20 years of the sims <3
Today I realized that I've been playing the sims since 2002!...20 years!! This old lady still loves playing the Sims❤️🙂 How long have you been playing??
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@PugLove888 I can even remember exactly what I was thinking as I watched the trailer for Sims 1! Believe it or not... I thought it was going to be like The Simpsons lol. As a massive Simpsons fan that was the initial draw for me. Got the game, thought "Where's Bart? Ah, right erm nope this isn't anything like Simpsons!" But too late, I was already invested in the game. I was a platform game fanatic before that and was pretty devoted to blue hedgehogs and little purple dragons (we still have adventures together though). It was the idea of building houses that I really enjoyed. I also loved the Sim design, I love to set styles and looks for Sims. I loved dolls houses as a child and was really sad to age out of that. So here was something that was like a digital dolls house but better because of all the different variations and character creation. Now it's evolved way past that, it's come a long way.
I have a real horror phobia though after once walking in on a horror show about vampires as a toddler. Trying to overcome it with more horror just made it worse unfortunately.
I felt very brave adding Paranormal stuff to my game but that was mainly for the lovely decor and because I didn't find it too bad in Sims 3 Pets, but I missed my ghost zapper for security. It's not the same without my ghost zapper! Every Sim in Sims 3 Pets had one! I used to create a shell house with a few items in it, save it like a little storage locker and then use it for all my Sims so they'd have the items I'd unlocked already like the dog castle and fancy bed too.
It's funny when you suddenly realise you're a pretty devoted gamer, without actually thinking of yourself as a gamer! I think it's because I'm quite strict with cut off times where one of my close friends whose house I can see, he's like headphones on, focus, lights on till daylight and then suddenly realises he forgot to go to bed! I'm quite sensible. 4 to 5 hours of Sims and then switch them off.
In February I had to take a short break from them because of crashing and loading bugs and while I enjoyed revisiting classic platforms (except for the disobedient orange marsupial, he knows who he is and what he did!) I was so glad when my game loaded up again and my Sims were back!
I have a real horror phobia though after once walking in on a horror show about vampires as a toddler. Trying to overcome it with more horror just made it worse unfortunately.
I felt very brave adding Paranormal stuff to my game but that was mainly for the lovely decor and because I didn't find it too bad in Sims 3 Pets, but I missed my ghost zapper for security. It's not the same without my ghost zapper! Every Sim in Sims 3 Pets had one! I used to create a shell house with a few items in it, save it like a little storage locker and then use it for all my Sims so they'd have the items I'd unlocked already like the dog castle and fancy bed too.
It's funny when you suddenly realise you're a pretty devoted gamer, without actually thinking of yourself as a gamer! I think it's because I'm quite strict with cut off times where one of my close friends whose house I can see, he's like headphones on, focus, lights on till daylight and then suddenly realises he forgot to go to bed! I'm quite sensible. 4 to 5 hours of Sims and then switch them off.
In February I had to take a short break from them because of crashing and loading bugs and while I enjoyed revisiting classic platforms (except for the disobedient orange marsupial, he knows who he is and what he did!) I was so glad when my game loaded up again and my Sims were back!
@simsplayer818 , I can see that! The Simpsons were everywhere throughout the prior decade to The Sims being launched and the names are similar! But the question is: "Did you ever make a Simpson's family in the Sims?!?" 🤔😄
Will Wright, who created the Sims did say it was like a dollhouse! I never had a dollhouse growing up, unless you count the Barbie Dreamhouse that my neighbors gave me (and while I loved the elevator, I hated Barbies, so it had limited use for me! But my friend had a beautiful, traditional dollhouse! But The Sims is better, like you said! You can have multiple houses and "dolls" all different from one another! And now the "dolls" change over time! 🥳
I understand how your experience made you fearful of Vampires and not like them in the game. Phobias can run deep. I have a phobia of bees and wasps due to being attacked by wasps as a toddler... logically I know not to panic, but my body won't obey my mind in these instances. I think that is why I'm creeped out by sunflowers because the centers of them remind me of wasp nests. 😖
Sims 3 Pets for console and the ghost zapper! I forgot about that.😂 I do remember the Sims 3 for PC & Mac had an EP that had ghost busters in it that had a ghost vacuum or zapper in it. I do remember the fancy pet beds and dog castle! 🥰
A sensible gamer is still a gamer! 😃
I love your description of other classic video game characters!🤣 And I'm happy you can play Sims 4 again after not being able to for a while! 🥳
@MissNOFX , partly, yes! I definitely have to use lotion on my feet and hands, but my feet are usually cold so I have to wear socks a lot of the time. But it isn't just my feet I can't stand rubbing on the carpet... I can't even stand the sound of other people doing it!😅 Ice being scraped of a windshield does not bother me , but I hate the feel of pencils, and always preferred pens, even to do math or crossword puzzles! 🤭 Mechanical pencils were not an option because the lead would break so easily. Erasable pens were my best bet! But I have Sensory Processing Disorder which is often found in people with ADHD and Autism Spectrum Disorder, but I think you can have SPD on its own -- however I'm not sure. 🤷♀️
Yes, I find the supernatural Sims fun to play because they have different abilities and disabilities in the game so it is almost like playing a different version of the game, or even like playing the same game from a different point of view! 🥳 I think it adds variety to the game, but I certainly understand how many people don't like it!
I'm not as fond of realistic gameplay. I do laundry in real life, I don't need it in the game! 😅 Then again, if it is an emotional/family bond kind of thing that is present in real life (such as pets), then I crave that kind of realism! Or if it is a realistic thing that actually produces something or gives our Sims a skill, like Handiness, or Knitting, then I'm all for that in the game! But just laundry for laundry's sake is not my favorite. 😂
- @PugLove888 No I never made The Simpsons! I could never do justice to the wise perpetual 8 year old that is Lisa Simpson! But I wish the Sims babies were as awesome as Maggie! I cannot imagine she would settle for spending all day in her crib. I know she'd be staging a breakout and leading Sims babies to a rebellion! Free the Sims babies, give them personalities. I can just picture it, that pacifier is her secret weapon.
I also have a bee/wasp phobia and I don't know if other countries have these but in the UK we have a type of pretty rare bee that builds homes in walls we call masonry/concrete bees and I currently have them in a wall outside. But I don't like to kill bees so it's a dilemma! I tolerate them and flee when I see one. I added them for my farm Sims though as a kind of exposure therapy lol but I can't bring myself to do the same with vampires/werewolves. I also have a paralysing fear of hospitals and deep water so I added those to my game too and actually it helps! You can actually make the Sims into a simulation scenario for some phobias I find. It's very versatile like that.
I do love Realm of Magic and haven't had anything like that in my game before as on PC I never had DLC. I have a powerful witch versus a Wiccan who never duels and just helps nature. But Glimmerbrook is so small, if I could have the werewolf world, minus werewolves I'd make it an extension of Glimmerbrook.@simsplayer818 , Yes!!! That was an episode in one of the earliest seasons, but I don't remember which season it was! It was hilarious.🤣 You could make Maggie a toddler and then never teach her to talk , but we don't have pacifiers so she wouldn't look quite right. Maggie sounds like the babies in The Sims 2 that would escape from their cribs if their parents wouldn't let them out! 😅
We have mason bees in the States, but I don't know if I've encountered them or not. I'm so sorry you have them in your wall ! Perhaps a professional can safely relocate them?
I had a Wasp scare the other day! Luckily they just stayed on their nest, but their nest was above my front door! I can handle the bees in the beebox in the game, because those are kind of like pets (or so I tell myself) and are good for the garden and make honey. And I realize our real life bees are in danger! But the wasps in Jungle Adventure freak me out! 😰 I can see how some things in TheSims could help some people get over certain phobias. People who are afraid of dogs might start out with having a dog in the game, getting used to looking at it and hearing the sounds it makes , etc. It wouldn't cure them, but it could be a first step to a cure!
Well the Werewolf pack and Vampire pack aren't the packs for you, but good thing the Sims has a wide variety! 🥳 What are your favorite packs in TS4?- @PugLove888 You'd be amazed how many contractors have heard bees, 2 storeys up, ladder, etc and run a mile!! It makes me laugh in the game when Sims call them "beevsies". I find myself doing the same and forgetting my friends are there till they say "what's a beevsie?".
I love the cottage living pack but the bugs still need work and enraged me in the beginning, same with snowy escape. Island Living is one of my absolute favourites too. For gameplay I really like the jungle and outdoor retreat packs as well as get to work. I wish the careers were fixed though on get to work. DHD would have been a favourite if the bugs were fixed. We didn't have these worries with Bustin Out! At least on my console I didn't.
