoners and a warden. The original Sims' wasn't very good and was very hard to tell it was a prison, but this was the birth of my tradition. When Sims 2 came out, I made a few regular families then decided to make another prison. This one was far better, actually starting to look like a prison and the warden was looking more and more like a rich old fat cowboy.
Sims 3 was perfect. I could finally have all of my prisoners in orange jumpsuits, fucking [i]barbed wire fences[/i] around the prison, I could make my prisoners mentally unstable and all mean, it was amazing. I am excited for what Sims 4 holds for my 4th generation of prisons. I am uncertain if I want to carry this tradition into Medieval, but I'll look into it.[/QUOTE][url]http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_3_Content_List:Historical_and_Ethnic#WWII[/url]
Go crazy.
[QUOTE=simazzarome;30382815]Has anyone ever used a Story Progression mod like this one? And if so was it worth it?
[url]http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?PHPSESSID=57e29223e9760088b7c6495ab3cae73d&topic=929.0[/url][/QUOTE]
The majority of that guys mods are awesome.
My first character ever in the Sims 3 finally became an emperor of evil, and so I decided he needed an Evil Lair. Huge fireplace, bookcases all around, and an excellent chair in front of the fire place.
Forgot the alarm. Carpeted room. Only door right next to the fireplace. Spared no expense.
Final Destination.
(After the Grim Reaper came though, I SWEAR TO GOD, he picked up a newspaper that was sitting on my front porch, WALKED INTO MY KITCHEN, SAT DOWN, AND READ IT FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR. That fucker needs to get a house of his own.)
[QUOTE=simazzarome;30382815]Has anyone ever used a Story Progression mod like this one? And if so was it worth it?
[url]http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?PHPSESSID=57e29223e9760088b7c6495ab3cae73d&topic=929.0[/url][/QUOTE]
I use it. It's good, beats EA's.
The sims medieval is fucking hard, i can't play it :(
The Sims is awesome, I love them all, except the Medieval one. Didn't like that one.
The best part about the Sims is when you go fucking insane and "break" the game.
I once had a family, where the father would invite people over and lock them in the basement. While they were dying, my Wife would paint their portraits. When they finally perished, the painting would go on the wall, and the urn was displayed underneath it.
What other game allows you to do that?
[QUOTE=Superginger;30381066]I'm probably a giant nerd for it but I like playing out a whole sim's life without Generations speed-up.[/QUOTE]
And naw, not nerdy. You just have time. I'd find that too boring personally.
Just started a band with two of my Sims, how do I get them a gig?
[QUOTE=GNJF;30386874]Just started a band with two of my Sims, how do I get them a gig?[/QUOTE]
You need a four person band, then someone will phone and offer it, it can take a while.
Has anyone got any lists or anything of great/essential mods?
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