Will Wright On The Return Of The Sims

Thanks to GameSpot for their interview with Maxis/EA's Will Wright regarding The Sims 2, the March 2004-due sequel to the multi-million selling people-prodding simulation. Wright talks about the difficulties in creating a follow-up ("Especially with a successful [game] like The Sims, you have to balance your fear of not dropping the ball with the danger of being overly conservative"), and discusses some of the evolutions due to debut in the sequel, primary among them "camera freedom... something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch... but... some huge benefits", as well as "the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges. It becomes more of an epic, almost Michener-like multigenerational thing...the story that you're playing through."

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Re:The Sims 1

[JAYOYAYOYAYO]

It took longer for a sim to cook a meal than it took them to process it on the loo.

if you think thats abnormal then something is wrong, and i dont think its your culinary abilities...

The thing about the Sims

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

I started off two female roommates and they turned into lesbians as soon as I started trying to make the two roommates friends. I mean, I'm all for lesbians, but WTF? Contrary to what pornography might teach us, the girls I know that live together don't start touching each others' boobies just because they watched TV together...

Tim