"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.

Comments

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

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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