The Sims 3 Comments by Kieron Gillen

I reckon there'll be no add-ons for this. Just the main game release.

/wakes up

I'm pretty excited for this... sounds a bit like SimsVille was meant to be...

Sounds like they've made some great additions to the formula.
Looking good.

I played quite a lot of The Sims 1, but I've not touched the series for years.

The key thing that bugged me was that you seemed to have to spend so long just repetatively keeping your Sim happy that you bearly had any time left to do anything fun with them. If they had a job that took up a lot of time, you never seemed to be able to do anything other than feed, entertain, clean and rest them. And I found that a house full of the buggers was just a nightmare to look after.

So I quickly went the route of having one Sim in a house, with a cash cheat so they didn't have to work. This just about left enough time in each day to actually have some fun, but I eventually grew bored with it all.

This new one sounds like they might have addressed my key concerns, so maybe I will have a look (assuming my crappy ol' laptop is up to the task).

I still play and love Sims 1. I hope the music is similarly 1950s chirpy idealism.

"Mommy, my hot dog tastes rubbish. Kill father." - EG you owe me a new or atleast clean moniter you bastards!!!

That pic on the front page is disturbing. Sim prostitute?

Found some system requirements (maybe they are on the Sim3 website, but I'm buggered if I can find them).

http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/12/17/t...

I remember getting bored sometimes and walling them in, watching them wet themselves, and eventually starve. I guess it's dead easy becoming a Stanford Prison Guard.

I never understood the appeal of the Sims. Which is weird considering how many hours ive spent with Animal Crossing, MMOs and other games with (arguably) no clear goal.

Should I still be interested in Sims3? (Never played the second installment or any spinoffs.)

Was that an Arrested Development reference in there?

Can't stand the Sims myself, but the missus is absolutely barmy about it.

Looks like I'll need to invest some handcream and mansize tissues for a month or two at least..

Got bored quickly with the first Sims and stopped playing the franchise altogether, but I actually quite like the sound of this... will definitely keep an eye on it

As long as I can control the size of a female sim's breasts, I'm in.

Getting bored of The Sims only happens when you have no imagination or you played it to death.

I'm bored of The Sims for the latter reason. My mate and I spent many, many, many nights creating the mass murderer Les Battersby III in The Sims 1. He had the largest estate and we'd create a family of one woman (or man) and 7 children and dump them in any house. Then we'd get Les to woo them and have them move in. Cue ALL their cash entering our bank account. Then we'd herd them into our Chapel of Death in the top corner of the lot, then remove the door once they were in. We'd load it full of flammable furniture and a fireworks kit and have them set it off, only to die screaming in flames moments later. Cue 8 fresh graves in our backyard.

We did this until we were millionaires and had an entire garden of graves, and the lushest house in the world. Of course we had to build it on stilts eventually, to stop the ghosts from driving Les crazy.

Now that was fun. Sims 2 became too much of a faff though.

Buztafen: I'm pleased that one worked for you. It was the product of staring at the screenshot and thinking... what? What on earth can I write here? WHAT ON EARTH CAN I WRITE HERE?

Hysteria is the best of muses.

KG

Nice work on the virtual Ruth Maddock

I spent my time in sims 2 forcing one of my characters to slave for hours making a robot, then that robot make another few robots, then I moved the robots out into a new home designed for them (no toilets etc) and made them open a shop to sell videogames

either that or walling people into rooms

The day I play the sims is the day I sign up for facebook... never happening.

As for the 100 milking add-ins to follow, don't even get me started.

Was that an Arrested Development reference in there?

There are literally dozens of us!

The Sims games are actually quite fun, although I think I spent more time building houses/towns than I did actually playing. It's just too bad you can't get into proper fights and stuff or kill the neighbours and stuff. It would be nice to have a bit more evil going on.

@iokthemonkey

Isn't that the opposite of nice? :)

I really wanna get this; I missed out on Sims 2, but I had the first one and a few add-ons. I've always loved the concept of looking after a little computer family; it's sort of what attracts me to stuff like Settlers, Animal Crossing, and even Fable.

I remember when the first game came out, there was an editorial piece in PC Gamer where they said KG spent all night in the office trying to make two men snog. I knew from that moment it was the game for me...

The day I play the sims is the day I sign up for facebook... never happening.

As for the 100 milking add-ins to follow, don't even get me started.

Wow, that's fascinating to know. So you don't like the Sims. Incredible news. And to think you took time out of your day to come into an article about a game you clearly abhor with a passion, just to tell everyone else that is interested in it that you don't like it.

You must be quite the social lubricant at parties!

You take the bait every time Owen :P

Looking forward to this though. I haven't played The Sims since number one. It was awesome. Keen on giving this a spin.

The thing we really need to know of course, is whether you can drive over a sim and break its legs off.

I found Sims 2 a big disappointment. I really liked Sims (1).

I played and loved the Sims 1 for years, its a classic. But the Sims 2 was a bit rubbish, hopefully this will recapture the firsts magic. I'm probably going to try it anyway.

@iokthemonkey

Isn't that the opposite of nice? :)

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Depends entirely upon your moral standpoint. :)

But generally speaking a portion of people here think that Sims is beneath them or something.

After all everyone enjoys playing space marine crouching behind a chest high wall and picking off nazis/rival space marines, or both.

Am I the only one left confused after reading this? WTF were they talking about?

But generally speaking a portion of people here think that Sims is beneath them or something.

Why try and stir shit up? The comments here are all generally pretty positive.

Don't get me wrong, I played it for a long, long time. It just got to be more fun to be cruel to them eventually... proving an interesting social point, in that it's easier to be nasty than it is to be kind.

Sim Prostitute (as someone mentioned further up) would be one game that I would be happy to pay for!

@Errol

they already had that in TheSims Online

I'm not clear how this is that much different from the last one?

MrED209 "Getting bored of The Sims only happens when you have no imagination or you played it to death."

Thank you for that sweepingly inaccurate statement o_0

Hopefully they're not so bloody needy this time.

Eventually it got really tiring telling my little box of morons to eat, sleep or shit etc. while they constantly complained about being tired or hungry or whatever, there's no reason why they couldn't take care of stuff like that for themselves.

"But generally speaking a portion of people here think that Sims is beneath them or something."

Its beneath me, and so are you if you like shitty games.
I will Ignore you now. Not a fan of speaking with lesser lifeforms.

Is it going to have the Spore style DRM of only a few installs? it's just I must have reinstalled the Sims 2 at least 6 times since it came out and on two different machines, having a limit would entirely put me off getting this.

"Bearly" and "moniter" aren't words. Sorry.

avoozl
get the fuck out

Id like to know how many languages you speak?

Lovely.

A series of games I will never ever play.

"Lovely."

I see. English. Thats one.

That's irrelevant anyway, but for future reference if you want someone to answer your questions, don't tell them to "get the fuck out" first.

I didnt need you to answer my question, becouse I already knew the answer.
I asked you anyway, just to see you failing at finding an appropriate retort.

I was right on both accounts. Obviously.
No one but americans and/or people from the UK would ever make such an ingnorant statement as you did.

Ill be nicer this time, just as you requsted;
Please, get the fuck out.

edit: edited 2 times to correct spelling mistakes. See, no ones perfect.

What's the matter, did your English teacher abuse you or something? Don't take it out on me. I'm not going to justify myself to you. You're the ignorant one here.

Correcting someone's spelling and grammar on the internet is rude behaviour. It's a cheap attempt to make yourself appear smarter than the person you're disagreeing with.

Be nice.

KG

"It's a cheap attempt to make yourself appear smarter than the person you're disagreeing with."

Not in this case. It's just anal retentive behavior. Besides if I was spelling something wrong my whole life I wouldn't mind someone correcting me, especially common words like those. I'm not talking about typos which are accidental or grammar which is deliberately left out on the internet.

Anyway whatever. I just point out some words are wrong, some guy tells me to get the fuck out twice and apparently I'm the asshole. I should have seen it coming.