#28
15th Jan 2019 at 7:42 PM
I was thinking about this a lot the other day. I love my sims... and I love creating their world (although I'm often too lazy to build what I should be building... <cough> still no medical clinic in Loste...)
I love watching them grow, seeing the way that their interests change from childhood to teenhood to adulthood; it's watching them become real in a very particular way I guess. I love when they surprise me too - they fall in love with the last sim I would've thought, or they decide to move out of their crowded family home, or they want to do surprising things, it's all just rather lovely to see, because in some measure I created them you know? And they can still surprise me.
The other thing is the world building. I take it very seriously (cough - you guys may have noticed - cough). I insist on building everything I think they'll need, and sometimes building more than one of a thing to get that realistic vibe for a place and make it nice and full. Why not you know? I love running out of available housing in a hood because in real life you can't always find an affordable place in the neighbourhood you want to live in. I try to make sure every family is playable at all times though (but some take breaks in the sim bin from time to time). I adore being able to plan my neighbourhoods and grow them as I see fit. TS2 let's you make ANY kind of city, any kind of town or hamlet or riverside dump - whatever you want! That's why I play... over and over.