Siims 3 - Today is the Day!
Jun. 2nd, 2009 07:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickI've been playing The Sims since 'The Sims: Livin' Large' came out in 2000. When The Sims first came out, it looked dumb, honestly. Not helped, I'm sure, by the descriptions of it.. 'Virtual Life', 'Virtual Dollhouse'.
I already had a Virtual Life on ChaoticMUX, what did I need a second one for?
But.. I tried it and I found I really enjoyed the game. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping these little virtual people happy and successful.
Sims 2 came out in 2004 and it was a whole new ballgame. If Sims 1 was a game about the challenges of meeting your sim's person's needs, Sims 2 was much more about the family as a whole and passing things onto future generations.
Sims 2, as I recall it, was The Sims.. but, in every way better. The Life stages were better. The Wants and Fears were better. The jobs were better. The fact Sims could age was very much better.
Now Sims 3 comes out today... still very much in line with the main idea that was behind The Sims back in 2000.. It's STILL Virtual Life. It's STILL a Virtual Dollhouse, though a significantly bigger dollhouse now.. or perhaps a room full of them all arranged to make a Virtual Town. I dunno.
I don't know for certain how great Sims 3 will be, but the reviews have been uniformly positive and everything I've seen suggests this will be a truly awesome game. Hopefully I come back in a few days to say "Yes, this game is as awesome as I'd hoped it would be!"
I'll probably do some sort of review/writeup/gameplay story later... almost certainly SOMETHING
I already had a Virtual Life on ChaoticMUX, what did I need a second one for?
But.. I tried it and I found I really enjoyed the game. I enjoyed the challenge of keeping these little virtual people happy and successful.
Sims 2 came out in 2004 and it was a whole new ballgame. If Sims 1 was a game about the challenges of meeting your sim's person's needs, Sims 2 was much more about the family as a whole and passing things onto future generations.
Sims 2, as I recall it, was The Sims.. but, in every way better. The Life stages were better. The Wants and Fears were better. The jobs were better. The fact Sims could age was very much better.
Now Sims 3 comes out today... still very much in line with the main idea that was behind The Sims back in 2000.. It's STILL Virtual Life. It's STILL a Virtual Dollhouse, though a significantly bigger dollhouse now.. or perhaps a room full of them all arranged to make a Virtual Town. I dunno.
I don't know for certain how great Sims 3 will be, but the reviews have been uniformly positive and everything I've seen suggests this will be a truly awesome game. Hopefully I come back in a few days to say "Yes, this game is as awesome as I'd hoped it would be!"
I'll probably do some sort of review/writeup/gameplay story later... almost certainly SOMETHING
