Apartment Life - The Brokes

[strangetomato]

I managed to get AL to work for me, but it involved uninstalling the game and starting over (I was getting some crazy graphics error, so I reformatted everything again - a bit extreme maybe, but it worked). Right now I'm just running AL and the basegame and that works, so I might add everything back in now and see how that goes. I think the problem is basically that this game is beyond the capabilities of my PC. I don't have the 2.4 GHz CPU that they reccommend for Vista, so I'm not sure what effect that has on the game and the computer. *crosses fingers*

Anyway, the point of this post was not to talk about technical things (and how I'm probably toasting my PC), but to show you something that I've been enjoying about this EP: the trailer park apartment complex. It's so perfect for the Brokes. I moved them out of their original trailer and into this apartment (which I added across the street from their original place). I figured that they'd move into an even cheaper place after Skip died. It would make sense.





Here they are, moving in. The landlord looks an awful lot like Dustin. Could he be his real father? Brandi will probably end up finding comfort in him as a replacement Skip, either way (even though they did fight-argue within their first five minutes of talking).




I love this so much. I was worried for a moment that teens wouldn't be able to use the playground (the adults can't), but they can. I'm so relieved. If I know anything about teens, it's that they love hanging out at the playground (I sure did). I wish they had an animation for just hanging out on the equipment, though. I would love to see a bunch of teens just hanging out there, smoking.

See the llama rider things? I was so PUMPED when I saw those. :D I get a little more excited with every llama detail they add.




Dustin helps Beau on to have a ride. (Toddlers can only interact with this item in the playground, and they need help - makes sense.)








The cuteness, it burns.

(Way to leave him unattended, Dustin. He fell off, by the way. o_O)




I also added this Pleasantview condo complex. It fits right in with that side of town.

I love all the new interactions too. If all goes well, I'll probably post about them later.



 

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Hee. It goes back to the days I first played the game and a much-beloved child of my very first sim family wanted to go steady with Johnny. I didn't even know, at that time, that Johnny was a playable character (I was very new to the sims) and I did the whole relationship from her end starting when she brought him home from school once. They fell in love and were so cute. Then, she rolled the want to go steady and didn't have that option. I could not, for the life of me, figure out why. So I posted about it (on TSR I think) and was told that Johnny was already taken. I was like, "Wut?" lol, and I felt so bad for my poor little Sim girl. So that was how it started. Juvenile, I know... but its the sims, after all. ;)

I do like your version of her though.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Something very similar happened to me the first time I played Strangetown, but with Nervous Subject's daughter (she was three bolts with Johnny). I felt bad for Ophelia, if anything. I mean, she's the one who has to watch the "other woman" move in.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I never thought of it that way before. *hangs head in shame*

:D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

And then there's the (most likely) murdered parents... how could you not feel bad for her?

*heaps more shame on the pile* :P

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm definitely going to make her a good witch now. ;) (I already turned Olive into a baddie.) Ophelia can be my Light aspect witch and that way I'll play with her a lot. :)

And all this gives me SUCH an idea for the new simstorytellers challenge... new kid on the block. Mayhap I could write my old game's scenerio from Ophelia's standpoint? Wear the other shoes so to speak?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool idea for that challenge.