I was a SimCity fan and I think I might've been taking part in the Simcity 3000 chat room at the time. I remember seeing a very short "trailer" clip online somewhere and I was THRILLED! Ever since SimTower, I always wanted a game where I could play as the Sims themselves. A game about everyday life might seem mundane to…
There is absolutely no reason why The Sims 1 and 2 Ultimate Collection are not on Origin other than EA wanting to force you to buy their newest Sims games. I wouldn't be surprised if they removed 3 in the future. But they should all be on there! I'm over TS1, but I would buy TS2 UC in a heartbeat even though I already have…
I started by creating my own custom neighborhood. Back then, I would always create the same self-insert Sim, have my little happy family and repeat. These days I find it more fun to mingle with the townies and neighbors in Pleasantview and Strangetown.
I'm a total Sims 2 fanboy, and I don't really trust Maxis or whatever they're calling themselves these days with Sims games anymore, but I got to thinking. If they did make a Sims 5, why not combine personality points with traits? Have both. Why was this not implemented in The Sims 4? Best of both worlds.
Tonight I learned it's possible to have a human-alien hybrid baby with human skin and black alien eyes. The only combinations I had seen before, even save scumming before the birth, were: Green skin, alien eyes Green skin, human eyes **Human skin, alien-shaped eyes with human eye color (Quite ugly, poor thing) Human skin,…
Honestly, I hate The Sims 3. * Rabbitholes. I wanted to follow my Sim to work, but this is not what I had in mind. * Open world where my Sims' lives carry on without me just because I'm playing a different family at the moment. * The little sound effect that plays every time something happens. (more of a musical jingle I…
I use cheats. This won't corrupt your game or anything. Ctrl+Shift+C to bring up the typing box, then type and press enter after: boolprop testingcheatsenabled true Shift-click your Sim and click Spawn-> Sim Modder. When it spawns, it'll look like a baby. Click on that and Wants and Fears... -> Lifetime -> and choose to…
First I went to Pleasantview and did my version of a remake of 10 Sim Lane from The Sims 1. It's not exact, but it's good enough for me. That was my first house in The Sims. Then I went over to Strangetown to play with my apartment Sim. I made Strangetown summer all year long. The two guys were in the outdoor hot tub and…
You know what really bothers me? The way that this game handles alien sims being family. All alien sims are considered blood related through the unseen pollination technician (I hate that). Therefore, you can't make two alien sims have a baby together without some kind of weird modding. But on the flip side, let's say you…
I really don't know. At first I thought it might be the optical drive because mine is an odd one. It's laptop-sized but it's on a desktop. Maybe Dell is consolidating their parts. But The Sims 2 is the only thing that seems to be affected so far. I thought maybe moving it to an SSD might help, but that doesn't make sense…
If on Windows 10, you just need to let the computer sit there for 5 minutes after launching the game before it will actually get to the EA logo. It might look and sound like it's doing nothing, but it should be there in task manager. Just leave it alone so you don't trigger the "not responding/end task" message and it…
I believe they're just trying to push The Sims 4 onto everyone, and the best way to do it is to remove older Sims games from Origin. I'm sure The Sims 3 will suffer the same fate in time.
After the graphics rules etc., The Sims 2 runs fine for me, even with my 6 cores. The only issue I'm having is a long launch wait time. A full 4 minutes after I click play on the launcher. If I hadn't been watching it on Task Manager, I never would've known it was even launching. I have the OS (and the Sims 2 documents…
I've noticed my game crashing every time I try to use the trailer park lot from Apartment Life. It doesn't crash at any other time. I have no idea what causes this. I'm using the graphics fixes for Windows 10 as well as the 4GB RAM patch. And I've got all the Maxis patches. Edit: Here's what happened. I placed Main Street…
I created this guy to have alien babies. I decided before I do that, I should have him marry a female Servo that I'm calling Serva (how original, right?). Well, after getting married, I noticed that Serva rolled a want to "Have a Baby". That's not actually possible to fulfill, is it? If the guy has an alien baby, it's not…
TS2 is the only Sims game I can play anymore. It's got my favorite gameplay in the series. Sims 1 feels dated, and I hated the changes brought about in 3. Never tried 4. I feel like 3 had some good ideas, but the implementation was lacking.
Oh yeah, I just went through that whole process on Windows 10. It's not that hard really. It involved editing a couple of text files. Only problem I'm having is that it takes a full 4 minutes for the game to launch. After that, it's fine.