LTTP: The #1 Selling PC Game of all Time.

Lucky Cynic

No, not WoW... Lets take a step back to cherish the Sims! Either you loved the Sims or hated them with an absolute passion. Either you took your Sims up to their fullest potential and dreams, or you trapped them in a hell house and set them ablaze! Selling over 16 million copies of the original over time, and over 70million of all the expansions and variants in different languages all over the world, the mastermind at hand, Will Wright certainly quickly earned some respect as well as giving EA an incredibly powerful cash generating franchise. I'll let Wiki take over from here.

Wikipedia wrote:

First released on February 4, 2000, the base game has sold more than 16 million copies, making it the best-selling PC game in history.[1] Including expansion packs, the franchise has sold over 70 million units worldwide as of January 2007.[2] Since its initial release, seven expansion packs and a sequel, The Sims 2 (with its own expansion packs), have been released. Another sequel, The Sims 3, is also in the works. The Sims has won numerous awards, including GameSpot's PC Game of the Year Award for 2000.

Sorry about the recent trend in LTTP threads, but after cleaning out my old bookshelf, well, I am noticing all the old titles that many folks seemed to have forgotten about. Installing the original Sims game only took, honestly, 20seconds at most on my gaming rig. Offering a maximum resolution of 1024x768, it is quite funny how things have aged... coming from a game that was released just 7 years ago. In fact, the loading times are actually gone for me! Before I had to wait a good two minutes for the vacation island view to actually load while staring at a splash screen with vacationy music playing, now it is instant!

And of course, we can't have a thread without pictures.


I think my favorite part of the entire game is the upbeat almost 60's white picket fence sounding suburban music, hehe... ^^

Fatty McBeardo

I hated The Sims because the micromanagement made it impossible to enjoy. My Sims were constantly crying about going to the bathroom, were always late for work, the kitchen was always a mess, and they were depressed because they had no social lives. The game was not fun, when it really should have been.

ChewyWaffles

Everyone knows that The Sims was actually a torture simulator. How many ways could you make your Sim sob, scream, or catch on fire?

ShimSham

Link to the Past was not the #1 selling PC game of all time.

Silly

jothki

Fatty McBeardo wrote: »

I hated The Sims because the micromanagement made it impossible to enjoy. My Sims were constantly crying about going to the bathroom, were always late for work, the kitchen was always a mess, and they were depressed because they had no social lives. The game was not fun, when it really should have been.

Of course, if there wasn't micromanagement, half the game would be gone. Adding in Wants in The Sims 2 was an excellent idea, since it gives the player something to do besides micromanage Needs. You have to micromanage Wants instead, of course, but it's somewhat easier.

bruin

When I first tried The Sims I didn't really enjoy it at all, I guess partially because I sucked at it

Then I used a cheat to get more money than I could ever spend and built a sweet mansion and stopped all my sims from working and it got really fun. Parties every night!

Stormwatcher

The sims 2 is a lot better, but I still agree with Fatty... I mean, those dudes needed 3 game-hours to take a piss. The time needs adjustment.

marty_0001

I played A LOT of The Sims, thought it was a great game. Cheating and killing my sims was pretty boring for me, I just spent my time trying to get to the tops of career tracks.
Problem is that only now is my PC good enough to run Sims 2 at good speeds, and I find that I've just played the game out and it can't do anything new for me

ShimSham wrote: »

Link to the Past was not the #1 selling PC game of all time.

Silly

Hahahaha

Airan

I too, think the music was the best part of the game. The tracks playing when you're building your house and buying furniture was especially memorable. Sims 2 was a dissapointment in this aspect.

I tried going the legit route, raising my 4 person family using the money from their jobs, but as said, the micromanagement got really annoying in the end. It could almost resemble an RPG grind :P

UncleSporky

People complaining about the micromanagement should've just played with one person and maybe a pet if you had that expansion. It makes it a lot easier, you can play normally/legitimately without killing people, and you actually get somewhat attached to your Sim.

Makin' Magic broke the game in a lot of ways but I also think it was the most fun and zany expansion, adding a lot more crafting/minigame sort of experiences.

Stormwatcher wrote: »

The sims 2 is a lot better, but I still agree with Fatty... I mean, those dudes needed 3 game-hours to take a piss. The time needs adjustment.

It all balances out. Playing on the computer for 3 hours can carry you for several days on your "fun" meter, and you can grind exercising for ~3 days and be strong enough to take on the most grueling jobs. And when you can talk to the mirror for a few hours enough to earn a promotion, you know time really is just a game mechanic and nothing more.

Sonny

I didnt like it that much. Id do good. Theyd cry. Id burn them. Id start over. Rinse and repeat!
I was their god and they chose to fuck around, so they payed the price

Lucky Cynic

Your craptastic sig is too tall.

I usually just played a single sim, and yeah, the game is a lot easier when it is just one, not to mention much more fun. I also have a system down for the road to success. I would make about a 15x15 house, 2x2 bathroom, throw down a door, some windows, and basically live in just a big box where everything I ever wanted was right there and getting my needs filled up didn't take very long as if I had a bedroom upstairs, etc.

I kind of want to dig up the sound files or something so I can try and import the music to the Sims2.

urahonky

Man... The first Sims owned my life for a few months straight. I always had the case of "one more day" and it ended up being 40+ days later and 5am till I finally closed out of it.

The Sims 2 was good, but I burned myself out on it. I think I played it for a few days straight, and got the highest job possible... Then just quit.

Lucky Cynic

My problem with the Sims 2 is that some of the expansion packs don't really do much. "well what if I don't want to go to college or have pets?" There goes 2 expansion packs because they do not offer anything new or good for that player. The only real expansion pack that actually expands gameplay I think is Nightlife. I haven't tried Open for Business or Bon Voyage... but the latter seems promising.

STATE OF THE ART ROBOT

This game just represents frustration to me. my sim was never happy, always burned stuff and shocked himself, and could never rise above the lowest ranks in whatever career he chose. Kind of like a real life version of me!

Tonberry King

The SIMS!...Sims...hmmm. What did I enjoy about that game?

...

Ah, yes! Now I remember. I very much enjoyed launching fireworks...

inside the house.

Lork

This thread needs more stories about people torturing their sims in entertaining and creative ways.

Silvoculous

Looks like I'm the only one who came in here expecting another Half-Life thread.

Ah well.

mr weenis

once i made a kid and his dad. they had a tiny little shack filled with lots of odds and ends in the very back of thier lot...then i killed the dad. the kid made his money by catching burglers. he had the good life

Clint Eastwood

The Sims 2 is pretty fun but I could never ever play the game in the way that it's meant to be. My sims always have an enormous party mansion and millions of dollars to spend on pizzas and extra hot tubs in every room.

DarkPrimus

I thought it was Myst...

Clint Eastwood

Lork wrote: »

This thread needs more stories about people torturing their sims in entertaining and creative ways.

Okay.

One time I made a house with three people in it: me, an elderly black man, and the closest I could get to Meg from Family Guy. After a short amount of time I realized that I hated the elderly black man and Meg. Virtual Cloudman was still cool though. So after some deliberation I added a small room into the back of the house, with enough room for two people, a table, and an espresso machine.

Forcing two sims to be locked in a small room where all they can do is drink coffee, make coffee, and piss themselves should qualify as cruel and unusual, but I think the funniest part was that CloudSimMan was busy having parties and woo-hooing in the same house, never even thinking about his long-lost old roommates.

dclee

I have fond memories of The Sims. The only expansion I had was the first one, Livin' Large. Crazy to see all the things they added in future expansion packs.

Lately I've been playing Sims 2 (came with Nightlife expansion in that Deluxe Sims 2 edition). It's good fun, if I ever get a next expansion it'll probably be Pets, since I want pets.

Kagera

ChewyWaffles wrote: »

Everyone knows that The Sims was actually a torture simulator. How many ways could you make your Sim sob, scream, or catch on fire?

This was all I really did in that game.

Because frankly, that was the only thing that made me enjoy it.

I don't like playing doll house, no offense to those of you who do.

edit: aren't they coming out with a Sims movie?

Negrodamus

Cloudman wrote: »

Okay.

One time I made a house with three people in it: me, an elderly black man, and the closest I could get to Meg from Family Guy. After a short amount of time I realized that I hated the elderly black man and Meg. Virtual Cloudman was still cool though. So after some deliberation I added a small room into the back of the house, with enough room for two people, a table, and an espresso machine.

Forcing two sims to be locked in a small room where all they can do is drink coffee, make coffee, and piss themselves should qualify as cruel and unusual, but I think the funniest part was that CloudSimMan was busy having parties and woo-hooing in the same house, never even thinking about his long-lost old roommates.

How long did they stay alive in said box-room?

Clint Eastwood

Negrodamus wrote: »

Cloudman wrote: »

Okay.

One time I made a house with three people in it: me, an elderly black man, and the closest I could get to Meg from Family Guy. After a short amount of time I realized that I hated the elderly black man and Meg. Virtual Cloudman was still cool though. So after some deliberation I added a small room into the back of the house, with enough room for two people, a table, and an espresso machine.

Forcing two sims to be locked in a small room where all they can do is drink coffee, make coffee, and piss themselves should qualify as cruel and unusual, but I think the funniest part was that CloudSimMan was busy having parties and woo-hooing in the same house, never even thinking about his long-lost old roommates.

How long did they stay alive in said box-room?

Hmm. Well, I honestly can say I don't remember. I did that like a year ago. It goes without saying that when they weren't drinking or peeing, they were fighting with each other to make them as unhappy as possible. I do know that Meg lasted a bit longer than Cranky Old Man, but they both died within about two minutes of each other. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that they lasted about an hour in real time, a couple days in Sim time.