The Sims-a Visual History!
This is a cooperative thread-created by @PsychYourMind08 @06Bon06 @blaznfalcn and I, @sparkfairy1 :) We thought to celebrate fifteen years of our beloved sims we would create a special thread to...
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We are such a creative, imaginative community and this thread is a lovely way to celebrate that. Some beautiful pics <3
From these pics I would say we all love our sims games but my question to you is how much do you love your individual sims ? If you don't understand the question then please pass on. For the rest of us how involved are you in their lives, do you cry when they die and celebrate with them when they marry and the little ones come along ? How far would you go to keep those sims with you ?
Just over two years ago I was downloading some purchases to my game when I smelled burning and my laptop screen went a horrible shade of blue and then whited out. It was an old laptop and I had pushed the motherboard too far and it fried a lot of things within the laptop including my hard drive. I was absolutely gutted. Some games I had been playing for 2.5 years. More importantly I had lost friends. Some of them had been with me since TS2 and I grieved for them. The emotional investment we make in our games is not much talked about but it is very real.
Life goes on. I bought a new laptop, installed all that I had for TS3 and bought more. I made new friends and I tried to recreate my original friends and their homes. Things are never the same second time round. By early summer I had made up my mind to try and get my friends back. Everyone thought I was potty but the man in the IT shop was a gamer and he understood. I was warned it might not be a full recovery of data and so it proved.
Six weeks later I plugged my new removable hard drive into the laptop and transferred my games files into my TS3. Not all the games were there and not all the saved sims either but to my great delight my favourite sim in all the world was. We had been together for a very long time. I went searching among the games, pulling out survivors and saving them to the bin. Some games simply wouldn't open and even though I had been given back so much I sat at my desk and cried. A middle aged woman sobbing over lost pixellated pieces of programming. The biggest loss was the De Luxes who had been with me since TS2.
Anyway I thought you might like to meet a couple of the families. They are in my Studio as rescue sims.
This is the Cope family. Tullisa is a master criminal and Martin is a policeman. Here they are with their daughter.
And this is the Cope family home which they share with Martin's sister, husband and baby. The house is based on the idea of a beached paddle steamer.
And this is the Steel family, including my favourite sim in all the world. No not Christopher Steel but his wife Baby Doll :)
For those who are curious I have recreated two of my missing families in TS4 but have not the heart to play them. There are some things you cannot go back to but as always I look forward to meeting new friends.
Thank you for reading:)
From these pics I would say we all love our sims games but my question to you is how much do you love your individual sims ? If you don't understand the question then please pass on. For the rest of us how involved are you in their lives, do you cry when they die and celebrate with them when they marry and the little ones come along ? How far would you go to keep those sims with you ?
Just over two years ago I was downloading some purchases to my game when I smelled burning and my laptop screen went a horrible shade of blue and then whited out. It was an old laptop and I had pushed the motherboard too far and it fried a lot of things within the laptop including my hard drive. I was absolutely gutted. Some games I had been playing for 2.5 years. More importantly I had lost friends. Some of them had been with me since TS2 and I grieved for them. The emotional investment we make in our games is not much talked about but it is very real.
Life goes on. I bought a new laptop, installed all that I had for TS3 and bought more. I made new friends and I tried to recreate my original friends and their homes. Things are never the same second time round. By early summer I had made up my mind to try and get my friends back. Everyone thought I was potty but the man in the IT shop was a gamer and he understood. I was warned it might not be a full recovery of data and so it proved.
Six weeks later I plugged my new removable hard drive into the laptop and transferred my games files into my TS3. Not all the games were there and not all the saved sims either but to my great delight my favourite sim in all the world was. We had been together for a very long time. I went searching among the games, pulling out survivors and saving them to the bin. Some games simply wouldn't open and even though I had been given back so much I sat at my desk and cried. A middle aged woman sobbing over lost pixellated pieces of programming. The biggest loss was the De Luxes who had been with me since TS2.
Anyway I thought you might like to meet a couple of the families. They are in my Studio as rescue sims.
This is the Cope family. Tullisa is a master criminal and Martin is a policeman. Here they are with their daughter.
And this is the Cope family home which they share with Martin's sister, husband and baby. The house is based on the idea of a beached paddle steamer.
And this is the Steel family, including my favourite sim in all the world. No not Christopher Steel but his wife Baby Doll :)
For those who are curious I have recreated two of my missing families in TS4 but have not the heart to play them. There are some things you cannot go back to but as always I look forward to meeting new friends.
Thank you for reading:)
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