The Sims 2

[Diego Varen]

Has anyone ever played The Sims 2? I remember getting the game on Christmas 2004, after playing all the previous games. After I finished on my old Computer, when I got a new computer, I decided to install just the original, since the Expansion Packs aren't that great and I preferred playing it when it was just on it's own.

 

So post here if you've played it or had any experience with the games at all.

[igyman]

Played both The Sims and The Sims 2, but none of the expansions, simply because there are too many of them and I don't have that much money to waste (especially since they'll probably implement most of those stuff in The Sims 3 some day). As for the originals, both games were really funny and entertaining. I enjoyed them both.

[Jason Skywalker]

Heh, well, i didn't really like the Sims, no offense, but that's just not my type of game.

[HerbieZ]

I played the Sims 2. I could'nt really get into it. My first guy had a family then cheated on his wife then the family burnt to death in a big fire which was caused by the big screen tv they splurged on. The woman moved in, became the guys new wife and cheated on him, subsequently leaving him. Shortly after, he died in a big fire, caused again by the big screen tv. I never played again.

[Diego Varen]

@ HerbieZ: Interesting storyline HerbieZ. I could use that in my Sims 2.

 

@ Jason Skywalker: No offense taken, but I agree though, we're all different people. I admit that The Sims 2 is worse on PS2, but the original Sims is better on PS2.

 

@ igyman: I've read on Wikipedia that there will be a Sims 3, which I've heard will come out on the PC/PS2. The Expansion Packs are good, but they're too many of them. I think EA and Maxis are trying to make us pay up and waste memory on our computers.

[DarthMuffin]

Played Sims 1 with most expansions and Sims 2 with the first one.

 

I had really liked Sims 1, because I thought it was a very unique game. And controlling little people in a house is quite neat

 

Seriously though, I was disappointed with Sims 2 myself. It was simply not different enough from the original. I understand that they went for the winning formula again, but Sims 2 is basically the first game in 3D with a few additional goodies. The biggest changes are the aspirations (life goals) and the fact that your sims now age (and die) and pass their genes to future generations. Most of the time, aspiration needs can be completed while fulfilling your "normal" needs so it's not a big bother. The generations are neat at first, but I ended up turning aging off eventually (they die way too quickly Xo).

 

All in all, I thought Sims 2 was a fine game. Way overrated and overhyped though.

 

And saying that EA wants you to waste your money is a pleonasm

[Diego Varen]

@ Darth54: I read your review on GameFAQs ( at your username, Darth Muffin) and I thought it was a very good review.

[DarthMuffin]

Thanks

 

I do think I ended up talking too much about aspirations though; it almost sounded like a game manual.

[King Dando]

I owned The Sims until my disk snapped, and bought The Sims 2 when it first came out, since then I've lost interest in it, but still play it from time to time. As for expansion packs, I never really used to bother, until my 11-year old sister started buying them for herself, so now we have all of them.

[igyman]

I played the Sims 2. I could'nt really get into it. My first guy had a family then cheated on his wife then the family burnt to death in a big fire which was caused by the big screen tv they splurged on. The woman moved in, became the guys new wife and cheated on him, subsequently leaving him. Shortly after, he died in a big fire, caused again by the big screen tv. I never played again.

 

Holy... poopy. Now that's what I call a soap opera. I never made things that complicated.

Story 1: I made a character of myself (yeah, I know - weird), who became the mayor, had two girlfriends (at the same time), a big house equipped with all kinds of expensive stuff and a roof made for parties.

I made some more interesting (weird) stories, but I'll leave them for later.

[Titanius Anglesmith]

I had the original Sims with 5 expansion packs and I still have Sims 2, but no expansion packs with it.

 

@HerbieZ- Wow, that's really....interesting. I've never had a TV go up in flames. I guess I've gotten experienced enough to where I never have strange family problems like that.

[Mace MacLeod]

Both my wife and kid are diehard Sims-heads. Problem is, the vid card in our comp is so primitive, all the 8745 expansion packs have slowed the game down to where it's almost unplayable.

 

The Sims and Sims2 are arguably the scariest games ever created. Make a sim based on you, your life, job, habits, family, etc, then see how you feel when the poor little guy is curled up in the fetal position on the bathroom floor, crying. Then watch as he dies from not eating, and your kid brings him back as a zombie with grilled cheese sandwich aspirations.

[Jae Onasi]

The Sims and Sims2 are arguably the scariest games ever created. Make a sim based on you, your life, job, habits, family, etc, then see how you feel when the poor little guy is curled up in the fetal position on the bathroom floor, crying. Then watch as he dies from not eating, and your kid brings him back as a zombie with grilled cheese sandwich aspirations.

 

Let me guess--you had grounded her just before she started playing that particular scenario?

[igyman]

and your kid brings him back as a zombie with grilled cheese sandwich aspirations.

You can do that? How?

[Mace MacLeod]

You can do that? How?

In the Sims2, there's an object that will summon the Grim Reaper (I think it's a telephone or something...it's in one of the later expansion packs) and if you pay him enough money, you can resurrect a dead Sim. If you don't pay him enough or annoy him, the dead Sim will come back as a zombie.

*asked my kid* That someone has to have maxed out the paranormal career track to get the phone, and they have to have a good relationship with the dead Sim for it to work, though.

As for the grilled cheese aspirations, that's what happens sometimes when you use the aspiration-switcher-thingiemabobber when your aspiration level is too low, and it screws up. Kinda funny, actually. All your memories involve grilled cheese sandwiches, and your aspiration goals are like, "Eat 50 grilled cheese sandwiches" or "Influence someone to make you a grilled cheese sandwich".

 

I really don't play it enough to give you much more detail than that...I fell behind about 3 or 4 expansion packs ago.

Let me guess--you had grounded her just before she started playing that particular scenario?

Heh, actually no. It was around when I first got Half Life2 and stopped caring about what happened to the myriad Sims I had running around. There were a few that got wiped out by computer crashes, so I quickly learned not to form emotional attachments to my little digital Me's anyway. And actually, Sims protocol in the MacLeod house dictates that a player must first receive permission to mess around with Sims someone else creates. Oh, have the MacLeod women had some blow-ups over that one...

[igyman]

Expansion? Ah cr... darn it. As much fun as Sims can be, I'll never buy an expansion.

 

Time for another weird igyman Sims 2 gameplay story!

Story 2: I made an alien skin using that tool that you get with the game (for some reason I can't remember the name of the tool), all with the black eyes. Since you can't make an alien Sim using the game's skins I had to do it this way. Anyway I made an alien guy called Mr. Green. He was bald, had black alien eyes and wore a black suit with a white shirt and tie.In any case, whenever a delivery, or gardening, or cleaning was performed by a female Sim, I'd hook them up, one at a time. I'd get the relationship to a point where they'd get married and then (and here's the bizzare part) I'd have the woman die by starving, drowning, sleep deprivation, electrocution, or some or all of them combined. Now, why the heck did I do that? Because I wanted to make a haunted house with a graveyard in the back. Of course their ghosts would appear from time to time during the night and cause trouble around the house. It was pretty entertaining, especially when they scared the future brides!

[Mace MacLeod]

^^^Heh, my daughter always creates haunted houses out of the Goth families. For some reason, she always visits genocide on the Goth households.

[HerbieZ]

My sister had like 30 graves in the garden of her main house. Suffice to say it was a cursed house. Damn big screen tv's.

[igyman]

Just wait 'till I post story number 3. Now that's extremely weird. Hmmm, now that I think about it, I'm not sure I should post it, it too weird for a PG-13 forum.

Never mind, I have at least one more that can be posted, but you'll have to wait.