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Do you like making up little stories or histories about your sims?
Amphora
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I do.
Especially when weird little circumstances in my game align juuuust right for me to create short stories to amuse myself with. Like so:
Danny: Jupiter, you must uphold the family honor by wearing a kilt and combat boots.
Jupi: …but why? That would just look stupid.
Danny: WEAR A KILT OR ELSE!!! D :<
Jupi: No.
The real situation that happened in my game was that Jupiter the rebellious alien/merman hybrid was out too late one night. He became grounded for that reason but when I saw Danny walk in with that utterly ridiculous outfit i came up with this story on the fly.
This family has many, many such stories. And yes, I realize it’s silly but
oh well
Especially when weird little circumstances in my game align juuuust right for me to create short stories to amuse myself with. Like so:
Danny: Jupiter, you must uphold the family honor by wearing a kilt and combat boots.
Jupi: …but why? That would just look stupid.
Danny: WEAR A KILT OR ELSE!!! D :<
Jupi: No.
The real situation that happened in my game was that Jupiter the rebellious alien/merman hybrid was out too late one night. He became grounded for that reason but when I saw Danny walk in with that utterly ridiculous outfit i came up with this story on the fly.
This family has many, many such stories. And yes, I realize it’s silly but
oh well
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Or else what? Don't leave me hanging LOL.:D
https://graceymanorsims3.tumblr.com/
But it could also mean a lifetime of this as punishment:
- My-Page: Memory-Stories be sure to go chronological, by clicking on "Date" instead of Memory or Action
- Stories and Such – Sims 3 Stories by DivinylsFan (bobbiedivsworks.com) includes a couple of Sims 2 entries and some of my music.
I remember you from university, I still have your story.For example, this is what happened on the very first morning Paulina arrived in Twinbrook as a freshly minted sergeant with the less-than-desirable assignment of breaking up the resident crime family. I sent her downtown to meet some locals, and look who turned up. (As always, thanks to @CravenLestat for sharing Paulina with me. She's still wonderful.)
"I know all about your worthless son, and believe, me, I have my eye on him."
"Is your dad making you unhappy, Lolly?"
"You know, you can talk to me. I'd like to help you, if you'll let me."
::sniff::
"Don't think for a second that I believe your sort-of-clean reputation. I know exactly what you are."
"Wow, for a wannabe politician, you really are a terrible liar. Wait, are you crying?! You've got to be kidding me."
Would be a nice idea to share some random pictures and have other simmers give it a shot to make their own story out of it.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
I love the idea and always wanted to get into story making in the sims but never really have and I've been playing since TS1. I do have themes for each game save game though and a basic direction how I want each sim's life to go. My back stories are pretty loose though.
This is from TS4 but I've had similar games in TS1-3 as well:
My "Fables" save game is probably is the most story driven. That's my "out there" game with the most aliens, vampires etc.. The Goths are the founders, the Sweets are the only "normal" sims in the world but live in a gingerbread house. So far It's the only save that I play so called evil sims. I have some witches that I focus on herbalism, the Addams family, a gnome king and queen. One of my favorites is Dr. Krieger from the show Archer, a mad scientist who I got alien pregnant then married an alien and had a child with her.
This wasn't intended but Lurch from the Addams family kept getting abducted every night for about a week. I was a little disappointed that he never got pregnant. 🙄
I don't play that one too often since I'm kind of waiting to see if they're going to put some type of magic and more supernaturals in the game. Plus I waffle about how I feel about Pugsley and Wednesday Addams growing up. Sometimes I can't wait to play them as adults other times it just feels blasphemous to change the family unit as is since it's what I grew up with on TV and in the movies.
I loved doing that in TS 3.
From a bare bones of having a YA Sim attend University for a Fine Arts degree and staying in Frome Cabin, and gradually renovating it, I came up with a whole story about this art student actually renovating an historic building on campus as part of her degree program, and going on to be a curator, owning the art gallery in her home town, and on and on.
Even playing in just a kind of sandbox mode spawns stories for me, but actually documenting them is more work than I am usually up for.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
*Fairy Jared and Vampire Connor*
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
That is such a great idea! I’ve never really thought about starting my families out in an older setting like you have.
Although now that I think on it technically I have. I made a long convoluted backstory of my legacy family. I imagined the original heir being born during the medieval ages, where witch burning were prevalent. It involves vampires, witches, wizards, and a long held grudge that have caused the deaths of many of my legacy heirs and their spouses. My supernatural save and my normal save are connected for that reason alone. But I’m terrible at making an actual story though so I haven’t bothered
@puzzlezaddict
Lol oh I’m always adding subtitles as well. Makes gameplay so much fun
I love your story too! Each generation of my sim legacy has had a different theme so that has helped. I even had a sim similar to yours in her job. Lol
@lydiaofmemeteam
What a fun backstory to play out! You’re giving me ideas. Haha
@JoAnne65
Ohh great idea with posting some pics for others to make a short story around. I haven’t been in game for a few days but I’ll have to check out my hoard of old pics to find some fun ones.
@bekkasan
I’ve made up a backstory with my legacy family and retroactively added a family member to the founders of the legacy just for some added drama so I can definitely relate with you there. Lol
@king_of_simcity7
It’s always fun to make new stories
Great pics! Looks like a good beginning.
@treece01
Ohhhh I’ve done almost the same thing!!! I based one of my supernatural families around the Addams and even made a Lurch-based Butler. But due to my experimenting on him by attempting to turn him into a mummy butler he quit. I wonder why
@TadOlson
I really need to try an apocalypse challenge one of these times! Every time I see you mention yours or see others around the interwebs I always want to try it out
@Sindocat
I have never had a sim go to university yet. I meant for my 6th gen legacy heir to but he drowned as a child so I was never able to. Although I’ve been thinking of resurrecting him for some added drama in my legacy
@Karritz
You are a much better simmer than me. I have absolutely no patience for making sims videos and shudder at the effort it would take to create said videos. Pics are bad enough
I’ll have to check out your channel!
@Charlottesmom
Keeps things interesting
@Mikezumi
I’m a terrible story teller so I can relate with your lack of imagination. Lol. You are absolutely great at creating sims though! I’m always astounded at how accurate you are at creating sims and making them look like their RL counterparts.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/931841/the-story-of-oscar-and-louise#latest
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
Although my supernatural sims are mostly there to be crazy and do weird things for my own amusement, a few of them I gave rather sad backstories. One of my favorites is this guy, Josiah (for many reasons obvious
After being bitten by an unknown werewolf and he began developing the unstable symptoms of lycanthropy, Josiah accidentally killed his wife. Feeling guilt and self-disgust, Jo is always on the move from town to town never forming any long lasting relationships - and he wears his wedding ring as a sign of his guilt.
One of my favorite things about him are his silver eyes, I thought they would be a good reminder of the Silver Bullet killing werewolves in classic lore. I meant the eyes to be symbolic because every time he would look in the mirror and see his glowing silver eyes it kills him to be reminded of his lycanthropy. He is also considerably taller than most sims in the neighborhood due to being a werewolf.
Although my lifeguard Marianne and he have autonomously formed a relationship that I have found adorable so I have a story between those two now as well. Lol
I’ve also made so that Jo also always has a fresh cut on his face or bruises on his body since, during his transformation, his werewolf side is always fighting with other animals or other beings throughout the town.
It keeps gameplay fresh, y’know?
This year I think I've spent way more time thinking about my sims, their past and future than I actually play them lol.
Sometimes I'm just focusing on trying something new. Sometimes I'm developing sim families to use in unpopulated worlds. Sometimes I'm redoing a world (I am almost never satisfied with things as they are, I like to edit or "improve" - sims, lots, worlds). Sometimes I just want to set up a situation and see what happens. In those case I usually don't generate little back stories.
Other times I do like to incorporate little incidents of the game play into a story, especially if I am playing a "story". One example was when I was writing/playing my Girl Who Cried Wolf story. I developed details in one of the character's back story to fit the title of the book she was writing Driving with Duckies.
Even when I am not writing a story I will incorporate things from game play into their back story. I often play a young adult or teen male sim to develop his skills, career and back story in one world. Then save him as a household to be brought into a new game started with a child female sim when she reaches young adult, merging their two stories.
It’s so romantic to play a tormented, handsome man