I’ve been playing The Sims 2 (yes, I know I’m behind the times when it comes to the Sims but my laptop definitely won’t be able to handle The Sims 3 at all so I plan on getting a new one) for quite some time now. I’m even entertaining the idea of creating a WWE neighbourhood!
The only thing that is really annoying me in the game itself is in the picture to the left. The fucking horrible – manky I like to call it – maternity wear. What pregnant Sim, let alone a pregnant woman, would be seen wearing maternity wear like that? I know damn well I wouldn’t be seen in anything like that! Surprisingly, this ‘maternity’ top is somewhat detailed in that you can see the flowers on it – I’m putting that down to the fact that I doubled the RAM for my laptop to 512MB. I’m thinking that the Sim in the picture has the perfect facial expression – as if she can’t believe what she’s wearing and just how horrible it really is. Then again, this particular Sim is grouchy by nature but that should be something to expect when her mother is Lilith Pleasant.
If you are still playing The Sims 2 for whatever reason, what are some of your pet peeves?
Maternity clothing has always been a pain for me. I don’t really care about it that much in my “modern” neighborhoods because there are plenty of frump maternity clothes in the world right now. Haha. Plus the sim is only pregnant for like 3 days, so to me it’s not that big of a deal. However, I usually play with all Victorian-era European neighborhoods, 19th century Japanese neighborhoods, and Medieval neighborhoods. So…having the ugly maternity wear is not really fun in those instances.
There are plenty of hacks and such that allow you to dress your sims in different maternity clothes – and even replace the default ones – but there still isn’t a lot of variety for clothes to choose from in the first place. Kinda lame.
I played The Sims 3 for all of 3 months before I realized how inferior it was to The Sims 2, so I completely stopped playing it. I am one of the people who goes in and edits the heck out of everything via source/program code, and when The Sims 3 came out that was pretty hard to do. Still is for the most part. That was a huge turn off for me, so I just didn’t play it anymore. The Sims 2 is really the best game I have ever played because of the amount a user can edit, change, customize, etc with ease. It was meant to do that, as was The Sims (1).
That’s why I still love The Sims 2!