Thursday, March 7, 2013

So I was asked...

How do I like the new expansion so far?  Full of epic.  My fiance made a couple of Sims named after me and him.  I’d call it our simselves, but…you’ll see why I’d rather call ‘em alter-simselves.


The Good:


There’s so much more to do now!  Not only can you now go to college, but there’s so much to do in college.  There is also the social groups, which I later found out that you can build influence up even when you’re not in college (probably was a given, but still was a shock to see that my anti-legacy founder has some nerd influence).  Parties!  I went to a bonfire party (where only like 2 people showed up) and threw test tubes in it.  Made stuff all pretty.  Okay…not TOO pretty, but the smoke was PURPLE.




…ish.


There is the option to blog.  Now as a real-life blogger, this piques my interest.  I haven’t figured out how to do so yet (bet it’s a nerd thing), but there will be a blogger in my anti-legacy household. 


Arcade games!


This would be my fiance’s alter-simself in his natural habitat.  Aiming for video game designer on this guy.  Which is an awesome career that should’ve been added sooner.  Just saying.


Another cool thing I learned is that you don’t age while in University.  Which is good, because unlike in the Sims 2, full adults (and I think elders as well) can now further their education.  Imagine aging in the uni world as an elder…then croaking before the term is done.  Yep.


The Bad


I am disappointed that PlantSims can’t be made via CAS.  They didn’t do that with aliens either, but it seems a lot easier to get a male Sim pregnant with an alien than to have an experiment go awry.  It is one of the things I plan on playing around with further as my alter-simself’s major is science.


Story Progression doesn’t work all too nicely with this (at least not yet).  Traveler went deathly wrong in the uni world as well.  That has since been fixed.  But SP is off.  I guess it can be a good thing—I do have a few Sims that I don’t want to age in the regular world.


I liked that in TS2, you had many majors to pick from.  Now you have 6.  Granted, each major will help in some form with getting a job.  Someone is probably gonna come out with custom majors, which will be nice, as long as it’s done gracefully.


I had fun playing with university so far.  I didn’t want to get too deep into it because I do have to find a way to make it into my story.  But if I had the chance to, I’d play it all day.  But alas, I share the computer that has Sims on it with my fiance.

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