How do YOU play the Sims?

[KaZZaP]

My sister was obsessed with them and I hated it. I played it for maybe a week before coming to the Harvest Moon realization that holy hell I'm doing chores in a video game! After that I would make a house with no doors a BBQ inside and see who would live the longest.

 

[Skeleon]

I don't...

This.
But if I did, I'd probably spend my time "tormenting them for giggles" as Yahtzee put it.

 

[Parsley]

I spend alot of my time in build and buy mode, usually make families with certain themes, (goth, nerds etc) then build the home in a style how they are like.

 

[Syrio Forel]

I just really like making mafia families...and rock stars.

 

[Teh Ty]

Kill and cheats. Like everyone else.

 

[Skreeee]

When I did play, I would usually have a normal family thing going in the house, but there'd be one room with a fridge, one light, an oven, table, bed, tv, chair, and shower. I'd purposely leave out any doors, windows, and a toilet and then stick a guy in there to live a life of doing nothing but eating, sleeping, watching tv, pissing himself, and cleaning up the mess day after day.

And all the while the family moved freely about the house, blissfully unaware that another man lived within the walls who knew nothing of the outside world and accepted his circumstances as the only possible reality, like the people in the cave in Plato's 'The Republic'.

You. Are. A. GENIUS.

Well thank you, but I think the better term here would be sadistic.

Good thing I'm not a god of any sort. I'd be a very bad one. And I'd enjoy every moment of it all the same. Mwuaha.

 

[Bohner239]

lots of wooden chairs and fireplaces....and old people...

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I would focus on one family. Have someone unemployed (usually an uncle) to cater for the rest of the family while they get promoted in their careers. Then I would get bored and burn, electrocute and drown them...

...oh and I would brick someone up in a room and wait for them to die. While I would wait I would go into build mode and move all the old newspapers and dirty plates in with them, so they sulked even more. They would constantly complain, faint and wet themselves...good times...

 

[The Donkey From Shrek]

after husband makes fight with burglar wife makes up with burglar and then husband becomes a scientist and hooks with hes work mate then he makes a alien bastard whom theaches to fight with hes other sons and they live in pain ever after in the same house...or what im up to

 

[Skreeee]

I was... well, evil. Sims existed solely to serve my twisted urges.

Some of my favorites were:
- Put them in a small room with no windows, and a bed. But I'd also put a stereo in there, and any time they went near the bed I'd turn the stereo on. The longer I went the more they cried and wet themselves. I'm pretty sure these ones (I always game them SUBJECT 32 type names) would have killed themselves as soon as I created them, had they known.
- Put them in a pool then build TVs all around it so they couldn't escape, slowly drowning while watching TV.
- I got a couple together, had them have a baby, then build them into a room with no escape. Then the baby started to cry. And they wanted to help it. But they couldn't. Every so often I'd remove a wall and let them go towards it, but then I'd build another wall. I'd let them get a little bit closer each time, until they finally got to the baby. Then I walled them in and burned the house to the ground.
- I'd play serial killer. Call my friends over, and wall them into a room. Call for a pizza, wall them in a room. And then I'd sit. And wait. And watch.

Yeah I don't play The Sims anymore.

Don't forget inviting neighbors over and locking them in a room with a dance floor and a catering table. They must boogie until they perish, yes they must. As if the constant drum of techno wasn't enough to make a person want to off themselves.

 

[JRCB]

My sims are usually in a puddle of piss or on fire.

 

[Hazy]

I play the Sims like Jigsaw. Creating a house with no doors, and make my Sims fight for their survival.. usually by surrounding them with chairs and having the most un-intelligent one light a fire and promptly burn them alive. Yeah.. I'm a bad person..

 

[ae86gamer]

I usually make them achieve their life goals and such. But from time to time I make a room with nothing but four walls, make a whole bunch of sims, lock them in the room, and see who dies first. Its fun to watch.

 

[Skreeee]

They must boogie until they perish, yes they must.

They would sell millions more copies of this game if that was the tagline.

Oh no doubt.

Why don't they just make a Sims where the only goal is to kill them off in infinitely horrific ways? You could earn all your money by cashing in life insurance policies!

 

[NeedAUserName]

Badly, very badly. My families normally have their kids taken of them, and the older members usually die in their own filth. Although the single people usually do OK, they are normally either really book smart, or suicidal... Sociality isn't the done thing in my Sims Towns...

 

[PPB]

I used to "grind" the game, as in I'd leave the walls down and try to grind as many skill points and relationships as possible. Now adays I take more time and try to "smell the roses," and I often try to make a single family stretch on for as many generations as possible (With the Sims 3's real time feature where the townies will age as you play, it's a lot more interesting to do this than it was in the sims 2).

I used to do that as well, back in Sims 1 (the only one I've really played much). I generally started out with 1 sim or a couple and skilled them up as much as possible, max out their careers, then make loads of cash and build some sort of palace. It eventually grew old.

I bought Sims 2 because I thought it would be nice... but it really was just Sims 1 with better graphics. I ended up turning off the aging since the RPG player in me thought it just wasn't "right" to let my perfect sim die. It would be kind of like leveling a hardcore character in diablo 2 and killing him on purpose. In hindsight, I think I missed the purpose of the game. If I end up buying Sims 3, I'll try to turn off my RPG brain and just create some random guy, do whatever crosses my mind and just see what happens with him and his descendants.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Me and my friend screw around in it. Once, his wife had a baby but Social Services came to take it so he deleted the door once she grabbed the baby. She stood there for a moment just looking around and finally just vanished in a puff of smoke.

 

[0thello]

With an empty wallet.