What it says in the title, do you play as your Simself? Feel free to comment why you do or don't.

I'm actually more of a 'most of the time', but I play her so frequently that I'm much closer to always rather than sometimes. The sim in my profile pic is a highly, (radically?) idealized version of me. So idealized that all we have in common is a first name and traits. And when I created the first version of her she wasn't intended to be a simself, it sort of happened over a couple of gameplay sessions. She has been a way to live vicariously through the stories and adventures I dream up for her. I have a dozen, give or take, other sims I play, but she is quite often the one I grab to start a new save with.

When I was a kid in my first Sims 1 game, I made my family. Ended horribly in flames. Beyond that... No. Not really. I took a stab at recreating my mother when she passed and I was in deep mourning, but even then it is hard for me to "play" my real family.I am so boring in comparison to what I could create and play with otherwise. Part of why I love the Sims is because I don't have to be stuck to me. I am the watcher caring and providing for little pixel people. It always felt more like a limitation than a boon to creativity to be held to the confines of my realistic archetype.I understand picking a favorite and focusing, but even with recurrent Sims and Sims types I can only see someone more interesting than me.

If I were interested enough to play a reality-based style I might consider giving it a go, but this game isn't realistic enough to make that prospect appealing at all to me. I prefer everything in my game to be fictionalized, though I do include a few certain nods to some real-life things in my story stuff. Besides, as I've said before, I'm more interesting as a real person than a sim based on me could ever be. ;)

I don't play as my Simself, never have and never will, and to be honest I've never even considered trying to. I get why some people do, I especially get if you're part of the rainbow that is LGBTQIA & playing as your Simself gives you a chance to express a part of yourself that you otherwise might not feel able, or safe to express (and go the Simself for that reason alone). I also think that the Sims should be a great big melting pot of creation, where each individual can play as they choose. Having said all that though, I am an almost 50 year old, semi disabled, chronically ill woman with a low grade cancer diagnosis; I could play as my Simself as is right now, but why would I want to? Or, I could create a younger, healthier, more fabulous version of myself, but the moment I step back into the real world I'm still going to be an almost 50 year old, semi disabled, chronically ill woman with a low grade cancer diagnosis, so to me it kind of defeats my purpose of playing the Sims as an escape before I have to head back into the real world and deal with real world stuff. That's just me though, I get that there are many types of Simmers and everyone should have the right to play as they want. :)

Just because someone had to do it. But, no. I don’t play my self. I play my imagination, not some version of my reality.

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Louise_Goethals
3 years ago
When I was younger, I made myself and my family as well as our house. It was more a novelty than anything else, since I quickly found it boring to play it. For me, the appeal of the Sims is to create characters, their backstories, their homes and their worlds, then play out their lives. I don't find much appeal in recreating my own or "living vicariously" through my simself. I often include aspects of myself, my goals and fantasies in my sims, especially when it comes to atmospheric things such as living in a cute coastal town or a remodeled historic house. I have a great fascination with houses and buildings in real life and love imagining what people live, work and otherwise dwell in them, and what their stories are. So the Sims allows me to channel that imagination.
BylineBelife
Seasoned Novice
3 years ago
"Simmingal;c-18109124" wrote:
wouldn't it be so funny if we did forum simself group picture :lol: but i assume it would be a struggle to piece together
maybe less so if sims were put in same game but again cc n stuff

In the early years of simming, we often did that in different forums. We created our own alter-ego, no cc, an sometimes also limited packs, and uploaded them somewhere for others to grab and have their way with. There were separate sections of the forums dedicated to this, and how I remember it, it was fairly free of drama.
CAPTAIN_NXR7
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
"GoddessByline;c-18109301" wrote:
"Simmingal;c-18109124" wrote:
wouldn't it be so funny if we did forum simself group picture :lol: but i assume it would be a struggle to piece together
maybe less so if sims were put in same game but again cc n stuff

In the early years of simming, we often did that in different forums. We created our own alter-ego, no cc, an sometimes also limited packs, and uploaded them somewhere for others to grab and have their way with. There were separate sections of the forums dedicated to this, and how I remember it, it was fairly free of drama.

I’m not surprised that the forums were mainly drama - free back in the days because it looks like everyone was able to quietly “have their way” with simself forum members in their game! I wonder how many survived. ?

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Simmingal
Hero
3 years ago
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18109317" wrote:
"GoddessByline;c-18109301" wrote:
"Simmingal;c-18109124" wrote:
wouldn't it be so funny if we did forum simself group picture :lol: but i assume it would be a struggle to piece together
maybe less so if sims were put in same game but again cc n stuff

In the early years of simming, we often did that in different forums. We created our own alter-ego, no cc, an sometimes also limited packs, and uploaded them somewhere for others to grab and have their way with. There were separate sections of the forums dedicated to this, and how I remember it, it was fairly free of drama.

I’m not surprised that the forums were mainly drama - free back in the days because it looks like everyone was able to quietly “have their way” with simself forum members in their game! I wonder how many survived. ?

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sim me would probably die first in "hunger games" :lol:
Burnziie
New Rookie
3 years ago
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18109317" wrote:

I’m not surprised that the forums were mainly drama - free back in the days because it looks like everyone was able to quietly “have their way” with simself forum members in their game! I wonder how many survived. ?

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I'm not sure how to take that sentence. Because there's "I didn't like you, so heres Sim you dead" and then there's "I don't like you, here's a photo of Sim you woohooing my Sim me!"
telemwill
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I never have. I'm not opposed to playing that way. I just don't find myself that interesting. ?

Otoh, whoever I'm playing at the time takes on an aspect of myself. It's a way of exploring other lifestyles other than my own.
Babykittyjade
Rising Observer
3 years ago
This is the sim I think I will breakout of hiding in my gallery if we get wearwolves. My similar simself.
It's pretty accurate except my eyes are brown not green like the sim, my cheeks are not quite that fluffy, I don't wear makeup ever and both of my ears are covered in piercings. (The last few I just got a week ago so I will update this sim to reflect that with cc earrings)
And my hair is longer but long nice hair is hard to find.
I have this exact sari in yellow though. One of my favorite colors.
CAPTAIN_NXR7
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
"Sorak4;c-18109358" wrote:
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18109317" wrote:

I’m not surprised that the forums were mainly drama - free back in the days because it looks like everyone was able to quietly “have their way” with simself forum members in their game! I wonder how many survived. ?

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I'm not sure how to take that sentence. Because there's "I didn't like you, so heres Sim you dead" and then there's "I don't like you, here's a photo of Sim you woohooing my Sim me!"

That's correct!
bshag4lv
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18108978" wrote:
Because I'm too sexy for its code.
The game can't handle it and always stops responding the moment I place him (me, *sigh*) in the world, just so that it can ogle at my simself. Code Ogling Code. Gorgeous code at that.

Where's the humble button? :D

Nope, I won't make a simself...she would have to be an elder and that's no fun. :D I always figured it would just be too creepy. :# Plus most of my sims are occult, I would like more please EA.
GlacierSnowGhost
Seasoned Hotshot
3 years ago
I had been playing for years before I even found out that making a simself was a thing that people do. It literally never occurred to me. From the start, I have always just made up characters and stories.