The Sims

[apsham]

I am more than content with this, compared to the stripped down Sims 4 that we're looking to get.

[Benji]

Did anyone else used to play a week per family so that everyone aged at the same rate? I used to love creating elaborate stories across Pleasantview using that. I never did it with Strangetown though, naturally because time and space work differently in Strangetown.

[apsham]

I usually turned aging off because I hated the idea of losing Sims that I worked on for so long.

I'm probably going to fix that this time around though, play it like normal.

[Benji]

Oh I love them growing old and giving them happy endings (mostly). The Caliente sisters and Don Lothario must pay for what they did to Bella though :@

[Benji]

Some helpful stuff for y'all:

Press Ctrl+Shift+C and enter "motherlode" for 50,000 simoleons or enter "familyfunds (Family's last name) XXXX" where XXXX is the amount of simoleons you want.

[Meacon Keaton]

I haven't played the Sims since the very first one. Not even tried the expansions. Maybe I'll give this a go.

[Cymbols]

Did anyone else used to play a week per family so that everyone aged at the same rate? I used to love creating elaborate stories across Pleasantview using that. I never did it with Strangetown though, naturally because time and space work differently in Strangetown.

2 days per family for me. Keeps it short enough to not get bored. Also two semesters per University go as well, that drags a bit though.

[Sousa]

I am kinda interested in getting The Sims 4....

Did you play Sims 3? Sims has always been the EXPANSION PACK franchise but Sims 3 took microtransactions to straaaaaaaaaaange new places. I'm not the least bit interested in rewarding them for whatever they did with that franchise.

[Noah]

The Sims is just such an easy present for Molly though. Her Birthday coming up? Well here's a new expansion pack!

I'm so lazy

[Regia]

I decided to get it, because free stuff. Not sure if I'll ever get around to playing it, but it has been a while since I played any sims game (Was before The Sims 3 came out) so I may give it a bash at some point.

[theshadow]

Did anyone else used to play a week per family so that everyone aged at the same rate? I used to love creating elaborate stories across Pleasantview using that. I never did it with Strangetown though, naturally because time and space work differently in Strangetown.

This is exactly what I did and plan to do again now its downloaded. I have the base game a few expansions but no stuff packs sitting on my shelf. But why not take advantage of this.

[apsham]

I am kinda interested in getting The Sims 4....

Did you play Sims 3? Sims has always been the EXPANSION PACK franchise but Sims 3 took microtransactions to straaaaaaaaaaange new places. I'm not the least bit interested in rewarding them for whatever they did with that franchise.

The Sims 4 is shipping without swimming pools, the Toddler stage, Create-A-Style, basements, grocery stores, schools/work, they're adding back loading screens between neighbours and changing some other stuff that just feels like a step backwards. They've also been extremely defensive about some of the basic feature removals and it just reeks of SimCity all over again.

Like, I understand that it can't all come at the same time and it's not like OH GOD, NO SWIMMING POOLS I WON'T BUY. But considering what happened specifically with SimCity and current attitudes towards EA money grubbing it's just a bad, bad sign.

[Ruki]

I am kinda interested in getting The Sims 4....

Did you play Sims 3? Sims has always been the EXPANSION PACK franchise but Sims 3 took microtransactions to straaaaaaaaaaange new places. I'm not the least bit interested in rewarding them for whatever they did with that franchise.

The Sims 4 is shipping without swimming pools, the Toddler stage, Create-A-Style, basements, grocery stores, schools/work, they're adding back loading screens between neighbours and changing some other stuff that just feels like a step backwards. They've also been extremely defensive about some of the basic feature removals and it just reeks of SimCity all over again.

Like, I understand that it can't all come at the same time and it's not like OH GOD, NO SWIMMING POOLS I WON'T BUY. But considering what happened specifically with SimCity and current attitudes towards EA money grubbing it's just a bad, bad sign.

....so you have to pay for pools, toddlers, basements, school/work? That's.....that's kinda stupid. Screw you EA, you don't get my money!

(Until November with Dragon Age)

[Sousa]

Dragon Age ships with no dragons and no concept of time.

Next year's Madden will ship with only the Houston Texans and all other teams will be released in $15 "Team Paks" throughout the year.

[Cymbols]

There is still school/work in the base game to a certain extent. It's going to be the same as Sims 2 whereby they leave the lot and basically disappear for the duration of their work. So Sims disappear as opposed to going into rabbit-holes. Regardless, not keen on Sims 4 at all.

[Noah]

Damn you all, I was going to get Sims 4 for Molly's birthday as an easy present which I didn't have to put much thought into and now I'll feel like a jerk if I do.

[ADG]

Anyone else having a problem launching the game once it's downloaded? It asks me to put in my product code but won't accept it when I do.

[MDK]

Is there a way to change the download speed on Origin?

[Sousa]

Good god the load times are brutal.

[Mick]

It's only rough the first time; after that, it gets a bit better.

Also, if you want to play windowed, right click The Sims 2 on Origin, Game Properties. In command line arguments, add "-w" , without the quotation marks. I also suggest you right click and update the game.