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akshockley's The Sims (PC)
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| [November 20, 2006 12:43:55 PM]
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The only thing I've found to like about The Sims is that in this psuedo-intro/tutorial bit it doesn't introduce new goals until an amount of time has passed or the old goals have been cleared. I still don't get the game's appeal.
My sim borrowed money to pay the bills, and he won some money from the radio station. More accurately, his mom won the money, and gave it to him. My sim now supposedly has enough money to move out, but he still doesn't have a job. He claims he's too depressed to get one. He's also too depressed to study. I figure it's because I'm still having trouble raising those fun/social stats. Almost all of the appliances in the house are broken because he takes so long to fix them, but I can't get him to read the book about mechanics in order to make it go faster.
I'd have to continue playing in order to test it out, but I would think that doing something like repairing the TV or the sink or whatever should raise the skill level... But, at least with cooking, which my character has done a lot of, the stat doesn't seem to raise from the hands-on experience. Maybe it just takes a *lot* of hands-on experience. Or maybe it doesn't affect the skills at all.
Now that I have a better idea of how the personality stats that get set when creating the character (supposedly) effect things, I considered restarting, but I didn't really want to go through it again if the stats didn't end up changing much. I have not been impressed with The Sims. Maybe Sims 2 is better, or maybe one of the dozen expansions... but I really don't feel the urge to try them out.
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| [November 20, 2006 12:34:00 PM]
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Second time playing, and I -still- don't like this game.
I can't seem to ever raise the "fun" or "social" stats high enough... as soon as I stop reading or dancing or talking or whatnot, the stat drops like a rock, and I don't have enough time to spend on them because of talking care of the other stats. My sim's mother keeps watching TV or listening to music while my sim is trying to sleep, so it's hard to keep the energy and comfort stats up. He fell asleep in the kitchen in the middle of cleaning up a spill because he was too tired, but he woke right back up because his mom turned on the TV. I turned it off, and she turned on the radio... and then proceeded to go to bed and yell at my sim for the radio being on.
I don't it.
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| [November 20, 2006 12:29:38 PM]
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I've heard good things about The Sims in the past, but I'd never played it, so I wasn't sure what to expect. And the general feeling I've walked away with is that I don't like it.
After customizing my character, I was given control of the character right away, with little idea of what to do with him. His mother would give hints/suggestions when a stat got too low... and by "too low", I mean that the representative bar was completely red, or at least almost completely.
I read a book about mechanics so that I could fix her TV, but she kept complaining that it was taking too long to fix and she was thereby missing her soap operas. I read a book about cooking so that I could fix my sim something to eat, and he was able to successfully prepare his food.
The rest of my sim's time was spent cleaning up after his mother and neglecting the "fun" and "social" stats.
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akshockley's The Sims (PC)
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Current Status: Stopped playing - Got Bored
GameLog started on: Monday 20 November, 2006
GameLog closed on: Monday 20 November, 2006 |
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