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Bmm209's avatar
5 years ago

Share stories from your game! (Picture heavy)

I know there must be more Sims 2 players! It's my favorite in the series and one I still regularly play. I used to spend hours of my youth using the in-game story album typing out mini-novels for so many families. Please share some stories and photos from your game.

I have quite a few to share so I'll try to keep it short. The first two are the stories I have the most enjoyment playing.


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This was the first couple I made when I bought Sims 2 again. The husband is a famous doctor and the wife a renowned businesswoman. They were always deeply in love. As they aged, the husband started experimenting with concoctions to lengthen their lives and spend more time together.

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However, despite his best efforts, his dear wife still passed away from natural causes. It drove the husband insane, and he became a bit of a mad scientist, even contemplating even more questionable ways of bringing back to life his true love.

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The horrifying results broke him. His wife only returned a shallow shell of her once beautiful self. Terrified of his own creation, he had her locked in his lower basement, trying to make sense of what was once his wife. Engaging with her haunted his dreams, though it was in some ways it was her, she was irreversibly changed forever. He tried his best to keep this secret hidden from this friends, children, and the community, yet it weighed heavily on his conscience. After some time, he died himself, but his "wife" remained in the basement. Even this became too disturbing to me, and I soon used cheats to delete the wife soon after and she was wiped from memory.


  • Am lousy with photos, but in Pleasantview I use an overall story based on Cassandra Goth's job chance card regarding finding ancient ruins. Once that kicks in the story line is that the village is built on the site of an ancient magical civilization and her entering the ruins has triggered the dormant magic into activity. The premade sims now have to deal with this new reality, which is added to by new families and sims moving in that have the qualities of that ancient people.
  • I'm playing with a new family I created, they're the McConnell's, and both of the parents have the family aspiration. Soon after the third child, both, mom and dad got the "have 10 children" want. I've pinned that, and accepted the challenge! So far they have three kids, and they're expecting a new baby. Is getting hard because I'm trying to play without any money cheats, and things got tough pretty fast; mom has to stay at home often to take care of the kids and dad has a small job in the mail, so I had to send webster to work too (The doggo ????) But they're managing it. They're all happy and have lots of family fun together!
    The kids are: Rosemary (5yold), Oliver (3yold) Winifred (1yold) Mom and dad are Beatrice and Baldwin. Mom got the pregnancy notification today! <3 I'll leave some pictures of the kids playing in the garden. Mom loves gardering, and Rosemary takes after her mom her nature enthusiasm...! Loves to collect bugs, catch fireflies, water the plants, and harvest berries ??

    Spoiler
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  • So the dad has been saving to buy a toy crafting machine, and he finally, finally got one! He's been really excited about this new hobby, and the kids love it too. It's windy season, and he's working a lot to try to make a kite to fly with his kids.
    He's practicing and making all kind of toys for his family. Henry (the toddler) particually seems to love the "clown in a box" toy :D .
    I'm also updating: Now they're five siblings! Henry and Abigail are the newest little additions to the family. I just love this family. I swear they're just adorable.

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  • "ignominiusrex;c-18082486" wrote:
    Is there a trick for screenshots in Sims2? It seems like I can only find the last 2 I took, in a file called Storytelling. I keep Story mode off because I don't know what to do with it.


    It's terrible, what I do it's to take a screenshot, immediately go to the file, cut and paste the pic somewhere else, leave the file empty, and go to the game again and take another.
  • Rflong7's avatar
    Rflong7
    Seasoned Vanguard
    "@ignominiusrex;c-18082486" wrote:
    Is there a trick for screenshots in Sims2? It seems like I can only find the last 2 I took, in a file called Storytelling. I keep Story mode off because I don't know what to do with it.

    & @Elisdream

    Hi :mrgreen:

    Each neighborhood has it's own Storyteller folder where the game puts pictures.

    Pleasantview would be in Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection (or The Sims 2)\Neighborhoods\N001\Storytelling

    *What is Story mode?
  • A dorm drama slapfest was inevitable when there were several of them with the "romance" aspiration. They couldn't learn to keep it on the downlow XD

    https://i.postimg.cc/Z5dx7TV0/sims2dormslapfest.jpg

    so I had my laughs, then got their aspiration level to gold and stuck their heads in the recombobulator and got them more sensible aspirations both so they could think about something else for 2 seconds, and so they'd stop jumping one another out of jealousy.
  • Is there a trick for screenshots in Sims2? It seems like I can only find the last 2 I took, in a file called Storytelling. I keep Story mode off because I don't know what to do with it.