The scarecrow
amjoie:
They must either be smoking something, or just be warped. I have seriously wondered about the creaters of the Sims 2. They call it a wacky sense of humor, etc. But I find nothing humorous about their purposeful creation of the impovershed, the mismatched, the colorless, and the truly ugly; all when they could have created sometihing elegant, colorful, and beautiful -- or at least something balanced somewhere between the two extremes.
I also don't appreciate their sadistic fetish about killing off my Sims. Especially killing them with things that should normally be wonderful parts of life, like sitting in front of a warm fire on a cold night, or gathering around a Christmas tree to celebrate. I customize and mod everything to bits -- all so I can play a decent game, pleasing to my eye, without burying most of my Sims before their very short lifespan has been fulfilled. If I wanted some adreniline pumping slaughter, I'd buy a shooter. I play the Sims to relax and enjoy myself.
Come to think of it, I remember being told in Sims 1 that the price of having eternal sims, was some chances of accidental death in the game. Well, now my Sims are NOT eternal, by purposeful design, and STILL MaxisEA adds *multiple* new ways for them to accidentally die with practically *every* expansion.
Think about it for a moment. If you have all the expansions up to and including Seasons, and you play without a protective mod in your game, what are the odds your Sim will never live long enough to become an elder?? He/she can die from kissing too long, sitting in a hot tub too long, eating spoiled food, sitting by the pool too long, running with a scissors, catching a random plague, getting hit by lightening, getting hit by hail, getting burned up while cooking or sitting in front of a fireplace, taking an elevator ride, getting burned up from being too close to a Christmas tree or outdoor Christmas ornament, running on the treadmill to long, getting hit by falling sky debris, fixing a broken appliance (even if the Sim is skilled to the max), flying a kite, drowning in the pool, or too much whoopee. And if he is sloppy, he can even die from a sudden attack of flies. In addition, female Sims can also die of pregnancy, even if their hunger never goes into the red. (I may be forgetting some other peril, there are so many.) And all that isn't even counting the chance to become the undead because of a wandering vampire autonomously biting him or her.
Trying to avoid death in this game is like constantly dodging a bullet, if you don't have protective mods. Ridiculous ....
witch:
Gawd blimey, I wish it were so. I've never had a single accidental death in the entire sims 2 run, bar fire, even then the pleading with the grim reaper usually works. Or resurrection. I wish there was MORE realistic random illness and death in the game. I wish kids could die. Or sims during childbirth. Actually I really want it to be autonomous, I won't direct my sims to die but I'm looking forward to the first lightning strike. My sims eat and play outside in the rain continuously but no luck so far.
Orikes:
Quote from: amjoie on 2007 March 27, 03:06:08
Trying to avoid death in this game is like constantly dodging a bullet, if you don't have protective mods. Ridiculous ....
And for all your complaints about it, there are people out there that complain there aren't enough ways to kill sims, or that they're too invulnerable, or, etc. I understand your point, but if the game isn't what you wanted it to be, don't play it. Or just happily make and use mods to make it more like what you want.
Honestly, I get tired at all the bitching people do about games when they're not exactly as people wanted it to be. It gets taken to a zen level that just makes me want to scream at people to stop playing the game if they hate it that much.
Nailati:
Quote from: amjoie on 2007 March 27, 03:06:08
can die from kissing too long
what
Quote from: Orikes on 2007 March 27, 04:42:55
It gets taken to a zen level that just makes me want to scream at people to stop playing the game if they hate it that much.
If it were at a "zen level," then you would be unperturbed by it.
fff:
Amjoie, a lot of those deaths you mentioned - kissing too long, drowning in the pool, too much woohoo - only occur if the player is not paying attention to the game and fails to notice that the needs bar (hunger or energy) is getting dangerously low. So those are avoidable deaths, and you really only have yourself to blame if your Sim died just because you didn't notive their hunger bar was in the red. Also, the running with scissors death was only possible if you downloaded the object - if you didn't want your Sims to risk death, then get rid of the download, there are plenty of other ways for your Sims to increase their fun.
FWIW, I agree with Witch - I wish there were more chances for random death - the ones already in the game (hit by satellite, swarm of flies etc.) all seem to have a pretty low chance of happening. For as long as I've played TS2 (which was since it first came out) I have seen NO satellite deaths, NO fly swarm deaths, no hail deaths, nothing. The only 'accidental' deaths I have ever had were ones caused by deliberately taking out the pool ladders. ;D
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