"The Sims" To Have Its Own TV Series?

rev420 writes "Variety.com and SimEden.com are reporting that Maxis is working with Tri Star Television and Pet Fly Productions ("The Flash", "The Sentinel", "Viper") on a potential television show based on "The Sims"." This sounds pretty lame... unless they use my Sim Neighborhood: I used skins from 20 Female Television stars ranging from the girls of Friends, Xena, Buffy, and beyond. I made many households and played the game normally for awhile. After the ladies all fell in love with each other, purchased everything available in the game, and had successfull careers, I started luring neighbors over and trapping them in my attic, or drowning them in my pool. You haven't lived until you've seen Xena Warrior Princess die in a terrible grill fire while Sculley flails her arms in terror. Now that would be good TV. Especially with anatomically correct skins.

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Re:Well, if they use my lesbian scientists...

[eataTREE]

I couldn't agree more with your analysis of The Sims' gameplay. Apparently we are in the minority, though, since The Sims was a huge commercial success. Apparently, the mass market loves really boring games -- look at the runaway success of the screensaver-esque Deer Hunter and its thousand clones and sequels.

I play computer games because they aren't reality... if I feel like cleaning my house, taking a bath, and socializing with my friends, I'll do that instead of playing a game. A game needs to immerse me in another world, or I have no interest in it. Half-Life, Deus Ex, the old Ultima series, Baldur's Gate... the games I like the best are the ones that create a living, breathing, different world. I don't need a computer simulation of the one that's already around me.

The best

[Evro]

Nothing can compare with building a fireplace and a tiny fence around your sim and watching him burn. Damn, I should get help.

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hmmm...

[abes]

I think perhaps we learnt a little too much about CmdrTaco's (not so) private (and disturbing) fantasies...

The Sims...

[D. Mann]

My experience with the Sims was rather negative. I started out by creating my character and playing for a few hours... I got bored with it, as I tend to do with games, and started haxx0ring it.

I h4xx0r3d myself up a ton of money, and set to work building "The Sims Skinner Box!"

I put a 'fridge on one end, boxed the people in with it, and made a complex maze leading up to a toilet.

My Sims all died, standing in puddles of their own urine. Poor bastards. If only they could navigate a maze, that terrible tragedy could have been avoided.

I then attempted to create an M.C. Escher-esque house, but the game's structure was too rigid. Why CAN'T I have stairs coming out of the walls, leading to nowhere? Damn Maxis. They stifle my creativity at every turn.

A friend of mine had his own magical "The Sims" experience, which he chronicled at this URL:
The Secret of Happiness, Sims-style

Re:Taco == misogynist

[swordgeek]

Nah. Misogyny is only a problem if (a) you think it's acceptable behaviour, and/or (b) act on it.

In other words, CmdrTaco can be as sick as he wants in his games. I'm hoping (and fairly confident) that he certainly doesn't hold real women in contempt or treat them like dirt. It's just a game!

<newbie post=lame> Can you build..

[GeneralEmergency]

...a clock tower in The Sims?

Can you also buy a rifle with a scope?

Just wondering.

"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --

What will they think of next?

[m00t]

So this would be Virtual Reality TV?

Lets see.

We've progressed from imitating reality (sitcoms) to reality (reality tv) to imitating virtual reality with reality mixed in?

This is all too confusing, I'm going to go play Sim Life and see if something better evolves.

Sims

[suwain_2]

I can never play games the "right" way; the way they were designed to be played...

When I first started playing, a neighbor walked into my house. We were both males, but I noticed one of the available options was "Tickle". He shoved me, and never came back. I cracked up laughing, and decided to start calling him at 3 AM.

Sadly, though, I ended up quitting, because my character got to be in such horrible health that he refused to look for a job or clean up, and eventually couldn't afford food. Another highlight: when he ran out of money, he had a maid cleaning -- she took my trashcan as collateral!
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Re:Well, if they use my lesbian scientists...

[Dr. Prakash Kothari]

But seriously, why would anyone want to watch a TV series about other people going about their daily lives, doing nothing out of the ordinary. (No Seinfeld references, please). I grew quickly tired of The Sims because it seemed *way* too passive for my interests. I bought the game after hearing several friends rave about it, and I think I played for two or three hours before deleting it from my hard drive. Sim City was fun because you could build and design an entire metropolis (and destroy it ;-) but The Sims lacks any sort of interesting qualities, because the characters aren't doing anything worth watching. My own life is boring enough without me sitting at the computer all day watching other people eat, go to work, and take a shit. Maxis usually makes decent games, but they definitely missed the boat when they though people would play a game that involves such uninteresting gameplay. A railgun or chainsaw would definitely make the game better in my opinion.