Let's all share our
darkest gameplay stories from across the series.
I once had a vampire Sim go on a date with a vampire Sim he just met. He proposed to her, then immediately after, she burst into flames and died. He begged the Grim Reaper to save her, and he did. So then they celebrated with a bush-woohoo. She got pregnant from that. Then, he broke up with her and left.
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It took a few attempts but I would eventually have a few extra ghosts in the community grave yard of maids who had been discriminated against for their looks
But I remember once when The Sims 3 was still quite new, I decided I wanted to try to have Grim Reaper and my Sim to have a romantic relationship. Let's just say that experiment required a lot of NPCs visiting my house and having 'accidents' that ended with them dying.
Other vampires were given the opportunity to be turned human again.
As a witch, she was able to slay vampires with a combination of thirst and sunlight charms.
But when I tried to save my family, it would just not save. After some trial and error, I finally figured out it was the wife/mother who was causing the issue. I didn't have the heart not to save her husband without her, so I aged up the teen to a young adult and saved her and her brother. I ended up moving the sibling pair to Moonlight Falls. It was not an easy transition after the move either, because the sims of that town were always causing problems for the orphans. But eventually, things did smooth out for them, and their families did eventually progress and grow.
OH MY I had something happen to my Curious Brothers as well - left a young teenager raising his siblings and cousins - thank goodness for the nanny or was it the maid. The eldest ended up marrying her. I think that save was my favorite game.
The ones I've had most fun with (and frustration from) was when I caged up Caleb Vatore and put sinks all around him that he couldn't get to -to drink water excessively. Another was when I caged up Don Lothario on a beach. He completely neglected his needs in favor of doing fire dance around a bonfire. I put it out, caged him, and put all the things he needed in front of him, but out of reach.
I've also broken up many couples and had my played Sim live a life of infidelity, etc...
A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
Time enjoyed is never time wasted
This made me chuckle.
The husband used to level his charisma and befriend everyone for his nefarious plans since he was a politician (fitting, I know). They would throw lavish parties in their dungeon and I would use a mod to get more than the usual limit of people to attend. Then I'd lock them in there. His hideous brother would "try for baby" with all the women. Initially, this took up a lot of time before I started using mods. Once it was successful after days of observing them in the dungeons, they'd be free to go. As for the men, I'd murder them or starve them in many ways.
When the former captive women gave birth their children were monstrosities; sometimes they bore green skin like the vampire's brother and other times they did not, however all of them had hideous features. One time Jocasta Bachelor gave birth to his daughter whose ears made me laugh so hard because of how badly it suited her face which had crooked jaws and an elongated nose area, fat neck, thin lips and with the twisted eyes too all from her father. Eventually the vampire got the house slave pregnant and sadly I tried to kill her but learned then that you can't kill pregnant sims, so I let the pregnancy finish while she starved in the dungeon. When she gave birth to a daughter, I fed the slave and then put the baby in a room until she was so neglected the social worker took the baby away and then I burned the slave alive with some other prisoners while she was depressed.
After telling my son what had happened he said: Mom, you don't have to save your game!
I was very invested in this story and literally cried when I finally achieved the Happy End.
In Sims 4 I had a werewolf preserve where they were treated as second rate citizens. There was no Happy End, because I lost interest in that save, but I reached an intermediate goal where at least my favorite families fled to Granite Falls.
My current Sims 4 save has widespread android slavery. Buying free as many androids as possible serves nicely to regulate the money flow in this save. Despite the theme actual gameplay is a series of small happy ends, so I guess this doesn't count. The darkest things that happened here were probably a criminal trying to poison the mayor, but his best friend ate the pufferfish instead (I rescurected the friend later) and the aliens being under the impression I need more babies and "helping" my sims with it.
Most traumatic for THEM: the Vietnam war in my Decades challenge. I gotta post the screenshot for ya'll. It's something else.
More recently, in a story I'm doing called The Legend of Forgotten Hollow (over at Archive Of Our Own now), a vampire who was a real piece of work, got parched, and while I was busy with other Sims trying to get screenshots for my story progression, darned if he didn't suddenly and autonomously attack Vlad's butler and Drink Uncontrollably! The two were pretty much enemies, but Vlad and his butler were romantically attached to one another, and Vlad flew into a passion and staked the vampire!
The thing that happened next was pretty astounding and I think a glitch of some sort: Talon (the vamp who attacked the butler) could not die, he just went into agonies of little embers flying up off of him, a big horrid chest wound, and Vlad covered in backspray. Caleb was there too and kicked Talon in the tenders for something he did to another character,
And I could not figure out why Talon could not seem to die! In fact right before Caleb kicked him, he was defiant in Caleb's face while burning!
So I did some things to remove some things that may have been interrupting the death process, tried an interaction called Suck Out Soul and THAT was dark, lemme tell ya! Really amazing visuals though! Talon's body levitating and draping from the waist, the worst facial expression ever, while ghostly forms and skull-like mists poured forth from him! Pretty epic. But then when that part was done, his body fell to the ground with eyes rolled back and mouth wide open, disturbingly corpse-like, and now his back arched and he went rigid and started shaking and making the worst sounds ever.
The other Sims were overcome with horror at what they were seeing and when Grim finally came, I was even wishing he'd hurry up and end it! And then when he stopped fiddling with his device and finally did the deed, it was so cool with huge blue flames and such!
So it was very dark, but very much an impressive and interesting spectacle.
Let's make Liberty and Justice For All a reality.
Then he turned her into a vampire as well which caused her to be in constant agony as she had to be in her coffin during the day but also still had to fill her sun/uv-light bar to survive.
I was so proud I had created the ultimate impossible love
It's lil bit evil, but I made the mistake of giving my vampire a major drinking problem (sloppy and gets thirsty faster) and thus he needs more iron. Poor guy
This one is abit more grim;
Another time was when another vampire kept stealing my drinks so I added him and his wife to a separate basement where there was all the food to ask for, prepared to perfection. One slight problem though, there wasn't any food for the vampire to eat and he would get hungry fast so while his wife could gorge herself with tons of different kinds of foods he only had one thing to eat.
Here is my sim, Susan, at the Vietnam Memorial: https://imgur.com/6tLxUeh
Once a sim of mine cheated with a younger woman. They met at a bar and went back to her place. She was kinda coo-coo. Her house was all pink and flowery - even the lighting was pink - it was almost eerie.
Turns out she wanted him to leave his wife and children for her, but for him she was just a one time, heat of the moment kinda girl.
This is where my version of "dark gameplay" begins. I figured out that they could take n*des and found it absolutely hilarious (I mean it's a thing you can do in-game w/o cheats so it must be EA approved). She took a bunch of him, and he was posing all proud and stuff, I nearly fell off my chair. I made her put the photos all over her house to complete her utter insanity. I wanted her to use the photos to blackmail him, but couldn't find a way to implement that in gameplay, so she just became a background character with a dark and dirty secret all over her pink walls.
Convinced Cornelia to move in with me and to bring the kids, but leave Gunther at the house. He had to fork over a LOT of child support. Used that to buy and own every business I could, fired him constantly, and moved into another shack. He then sold his house and moved into my old shack. I bought his house, sold the beds and proposed to Cornelia. My sim's name? Gunther