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Loving Sims 2 again
kathrynmarien
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Just installed TS2 on my new laptop and was pleasantly surprised that it worked! The laptop is small and cheap (I bought it for simple household stuff, like budgeting from my couch and grading papers), and since it had integrated graphics, I wasn't expecting it to run (or run very well). But it DOES! 
It even runs on mostly high settings, which is a small miracle.
I have TS2 on my desktop, but haven't touched it in forever, so this was a big trip down memory lane. In about 5 minutes I was reminded why I love TS2 so much. I created a married couple, moved them into a cheap house, and replaced the bathtub with a cheap shower. Not even thinking, I had the wife showering and directed the husband to use the toilet. The woman screeched, jumped out of the shower, and yelled at her husband! HAHA! I had totally forgotten about this!
Then it stormed and the tree out front caught on fire. Man, I love this game.
It even runs on mostly high settings, which is a small miracle.I have TS2 on my desktop, but haven't touched it in forever, so this was a big trip down memory lane. In about 5 minutes I was reminded why I love TS2 so much. I created a married couple, moved them into a cheap house, and replaced the bathtub with a cheap shower. Not even thinking, I had the wife showering and directed the husband to use the toilet. The woman screeched, jumped out of the shower, and yelled at her husband! HAHA! I had totally forgotten about this!
Then it stormed and the tree out front caught on fire. Man, I love this game.
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It seems a little antiquated after playing the newer games, but it has so much to it that you can't help loving it. I was watching Brandi make the dinner today, she was getting cutlery out of the cabinet drawer and opening the cupboard door to get out the frying pan etc. So many extra details!
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I'm downloading TS2 as we speak. My computer crashed out & I lost TS2 thru TS4. I re-installed TS4, & have a pretty decent game going, but got bored. So here I am re-installing TS2. I love this game!! It's all the little details that made the game so amazing. Before my computer crashed, I had a pretty good game going with Pollination Tech. I had turned him into a werewolf. The 'savage' interaction is so hilarious, where they jump into a fight and turn someone else into a werewolf. Pollination had married a witch. & their kids look very 'strange'. The hybrids in TS2 are hilarious...you literally can have any combination.
Your post brought back some great memories and I can't start a new game & see where it leads me LOL. Happy Simming everyone.
I'm hoping to explore more hybrid sims with TS2. I never made a werewolf in my first (and what was then only) game. I had some aliens, but that was about it.
I had this same thought playing the game last night! I've started a legacy and my poor sim was living in an unfinished shack and was BROKE. I think she had $70 left. And she went to work and one of the work-related popup things came up -- normally, I just click 'ignore' but I thought I'd take a chance for once and choose one of the options. Of COURSE, it was a bad choice, her pay got docked, and she lost her $70. My exact thought was, 'Lol, I'd forgotten how cruel TS2 can be to poor sims just starting out.' But the challenge is what makes it so fun!
Also, I'd forgotten how rich the interactions are between TS2 sims. Like, they do these quirky little things that you don't expect and it makes for awesome storytelling. My founder is trying to find a mate and she invited a sim over for dinner. He came, but brought a female friend with him. Turns out, he's a criminal and his friend is the police chief, ha ha. They spent the entire evening tickling each other, so my sim went outside, did some star gazing, then struck up a conversation with a random townie who was walking by. She hit it off with him right away, so he's most likely going to be 'the one'.
Cool, hope you're able to post some pics once you have a werewolf. I never played with any supernaturals besides aliens when I played 10 years ago. When I started playing TS2 again, I started to explore some new areas, such as the werewolf. It was kind of like playing a brand new game lol. It's hard to get bitten by the leader of the wolf pack. I had to use a few cheats to make it happen.