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Yeah, the sims themselves were my main concern. The items and stuff look a lot better than the sims lol. But that's just how it goes I guess lol.


I'll be sure to hit you up for that when the time comes :)


Ah that's good to know. I know there are issues if you have conflicting IDs in Sims 2 as well, but since pretty much everyone uses SimPE to get unique ones I don't think I've ever run into an issue with it so far.


Yep! Thanks :3


Well it's not like most of them have strange names that would set off flags. Meadow Thayer is probably the least "real" sounding name, and that's only because I've never met anyone named Meadow irl.

And yeah, Freemium games are a mess like that. They get you hooked with it being free and addicting, but then they nickle and dime you to death with random things you need to beat it (or just to let you beat it faster.)

Nope, we had Playmobil.

Good deal :p


While it seems easier to make, I will admit that the low-res low-poly look does feel like a huge downgrade in terms of how the engine feels. But even still, looks like you did a good job with it anyway :)


Sounds like I need to check those out! Thanks for the tip, I'll keep those in mind when I get around to finding the game.


Never heard of something like that happening in Sims 2, only heard of crashes when like a modded item is broken (either made wrong or missing files or something). Not heard of it happening from too much CC though. *shrugs* oh well.


I'm sure there's an option to disable it, I just need to look again. At the time, I was just looking for aging and didn't think to look for that at the time since I was staying on top of my sims well enough and they have gotten at least a bit smarter by Sims 4 it seems, so it really isn't as bad if it's left on. But I still wouldn't want them progressing completely unattended.


That doesn't sound too bad all things considered. But still more effort than it should be haha.


Those accounts are still online and stuff, although some of the e-mail addresses aren't valid anymore so it yells at me when I sign in. Not sure if I could get away with making any new ones or not, haven't tried lately lol. I never played Sims Online, but I played Sims Social for a while, and The Ville which was just a clone of it that someone else made (which shut down shortly after Sims Social did). I thought about getting Sims Free Play on my phone, but wasn't sure if it was worth it or not (Free, just not sure if it would be enjoyable enough to be worth the time and worth trying to play it on a small screen since I don't have a tablet).

Gotcha. I'll look on Amazon, but I might end up looking to just, yknow, download it if I can't find it for a reasonable enough price. If you know what I mean.


Thanks!

Also that's cool, you say you made those? Nice! :3

When it comes to my favourite themes, I tend to prefer more every-day type stuff. Not the ultra-modern things they try to slip in, and I don't often go for super old-timey (although I do tend to have a retro diner or something similar in my neighborhoods. In one I have a copy of the Waffle House in my home town as well.) I guess I go with retro but not AS retro. Like, for example: CRT TVs that sit on the floor, Nintendo 64 for my sims to play, 80s movie posters on the wall, custom music to listen to on the radio from the 80s and 90s, stuff like that. Things that bring back feelings of nostalgia combined with current things like that Pokéwalker and a DS for them to play and stuff like that. Oh, and I also modified a computer to have Windows XP running on it and to replace the "Write novel" interaction with "Hack Pokémon" which shows the sim working on Christmas with a map editor and a hex editor open on the screen.


I don't think Sims 2 actually has any sort of cap as to how much CC you can have, but it makes the game load a lot slower if you have a lot. Well, it seems to take forever the first time I launch it after I restart the computer, but if I play it again later without restarting the computer in between it loads a lot faster so it must be keeping that cached somewhere.


Definitely agree. Half of the time I turn free-will off in Sims 2. Not sure if that's an option in Sims 4 or not, haven't noticed it but that doesn't mean it's not there. Might be interesting to just sit back and see what happens if sims are left to their own devices for an extended period of time though.


Haha yeah, from what I remember about Sims 1 (which was for console and so not necessarily relevant) kids couldn't grow up and all sorts of stuff that would make it annoying haha. If you do track down some mods though, good luck!

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Also, you mentioned story telling. While I've never sat down and done traditional sims storytelling things like people post online, I somehow got in the habit of doing something similar. I made a bunch of fake facebook accounts back when The Sims Social was a thing so that I could send myself things and add people without cluttering up my "real" Facebook. And somewhere along the way, I just started posting in character as the sims the profiles were made for. Posting about the things "they" were doing and posting pictures and things to amuse myself while I was online with those accounts. Now the Sims Social isn't around anymore so I don't use those accounts nearly as often but I still get on them from time to time and post stuff for the lulz.

I'll look around for the complete collection next time I'm in Wal-Mart. I seem to remember seeing it in there before, when Sims 3 was the current gen. Might just have to *ahem* find it online some other way. If you know what I mean.


I made the shirt and Pokéwalker. The jeans I downloaded from some site, most likely TSR or Mod The Sims. The hair is the one she came with (she was originally a townie) but with a default repalcememnt texture I got from Mod The Sims and her skintone is from some site, I don't remember which exactly. And I forget where all her makeup came from. That's the problem with having so much CC, you forget where you found it all xD (I really need to cleanup my downloads folder in Sims 2. It's gotten cluttered with things that looked good on the site but then looked weird in-game or things I downloaded but never use. I spend a lot of time looking through the closet in create-a-sim thinking "Gah I have nothing to wear" as I scroll through all the pages of stuff I've wound up with.


Story Progression was one thing that really turned me off to Sims 3 as well. I remember Justin talking about it when I was playing with his copy of Sims 3 and I was like "Why would you want that?" and he was all "So you don't have to play all the houses" and I was like "But... that's kinda... the game?" Haha. I mean, I don't want to be off playing one sim and come back to find out this other sim has gotten pregnant and another died and another abducted by aliens. I mean, you know how when left to their own devices sims are kinda... yknow... not smart? Why would I want the whole neighborhood doing that? Forget the other stuff, I wouldn't be surprised to find half the neighborhood in flames. Read the paper and the headline is "Lobster Thermidor fires reach apocalyptic proportions" xD


I've heard of them and I've read some, and they seem a lot more appealing to me than Nuzlockes (never got into Nuzlockes, really.) I've never done a legacy challenge yet though. I probably will at some point because they seem cool.

What's Playskool?

Yeah, I should try giving Sims 1 on PC a chance. Since I had only played Sims 1 on console and went directly to Sims 2 on PC, my reaction was "Ok yeah, this is an improvement in pretty much every way imaginable" and since it was comparing console to PC it was like apple and oranges so who knows, I might totally agree and fall in love with Sims 1 on PC if i find it and give it a try :) At least I was familiar enough with Sims 1 that I immediately recognized your username even before we mentioned Sims at all :p

Although I will say that with custom stuff and default replacements, I'm sure you could make any of them look about however you wanted them to.

Aaaand once again we disagree it seems :p. I like sims 2 but sims 3 looked like plastic to me. But I enjoy Sims 4, and like how it seems to completely ignore sims 3 and be a sequel to sims 2. Admittedly though, when I played sims 3 it was on a friend's laptop with bad hardware so probably not a fair comparison. And I only ever had Sims 1 for console, and the console versions of sims are never as good as the original pc versions. So I admit that my samples aren't exactly fair lol.

But yeah, that sounds a lot like my feelings on Gen 4. I get what they were trying to do, but they didn't pull it off IMO.

I apologize for the late response, and I thank you for talking to me. Now to answer your questions:

I imagine Lance to being in his 20's age-wise. I admit, I've had a crush on him since the days of second gen., and I've always wished we could have more interaction with him in the games. I too don't like how he is portrayed in the Pokespecial series, though I did like him in the anime; I wish there were more episodes with him. I love his personality as well: confident, caring, and with a good sense of justice. I found a really good reader-insert Lance love story, if you're interested in reading it: http://www.lunaescence.com/fics/viewstory.php?sid=9654&warning=13+

Well at least it wasn't a terrible game like the sales would suggest.

I don't think that's the reason, because the average buyer wouldn't know 2nd gen would be incompatible with 3rd gen. I don't remember much from that time, though. I don't remember if people in the community knew, and possibly it wasn't a priority to ask because we probably took it for granted (that the games would be compatible).

I think what ended up happening was for the best. The 5th gen games have very fluid gameplay, especially on the DSi. If they were on the new engine they would be slow like the 6th gen games.

They were transitional games and fully benefit from 3DS integration and, fuzzy graphics aside, are better played on the 3DS because it features native DSi support and will default to DSi mode in DSi-enhanced games. The fact the 3DS was backwards compatible meant the development time wasn't lost.

Luckily they decided to keep the DS and scrap the GBA. Unless they released a wifi addon for the GBA... Still, Nintendo made a terrible decision with the DS, they chose to go with WEP encryption which is much inferior to WPA. WPA became the standard in 2003, so they definitely had time to incorporate it into the DS.

I personally never used the wifi in 4th gen games because they were designed for the DS, and no one in their right mind will willingly choose an inferior encryption standard with so many hackers around. The DSi, however, supported WPA/WPA2 and, accordingly, all 5th gen games support it since they're DSi enhanced.

Just a correction: the GBA has a 32-bit ARM processor, but not 32-bit colors. ^^ The GBA actually has the same palette as the GBC (15-bit RGB), with the difference that many more colors could be displayed on the GBA's screen at the same time.

If it's not broken, why fix it? The GSC backsprites were that good. :P The palette in the GBC and GBA is the same, what changes is the amount of colors displayed on screen, and the GBA is capable of displaying at least 10x more colors, but for some reason they made odd color choices, and the art itself wasn't as good as on Crystal. Well, there are some Pokémon which look bad in both, IMO (like Gyarados), others look better on the GBA, and finally quite a few look superior on Crystal.

I singled out Crystal because GS didn't have many good sprites for 2nd gen Pokémon.

You do. {XD}

You shouldn't be into 3rd gen's look. Its sprites are quite ugly and inaccurate. The colors are messed up, too. It's a shame because the GBA was capable of very pretty graphics.

You SPRITE? How come you've never told me that? {XD}

I hope you caught the irony when I said you're also biased because you wanted a Kanto remake based on your favorite Kanto game. ;)

Something tells me you didn't. :(

Torterra is PU, and I love Torterra. IMO the Sinnoh starters were the best in the series.

An ultrabook is basically a slim laptop. Some manufacturers like LG use the term indiscriminately. My ultrabook is basically a laptop with an SSD exclusively dedicated to system duty.

There's a lot of cool stuff in PU. Kinda shows how unfair the game can be.

Regarding Vogons, well it's history applied to hardware, which is always a cool thing. ^^