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Playing God in The Sims 2

Posted by michael on from the you-can-just-screw-up-their-childhood dept.

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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  1. God's song by the_twisted_pair · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Realise that man tends to create gods in his own image, and Randy Newman expressed the issue best: ...
    The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
    The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
    They picked their four greatest priests
    And they began to speak
    They said "Lord the plague is on the world
    Lord no man is free
    The temples that we built to you
    Have tumbled into the sea
    Lord, if you won't take care of us
    Won't you please please let us be?"

    And the Lord said
    And the Lord said

    "I burn down your cities--how blind you must be
    I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
    You must all be crazy to put your faith in me
    That's why i love mankind
    You really need me
    That's why i love mankind

  2. god in real life by gad_zuki! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd do what a "god" does in real life: nothing as it doesnt exist. (im not trolling, Im an atheist) Just let the game play out and watch various people concoct creation myths, start oppressive theocracies, use scripture as an excuse for bigotry, religious wars, attacking new ideas, etc.

    This kind of game might be a lot of fun if it was made from the perspective of, say, aliens watching the earth from space. "Hey, look at this, they stopped worshipping animals and nature and now they are all crazy about some carpenter who lived 2000 years ago."

    Something tells me this wouldnt sell too well in the US and would probably be banned in some fashion (not carried by walmart, etc).

  3. in a somewhat related topic by Rooked_One · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Final Fantasy fans (FFF's!) unite against slashdot in using the spoony bard and the crazy wizard as an icon for something as .... different as The Sims. ;)