This game is so underrated!!

"sam123;c-17491432" wrote:

"comicsforlife;c-17491429" wrote:
I wish there was a sims 4 pack like this

I don't know if that would be a good thing haha. The open world of the Medieval world is awesome and runs perfectly, going through loading screens sounds like backtracking.

well there were a lot of things that I think people would enjoy from it in sims 4 having your sims be kings and queens would be really cool
I know there's a mode but having it in game with a sims 4 twist would be cool @sam123

I love this game. I even have a (Dutch) website about The Sims Medieval and Pirates & Nobles. Every now and then I get this TSM phase and play it a lot for a couple of weeks. I think TSM never got the attention/appreciation it deserves. I have a couple of special saves/files. A while back I played all achievements so if I want I can put an old ach.package back so I can play with all achievements (and therefore special items) unlocked. But I enjoy the achievements so much that every time I start a new game my phase, I start over and play the achievements once more. A while back I also finished all ambitions on silver and/or gold so all ambitions are unlocked which means I don't have to play in a certain order to unlock all ambitions, they are all unlocked which I prefer. Finishing all ambitions on silver and/or gold doesn't matter to me. It still leaves platinum to reach and when I play for real (and not to unlock all ambitions because when I did that I played the bare minimum and achieved as less achievements as was possible), I always go for platinum. :smiley:

"sam123;c-17491421" wrote:

"NationalPokedex;c-17490838" wrote:
I really wish they would bring this game to TS4. I don't think I can play the TS3 version on my laptop. If it were a full-on sandbox game, this would be my preferred Sims game, I think.

ETA: Okay wait! I just went to Origin, and I think I might actually be able to play this on my laptop! It's $19.99 for the deluxe pack. I think I'll get it!

Get it!! I'm sure it will run fine, it's pretty optomised as well.

I ended up getting it. Can’t wait to be finished with my homework so I can play.

You are right it was very much underated and unappreciated as a stand alone game. Once you get the hang of things you can take a lot more time between quests and live as much a normal Sim life as possible like in any of the other games, other than controlling other household members. But my Sims got married, had affairs, ruined lives, got in fights, got diseases, made a lot of friends and all sorts of thing inbetween any quests as I rotated among the heroes. It has a lot of TS3 interactions and TS2 interactions so it was a pretty good game in my book. My favorite theme world I created and played was LOTRs, some of the main characters of those books were my hereos...interesting to play it that way. lol Gandalf probably wound up being my best character. Some ambitions I enjoyed more than others, and I just wish they had patched a few of the quests that got flawed and never worked right after it ended.

"NationalPokedex;c-17491546" wrote:

"sam123;c-17491421" wrote:

"NationalPokedex;c-17490838" wrote:
I really wish they would bring this game to TS4. I don't think I can play the TS3 version on my laptop. If it were a full-on sandbox game, this would be my preferred Sims game, I think.

ETA: Okay wait! I just went to Origin, and I think I might actually be able to play this on my laptop! It's $19.99 for the deluxe pack. I think I'll get it!

Get it!! I'm sure it will run fine, it's pretty optomised as well.

I ended up getting it. Can’t wait to be finished with my homework so I can play.

Yay!! Hurry and finish so you can play haha!

"sam123;c-17491430" wrote:
Yay I'm glad! Honestly I've been playing it for a total of 10 hours and feel I have barely scratched the surface. There is literally so much to do.

According to my Origin account I've been playing 148 hours in total, oh my gosh :D And there's still so much to do!
I got a new computer last November, and therefore I had to reinstall every sims game I had. Luckily I had backups for my LC family in TS2, but with others, Medieval for instance, I had to start off fresh. Kind of frustrating, because I had finished nearly every ambition with platinum and collected a fair amount of achievements, but on the other hand, I basically love fresh starts, it's somehow so satisfying to plan what to do and when, so it wasn't that big of a deal. I just got to relive the joy of getting the achievements and finishing the ambitions :D

@SimLibby you're more patient than I am! I'm such a perfectionist that I always go for platinum at the first playthrough, after that I can lean back and relax (or at least try haha). If I can't reach the platinum I have to google for tips for how to do that :D That goes for almost every game I play haha, except for regular sims maybe.
I would love to get all the achievements as well, but they seem like so much work lol.

^ lol @miwa09. One thing I learned over the years from my Sims adventure is that I can have so much patient. Which was a fun discovery because up till that moment I always considered myself to be impatient. I didn't always play like that. I play TSM for years now and just in the last two years or so I did that with the ambitions because I really don't like the restriction: finishing one ambitions unlocks another. The achievements is indeed a lot of work. I finished them all and made extensive notes about how to finish them for my website but it's Dutch so I don't know how much use you will get out of those notes (maybe Google translate is sufficient enough). Just study them a bit. Some are automatically and easily achievement without much effort from the player, like collecting all herbs or metals, and some are easily integrated while playing, like trowing 150 tomatoes/eggs to Sims in the thingy (stocks/pillory?) If you do that at once, it's a lot. If you do couple every time your king/queen or some other hero has to be there anyway, not that much work. And some achievements are indeed time consuming. Just make sure, if you have pirates & nobles, that you do the woohoo achievements with male heroes unless you want many children (although, after the fourth child, children will be sent away and stay way - and sent presents home, you can also invite them - and children can be the heirs to heroes if the hero dies. So it does give some interesting gameplay).

@SimLibby I may take a look of your site! I have actually studied a few courses of Dutch, so I know the basics, and I speak German and Swedish too, so that helps to understand it. It's good practice anyway! I haven't used my Dutch for a while lol.
Thanks for the tips! I thought the children of the hero sims couldn't be the heirs anymore? I mean, they could earlier, but after some patch or something they couldn't anymore. Or at least it doesn't work in my game. But I have never got more than 2 children tops per hero sim, so I didn't even know that they will be sent away when there's more than 4. You learn something new every day!

That is so cool @miwa09 knowing that many languages. If you know German with it's 4 grammatical cases (is that the right word, according to the dictionary it is, it sounds strange: I mean der, die, das, dem, den, etc. or ein, einer, eines, and so on), Dutch must be easy peasy, right. ;) I was so bad in those grammatical cases. One of the last tutorials I made for my TSM site was about marriage and children. This was around September 2018 so up until that moment children could be heirs. After that period, I don't know. I only played extensively with children to make those tutorials. Was there a patch after September 2018. No right? By my knowledge children can still be heirs if the hero dies (which can only happen by players choice or when you play that one quest where you kill off the king/queen). Anyway, you're welcome. Hope you enjoy those achievements.

@SimLibby oh my gosh yes you have no idea! Comparing to German for instance the grammar of Dutch is so much easier, there's barely any exceptions of rules (if there are rules at all)! I mean, look at the conjugation of adjectives for example :D And it's quite easy to read too, because of my wide knowledge of similar languages (English helps a bit too). The only difficulties I have are with listening comprehensions...
But I'm going off topic now.
The children should be able to be heirs also if you import a sim to next kingdom and must therefore choose a new hero sim, but they can't be even that anymore :( and I recall playing the quest you mentioned, where you kill the Monarch, and that was like last year or something. And even though my Monarch had a child, I couldn't choose the child as the next Monarch :/ Because I know that was possible earlier. Oh well. Stupid EA.