How do you approach The Sims as a game?
Pardon the weird title; I wasn’t sure how best to phrase it. I figured with all the talk about the new pack and what we come to expect out of this game, it would be a good time to ask about people’s e...
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1) Playing the sims is so engaging for me that I tend to play for very long periods (honestly, I'd play all day, every day, if I could get away with it :lol: ). So I typically don't start playing unless I have a lot of time on my hands. I'll go for several weeks without playing at all because I am too busy with real life to have good long play sessions. And then, when I have some time, I'll play solidly all weekend from the moment I get up until my husband tells my I have to go to bed. It's definitely not a "pick up and put down" game for me. It's a "be transported into another universe and stay there for days and days" game.
2) Once a pack is installed, everything in it is just an option I can use in my stories. What I use at any given moment depends on what story is going on in my head and what I want to have happen next. I don't think "now I'm going to play with Dine Out". I think "Jack wants to go out to dinner with Jill."
3) Why would I buy packs that don't appeal to me? That doesn't even make sense. I own most of the packs, but only because most of them appeal to me for one reason or another.
4) The Sims itself is a forever game for me as long as my computer can run it, and I still like playing it. However, any individual specific save I create I may or may not play for a long time. I'm always coming up with new story or character ideas and I frequently start new saves to try out those ideas. I have some saves I have played for years and am still playing, and others I played for a while and lost interest in. It completely depends on how fond I become of the individual sims I create for that specific save. We have to bond for the relationship to last.
2) Once a pack is installed, everything in it is just an option I can use in my stories. What I use at any given moment depends on what story is going on in my head and what I want to have happen next. I don't think "now I'm going to play with Dine Out". I think "Jack wants to go out to dinner with Jill."
3) Why would I buy packs that don't appeal to me? That doesn't even make sense. I own most of the packs, but only because most of them appeal to me for one reason or another.
4) The Sims itself is a forever game for me as long as my computer can run it, and I still like playing it. However, any individual specific save I create I may or may not play for a long time. I'm always coming up with new story or character ideas and I frequently start new saves to try out those ideas. I have some saves I have played for years and am still playing, and others I played for a while and lost interest in. It completely depends on how fond I become of the individual sims I create for that specific save. We have to bond for the relationship to last.
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