THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Himu on January 10, 2012, 02:27:28 AM
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I've never talked about it, but at one point in my life I was an addict. My vice? The Sims. The Sims 3 is pretty much one of the best games ever as far as I'm concerned, and I recently rebought it for steam. Welp.
It's still as good as I remember it: the insurmountable amount of depth and customization, the polish, the fun, it's all here.
If they put a version of The Sims on handhelds with the depth of the pc version, it'd be the best fucking game.
Or if they made a Sim City esque The Sims title. Holy shit.
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I've always liked the sims. It's what I like instead of something like minecraft. I've never played 3 very much at all. I played the first two a lot.
They are never going to do a handheld version to equal the pc version though. They haven't after all these years. They always fuck it up. Same with the console versions.
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Played the first one a bit. Was fun.
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I am totally judging you guys right now
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Played the first one way back when it came out. The first job I got was video game reviewer. And then my lesbians walled in every guest who came over to the house.
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I love The Sims, if only for this
http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/
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Just finished my sim's first birthday. He's now an adult. I made him CEO of the local business company, he's now chairman actually. I met a black chick, swooned her away from her husband, got married to her, and kicked her husband and his father (???) out of their house, took their house, and now I'm living in a mcmansion.
Gettin' paid, nicca. Gettin' paid.
I'll concentrate on makin' babies and getting rid of this ceo job as an Adult.
Funnest game ever? Think so. Think so.
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Been playing some Sims Medieval recently, good stuff.
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You know who loves The Sims? My autistic nephew. Just like in real life, his avatar won't use the bathroom and refuses to sleep. You guys are in great company.
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Sims Medieval is good fun imo
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Sims Medieval actually has skills, leveling, items and equipment, and quests with time limits.
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Is this expansion for sims 3?
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Sims Medieval is its own game, with its own expansion packs.
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I bought my college girlfriend The Sims when it originally came out. She was obsessed with it.
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I would have liked Sims Medieval if you had to deal with the plague and such.
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Bought my girlfriend Sims 3 for 360, I thought I would get into it but I can't stand it. Sims are too slow and boring. Embarrassed that shit is on my profile
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My step daughter Lucy seems to exhibit aspergers symtoms. She's grumpy about getting her way, she loves routine, she doesn't like a lot of jokes because she doesn't get them part of the time. She's a real blast to play with and I love her progress. After dealing with her mom cheating on her dead beat unemployed dad, going through the divorce and being separated from her older brother and father, she's been struggling to have fun. She's an outdoorsman but hasn't had the time to go out and play lately and she has has been in a constant foul mood, complicated with her grumpy stat. I'm not doing anything I can to please her. We were going to a concert but then her mom went into labor. Welp, there goes my weekend of fun in the sun for Luce!
Before, when she was a child, Lucy was a C student, now she's an A student. 8) That's my girl.
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Sims Medieval actually has skills, leveling, items and equipment, and quests with time limits.
How is that any different from the standard Sims experience? Cook a lot and you level up your cooking. My main Sim has a level 6 in cooking.
Also Sims are given stuff they need to complete before a specific time.
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Sims Medieval actually has skills, leveling, items and equipment, and quests with time limits.
How is that any different from the standard Sims experience? Cook a lot and you level up your cooking. My main Sim has a level 6 in cooking.
Sims Medieval also has skills like potion-making, fighting, pickpocketing, and so on that increase when you level up.
Also Sims are given stuff they need to complete before a specific time.
Sims Medieval has that, too, AND quest lines that you have to complete.
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Sims Medieval is cool beans
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I'll see if there's a demo. Half the reason I heart The Sims is because it's familiar. I probably can't grow attached to people who bathe once a year. Sims 3 has a criminal profession, allowing you to rob houses and use a steal command, so I'm sure Medieval has a thief career line or something?
This doesn't look bad, though! Looks pretty cool! Looks like they've evolved roleplaying a bit even further in this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8RaUzvgF8I
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This is my current Sims 3 family:
Cielo - A writer for the local journalism company, and retired CEO and chairman of the board of the business company in town. After obtaining his life goal of becoming CEO of a business company (as a young adult even, sheesh, what a corporate whore) he changes his interests to conquest of the female body. He met Tessa, an unemployed woman married to a deadbeat husband with two kids. He seduced her, got them divorced, married her, kicked her old flame and the son out, and moved into their big mcmansion home. In other words, Cielo is a dick. Cielo is also a loner so he gets anxious around big crowds, but enjoys the outdoors, writing, and artistic pursuits. He also enjoys a good night's rest. Cielo's living the big life right now and it's all thanks to the Simelomerican divorce court system allowing him to reap up just, just rewards.
(http://i.imgur.com/eKNok.jpg)
Tessa - Tessa is currently known as the village whore for her infidelity. She has cheated and betrayed not once, but twice. Not that she gives a shit.
(http://i.imgur.com/J9dcQ.jpg)
Hate the game, not the player.
Tessa has a life goal of becoming a secret agent, a goal currently bogged down to motherhood and becoming a recent newlywed, with a brand new baby on the way and with already one asperger addled teenage brat in the household she's already got more than enough she can chew. Tessa is good-natured and brave, and an all around goodie two shoes despite being a cheater.
But the one I've grown the most attached to is...
Lucy - Luce is currently battling aspergers and add. Of course, no one is sure whether or not this is due to finding out her mom is a cheater who has completely ruined her family unit, finalizing a stressful separation from both her father and brother and her living with a stranger who is now her step father (Cielo).
(http://i.imgur.com/1GFQo.jpg)
She's a grouch, she's easily upset and moody, she needs things HER way dammit, if she doesn't have fun every single day she gets tense and gets a foul mood. She gets bored easily; that's the ADD kicking in. The aspergers comes from her very analytic nature: she hates when people joke sometimes because she doesn't really seem to get the joke, even from her step dad Cielo who has the good humor trait. She also hates it when people flirt with her - she just doesn't get it and slams her feet on the ground with some 'tude.
I'm not sure if all of this is a mixture from the combination of grumpy, outdoors lover, unflirty, or unlucky traits she boasts or even if these are new features to make a realistic teenage experience for teenage Sims but dammit, is she a handful.
Luce arranges her entire life around routine and if she doesn't get it, she becomes really nasty. She's also unlucky; if she gets up on the wrong side of the bed (which happens every other day), Luce basically wants nothing to do with planet Sim. Due to her clumsiness, Luce breaks things. Very easily, and very frequently.
But despite all of this, Luce is still a normal teenage girl as far as normal can be. She likes pizza!
(http://i.imgur.com/SSRNh.jpg)
And doing homework with her love ones!
(http://i.imgur.com/jkuJn.jpg)
For a while she really didn't want to do anything with her mother, so seeing her happily solving problems with her puts a smile on my face.
Still, she tries her best and she's currently an A student with the help of her friends and family and a little nudge in the right direction. I finally managed to get her in the green after a rough week where she was yellow or red most of the time. Felt good, man. I love you Lucy!
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Himu did you check out that Alice & Kev link I posted above? I think you'd like it.
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Yeah, I read that years ago.
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I look forward to more stories about your family then!
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I'm surprised/shocked/disappointed more people don't talk about their sims in this manner as it's pretty easy to do. Even on SA, unless it's a let's play, no one talks about their sims personally, it's just tips on how to do shit and how damn easy this career path is.
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pilon, you may like this let's play:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3424713
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I'm surprised/shocked/disappointed more people don't talk about their sims in this manner as it's pretty easy to do. Even on SA, unless it's a let's play, no one talks about their sims personally,
this thread has actually managed to be more embarrassing than a nintendo fanboy thread. good job.
actually, i would be interested in playing this, but only if i can roleplay a complete sociopath. how much of a dick can i be in this?
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actually, i would be interested in playing this, but only if i can roleplay a complete sociopath. how much of a dick can i be in this?
Well, here are some of the personality traits you can choose from:
Can't Stand Art
Dislikes Children
Evil
Grumpy
Inappropriate
Insane
Kleptomaniac
Mean Spirited
Mooch
No Sense of Humor
Slob
Snob
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It's only embarrassing to you because you're ashamed to be male and a sims player.
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games are only cool when theyve got big guns and big tits
fuck it im downloading this now
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For what it's worth Himuro has tempted me to buy the sims 3 although the last thing I'm going to do is share sim family stories. :lol
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It's only embarrassing to you because you're ashamed to be male and a sims player.
That's correct.
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For what it's worth Himuro has tempted me to buy the sims 3 although the last thing I'm going to do is share sim family stories. :lol
Why? That's the best part
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For what it's worth Himuro has tempted me to buy the sims 3 although the last thing I'm going to do is share sim family stories. :lol
The Sims 3 is pretty buggy, even on a pretty powerful rig, so warning, and EA has been dicks about it and are blaming the modding community/users and really aren't doing a good job fixing them.
If you're going to go for an ep, I hear that World Adventures, Ambitions, and Pets are the best and least buggy ep's, with WA and Ambitions being at the top.
Though a fantastic game on its own, Sims 3 is very very different from say, Sims 2 where random Sims tend to just come over at any time. In Sims 3 you have to seek out your own adventures, the adventures don't really come to you. It's not really "better" but it's certainly different. It's also more "game-y" with less emphasis on simulation (though that's still there) and more on the stories and making your Sim do stuff rather than making them do menial stuff like poop/eat all the time. Think of it as Skyrim with people who talk in gibberish and need their every need satisfied. Stability issues aside, The Sims 3 is fantastic.
One tip I can give, is, if your Sim attends work or school, don't bother feeding them or making them go to the restroom in the morning as that's a waste of time since: 1. there's not much time in the mornings and 2. sims eat and and use the restroom at school/work anyways. Just finish up some stuff like homework, or work on their overall mood.
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If you're going to go for an ep, I hear that World Adventures, Ambitions, and Pets are the best and least buggy ep's, with WA and Ambitions being at the top.
I will probably get one of the expansions packs. Not sure which though.
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if want to travel the world and see places outside of your sim town, get world adventures.
if you want more careers to choose from and more interesting ways to handle those said careers beyond being rabbitholes (locations that your sim can enter but can't see into or interact with such as work or school), get ambitions.
if you want late night adventures and partying and celebrity status and vampires, get late night. keep in mind it's buggy as shit apparently.
if you want Sims 2-esque memories and more emphasis on raising a family, get generations, though from what I hear the new content is minimal.
if you want pets to interact with your sim world, check out pets.
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can't wait until Diablo 3 comes out so i can talk about my characters personally
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i cant wait til himu gets cats irl and starts regaling us with pages-long stories of their fantastic adventures sleeping on the couch and digging in the shitbox
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will do
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I don't know if I've ever tried to play The Sims the way it's meant to be played. I usually just end up pounding in the cash cheats, walling people into my attic and making enemies with everyone on my street. Then I get bored and uninstall.
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It took a while, but Lucy is starting to come around, particularly when she hangs out with her BFF Bella.
(http://i.imgur.com/fM2C3.jpg)
"That baby in my mom's stomach is the demon spawn of that...man."
I've been trying to get her and Cielo along, and while they get along okay, their friendship bar isn't really rising too fast. It's as if there's some resistance.
I said before the Lucy is an outdoors gal. She's big on balls. Of the throwing kind.
(http://i.imgur.com/J7lcm.jpg)
She's sort of a tomboy, yeah.
The baby was born! Her name is Naomi! Welcome to the family, Naomi!
(http://i.imgur.com/H4KEx.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/xjBs4.jpg)
For NOW. :smug
(http://i.imgur.com/TDj6Y.jpg)
"This baby looks delicious."
So it soon became Tessa's birthday party so I decided to throw a party for my philandering wife/mother of the house.
Her son, Alvin, came over. Yes, that's Lucy's brother.
(http://i.imgur.com/q1v9o.jpg)
Wait, he's not black! So what does that make Lucy and Tessa? Now I feel like I'm on that one episode of Seinfeld where the gang thinks Elaine is dating a black guy and he thinks Elaine is a latina.
(http://i.imgur.com/nSM1m.jpg)
Happy birthday, Tessa! You're now an adult! Wait, Tessa was a young adult when she had both Lucy AND Alvin? I think Alvin is a teenager or young adult because he didn't stay in the house when Cielo moved in and went off with is deadbeat dad. So what the fuck. Keep in mind, that Sims can't have teen pregnancies, so I don't know what the hell.
So now that Lucy and Bella are best mates, Lucy can flirt with her. I end up giving her a big ol' hug and a kiss.
(http://i.imgur.com/2bId7.jpg)
That's her boyfriend in the background, Sam. He's Japanese apparently, going by his name? Should a member of this family ruin another stable and loving relationship for selfish desires? Yes/no.
I have had multiple Sims in Sims 3, lemme tell ya.
But I've never seen ANY sim like tv nearly as much as Luce.
Of course she does the standard laugh animation.
(http://i.imgur.com/VTF2i.jpg)
But the thing that differentiates Lucy from all my other sims and even guest sims, is that she is trigger happy with that damn remote.
(http://i.imgur.com/Nv5pQ.jpg)
She flips channels EVERY 5 SECONDS. She starts laughing when she gets to a new channel, and if that isn't good enough, she BOOS THE TV, demanding more action, with her speech bubbles demanding some violence.
(http://i.imgur.com/wUKbj.jpg)
I swear she has ADD.
I gave Tessa a makeover because I seriously couldn't tell her and Lucy apart.
(http://i.imgur.com/hz4vD.jpg)
Wow, that looks like better than what's offered in Mass Effect 1.
So the next day, I end up sending Lucy, her brother, Bella, and Cielo to the library to get some honest work done.
(http://i.imgur.com/urPlz.jpg)
:wtf
I don't understand why I'm even bringing him along. He's not even black like I originally thought he was.
Being a writer, I start Cielo working on a book because changing careers has got the family low on cash and I need that bread. The title of the book? Murder Time, Fun Time! So far it has made a gross total of 8 simoleons in revenue. I'm making bank.
(http://i.imgur.com/H4R0p.jpg)
Meanwhile, Lucy and her pal work on homework.
(http://i.imgur.com/QOQZf.jpg)
Afterwards I sent Lucy downstairs to troll message boards and send the family on their way home for another day of micromanaging simulation.
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I dunno why you play this crap instead of Sims Medeival
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I dunno why you play this crap instead of Sims Medeival
(http://i.imgur.com/urPlz.jpg)
Sims Medieval is for people want more rpg-ish elements to their Sims. I find the sim elements to be fun and I'm perfectly satisfied. Not to mention, you can't have multiple generations in Medieval. If you have kids, it's not like you can die and then they take the reigns.
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and i thought i was lonely
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I bet in a week he'll have print outs of his sims family framed around his house
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(http://i.imgur.com/xjBs4.jpg)
Sounds accurate.
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Just promise you won't fap to your family
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i cant wait til himu gets cats irl and starts regaling us with pages-long stories of their fantastic adventures sleeping on the couch and digging in the shitbox
:lol
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Real talk, this shit is sadder than a bebpo dating thread.
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I told Prole about this and we both had a good laugh
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:patel
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This thread had me interested in playing a Sims game until Himu lost his marbles.
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:patel
No really, I feel sorry for you. Arvie level sorry.
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This thread had me interested in playing a Sims game until Himu lost his marbles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLAlceZ2qo
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ANOTHER UPDATE TONIGHT :teehee
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:patel
No really, I feel sorry for you. Arvie level sorry.
Because I find The Sims fucking hilarious? I don't see why.
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himu needs a job
look, bro, i'll let you jerk me off for a tenner if it means you uninstall the sims
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:patel
No really, I feel sorry for you. Arvie level sorry.
Because I find The Sims fucking hilarious? I don't see why.
Because you find the fake lives of a bunch of polygons fascinating when you could be living your own? I mean fuck, I know when I'm playing Skyrim that it's a waste of time, but at least I'm doing something that I couldn't possibly do in real life.
For realz, go take a walk in the park.
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welcome to the dollhouse
no, seriously
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himu needs a job
I sent my resume to at least 60 places this week.
Guess how many bites I got.
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four
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I downloaded The Sims 3 and all the expansions. HIMURO I WILL JOIN YOU ON YOUR UNEMPLOYED SIMS 3 ADVENTURES (holy shit I need a job)!
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four
bzzt
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more than four? great job!
p.s. WHERE IS THE FUCKING UPDATE
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Can you still get your sim into the pool and them drown them by removing the pool ladder? That's pretty much all I remember about The Sims. Have only played the first one tho.
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more than four? great job!
p.s. WHERE IS THE FUCKING UPDATE
no more updates
you guys make me feel it's abnormal to share the lives of your sims!
also, try lower :(
Can you still get your sim into the pool and them drown them by removing the pool ladder? That's pretty much all I remember about The Sims. Have only played the first one tho.
nope
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himu needs a job
I sent my resume to at least 60 places this week.
Guess how many bites I got.
Who can blame them, they probably read this thread
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Right after school Lucy deserves an honest to god break by doing something we're all familiar with.
(http://i.imgur.com/HAYG1.jpg)
Trolling gets Lucy into a nasty attitude though.
(http://i.imgur.com/Kh9Lj.jpg)
She bangs the keyboard repeatedly and even screams at the monitor.
Whatever she's reading it's pretty painful. It's probably this very thread.
(http://i.imgur.com/gu2Ss.jpg)
She ends her troll with an air of approval. Can't see the results of riling up people on the internet immediately, however.
(http://i.imgur.com/YeGbE.jpg)
In the meantime, I finished Cielo's book. I'm working on another for phat cash.
(http://i.imgur.com/R6ewb.jpg)
As an aside, the toddler playing with doll animation in Sims 3 scares me.
(http://i.imgur.com/GnMj8.jpg)
They like...beat the shit out of the doll.
(http://i.imgur.com/7PQOs.jpg)
And bite it like they're chewing a thick steak.
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can you throw babies or leave them at bars
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You can throw them in the air, yes. But only play throwing.
I haven't tried this yet. Not sure if it's in Sims 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuxjQhgfiM
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wtf is wrong with you himu thats disgusting
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I was joking.
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so was i
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Got Ambitions and Late Night. I like them. Late Night's biggest problem is that Bridgeport kinda sucks. Since it takes place in the city, most of the residential areas are apartments. Problem is, they're like 10 story high rises that take forever to go up and down. I swear it takes at least 1 hour in Sim time to go downstairs to the lobby. Also, traveling the city is a nightmare, I swear it takes two Sim hours to get anywhere.
Still it can be fun, and maybe I'm doing something wrong. I could definitely use a bike rather than taking the subway all the time.
Ambitions is great and all the professions added really add to the game. I like playing PI, which is the only one I've done so far.
I decided to make a new character in Bridgeport.
Say hello to...
(http://i.imgur.com/O4g2P.jpg)
Natalie Fuckright
Her personality traits include:
(http://i.imgur.com/NaxRS.jpg)
- Artistic
- Charismatic
- Evil
- Snob
- Childish
In other words she's kinda bi-polar. Just the way I like it. :smug
Apartment life in Bridgeport is kinda hit/miss. When you start looking for a new place, you may end up with a place without much room like my first Bridgeport apartment, or you could draw the the big prize and get a really good one.
I decided I didn't feel like dealing with going to floor 32 every time I wanted to head home (where my apartment was when I first started Late Night) and went for the small apartment complex within the downtown vicinity.
I ended up winning big:
(http://i.imgur.com/lBtT1.jpg)
- A dedicated kitchen
- A fairly decent amount of space for entertainment
- A dedicated bedroom
- A dedicated bathroom
First Sim on Late Night, the bedroom WAS the bedroom AND the entertainment area. It was like they put out Japan Night, or something, due to the lack of space. These furnishings however weren't too far off from the standard starter home in the base Sims 3 in Sunset Valley, except arguably better due to space.
But ugh. Look at that shit. It's so ugly.
So I made it look
(http://i.imgur.com/hZO4U.gif)
(http://i.imgur.com/het7U.jpg)
Given my love for interior decorating in The Sims, I may make Miss Fuckright an interior designer for the time being.
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World Adventures is fun if you don't have it
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The problem with World Adventures is that only one Sim at a time can go on vacation. That being said, Sims 3 is a lot more fun while managing one character instead of a family, in comparison to Sims 2. Sucks, but...EA. Whatcha gonna do?
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http://kotaku.com/5887187/marilyn-monroe-eats-pizza-sleeps-alone-in-the-sims/gallery/1
!!!
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(http://i.imgur.com/w8BB3.jpg)
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:yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
What the fuck happened to Seasons? Why doesn't Sims 3 has a Seasons ex pac coming out soon?
Fuck EA. They ruined The Sims.
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you just dont wanna support your family!
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How is that a flip flop? It's a fact. They put a lot of items and features you'd normally get in default The Sims, put them in buggy expacs with barely any features EXCEPT the items and features that should have been there to begin with, then they release crappy ex pacs like Showtime and...Katy fucking Perry.
I love The Sims 3, but it's clearly a case of EA fucking around too much with trying to monetize their piggy bank. They made it so that the only way you could ever have custom items in your game is if you hack it to hell and back, because they want you to buy those keen new items they have on the Sims store that you have to buy with $$$ or post that new thing you did in The Sims on facebook! Yay! Now my friends list can find out my Sim left for work!
Almost every Sims 3 fan has the same opinion. Do you like, literally, not follow The Sims, at all?
They snubbed the most celebrated expansions for Showtime - ANOTHER Sims 3 Late Night retread? Why two? - and a Katy Perry ex pac? And you're talking to me about flip-flopping? What the ever fuck?
::)
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Read my edit.
If you're going to contribute to this thread, please don't make them vapid one sentence snipes that make no sense at all.
ITT: FLIP-FLOPPERS
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=472581
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My Sims 3 future epac wants:
- SEASONS
- Business lots
You fucking CUNTS.
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You arent very good at this game, are you?
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Which game?
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yeah this threads just embarassing now lol wtf its a VIDJA, himu
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NO YOU WON'T. I MAKE THE RULES, OSCAR. I DO. You may be a grouch, but you sir...you sirrrrrrrr...:maf
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LULLLLZZZZZ
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;)
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Thats more like it
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I used to love Sims. Played to build. Never a huge fan of building the families and playing out characters' lives though. rodi, homemademilk, and I shared games as a kid so what I'd do was go into their houses when they weren't playing and remodel everything.
Good times.