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strangetomato) wrote2008-04-22 09:49 pm
strangetomato) wrote2008-04-22 09:49 pm
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Strangetown extras: Off to college we go!
You'll get to see Jill and Buck in university in the next chapter, but I just got them set up there tonight, and I wanted to share a couple of pics right away. I thought I had enough willpower to keep it to myself until the update, but that sort of evaporated when the cutest thing happened autonomously, so you get a sneak preview.
That's right. The fish came too. *grin*
Buck got himself a flattering new haircut (or did he cut it himself?), and he's wearing one of my other favourite things about Kitchen and Bath: the argyle sweater! I have so much love for that outfit, and it's perfect for Buck. Just perfect.
The apartment that I picked just happened to be the perfect shade of purple to match Buck's stuff too. He loves it.
And here's Jill. I think she grew up cute. She's completed her funky new look with a striped jumper-type dress (with more green, of course) and some cool boots.
Hey, I can see Johnny, Ripp and Ophelia's apartment through the window! I can even kind of see that llama crossing road sign on the wall. That's a pretty high level of detail.
And this is what I just had to share with you: autonomous serenading! *heart melts* Buck is just too sweet. He gives me cavities.
That's right. The fish came too. *grin*
Buck got himself a flattering new haircut (or did he cut it himself?), and he's wearing one of my other favourite things about Kitchen and Bath: the argyle sweater! I have so much love for that outfit, and it's perfect for Buck. Just perfect.
The apartment that I picked just happened to be the perfect shade of purple to match Buck's stuff too. He loves it.
And here's Jill. I think she grew up cute. She's completed her funky new look with a striped jumper-type dress (with more green, of course) and some cool boots.
Hey, I can see Johnny, Ripp and Ophelia's apartment through the window! I can even kind of see that llama crossing road sign on the wall. That's a pretty high level of detail.
And this is what I just had to share with you: autonomous serenading! *heart melts* Buck is just too sweet. He gives me cavities.
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All those silly random things is why I can't just allow the autonomous actions of my sims to completely dictate the story, though. They're fun, and sometimes it works for the character, if they are particularly silly (like, I can let my Ripp get away with doing some of that stuff in the story), but all sims will just degenerate into a dirty joke telling goofball after a while. I really wish that they'd make it so that extremely serious sims would never do things like that.
I like how the personalities do dictate a lot of things like that, but it should be more extreme. It seems like they're putting a lot of effort in that in Sims 3, with those character traits. I'm looking forward to that element of it.
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I only made Tank be in the adventurer career track because that was the first option available when he looked in the newspaper to get a job, and I was desperate for money. But I'm glad he is one because he really rocks that pirate look! Lol, he's the kind of sim that I take to community lots to make him try on the most ridiculous outfits on him just so I could get a laugh.
With Tank and Frances, I kind of made them the total opposite of yours on purpose. They're like, the bizarre alternate reality versions.
Yeah... Funny how a post about Buck turned into a conversation about Tank. Yep, that's me for ya.
That's another reason why I decided that I really need to do a time skip in my story. Even though I love them to death, the personalities of the Maxis made sims have been done over and over again. With Sims born in game, the autonomous personalities really dictate how they would act in the story. And, with the Maxis sims fading into the background, I can let their hilarious autonomous selves shine through at times.
They do seem to all end up being goofballs after a while, but I like that. Makes the game fun and interesting when all of the sudden you see them doing something totally out of character.
I'm not sure what to think about the sims 3 yet. I'm still having so much fun with the sims 2! In all honesty, I'm sort of scared. I hope it won't be TOO different.
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You're right. A lot of people have written those characters, so it might be refreshing to skip ahead to next generation, where you can create totally new characters, that just have the Maxis crowd as their history. It gives you more freedom. You can let the silly sim behaviour lead the way, if that's what's the most fun for you.
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with Sims 3. I'm not ready to move on yet, but by the time it's ready, maybe I will be.
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