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Sims 2 Goes Gold
Dan Farina writes "The long awaited 'The Sims 2' has gone Gold, as seen on the latest posting on Maxis' The Sims 2 updates page. It appears that it will be on time after all, an unusual occurrence in this industry." I'm already having a strange obsessive twitching in my left leg. I think I might need to use up some vacation time in September.
It appears that it will be on time after all, an unusual occurrence in this industry.
I'm sorry what did you say? I was busy playing Half Life 2.
Wil Wright has just finished work on his Money Printer 2.0 (TM). Much like his original Money Printer, this will allow Wright access to enormous sums of money, and all he has to do is insert the monthly "expansion pack" to print even more!
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Great...just in time for the next semester. That means one of two things: either I get addicted and fail the semester, or I wait till my next work term. What a dilemma.
http://thesims2.ea.com/images/screenshots/screensh ot_91.jpg I hope we finally get to see some ACTION! Or at least make an adult patch..pleeeasee ;)
So we have a chance at having a life.
Right inside our computer!
You don't need to call off, you only have to go to work every other day to not get fired. I always hate when the boss calls to yell during the middle of my nap after a long morning of weight lifting, doesn't he know that's only going to make me skip work the day after tomorrow too?
Seriously, it looks like they did a great job with this game. Don't know if I'll like having my sims age and die on me but we'll see.
Also gamespy has a brand new interview with Will Wright about the game.
Devil Ducky
MY peers would get out of jury duty.
I don't know. My cousins had dolls, and they never peed on the floor. And you can't deny the appeal of the true-to-life flies buzzing around the rotten turkey on top of the dishwahser...
Damn Sims, people who play this sucky game are the same fancies who watch Survivors and cry when their favourite drops out. Or watch Queer Eye For Idiots to get tips on how to dress. Real men play Doom3 and Half-Life 2, when they are not training to become better ninjas.
Only way for The Sims to become playable for us Real Men, would be to include ninjas and pirates ( also replace all relationshipstuff with killing, and "build your own house" should be changed to "destroy your neighbours house").
I've had it with you linux-loving, Sims playing fairies, I will no longer read any other website than the best page in the universe. You can keep on discussing about the latest Barbie's Pony game and when it's linux port is coming out.
( I don't need to include the smiley, now do I? )
Are they doing the merchandise yet?
I want to get one of those green diamond things above my head!
It is also one of the best selling games of all time. Any game company with a brain would love to have a game like this. It is like having a money press in the basement. Just keep pumping out tiny little version improvements (the expansion packs) and reap the money. Just check the sales charts of the last few years. Not bad for a game engine wich even at launch wasn't that hot.
The most amazing story about The Sims is that no-one seems to have tried to copy it. You got the recent "Singles" and that is it. There seems to be a market for a non-violent, non-competitive game yet all we get is more FPS with extra-gore. Don't get me wrong I LOVE GORE. Just not all the time. Sometimes I want to play a nice game where I can control a households of lesbian teenage girls and get them to pee their pants in sync. Is that really so much to ask?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
But ofcourse this is possible. In Sims 1, there were numerous ways to send you Sims to Sim-graveyard:
- Lock them inside a room with a nice flaming fire, near some combustable furniture.
- Make them swim, then take the ladder away.
- Starve them in a room.
- Give them a guinea pig for a present - guaranteed fun !
Heck, if there ever was proper modding for the Sims 1 (creating objects yourself, it never arrived...), I bet people would even find ways to generate some attributes that would make this more 'easier'.
But somehow I got the feeling that Sims blazing around the house with uzi's, bazooka's and the ever-so-funny boobytrap behind the new door was not the intention of the original Sims creators.
However, now the Sims 2 is out, perhaps they put out some more of those long-promised development tools for Sims 1 ?
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I bought the original Sims when it first came out, more interested in the actual concept and implementation than the gameplay. Anyway..my girlfriend at the time tries it out and gets hooked. The creepy part - she's built a model of my apartment with me and her as characters. One day she comes into the room crying - apparently my character spontaneously combusted. We didn't last much longer after that :)
They're not dolls! They're Action Figures!
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My favorite thing to do in the first Sims was to get my Sims addicted to Linux. Then I would switch them all to Windows and watch them slowly die. Good times.
Don't worry, they're coming out with toys for the guys too: a virtual girlfriend for your cellphone and such. You can spend real money to buy virtual presents to keep her happy too. If I had one, I'd name her Tammy Gotcha.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Now theres a quote screaming to be taken out of context:
Will Wright has also been recognized by ISDA in 2002 for his extraordinary body
That news is freydushey!
(When my wife and I purchased The Sims, we found the language they were speaking, "Simlish" to be really funny. Every time one of the characters got excited about something, she'd use that word. Then we started using it. "Honey, this pie is freydushey!")
i used to start my wives sims game and put heavy metal music and horror movies on and let it run all night. she hated that. the simes would have lost almost everything and were crazy as hell the next day. i can't wait to see what i can do with the new sims. lol.
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If by "ripoff" you mean "better", "more fleshed out", and "overall a better simulation of actual life", than yeah, it's a ripoff. The same way a hotrod is a ripoff of the flintstones car.
Fredashay Duhkwy! Downarown ashay, prah sesst chi ola mana sey!
It appears that it will be on time after all, an unusual occurrence in this industry.
You're used to anxiously awaiting software by Blizzard, etc. EA will cheerfully release incredibly buggy software "on time".
I think they had some problems with getting all their splines reticulated correctly.
Did you know that the first Sims was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none _suffered_, where everyone would be.._happy_. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire crops were lost.
Guesss that's a pretty good reason NOT to cheat on her
FPS+PMS=??
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all