Thread 718705873

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2MFv2xe8yQ

Brings back memories of what a house was. What building a house might be. What having a family would be. That it was affordable.
Jerry Martin's soundtrack NEVER left my playlist, ever since it was introduced.

Its the voice acting for me. Absolute insane rambles fit the manic nature of this game so well.

>>718705873 (OP)
Peak comfy gaming besides the pissing all over the place and fatigue deaths

>>718705873 (OP)
I want someone to mod Sims 1 to have better building options
That's it
Even Sims 3 can be pretty unwieldy sometimes when all I want to do is make nice houses
Plus I have to wait ages for all the loading.

>>718706671
all I want is a sims like game with a better builder, they all seem to focus on social interactions though

>>718706764
male sims players are always ignored...

Let me guess, you need more?

>>718706887
That hallway is a complete waste of space, could have a bigger bedroom by tearing the wall down

>>718706887
>bare walls
Yes I do.

>>718706887
Just needs a PC set up at the end of that hallway separating the bedroom and kitchen/living room, and for me personally maybe a basement for gym equipment

The Sims 1 and 2 are genuinely fucking great games. Just timeless and full of so much passion and soul. There is just nothing else like them. Shame that Maxis started hiring women and now we have shit like The Simslop 4

>>718706887
I'm not a jeet.

I only ever played Sims on the PS2 back in the day and never got into them on PC. Are 1/2 ready to be played nowadays or do they require mods and fixes and shit?

>>718706887
needs a bonus room
>>718707980
there was a community repack of the first 2 sims game available to download for free with patches but EA got butthurt and took it down so they could sell their indian enhanced edition earlier this year

>>718707980
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48443/The_Sims_25th_Birthday_Bundle/

>>718707980
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gKoQyXQKPA9hTtywt8OWEZzb4-9615uaSlibAPGb5Oc/edit?tab=t.0

>>718707013
it is the most private part of the house, it is vital.

>>718709298
unfortunately this is broken now

boid on the log

>>718711267
there has to be some autistic woman on youtube that has it down to a science but we don't know the terms to summon the video.

>>718705873 (OP)
>>718706136
Man the Sims 1 soundtrack was something else. Hearing the new age piano tracks was relaxing and ethereal in some ways. An enjoyable and unexpected surprise when first playing the game.

>the sims thread
Are you guys women? Why do women love The Sims so much anyway? My sister loved them too.

>>718705873 (OP)
It’s so weird how this turned into a cat lady franchise. Boys loved Sims. Something about the changes to be more doll house cosmetics and outfit focus than building and career focused changed it though.

I wish I could write half as well as the sims 1 writers

>>718711267
Are you spying on me in my apartment? You even built my piss puddle outside the window!

I just want Sims 3.5 that combined the care of 2 and Bustin' Out with the world and extra mechanics of 3.

>play sims 4
>seasons aren't real, you just pick one and that's the flavor of world you get
>everything is divided in to tiny lots and even the other houses in your tiny lot aren't actually fully loaded in
>no cars
>sims you aren't playing don't do anything ever besides occasionally randomly generate walking past your house in the hood even if they're celebrities or trying to scam you on the phone
>every expansion is just another substanceless animation to watch while a bar fills up
>play sims 3
>it has actual features, but it runs like ass even on modern gaming rigs because the engine is just terribly coded
why does this series suck so much ass? why do women play it?

>>718705873 (OP)
They killed my favorite franchise, it's not fair bros

>>718705873 (OP)
>>718706136
Will Wright doesn't get the recognition he deserves, he should be among the great ones like Carmack

>>718705873 (OP)
Love

>>718706887
I'd pull that couch back to align with the bathroom door. A patio with a grill would be nice too.

>>718713149
If they combined sims 3 and sims 4 it would be perfect. Sims 4 is aesthetic and can make actually fuckable characters. Sims 3 is an overly sim autistic factorio type sims game (still the best sims game though). Sims 4 is great for cozy intimate play where you never leave your house.

>>718706887
Needs a separate space for your computer, and a hard surface area outside for keeping your gardening bits, ideally roofed.

>>718713149
what do you mean sims 3 runs like ass? besides stutters from shit loading in when you are at speed 3, shit runs flawlessly

>>718713149
sims 3 used to run fine on my pc back at the day, I guess it's because I didn't had any dlcs

>>718714202
>>718714385
It's all the DLCs, they make the game eventually grind to a stuttering halt

>>718711267
Microbuildings are kino. Max stats. Dump all the social activities on a community lot. Home is for statmaxxing.

>>718712110
Controlling other peoples lives and playing dress up is peak women brain

someone posts the sims 3 pic where the guy made a slave plantation full of brown sims

>>718715664
Maybe not micro but I like small base.. I mean small houses.

>>718712110
Designing buildings to orchestral easy-listening scores (aka White man's music), grinding stats, creating waifus, NTR'ing your male rivals for theirs... Not manly enuf, breh?

>>718705873 (OP)
>>718706136
You're both right. Y2K occurred, "browsing the Web" became more possible (for wealthy families with a PC connected to their phone lines) and basically one of the first things I did was look up and download this soundtrack.
Music infatuates me. It's essential to me enjoying life. The Sims has a wonderful soundtrack.

>>718706887
Personally? No.
But, I would like equivalent amounts for every member of my family if I ever get one...

My home is just a storage zone that is <70°F where I lounge on a couch, shower in a hygenic space, cook in a reasonable kitchen, park my car, and sleep in the quietest/darkest room. My "fun" can be traveling and yardwork. True, a larger family means making concessions, but I can do that if my family are equally feasible to me. And my standards are high. My greed is not.

>>718712110
Men mostly enjoyed building, but designing purchases/characters was fun, too. Especially with the 10/10 masterpiece comfortable ten musical tracks always playing in the background.

Women liked playing the social part of the game, more. Telling characters what to do, more than building the homes. I know this. I had an older sister who "played The Sims" by actually having characters appear and interact, whereas my father and I just built homes.

>>718712708
Alright, I love the soundtrack from The Sims. I never played anything past Sims 2 (and none of the add-ons), so I'm guessing I've never heard this track, but since you suggested it by participating in this nice thread and contributing a direct a link to music (a form of media I adore), I'll give it a listen right now.
>Listening
Oh, I think I have heard this track, actually.
Anyway, nice choice. Lite-jazz is among my favorite genres on planet Earth. You're a good man for enjoying that with me.
I suggest you give "Beyond the Mind's Eye" orchestrated by Jan Hammer a listen-to. It's from this time-period, beautiful watch, and perhaps among the most mesmerizing musical pieces you'll hear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_KDAqx4ltE

>>718719389
My sister and I divided the game, I did all the skill grinds and home design and she did socials. Funnily she ended up a designer.

>>718720098
Same. She usually asked me to "make this part, please" so I did, she said "thanks."

I'm always amused by hearing other people's family life or relationships with their siblings because, for me as a tall blond white guy from a religiously traditional family in the West with parents that met in school, married at graduation and loved each other to immediately begin raising their own kids... I hear more and more about how rare that was. Especially because, for as "typical" that may sound, my relationship with them is very honest but also fairly non-existent. What I mentioned above with my sister is, honestly, about as much interaction I ever had with her in the years of childhood together. Same as my mother and father. Just, quiet. I loved that and them. That was more than 20 years ago.

>>718712416
A big turn off for me for modern sims is how androgynous or effeminate the sims all look and act. You can't make a sim that looks like a man.

>>718706495
If inZOI had pissing and wackiness, I would purchase. It seems too 'safe'.

>>718716262
Nah, the one where the sim has to walk a maze so long they can't even sleep before they have to walk back the other way to go to work again.

>>718706887
shout out to the person who built this in sims freeplay while choosing not to include windows, visible lights, a toilet or any kind of cooking appliance

I remember panicking so hard when the burglar showed up and my sim wouldn't wake up because I couldn't pause. I stood out of my chair and had my hand on my head, I don't know why it was so scary. I think those phone calls with the masks before hand didn't help.

>>718722463
it's budget.

>>718706136
this is one my favorite piano tracks of all time.

>>718722559
we're living in the year 2005, if you think toilets are a grossly overpriced luxury then i don't know what to tell you

>>718722749
Good man, I agree. Music is life-changing. I hope people listen to music whenever they can... and I hope it's tasteful and uplifting music, too.

>>718722904
>if you think toilets are a grossly overpriced luxury then i don't know what to tell you
"Saar do not redeem"?

>>718712110
To the average normalfag woman The Sims is basically the perfect roleplaying game for living out domestic fantasies. 3 and 4 especially since they have more roleplaying and self-insert elements. It's basically like digital barbie dolls to them, they make a self-insert, recreate their boyfriends, and build their dream house.

On the other hand I think most men see The Sims as more like a sandbox or simulation game. We just want to mess around trying to build creative or optimal homes and families and see what happens when the game unpauses. And the market for men who enjoy simulation games is pretty small, especially compared to how many woman play digital barbie dolls, which makes The Sims seem like a woman series.

And don't get me wrong, they definitely market these games more towards women.

>>718714459
Not on my rig. Are you using NRASS mods? That deals with most of the spaghetti code of sims pretty strongly

>>718722904
Games used to be designed by a team at MAXIS and they enjoyed making brief comments of humor with their tech-demo amazing gameplay.

Well, what can I say; it's not like I've played video games for over a decade. I don't know what games are like anymore.

The Sims 2 is probably the most depressing game I have ever played. The aging is so fast you don't have time to do shit and then you die. Next time I play it I'll probably just use cheats or that immortality item.

>>718721831
Korean + Visa/MasterCard censorship policies, wait for Paralives towards the end of this year. At least they are Canadian gooners so we can probably get some gooner content going for it.

>>718711267
5x6 is the least deranged build tbfh.

>>718723515
The way I did it was that I only had aging turned on for a single month each year.
>>718723428
MAXIS is a couple of sad boomers who still think they can somehow dig themselves out of their post-Will Wright hole and a whole bunch of suits tying to figure out how to best sell to soccer moms DLC for the Sims 4.

>>718723325
indians don't exist in 2005 either :)

>>718705873 (OP)
Loved the music in Sims 1.
Gameplay wise, I think Sims 2 is peak and expanded just enough on every facet of Sims 1.

>>718705873 (OP)
>>718706887
This costs millennials 900 thousand dollars

Next time I play the sims I'm gonna try to sample everything in the games and not just max out a career and get a wife and kid.

>>718705873 (OP)
My email address was based off some retarded sims story posted on some website circa 1999. And it still is.

>>718706887
This is like 3 times the size of my apartment.

>>718725305
I always say this but then I immediately fall into my old habit of impregnating Bella and making her my hyperborean queen while putting the rest of the neighborhood in camps

>>718725564
> Lives in one of those meme micro apartments that were made fun out of in Chinese propaganda.
How the fuck do you do that to yourself? $2k rent in NY for that? LOL.

Does anyone have a pic of the lot-sized mansion a lot of people make thats just 4 walls. Someone knows what I mean.

>>718725629
Weird post

>>718725819
scroll up

>>718706136
I've always hated the buy themes personally but the build ones were masterpieces, you just couldn't ask for better.

>>718712110
I loved the first Sims game, played it to death when I was a kid. I absolutely grew out of it but there was something about the freedom of building and imagining the possibilities of living in your creation in your minds eye.
I tended to use the money cheat and just build and see what I could create, I wasn't that interested in the Sim living in the house part of the game.

>>718706136
This sound extremely similar to the music from Stainless Nights 2021, a futa hentai.

>>718726136
Oh missed that, thanks. I love this pic.

>>718712708
>Reddit frog

>>718705873 (OP)
WHAT DO?

>>718712708
>jazzpoop

no thanks

>>718726317
DON'T GO TO SLEEP

>>718712110
If you had a PC in the early 2000s and also sisters it was guaranteed they would install Sims on it and play all day. My sisters would barge into my room and take over my PC just to play it. Since it was installed I also started playing it. Many such cases.

>>718718009
Why you got bring up race? This is a Sim's thread

Here you faggots go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKnkQdsITUE

>>718707980
For Sims 1 check archive for The Sims - Complete Collection. This was a retail DVDF release with all of the expansion packs included. There was also one for Sims 2 but I don't remember the name. Don't buy the one on Steam.

>>718726517
because it's specifically about the music which is classical (good) and thus very race-dependent (white)

>>718719921
this is pretty sweet anon thanks for the rec

>>718726786
DVD* not DVDF.
Also no mods are needed to play. There are mods out there for sex and other stuff but the base game with expansions is all you need to enjoy the game. I never used mods or cheats, which aren't really needed either.

>>718726786
>Don't buy the one on Steam.

What's wrong with the steam version? It's been fixed since it's launch and is perfectly functional now unless you mean not to give EA any money in which case I can understand.

>>718726858
We get it, you're obsessed with race, cut it out.

>>718716308
Comfy

>>718727383
>cut it out.

>>718726241
If you're being honest, I will download "Stainless Nights 2021" soundtrack right-fucking-now.

>>718726858
Asians love classical music though too, so its more like White/Slav/Asian/Med type of thing. While third worlders enjoy Jazz.

>>718722904
>maximum security prison
The worst crime you can do in TS is robbery and tax evasion; why the fuck there's more than one prison?

>>718727613
>newfags don't know about my Cosgrove.

>>718726957
Tbh I don't know I just don't like steam. I do know that they removed some of the fashion pack stuff for Sims 2 though due to licensing issues or some such. Same situation as old GTA and anything else from that era, you either play the originals or risk missing out on stuff.

>>718722904
I bet having this in Indian houses would be an instant quality of life improvement. (Just add a seat for it that's not steel and its comfy.)

>>718727614
It's a 2 episode softcore hentai from over 20 years ago.
They never released soundtracks for those.

Favorite towns in 3?

>>718727996
> This dude made africans pick they cotton!
Oh my, kek. Bet you got porn mods on to fuck dem african slaves?

>>718727996
Roaring Heights
Midnight Hollow
Twinbrook

I'd like Bridgeport but it's too buggy.

>>718722463
>a toilet or any kind of cooking appliance
the showers RIGHT there anon

>>718727950
>They never released soundtracks for those.
38-year-old here Never heard/saw of it, unsurprisingly, but you telling me it was 2 episodes of "Building Mode" music I've never heard before is SCARRING, bro. I love that music and your teasing hurts...

>>718728592
What about shitting then? And am I supposed to cook food by turning the shower as hot as it can go?

>>718728113
I'm sure some hosting site has it so you can listen to it that way.
Also i was wrong, it's 30 years old.

>>718728738
garbage disposal in the shower is the trick

>>718728738
the ol waffle stomp

Here's a million dollar idea. Sims 4 but it's Sims 3

>>718728818
>>718728614
And by hosting site, I mean the episodes themselves.
Just be warned They kill the puppy at the end.

Based.
I respect even Sims 2's soundtrack. It's wildly different, more aloof, but really unique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqXy3MthhDM

I haven't played sims since early Sims 3, probably had the most fun with 2. I remember that their site had a section you could download mods pretty easily, I would often get edited furniture or sims based off celebrities

>>718729896
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH1oCP2K-Lc

>>718730034
That one was playable on the CD players, right?
https://youtu.be/q9JKmikT6_Y?list=PL2B7B73ED10E4FEA8

>>718722904
>had to replace the toilet in my mother's house
>cheapest option was 300 bucks
Why the fuck do they cost so much?

>>718730151
Sorry, I can't remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-kPWGfF5UU

https://youtu.be/EoNcrYO-aqc
I remember this type of music was everywhere back then. When I was a kid I'd get up early and watch a news segment that showed live camera feeds from various parts of the country that had some ambient jazz in the background. It was so fucking comfy seeing the foggy landscape with those smooth sounds.

>>718705873 (OP)
low key thought it was project zomboid for a second

>>718730580
>I remember this type of music was everywhere back then.
>When I was a kid I'd get up early and watch a news segment that showed live camera feeds
>from various parts of the country
>that had some ambient jazz in the background.
>It was so fucking comfy seeing the foggy landscape with those smooth sounds.
You're speaking about having cable television and EVERYONE turning on The Weather Channel for their daily forecast, which would play as "Local on the 8s" with an ambient light-jazz musical track playing. Or Christmas holiday songs if it was December.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDZ5UY_oDw

are both 1 and 2 legacy worth buying?

>>718732916
>>718730580
ENTER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
Nintendo support used to us this before they switched over to Ocarina of Time music.

>>718732916
>>718733421
It was czech tv but definitely similar in style. Damn those were the days.
The turn of the millennium, damn everything felt so optimistic.
Thanks, anons. Great songs.

the sims build themes is the reason I play piano

>>718706887
How am I gonna play the sims if there's no computer in the house

Playing Sims 1 is rather grindy. You need a decent amount of money if you think about renovating or adding new rooms.

>>718734441
We had cheats codes. I wasn't afraid to use "rosebud" as many times as possible to just keep building homes.

>played the sims 1 on console back in the day
>decide I want to play sims 1 on pc
>it doesn't have the story mode

for me it's buy mode 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnKUyE2peDw

>>718736905
The story is emergent.

>>718736561
>We had cheats codes.
So did I. It was the only way I played the game back when it was new. So I am playing it 'properly' now.

>>718736905
>console babies need their hand held through a story laid out for them
pathetic

>>718718009
>NTR'ing your male rivals for theirs...
that's not true and it doesn't fit

>>718738959
if you didn't attempt to woohoo every attractive sim you came across you weren't a man of any color

the 3 arrows fast forward basically ruins the game for me. I become addicted to using it and then I screw up and miss stuff because of it.