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I've been plagued by this question for awhile so I made a short video on it. This by no means encompasses every thought or theory I have about the subject, I just really wanted to get it off my chest lol. Join me next time for Part 2 ;)
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Because its amazing. What kind of dumbass question is this!
Jk love your videos 😚
love all your videos! 😍 can you make a video about Maybell Watson on Henford Bagley and what might have happened to her?
I got into the sims around 8-9 years old and my childhood wasn’t so great. I loved to make huge families that were successful and closely knit because I knew my life wasn’t like that. Amazing vid ! 💕
I'm sorry you went threw that but i wish you the best luck and abundance of happiness for the rest of your life ☆
Exactly what I did too. The sims really allowed me to express myself in ways that I never could or was allowed to in front of my parents. I could have a happy life with the huge family I always wanted.
@@Eriana-ju1jq thank you so much ❤️ i wish the same to you as well ❤️❤️
@@HNF1294 yes! i dont think the creators understand how they helped us as children.. the sims is the greatest game to exist 😫
Same 😅 best therapy.
As a kid I loved playing with my Barbie, Monster High, and Ever After High dolls. When I discovered the Sims, it was like a digital extension of playing with those favourite dolls of mine. Now my sims have too many kids and the entire town is a hot mess. 😆
(Also congrats on Yuki! 🐶)
I've not played the sims in a while but for me it was always about creating stories. I do remember using it as a way to escape when I was having a rough time in school, but I did that with a lot of games, not just the sims. What I love about the sims is the level of creativity it gives you, but also the factor of chaos and randomness (which honestly is the main reason why I've found it so hard to get in to the sims 4, everything is way too easy to control and predict for me). I've never really cared for the 'recreating real life' aspect personally, and the sims gave me a place where I could fully express myself in a way that I could never do in real life. As well as that, as an autistic person, it's helped me to learn a lot about how people work in real life social settings, and I feel like it's helped me so much more than I probably even realise in that aspect. I'm very glad that this is a series of games I got to grow up with. I probably wouldn't even have got in to game design or 3D rendering without it.
When I as a kid and had no idea how to have a conversation and understand people and myself, I used to think about the real world as if it was the sims. Something has happened --> they got that red square that made their mood worse --> that's why they don't want to do something. I feel bad --> my needs aren't full -- I need to sleep/eat/talk/whatever else.
I learnt to understand the real life through the lense of the sims, and now it feels silly, but it was really-really helpful before xd
Other than this, the way you described your playstyle is exactly the way I play this game, and exactly the reason I dislike the sims 4 😄
@@alsy6813 I feel the same way, I would often use the sims to make sense of the real world growing up (and even sometimes now as an adult haha). I don't think it's silly to have learned how to make sense of real life through the sims. I think a lot more people probably use it to help them learn about the world than you might expect, it's a really useful game in that aspect
The dollhouse idea is what attracted me to the game! There's only so much room in someone's home to build physical dollhouses. With Sims, I can have as many as my computer will allow.
The Sims was my creative outlet as a child, it’s also how I discovered my things about myself.
I learned so much about myself from my Simself
I play the Sims because of a psychologically I want to create (and see) perfect families where everyone really loves each other and there is no problems. I want to make a perfect world because in reality my world isn’t perfect at all. It’s an escape of reality and a way to expand my imagination! It helped me block a lot of things that would happen around me while I played and I became so engrossed as a kid that I know every song from the soundtrack of Sims 2 & 3
Exactly the sims is an escape from this absurd world to me. An escape from reality
My dad loved the sims and he let me play one time when I was 10 and it was over from there! I’ve played since and it’s always been a fun escape from life for me.
I remember my dad going with me to Walmart at midnight to get the sims 3 game when it was released 😂❤️
Miss my dad so much. 🥺♥️
That’s so sweet! Glad you had those memories with him. 🥺 my dad is also the one that basically got me into the sims because I saw him playing it. When the sims 3 came out, my dad used to buy me the expansion packs for Christmas because he knew my obsession with the sims.
Wait that’s so sad I’m sorry bout your dad
@@Mattmurdockswife216 thank you, he passed away 7 years ago from cancer. I miss him dearly. I play the sims every few days. I think it helps me connect with him in a way. 💛
@@Dstny25 that’s awesome!! Our dads are so special 💛✨
@@KourttneyL no problem hun again I am so f’ing sorry hope your alright❤️❤️😕
It's literally where i go and everything is perfect(unless i decide it's not going to be😈) bottom line is i have full control while living in a world i can't control!
Love this. Makes perfect sense, especially these days.
@@eddaporzio9395 yes the creativity of the Sims makes it such a good game! 👍
😂😂😂😂😮😮
I play for the same reasons I played with my dolls growing up. I can create whatever drama I want and tell any stories I want without anyone actually getting hurt. I also get a sense of control that is unattainable in reality, which helps my anxiety.
Love this, very well put ❤️
For me it's the storytelling. I always wanted to be an author growing up. The Sims lets me create my characters and their worlds, then let their stories unfold, sometimes in unexpected ways. It is a stress free, entertaining way to make my dream of writing come true.
I play sims as a way to escape stress. Especially when I first started college (Except when my sims go to university and I get pulled back into reality) and after a recent breakup.
I like playing sims 2 pre-mades because of the unique stories tied to the dysfunctional families of Pleasantview, the oddities of Strangetown, and the drama of Veronaville. I would play them and see what choices I can make for them in life and see how it ends up as they grow older.
For me playing the sims was an escape from a bad time when i was a child. i would always get in trouble for being a boy that played with Barbie or a or a doll house of some sort because of being ridiculed for being gay. So in a way it was a way to live freely. I got to see 2 men or women live together. i got to have parents that loved me unconditionally. i got to be myself and other people would just accept me for me. I wasn't ever good at sports so i would be able to do that and it was amazing. All in all it is an escape. Life was tough growing up and I'm so happy the sims was there for me. i do love my life where i am now but i like to think sims helped shape that.
PS: The community and the other people you meet IRL that play sims is one of the coolest things ever. hearing stories that are different or close to yours is a very incredible thing.
Aww, poor Yuki. She's precious.
And yes, I used to argue with my mom too because she was playing the Sims, after 🌟I🌟 was the one who talked her into getting it for us.
I was totally obsessed with Barbies as a kid, but never had a dollhouse because we were too poor.
Plus, I didn't have to animate the Barbies in my head, I could watch them immediately do what I told them to.
So yeah, I guess that's why? Plus a sense of accomplishment
I've definitely been playing to escape reality and drown my anxiety lately. I don't know if it's entirely healthy, to be honest, but I don't even really know how to deal with the world as it is right now.
It's funny, though, I've actually never really tortured my Sims before (unless you count minor stuff like having my sim give her teenage son the "woohoo talk" after he walked in on her and his dad). But I'm sure a big part of that is that I didn't play The Sims until my mid twenties, and at that point I mostly just wanted to build houses. It's only recently (and with the help of many mods) that I've really gotten into gameplay, and now I'm definitely a big-happy-family type of Simmer, lol. I like to live vicariously through them, so of course I want them to be happy.
Sims 1 released when I was 17. I feel old! Haha
I like the creativity of making sims and building lots. I also like causing drama between households. Family feuds and grudges are fun to play out. I’m also nosy and switching households and seeing what other households have been up to on their own is fun. Of course that’s more sims 2 & 3 than sims 4. Hopefully it gets better and they keep updating sims 4 to create better story progression. I really dislike forcing everything to happen in sims 4. I like the surprises you can find in all the older games. I guess I never cared about the doll house aspect of the game and don’t like the pretend style of play because I was always an older player from the start. I don’t want to pretend two sims have animosity for each other. I want them to actually act it all out on their own and watch the drama unfold as the game goes.
I was 15, so I feel ya there. Lol
An interesting thing that's been happening through time with my gameplays:
At first, all my sims had perfect lives and would never go through real problems. With time, they began going through harsher and harsher times, to the point I would make them miserable or broke on purpose.
Wonder what that means..
You just grew up I guess
Think we just need to lose control of our life a bit. Time goes by and we get more and more serious
Just saw this. For me, I play for the storytelling. As a kid (back in the stone age, I'm old af) I used to recreate shows I saw on tv with my barbies. So, when I came across the Sims 3, that was the draw. I think I may have owned either Sims 1 or 2, but I don't recall actually playing it. I got Sims 3 two months after my mom died. The first thing I did was try to create myself so I could play out my dream of being a writer. My simself looked exactly like my mom, and I've never done that again. I have favorite families I play (normally Claire Ursine, who I've created a whole backstory for), but watching your lore series has made me want to try other families.
I HAD THAT POLLY POCKET HOUSE. IT was great because it has so many cool little touches to add realism, the "washer" meant for putting glitter on the clothes, the bedroom, the kitchen, the little pans that came with the kitchen. My love of realistic doll playing and game play started with that toy specifically and similar ones. So cool to see!!!!
I used to be into dolls, barbies ect as a child and enjoy trying to figure out the world from the point of view from an inanimate object.
I also used to draw families in a comic book style at around 9ish, in order to attempt to figure out life from lots of different points of views.
I suppose this could be part of the reason I enjoy sims as an adult and still indulge with TS3 & TS4. Mostly I feel like it was a huge element of escapism as well as a point of relaxation. As long as I don't become too obsessed and actually occasionally indulge in my own life events, then the sims is completely harmless.
Me too. I wanted a simulation game badly before I knew sims existed
I've just always loved making characters and telling stories- my current dream job is somewhere around screenwriter/director- and in the sims I have so much freedom to do that without any pressure. I mainly play The Sims 3, and I think it just has so much character built into it that I don't ever feel like I have to force a story, or like it's leading me along. I get the chance to get to know my sims as characters all on their own, but I also still get to have my hand in crafting them and forming their individual stories.
I got into the sims 1 by going over to my friends and playing it. I was fascinated by building and fixing ea builds and still am. lol
I played it so I could bring all my pets and grandma back to life. It was therapeutic for me
This is an extremely accurate reason why I play the Sims. I started playing my senior year of high school, when my depression was at its worst and I had no hope in any future. So I’d create my own. I’m also a writer, so it helped me when I had writers block to create the person in the game and just watch them interact with things. It helped with major cases of writers block
"No matter how much she tried, Helen could not walk over the pizza box blocking the doorway"
This !!!!
I loved Sims as a child... And I got back Into it during my divorce and lockdown... My divorce from my abusive husband... I didn't have kids .. I was so lonely. I was in a dark place. But Sims made everything great. Not so much from my own place or character... But I was able to focus on something else other than my phone or sh*t home life... Plus Betsy my dog loves parking at the dogs on Sims haha
Hope things are better, and continue to improve! ((Hugs))
This! This is why you make CZcams videos and why I watch them! I play sometimes as myself (although I can't get the simself to actually look like me) and sometimes I play other characters I create. (Or have previously created.) I actually have two versions (Thomas and Matthew, because my first name starts with T and my middle, M) one of whom gets the divergent timeline treatment (one goes to the future and stays, one gets a job and one goes to college first) the other lives in different worlds. (In Moonlight Falls, he's a "natural" living among "supernaturals.") I also have others (a girl in the big city, a couple who came to live in a small town, and an adult in Sunset Valley - so I can pursue older young adults).
I mean, I can’t get 100 Babies in real life 🤷🏼♀️😂
Hahahaha omg cryinggg 💀💀💀💀
Same!
Lol wth 😂😂
I first started playing the sims when I was 12 and have been obsessed ever since. It helped me through tough times, and provided such a great escape. it also got me through college/grad school. It helped me feel comfortable in exploring and expressing myself. During break I would play sims. ❤️It’s all about balance
I starting playing the sims 3 for 3 different reasons:
1. Bonding with family
2. Creative outlet and story making
3. Coping mechanism
Now I dropped reason 3 but even after all these years the Sims 3 is still my number two way to socialize with people and to stay in contact with friends.
And it is the best game for storytelling and creative outlet In my honest opinion. I still haven't found a game thats anything like the sims 3.
The Sims helped me have an outlet as closeted bisexual girl growing up. The Sims gave me a safe, judgement free zone to explore my sexuality without feeling guilty.
Now as an adult I'm open about it, depending on the situation. Remember be yourself, but safety first.
I completely play to escape the stresses of life. But I also enjoy creating characters and playing out their stories. I have a hard time playing in-game pre-made families because I feel disconnected and that's why I love your videos so much - I get to hear the stories I missed
Whenever I watch The Sims Lore I feel the urge to open Sims 3 and play it
To me it’s a way to be able to control life .
I think that life can be so stressfull or anxious sometimes that it can be so satisfying to be able to just control what you are doing !
I mean I’ve been playing sims since i’m 9 or 10 and I’ve always felt that I needed to have the illusion of controlling every single aspect of my life in order to feel satisfied.
In real life we can’t really do that , life is unpredictable and sometimes it makes me uncomfortable , with the sims games i can escape from real life unpredictability.
Plus , through my sims i can live different types of lives , i’m not stuck in one , I have several possibilities of storytelling and it’s fun!
Nice video by the way , watching from France 🇫🇷
I mean, why do we read books? Or create stories? Or even play video games? To create/live through fictional stories
I really like this video. One of the reasons I've come to appreciate the sims even more as an adult is because I've chosen my path in life and I'm happy with it, but it's cool to be able to be whoever the hell you want in a video game.
Thank you so much 🥰 it's quite something to be happy with your path in life! So happy for you! ❤️
My only reason is just to combat my loneliness. I used to have imaginary friend when Im around 12 years old. Then, I found the sims. You guys know the rest of my story.. haha 😂
For me The Sims is just a fun game, but I can definitely see why it is a way to escape for others. I had already found my way of escapism before I got into The Sims, so even though it doesn't work that way for me, I completely understand the feeling.
I love to make families and give them a great life lol. It's nice when you see things go right and kids that are super happy.😊
For me when I first started playing it was a way to keep playing with my barbie dolls at a time I was getting too old to play with them. I even made some of my favorite dolls in game. As I got older it eventually evolved in to a form of escapism when I was going through a bit of anxiety and depression. Nowadays its mostly for fun and a way to sorta act out any story ideas i'm currently writing.
for myself personally, i use the sims to create original characters and give them a backstory, and then play it out most of the time. im much more willing to do it in the sims 3 than in the sims 4. i literally have a sim family in which the mother doesnt have any job because she's lazy, however, her husband is an architectural designer. their daughters are willing to detonate objects when they're getting older. another story i have planned is an evil man running a resort and wanting to turn into a mermaid, but he finds a sim he's attracted to. apart from those, i am also playing the sims as an escapism from real life stress, use my creativity, do challenges and chill.
I like to play the sims because i like making a sim who is so maxed out and knows everything, basically making thee most powerful sim in that world
Answer: Because its a good medium to create your own story and I consider it to be a sandbox game where you could nearly do whatever you wanted. Damn! I miss the days of Sims 3 as the game nearly has it all. Too bad that Sims 4 is an absolute pisshole compared to Sims 3 due to the seemingly incomplete contents.
Sims are absolutely one of my childhood games and yeah, I began to lost interest after Sims 4 comes and its sad to see the state of the game for me and to a certain degree, I kinda regret buying Sims 4 over Sims 3
Literally a vibe waiting for whoever to get off the computer to race over and start up a save game
I enjoyed this very thoughtful insight. I thought you nailed it perfectly. Sometimes we don’t feel in control of our lives and/or want to be someone else. The Sims provides this to us. Great video!
Of course there were periods in my life when I played the sims only to escape reality (I mean, it really was bad for a lot of years, I'm in my twenties now). But most importantly, it is like you said: it's fun to play out all these different versions of life and play out your imagination. I don't even know anymore how many times I have made myself, depending on who I thought I was at that point in my life. Or how many times I re-installted the game just to play Pleasantview with different outcomes over and over again. (I wouldn't recommend that now of course, knowing about having different save files and actually backing up lol).
The game has not only helped me to survive those bad years, it has also taught me some really cool skills as I'm becoming an urban planner. I have been (and still am) able to create so many different neighborhoods with different needs and architectural styles, ranging from realistic to imaginary, learn more as I'm going through the process of designing. I also love how I learned through the game that my perspective/opinion isn't the only one. All my sims have different wants and walks of life. That has made me much more emphathetic than I would otherwise have been.
Nothing beats the feeling of making your sims life miserable just because lol
Ill watch this vid tomorrow but im here to like this video. Thank you The Sims Lore for inspiring me to revisit the Sims!
The first Sims is probably the first video game I ever played. I don't have any memory of when I first played it, but it's part of my earliest childhood memories lol. I also remember getting super hyped whenever the Sims Makin' Magic trailer was on TV.
For me, it’s always been a what if scenario where I would create weird and interesting families that actually focused on specific things and role play as if they had any significance on the world. Like when Snowy Escape came out and released all kinds of Japanese themed items for Sims 4, which opened up the opportunity to make Japanese castles and temples, I knew what I had to do. I even downloaded mods that gave my sims more powers, making them seem like mythical beings and acted like they were able to decide the fate of good or bad sims. Like bad sims would suddenly be struck by a spell. Even used some science/tech items to give pseudo powers like weather control to decide whether or not the sims were worthy or not for good weather.
Your puppy is adorable!!
I just want to declare that after more than 10 years of playing I haven’t tortured any sims, some have not so happy lives but I still fulfill their aspirations and wishes and obviously necessities
This was very well spoken, thank you. 👏 I learned in college from introducing the sims to my roommates that you can use the Sims to learn a lot about a person.
It's a remarkable game and a genuine personality test. Of course, with a bit of introspection, one can learn a lot about themselves too.
Welcome home Yuki! She is going to have the best and most loving life with your family.
psychoanalyst: people play the sims to craft the perfect reality
me as a kid: pools without ladders, insane asylums, work camps, 100 bastard children
I’ve always been into coming up with stories so when I started playing the sims I was able to put these stories and ideas into action. Before I was good at writing it was a way to get all my ideas out. My sibling and I used to have a large collection of Pokémon toys and we would have a large continuous story with them, they had multi generational families, so the sims was an easy step from there.
I play the sims to make a perfect life relaxing you can do whatever you want the game never ends. ☺️
I love the Sims because I can lose myself in storytelling and creating worlds that please me and give me joy. I can create myself or create others and give them gorgeous homes, great jobs, etc. I currently am playing the Sims 2 and creating a world from scratch. I am super proud of the world I have created. My childhood wasn’t great and last year was my annis horribilis - a year I don’t want to remember in a hurry. The Sims helps me process and allows me the escape to cope with the emotions that inevitably come up. This video was fab 😊
I’m currently 15 years old, turning 16 in three months. I started playing The Sims when I was 6. I would watch my aunt play The Sims 3 on her laptop every time I went over to her house. She was 15 at the time. I know it’s crazy. One day she pulled out The Sims 3 for the Wii and I started playing that. I fell in love with it. She gave me the game so I could play it at my house. I begged my parents to buy me it on the computer for years. Then when I turned 8 my father figure bought me The Sims 3 starter pack. I played that every single day and all day for years. When I got into the 7th grade, I slowly started to stop playing it because I felt like I needed to focus on school. I played The Sims to get away from all the family stuff I was going through. I never got to see my dad, so I would make my family in the Sims and pretend that it would be like that. I probably have a boring reason, but I just wanted to share it.
For me personally is started as just seeing the game and thinking it was cool on CZcams and when I played I would try and recreate what the simmers that I watched did, I would play perfect families like the ones I saw on CZcams. But as I got older and started to get into storytelling more and more the sims became a creative outlet, my only creative outlet. I have so many ideas but I’m not good at much, I’m good at analysing and coming up with ideas but Im bad at everything else artistic, so I fed all my creativity into the sims. The sims is such a unique storytelling form because you go from life to death for many generations which is something you don’t often get out of many stories, you can have so many different sims and different stories but they’re all connected. I like letting the game take control of the story sometimes and finding ways to justify the actions and wants of my sims, I love filling in the blanks. Eventually the sims became an obsession and it still is, I’m obsessed with the lore and the gameplay mechanics and the differences between the games and the history and just playing the game in general. To the point where when my computer breaks or the game breaks or something I just feel anxious because there’s something missing and I have nowhere to put my energy. I play the sims because it is an obsession and the only creative outlet I’ve ever truly connected to.
I started to play to work through some trauma, but now I just play because I think it's fun
I play the Sims to escape reality. I work in a toxic environment, and I need to unwind!
I just play it because it's fun. My dad introduced it to me back in 2013 or something, and I've been playing it for quite some time since then.
I’m definitely full blown addicted to the sims. Specifically the sims 3 only. I’ve played 2 in the past but never even touched 1 or 4. Sims 3 is where it’s at!
I love yuki the greyhound🥺🥺 she’s beautiful, I’m sure she has a very comfy life with you💖
I do actually forget to eat. LOL Also, I live the life I wanted when I first graduated from high school, when I met my first love in college. I actually feel guilty when my NOW husband (not the 1st love) comes in the room. It's strange I know. Just laugh at me. I wonder how many others play this way...hmm. Edit: I wanted to add, that I did try to play the game with my current husband, but when we would argue in rl I found myself not being happy playing with him in the game, so I just stopped adding him to my game. Period. My reality is my reality and my game is my game.
What a perfect time for this video I just started playing the sims 3 again 🥰
My most memorable Sims experience was a Sims 4 household. Single evil scientist, progressed through the Science career, exerted all sorts of influence upon her neighbors in Oasis Springs from her basement laboratory. There was nothing more nefarious than terrorizing them, though; I don't recall her ever causing a Sim to die. Sure, she'd freeze them solid with her SimRay or cause 'hivemind aggression', but that was about the extent of it.
I've always liked science as a whole - it was my strongest subject in school. So it was fun to pursue something along those lines in-game. There wasn't really an overarching storyline with her; just the day-to-day of an evil scientist having a good time at her neighbors' expense. (I *did* also manage to finagle 'kidnapping' another Sim in her laboratory; made it impossible for them to leave, but gave them essentials so they wouldn't die.)
Her story concluded shortly after she cloned herself and drank a potion of youth to reset her age (she was a fresh Young Adult again). The computer with said household has since died on me, so I can't go back, but I like to imagine that she and her clone conspire against Sims everywhere from then on.
honestly I played the sims back when I was 6-8 due to feeling like I could explore my creative mind abit more than my drawings could show, then heavily when I was 12 and into my teenage years for multiple reasons 1. My mother passed away and it was the game her and I bonded in, she always encourage me, and cheer me on with my shitty builds. So when I had the sims again to deal with her death I'd make her sim and my sim alive, to have a fake timeline where she was alive. I use to cry sometimes when i turned off the game and felt depressed knowing i had to go back to the abusive home once the pc was off
2. I enjoyed makin series and movies off the sims on one of my old youtube channel, the sims 2 machinima era was the most golden era of the sims tbh
When I was younger, I'd always wanted a pretty dollhouse, but I never got one. I still had a few cheap dolls and legos and played out stories I made up trough them, using a shelf or desk as the "house".
And then I got the sims 2. Sims became my dolls and now they had actual houses. I loved telling stories though them, often acting out same scenarios over and over, having their wants as an influence, but ultimately having full control over them.
Now, I still love playing out made up stories with them, and controlling how they go, although now, sims' wishes, personalities and just the whole game has a bigger influence of how the stories will go. And I don't repeat same stories many many times hah.
Also, funny enough I got into building. So not only I get the "dollhouses" tough the game, but I design and create the perfect "dollhouses" exacty the way I want.
I started playing as a kid when I got The Sims Bustin’ Out on GameCube. I was pretty young, maybe 6-8 years old? I made a family in free-play mode and made them incredibly loving, tight knit, and successful. It was a way for me, as a child, to feel loved by my family, even if I had to create it myself.
pooches in onesies
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the chefs kiss of adorableness
I started playing it with the only purpose of building up the dream house i would never have. Or at least a house with no clutter or hoarded useless things. Well it says a lot.
I just like to create a Mexican telenovela 😁 a lots of secret loves, children, broken heart, tragic deaths
I started as a child and now it’s a coping mechanism when nothing in my life is going well lol
God I love rescue greyhounds T__T poor babies just deserve the worlds
Honestly, it feels so weird to me that IRL I will only get one life. Just one, that's so little! Thank goodness for Sims, books and Dungeons & Dragons.
watching this before an exam as i eat lunch and i couldnt finish the video lol. i was like "alright .. a bit too real and much to think about where i dont have room."
I play the sims personally to escape reality, sometimes my personal life just gets too hard
I played sims 3 all throughout high school to now, I have this distinct memory of this girl that introduced me to sims 2 when I was a kid and I was bound and determined to play when I got older and this game is very much a big part of my childhood ❤️
For me, I always played to be able to control a life, since I couldnt control my own.
I was in highschool. 2010.
I renember being so afraid. I was in the closet, thought i would stay there forever, feared my friends and family would leave me.
Ts3 was an scape. I could find myself the man of my life, live together, get married. No one would care. That game allowed me to see myself as a successful adult. If my sim-me could make it. Maybe i could too.
I have to thank the sims 3, that game made my life so much better by letting me see a world i could not imagine myself deserving.
i legitamately never play a premade household, but i also never really make myself either. i create flawed individuals and drop them into a new world and work towards fulfulling their dreams, and creating a lineage. half the time, if i feel like it isnt working out, i scrap that and start again.
I never liked playing with barbies they didn't move, so I played with cars, 4x4 trucks with batteries, so when I found the sims in 2000 I fell in love with it, as Mother of 5 of young child and baby at that time, I found time to play at night when every one was asleep, and playing Sims took me to a different world, and till know I still love playing Sims, and tell my stories through youtube videos
This kind of plays into the simulation hypothesis where scientists believe we might be living in a realistic simulation.
sims 2 is my safe place, when the outside world feels well, just too much. always been c: all the lore, music and familiar sims.. i need nothing else :D
I've played The Sims games for my whole life. I have memories of me, in kindergarten-ish, playing The Sims 1 on one of those older, bulkier computer models despite me not understanding anything (English is not my first language and, well, I was a little child). I'm 22 now and still play The Sims (3). For me, I love the flexibility in customizing the characters' (Sims) appearance and personality, and how I can make stories with my Sims! I also have Nraas SP and my games are so much more interesting. I also love building but I still kinda suck though lol
Ex machina is my favorite movie. I think she actually passed the Turing test, and was manipulating him.
Sims series is the only game that make me trained my eyes, hand and ear at the same time back when I was a kid, cuz i have to Alt + F4 whenever my parents enter my room
I play sims as an escape. My childhood was horrible. My parents chose drugs over feeding their daughter and providing shelter. I was homeless and on the run from DFACS. Well parents were as i didnt know really what was happening. Going to school with greasy hair and dirty clothes because we didn't have water electricity or anywhere to clean clothes. I found the sims accidentally as my friend was playing and she let me play. I was hooked. It helped me through difficult times. I even was taken from DFACS eventually. And the sims just made me feel better. A creative outlet to let it all out.
i dont create sims based on what job and looks and family I want but a WORLD I want there's a lot of thing I would never do or even want to do that I make sims to do bc everyone's different if I'm not doing a job someone else is gonna have to do it I use it as an escape not only my family problems and life issues but to escape the world so I make my own// and I want to escape myself that's why I never understand why people would create themselves in sims I really don't see any point in that
i play because ever since i was a kid i loved making story lines in my head thats why when i was little i had this little pony id twirl around while visualise a story kind of like watching a movie or playing a game for free in my mind
I'm here! :D Yuki is ADORABLE!!!
Thank you ❤️😊
She's asking the real questions
I like the Sims 2 and its sense of freedom to create an entire town with shops, restaurants, library, arcade, etc. built with my own architecture, and give each sim in town a story and interesting life in a low stake manner.
I'm so addicted to this game I'll have to setup some boundaries with it 😂
I got into playing the Sims when I was 11, my aunt got me addicted and since then I been so obsessed with the Sims to the point where I literally live my life in the Sims now falling in love with them and having poly relationships. I do get out to hang out with my family but my friends move on, however while my friends live their rl lives with kids, I live my life in the Sims having kids
oh this got deep. but really i got into sims way later than most people here i think. i started playing at 17 when my life was at my worst and my classmate showed me sims 3. as a kid i never really played it i was and still am into adventure games and such but i love sims franchise so much
Why do we play the Sims? It's an interesting question considering all the differing playstyles. When I was younger I simply had fun playing the game, even though I don't know why. Maybe I was simply a "dollhouse demographic", who just liked recreating peoples lives (and I didn't even have a dollhouse in real life!). That would explain why my SIms 2 neighbourhood of the past was filled with happy Sims, be it families or singles. There was no real drama and I didn't notice the one ingame either.
At some point this has changed and I became more of a "storyteller" with drama or stories in my Sims. This was also the time where I got aware of the surprisingly deep and dark lore of the Sims games, which pushed me even further onto that road.
Of course a bit escapism has always been there with self-inserts. An aspect that has gained a bit more traction and depth in the recent years for me as well (probably because I have Apartment life and can be a witch now lol).
The one consistency? I love building stuff! Even as a kid I played neighbourhoods, where I built my own stuff from the ground up. They were terrible and even today most of my buildings are rather basic, but I love it. No matter my playstyle, that one will always be one of my favourite features.
We love seeing Irish creator representation on here 👏🏻 (This is what Irish people actually sound like, Cough cough Jack septic eye)
I used to watch my big sis play sims 1 all the time lol