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vovatI sometimes get the desire to play The Sims 2, but even though it's installed on my computer, I don't have up-to-date game data. I THINK I might still have it on my old hard drive, but I haven't yet gotten around to getting stuff from that old computer. Is there an easier way to do that than actually hooking up the entire computer? (Since no one answered this question the other times I asked it, I assume it'll be the same this time, but I figure I might as well give it one more shot.) It's probably not a good time to install it now anyway, since I'm working full-time this week, and have other stuff to do as well. Really, even playing another video game is more productive, since at least those tend to have actual goals. But anyway, I do think of the series every once in a while, especially when I see someone mention Bella, the main character (and I use that term loosely, as I hear she really doesn't HAVE much character beyond wanting a man) from Twilight. It always makes me think of Bella Goth from the games, who seems less likely to take crap from abusive supernatural creatures. She's a pre-made character in the original Sims, mysteriously disappeared as of The Sims 2 (most likely abducted by aliens), and apparently a kid in The Sims 3. No, she wasn't mysteriously de-aged, but I guess that game is a prequel of sorts if you play with the established characters. I have yet to try The Sims 3, and while I'd like to play it someday, I've heard you have less control over the Sims themselves in that one, which would probably take some getting used to.
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bethje nor I kept her that way. Beth married her to Michael Bachelor, but later games reveal that they're actually siblings. Not that I blame Beth for this, since there was no way to know this at the time. In fact, it's likely the game developers hadn't even made it up yet. In my own first Sims game, she was married in turn to Erdrick and his roommate Kandar, both of whom are characters from Dragon Quest III. After Kandar and Bella got together and had a daughter named Maria, Erdrick married the daughter of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, whom I also made into a Sim. The choice of these characters was not totally arbitrary, either. The end of DQ3 says that Erdrick mysteriously disappeared, and the first FF (the English translation, anyway) has his grave in Elfland. As for Cecil, he shows up in The Secret of Evermore, implying that both of these characters did some world-jumping. I'd actually made some plans for a story about Erdrick's adventures with the reformed Kandar, but I never got too far. Honestly, I was a little embarrassed about even writing it, but the idea tends to come to mind when I'm bored at work. Hey, at the IRS a few years ago, I developed a back story about Erdrick and Kandar eventually settling in Oz, and the N Team discovering the remnants of their old home years later. Yes, when I get into a certain frame of mind, I come up with crossovers between Oz books, video games, and old Saturday morning cartoons ABOUT video games. Sometimes I mix in classical mythology as well. It's probably all too ridiculously complicated for me to bother writing any of it down, and I doubt anyone who didn't have pretty much exactly the same interests as me would want to read it anyway. The Oz series and the early Dragon Quest games both have fairly small fanbases (in the English-speaking world, anyway), and perhaps the number of people familiar with both can be counted on one hand.
This post was kind of all over the place, wasn't it? Well, now you know a little more about how my mind works, I suppose.
Anyway, while Bella is officially married to Mortimer, neither
bethje nor I kept her that way. Beth married her to Michael Bachelor, but later games reveal that they're actually siblings. Not that I blame Beth for this, since there was no way to know this at the time. In fact, it's likely the game developers hadn't even made it up yet. In my own first Sims game, she was married in turn to Erdrick and his roommate Kandar, both of whom are characters from Dragon Quest III. After Kandar and Bella got together and had a daughter named Maria, Erdrick married the daughter of Cecil from Final Fantasy IV, whom I also made into a Sim. The choice of these characters was not totally arbitrary, either. The end of DQ3 says that Erdrick mysteriously disappeared, and the first FF (the English translation, anyway) has his grave in Elfland. As for Cecil, he shows up in The Secret of Evermore, implying that both of these characters did some world-jumping. I'd actually made some plans for a story about Erdrick's adventures with the reformed Kandar, but I never got too far. Honestly, I was a little embarrassed about even writing it, but the idea tends to come to mind when I'm bored at work. Hey, at the IRS a few years ago, I developed a back story about Erdrick and Kandar eventually settling in Oz, and the N Team discovering the remnants of their old home years later. Yes, when I get into a certain frame of mind, I come up with crossovers between Oz books, video games, and old Saturday morning cartoons ABOUT video games. Sometimes I mix in classical mythology as well. It's probably all too ridiculously complicated for me to bother writing any of it down, and I doubt anyone who didn't have pretty much exactly the same interests as me would want to read it anyway. The Oz series and the early Dragon Quest games both have fairly small fanbases (in the English-speaking world, anyway), and perhaps the number of people familiar with both can be counted on one hand.This post was kind of all over the place, wasn't it? Well, now you know a little more about how my mind works, I suppose.
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Date: 2010-01-07 12:42 am (UTC)So what exactly do you do in The Sims in the first place? I've never played any of the games...you just make a bunch of people and then have them get married to each other?
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Date: 2010-01-09 04:55 pm (UTC)I know they did some re-translation for the Game Boy version, so maybe he had a different name? He was the thief who stole the King of Romaly's crown and kidnapped the pepper merchant's daughter.
So what exactly do you do in The Sims in the first place? I've never played any of the games...you just make a bunch of people and then have them get married to each other?
It's mostly about controlling the lives and environments of virtual people. You can get them to interact with each other and objects in their home, get jobs, and make friends and enemies. It's more fun than it sounds, really. And yes, you can make your Sims get married, but that's not exactly central to the game. Well, I guess it COULD be, since the gameplay is rather flexible.