08-09-2005 12:51									#31
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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley I loved this game when it first came out. I couldn't stop playing.

I bet you like The Sims too.

	08-09-2005 22:55									#32
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Hey what's wrong with the sims? I'm sorry if you didn't get it.

I made a neighborhood based on some classic 70's TV shows. All in the Family, Sanford and Son etc.

	08-09-2005 23:06									#33
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You answered your own question.

	08-09-2005 23:08									#34
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike You answered your own question.

There's more to life than military styled games.

	09-09-2005 01:25									#35
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All my Avatars always ended up big time village care givers and massive death dealers to the enemy. Why? That's what it always saw me doing. Taking care of my villages, growing trees and fields, and punishing those wicked heathens! I could teach it to do everything but toss its poo out to sea or at the enemy. It just never learned that.

As a village toy, it's not to bad. As a digital pet (the avatar), it's a bit of a snore. On the higher levels, you are so busy, you cannot train your wee avatar.

But hey, it's B&W. Does better at first impressions then at long term playing. A lot of games are like that.

	09-09-2005 19:15									#36
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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley Hey what's wrong with the sims? I'm sorry if you didn't get it.

Oh, I got it fine.

Why would I want to play a game where the "characters" are thrusted into the rat race, just so that they can buy more and more things?

I do that everyday already. When I play a game I want to get away from it.

	09-09-2005 19:56									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Oh, I got it fine. Why would I want to play a game where the "characters" are thrusted into the rat race, just so that they can buy more and more things? I do that everyday already. When I play a game I want to get away from it.

Don't go hating on me because you don't like your life.

	09-09-2005 20:07									#38
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Besides, Sims isn't a rat race. I let my sims blossom to make the most of their underachieving potential.

My sims are satires of real life. Hence the basis on old tv shows or friends of mine. I love it when one of my friends sees himself in my game and what I have done to him. Dressed as a slob or fat as a hog. Sometimes its funny.

Anyway, this is a B&W thread.

If you throw a dead villager into a transporter, you will get a walking skeleton. Now if you take that walking skeleton and transport it to the next land, it will become an immortal villager. It will have skin, but never die of old age.

	09-09-2005 20:52									#39
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The Sims 2 is fun

	09-09-2005 21:09									#40
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quote: Originally posted by Blake The Sims 2 is fun

Sims 2 is a lot of fun. I wish they had some objects for the less affluent though. I would like to see some trailers or a broken down car with no tires and on blocks to put in the driveway. Things like that.

	09-09-2005 23:07									#41
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quote: Originally posted by Blake The Sims 2 is fun

It's too easy to get the all promotions for a job with university though. In my last game one of the sims had a lifetime wish to be the best cook ever, 2 days after coming home from the uni she got to the end of the cooking career, and now she's platinum all the time... also almost maxed out in all skills
Been a long time since I played the game though



The game should have been much tougher... and maybe have a scoring at the end of a sims life, so your alive sims can compete with other not-so-alive sims

	09-09-2005 23:16									#42
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If it was tougher and had competitive elements it would lose its main demographic.

	09-09-2005 23:24									#43
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They could easily make it adjustable as most games has (easy, medium, hard)



Also they should include more ways to kill "retire" the sims

	10-09-2005 03:23									#44
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Just watch my girlfriend or her friend play the Sims2. You would actually think the game challenging then. People starve and get depressed and such. Babies get taken away due to neglect. This says more about their skill relative to ours though.

	10-09-2005 03:51									#45
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Note to Skanky: Don't plan on having a family.

	10-09-2005 07:34									#46
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quote: The game should have been much tougher... and maybe have a scoring at the end of a sims life, so your alive sims can compete with other not-so-alive sims

Yup. The SIms 2 is particullary easy to power-game using aspiration.

It gets more challenging with larger families. I find the easiest family is 2 adults 2 children, it's easy to keep everyone with high aspiration. It's also a lot harder starting a family BEFORE starting a career.
Altough there's no excuse for having social services thieve the kids. In my more hectic family I often invite another Sim over to babysit, guests do this pretty good.

HARD: Choose 2 Adult Sims with Family Aspiration (as it's harder to power game), a baby, and a toddler. Make another baby asap, twins for extra credit (that's 4 children). Get all the kids into private school .

Single mum with babies is hard, very hard. Children can earn money painting so then it gets a bit easier.

	10-09-2005 13:51									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Just watch my girlfriend or her friend play the Sims2. You would actually think the game challenging then. People starve and get depressed and such. Babies get taken away due to neglect. This says more about their skill relative to ours though.

I think it says something about those who spend their time watching the Sims.

	10-09-2005 13:52									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Blake HARD: Choose 2 Adult Sims with Family Aspiration (as it's harder to power game), a baby, and a toddler. Make another baby asap, twins for extra credit (that's 4 children). Get all the kids into private school .

That sounds like easy compared to what I tried:

I have 2 adult sims (new in the game, so none of them have any skills at all), both of these got twins the same day, so I've got 4 babies to take care of

	10-09-2005 14:19									#49
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Hah! 2 Sims having twins at once. Did you use the cheat to make them both pregnant with twins?

	10-09-2005 16:42									#50
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I used some mod to do that

	10-09-2005 17:14									#51
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike I think it says something about those who spend their time watching the Sims.

That may be true, were I actually watching at the time. It was quite easy to figure out from their cries of "Oh no, I have died!" or "Oh no, they are taking my baby away!" whilst my attention was firmly fixed on Poly. The real difficulty for me lay in not telling them where they were going wrong, but the wise man knows when not to speak.

	10-09-2005 21:17									#52
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quote: Originally posted by MosesPresley Don't go hating on me because you don't like your life.

At least my bathroom isn't 75cmx75cm and I don't take an hour just to pee. If a guy does that IRL there must be something wrong with his prostate gland

	12-09-2005 23:07									#53
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I think maybe Black+White IS the worst game ever - it even has to suffer the indignity of having its thread hi-jacked to talk about the Sims!

	12-09-2005 23:53									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger At least my bathroom isn't 75cmx75cm and I don't take an hour just to pee. If a guy does that IRL there must be something wrong with his prostate gland

See, that's just part of the awesome realism of the sims that brings it to life.

	13-09-2005 05:45									#55
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor I think maybe Black+White IS the worst game ever - it even has to suffer the indignity of having its thread hi-jacked to talk about the Sims!

No actually B&W is the respectable front to hide a conversation about Sims behind.

	13-09-2005 07:07									#56
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I've threadjacked many threads to be about the Sims.

	13-09-2005 22:06									#57
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well all i can say is i love my monkey and scratch his belly often to see him squirm around like a puppy(i think B+W is my surrogate Nintendogs as i have no DS).

The controls are not the most intuitive(for a game that you can tell was designed to have intuitive controls), but i'm sure i'll get better at getting to the screen/place on the map i want to be as i get more experienced at it.

Its initialy all abit confusing, like who/what to concentrate on more - your creature or your town+people. Some of the tests/tasks are quite tricky(like hitting that rock by throwing other rocks at it) - more luck than skill you end up feeling often. But overall i'm liking it very much.

	13-09-2005 22:40									#58
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor I think maybe Black+White IS the worst game ever - it even has to suffer the indignity of having its thread hi-jacked to talk about the Sims!

That is indeed the ultimate insult.

	14-09-2005 01:30									#59
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor I think maybe Black+White IS the worst game ever - it even has to suffer the indignity of having its thread hi-jacked to talk about the Sims!

Well, you might actually need to hide the Black+White talk behind a Sims thread.