We had a good Sims thread the other day, and it got me to reinstall the first game after not having played it in about fifteen years, and I'm very glad I did. So yeah, post tips, stories, and other cool shit. Remember, 3 and 4 aren't retro, so try to keep general discussion to the first two (unless it's to hate on them, in which case, bombs away).
I got one of my Sims abducted by ayys last night. I didn't even know that could happen, so I shat bricks and reloaded my save, not knowing they'd bring him back within a few hours. Best believe I sold that fricking telescope, though. Chess is more fun, anyway.
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Every couple of years I pull this out and play it obsessively for 2 days, maxing out a career and getting married and moving into the largest house and then I remember that you just kinda have to start over at that point.
When I first got it when I was like 11 I spent what must have been like 2 years of my life building endless amounts of houses and downloading enormous amounts of fan made add ons.
http://7deadlysims.com/
No fricking way does this website still exist! Y'all the world so fricking cool back then
https://archive.org/details/7deadlysims
I loved all those mods. The Sloth ones were my favorite. But then they became israelites and created a pay site calle the 8th Sim. I never knew what was in there. Even when I grew up I never cared to look
I guess at that point you just make a completely different character and give him some kind of role, like that anon in the previous thread who modeled his Sim after a serial killer or some shit kek.
Think they were mostly referring to the first game, where it's hard to maintain the household and your Sim's needs (especially the Social needs) if it's just one or two. I'm doing very well with four.
Also, probably a long shot, but is there any way to prevent all these homosexual dogs from entering my house whenever they damn well please, or to keep them out of my garden? They honestly annoy the shit out of me.
anti-pet sign in decorations
but apparently there is cheese you can do with pets by spam petting them to get social back
Well shit, how did I not see that before? Thanks for that. Fricking homosexual dogs can finally get the hint.
It's less about the social and more about how higher-level careers tend to require having a lot of friends. Having a large family greatly reduces the need to juggle relationships with 15 random chucklefricks.
Speaking of which, why aren't my Sims' careers advancing despite having enough friends for it? One of them has two friends, which is what it says is required to advance, and he's still stuck with the same shit wage. Am I missing something?
Do you have the required skills too?
Yes, my skills are all about halfway complete, way more than required at the moment.
is he in a good mood when he goes to work?
I certainly do my best. My Sims almost always leave to work well-rested and well-fed. Sometimes they get lazy and wake up a tad late and miss a shower, or their Fun stat is a bit low, but overall they are usually well in the green, and the game says they are all in Good standing.
I also just double-checked, and another one of my Sims only needs one friend, and he has two. So that's two Sims that should've gotten a promotion long ago and still haven't. AFAIK they've been through two promotions already, but it's precisely here where friends are now required that the game is stalling me. Does it want friends outside the family or something?
I saw people in the last thread say to build the max amount of Sims. Why? Playing with just one character is more fun to me. Playing Sims 2 by the way.
Playing with one character is the worst experience because you won't get your social refilled and you won't have enough income.
It's minimum two people but recommended to make 4.
always buy a fire and burglar alarm
always hire a maid
don't put more than one point in neatness
don't build a house at the start, only a bathroom and bedroom and put everything else outside
make sure everything is close to the street
don't make two stories until you run out of room
as soon as you start put town tables and chairs with computers, have all your sims find a job. try to get military because it pays well early on and mostly doesn't require friends
you can also make sims with no personality points then have them make and drink the yellow potion to make them have perfect personality
lel first thing I did when I built a house was make it two stories. I kind of regret it.
frick the normal toilet
self flushing is the way to go
No toilet at all is the way to go.
>throw party
>set up porta potties outside so Sims don't bunch around the bathroom and piss themselves everywhere
>they bunch around the bathroom and piss themselves anyway
Sounds like a pretty good analogue to real life
Ayys will impregnate your male sims in 2. I think one of the pre-made families in 2 start like that.
Alright, I'll bite. Should I play 1 or 2? I'm only gonna play one of them.
2.
What about 2 do you prefer compared to 1?
It is just a straight up upgrade to me. It looks better and has more features and didn't really lose anything along the way.
>didn't really lose anything along the way.
just the "charm" and music but yeah it is essentially a better game, a lot more fun imo
2 is better in nearly every way, although I don't think you can turn off aging, where as in sims 1 the sims never die of old age. Sims 2 has an insane amount of detail put into it, more than the sims 3 or 4 in terms of unique animations and events.
one sim gets boring after a while, i like to have a large house and control 1 or 2 of the sims while the rest go wild
my rockstar sim got a genie or something, and i made him wish for every female to fall in love with him or something. so literally every girl has extreme chemistry with him. he is gonna plow so much pussy
You can buy that hourglass thinghie to revert aging.
>I don't think you can turn off aging
that's exactly the point. you have an actual goal and time limit to do your wants so you can earn elixir of life. so game is not boring like sims 3/4
(although dating in nightlife expansion pack is broken and lets you farm points)
I've never played it without Rosebud; is it worth it?
Follow the tips given by
and it's very doable. Play with four Sims with jobs and you should usually bring in enough money to meet all your Sims' needs, and eventually you'll be able to buy the better stuff. Just make sure to have plenty of room for your Sims to walk around, because they LOVE bumping into each other, blocking each others' paths, and then immediately foregoing whatever it is they were gonna do, so be ready to micromanage them a good deal.
1 is very cozy and has a great aesthetic where 2 is more just general but it more then makes up for it in refinement. dont play any games past it unless you get them for free.
Sims 3 is a very good game actually. Sims 4 is a disaster.
i like it but it's still too easy, somewhere in between 1 + 2 would be perfect imo
this is better general than
actual OGs talking about SOVL and sims 1. not some thots who do makeup all day in soulless sims 4 and their glorified dollhouses that have no gameplay merits
funny because will wright's dollhouse was inside meme during sims 1 production. and now look where we at. the meme became a reality nightmare
Yeah, too much of a good thing often leads to loss of soul. It's why I waited a couple of days before making this thread - make too many, and you get a general, and I've never seen a general that didn't eventually descend into repetitive madness.
Just looked through that general, it's basically the old official site from the turn of the millennium where all the albums were just shit soap operas
bit of a pity there isn't an anniversary version of Sims 1 or 2
like i love the newer games but i miss playing Sims 1 vanilla (not the expansions) and just messing with my aunt's characters in the game just to piss her off lol
Sims 1 was pretty much my main PC game back in the day. I played it so much and had every expansion as they released.
The music hits me right in the heart when I hear it.
Bros how do you get Sims 2 to actually boot in exclusive fullscreen. I change the graphics rules with the tool online to have my graphics card and all that shit but still every time I get an error something like "no compatible Direct X 9.0 adapter" or some shit. Nothing suggested online seems to help so far
Use DXVK
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19JMr-FQSU3AlF7Kyvcrr7awTiHBDQSUNLG6qfaI6rOs/edit
I would but I particularly need the game to run in its original Direct X API. I am trying to use Nvidia 3D Vision with it
Figured it out. Still can't get it working with 3d vision but I'll keep trying. Might be cause it only lets me pick 60 hz
Dumbfrick question but did you check PCGW out?
The only thing I remember about getting the Sims 2 to run in widescreen/modern definitions is that I don't want to have to do it again.
that's exactly the reason i pulled out my old 5:4 monitor out of the closet. i found myself really only playing retro games on my pc, and i got really sick of hunting for widescreen patches that sometimes might not even exist
I still have the full physical The Sims 1 expansions bros along with The Sims House Party fully sealed, should I open it?
Frick, I want to say yes, but maybe not.
Is there a market for this kind of items nowadays? Serious question.
I believe there is.
whats the point of opening it if it wont even run on bare metal without fixes
So people will cope because sealed market sucks and It's a big whole scam
No reason to do so. May as well hold on to it until it's worth a gorillion simoelans.
I started playing sims 2 again. Just installed the first main game, no expansions no ultimate collection shit.
Running it was a hassle. I think modern game and crack scene made me too lazy.I huffed and puffed trying to fix graphics and resolution and such.
But man the game. Not only it has a nostalgia feel but I still manage to find some details here and there I missed more than a decade ago. I also love the dry sense of humor in many of the item-build material descriptions.
My ultimate wish is to play all the games very slowly but completely. Complete everything on sims 2, then move on to university, complete every university expansion thing, move on to nightlife and so on. Might take few years to really gobble up everything. But I feel installing ultimate collection and every expansion makes the game a bit too much chew.
and damn the mid 2000s nostalgia is too strong for me, being a millenial and all.
that looks like crt
Its from gamestop video review, probably pre youtube era but uploaded on it around 2011. Either CRT or very early LCD.
Late zoomer I assume? I always find one's teenage period is more interesting to people then their childhood.
Slowly I guess. I really want to absorb everything I don't know. It was always something I wanted to do in 2000s but only now I have the means to do it I guess.
I love the amount of detail it has so I'm reading all item and building descriptions as I stated. I'm also playing every family at least for one generation. The 3 neighborhood families are designed to be tutorials teaching game mechanics. One family in strangetown teaches you about retirement, the goth teaches you about weddings and so forth. The prima guide also suggests and order of play which is nice.
Then I'll try to do every game mechanic that was not included in the tutorial suggestions. Maybe the private school mini game, visiting the public lots.
After every mechanic is explored and every generation moved ones I will move on to University. Reading all new item-build descriptions. I will probably put all the brats from main game into university, and have them graduated and then I will do all the new mechanics. (Zombie, Influence). Then move to nightlife and so forth.
When you take things slowly, after finishing the main game it is not that difficult to do everything in an expansion. Playing thoroughly also reveals some shortcomings of the game but I still like it.
how do you complete "everything" in as wide and expansive a game as that?
this but as a zoomer
Are there good visual mods for Sims 2? I like the game and I usually don't mind graphics but the Sims in Sims 2 look a bit ugly. Even something just for the faces would be enough
look into default replacements. i personally found men outfits to be absolutely disgusting in vanilla game (especially shorts). addons kinda added more passable outfits, but i believe base game just had the absolute worst outfits. i believe i hated them even in 2004, thats how bad they were. but gameplay was good, so i didnt really care
https://pleasantsims.com/sims-2-default-replacements/
Awesome, it looks better. The houses and objects look good in Sims 2, but the Sims always looked ugly, so any improvement is welcomed
got sims 1 deluxe edition and sims 2 with the seasons dlc cheap, should play them now that my gpu issues are fixed abd they actually run