Tell Us About Your Favorite Sims 4 Families
Tell us about your favorite family you've played in the game. Could be a single household, premade household, a family you've carried over from a previous version of the game. Feel free to share pics...
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I love all of the family photos and stories that have been shared here.
When I read the title of this post, my mind went to Sims 2 and the historical remembrance legacy my children and I created when my parents died. This involved many hours researching the family history, talking to extended family, brainstorming ideas, and a lot of custom content that we designed and created for ourselves. The kids and I came up with the ideas, the girls and I designed the content, and my son and I did most of the creating as he was getting heavily into coding at that time.
Then I started thinking about my Sims journey going back so many years to when Sims 1 was released and the terror, horror and joy of my first minutes when I first started playing. Then came the multiple iterations of the various pre-made sims.
Questioning myself whether he was a premade sim, I thought about a 'recluse' sim who used to live off in the woods by himself (Sims 2 I think) - very different to the Sims 4 Deep Woods hermit. Then there were the various magical families, fairies, vampires, werewolves and other occults (or their victims) and the rags-to-riches and 10+ generation legacies and the many other challenges I have played over the years either by myself or with kids input guiding the challenge. My mind is now flooding with memories of so many different Sims families over the many years and iterations of Sims. Of course, we can't forget the unique gameplay that the Into to The Future expansion in Sims 3 created.
There are so many Sims family memories (RL and Sims all intertwined) it is impossible to choose just one because it depends on the mood I am in. I have never shared photos of families or stories in the forums, but once I have my new computer it might be time to start.
There are several stories I have followed on the forums (or streamed), and I look forward to enjoying many hours of entertainment in the future living vicariously through other people's stories and maybe even posting a few of my own.
Thank you for instigating so many happy memories and inspiring so many future possibilities.
Your post about your sims households over the time is very beautiful @OzSimsFamily ❤️ It is full of warmth and contains so many special and lovely recollections and memories that you have had of sims that you and your family have played together over the years. Your sims playing envelops your real life family at the same time, which is very lovely.
It would be very nice to see photos and stories of your sims on the forums if you decide to post them 🙂
My favourite families are those in my Specter-Straud Dynasty.
It started with the drowning of Olive Specter's fiancé and her love affair with the Reaper.
Being a single parent with two sons she meet Vlad Straud and married him. He turned her into a vampire.
They had three children and after Vlad's 'accidental' death in sun light she hooked up with Vlad Bloodvein and got two more children.
I've been playing Olive's and her offsprings famiies (11) for about 3 years now rotaionally and it is still fun.
It is great that you have been playing Olive Specter and her offspring’s family for three years @Gagea25 🙂 You would enjoy rotating between the families and catching up with what is happening in their lives.
The photos of her and family are very nice.
Tell us about your favorite sims and why you like to play them:
The Sullivans
In my main game, my family and their extended family all have §9,999,999 and are genius tech gurus --- start-up geniuses, and all live in the best neighborhood in Newcrest. There are 25 Sullivans, in all --- (three 8-Sim households and one Young Adult from the family moved in with the neighbors on the same block --- spanning from toddler to great-grandparents).
The Sullivans' are a great, loving family who always get along with each other, their extended family and friends. The neighborhood is a wonderful place for them to live – across from their relatives and a few close friends on asphalt abodes. Twin Oracle Point has my version of Mangolia Blossom park. I added a huge fountain, so that’s a great spot to hang out and grill --- when we don’t just go to the place with two types of monkey bars and a grill on the other side of Rippling Flats. The adults and children have maxed most skils in the base game and packs.
The children’s grandma and grandpa make over §1,300/hour as Start-up Geniuses. I have aging off, so all the adults will always be about 21 years-old forever, as well as their great-grandparents and other adult relatives who live across the street. The 2 girls (both genius/whiz kid) will be about 11 and a half forever. They've maxed all possible children's skills and completed all four aspirations, and they have all possible adult skills, such as charisma, piano and violin, and they love to read the first volume of the programming book!
I added 1 toddler, (Anne Cathleen Sullivan) to their relatives' house, and she will always be a toddler with all her toddler skills maxed, as well as an infant who is now a toddler too and working on her skills. They were named after a descendant from the first generation of Sullivans.
my game play style: I was sick of seeing members of the Sullivan family die --- actually, I built a small house for any elders in that family from generations before the 4 generations, which I currently play because I didn’t want to keep seeing them die --- generation after generation. So, I when the “It’s almost [name of Sim’s] time, message came up on the message wall in-game, I would have the family give the elder(s) a “send-off,” party with a meal and hugs, within a few hours of finding out that it was time. Then, I started the whole Potion of Life deal, and finally, I just decided to turn aging off.
Having a routine is key to managing a large household. It was hard to have such a big family, at first, but now, everyone comes home at 3 p.m., has a snack and does homework or work homework (and they help the children with their extra credit on days when they’ve completed their work homework). Then, there’s play time/dinner or an outing. In the morning, there’s shower time and breakfast oatmeal, and sometimes, browsing Simpedia or chess to get focused before work or school.
When I had aging on, I had about 30 generations in the Sullivan family, and they’ve always been tech gurus --- and after awhile always became start-up geniuses. I didn’t like it when their lives ended, and I played so much that there was a new generation a lot. So, I turned aging off. I try to mix it up on their weekends, especially, so I don’t get bored.
