Yeah. I mean, there *is* a certain amount of grinding you have to do when your sim first starts out to build skill and earn enough money for the good stuff, which allows them way more time to have fun and makes them much easier to keep happy and their needs to decay much slower(unless you go for the cheats and make them millionaires to begin with, and/or freeze their needs, heh).
But with sims 2 and now sims 4 sims, they are so quirkily endearing to me that they become like little imaginary friends that I am emotionally attached to, and I am glad to help them out (albeit sometimes on fast forward for the more boring skilling) because I *want* to see them succeed in their little sim lives and find love and laugh at their antics, and if there is an alien abduction that results in a half alien mpreg baby along the way (TRUE STORY, Sims2...you're the inspiration in my life), all the better! Alas, 4 does not have aliens yet, but it does have ridiculously endearing sims.
Sims 3 sims...they don't have that magic, IMO. Even with cheats on, and I use them a lot in 3. Hell, I've *barely* even used cheats on 4 so far. I can't resist an initial money cheat at the beginning, because I can't stand moving my sims into a starter hovel, but since the initial move in I haven't even bothered. And I haven't even once artificially filled their needs or frozen them, because then I'd miss doofy simlish conversations over pancakes in the morning or the ridiculous walk they do when they have to go pee.
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Date: 2014-09-18 01:48 am (UTC)But with sims 2 and now sims 4 sims, they are so quirkily endearing to me that they become like little imaginary friends that I am emotionally attached to, and I am glad to help them out (albeit sometimes on fast forward for the more boring skilling) because I *want* to see them succeed in their little sim lives and find love and laugh at their antics, and if there is an alien abduction that results in a half alien mpreg baby along the way (TRUE STORY, Sims2...you're the inspiration in my life), all the better! Alas, 4 does not have aliens yet, but it does have ridiculously endearing sims.
Sims 3 sims...they don't have that magic, IMO. Even with cheats on, and I use them a lot in 3. Hell, I've *barely* even used cheats on 4 so far. I can't resist an initial money cheat at the beginning, because I can't stand moving my sims into a starter hovel, but since the initial move in I haven't even bothered. And I haven't even once artificially filled their needs or frozen them, because then I'd miss doofy simlish conversations over pancakes in the morning or the ridiculous walk they do when they have to go pee.