The Biggest Time Sucker Ever Invented
Posted by Lynnster on June 17, 2008
Kat Coble posted the other day about the coming release of The Sims 3. I have a love-hate relationship with The Sims. I love playing with Sims because it’s fun and I could sit there for 15 hours straight every day playing with them. I hate it because it’s fun and I could sit there for 15 hours straight every day playing with them.
I actually broke myself of the habit not too long after The Sims 2 came out. My computer couldn’t run it very well, so I never really got it into the second version, and much later on when I had a computer that was sufficient, I just never installed it. I went back to playing with the original edition for a while, but eventually I kicked the habit… not without having spent countless more hours building a couple of new neighborhoods though.
That actually was the best ever Sims period I had because that was when I built the Twin Peaks Sims neighborhood. I had every house populated with Twin Peaks folk – Pete & Catherine Martell and Josie Packard in one (naturally Josie and Catherine hated each other), the Palmers in another, the Haywards in another, and so on… and my best Sims house ever, the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department – all of them plus Agent Cooper lived together, and it was the greatest house. I built it on one of the empty lots and made it look very police station-y on the outside, and it had EVERYTHING. At one point, there was nothing left for me to buy for it because I had played that house so much and had bought everything there was to buy and stuck it in there. What a great house. Yeah, I’m twelve.
I think I still have the files on my computer. Hmm… nononononono I better not…!
squirrelqueen said
I’ve been intrigued by it, but never played. Newscoma’s niece is hooked and has several different versions of the game.