The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!

Let’s discuss The Sims. What is your favorite game in the series? What aspects do you like about it? What doesn’t work for you? Are there other games that gave you similar feelings? Feel free to share any thoughts that come up, or react to other peoples comments. Let’s get the conversation going!

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  • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I can’t think of another game that I like so much and enjoy playing so little. I will spend countless hours creating families and houses and then five minutes playing the actual game before I’m like “oh, right, I hate this” and then I start making another family.

    • Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      I loved the building, but I find the other half of the gameplay quite boring. Some of the more focused games i thought were a bit better, but it’s been quite some time since I’ve played them.

      I really enjoyed the GBA titles

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        I loved the building, but I find the other half of the gameplay quite boring.

        i would spend hours using cheats to create the perfect house for the sims family and then lose interest within 30 minutes of letting the family do its thing.

        i would rinse and repeat with each house becoming more elaborate and strange each time; they should make a game that focuses on that aspect of it more

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 months ago

      The thing that helped me felt very counterintuitive, but I ended up just picking one family member as a ‘main’ character, and letting the rest run on their own.

      My instinct is always to try and micro-manage everyone in the household, which gets stressful quickly. If I focus on one person and let the rest just generate their own stories I tend to last a lot longer.