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Posted by: HarryEzra Jan 6 2018, 07:47 PM
Share your thoughts on the long-running popular life simulation game! Do you want to share your current creations? Share memories from games past?
Posted by: Lindsey 🙃 Jan 6 2018, 08:15 PM
The only topic I can contribute to here!!!
LOVE IT I can do unrealistic things like buy a house, find a job and get married
Posted by: 5 Silas Frøkner Jan 6 2018, 08:45 PM
I’ve been a sims fan since the first game! I have more fun building the houses tho 
Posted by: Iz~ Jan 6 2018, 09:29 PM
I wish I could get properly into the Sims given how popular it is. I tend to end up making a writer or something and then speed through their lives, occasionally snagging an AI for a relationship and ultimately I get bored way before I get to make a family and go through generations which would be quite interesting if there wasn't the daily minutia like making food to do.
Posted by: lotita. Jan 6 2018, 09:38 PM
I’m scared to play after USS callister
Posted by: PeteFromLeeds Jan 6 2018, 09:48 PM
I played the one with the hotel for a while but then it crashed once I'd put the spy/mouse suit on so I couldn't play it 
I also played Castaway for quite a while, and Pets for a very short while.
Posted by: Styles Bilinski Jan 6 2018, 10:30 PM
I've been considering buying The Sims 4 now that it's available on PS4, does anyone have it/know if it's worth it?
I really got into the original game on PS2 (using cheats to unlock everything/get unlimited money to be able to build massive dream houses 
) and the 'Castaway' spin-off that they did. I had the 'Apartment Pets' game on Nintendo DS but didn't think it was as good on handheld.
Posted by: Liаm Jan 6 2018, 10:39 PM
Yeah same I'm hoping to get it on PS4 now it's out and I've got student loan so can actually afford it I heard about a bug with saving that put people off on release, but I'd have thought that'd be fixed now.
Posted by: The Snake Jan 6 2018, 10:54 PM
Don't play the Sims but The Sims Medieval looks interesting. I am more into historical games so that would probably appeal more to me! 
Posted by: HarryEzra Jan 7 2018, 12:48 AM
This is my current household in Sims 4. Thought I would sure it with Buzzjack because why not eh. The guy in the red shirt is one of my favorite sims I've ever created. Him and his boyfriend (yes I had to make him gay 
) are so fun. I should back to it sometime oops.
Posted by: Oliver Jan 13 2018, 03:27 PM
I haven't played this since getting a Mac as it doesn't have a disc drive.
I always have more fun building the house than actually living in it (I'd often spend weeks making my own house and then giving up 5 minutes into making my family ).
After starting Friends on Netflix I've found quite a few people have replicated Monica/Rachel's flat; it's amazing to see how detailed some players are and how much patience they have when creating the buildings.
Posted by: 5 Silas Frøkner Jan 13 2018, 03:30 PM
You can use an external disk drive with the Mac! Neither my MacBook or my iMac have a disk drive so I have a USB disk drive for use with them
Posted by: Oliver Jan 13 2018, 03:33 PM
How much do they cost? I've never actually thought about using one tbh, most of the stuff I kinda needed when I switched I could find drives and stuff online to download.
Just with the Sims 3 it felt like a waste because it was PC/Mac compatible!
Posted by: Liаm Jan 13 2018, 03:37 PM
I'm always fascinated by people who make exact replicas of things, I can't imagine the time it must take! I'm the opposite, I'll spend ages making my actual Sim look either nice or f*** them up and make them really weird and disproportionate but then I cba to make a nice house
Posted by: Oliver Jan 13 2018, 03:43 PM
Not perfect but you get the gist of how long it must take!
Posted by: HarryEzra Jan 13 2018, 05:11 PM
No matter where you store your sims files I recommend saving it to a back up hard drive anyway.
Posted by: T Boy Jan 13 2018, 05:35 PM
I don’t play much anymore but I loved this back in the day!
Me and my sister were obsessed with the original game when we were 13/14 and had all the expansion packs. We used to allocate one house to keep placing families in and then kill them all off. We had like a mass graveyard in the end.
We were very normal people, not unhinged at all.
Posted by: 5 Silas Frøkner Jan 13 2018, 07:19 PM
Just with the Sims 3 it felt like a waste because it was PC/Mac compatible!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Optical-Drives/b?ie=UTF8&node=430546031
Not that much at all. Official Apple one is £79
Posted by: troublepink Jan 19 2018, 05:26 AM
I love the sims! Used to play it all the time back in the day
I currently have the sims 2 collection downloaded on my Macbook, which I sometimes play on to beat the boredom, but I wish I could play on the newer games. I don't think my macbook could take it though The sims 4 looks awesome.
Posted by: will-i-ever Jan 19 2018, 07:21 PM
Somehow I couldn't get past the original Sims 2. Some of the addons and the later stuff seemed overly complicated with so much new stuff to explore. I felt ill at ease in that updated environment and just gave up the whole thing. Though simming some crazy family trees with tragic death and families with unhealthy relationships and crazy twists was quite fun. I could spend days on end in front of the monitor. I tried it again a couple of years ago and it was quite fun, but lasted for a day or so
Posted by: HarryEzra Feb 14 2018, 08:17 AM
New game pack coming February 27th
Posted by: Dexton Feb 14 2018, 09:59 AM
The naming scheme of Sims 4 game/stuff/expansion packs this era has been so annoying uncoordinated
Posted by: Jade Mar 19 2018, 02:27 PM
The Sims 2 for PC was my childhood! I did have Sims 2 on Nintendo DS as well but didn't quite rack up anywhere near as many hours of playtime as I did on the PC. My best friend introduced it to me and I was hooked pretty much from the offset. My pocket money was always spent on expansion and stuff packs (I think I had almost all of them) and lots of my free time was spent creating families, learning all the cheats to mess with their lives and also creating a lot of my own custom content, I wish I still had all of that saved. I haven't played it for a good few years now since I transitioned from Desktop computer to laptop! I'll have to have a nostalgic trip down memory lane and play it again when I'm done with Uni in a few months tbh.
I received Sims 3 for my... 11th birthday, I'd like to say. I never quite got into it as much as the Sims 2 and just stuck with that!
Posted by: Rampage Apr 1 2018, 06:40 PM
sims 3 one of the best game that i have seen ever
Posted by: Oliver Apr 3 2018, 05:13 PM
Just got back into The Sims 3 now that I have an external CD drive; the whole game is fairly OP though, I've literally been playing for 5 in game days and I've been promoted three times already. 
Posted by: Lindsey 🙃 May 25 2018, 04:29 PM
omg its been ages since I played but I'm having to use my mums old laptop which means redownloading Origin so I'm gonna play tonight and I just had the thought, like can you get gallery share links so I could like share my sim and others here could and then we can make a BuzzJack town? 
Posted by: HarryEzra Jun 5 2018, 09:24 PM
YES SEASONS ANNOUNCED *.*
Posted by: Dexton Jun 10 2018, 11:17 AM
Seasons might be enough to get me back into this but I havent played it in a good few months now :\
Posted by: troublepink Jun 11 2018, 11:40 AM
Wish I could play the sims 4 
I had a new MacBook last month but I still don't think it would handle the sims games. I've re-downloaded the sims 2 though, and all of my characters from my old laptop are no more, so its fun starting it up again.
Posted by: crazycatlady Jan 30 2019, 07:47 AM
Took a gamble over Christmas and downloaded the sims 4 because it was on sale (£11 for the deluxe version)... it plays better than the sims 2 on my laptop! Since downloaded the get to work pack and love it. Going to try get one pack a month as they're not on sale any more, not sure whether to get the famous or pets one next though. Always love the seasons pack as well!
Posted by: Iz~ May 23 2019, 03:50 AM
If anyone is interested, the Sims 4 base game is free right now, until May 28th. I picked it up because why not, even if I'm not a fan of the series. Tried roleplaying a bit with it, and I guess the base game would be fun for a little bit just like my base game experience with the Sims 3 was.this is obviously being done to flog some DLCs
Posted by: Martyn Jul 5 2019, 08:15 AM
I've been watching on YouTube some girl from BuzzFeed I think doing the 100 baby challenge. It's so funny, I'm so far behind though. She just killed the hot doctor through woo-hoo.
Posted by: Algernon Monqueef Aug 10 2019, 06:59 PM
I got the free Sims 4 game when I saw it here, but haven't touched it after the first game 2 and 3 are so much better!
Posted by: HarryEzra Aug 12 2019, 03:37 PM
4 is good but 2 is the ultimate sims game!!!
Posted by: Dexton Aug 13 2019, 09:29 AM
3 is my Sims game of choice. It’s got all the depth of Sims 2, the full customisation with the colour wheel, plus an immersive open world where you can literally go anywhere you like and other Sims are just living their lives. If Sims 4 had those qualities I would be fully onboard but it just lacked too much for me to stay interested. Plus the lack of Toddlers, swimming pools etc on launch that put me off initially and even though they’re added now it just felt unfinished.
Sims 2 is fantastic also but the graphics are too jarring for me I think, playing 1 is nice because it’s very old and feels old but has a retro feel to it. Another 5-10 years and I’ll feel the same about 2 
Posted by: Mikal Aug 13 2019, 10:41 AM
Sims 2 is fantastic also but the graphics are too jarring for me I think, playing 1 is nice because it’s very old and feels old but has a retro feel to it. Another 5-10 years and I’ll feel the same about 2
I echo this completely, Sims 2 was the best for custom content because it was easier to "hack" I guess. But Sims 3 is by far the best (as long as you have a good computer...) as the open world brings the whole thing to life
I'd put Sims 4 fully at the bottom, the worlds are just so small and it seems like a ghost town most the time.
Sims 5 will be interesting though, not sure where they can go from here though.
Posted by: Algernon Monqueef Aug 13 2019, 10:31 PM
The problem with sims 2 is rhe fact that the neighbourhood doesn't peogress at the same rime and the townies never age! Also, it is a cpu intensive game and the files just bloat and bloat. Sims 3 is better programmed, but it is more boring and missing the heart and warmth of sims 2.
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