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How Did YOU Discover The Sims Franchise?
FabBunny
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I was reminiscing about the simpler days when I first discovered the sims. One of my school friends was talking about this amazing game where you could make people and their houses and watch them get married and have children and this seemed amazing to me. I wanted in. So, after a while I found out my sister had a copy of this game and it was called 'the sims 2' She let me borrow it and I installed it on my computer straight away. As the loading screen emerged I was transported into a mystical game where I could create people- it was like Barbie- but better!
I would love to know how you were first introduced to the sims franchise. Be sure to answer the poll below and then tell us more about how you discovered the sims
I would love to know how you were first introduced to the sims franchise. Be sure to answer the poll below and then tell us more about how you discovered the sims
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It was back in 2004. She brought her computer from home and was playing a very intriguing looking game so I asked her about it. It was the very first Sims.
I played it for a few days and within a couple of weeks The Sims 2 came out and she bought it. I started playing it, recreated my real family, and have been hooked ever since.
I will be forever thankful to her for introducing me to the awesomeness of Sims! The Sims 2 will always have a special place in my heart because of that.
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SimCity predates the Sims by like.. 11 or 12 years, and was probably the first Maxis title to really hook me, and also probably the reason I bought everything else they ever did after that.
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The Sims 4, in that vein, has been weird for me since most of the game packs aren't available as physical copies, but I'm on the slow road to collecting what I can of it.
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Then Maxis announced Sims2 and we saw the trailer and of course genetics. That was where I fell in love with aliens and alien abductions.
Sims 3 is my favorite because of the open world, cast, alien abductions, genetics.
Sims 4 I do own some of the expanison packs and stuff pack. But it doesn't hold my attention that long unlike the Sims3 and Sims2.
Fast forward another 3-4 years. That phone had long since been replaced, but out of the blue I just remembered that game and how much fun I'd had with it. Dad agreed to let me have The Sims 3 for PC, and I haven't looked back ever since!
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Also, totes loved SIM FARM.
So of course I loved Sims 1, but our family's lame desktop was so bad at playing it. Really got into CC for Sims 1. I remember Hot Date BLOWING MY MIND that we could go to a non-residential area.
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When my brother and I got our first console, we got the Sims Bustin' Out and one of the other ones. I'd heard of SimCity and played Sim Farm before but loved the Sims right away and have played them ever since. My brother used to have just the Sims 3 base game not long after it came out but then he lost the disc. Then in 2016, I got the base game and a few EP's for my birthday and I just added everything else that I didn't get. I now play both Sims 3, and occasionally Sims 4.
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Bustin' Out was actually one of the better early console adaptations for the Sims that I can recall! I especially loved the story modes for it, and bumming around to all the different people's homes so you could complete their stories, finish careers, and unlock all the items before moving into the Landgraab mansion was so much fun. Though, I encountered a glitch in that game, and was never quite able to reverse it - if a service Sim got eaten by the monster plant and died, they never stopped being a service Sim - their ghosts still came to work, but they gave you money instead of charging you for their services. Good times.
Another nod to (my personal favorite) console adaptation was the Urbz. It was pretty unconventional for a Sims game, but I LOVED the reputation and faction system in that game, as well as the more urban take on the previously suburban Sims.
I didn't get super into the Sims until 2 came out, I was obsessed with Harry Potter and would make HP characters in University and had mods that replaced the majors with Hogwarts classes like Potions and Herbology. I also loved the console games like Castaway and Sims 2 Pets on Game Boy Advance/PlayStation Portable.
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I remember she made a household with us guests in it, with herself as the mom, and she built a house with a long corridor to a dance floor, and started a party and invited the vice principal to enroll the child sim in private school, and the whole time I was like.. there's a game where we can make people? Families? Build houses? Make them do stuff???? Oh my gosh this is an absolute sandbox, I need this so bad.
Of course, I was a little too young for the official age rating still, so in the meantime I was desperately looking for a way to play it for free online, but obviously I didn't exactly find any existing Sims flash game anywhere in 2009. And TS2 seemed like a lot to get into at the time.
And then The Sims 3 suddenly came out, there was a whole cardboard cut-out at Gamestop advertising it and everything, and I asked if I could get this game, my parents said yes, and.. yep. I can't believe it has almost been ten years now.
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