Anyone played the new Sims game yet? I'd go buy it, but the computers I operate on are all garbage. I'm definitely thinking of dealing with my computer's shortcomings just to play it though.

Are there any opinions on the game? Any that can make me want to buy it before I buy a better computer?

-The Darrel

Sims never grabed me. If I want to swim, or go eat, or make poo poos I'll just do it in real life. The only fun I had with the game was forcing small children into a room, deleting all the doors, and watching them pee and scream themselves to death over and over and over again.

The same night I had a nightmare that I was a sim. And I kept peeing all over the place. I couldnt speak to tell the player to make it stop, because that sim bullshit gibber-jabber just kept coming out. I woke up in a sweat and traded the game in the following day.

Sims :(

lefarce
The only fun I had with the game was forcing small children into a room, deleting all the doors, and watching them pee and scream themselves to death over and over and over again.

I absolutely love the Sims series, but I can see why you would think those things. And doing this is funnn with 3 'n's. So is setting fires.

-The Darrel

lefarce
The only fun I had with the game was forcing small children into a room, deleting all the doors, and watching them pee and scream themselves to death over and over and over again.

I tried so hard to make this one dude burn in a room with no doors and an oven, but all he did was get better at cooking. I was not amused.
But I like the Sims.

ParkerFarker
I tried so hard to make this one dude burn in a room with no doors and an oven, but all he did was get better at cooking. I was not amused.
But I like the Sims.

What you do is:

get a fireplace and a bunch of wooden chairs, then take away all the doors and trap your sim in between the chairs or just wait for the fire to corner them.

Refer to VG Cats #128
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122

-The Darrel

i'm think about getting it.

although i've heard that there's like other content that you can buy, which to buy all of that, it'll cost around $250 on top of the $50 game.

In Sims 2 I had way more fun trying to make likenesses of my friends and family than I did actually playing the game. I even had Mulder and Scully living in a house down the street, and Michael Jackson with his little baby Blanket. That was way more fun that any of the real goals in the game. I'd consider getting 3 if it weren't for the fact that it would take too much of my already tight schedule.

I would've got it if my computer could handle it. I do plan on getting it in the future.

Hawk
In Sims 2 I had way more fun trying to make likenesses of my friends and family than I did actually playing the game.

Same here.

I tried Sims in earnest, but yeah, I got the 'why bother with a close to life simulation like this' feeling after a short time. Just got boring too quick.

So my character invited everyone over, sealed the house and segregated the neighbors inside into small garish rooms without bathrooms and let the madness begin. Welcome to Amityville, Sims! Bwa ha ha.

It's always the quiet ones.

lefarce
Sims never grabed me. If I want to swim, or go eat, or make poo poos I'll just do it in real life. The only fun I had with the game was forcing small children into a room, deleting all the doors, and watching them pee and scream themselves to death over and over and over again.

The same night I had a nightmare that I was a sim. And I kept peeing all over the place. I couldnt speak to tell the player to make it stop, because that sim bullshit gibber-jabber just kept coming out. I woke up in a sweat and traded the game in the following day.

Sims :(

Hahahahahahaha

Pretty much how I feel, except without the nightmares.

I like the new sims, but then again I've liked every PC version of the sims to come out (never played the console ones for some reason). Simply put; did you like the sims 1 or 2? Well, the sims 3 is more of the same with more features, more AI, and less poop.

I got it and I do like all the new features like the traits, full playable town, and as Hakoshen said, much less poop.

My biggest gripe about this game though is I rather preferred the look of the Sims 2 sims over these. They aren't bad looking, but if you make them too skinny, their heads look huge...and they all seem to have a huge goiter you can't get rid of, even with the sliders.

Also, is anyone else having trouble with the fast forward buttons?! Mine barely move time forward at all! It's very annoying having to wait ten minutes for a sim to finish sleeping.


My first sim I made had the insane trait, and the first thing they did when I entered the game was go to some random person's house and start fiddling with their sink. It was great. XD

SarahN
My first sim I made had the insane trait, and the first thing they did when I entered the game was go to some random person's house and start fiddling with their sink. It was great. XD

Ha ha! I share your complaint about head sizes though. No matter what, my males look like NFL linebackers in the neck area.

And, incidentally, I had a small area north of town set up to be a love triangle, but after sim A got close to Sim B, and then made moves on sim C, sim B turned up dead twice. I wonder if there's a /wrists button under the right circumstances...

I tried the first Sims game long ago. I made this guy who live alone and started working for the army. I focused on upping all the stats that were important for his job so that he could climb the promotional ladder and get high raises. That worked flawlessly and now this prime bachelor had enough money to swim in. I added a whole new floor to his house, made a fancy swimming pool, created an awesome game room and so on. All his stats were up at the top except one. He had no friends. I tried calling people over and befriend with them but they all got sick of him and refuse to come back. He ended up spending his nights playing pool alone and crying in bed.

I never had the willpower to start another game, going through the same trivial shit again.

Honestly, I saw no replay value in this.

lefarce
The only fun I had with the game was forcing small children into a room, deleting all the doors, and watching them pee and scream themselves to death over and over and over again.

And here I thought I was the only one who did that! :)

lastcall
And here I thought I was the only one who did that! :)

We all did that. Which is one of the many reasons why god doesn't want to share his powers with us.

Product Placement
I tried the first Sims game long ago. I made this guy who live alone and started working for the army. I focused on upping all the stats that were important for his job so that he could climb the promotional ladder and get high raises. That worked flawlessly and now this prime bachelor had enough money to swim in. I added a whole new floor to his house, made a fancy swimming pool, created an awesome game room and so on. All his stats were up at the top except one. He had no friends. I tried calling people over and befriend with them but they all got sick of him and refuse to come back. He ended up spending his nights playing pool alone and crying in bed.

I never had the willpower to start another game, going through the same trivial shit again.

Honestly, I saw no replay value in this.

Wow... I hadn't realized just how accurate of a life simulator this game is. It's kind of surprising (and... y'know, depressing).

Inkmonkey
"Starling realization"

And imagine. That was Sims 1. I wonder what kind of twisted stuff they've added in their future installments.

It was interesting to watch my hardcore soldier man working on his weights in the living room then stop to cry because he was so miserable and lonely.

Just picked it up, and it's different from the first 2, gameplay wise.

SarahN
Also, is anyone else having trouble with the fast forward buttons?! Mine barely move time forward at all! It's very annoying having to wait ten minutes for a sim to finish sleeping.

my fast forward button works fine, the ultraspeed and 4th ultraspeed although looks almost the same except one seems to randomly jump a second faster. could be your comp. :/

although it's requirements aren't that demanding though.

so my friend listens to this gaming podcast, and they were talking about the sims 3 and how one of them made a character, which had an affair with one of the townies. eventually the husband caught his wife doing it with the character in his house.

so the player traps the husband in a room, but it's all windows. so then the husband had to watch the whole affair going on while starving to death.

Product Placement
I tried the first Sims game long ago. I made this guy who live alone and started working for the army. I focused on upping all the stats that were important for his job so that he could climb the promotional ladder and get high raises. That worked flawlessly and now this prime bachelor had enough money to swim in. I added a whole new floor to his house, made a fancy swimming pool, created an awesome game room and so on. All his stats were up at the top except one. He had no friends. I tried calling people over and befriend with them but they all got sick of him and refuse to come back. He ended up spending his nights playing pool alone and crying in bed.

I never had the willpower to start another game, going through the same trivial shit again.

Honestly, I saw no replay value in this.

Wow... and I thought I was bad. I started a Romance Sim in The Sims 2 and despite looking difficult to do, I got him in bed with 20 female sims. Of course their husbands would start messing with him when they saw him...

One of these days I should just put a Sim into a room, wall him up in a 1x1 tile and just watch the show... *actually, I'm not THAT mean... couldn't do it even though they were virtual people...

I remember in the first Sims I had a character go to the second floor, then out onto an extended patio, then I would delete every part of the second floor except the single square he was standing on. So I had this guy floating in midair off to the side of the house, peeing all over himself and starving to death. Though the weirdest part was that I had an entire family going in the house that I treated perfectly normally... except for the floating dying man next to their house.

Lonnehart
Wow... and I thought I was bad. I started a Romance Sim in The Sims 2 and despite looking difficult to do, I got him in bed with 20 female sims. Of course their husbands would start messing with him when they saw him...

You do realize that you're talking about a different game. The first sims game didn't even offer the possibility of sex. You could make a baby with someone you got married to but that child just appeared in some magic fairy cloud or something like that.

Apparently the only way to make friends in the first game was to have your interests similar enough. Apparently I managed to make a guy with interests that were completely incompatible with his neighbors and he ended up being unliked by all of them despite his best intentions.

Maybe because I have a God Complex, I do like the the amount of creativity the Sims lets players dump into their game, and the ability to "plant a seed and watch it grow", in the sense that the Sims evolve in ways you didn't quite expect, actually leads to a few "whoa, I did that?" moments. I think it's a great game and great fun, if you're into that sort of thing. And since most of you write/draw webcomics, I'd think that getting artsy with the game seems pretty damn appealing.

When I first tried sims 2, I made some young guy with dreams and aspirations. Three days later, he commits suicide.

How interesting :D

Naughtelos
And since most of you write/draw webcomics, I'd think that getting artsy with the game seems pretty damn appealing.

I once saw a webcomic that composed of screenshots from the first sims game. It was about the cast of star trek the next generation + Spock living together in the same house. Then half the house burned down, Spock died in the fire and apparently got reincarnated as a moose head in the living room.

It was certainly.... creative.

My husband has been playing Sims 3 constantly since he got it. He made Sim versions of me and him, and we seem to be lethargic fat-asses who walk around naked breaking things. ...Which isn't too far from the truth. ;) I also had the luxury of being pregnant for only three days and if the baby needed his diaper changed, all I had to do was lift him up into the sky, and POOF! Instant diaper change.

My Sim is apparently a super spy who dresses up as a hooker when she goes on a stakeout. We plan on making our Sim kid into a criminal mastermind. lol!

JoeL_CQB

SarahN
Also, is anyone else having trouble with the fast forward buttons?! Mine barely move time forward at all! It's very annoying having to wait ten minutes for a sim to finish sleeping.

my fast forward button works fine, the ultraspeed and 4th ultraspeed although looks almost the same except one seems to randomly jump a second faster. could be your comp. :/

By the way, it's not my comp...or at least it shouldn't be an issue. I've heard some people with pretty powerful computers are having this problem. Apparently it's a BIG glitch for quite a lot of people and varies from computer to computer.

They had better get a patch out for it. Otherwise The Sims 3 is pretty close to ruined for me when half of it is spent not touching the mouse/keyboard, waiting for them to finish sleeping, doing a skill, or doing their job. *sigh* .__.

That problem was fixed with a patch that came out.

Also, I bought it and it is awesommmmmm. Best Sims game ever, I can spend 5+ hours straight on it. It's taking away from comic time.

And because I find it relevant, I decided to link the newest review by Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/800-The-Sims-3

I actually agree allot with his revelation.

I heard that this game is very useful from a psychological standpoint.