Why is The Sims so fascinating?
This is a question I've been asking myself a lot lately, and I'm looking forward to an interesting discussion. I grew up playing games like Super Mario, Tomb Raider, and Resident Evil - games that ...
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For me it's pretty much just exactly right up my alley.
These things are simply not fun for me:
-Being forced to play by an arbitrary set of rules that someone else decided
-Having to achieve an arbitrary goal that someone else set
-Killing anything, ever, for any reason
-Needing to respond quickly or pay attention to everything all the time in order to survive
-Solving puzzles that take me more than about ten seconds to figure out
Needless to say, most computer games don't appeal to me at all.
What is fun for me, is all creativity based activities:
-Writing stories
-Making things
-Exploring
-Playing with characters and relationships
-Taking pictures and doing image editing
These are all things I am able to do with the sims. Although, I actually had to use a few mods and cheats to get rid of the time management part of the game before I started liking it and realized its potential. But after that I've been totally hooked for several years. I still don't play any other computer games.
These things are simply not fun for me:
-Being forced to play by an arbitrary set of rules that someone else decided
-Having to achieve an arbitrary goal that someone else set
-Killing anything, ever, for any reason
-Needing to respond quickly or pay attention to everything all the time in order to survive
-Solving puzzles that take me more than about ten seconds to figure out
Needless to say, most computer games don't appeal to me at all.
What is fun for me, is all creativity based activities:
-Writing stories
-Making things
-Exploring
-Playing with characters and relationships
-Taking pictures and doing image editing
These are all things I am able to do with the sims. Although, I actually had to use a few mods and cheats to get rid of the time management part of the game before I started liking it and realized its potential. But after that I've been totally hooked for several years. I still don't play any other computer games.
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