I've been playing Sims since it came out in 2000. I've probably made thousands of game saves and characters, but I remember very few. I remember my last Sims 3 family because I was very into them and then the file corrupted--I was so angry I stopped playing Sims 3.I remember Tyler Teague from my Incel in the City play through because he was such a horrible and fun character to play. His personality was memorable. Same for Fannie Beaver, my drunken slattern; she was an absolute delight.I remember Golly Buttersnaps from my ten generation rags to riches play through, but only because she died, leaving her daughters Poppy and Jellie to raise themselves, so she was memorable because of what happened to her.Tell me about your most memorable sim and what you think made them memorable.

Interesting question : ) Also I am so sorry about your TS3 save. I've had plenty of my saves corrupt in the past, to the point where TS3 became my 'just mess about and build things' game instead of me trying to raise a multi-generational family. I don't remember a lot of my TS3 sims, sadly, although I remember causing a lot of chaos in that game. It's sad about Golly too, but from a storytelling point-of-view, also an interesting way for the challenge to go.From the POV of someone who's often reading others' challenges etc- what makes others' sims memorable for me, is the little ways the players show off their personalities, especially challenge authors who add humorous bits of dialogue as well. One thing I particularly love is when challenge writers/storytellers breathe life into the pre-mades as well. I love seeing everyone's different interpretations of the same character.As for my own sims, I think one of my more 'memorable' Sims was Gen 3 of one of my challenges, Tyler. Not memorable for any deep reasons or anything, but: The 'story' I had going for previous characters in the family got quite dark, so Ty's side of the family story ended up more light-hearted and fun, and I just imagine them in my head to be very loud and chaotic almost all the time. Ty rolled the Cat Lover trait, but their eldest son rolled Dog Lover. So I imagined the son constantly asking for a dog all of the time to the point where they probably got fed up of hearing it; in game, I left it a while before Ty gave in and eventually adopted one, and eventually warmed up to the dog. Also I had no trouble getting the other gens to find a partner, but poor Ty got rejected by about six different people before finally finding the love of their life. (I put the screenshot of them and their son under the Spoiler cut for neatness's sake)Spoiler (Highlight to read)https://i.imgur.com/8jaU1Uc.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/8jaU1Uc.png

The first one. This is Felicia, aka 'the prototype', and she would go on to influence who I create and how I play the game. Behind that pretty face lies a mind of pure evil, a formula I've copied many times....https://i.imgur.com/fVVBfNK.png

Most of my very favorite sims have been around since practically the beginning of the game. A female scientist, her evil criminal boss brother, her game playing techie good brother and her non noncommittal sister who started as a painter then switched to style influencer, I started playing as a group, but now each have branched off into different homes, duplexes,, and the non committal sister with some partihaus sims. All have partners or are married now, ( except the non committal sister ). This has been one of my favorite groups. The have a family club where they have family meals/get togethers to keep up on each other. And the non committal sister has a DJ in the house which is fun to play, the DJ is dating Vanessa, the actress who I am also playing in her house in Del Sol Valley.I play rotational so I have a lot of families I like playing, and usually leave aging off….Another favorite is my musician who moved to the city, to do gigs downstairs ( or other lot with the city living gig setup in various lots ) after work, he plays the guitar and recently piano, and I’m trying to make him famous, he dates Candy Bher. And, then there is my painter ( who I also want to be famous ) who also moved to the city with his son and mother of his child (ex girlfriend ) On his off time he likes to paint scenes in different cities, and spend time with his son. We ( he and I )are waiting for babies to be updated before his son becomes a toddler….. lol.Another tech guru, I just made an apartment to move into evergreen harbor. And a secret agent and astronaut I’m not sure where I want to move yet, probably an apartment in city living. A CEO that I’m not sure where I want to move either. I’m breaking this group up a bit. I hope we get another city with apartments.Another favorite family of mine is a YA female who is now at the top of the ladder in her detective career, who also has her teenage sister and little ( child ) brother living with her since the beginning of her career ( I created the family with just the 3 of them ). Everyone had their chores around the their trailer in OA Her detective boyfriend moved in when they moved to an apartment, still not sure what new job to give him.I also have a family with an Astronaut, his wife, and toddler daughter. The wife doesn’t really work, but she is an employee of on of the businesses another sim runs ( I thought that was cool that I could hire her ). She gardens, takes care of her daughter, and likes to have lunches ( usually at cafe’s ) with a few other ladies in her ladies society lunch club.I have my very large family that lives by the pond in Windenburg with 2 teens, 2 children,and a baby also waiting on the baby update. They scrounge, fish, and garden to pay their bills. They may move their caravan to Henford when the new EP comes out. There is my journalistic family elder father and YA son are writers…. Opposite branches. The Adult daughter is currently an entertainer, can’t seem to find a job she really likes, and her teenage son is a party boy. Loves going out with other teens ( club ) in my rotation. I haven’t played them in a bit. I feel like they are going to need a new home when an Expansion with cars comes out.I have a Athletic ball player and his wife a media/ internet person that are notables and like vacationing in Sulani and Mt.K.Another family I like a lot is my generational family there were two sets of grandparentsa, a Doctor and his wife a violinist. Their son a computer techie ( non gaming side ), and his stay at home wife, teenage daughter, and child son. The stay at home wife ( who did most of the cooking ), also had her 2 parents living there, the McGreggors, they were new to the country/ city of willow creek. Her father did all the handiness things needed and fished for the family, and his wife cleaned and tended the garden. But the McGrigors finally got their own small home in Brindleton Bay, he became a part time fisherman ( I finally found someone on the gallery who somehow unlocked many outfits so I moved him in there to get the outfit, and then back home ). He also does wood work, and they beach comb in Sulani for things to sell, and he fishes in Sulani on some of his time off for extra income, while his wife sets up a sales table on the beach and sells stuff, and she also does most of the gardening at home. They also have a hunting dog named Brittany. They will be my family to move to Henford on Bagly, where since they are Scottish, they must have originally come from…. Lol. He will still fish on the side, but they will have a farm with agriculture and animals ( which the have been waiting for ), and once in awhile I will move their grandchildren, and possibly their YA daughter and son in law in with them once in awhile for a vacation or weekend, every so often. A few others I haven’t played in a bit are the military hero of strangerville. My sim self who gardens and does archeology and anything else she wants, my fist played sim who lives in a nice house in Windenburg….. she is my main collector. A granddaughter and Grandmother living in an apartment. A criminal father and his son also in a small apartment. A couple in an apartment, I have who are waiting on real babies to hopefully have twins ( though they don’t know it yet ). A family in Windenburg that has an elder mother and father and teenage daughter. A couple of roommates in Sulani. A father and teenage son in Windenburg, who will be moving to an apartment in evergreen harbor soon. A young family with a toddler I made for play dates, but decided to play. I also play the Landgrabbs ( they run businesses ), Goths, Callientes ( also business owners ) and have a few other premades favorited, but haven’t touched on much.My rotation is very big, and there are some I haven’t even mentioned. Pretty much all that I have mentioned I’ve played quite a bit since many have been around since 2014, and have at one time been a big favorite and have developed personalities, and ties with other sims.Edited for using a word I didn’t know was banned, the ban must be new as it wasn’t banned when I made the family.

My favorite and most memorable sims are ones who’ve either had a really interesting story (whether I made them that way or they developed that way) or had an interesting combination of traits. The cookie cutter happy ones are fun, but they’re much easier to let go of or stop playing. I love giving my sims negative traits - I have so many paranoid, erratic, jealous, and gloomy sims just living their best lives.For example, my merman sim Kane is gorgeous, but he has kids from five other sims (two mermaids, two island elementals, and the sim whose fiancé he drowned). He is a super sweet single dad and supports his brood solely by diving for seashells; he’ll probably raise all his grandkids, too, as the girls aren’t interested in family life, but like to reproduce.My gardener sim Anna was shaping up to be kind of bland, but the townie I picked out for her to marry was kind of a mean guy, so she showed up to the wedding pregnant with Father Winter’s baby and fed her husband to her cowplant not long after. Her story took that particular direction because as a kid she caught a cowplant berry, so I decided that started her interest in gardening; the Father Winter thing came after she autonomously started kissing him one random Winterfest before she moved out on her own.Even the one family that I play with a mostly vanilla suburban life spent their honeymoon skilling up with the help of a spellcaster in exchange for their firstborn kids. So now they have a couple of random kids adopted out to townies that they never see. And even Charlotte spends a lot of time frustrated because she has the ambitious trait but is at home with the triplets and the bonus baby (some mccc settings made it so that when they wandered upstairs on their own right after the triplets were born, little Rhea followed immediately after). Her husband is always jealous too, which is kind of fun because they’re my sweetest, most loving couple.

What makes a Sim memorable? Impression and attachment. And amount of personality you are willing to put into them. Otherwise they are just dolls.

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notasmokealarm
4 years ago
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For me it was this Sim. Elena (her maiden name escapes me) Bolton. She was the spouse of my 4th gen heir, and she was just awesome. She was a firecracker of a lady, and always so pumped up about literally everything. Even as a kid, she was wild. She and the heir grew up together, and she always came home from school with him. Thanks to mods, she actually initiated the first kiss when they were teens.
They got married, had 4 kids, and she was a chef and an all around awesome lady and mom. In the second pic, she's not mad. She was just telling a dramatic story to her husband. He was always calmly amused by her antics.
I miss that save, and I miss Ellie. The computer that save was on up and died, and like a dummy, I had never backed up my saves. She was a grandmother when I lost that game.
Onverser
4 years ago
Just how long I play with them makes them memorable, or occasionally interesting things I do with them makes them memorable. I'm not a legacy player and I play with aging off so I keep the same sims for a pretty long time. Recently I've been playing with just one sim at a time and I'll play with that same sim for 3+ rl months straight. I've been playing with my current sim Jackson since March, which sounds like ages but I'm happy with this sim so I don't really care to change :D

At the moment I remember pretty much every sim I've played with since late 2019, some more than others but that's only because I've got into the game more at that time and spent longer with them

My most notable sims are probably these sims:

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Eric: I played with him from October 2020 through to February this year, and then on and off until April. I've posted him a billion times on here and he was (and still is) my profile picture on here so some people will probably recognise him!

https://i.ibb.co/hxN0495/01-22-21-11-47-03-PM.png

And Sam: She was the first sim I ever properly got into playing in 4, I played with her from May 2020 through to August! :)

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mklamb56
4 years ago
Well, the save that I'm currently playing, probably has the sims I most enjoy out of any I've ever played, but that's not the question.

I think the sim I remember the most was Bruno Laurel, mostly because he was a perfect, fashionable, outgoing actor, but he wasn't even one of his siblings I had the most fun playing, as I had a lot more fun with his sisters and their less perfect more relatable lives (One a struggling author, pregnant with her neighbors baby, and the other an insecure archeologist I related a lot too). I think the most memorable sims for me are the most outrageous and perfect ones, but they aren't necessarily the ones I had the most fun with.

Then of course there's Barbara Kreisner and Norma Geraldine, but I remember them mostly as in-jokes with my sister.
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
I don't really know
I guess its just the sheer amount of how much I play the sim and how much story I give them
and if I do anything I wouldn't normally do while playing then maybe that's more memorable
aaand if they were particularily hot or interesting looking perhaps?

I've recently been playing only premades and their spawn... well not only but like 99% maybe?
so that is naturally easier to remember than any of my own sims too

and any so called legacy atm hasn't gotten long enough to become hard to remember with
''Catherine the 50th'' or anything this time

but I surely have forgotten everything about some of the older saves I had
and I couldn't tell you what my sims names even were cause I don't have the files anymore

hopefully not this time :sweat_smile:
Gamer_Cat24
New Traveler
4 years ago
I think the way I create my Sims is what makes them memorable to me.
I had a Sim family that I named the Tiger family, and another named the Wolf family. I first created them in my Sims 2, and recreated them in my Sims 4. The Tiger family is made up of a mother that I always thought of as a widow, and her five kids. The Wolf family is made up of parents, and their first four kids. In sims 2, one of the daughters of the Tiger family, and the son of the Wolf family got married, and had a daughter. I recreated them for Sims 4, and I am trying to pair up the same two that got together in Sims 2, and see what they get. Also, the mother of the Tiger family got married, and she now has a 6th child.
I am slowly am remaking some of more memorable Sims 2 families into Sims 4, and giving them their own save file. I brought back my Leopard family, which is made up if a mother, her daughter, and her sister. They are memorable to me, because in Sims 2, the oldest son in the Tiger family met her while he was a College student, and she was an adult. She rejected him every time he tried to flirt, but once he graduated, she accepted his advances. He had a child with her, and become the stepfather to her daughter. I also had them adopt dogs as well.
Another way Sims are memorable to me is another way I make them. I tend to focus on series I like. So, if I like Harry Potter, I create it in my game. I would make some canon families, but also switch it up, like in the Harry Potter file I am working on, Lily and Petunia are living together with their families, which would make it kind of an alternate universe.
I have a Frozen save file, which kind of has the game play that is memorable. I have canon, semi-canon, and alternate universe versions all living in the same save file. It is funny, because it isn't unusual for one Anna to be friends with another Anna. Also, my Elsas all hang out together in the Magic Realm. The humor makes the whole thing memorable to me. Also, the save file won't stay a Frozen one, I plan to eventually turn aging on, they will end up ancestors to any other characters I plan to add.
I started a harry Potter idea (3 families so far), and I plan to create a Fruits Basket version as well for their own save file.
Smaller series are mixed in two save files with normal Sims I create,
Servaaliq
4 years ago
In my personal experience, their death : D I don't properly remember a single one of my dearly loved legacy sims, but I do remember the astronaut boyfriend I hated and fed to a cowplant.
comicsforever
4 years ago
"Calico45;c-17920577" wrote:
Mine tend to be fairly memorable just because I reroll the same families so much. Honestly, it has gotten worse with how much easier it is to save Sims and their families, but even in the good old days I would reroll families for a new adventure. I spend all that time making and tweaking, so I want to reuse them. I like the general characteristics they have and would probably (and have) rehashed them if I was forced to remake them.

I do still switch it up, but the more I play with the same Sims the more endeared they are to me and the more I remember them. I could even say that I have made different versions of a main character from 2-4. Maybe even 1, too, at least once.

The ones that tend to fade from my memory are inspirations that have had their stories played out. Even long, grand stories eventually come to an end and begin to fade from your mind. I was confronted by that when I rescued some of Sims 3 saves from a ghost of PCs past. I remembered the details when checking them out, but I had a fair bit of closure with those old saves.

I don't really remember any of my sims 3 sims but when I play them I still enjoy them I wish I had saved my first ones
Aikamatkustus
4 years ago
All my sims are memorable, some good, some bad(like Michael and Henry). Notable one are below though:

Brandi II(when she was younger)

Context: Tom Peeping sat next to her and she (autonomously) got up and moved to that seat she's sitting in now.
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https://i.imgur.com/DpMYXAq.png

Brandi IV - her beauty is just unparalleled
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https://i.imgur.com/eohCWM6.png

Jorge - (sitting in the back). What's up with the pink boots?
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https://i.imgur.com/JV3xpy3.png

Nivaeh and young Harrison - the best mother/son picture I was able to capture.
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https://i.imgur.com/5BcU4tu.png

But who's my favorite sim, the one I think about the most? Laitha my first sim.
https://i.imgur.com/aiu81K4.png

Last but not least, Miranda and Stanley.
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wahini2024
4 years ago
Longevity and hardships

I'm an "age off" player and quite enjoy building a rotational world so I can bounce from household to household. No family really advances too quickly as a result so I don't notice that they don't age (unless I'm aging a toddler or child)

Hardship... I have 2 loads
Load 1 is really all about challenges. Rags to riches or bachelor type challenges. This way I get time working through "drama" with each one and only sims that I like a lot make it to the main load or Load 2

Some sims are just duds so I kinda test run them in the first Load

Some have more "personality" or something and I get to play with sims I genuinely enjoy so I never want them to die. If they run their course I save them back into my library and delete from world and use them again later.
bshag4lv
Seasoned Adventurer
4 years ago
"ArcherDK;c-17920467" wrote:
What makes a Sim memorable? Impression and attachment. And amount of personality you are willing to put into them. Otherwise they are just dolls.

I like this answer. :)

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