Anybody freaked out by the sims?

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I was watching this video and for some reason I found myself really freaked out. I can't help but feel sorry for them even though there nothing more than digital creations of 1's and 0's and polygons on screen....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYROWHCr7eo[/youtube]

Be proud of your empathy be it digital or otherwise. The nicest people I know have large levels of empathy.

i want 2 get this game someday the new version looks like you can live a alternate life on a video game

You don't have to kill them. You can make them lead nice, happy and fulfilling lives. But they do eventually die of old age, but that's just the way it is.

Sims was an obsession of mine as a kid.

I used to be a sims addict... than I graduated from HS and moved on to weird non-videogames things.

I found the Grim Reaper in the first versions EXTREMELY freaky, but not nearly as scary as the music that played during it.

Yeah, this kinda stuff can be pretty unsettling.

its kinda freaky about one theory that WE are SIMS

It's pretty disturbing. I just hope that people don't grow up playing these things and treating everyone around them like objects. I think we have enough of that already.

Casual Sims players may deliberately kill Sims, but you get past that in, oh, about two hours of play. If you go past that, you are very unlikely to be repeatedly killing them off because it's just not very interesting to do so.

Common play styles among Sims hobbyists include:

--Storytelling, or using the Sims game as a video maker or using the screenshots to tell a story in slideshow format. The video in the original post is mediocre in quality, at best. For an example of a well-made Sims video, try this one (it's a re-make of the Thriller music video):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEjipUJ91CA[/youtube]For a slideshow format story, try:
Alice and Kev.
It's a relatively realistic simulation of homelessness made in Sims 3.

Other stuff people like to do with Sims:
--The Legacy challenge, in which you attempt to keep a Sims family going through ten generations, while trying to acquire milestones like top-level businesses, Lifetime Wants (lifetime goals that sims randomly pick, like having ten children or becoming a mad scientist), or establishing a new breed of dogs or cats.

--The Apocalypse challenge, in which Sims start without most of the comforts of life and gradually work to get them back. It can be brutal at first, but the goal is to win, not to kill sims (and actually it gets much harder; if you kill a sim, his ghost comes back to scare your living sims, and that's a Bad Thing because one of the Apocalypse rules forbids moving headstones.) By the end of the challenge, you have gotten at least one sim to the top of every available career.

--Creating customized clothing, skintones, hair, objects, etc., for Sims. This takes some image-editing and computer know-how but is actually pretty easy. What's difficult, of course, is designing them so that they're pretty and usable.

There are a great many challenge games out there, from the very popular 7 Toddler Challenge (one sim trying to raise seven toddlers--hello, chaos!!) to the Bachelor Challenge, in which you have seven days to get one sim to fall in love with one of seven other sim contestants--with extremely limited interference on your part. 7 Toddlers and Apocalypse are probably two of the hardest challenges out there, but for those who like the fluffy, easy living, Legacy families are usually millionaires several times over by the end of their ten generations.

Yeah, I like playing Sims. It's fun. I've even completed an Apocalypse. I don't recommend Sims 3, though; Sims 2 is much more customizable, less buggy, less of a resource hog, and you don't get the somewhat uncanny-valley look that Sims 3 sims tend to verge on.

the new one looks creepy...

especially if you've ever seen the movie "gamerz" or gamer" or something like that...

it's basicly if call of duty and sims were real....

When I read the title, I thought it said "Anyone else freaked out by the stims?"


I was never into The Sims. I have Sims Pets and played a Sims game and played Sims Tower and Sims Farm. But it was never my thing.

There is cheat code to prevent them from aging or turn adults into kids again. Yeah, I feel kinda bad for them when I see people killing them off too. I accidently killed mine all the time when I first started playing because I didn't know you were supposed to put up a smoke alarm in the kitchen. My sims would try to make dinner and eventualy set the kitchen on fire. Instead of running outside or calling the fire department they just stood in the kitchen screaming and panicking. I never had that problem once I started putting smoke dectors in the kitchen. Maybe I should have payed more attention to my grade school fire safety lectures. If you have University, you can bring dead sims back to life.

This thread made me think of the movie The Thirteenth Floor (similar to The Matrix but with less special effects).

Also if you like this kind of games, there is also the game Second Life, as far as I know characters don't die there. I played for a while, I was more into building stuff then anything else tho, but I enjoyed building my house and other things.

Shadi

Last edited by Shadi2 on 18 Nov 2010, 5:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Not just University. The base game allows you to plead with the Grim Reaper if you have another sim on the lot. Apartment Life has witches, and a Good Witch can cast a spell that saves the sim from death, while an evil one can raise the sim as a zombie. And of course University includes the bone phone, which you can use to raise the sim or bring him back. If he's died of old age, you have to feed him Elixir of Life or have him drink from a cowplant to stop him from dying again at 6 p.m. the next day. Or, of course, you can always make him an immortal vampire or zombie. And Servos don't die, either, though you have to build them and can't turn a sim into one.

I never made witches.