The Sims 3: What Do You Think?

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I received the computer game The Sims 3 for Christmas and I bought the Ambitions expansion pack recently. I don't really like the word adventures EP, but I love the Ambitions one. What do you guys think of the game?

my sims appear to be building a small religious cult around the garden sprinkler.

I don't have either of the expansion packs yet, but the base game is pretty good. There are aspects of the first two Sims games that I miss (though some of them, I'm sure, will be added as expansions come out), but I love how you are no longer limited to your lot without having to face loading times.

The one annoyance, however, is that the game (at least the base game, of course I'm not sure if this issue was ever fixed with expansions) has no working built-in FPS limiter (epic fail IMO). Before I discovered external FPS limiter programs, the game would run my video card into the 90C+ range, which is dangerously hot (for the record, I have a factory-overclocked Geforce 8800 GT, which I underclock to the card's original settings in order to extend its lifetime. If I didn't, I'm certain the game would have fried my card. The fan on my card is always set to 100%). With an FPS limiter set to max the game's FPS at 30, the temps stay in the upper 60s or lower 70s, depending on graphics settings.

I LOVE THE SIMS!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Sorry, I'll calm down. I just seriously love the whole sims franchise.

I actually really liked World Adventures and I had my one sim finish pretty much all the exciting stuff in China and a large amount of the tombs in Egypt. The tombs are my favourite part. She also had some interesting love affairs (and children) from various foreigners. France was less fun, but she did end up with a French husband. I only ever played World Adventures with that one sim though, because I think the challenges are the best part and you can't really do them as easily with multiple people on vacation.

Ambitions is the first time I've actually left my house to go around the neighbourhood on a regular basis. I really like some of the new jobs, others not so much. Also, juggling many at a time is quite hectic. Overall I think it's the greatest sims expansion in a long time because for me it really changed the way I play the game.

I'm waiting for it to be released for the Xbox 360.

I don't play that much anymore, but I played so much of the sims 1 + 2.

I was addicted to Sims 3 for a few weeks, but then somewhere along the line I just lost interest. I enjoyed creating attractive faces and outfits and building some pretty impressive dream homes, but after a while the limitations of the Sims' behaviours became too obvious to me. They didn't really feel unique or alive enough for me to care about them anymore.

The last thing I tried to do was make an evil Sim, with the intention of raising enough money through stealing and the crime career to gradually turn his puny house into some sort of dark palace. Just didn't have the patience in the end, though.

That's exactly how I play The Sims. I take forever to create the family and the house and then play them obsessively for a week or two and then lose all interest. Until a few months or even a year later when I get the urge to play again and I start all over again with a new family. For those few weeks though, The Sims becomes my life.

I also often get impatient for the sims to make enough money to buy what I actually want to decorate the house with and I end up using the money cheats. Or I get impatient for a sim to reach the next life stage so force their birthday. Or any number of other cheats. But then it gets boring because there's no challenge, so I try not to cheat too often. Just enough to keep it interesting. Until one day I wake up and have had enough for a while.

Yeah, the temptation to cheat and subsequent lack of challenge kind of put me off it too. It was fun when I thought the only way to get a great house was to make my Sims prosperous and earn a ton of money, building it up gradually. I liked having a goal to work towards bit by bit. But then I realised I could just build any house I wanted in the town from scratch, with no cost limitations, and that kind of spoiled the sense of earned discovery.

I never understood the "get rich" aspect of the game most people strive for. In sims 2 I had a mod that cut salaries in half. The game isn't fun if you're rich, I like focusing on stories and family lines.

What interests me is how many of my RL traits my sims begin to develop. For instance, I don't believe that a single one of my sims has ever voluntarily attended a party. I've tried to make a few socially inclined sims but they all wind up suicidally lonely.

I do like designing houses and sims, the good thing about AMBITIONS is that it allows you to do both of those things as professions.

Yeah, just like in real life I have the most difficult time with the social aspect of the game. My sims often have no friends unless they're required for career advancement. And even then, they only interact when I get a notice that they're no longer friends.

The only thing I don't like about the Architectural Designer and Fashion Designer careers is that you're supposed to get to know the person's traits before redecorating their house or changing their fashion. In all the time I've played the game, I've never discovered more than two traits of any person not in my sims family. It was funny though, when I was the fashion designer I was trying to get to know this guy before his makeover and he just kept getting angry at me, so I took him into the create a sim and made him look ridiculous.

I love the Sims 3.

Thats the reason I recently re-installed the Sims 3 the other week.

Though I have a somwhat dark plan as well. Since they added basements to the game I wanted to build a dungeon kinda like that Fritzel fella who was in the news recently (minus the raping the daughter and incest stuff)

I was gonna find a sim I don't like invite them to the house and call them over to the basement. Then use the divine intervention that is the editor and "Seal" them in a room in the houses basement

I was gonna see how many sims in the neighbourhood I could "knock off" that way. I haven't got round to doing it though my character just reached the top of the criminal career ladder as a theif master and being a kleptomaniac I keep stealing everything and anything in the neighbourhood I can find and that seems more fun.

Anyway I need to be-friend and lure the policewoman who keeps arressting him at work and get them down into my sim death pit. Knowing EA im sure they've introduced some lame system to stop you abusing the game system like this. But we shall see.

Maybe I shouldn't admit to doing stuff like this it does make me come across like I've got nothing better to do, ah sod it

Me too...I'm just not into PC gaming. Really looking forward to getting it...I haven't played a Sims game in years!

I've bought every Sims game that came out, when 3 came out i played it for a while then got tired of it.

When i play the sims it usually ends up with me thinking about how miserable life is and the only one that is having a good time is the sim itself, this came as a realisation to me when i was playing Sims 1 and saw a Sim sit in front of her computer playing games and having fun while was sitting NOT having fun, watching her having fun.

And i remember the socual aspect being wildly overdriven in Sims 1. All sims went all neurotic if someone didnt poke them with a stick every 5 minutes, the social interaction got really tiresome.

Sims 2 removed some of that and i could build apartments, go to college and start my own business.

Sims 3 "opened up" the whole community without loading screens, but still had the basic "not fun for the player" flaw.

The only thing i find interesting with the Sims is to create a big lesbian community and see how much wild lesbian sex i can get in a lifetime, once i get tired of that i uninstall.