video game The Sims | Life and Death

[Hair]

I haven't had a chance to play L&D, but I did hop on for an hour or two the other night to blitz out the Reaper's Reward challenge before it ends, I didn't want to miss out on the limited time stuff  Might play this weekend as I've seen that it's one of the best EPs they have developed, and Ravenwood looks great.

[poki]

49 minutes ago, Hair said:

I haven't had a chance to play L&D, but I did hop on for an hour or two the other night to blitz out the Reaper's Reward challenge before it ends, I didn't want to miss out on the limited time stuff  Might play this weekend as I've seen that it's one of the best EPs they have developed, and Ravenwood looks great.

Make your sim cook hamburger cakes and fruitcakes and you'll max out the required culinary skills within 1 IRL hour 

 

Bucket lists >>>> Aspirations and Wants & Fears. Too good to be a DLC feature. 

[poki]

PokiNews Update:

 

- InZoi early access delayed to March 2025 

- There is no scheduled release date for Paralives

- Will Wright reveals new game powered by AI 

[poki]

I've seen a lot of "Even heavily modded Sims 2/3 isn't fun anymore" type of posts online lately and respectfully, I think if Sims 2/3 isn't fun for you, it's a you problem, not a Sims problem. 

[Bloodflowers.]

The amount of time I wasted stargazing and searching for UFOs in one of my nerd Sim household only for him to finally get abducated by aliens and then returned back without being impregnated with an alien baby, OHHH WILL WRIGHT WHEN I CATCH YOUUU

 

Anyways, just moved in a Bigfoot in my household. The only thing left for me is to get a werewolf sim, a plantsim, a vampire sim and a witch sim, as well as build my own robot sim prostitute and then I will collect all of these uncommon Sims (not the in same household, but in the same 4 family apartment lot so they can all hangout and be besties as I change households between them)

 

 

[poki]

Brandi was adopted

Daniel was meant to be with Cassandra

SimCity is San Francisco

Pleasantview is Sausalito 

Don Lothario is George Clooney

 

 

 

[poki]

Apparently Sims Community leaked content from an unreleased kit when they revealed the items for the new pajamas DLC 

 

Spoiler

Business suits and heels. 

 

[Bloodflowers.]

 

 

This house lot renovation for the Curious brothers family is crazy

 

 

 

[poki]

5 hours ago, Bloodflowers. said:

 

 

This house lot renovation for the Curious brothers family is crazy

 

 

 

I NEED the rainbow honeycomb bed swatch in 16:39 in real life. 

[Bloodflowers.]

 

The amount of cool content that was cut!  I kinda think Power aspiration is similar with Fortune aspiration, that's why it got cut out. 

 

The electricity outage and rain being initially part of the Sims 2 base game but were cut because they couldn't figure out in time how to make it rain without raining on the inside house in time

 

Wish they added electricity outage in Seasons tho, oh well...

 

 

Here's Sims 2 open world mod that works as best as it can for a Sims 2 game (remember Open World wasn't initially coded in their program so it's difficult to execute it properly. They used a mod that allows community lots and residentual lot with apartment houses used in 1 lot as well as roads. I think if they can figure out how to make bigger lot sites, they could make a great open world but only limited to 4 families in it cause of apartment life limits. You could still use more houses that would get occupied by NPCs tho.) Ughhh, if only they released remastered Sims 2 same game but open world and customization of colors in clothes and objects

 

[poki]

On 11/16/2024 at 6:35 AM, Bloodflowers. said:

 

The amount of cool content that was cut!  I kinda think Power aspiration is similar with Fortune aspiration, that's why it got cut out. 

 

The electricity outage and rain being initially part of the Sims 2 base game but were cut because they couldn't figure out in time how to make it rain without raining on the inside house in time

 

Wish they added electricity outage in Seasons tho, oh well...

 

 

Here's Sims 2 open world mod that works as best as it can for a Sims 2 game (remember Open World wasn't initially coded in their program so it's difficult to execute it properly. They used a mod that allows community lots and residentual lot with apartment houses used in 1 lot as well as roads. I think if they can figure out how to make bigger lot sites, they could make a great open world but only limited to 4 families in it cause of apartment life limits. You could still use more houses that would get occupied by NPCs tho.) Ughhh, if only they released remastered Sims 2 same game but open world and customization of colors in clothes and objects

 

Power was apparently meant to be for a cancelled Celebrities DLC. I have a theory the reason why the Sims 2 Store had so many glamorous outfits was because those were for that DLC.

There was meant to be another aspiration called Crafter which had all its wants added to Popularity. That's why Popularity sims love creativity (low key a genius move, you have to put yourself out there and be charismatic if you want your art to be known).

There's also a cancelled lifetime want related to aliens, still exists in the code. 

 

And apparently this exists in the game code too:

 

[Bloodflowers.]

33 minutes ago, poki said:

Power was apparently meant to be for a cancelled Celebrities DLC. I have a theory the reason why the Sims 2 Store had so many glamorous outfits was because those were for that DLC.

There was meant to be another aspiration called Crafter which had all its wants added to Popularity. That's why Popularity sims love creativity (low key a genius move, you have to put yourself out there and be charismatic if you want your art to be known).

There's also a cancelled lifetime want related to aliens, still exists in the code. 

 

And apparently this exists in the game code too:

 

 

Celebrities kinda sorta is similar to Nightlife. Sims 3 Late Night was basically Nightlife 2.0 but they added the concept of celebrity DLC with 5 stars popularity there!

 

Oh, Crafter sounds dope! Those wants and fears aspirations are so cool because I always play the game based on aspirations I feel like making! I try avoiding fears as much as possible except if my romance Sim has a fear of having a baby, but I need every Sim to have at least one child to pass down generation and be in my family tree once they are long gone

 

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New video just dropped!!

 

[Adam’s Eve]

On 11/14/2024 at 2:41 AM, poki said:

Brandi was adopted

Daniel was meant to be with Cassandra

What makes you think this? I'm just curious as I'm obsessed with Sims lore and love to hear other peoples takes and theories on things.

 

Now that we're on the topic, why did I only recently discover EA's references to Brandi being a prostitute? 

 

Let's discuss atrl 

[poki]

1 hour ago, Adam's Eve said:

What makes you think this? I'm just curious as I'm obsessed with Sims lore and love to hear other peoples takes and theories on things.

 

Now that we're on the topic, why did I only recently discover EA's references to Brandi being a prostitute? 

 

Let's discuss atrl 

Here's how I came up with these theories 

 

Brandi:

In the Sims 1, Cassandra exists and goes to school while Brandi is nowhere to be found. 25 years later in the lore, Brandi exists. Thus realistically Brandi could at most be 24 if she was born to the Newbie family. But somehow has a ~16 years old son, Dustin.

Cassandra has 26 days to become an elder. 

Brandi has 22 days to become an elder. So she is older than Cassandra. 

 

Daniel & Cassandra:

Sims 1 day-one edition had 3 kids in the playable households: Daniel & Jenny who are brother and sister, and Cassandra. If you add Unleashed, you get Johnny too.

 

Johnny + Jenny seems intended based on their names, which leaves Daniel + Cassandra. 

 

Sims lore is super for me 

[Adam’s Eve]

7 hours ago, poki said:

Here's how I came up with these theories 

 

Brandi:

In the Sims 1, Cassandra exists and goes to school while Brandi is nowhere to be found. 25 years later in the lore, Brandi exists. Thus realistically Brandi could at most be 24 if she was born to the Newbie family. But somehow has a ~16 years old son, Dustin.

Cassandra has 26 days to become an elder. 

Brandi has 22 days to become an elder. So she is older than Cassandra. 

 

Daniel & Cassandra:

Sims 1 day-one edition had 3 kids in the playable households: Daniel & Jenny who are brother and sister, and Cassandra. If you add Unleashed, you get Johnny too.

 

Johnny + Jenny seems intended based on their names, which leaves Daniel + Cassandra. 

 

Sims lore is super for me 

That actually makes a lot of sense for Brandi, I can't believe I didn't think of it before.

 

Also isn't it strange that Cassandra is best friends with Mary-Sue who is a lot older than her. Her memories say they were childhood friends but Mary-Sue would've been a teen when Cassandra was a child. I guess it's still possible but it just seems odd that she didn't have any friends her age, Jennifer would've made more sense.

 

The inconsistency with ages between the games is really interesting to me. For instance Michael Bachelor is described as being fresh out of college in TS1 yet his younger sister is married with a child. I think it would've made more sense if Michael was a toddler in TS3 and a deceased adult in TS2 (they even could've alluded to Dina having killed him off, rather than him dying of old age).

 

Also where the hell are my girls Chris and Melissa Roomies at? Bring back the scissor sisters Maxis, I beg!

[Attitude]

Girl, what is this? FEMA camp? 

 

 

[poki]

On 11/19/2024 at 7:12 PM, Adam's Eve said:

That actually makes a lot of sense for Brandi, I can't believe I didn't think of it before.

 

Also isn't it strange that Cassandra is best friends with Mary-Sue who is a lot older than her. Her memories say they were childhood friends but Mary-Sue would've been a teen when Cassandra was a child. I guess it's still possible but it just seems odd that she didn't have any friends her age, Jennifer would've made more sense.

 

The inconsistency with ages between the games is really interesting to me. For instance Michael Bachelor is described as being fresh out of college in TS1 yet his younger sister is married with a child. I think it would've made more sense if Michael was a toddler in TS3 and a deceased adult in TS2 (they even could've alluded to Dina having killed him off, rather than him dying of old age).

 

Also where the hell are my girls Chris and Melissa Roomies at? Bring back the scissor sisters Maxis, I beg!

Sims 1 doesn't make family relations between Bella and Michael so I assume that was a random "ooh what if they were related" moment the devs had all of a sudden for him.

Sims 3 lore is the worst, the maid Daniel has an affair with exists in that game. Which means she should be at least 50 years old in Sims 2. 

 

I like to believe this recent artwork for one of the new DLCs is meant to be Chris and Melissa 

I actually used that exact hairstyle for my version of Chris last year!

 

[poki]

 

This is all from promotional artwork released throughout 2024.

[poki]

I thought today marks 5 years of Discover University but it was actually October 21. The last pre-COVID expansion. It really was a different world back then. 

 

I like to spend 1 or 2 sim weeks on campus with 1 or 2 courses each semester, then cheat a diploma. 

Actually a lot of cool stuff in this DLC, low key top tier. 

[thatsmydemi]

Bought a copy of MySims Cozy Collection yesterday. The game looks so good and loading times are not a nightmare anymore. Hope the game sells well so that we can get a new entry. A 2025 MySims game with all the possible new features of games like this, Animal Crossing, etc. could be a SLAY. 

 

The shop assistant told me it was the last copy they had btw so maybe it's doing well  

[poki]

7 hours ago, thatsmydemi said:

Bought a copy of MySims Cozy Collection yesterday. The game looks so good and loading times are not a nightmare anymore. Hope the game sells well so that we can get a new entry. A 2025 MySims game with all the possible new features of games like this, Animal Crossing, etc. could be a SLAY. 

 

The shop assistant told me it was the last copy they had btw so maybe it's doing well  

It's out of stock on Amazon too 

[Hair]

I don't know if any of you guys visit fansites, but does anyone know what's happened to SimsCommunity.info ? The last post on their website was about L&D, no mention of the new creator kits, X was last updated at the beginning of Nov with a link to Bluesky, but there's no posts over there. Seems a bit odd, and I haven't seen anyone talking about it online either. 

[RihannaLoverrr]

 

Been playing this game for like almost 20 years, knew these facial templates were supposed to represent different races. However, had 0 clue that they had (potentially) named the templates after each country/region they're based on. 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2024 by RihannaLoverrr

[poki]

21 hours ago, Hair said:

I don't know if any of you guys visit fansites, but does anyone know what's happened to SimsCommunity.info ? The last post on their website was about L&D, no mention of the new creator kits, X was last updated at the beginning of Nov with a link to Bluesky, but there's no posts over there. Seems a bit odd, and I haven't seen anyone talking about it online either. 

I assume the fact Sims Community promoted leaked assets from an assumed 2025 DLC as if it were assets from the pajamas DLC may have a role in this sudden departure. 

 

Edit: Actually the assets are still up so EA doesn't care LOL. 

 

Maybe early holiday then?

[poki]

On 11/23/2024 at 12:16 PM, Hair said:

I don't know if any of you guys visit fansites, but does anyone know what's happened to SimsCommunity.info ? The last post on their website was about L&D, no mention of the new creator kits, X was last updated at the beginning of Nov with a link to Bluesky, but there's no posts over there. Seems a bit odd, and I haven't seen anyone talking about it online either. 

Sims Community is back 

Looks like indeed they banked on an early holiday but EA decided to surprise us with a Christmas themed event. 

 

https://simscommunity.info/2024/11/26/sims-4-holiday-live-event-teaser/