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jmoo said: I'm a girl, and I am addicted to video games. woo!

Welcome to the thread Jmoo!

Baldren said: Well their hygene plumets and they get green stink coming off them and the other sims will walk past disgusted with the way they smell until they bath.

Plus they cry!

insectoid said: much funner to build a fireplace outside, tell a sim to light it, pause, surrond fireplace with trees

OMG you do that tooo!!! ???

Omi said:...I always knew it was evil

Hence the love of it!

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insectoid says:

magickstar says: OMG you do that tooo!!! ???

yes, yes I do. But after a few times, it got boring.

I toooootally wouldn't PAY for the sims (no I didn't download it, my sister bought it).

07/04/2008

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Tweety says:

i have only played the sims once on my friends computer. is it any good for the wii?

08/04/2008

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Give Castaway a miss. It's kinda OK for a while, but as soon as you're rescued the point of the game drops to about zero. Less space for interesting things to do...

PC version's better 'cos you can add expansion packs etc.

08/04/2008

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Yeah i have no time for the console based sims games, the pc ones offer far more variety!

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I was driving my kid to a Dr's appointment today and there was a huge billboard advertising the WiiFit game.

I couldn't read it as I was driving at the time (people get narky when you collide with them) and my kid was like "LOOK MUMMY WIIFIT IS FAMOUS!!" hahah

She is looking forward to it as much as I am. She wants to play the panguin game.

08/04/2008

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Stormstruk said: I was driving my kid to a Dr's appointment today and there was a huge billboard advertising the WiiFit game.
I couldn't read it as I was driving at the time (people get narky when you collide with them) and my kid was like "LOOK MUMMY WIIFIT IS FAMOUS!!" hahah
She is looking forward to it as much as I am. She wants to play the panguin game.

I saw a billboard saturday on the way to Brissie! Quite plain acutally but oh well! YAY wii fit!

lol

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magickstar said: Stormstruk said: I was driving my kid to a Dr's appointment today and there was a huge billboard advertising the WiiFit game.

I couldn't read it as I was driving at the time (people get narky when you collide with them) and my kid was like "LOOK MUMMY WIIFIT IS FAMOUS!!" hahah

She is looking forward to it as much as I am. She wants to play the panguin game.I saw a billboard saturday on the way to Brissie! Quite plain acutally but oh well! YAY wii fit!

Ah'm itchin' ter get mah feet on that one!

..sorry, just went all Kentucky for a second...

08/04/2008

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OK I got a look at the Wii Fit billboard the other day whilst stopped at the lights on my way to work.

Slogan said something like "A personal trainer you can store under your couch" Had a massive picture of the Wii Balance Board on there too.

I just pre-ordered it from Dstore, $129.95 and $1 postage, I couldn't walk past that deal. As I was a new customer I also got a new customer credit of $5.95 on my account, I'll probably use it for something else eventually.

They take BPay as well! I used my CC just in case it goes sour, I can chargeback that way.

11/04/2008

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Cascada97 says:

wii fit! yay

speaking of the sims, i only have the 2nd one, i remember creating this family, i mother, 1 teen girl and 1 kid girl. well, the teenager died and the kid got stolen and the mother was crying her head off.

i was like "what the hell???" but i was laughing and annoyed at the same time...

13/04/2008

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Baldren says:

I am so looking forward to Wii Fit. Hopefully it will be so much fun it won't seem like excercise.

Cascada97 said:
speaking of the sims, i only have the 2nd one, i remember creating this family, i mother, 1 teen girl and 1 kid girl. well, the teenager died and the kid got stolen and the mother was crying her head off.
i was like "what the hell???" but i was laughing and annoyed at the same time...

How do you get a kid stolen?

13/04/2008

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Cascada97 says:

when you don't look after it properly

anyway, i found heaps of cheats and i made my people aliens and have babies and stuff like that

13/04/2008

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Juniiz says:

Cascada97 said: when you don't look after it properly

anyway, i found heaps of cheats and i made my people aliens and have babies and stuff like that

Me too...haha...the good times but it was mostly the money cheats that i used....and they just buy heaps of stuff for them and decorate the house....so much fun...

13/04/2008

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Baldren says:

Now if only sims could buy a Wii.

13/04/2008

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Baldren said: Now if only sims could buy a Wii.

Don't worry, I'm sure there will be an "entertainment" expansion pack at some point that will have wii-like behaviour...

14/04/2008

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Omi says:

Baldren said: Now if only sims could buy a Wii.

Turn on your Wii, load up The Sims, sit your little man on the couch, and then play the Wii - virtually.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did do that, and even less surprised that people would buy it, and think about how new and exciting it was. Not one of them stopping to think that you could do the same thing, but in the real world.

See, I play games for an escape. To have the ability to do things that I could never do in real life, or perform actions that make my brain active when my body just wants to give up for the day. How one could ever want to use that time to do things that one could do in normal life bemuses me. I don't think I'll ever understand it no matter how many different ways it's put to me :\

Maybe it's about the ability to control another world that is the attraction? You feel you are not in control of the world around you, your life, so it's an escape to be able to get these little people doing what you want them to? To have a world that behaves in the way that you wish the real world would? To be able to do things that you never would in real life - like letting your people drown in a pool

Maybe I just answered my own question. It is kind of an escape, to another world where you are not constrained by the bounderies that real life holds you down with.

15/04/2008

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Omi says:

But, could having that place to vent your desires be taking away your desires to make things better in your real life?

Do you think you can learn things from this other little world that you control?

Ahhhh don't mind me. I'm just thinking out loud. And I think I'm trying to make The Sims too complicated.

15/04/2008

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People I nurse who are disabled (especially the tetra and quadriplegics) love playing games as it truly is an escape. Some of the technology to enable them to do this surpasses most sci-fi I have seen.

I think the theme of control is a big one Omi. At least gaming is a non-violent non-self harming way of gaining a sense of control

15/04/2008

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Baldren says:

Omi said:
Maybe it's about the ability to control another world that is the attraction? You feel you are not in control of the world around you, your life, so it's an escape to be able to get these little people doing what you want them to? To have a world that behaves in the way that you wish the real world would?

Ouch that stings. I have never really thought of it as a control issue till you mentioned it. But yeah I guess it is a world where I can control everything, all thought I feel in control of my real world as much as humanly possible. I think for me it's mostly a game that doesn't ask a lot from me, like Endless Ocean, a veg out game.

16/04/2008

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insectoid says:

Omi - I agree with everything you said actually. I don't think you are reading too much into the Sims.

In fact, you aren't really reading into the game itself, but rather the reasons people play it.

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Theres some valid points there omi,

Ive never really thought of it as a control issue, but more mindless fun, but what you're saying certainately does make you rethink that idea.
I guess if we were to look further into it maybe that control issue would then go on to reflect a trend in society, considering the popularity of the games worldwide.
Maybe our society and the next generation especially are feeling powerless, and this is a way of regaining control.
If so though, on the other hand maybe its better that it's done with a game, rather then being acted out in a real life situation...

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Cascada97 says:

anyway, speaking of sims, is mysims really good? or should i wait for chrissy...

17/04/2008

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Cascada97 said: anyway, speaking of sims, is mysims really good? or should i wait for chrissy...

I thought it was a fun little game, theres plenty to do and a fair bit of variety, but its not really like the other 'Sims' branded games, theres more of a carpentarial side to this one!

17/04/2008

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magickstar said:
....theres more of a carpentarial side to this one!

Jesus would love it!

18/04/2008

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