"Nindigo;c-17166655" wrote:
My best advice when someone gets bored with their game, is to walk away and try something else for a while. I will never see the point of trying to force a game to entertain when it clearly cannot. I know of someone who has played the same game day in and day out for years, and they are always grumpy and feeling dissatisfied because of it. Why waste precious time with this self-torture?
When it happens to myself, I have no qualms leaving The Sims dormant for months even, while I rotate between a handful of other games that I usually come to feel the same about. Then all of a sudden, I feel Sims-inspired anew and return to either an old exsisting household or create something new.
When I feel my frustrations with the game take over, it's time to look for something else. Afterall, it's time I won't get back. Life is too short to spend it willingly on something that makes me unhappy.
I never start playing the game as long as I find it boring! So actually, these are my tips to make the game interesting in the first place.
If you wonder why I even bought the game, it's because of the build mode, which is pretty good. :) I'm just searching for ways how I can also enjoy the other, the "gameplay" part of The Sims.
So, I suppose you actually mean 'entertaining' when you say challenging. Because it's all in the entertainment, right?
Well no. The topic was more specific. Sure, some people are entertained by doing challenges, other people like their sims to act out the narrations they've come up with, other people prefer to build. All of these are valid ways to enjoy and play the game. This topic, however is more specific in that asks for suggestion to make the game more challenging (--> the game should offer some form of achievement, resistance; it should not just do whatever you like it to do) but in serious/realistic (not funny as in "have 30 children with one sim") way.
