Not at all! One of my favorites is two build a house, one room, one floor. Once the family goes inside, build a little wall lip over the door. No way in, no way out. Then fill 90% the inside with sofas. Then put a gas grill inside. Then have them cook. The whole family should perish in a spectacular fire.
Also, I had some dude living in a house by himself, I invited all the couples over, and one by one, as the men were in the pool, I’d yank the ladder out. Then once all the husbands are dea, you try and hit on the new widows while they are grieving at the newly erected tombstones. If that doesn’t work, you can scare them while they are mourning. They like that stuff.
I find myslef making SIM noises in everyday life. The already mentioned uhhhHaaah! and whenever someone is telling me a story IRL, I make that “Fuwahh! FWahh!” noise that the female character makes. Also when people cut me off in traffic, I make the “OOOHMMM PEEDEEEE” noise that they make when they aren’t having enough fun.
Yeah, I’m cool alright. :rolleyes:
What is this house party pack? I have the game and the LL expansion, theres a new one? Fuckin great. There goes the next 10 weekends of my life.
Geez, you folks aren’t alone. My girlfriend spends hours unmoving in front of her little interpersonal polygonal people. On many occasions out of nowhere I’ll hear a loud whoop and she’ll run in screaming weird things like “Check this out! Betty’s fallen in love with a burglar!!” or “The House of a Hundred Mimes is burning down!” Lookit’em squirm!!".
Now it’s starting to effect her behavior.
She’s always had a nervous habit where she must fill the empty spaces in a conversation – silences make her uncomfortable. It used to be normal pointless babble about work or shopping or some trivial thing, then one day I get this:
“Gubba wubba wubba grubba wugga wugga wug…”
…or something to that effect. Now, Liz has always been eccentric, and I assume she’s imitating the adults from the Peanuts cartoons, so I answer in kind.
“grubba, grubba wubba dubba ugga wugga wug.”
We had entire conversation like this, guiding the conversation with tone and nuance alone. Only recently did I figure out she was talking Sim-Speak.
Did you guys ever see the episode of Third Rock from the Sun where Dick discovers the internet?
Towards the end he ends up looking like a caged animal with no human contact. When this episode recently aired my husband would not let me be about it.
“oh, that is you to a tee when you are playing with those people”
And yeah, I have caught myself doing the fwah thing too.
I loaned the first disk to my friend and warned her about the addiction, but I figured turnabout was fair play since she got me hooked on Civ II.
She called me the other day and said she must not have installed it right, because she chose english, and they are still speaking spanish or something. I damn near wet myself laughing.
You see she had never seen the game played before and therefore had never heard them speak. The only bait I used to draw her in was the thrill of the power.
I knew I was playing the Sims too much the first time I was seeing someone off, and I said “Soon soon”, and then wondered why they looked at me funny.
I also hum the advertising jingles from the Sims television.
I love The Sims. My favorite house is the Williams home, where Ash (complete with Bruce Campbell face and chainsaw arm) lives with his wife Evil Linda (a Resident Evil zombie skin pressed into service since no one seems to make deadites) and their kids, Sam and Karen. She’s an actress, he’s an international spy. I’m thinking of killing the kids off, though, since they aren’t very interesting and they don’t seem to like any of the stupid toys. I think I’ll wall them up in tiny rooms and wait for the inevitable. The kids make much better noises than the adults as they starve… ::evil cackle::
Oh, and may I be the first to say that, as threads go, this graw is fraydooshay?
I’ve had the game since it came out, my addiction was recently renewed when I tried it again without using the money cheat (a lot easier if you have Livin’ Large, you can make lots of money manufacturing garden gnomes), and found it’s a lot of fun after you get bored making bizarre families or expensive dream houses. I recently got Black and White, though, and haven’t played The Sims in some time - I even put back down the House Party expansion pack recently, which I had been looking forward to getting it.
I admit it, i broke my vow and played last night. But having just found out the money cheat i just had to build my dream house for the “Me and my SO” family. We’re very happy and madly in love apparently.
Mortimer and Bella Goth invaded my dreams last night. That Bella, she’s a card isn’t she? But she just can’t take a compliment.
I do that all the time while I’m walking around thinking. It always cracks me right up!
Well, all you Housepartyers, how is the expansion pack? I CANNOT buy it until I’m out of school for the semester and have oodles of time to play, so I’m dying to know!
I’ve read some reviews that are like “Well, it’s cool, but not $30 cool”. I’m of the opinion that if it is something you play a lot and enjoy, it’s well worth another $30.
House party is all about, well, having a house party.
If the ability to gather dozens of Sims into a single house for a huge fete appeals to you, then definitely get the expansion. It contains all sorts of new objects designed to assist with such things- new Group Fun objects, new ways to feed massive amounts of people, etc.
It also includes two other things that might help the beginning Simmer- first, you can now buy food directly. That is, you can buy, say, a carved turkey, and sit it on a counter. Then, rather than making your own dinner, you can just take part of the turkey. I expect it’s more expensive in the long run- haven’t actually tried that myself. The second thing is that now when you call people up, you can just Talk to them- you get a single conversation stream with them, and you don’t have to bother inviting them over.
Deg deg!
Oh Dear God, The Sims…I just installed this game from hell this weekend and already I can see months of my future slipping away.
Tried the killing stuff, of course, it was funny but actually kind of boring, took too long and the message box keeps you from actually seeing them dying. I did find a new twist when I walled up my White Trash family, one kid was in bed but was blocked from getting out. He slept on long after the rest of the family croaked, for about 10 days game-time. Finally I moved the furniture blocking him, he struggled out of bed all tired-like and instantly collapsed and died. I actually felt bad about that.
I’m having a major problem though (other than lack of sleep)…I tried installing the 1.1 upgrade, and it screwed up the game so that BEDS NO LONGER WORK!! I uninstalled & reinstalled several times to no avail, so I decided to just play 1.0 (don’t have Livin Large, but upgrading is a foregone conclusion at this point) – and now, everything’s fine in my custom families but all of a sudden, in the houses already there (the Goth Family and the Lesbian Roomies) THE BEDS NO LONGER WORK!!! Deleting & replacing the beds does nothing. I haven’t installed any patches or add-ons except that patch that unblurs the nudity. Anybody else have this problem???
I had this one girl living happily with her hubby until he died changing a light bulb. In her grief, I had her secretly steal the heart of each person in the neighborhood (12 people, men and women, all told). It wasn’t easy finding the time, there was a lot of sending one person upstairs to the bathroom, giving a quick backrub, then repeating on the other, etc.
So, after all these people were in love with her, she decides to throw a party :). I walked her into the living room where all her loves were gathered and let things go…one girl walked up and hugged her…then the room turned into a huge jealous slapping-fest brawl, looked like a soccer riot
It was just the psychological outlet she needed. She now lives a stable life…
Do a search for The Sims Edit v4.0 or v4.2 if ya have Livin’ Large. This thing is great! You can edit ALL the stats of your sims. I made a little guy that sits at his computer all day while his wife bitches at him. In other words, me. The new addition, House Party, adds a LOT more stuff that’s pretty cool. You can get a dance floor, dj booth, party tables (with caterer), bull riding machine, etc.
Also, has anyone else besides me seen the leprechaun easter egg? Or the pink haired girl that crashes the party and steals stuff?
