Playing God in The Sims 2

pgptag writes "From Daily News Tribune: 'If you could play God, would you be kind, cruel or just careless? The answer can reveal itself by the way you play "The Sims 2," the highly anticipated follow-up to the "real life" personal computer game "The Sims," which placed omnipotent players in control of the fates of digital people... What's funny is that we have a genetics feature now (which allows characters who mate to have children who share their looks and aspirations). So you can download some of the celebrities that the players have made, put them in the game and have them have kids.'"

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Melrose Place 2010

[Ars-Fartsica]

Move women from noninteractive soaps into self-modifying storylines like this and you can put a fork in most tv viewing by 2010.

To really accelrate this, The Sims should allow people to enter virtual reality show contests, take Survivor and the Apprentice out with the same shot that kills Days of Our Lives.

Re:The Sims 2

[realdpk]

Do you still have to micromanage your sim's bathroom habits? That was so rediculous I couldn't play Sims 1 longer than a day or so.

More proof

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God vs. Bush

Re:The Sims 2

[n3k5]

Do you still have to micromanage your sim's bathroom habits?

You didn't have to in Sims 1. When I play Sims, I play the first part exclusively, without any extentions and without any additional objects imported. It does get boring quickly that way, but that is good, I don't want to become addicted and waste lots of time playing it. And once in a while it's still fun, I set goals like trying to fit a house worth 100,000 credits in as few tiles as possible. So, I've got the most primitive version of the game, and when they have to go, they just go. They also shower and take a bath when appropriate. (Not necessarily at the optimal time, but the intervals are quite OK). If yours don't, maybe the layout of your houses isn't good or they have rather weird personalities.