Although I have to admit, this game is going to be absolutely gorgeous.
I’m a little shocked by the screenshot featuring the lesbo lovin’ though. Fifth row, middle column.
ohhh girls in swimsuits making out!
But really I don’t think they’re using sex to sell the game. I’m rather encouraged that they seem to be going a little more mature and less cutesy.
I don’t know. Encouraged? Really?
Did you find the first one unbearable without lesbian lovin’?
It just seems like they’re catering to the stereotypical nerdy dateless shut-in here.
heh there’s lesbain lovin’ in the first one too. And I highly doubt they’re going for the lonely shut in more like their massive female base that would enjoy the human interaction and the romance with hints of sexuality.
There’s that great screenshot of a woman naked in a bathtub and this creepy little kid staring at her through the window. That is too funny.
I should add their massive adult female base.
Looking at the shots again I don’t see much difference in it anyway. Just better looking graphics. It’s not like they took the hot tub blur away. 'course I wasn’t really a huge fan. It was a fun game for a few days nothing I’d spend $5,000 in ex packs for though.
rdm,
Now that is funny. I take back everything I said. Those designers are perverts.
aaaaaa I came back to this thread SOLELY to comment on the peeping tommy! :eek:
I didn’t play the first Sims very much either cause it was too annoying scheduling the mundane things, but about the first thing I did was download the, ah, patch, that got rid of the blurring.
I won’t comment on the sex except that it’s certainly a step further than the first one.
But those graphics - wow! Where the guy is painting the woman on the couch, and the texture applied to the canvas is a view from that character’s perspective is really neat. I wonder how far you can go: paint a picture of a bare wall, then paint a picture of the picture on the wall, than replace the first picture and paint a new one of that…
All those babies have the same head. That’s just freaky.
I’ve never played the game, but it seems to me that it targets people of the same kind of mindset (though not the same people) that enjoy soap operas. You know, relaxing in this big rich house, not having to work, being able to redecorate however and as often as you want… the kind of life where all that matters is who’s sleeping with with who.
My art appreciation teacher had a great phrase to describe this kind of thing. He was comparing the Rococo period to modern soap operas and called it “sublimation of mass aristocratic fantasy”
I could be wrong, but it seems like The Sims fits that definition.
Who cares about the sex. Now we get weekends!
Check out the FAQ at the OP’s link for some other interesting tidbits.
I want it now. 
Those people are the ones who tend to buy the game, but then they get upset when they run afoul of Will Wright’s evil plot twists. He put in all kinds of screwy, twisted ways to mess with the Sims’ lives, and I imagine it will only be more so with The Sims 2.
- sturmhauke, former EA/Maxis tech support drone
I guess this means I can’t count on Maxis to work on “SimEarth 3000” anytime soon, then. 
Ranchoth
(It’s not that screwing around with the gas content of an atmosphere is better than hot lesbian lovin’…it’s just different, that’s all.)
The old man teaching his daugher (granddaughter?) to walk was adorable…
I guess kids can grow up now? That’s gonna change my play style a lot. And I pity those who’ll want to make third-party objects and skins that look as good as what’s in the game.
Plot twists? I thought the Sims was basically just a chat room with fancy graphics. You wander around and talk to people, that sort of thing.
Nah, you’re thinking of The Sims Online, a multi-player, online spinoff, which is like that (or so I’ve heard, as I’ve never played it). The original The Sims is basically a single player “god game”, not unlike SimCity or SimEarth, but rather than controlling a whole city or planet, you control a single family.
Yeah, that’s Sims Online. You can also try to make money in the game by setting up a business and charging admission. There are bars, concert halls, gyms, LAN clubs, mad scientist labs, even PG-13 whorehouses (that is, you have to imagine the more explicit stuff). It’s not as interesting as it sounds, as you spend much of your time on some boring activity to increase your character’s skill levels.
As for the regular Sims, some of the random events that can happen include: fires, buglaries, alien abductions, stupid mimes that harsh your groove, suddenly becoming a criminal kingpin, having your kid sent to military school, getting into fights with other Sims, death by various mundane means, the Hampster Plague of Death, Death showing up in person, ghost hauntings, and lots of other stuff I can’t even remember right now.
Why would you be shocked? If I actually played the Sims I’d have two women living together who do little else besides exercise and shower.
Marc
I guess I’m just shocked because it seemed Maxis and EA had done everything they could to push The Sims as a family-friendly, tentpole title. Guess they figured out who their true market really is.
I’m not shocked by cartoony lesbian lovin’, don’t get me wrong. I’m just shocked that they’d have the picture on the official website.