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Sim City Inside The Sims - Russian Doll Effect?
Ant writes "According to Wired News: 'It was bound to happen. First there was SimCity. Then there was The Sims. And then came a series of highly successful expansion packs like Hot Date, Livin' Large, House Party and others. Now comes a fan-made plug-in that allows Sims characters to effectively play SimCity inside The Sims. The Sims franchise has gone meta.'"
Ok... so the Sims sit in their little homes and play Sim City, what if those Sims within the Sims Sim City started developing a plug in to play the Sims? Then those Sims Sim City Sims Sims started playing Sim City after using the Sims Sim City Sims Sims Sims plug-in... then Maxis does a Cybernet and takes over...
Hmm... my brain hurts, more than an intravenous injection gallon of blueberry squishee
does this mean the matrix is real now?
Hmmm... sort of like a low tech Thirteenth Floor
Have you tried Linux yet?
How disconnected from the real world is my life if I have to play a video game whose players I watch play a video game?
...The Sims play YOU!
They maybe able to build an interesting Sim plugin, but sure can't build a website!
Someone needs to teach these people some basic HTML and site design skills. This hurts my eyes almost as bad as the Slashdot Games color scheme!
Who said Freedom was Fair?
Nothing screams "I need to get a life!" more than roleplaying somebody who roleplays somebody else (and thus also needs to get a life).
In a similar way, some Second Life users decided that they wanted to be able to play a traditional RPG within Second Life. The result of their creation was Dark Life, captured in SL's New World Notes. The Dark Lifers have been quite successful and have drawn many players into their game, including many new users. In addition to the usual creature killing, magic spells, healing and leveling, they have also introduced some very interesting twists on traditional RPG gameplay.
before the sims are polluting the sim earth and stepping on sim ants "All I caught while fishing was this tin can, old boot, and book of cliches"
I hate my sig
LucasArts's Day of the Tentacle is the sequel to the classic Maniac Mansion, and if you go into Weird Ed's room (in Tentacle) and use his computer, you're presented with a 100% complete version of Maniac Mansion. So, Weird Ed plays Maniac Mansion on his computer.
...seriously.
What we have here is a game that has been merchandised and capitalised almost to death (how many expansion packs are out again? 4?) and now they have been crossing the borderline from gaming to metagaming. I'm pretty sure a lot of those who metaplay would make interesting vic... patients for modern psychologists.
In Yu Suzuki's masterpieces Shenmue and Shenmue 2, hero Ryo Hazuki can play Yu Suzuki's early arcades: Hang On, Space Harrier, Out Run, and After Burner 2. Also, he can buy collectibles based on other Sega games, such as Sonic, NiGHTS, and 18 Wheeler.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Anyone else remember the games Streets of Sim City, where you could import your SimCity save files then drive/walk around in the city you made. This game was way ahead of it's time...think VIce City/GTA3 except it game out in 1997 so the graphics weren't quite up to par but the gameplay was quite similar. There was also SimCopter where you got to fly helipoter missions around in SimCities you built and imported.
Way before The Sims. I thought it would be cool if all of the sim games were integrated into one big one. Needless to say, that idea was unfeasible and is now downright impossible.
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I really hate Dan Patrick.
I'm sure there was something even before my example here.. but in Day of the Tentacle you could play the prequal game, Maniac Mansion on a computer inside the game.
-Mikey