I remember tearing up when I first saw a cat pass away in someone’s TS3 Let’s Play on YouTube. The way the grim reaper tosses the toy into the air and the cat vanishes into the heavenly light breaks my heart every time. :heartbreak:
Since I play with aging off in both games, I haven’t seen anything as heartbreaking as death in my own saves. However, one really sad moment I encountered in TS4 comes to mind. Not long after Get Together came out, I created this sim who was all about partying. One night, she met this sim at one of the nightclubs in Windenburg. She wasn’t interested in settling down and had a few romantic interests here and there, but there was something about this sim. They were so compatible; they had common traits, interests, and habits. If he happened to be where she was, she’d autonomously migrate towards him and join in on conversations with him. Eventually, she decided to take a chance on him and they started dating exclusively. My sim stopped flirting around and stayed near him whenever she saw him at a nightclub, but he didn’t do the same for her. He’d repeatedly cheat on her in front of her, then go and act as if nothing happened. It must have been after the third or fourth time that she couldn’t deal with it anymore. She constantly took him back and always had him in her whims, but that time was different. After witnessing him flirt with another, she moped off downstairs and sobbed in the closet. He followed her and kissed her on the cheek once she emerged, then left. This was the first time I heard a sim cry in their sleep and in the shower. I’ll never forget the way she bent her head under the water and let it rain down around her as she clung to the shower tiles. Seeing that, my eyes actually filled up with tears and I had to pause the game. I applaud the voice actors because it’s one of the only times the sounds of a sim’s cries physically hurt me. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment.
And in case anyone’s wondering, the sim who kept cheating on my sim and continued to cheat on her even after this instance, was Joaquin Le Chien. I just find it very interesting since another commenter mentioned him here. He’s...an interesting one. My sims don’t date him anymore. :lol: