19 years of The Sims - Happy anniversary!
Sul sul Simmers! Today it's 19 years since The Sims was first released. No matter if you have been playing since day 1 or you discovered the game today, let's celebrate the existence of The Sims to...
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I was console player for a very long time and when I've got my first PC The Sims 2 (which was my first Sims game) was among the very first PC games I played. The game was introduced to me by my friend it became my instant favorite, I played it constantly for almost entire year if not even more because I'm pretty sure that I didn't miss even a single expansion pack, mods or CC which my friend also showed me helped to keep my interest high. I was also really surprised to know that not only does the game officially support Japanese language (it didn't happen too often with Western PC releases) they even made a dedicated expansion pack to it (Bon Voyage), not to mention those vanilla CAS outfits. At first I thought they made some kind of Japanese promotion stuff with a game. Speaking of which, would love to see Japan to return as a place for vacation.
Then in several years The Sims 3 came up which I didn't play as actively because for some reason it wasn't as fun as the second game although I liked a lot of things about it compared to The Sims 2. Found out about it in magazine so was excited and wanted to get my hands on it as soon as possible. However, dropped vanilla in a bunch of months then came back after World Adventures and Ambitions release again then dropped the game again and only came into it over again with Paradise Island release and that didn't last long because I couldn't handle the most annoying thing: the game constantly crashed even in CAS because of high RAM usage, I think it was memory leak. Made me uninstall the game completely and made me regret buying new expansions for it, so I decided to play The Sims 2 again for a very good portion of time. Still we spent a lot of good time with friends playing The Sims 3 anyway and I'm definitely enjoying it right now since with getting rid of couple expansions the game becomes quite stable.
Got my hands on the first game closer to The Sims 4 announce and mostly played that game though it did feel quite inferior in some places compared to new games, but it pleasantly surprised me at the same time with a huge C&C reference which is a lot of CAS items and C&C is my most favorite RTS series. It maybe didn't age too well (mostly due to sequels having more features), but I really enjoyed the game and it still is superior to a lot of other strategical games, especially since it's quite complex game, although I hated that there were no weekend days, those creepy calls however, that was fun. The game has great atmosphere and music helps especially.
In the meantime I've got Sims 4 which I dropped because it used to crash too much on release (though I spent a lot of time in CAS) and I think I've got into it in half of a year since then and like old times I was swallowed by the game again, at some point I wished for my vacation to never end just so I could play without being interrupted. I continue to play it to this day since then and I love that developers improved greatly paid content by making it much deeper and complex, especially loved how vampires were handled compared to previous games, definitely my favorite pack for the game, it's even surprising since the game is still published by EA (not to mention that developers avoided a lot of annoying things which EA games tend to have). Anyway, I hope the game will live long enough to become complete before another sequel release, it may has some flaws but not only the game was a PC exclusive for so long which is extremely rare to see from AAA publishers (and thus it was made with PC as platform in mind), it's the best and most worthwhile game EA has at the moment (though with C&C remaster that may change), plus it has a lot of improvements over previous games with, again, vampires being my favorite. Moreover, it's the only high budget game I continue to play and actually love or look forward for additional content release for it.
Sims series is definitely my favorite of all time and I don't think I played anything else for so long, especially in recent years. I hope this won't be the last successful anniversary for the series (who am I kidding, the series will be remembered forever no matter what) and most importantly that developers for the game will always treat it with deepest passion and sincere love because it truly deserves it.
Thank you and please don't ruin it guys. I salute you!
Then in several years The Sims 3 came up which I didn't play as actively because for some reason it wasn't as fun as the second game although I liked a lot of things about it compared to The Sims 2. Found out about it in magazine so was excited and wanted to get my hands on it as soon as possible. However, dropped vanilla in a bunch of months then came back after World Adventures and Ambitions release again then dropped the game again and only came into it over again with Paradise Island release and that didn't last long because I couldn't handle the most annoying thing: the game constantly crashed even in CAS because of high RAM usage, I think it was memory leak. Made me uninstall the game completely and made me regret buying new expansions for it, so I decided to play The Sims 2 again for a very good portion of time. Still we spent a lot of good time with friends playing The Sims 3 anyway and I'm definitely enjoying it right now since with getting rid of couple expansions the game becomes quite stable.
Got my hands on the first game closer to The Sims 4 announce and mostly played that game though it did feel quite inferior in some places compared to new games, but it pleasantly surprised me at the same time with a huge C&C reference which is a lot of CAS items and C&C is my most favorite RTS series. It maybe didn't age too well (mostly due to sequels having more features), but I really enjoyed the game and it still is superior to a lot of other strategical games, especially since it's quite complex game, although I hated that there were no weekend days, those creepy calls however, that was fun. The game has great atmosphere and music helps especially.
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In the meantime I've got Sims 4 which I dropped because it used to crash too much on release (though I spent a lot of time in CAS) and I think I've got into it in half of a year since then and like old times I was swallowed by the game again, at some point I wished for my vacation to never end just so I could play without being interrupted. I continue to play it to this day since then and I love that developers improved greatly paid content by making it much deeper and complex, especially loved how vampires were handled compared to previous games, definitely my favorite pack for the game, it's even surprising since the game is still published by EA (not to mention that developers avoided a lot of annoying things which EA games tend to have). Anyway, I hope the game will live long enough to become complete before another sequel release, it may has some flaws but not only the game was a PC exclusive for so long which is extremely rare to see from AAA publishers (and thus it was made with PC as platform in mind), it's the best and most worthwhile game EA has at the moment (though with C&C remaster that may change), plus it has a lot of improvements over previous games with, again, vampires being my favorite. Moreover, it's the only high budget game I continue to play and actually love or look forward for additional content release for it.
Sims series is definitely my favorite of all time and I don't think I played anything else for so long, especially in recent years. I hope this won't be the last successful anniversary for the series (who am I kidding, the series will be remembered forever no matter what) and most importantly that developers for the game will always treat it with deepest passion and sincere love because it truly deserves it.
Thank you and please don't ruin it guys. I salute you!
