SIMmin' it!

hey, are any of you out there a fan of the SIMS? :D

 the original SIMS character creation interface. nope, not one of my characters—but someone was definitely trying to be funny ;)i’ve been a SIMS fReAk ever since the release of their first SIMS game in 2000. :D  i remember how i was totally addicted to creating famous Hollywood sims…my fave then was folks from the Drew Carrey show, the Three’s Company cast, and the Dukes of Hazzard crew. HAHA!  and of course, you always gotta make yourself and all your family members.  and it was even more fun to hook up single members of your family to marry famous people and have kids. teehee!

then in 2002, i became a beta-tester for TSO (The Sims Online).  what  FUN—especially because i was using a dial-up internet connection. HAHA!  i played it for probably a year, then got bored because it seemed to never progress.  and sadly enough—6 years later—it DOES look the same!  i’m shocked it’s even still around. (actually—rewind—i just saw they finally shut it down just a few months ago!)  i think the funnest part about it was being able to be any kind of character i wanted to portray to other people—my fave being a 70’s lounge-meister monster whom i named Changa.  he kinda looked like a sasquatch with a butterfly collar and gold medallion necklace. HAHA!!  his specialty was serving chimichangas to all his guests—the most famous being a deep fried chocolate chimi! LOL!  of course the cooking was all pretend, but hey, that’s what the SIMS are about!   

then in 2004 i upgraded to the Sims 2…which i am currently still playing and have most all of the expansion packs.  the SIMS 2 made it wayyyy fun to build buildings and homes.  my sims own restaurants, pet stores, have gardens and markets, go to college, play in bands, live in cool apartments, build robots and flower arrangements, and all sorts of cool stuff!  what i love most about Sims 2 is that you can actually create characters that LOOK like people you know.  in the old SIMS, you just had to pick pre-made heads and bodies.  hehe.  plus, the social interaction of the sims themselves is much more rich and life-like and pretty darned intuitive.  so while it’s fun to escape to what’s closer to a “perfect” life in the world of the SIMS, you still get plenty of realism by letting them have their own free-will!

soooo nowww EA Games just announced the official release of the Sims 3 will be February 20, 2009.  it looks SO COOL!  there’s a really neato video on their homepage that shows some of the inside development of the game and all the new stuff we can expect.  im totally stoked!  i think the seamless neighborhood (you can actually wander about your neighborhood and town without having to take a taxi off your lot!) will be one of the neatest new features.  it will open up a lot of random events that will take the humdrum out of everyday sim life :)

you guessed it! that’s me in the Sims 2 playing a SIMS game! teehee :)so anyhoo, there’s my rant about the SIMS! hehe!  let me know what ya think—especially if you’re a fan like me!

tata for now…

~josey~