My game from Hell-The Sims

[Jennafer]

Does anyone have this insane game? I've been hooked on it for days now. I can't stop playing it. Hours and hours go by and I'm making sure they've taken a shit, but I still haven't taken a shower! If you don't know what it is, it's a game where you build houses in a neighborhood and you get to decorate them and design them. Then you create people to live in them and you have to make sure they eat, shower, play, socialize, work, shit, sleep, etc... You even have to make sure they water the plants. It's so ate-up and fun at the same time. I was just wondering if anyone has it and can relate to the insanity of it. :rolleyes:

[Diva]

I keep seeing this game all around and have been dying to know more about it. What happens if you forget or go on vacation? Did you make a sim from your own face? Are you in a club? Tell me more!!!

[NewEnglChick]

i swear if i left the house for an extended length of time, this would be my husband (although not with sims)

he works at a computer ALL day and his idea of relaxation?

computer games!!!!! i will never understand

[Sterling]

Hey, that's nothing. I write computer games all day, and I find them pretty relaxing when I get home too. Although, now I come to think about it, I suppose I play a lot less now (for 'fun', at any rate) than I used to before I was in the industry.

[Jennafer]

Diva, you can go the web site and check it out. It's unreal. It will explain more about it. It's not like a computer pet or nothing where you actually have to keep up with it. You can save your game and then restart. But, when you're playing it, the people can die if you don't feed them or they get sick and you don't keep them home from work. My Sim's, I made a couple, (you design how they look and what they wear) then I built their house and you get 20,000 to start with for building and furniture. Then you get them jobs. They're military recruiters. Then you have to make them get more skills, like body building, mechanical, charisma, blah, blah, blah. So, then they'll get raises at work and make more money. But, then they need close friends. So, you have to make more Sims and neighbors and invite them over and talk until they're close friends. And you have to keep in touch or you lose them eventually. They will actually kiss, hug, dance, joke, etc... My two Sims kissed too much and had a baby. Then I have a couple of girl roommate Sims that are now lesbians. It's so ate-up. I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. Go to the web site and you can see what they actually look like. I know you don't like putting sites on here, but it's pretty easy, Thesims.com. It is crazy, but fun. And the game is only about $50. My puppy is snoaring. Odd.

[berly]

Every time a new game comes out, I lose my pal Ian for days/weeks at a time. He plops down and plays pretty much straight through until either he finishes the game or he grows tired of it. One Sunday I got a call from him at 7pm. He had just woken up. From Friday through Sunday morning at about 5 a.m., he had been playing some game.

He works for SOE, at a computer ALL DAY LONG. He still loves to spend his free time gaming at the computer or on the massive tv with Playstation 2 or whatever it is these days. He showed me Grand Theft Auto 3, and I have to admit I'd get addicted to this thing if I owned it. You get to steal cars, beat people up, shoot guns, outrun police, choppers and swat teams, the radio stations are damn funny, and you get to smash up cars and do jumps n stuff. Thing is, I just like ramming the cars into other cars. I guess that is not the object of the game. *berly shrugs*

[Jennafer]

It is WHACK! If I get a new playstation game, I have to finish it right away. Especially Resident Evil which is coming to theaters the 15th. I can't wait. What's next? Dino Crisis? I wish. If I get a new game I like, I lose all control. my friends come over and talk to me and I just want them to go away. ha ha ha. The house is a big mess, and I look like shit, and I can't stop myself. And then I print out 30 cheat sheets to help me out and follow every move or hint. I need an intervention sometimes. (help me) Actually, I tried to play today and got bored. So, I guess I get in the mood for it, and can play it for hours, and then some days, I'm like No Way. :baby:

[berly]

Jen, is that Resident Evil thing that game where the guy walks through the town with a bat or something...he starts in a cemetary and then ends up fighting these alien things? The alien things scurry around even if they have no legs n stuff? I think Ian got all addicted to this game as well, but found himself being startled by sudden noises. I went over there while he was playing. He didn't hear me, I came in the house and scared the pee out of him. Well, maybe it wasn't the game. wait. maybe.
I'm going to be in the corner crying.

[ozblonde]

I think this sounds like an extension of the tamagotchi (I think thats how you spell it) craze that went through here a few years ago. They had to be fed and changed and all the rest as well I think every kid in the area had one.

[Diva]

I got hooked on Mahjong. I love that game... But I guess that doesn't count... *walks away with head hung low*

[ozblonde]

*oz looks at the Nintendo laying in the corner gathering dust and remember night long sessions of Quake 2*
I almost lost my job over that game. I played it day and night I even took days off work to play it.

*hangs head and bites bottom lip*

[Bane]

The sims are ok, I used to play it a lot, so did my mom. When we started speaking to each other using the sims blah blah blah mumble voices, I decided it had gone far enough.

[Jennafer]

I todally understand what you're talking about. I've started talking like them too. and singing. Uh. The Resident Evil is Zombies walking around this house and they eat you. and you have to find clues and solve puzzles to move on. It's about some G-virus that turned the whole town into zombies and you have to save who is left and kill the main creature. And escape. but, then there's part 2 and 3 where you have to do the same thing.

[Diva]

ChiChiMan must love that, Jenn Jenn. how exactly do they talk? It sounds like a game I'll probably be barred from ever playing.

[Jennafer]

You can play it w/o being on line or anything. They mumble shit to eachother and sing but you can't understand the words. If you click on the other person you have choices, like either to talk, compliment, hug, kiss, insult, tell joke, etc... And then you get different reactions depending on how good of friends they are and if you're in nicer room, or if you feed them and entertain them. Go to the web site. they have a little video you can watch for a preview. It's cool. :)

[Jake]

I'll bet you've got them blushing. It sounds like having an ant farm. Can you introduce any charactor you want? Like a psychopath or transvestite? Do they move in real time? Do they get pregnant and give birth? Come on, girl. Fill us in!:cheesy: :D ;)

[Jennafer]

You can make them look like freaks and make their homes real crazy. Like have a toilet in the kitchen or have grass inside the home. anything. They don't move in real time or it would take forever to get through a day. There are three speeds, so when they sleep or are at work it super speeds so you don't have to wait long. They don't actually get pregnant. Usually you get a call, and the voice on the phone asks if you want to adopt a baby, and if you say yes you get a baby. But, if you neglect it, children services will come and take the baby. My Sims actually had their affection levels maxed up and they kept kissing and it asked if I wanted to have a baby. But, she doesn't get fat and push it out. It just goes poof and there's baby. And when they use the toilet or shower they strip but it's blurred like TV. Here's a funny thing. If their heigene level is real low and they're socializing the other Sim will go "YUCK!" And if you flirt with another Sim that has a Love, then sometimes they will slap the other one and start a fight. It's very detailed. Oh, and if they buy a cheap oven and don't study cooking, fires will start in the kitchen and the fire man will come and put it out. I need to start playing again. I've had burn out for awhile but I need to get busy and get my Sim's another raise at work.
:)