The I'm Bored Thread

"KALIAMMA;c-17254446" wrote:
im currently editing my 2 year old savegame so this is keeping me occupied. after that i plan to marry morgyn (ohohohoh) but yea, there isnt much to do.

I'm sort of glad I'm not the only one starting to become disinterested in the series as a whole. I guess that's bad, but sort of comforting in a weird way. I think once you learn how things work and start looking at games from that perspective, the innocence wears off, after twenty years I sort of know how these games work (on the inside) and what a new player may think is amazing doesn't seem all that amazing to me anymore. I guess that's bad, too. It can inspire people to start creating their own script mods and or custom content etc. (mainly for others) but it sort of takes away the magic of wondering how did they do that and then excitement for something as a chair soon becomes... meh. I'm not speaking in such simple terms concerning programming but for lack of vocabulary today I think people who mod these games know what I mean.

The Sims has been a long and great ride, but I really haven't played that much at all (any of them) these past two years, because I have played them all for twenty years, and they are starting to look to me like old wallpaper that might need removed and replaced rather than reglued etc. or painted over. I know how they work, I know how to manipulate the games, I know to do the same things over in my sleep.

It's not Maxis fault, it's not mine, it's just that I think it's time to get off the bus, since when I think to myself what do I want to do and I load one I decide no, I don't want to do that today, no I don't want to play and wind up just doing other stuff in them whether that is building and or creating something or just redoing neighborhoods or worlds etc.

I think I have finally run out of ideas in this series, which is great for imagination in that way. But I've spent twenty years (free time) messing around in these games, and I just don't feel it anymore. They are rarely the games I load these days, especially not TS4, and it's more like ho hum rather than ooh, a new pack! I don't think they can ever again bring me out of this defunct mode, and that's sad, but it was a fun ride, and I will probably hold on to all of them like people held on to VHS tapes until the point you can no longer even give them away. lol

But what I do know is a new pack isn't going to make me want to play for hours and hours nor for weeks at a time. It's not really their fault, I'm just getting old with it, and no longer the fan they want to impress. And I guess that's ok, I think I will look for something else to do in my free time and stop obsessing about glory days in The Sims. Ho Hum.