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skewedreality04's avatar
8 years ago

I Can't Believe This

This is long, but I promise it's worth the read.

My favorite EA sim is Bab's L'Amour, and I have played her a handful of times, and she always marries Ollie Purdue. I set out to do that this time around, but this time they would have pets. So I started them as roommates, and planned on having them date after awhile and get married, you know, the works. What REALLY happened though was Bab's became friends with Zoe Patel, and she and Ollie hooked up one time, well that one time led to her getting pregnant, so I had them start dating and was going to have Bab's play the field for awhile, while I tried to figure out how to get rid of Zoe. In the meantime Bab's is dating 6 other sims because of her aspiration. While on a date with one of these guys she meets a girl named Makenna, who was their waitress, they hungout a few times and really got along. One thing led to another and they were dating, another notch on Bab's bedpost. Bab's got asked on a date by one of her guys one night, they went to a restaurant where he gave Bab's a kiss, and then it happened. I see Makenna appear on the screen, and it suddenly dawns on me that we are at the same restaurant Makenna works at! She is IRATE when she gets to work and sees this, because I forgot to mention that she is not only unflirty, but jealous. She goes off on Bab's and storms into work. Bab's followed her and tried to sweet talk her, because Bab's actually really cared about her. She invited her over after work so they could talk, after they talked Bab's decided to commit to her and told her to move in so she could be sure that what happened would never happen again. Things went back to normal, their cats had kittens, and things were great. Makenna rolled the whim to get married to Bab's, and the next day Bab's rolled the whim to marry Makenna, which she's never rolled the whim to marry anyone out of the 6 others she was dating. So I am thinking perfect let's get them to a fancy restaurant in the city with a great view, and Bab's can propose. Everything was perfect, the waitress didn't drop the food on them, the food was excellent, and the icing on the cake was I just got a popup letting me know that it was the romance festival. Things couldn't be going more right. They finished dinner, and they stood up, Bab's got on one knee and proposed, I was camera ready... Have you guys ever seen what the reject proposal animation looks like? If you haven't consider yourself lucky. It was the meanest most heartbreaking thing I have ever seen from this game. That was 15 min ago, and I am still sitting here with my mouth on the floor, because I can't believe that happened. Just when I think this game has nothing else to give, it throws me a curve-ball, and I'm drawn right back in.

















  • Reddestiny921's avatar
    Reddestiny921
    Seasoned Veteran
    the rejection is sad when it seems they should be together and funny when it works, I have a new save going the story in my head being that Vlad was disappointed the family was awake so he couldn't feed. Though Annica being friendly trying to greet him as though he is a normal neighbor gave him an idea that he could have something better. So he is 'controlling' her to make her give him an heir she's very pretty after all. As she is just a tool and doesn't actually hold any special place to him at all it was funny watching him accept flirts but reject her embrace and kiss. Not quite proposal but still fitting.
  • "SkewedReality04;c-16173559" wrote:
    YES!!! So you get it! Had you ever seen that rejection before Don did it? Because I never even knew it existed!

    No, I had never seen it before. I was gobsmacked lol. It was pretty cool, despite my sim being heartbroken.
  • "elanorbreton;c-16173099" wrote:
    Lol. Poor sim.

    I remember how gutted I was when Don Lothario did the exact same thing to my main sim. You can't see it, but there goes the ring flying across the room:
    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/bvo73i95p6xgn53/250.png?dl=0

    Then after he raged at her for a while, he stormed out.
    https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gbhtkj3jcmmv671/252.png?dl=0


    ok, so there are in this game those interesting things but ...

    how often will you be doing this ?
    how often will you orchestrate a proposal where the chances are high that your proposing sim gets rejectected at all & then rejected in such a definite way ?
    i'd guess maybe 3 cause then it gets just old

    now how often do sims eat, interact on the daily basis with each other, how often they go on dates, visit nightclubs, cafes, other sims
    & what interesting things happen while doing so ?

    as much i appreciate the inclusion of such unique moments i would be far more impressed by the inclusion of uniqueness into the everyday life of sims


  • I always get shocked when there are rejections! They are rare in my game, but always the couples I'm sure would never reject. Guess I'm wrong... a couple times, actually!

    To make things worse, they're brothers! Arthur (the guy in the second one)'s face cracks me up.

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ff/01/a1/ff01a11b600a171eed145011a4bcd9ae.png

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c2/0a/97/c20a970a888205c9687d12e793699085.png

  • I love your story it's so great and sad. I've never seen a rejection or even a run away bribe/groom and I so want to see those things to spice things up. Sometimes I feel like my game is rigs to be perfect as I never get random deaths or heartbreaks. The most I've gotten was death by fire but I told my sims to use the dryer knowing that the trap wasn't cleaned and smashing lit pumpkins. Give my game more drama Sims gods give me more :naughty: