The difference between The Sims and other videogames is that the fantasies it offers are almost charmingly mundane: get your dream job, find someone to love, make a bit of money, own a nice house, start a family. This is one of the reasons for its extreme popularity, but another is that it’s also a powerful engine for wish-fulfilment.
It feeds every human’s innate god complex, enables extreme control- freakery, and lets you manipulate tiny people for entertainment.
There is something deeply megalomaniacal about The Sims. He was right to be disturbed, thinking about it. It was never mentioned again, but he couldn’t quite look me in the eye for several days afterwards. What could I have said? “Don’t worry, Dad, I’m only creating virtual robot-versions of you without consent and messing with them to see what will happen.” This must have been like his own personal episode of Black Mirror. I just sort of sat there with my mouth open until he backed out of the room. I turned around to see him staring at the little virtual versions of himself and all his loved ones, their smiling headshots and happiness meters lining the edges of the screen, an expression of horror spreading across his face. So, there I was, in the utility cupboard that for some reason housed our family PC (why were PCs always kept in cupboards in the ’90s/early ’00s?), watching a tiny on- screen version of my boyfriend’s dad pretend to paddle a bathtub like a canoe as the Sims-clone of my brother looked on in bemusement.Īt this moment my actual, flesh-and-blood dad walked in, presumably to turn the central heating down, as all Scottish dads are constantly doing.
> Making your favourites kiss in The Sims > The Sims 2 served as an extension of an already-embarrassing teen existence > How The Sims has spearheaded queer representation in gaming > Laundry was the best and worst thing to happen to The Sims > Stuff, not stories, forms the real heart of The Sims series For more beautifully detailed articles about the best stories in PC gaming, consider subscribing to the magazine's US or UK editions. The Sims 2 does not natively support custom content, you will need to enable it by selecting the enable custom content option in the game settings menu.We published a variety of stories about The Sims in issue 334 of PC Gamer magazine.
If you are new to using custom content in The Sims 2 then there's a bit of preparation you need to do before putting files in your game:
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