Critic Linda Holmes has been playing The Sims since the early 2000s. Twenty five years in, she says she still finds the game charming but puzzling.
When I first started playing The Sims, which was probably not long after it launched in 2000, I wasn't sure what to make of it. I had played the precursor, SimCity, where you build your own little kingdom, which at the time involved a lot of complicated and tedious placement of pipes and wires. But The SimsBack then, at least the way I played it, you sort of plunked your Sim down in a virtual house and things started to happen.
back then: she went to the bathroom, she ate, she left her dishes all over , and occasionally she played music. On one memorable occasion, she got robbed, and she then sadly danced to the boombox that was the only thing the robbers didn't take. Poignant, that.as it is with games where more actually happens. The mechanics of the game have stayed consistent over the years. Your Sim has a little green diamond floating over their head.
It isn't an adventure, it isn't a battle and it isn't a dystopia. It sometimes seems eerily close to duplicating the grind of life. You get up, you eat, you take a shower, you use your bathroom , you go to some job or another, and you come home. You hang out, you talk to people — and sometimes, you go to an event. You get a little happier, a little sadder, a little more social, a little more introverted.
Although, of course, you can decide to be a chaos agent. My Sim recently attended a party where she played the piano badly while someone else was trying to do stand-up comedy in the same room. No one liked it. Everyone was grumpy. Sometimes, you just want to watch a nonthreatening collapse of a simulated social event, I suppose.is still a game that I find charming but puzzling. The Sims are like humans, but ... not really.
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