I played Second Life a long time and in Second Life, players not only make their avatars look like themselves, they many times believe and act as if their avatars are them. The game is even advertised on the idea you make yourself and play as yourself. Once I was exploring a European town in Second Life with a female and she wanted to change her top since it was a hot day in the game, (yes extreme role playing) so she insisted on finding a room to go into away from me to change her top as she wanted privacy. She seemed to see no difference between her avatar body and her real one. I naturally approached The Sims based on my other game experiences so I made a Sim to be me, and then played from that perspective. All the Sims big Youtubers.... they all seem to play in 3rd person......I will make this sim do this and that..... oh this sim likes that sim.... they never say "I" am doing this or that. They don't say, "I am doing the 100 baby challenge." No, they say,,,,,this sim avatar "Mary" is doing it, they never refer to the sim as them.I played World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy online, Second Life etc, all games where you play as the avatar you create in 1st person mode. So yea, it seems natural to me to make a Sim to be me... then play as that character. Was just wondering if others made themselves to play as.

I've played the sims since it came out and I sometimes play as a 'sim' and sometimes I play as 'me'. 'Me' is always prettier and thinner than me but otherwise the same!

Simself, no. But namesake Sim, yes.I've been thinking about making a Simself when Cats & Dogs come out, but with a different name since I want her to be in the same savefile as the namesake. Half the battle is figuring out what are my main traits. The absent-minded trait needs to come back. XD

I've played myself as well as my family from time to time. Some new packs add something I'd love to try with myself or my hubby and I start us all over again. My son also likes to make us. At the moment I'm playing my Great, Great grandchildren. It's fun to play out the family.

In Sims 1 I did, and in Sims 3 I have a lot of my family members as many of them play Sims 3 also and we have shared our Sims selves with each other - so I do have over 30 households in my Sims 3 with Family members including my hubby and myself in a copy of the house we used to own in New Hampshire and lived in along with our pets. LOL. I enjoy playing with all my relatives and friends in my game - but in Sims 4 - I don't have my Sims self in game and only a couple of my family members -( a couple of my hubbies younger brothers - I made) do I have in this game. Oddly in Sims 4 no one sends their sims selves to me like we did in Sims 3. I don't think they want to put them on the gallery perhaps where as in Sims 3 you didn't have to share them that way before Origin. My avatar is my Simself from Sims 3.

Oh geez, that's a blast from the past. I played SL for a while back in the day and remember trying to find places to change my avatar's clothes! She was also based on my main Sim that I played in other series, same first name, same appearance, so forth. When I think about it now, I guess she was sort of me, but without all my flaws and way better looking. I didn't make a self sim until maybe 3.5 years ago with TS3. I think I originally made her because one of my friends was playing some kind of challenge with the self sims of her fellow simmers and I wanted in on the fun too. I still never played as my self sim for months after that. I was playing a large crazy household at the time and I was coming up to a milestone birthday so I made a dance video with my self sim and the household I was playing. After I had made the video, I played the household for some days after as an "alternate universe" thing. It felt strange, but I must say I enjoyed seeing "her" interact with everybody I had made over the years. I always wondered if my own sims would love or hate me if we ever met! I guess before that it felt weird to me to actually be "me", even though my sims are all people I created myself. I suppose they are all parts of me in a way, but not "me".In 4, I do and have played my self sim quite a bit. Mostly after a patch and mods are removed or if I've installed a new pack or a new mod and I want to test things out. I've got her as my tester. She also gets to be the first one to model any CC I make myself. Only the best for "me"! She's my profile picture right now and that's more or less the look I give people when they talk a lot of nonsense and I just can't even. ;) Edit: Oh yes, I will definitely be playing her when Cats & Dogs come out, no better person to play the crazycatlady than me. Going to stuff as many kitties into my household as I can! :D

Anybody play themselves in The Sims?

DivieOwl
8 years ago
I made my simself, my husband, our kids, our parents (his had already passed irl), my favorite aunts and uncles, my brother and his wife and kids, my cousin who passed and my grandmother who passed.

It ended up being too emotional for me to continue to play, but I still have the save and would love to play it again, just not sure I can.
JadeSongs
8 years ago
"GoddessSims;c-16087090" wrote:
OP what you said about the person you played Second Life with I find a little over the top.

Yea I don't really know how to explain it but there is some weird psychological thing that happens to some people who play Second Life. It's probably a combination of playing too many hours, making their avatar look like their real life selves in some small or big way, and then spending more time in SL than they do in real life. They feel their Avatar is them. Things like you bump into somebody in SL and they get mad, and say, stop touching me, you type in CAPS, like HEY THERE, and they get mad and say stop yelling at me, they get real life embarrassed if their clothes disappear in some game lag, they are personally offended and get mad if you comment their avatar hair or face or whatever doesn't look good. They refuse to talk or interact with "funny" looking avatars. They treat all avatars as if how they look in game is who and what they are in real life.

I will say though, from a philosophical stand point, it does make logical sense. Eastern philosophies and religions state we are a consciousness that has come to identify with this human body as the self when really this is not what we are. In the same way, this consciousness, which is our true essence, can come to identify with an avatar body as their selves. In other words, if reincarnation is real, we are experts at confusing the body we are in, real or in a game, as being us, or what we are.
ShemaIndigo
8 years ago
Yes I do! I've also made my house exactly look like my own ^^
Now I play with another family but it's fun to see me roaming around the town.
Elizabeth_3014
8 years ago
I don't make a simself or play with one. I also don't make relatives or people I know it just seems to strange to me I can't.
BeJaWa
8 years ago
I get a weird feeling playing myself or anyone I know in real life (or real life people in general). Partially because my play style is a fair bit deviant and I'm not comfortable doing weird unnatural things to real people even in pretend. I made myself once for a sim making challenge but otherwise I avoid playing myself.
TriplisTrip
8 years ago
"BeJaWa;c-16088504" wrote:
I get a weird feeling playing myself or anyone I know in real life (or real life people in general). Partially because my play style is a fair bit deviant and I'm not comfortable doing weird unnatural things to real people even in pretend. I made myself once for a sim making challenge but otherwise I avoid playing myself.

This rings true for me as well. The crossover is just uncomfortable.
ValiantRedKnight
New Spectator
8 years ago
I made a simself, but I like leaving her to the whims of MC Command Center’s story progression (one time she married Don Lothario.)
OEII1001
New Spectator
8 years ago
I've made myself, but I don't play myself.
catitude5
8 years ago
I made myself and my husband and played them for a long while, but they are dead now and I'm playing their decendants. That's me in the picture.
ysa_88
8 years ago
Never. I do planning on making my cats once pets comes out though.