Screenshot provided by authorĬreating your own content and living in a world that you’ve created is the appeal to most people, but having the background story matter changes the gameplay, in my opinion. I know that they exist and there are small bits of stories surrounding them, but without having them as the center of the game, they feel truly irrelevant to my playthrough. I can’t tell you the number of times I would start a new game as one of these households and then not save my file after hours of a playthrough because as a 12-year-old, I thought my choices would ruin the game! Currently, I have not found a household that I really want to play in The Sims 4, and that kind of bums me out. Seeing how my choices on these characters that the developers wrote would affect the game was always really fun. ![]() What was most compelling to me as a player was to be able to play as the premade household of Don Lothario and be immediately wrapped up in the drama of his affairs. You have the option to do your own thing with your Sim, but if you encounter these people and stories it’s easy to become wrapped up in them. The Sims 2 is not only known for its in-game lore, but it’s part of the story you play. There is a storyline here of three brothers, one of whom is abducted by aliens and comes back pregnant with an alien baby. The third town within the base game is Strangetown, where there are alien abductions and strange sightings of Bella Goth (which are very rare to trigger in-game). Not only is the neighborhood based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” but there are also some other characters from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” that are playable. If that wasn’t soap opera enough for you, we also have the town of Veronaville, with the Capps and the Montys teen romance, family feud. Things adding up for you now? In the tangle of all these characters is the womanizer, Don Lothario, who is currently engaged to Bella’s daughter, while sleeping with his maid, and BOTH Caliente sisters (none of these people are aware of his infidelities). At the same time, in-game, Mortimer is an elder with only 7 days left to live. You also find out that the Caliente sisters moved in just around the same time as Bella’s disappearance, and one of the sisters, Dina, is currently having an affair with Mortimor. In Pleasantview, you were introduced to the mysterious disappearance of the aforementioned Bella Goth, the beautiful bride of the loaded Mortimor Goth. The sims here were not just placeholders or people for you to interact with for leveling up your own charisma skills, but they had their own missions and goals. When you load into one of the three neighborhoods, the screen would immediately fill you in on the gossip of the town. In The Sims 2, we were greeted off the bat with drama. But what really intrigued me was the story in the background of the game. ![]() This exact reason is why I would make my character have a husband and kids, and when they went to work I would WooHoo with the maid (I was problematic at 12 years old I guess). The appeal of these games to most people, I would assume, is to create your character and live a fun lifestyle without the consequences of real-life actions. ![]() The Sims is a lifestyle interactive game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts, where you create a sim, build a household, and control their day-to-day lives. Spoiler alert: this is not a lore lesson on Bella Goth, that still goes way over my head (but I will link a youtube video explaining her disappearance in the later paragraphs) Screenshot provided by author Sure, there are pre-made characters to play as in The Sims 4 with small snippets of story in the corner, but nothing feels as interesting or compelling as The Sims 2. What do you mean there were mysterious sightings of Bella in Strangetown? Why was there a town dedicated to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”? I’ve recently been getting back into my love for the Sims franchise, and I’ve noticed that there is less of a delivery of lore within the game. I needed to know who she was and who these other characters in the game were, and how they related to her disappearance. Would you believe me if I said that my favorite part about playing Sims was the preloaded characters already in the game? When I first started playing The Sims 2 as a child, I was drawn in by the immediate notice on the screen that a character named Bella Goth had gone missing.
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