The Sims 2 - anyone got it yet?

I haven't looked at mine for ages, got sick of them a while ago but now you have reminded me....

I don't have much to do this week though, so I should work my way into it a bit more.

It is very beautiful, filled a kind of lush comic realism om all its details, and I'm looking forward to games with a near-Tolstoyan epic sweep of families and generations. Other than that, it's still too early for me to say how much of an improvement the sequel is.

it comes with a free girlfriend?

If you have a T&L capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM then you need at least:
800 MHz processor or better
256 MB RAM if Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000
At least 3.5 GB of hard drive space
If you have a non-T&L capable video card (an Intel Extreme Graphics or a Radeon 7000/VE Series) then you need at least:
2.0 GHz processor or better
256 MB RAM if Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98, or Windows 2000
At least 3.5 GB of hard drive space

Supported video cards (and the more video memory the better):

ATI RadeonTM series (7000 or better)
Radeon 7000/VE series (non-T&L; requires 2.0 GHz processor)
7200, 7500
8500, All-In-Wonder 8500
9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800
X300, X600, X800

Nvidia® QuadroTM series
Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4

Nvidia® Geforce series (GeForce2 and better)
GeForce2
GeForce3, 3 Ti
GeForce4, 4Ti, MX 420, 440
GeForce FX 5200, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950
GeForce 6600, 6800

Intel® Extreme Graphics (non-T&L; requires 2.0 GHz processor)
82845, 82865, 82915

The main thing thats important is the video card. If your card isnt a fairly recent Geforce/Nvidia style card, you might have problems. Its already been found by some people that the onboard Intel 818125 or wtf ever that ones called doesnt work with the game. My card, bafflingly, is an SiS but it seems to work - JUST. It looks like total shit tho.

No real need to wait for expansion packs as long as Maxis/EA either: release an officially supported object making/tweaking plugin for, say, 3DS Max, so that people can make stuff and upload it to the Exchange thats already on the site (much like they've done with Sim City4)... or, if they decide not to do this, some 3rd party out there will inevitably code one eventually.

Maxis are silly. They made a tool for making ones own objects/lots for simcity 4 and let people exchange them all for free on the site. They never did this for the Sims - people coded their own eventually - and this led to 3rd parties charging for their objects and furniture which obviously Maxis would not want, but its their own fault!

Anyway I could go on about that daft business decision forever but I'll shut up now. I cant wait til I get my money together for me new PC...

So I got her to chat up her best friend Oberon and they totally hit it off and snogged and then I made her propose to him and ask him to move in. Then a little woo-hooing...

...and it was only then I realised that Oberon was Biancas best friend, along with HIS FIANCEE TITANIA. And their kids.

I STOLE MY BEST FRIENDS BOYFRIEND OMG. I feel so ashamed.

I'm planning on buying a system with 1gb RAM and those new PCI express slots, that should do the trick. And cost me a ton but eh. I wont have to upgrade again for years.

Henry Merritt. Kind of straight-laced. In the military. Very buff.

http://www.epicharmus.com/Henry.jpg

http://www.epicharmus.com/Jake%201.jpg

http://www.epicharmus.com/Patrick.jpg

I wish my in game grafx looked that nice :(

Other than reaching the household income level of about $2,000 - $3,000, there wasn't the slightest obstacle to Henry and Jake adopting. In fact, since they were also created with the family aspiration, the game kept pushing and pushing me to get them to adopt.

OMG Mandee haha thats cool.

The other day a sim had friends over to visit, and one beeotch walked in and helped herself to my money tree! Humf.

Aw, Michael, Henry and Jake are *adorable*. Now I want gay spice.

first Sims 2 expansion announced:
http://thesims2.ea.com/news/detail.php?id=269

Monday , November 22, 2004
Sims 2 to Expand: Sims 2 University in the Works!
The Sims are going to college. Pillowfights and togas on tap!

...Pranks, parties and college social interactions add to the excitement while your Sims explore campus locations such as college lounges, pool halls, gyms and coffee houses. As in real life, if your Sims start running low on funds, they can earn Simoleans by picking up a part time job, like tutoring, or engaging in riskier affairs like printing money as a member of the "secret society."

or STRIPPING. oh yeah, you're "workin' your way thru college", ain'tcha?

still, how could they simulate university life without vomiting, bad drugs, and crushing, devastating loneliness?

yet.

sims3 anyone? new thread?

perfect implementation imo. only about 4 hours in, but it's exactly as the sims should be/have been.

this isn't ILG.

Christ, this thread is nearly 5 years old.

Haven't got 3 yet, but will probably grab it tonight and have a go.

Er, I bought it ON IPHONE.

I want the Sims3, it looks amazing! But I'm gonna wait til the bigs are ironed out and at least one expansion's out because like Sims2, its back to the start - no clubs, restaurants, ... NO HOT TUB WTF!?

SIMS 3 SUCKS ITS BORING

Coming from as hardkor a Simsite as you thats suprising Mands! Explain?

tbh there's a lot in sims3 at release, and I've not come across any bugs yet.

i know what you're saying Trayce wrt waiting for an expansion, but it's not like going from TS1 to TS2, which was like walking into a complete wasteland. There's a lot included in TS3 and plenty to do from the get-go.

also imo the biggest drawback of TS2 was the huge loading time whenever you went anywhere, which rendered most of the expansions null & void. Sure, my Sims had clubs, restaurants, bars to go to, ran businesses, could go on holidays, but after the first two days of novelty newness, I could never bring myself to make my sims leave the home lot, or I'd have to go fix myself a drink and smoke a cigarette while it loaded the content. Then the same again when they went home. GNNNGH.

Just for removing this massive annoyance, TS3 gets my vote. Despite less content, my sims actually do more stuff.

This should be moved to ILG.

I think I started this thread before ILG existed!

yah, me too. just sayin'.

I'm liking this so far, they've made it pretty much impossible to max your character out early so you need to put some more thought into things and, yeah, it's so much easier to go and visit the community lots now.

There seem to be a few Arrested Development references in this, I noticed on the character creation screen I could make my character a never-nude if I wanted, and now one of my sims has met someone called "Gobias Koffi".

Best mate lent me his laptop while mine's flaked out and he's installed this on it. It's pretty damn good! Not missing anywhere near as much as I'd feared, and the whole-town fluidity completely changes the game dynamic - esp as you can be distracted by something but still rock up to work a bit late, rather than just miss the hour window (or leave early, if you want to face that wrath).

My sim's a guitar playin' band manager who likes growing veggies and cooking. She'll whip out the acoustic and annoy people in the park at any given opportunity. I'm sick of her night-owl hours though, it's made socialising pretty difficult even though there seem to be people around town at all hours!