General Sims Thread

[Freya]

Origin is doing a monthly subscription thing currently where for 4.99 a month you get a bunch of access to older games. It has Sims 3, the Late Night Expansion Pack, and High-End Loft Stuff. (It also has all the deadspaces, dragon ages, and battlefields. btw)

if anyone wanted to try sims and a few xpacs who haven't bought them

[Fynn]

This is not the topic for that, Forms, and you're lucky Shauna's too busy attending Sam's wedding

I'll try Dragon Age someday. I actually have Origins as Origin (lol) offered it to me free once. So yay. But overall I'm now playing Dragon Quest VI as my main game and I'll switch to Pillars of Eternity once I'm done with it.

That is, I'll be back to playing that regularly once Im tired of Sims 4

[Fynn]

Screenshot time!

So this is Noah, my first sim.









As you can see, he's a cutie-patootie.





Poor thing. Exhausted from all the partying.

And here's Jonah, my new sim. I just noticed I have no photos of him in his normal attire. I'll try to fix that later. Here he's striking a pose because he got confident from doing two push-ups or something.



Here he is getting married and stuff.







And this is his sister Julie, grinning at the bar as her brother is getting hitched. This is actually a very unflattering angle for her - she's normally much cuter.

[Formalhaut]

Wow, the art style is definitely more cartoonish.

[Fynn]

Well, yeah, that was the point

Also, this was by complete accident, but the Asian dude ended up marrying an Asian girl, and the ginger dude married a gigner. Not that I don't like this arrangement, but it kind of takes away that feeling of "oooh I wonder what hair/eye color the kid will get!"

Honey, if it ain't orange, your momma got some explainin to do

[Freya]

I love the facial expression now. They make the game sooo much more entertaining.

[Formalhaut]

I might get used to the aesthetic... maybe. I prefer the more realistic looks of the Sims 3.

[Freya]

I re installed my sims 3 I own then modded some better hair into it and then decided, what the heck, I'll do the 4.99 thing and get the "Starter pack" stuff so late night and stuff.

I normally never buy the packs because it blows my mind how expensive they are for such few things. I haven't ever played an xpac of sims 3.

Wow. Late night is fun! I'm going to try to become a vampire!

[Fynn]

The packs for 3 were all AMAZING! Well, maybe aside from Showtime, but otherwise, they are definitely worth the money. Which is a lot, but it's not as noticeable if you don't buy them all at once. My favorites were Seasons, Pets, Island Paradise and Supernatural. Amazing packs


I'll try to post some more screenshots tonight as quite a lot has happened in Jonah's life in the last couple of days!

[Formalhaut]

Yeah, the packs do actually add quite a lot of content. Even Showtime puts in a decent showing, even if it is the weaker of the packs.

My favourites are Seasons, University Life, World Adventures, Ambitions and probably Generations.

Seasons is just seasons. Plus tons of new entertainment options for the outdoors, too.

University Life is great for playing as a young adult and get into that spirit of things. Plus Table Tennis! Woo!

World Adventures has surprising amounts of playability with three worlds to explore. I've never fully explored them all.

Ambitions is great because it adds new professions, self-employment and generally tunes up everyday living.

Finally, Generations adds many family orientated additions, which I love, because family.


I'm going to have to reinstall all The Sims stuff again, aren't I? Curses, why did my laptop have to break!

[Fynn]

Yup!

Or you can try 4 instead!

[Freya]

Yeah you can do the 48 hr trial of Game Time with Origin if you want to try 4 out! I tried it out but couldn't justify spending the $60 for hte actual game yet so i'm waiting for it to go on sale.

[Formalhaut]

Yup!

Or you can try 4 instead!

NEVER.

[Formalhaut]

Actually, I'm going to get Sims 4. I'll bite the bullet and see how it compares. Honestly the main thing I dislike is the lack of Create-A-Style, but I'm willing to forgive the lack of open worldliness, as long as story progression is still a thing.

I'll report back how I fare. I still need to get the game first.

[Freya]

My sim on sims 3 got to level 5 celebrity status and married another level 5 celebrity. I moved in from an apartment to his giant home.

Dude was outdated.