Sad moments in TS4--your #1 most memorable?

Working on a build for nearly 2 hours when the computer decides to reboot and feeling numb inside because of forgetting to save before the disaster hit.

I never went back to that file because I was so mad at loosing all that work when I recovered from the numbness.

"Wrenry;c-17920304" wrote:
Working on a build for nearly 2 hours when the computer decides to reboot and feeling numb inside because of forgetting to save.

I never went back to that file because I was so mad at loosing all that work when I recovered from the numbness.

I can totally understand that, I probably wouldn't either

Playing with aging on can get pretty sad. I always use a long life cycle so it's a lot more gradual (and realistic to me). Eventually the time comes though and watching familiar Sims start fading from the world is a bit sad.

This one is still the saddest to happen in my game.
It's one thing to create a sim in cas and give them a tragic background story.
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Her parents died when she was young and she had no other family that she knew of.
Later, family would be found, but after they died and she was sought out for the inheritance.

But it's another thing to finally get toddlers and decide you are going to age back all your sims and play out their backstories.
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The sad thing was I had become very fond of Olivia's parents, but I had to invent how they were to die according to her story.
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It didn't occur through natural game play, but it was still sad to me because their happier moments were natural game play.

Watching the emo girl cry in her dorm room autonomously many times. Girl, I can relate!

It also makes me a bit sad and also relaxed when it's raining or storming while the classical piano music is playing and my Sim is drinking coffee alone.

I haven't had any Sims die yet in my current and only one save. But I'll surely get sad when it will happen. I play aging off and only age them when I feel like it's time.

Because the deaths of old age are so gentle in this game (the Sim even makes a "so long" gesture and greets the Grim Reaper before collapsing!), and the game states that the Sim is in a "better place" after you release their spirit (I don't keep ghosts around on residential lots, they're annoying), they don't bother me for the most part. However, I'm doing the 100 Baby Challenge, and once the earliest generation starts to die off from old age, it *never really ends*, because there are so many members of the family, and they're all aging (except for the matriarch, who only ages when not pregnant). At most, you get a few days of reprieve before you get that dreaded phone call again: " has passed away. I thought you would want to know."

It's almost hilarious how sad it is, but...everyone is affected. Including the children who never met all of their aunts and uncles. Even the *toddlers* become Very Sad as soon as they age up from babies, if the call came while they were babies. The only one who is frequently unaffected by the moodlet is the matriarch, who's not just happy because she recently had a baby, but also because she's pregnant again (I dread the possibility of getting a matriarch with the Hates Children trait).

Most of the other deaths don't bother me on an individual level, because they're rather cartoonish and slapstick. However, I've finally decided that I cannot stand to do any challenges that require *me* to arrange a Sim's death. That's too depressing and it makes me feel horrible. If they're going to die, I rather it be because it's something they chose to do--or an act of "God" (i.e. RNG deciding that they're going to die of an emotion)--not because I told them to do it.

So...yeah, I can't really settle on one saddest moment, but it makes me sad to see all of my Sims constantly sad because another member of their enormous family has kicked the bucket.

ETA: I don't have Parenthood, but some of those chance cards are *cruel*. I've seen it in playthroughs. My heart breaks right along with the kids' and teens' when their crush not only rejects them, but *laughs* at them along with the whole class. *Ouch*.

My saddest was my first sim death, a young mother.

She took her daughter to visit my brother's mermaid family at the beach, to work on her social aspiration. While the girl was chatting with the mermaids, the mother made the foolish decision to go swimming. I didn't even know she was swimming, until a notice flashed onto my screen that my sim was dying from drowning. I immediately hit pause to see what was going on. She apparently went swimming while tired, and fell asleep in the water. I sent her husband and daughter out to plead for her life, but the Reaper just swept in and took her without giving them a chance.

My brother decided to save as a separate game, and see if she was still alive in the previous save (he had autosave turned on). She was. Then I had to decide if I should just go back to the last save, before she died, or continue playing her dead. I decided to try playing out the tragic loss (but kept the old save with her alive just in case).

She was very in love with her husband, but they had recently been fighting because he thought she was being too flirtatious with other men. In fact, he almost died from anger. (I didn't know at that time that you could.) So she was feeling sadness that day she died. So I roleplayed her husband having guilt about his jealousy, and wishing she was still with them.

For the daughter, it was especially tragic because she was with her mom when she died, and blamed herself for her death. She didn't do anything wrong, but she felt that if her mom didn't bring her to Sulani, she'd still be alive.

It was sad story, but I kinda enjoyed the tragedy. The father searched everywhere for her body (urn), but couldn't find it. Her husband and daughter grieved for several days over her loss. It was so sad, that it was actually kinda beautiful. It was like I was writing a tragic novel.

Then one day I found her urn in the household inventory. She died in Sulani. How did her urn get in the household inventory? Well, that was cool. Now they would have a place to mourn her.

Her husband was so grieved, that he built a garden sanctuary on the roof to honor her, and set the urn there. They were always going up there to mourn her, all the time. It was so sad.

Then her ghost came back to them. They were so happy to see her.

Her husband apologized for everything he said, professed his love, and asked her to join their household. She said no, but she kept coming to visit them.

Then one day her daughter asked her to join them, and she said yes. So they were a happy family again, except the mom was a ghost.

The daughter seemed to be confused, because she kept going up to the rooftop garden to mourn her mom, even though she was living with them. Apparently having a ghost for a mom just wasn't the same, and she continued to mourn her death. Eventually the father decided to hide the mother's urn in the household inventory, so the little girl would stop mourning her mom right after talking to her. Then the girl was finally able to get over it, and come to be happy that at least her mom was still with them in spirit.

One memorable ‘sad’ moment for me was when I got the ‘Circle of Life’ achievement for playing a Sim from birth until natural death for the first time. Since it was the first born in game Sim to do so I found myself getting kinda attached in a way, but it was a ‘good’ kind of sad which I doubt makes sense, but...

In actual gameplay not so much, but during writing my stories I have had many moments that left me very veyr down. This is just the way it is.

When my Gen. 3 heir died and his daughter started crying at seeing his body, I felt very sad. They were very close and I could just feel her loss.

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