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.'"

Comments

this guy would be evil

[ncurses]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nematoddity/13371 1.html How long can a neighborhood of sims go without urinating?

Re:this guy would be evil

[The Snowman]

SomethingAwful posted an article about The Sims 2 recently. The idea was not only to trap people in the bathroom, but to see how many people he could kill, then throw a party with all the gravestones. It is a very entertaining read.

Click here for a hyperlink to the OP's URL.

Strange

[Anonymous Coward]

My Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston family slowly evolved into higher primates.

10 years from now

[OwlofCreamCheese]

this is the sort of artical that you read like 10 years later and sorta feel pity for how quaint it is. go find old videogame magazines, there are occationaly storys like this. find some from the apple IIGS era, you'll laugh and kinda feel sad reading stoies about how realistic and how close to simulateing reality and this and that, and you look at the game and its like three boxes with 2 numbers governing everything.

Re:10 years from now

[ggvaidya]

My favourite was the news story which would turn up in the 1990s in SimCity 2K, where the "Sims" in your city were getting nervous breakdowns after playing a new computer game released recently, wondering whether like the game, they too were only simulated cretins inside a computer game.

Man, love that recursion ... :)

The Sims 2

[Dark Lord Seth]

TS2 is more addictive then crack. Yes, I play it. Lovely game, can do wonderful things and build wonderful stuff. You can recreate your family and make you brother a flamboyant gay or set your annoying little sister on fire. You can recreate your house with a 5 acre swimming pool behind it and a hot tub at 10m intervals. Did I mention it's addictive yet?

The only bad thing is the game's installer, which demands you hand over your balls to EA/Maxis and be known for all eternity as a faux-femme pansy for playing this game. I suck... :(

My Favorite Sims2 Character...

[th1ckasabr1ck]

... avoids all personal contact. Doesn't have a phone, whenever someone comes to the door he gets pissed at them and makes them leave. He spends all day sleeping and reading books in his basement. All night, every night, he looks through his telescope. One night he actually got abducted by aliens! How cool is that?

I should find a girl and have a child. I wonder if the alien abduction messed with his DNA.

Real Life

[modest apricot]

I honestly hope that Will Wright makes good on his statement that there will be more free time in Sims 2. That's the reason most of us quit playing the first game...after a while, it just got too depressing. It was like watching yourself go through life: wake up, eat, shower, job, eat, sleep. No ones want to play a video game to remind them of how monotonous and repetitive their own life is.

ummm...

[comwiz56]

This game has been out for a few weeks... and this is just a summary of the game... since when has slashdot done free advertising?

Gods wrath and peoples love for him (still)

[thedogcow]

I've noticed something. I live in Oklahoma, land of "christians" and serious godly folk everywhere.

Oklahoma experiences quite a few natural events that can kill, like F5 tornadoes, baseball-sized hail, 100mph straight line winds from thunderstorm outflows, and heat and humidity.

Well anyway, I've noticed that actually when bad things happen (like the aformentioned natural weather events listed above), it seems to increase the attraction towards god here in the red land state.

So honestly, be a mean god in the game. Smite people. This doesn't matter, they will still flock back to you anyway.