I got the Sims 2 a month ago, but just got a new laptop last week, so I’m finally able to play it.
Holy crap, this game is addicting. I was addicted to the first one in the “My Sims are all dying because I can’t afford a toilet!” vein. This one has a bit more free will in the Sims, so now it’s “If you don’t leave that freakin’ baby alone and go eat, I am going to drown you in the pool!”.
I swear, I’m at work thinking about how I can decorate their new house. I’m at the grocery store thinking about ways to get my two main Sims to get their newborn twins to toddlerhood without hiring a nanny. Even home, doing work on resumes for my part-time job, I can’t stop wondering if I give my female Sim a job, will that help keep all of their needs up?
I’m going nuts. My husband laughs at me half the night while I’m playing. Of course, when our Sims go and have…woohoo, he grins and wants a little woohoo of his own. That’s been fun. He also finds it amusing that I take these little fake people so seriously. He’s been asking me to wall one up so he can watch them die (I once left a man in a doorless room just to watch him die…).
I’m hoping it’s just the novelty of the game. Because I feel like I have multiple personalities at the moment. Oh, well. It’s taking my mind off the events in the US for the past two days.
Hell, over on the Maxis website, people are hunting for new and ingenious ways to kill off Sims. I have one who wants to see a ghost, so I think I’ll be trying to kill off Brandi pretty soon.
My hardcore addiction is starting to fade a bit, but I’m still pretty hooked. I’ve noticed that now when I look at people on the trian, I start noticing all their facial features as if they were settings in Build-a-Sim mode.
And about the OP: I was crazy addicted to the Sims 2 for like two weeks after it came out, then just left them all in suspended animation and haven’t touched the thing since. I had so many love-triangles and love-pentagrams and failed marriages and on-the-sly relationships and kids trying to get into private school and sims trying to get ahead in their jobs while keeping their aspirations up, it just got more tiring than my real life.
If you’re playing it lots, I’d highly recommend you visit the Sims Resource and check the posts in the forum about the bug called ‘jump out’.
If your Sims get too many memories, they become unable to interact with each other. Until that’s rectified, you’ll want to be careful with spending too much time on any single family.
I am loving the game, but I wish I’d read into the bug before I ruined my first few families. :smack:
I’m not terribly into the Sim-thing myself. I pretty much killed my Tamagotchi four times in a row because I couldn’t spend enough time with it. (The only reason it didn’t die more than four times is because the battery died first, and I couldn’t bother to find more batteries of the right size.)
However, I’m wondering if this is something that might breath life back into my moderately (and on-meds-for-it) depressed 13yo daughter. She actually enjoyed SIM coaster for a while, and listening to the descriptions given here, it might be some kind of motivator to get her back into daily routine life-as-we-know-it…
OTH, maybe I should get it for DH first, if only to get him off his addiction to SDMB…
Just depressed? No problems with disassociation? She’ll probably enjoy it and it might just do her the power of good.
If it’s just depression pure and simple, she might really get a kick out of taking an unemployed, skill-less Sim and moulding them into a career winner with romantic prospects and cordon-bleu chef skills. It’s nice sometimes to be able to make *something * better, even - or perhaps especially - if you can’t seem to do it in your own life… and teens are especially prone to feeling like they can’t get anything right.
If, on the other hand, she’s prone to losing the plot a bit, I’d hold off on it. It’s not really a good idea if she’s the sort who tends to view the world from a distance anyway… speaking as someone who does. You can get some really wierd mental blurring going on if you’re not careful, and if you’re prone to that kind of thing.
Only you’d know which category she fits into, but if it’s the former then I think Sims2 would be a great game for her to play, as there’s a real sense of empowerment when you hold the future of Sims in your hands - strange as it may seem - and a definite sense of accomplishment when you achieve a goal you’ve set for them.
I fell into the camp of playing the hell out of it for a coupla weeks and not touching it since. I think it’s the really long load times – it just takes so long to get to the actual game that I can’t be bothered firing it up.
I was addicted when it first came out. I haven’t played it in a while now and the addictions warn off. But now you’ve reminded me of it I’ll have to play it when I get home.
I’ve not played it as much since I got Leisure Suit Larry for the xbox.
The bug is giving me too many problems to play certain families and my husband seems to feel neglected when I play for hours on end, so LSL was a good compromise.
It really increases his social.
So they decided it was a memory problem?
Last I read, it was that or knowing too many people.
Wait…seeing as to how you get a new memory every time you meet someone, that may go hand in hand. :dubious:
Any word from Maxis about an actual patch being released? I haven’t been keeping up on it lately.
Without trying to de-rail the thread, yeah, it’s been narrowed down to a memory problem. Good news from TSR forums today though is that Mod The Sims have a hack-patch thing that’ll fix it right up! They also have patches to stop the kids from yahooing for 30 minutes about their report cards, to cause twins in every birth, to stop the Sims turning off the stereo (because a lot of people actually like the in-game music - me included!), and a bundle of other things.
Whether the chat-bug fix will be compatible with whatever Maxis brings out remains to be seen, but since it just sits in the Download folder and doesn’t overwrite an .exe file or anything, I figured it was worth a shot.
Maxis still haven’t given any feedback regarding patch progress or an estimated release date. :mad:
Yay!
Thanks for the info, Khiadra.
I had a thought last night.
In one of the chat transcripts, before the game came out, someone asked the creators if a married sim gets pregnant with another sim besides her husband, will the husband be able to tell it’s not his.
They kind of hinted this would be a possibility.
I don’t know, but it seems to be true. I had a scenario like that (married couple with male roomie, roomie gets wife pregnant), and the husband-son relationship started off lower than the normal parent-child relationship would. Basically, the game treated them as acquaintences. He was also treated as a ‘friend’ rather than a ‘child’ when inheritance time came around.
What’s odd is that the kid knew, too. He’d get very upset whenever he saw his mother kissing or sleeping with the husband.
I had this happen and the child always wanted to see/play with her biological father instead of her mother’s husband.
Oh, and the family tree shows the real biology, so the child’s family tree will show the correct parent, and the husband of the unfaithful wife will not show that child in their family tree.
Interestingly, as long as the husband doesn’t actually see the wife cheating, he will bear no animosity towards the other guy, even though he presumably knows who fathered the child!
