Blog de Lilymayrose
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Juin 2009
Yo-Yo-Yo
POSTE LE
24/06/09
Seriously, this game is starting to make me feel positively pschizophrenic(sp?). I\'ve been recolouring stuff instead of playing, and it\'s much more fun than the actual gameplay (currently... who knows what tomorrow will bring???). I even went as far as installing Delphy\'s Install Helper Monkey
. Which worked perfectly to install some patterns that I had downloaded, but
... none of the patterns showed up as custom content within the pattern tool.
No little asterisk to mark them out from all the other patterns!
I asked Delphy about this and he said it was par for the course and only the Sims 3 launcher created the asterisk on cc. Bit of a bummer really, because I know that I\'ll eventually forget what is cc and what isn\'t, and something will end up getting put on our website S3M that isn\'t EA created and won\'t have credit and a link with it.
Also, there are that many patterns in the game already, and millions of possible colour combinations with those patterns - that cc patterns may actually be a complete waste of time.
On the plus side, I have the day off work today and no one is around... I can recolour to my hearts content - or make soup - or sleep all day - or play my music REALLY LOUD to let my neighbours know that I am home and feeling anti-social... or I could really *go for it* and do all of the above \'cept the sleeping. The sleeping would seriously undermine the rest of it.
No little asterisk to mark them out from all the other patterns!
I asked Delphy about this and he said it was par for the course and only the Sims 3 launcher created the asterisk on cc. Bit of a bummer really, because I know that I\'ll eventually forget what is cc and what isn\'t, and something will end up getting put on our website S3M that isn\'t EA created and won\'t have credit and a link with it.
Also, there are that many patterns in the game already, and millions of possible colour combinations with those patterns - that cc patterns may actually be a complete waste of time.
On the plus side, I have the day off work today and no one is around... I can recolour to my hearts content - or make soup - or sleep all day - or play my music REALLY LOUD to let my neighbours know that I am home and feeling anti-social... or I could really *go for it* and do all of the above \'cept the sleeping. The sleeping would seriously undermine the rest of it.
I give up.
POSTE LE
22/06/09
I loaded my Sims 2 game, and lasted less than five minutes. So I loaded the Sims 3 game... and lasted less than three minutes... I\'ve always enjoyed playing the game as much as creating for it - now, if I load either one - my brain shuts down under a depressed fug and I feel like pulling out my toenails with my teeth in frustration. It\'s boring. It\'s all boring.
I think I may truly have fallen out of love with this franchise... the ganmeplay at any rate - the creative side of things is slightly addictive still - especially now - with the ability to recolour virtually anything and everything. I\'ve yet to build anything uploadable, which is surprising because I usually build as much as I play. Ah well, only time will tell. Perhaps when the weather becomes cold and the evenings become dark a little quicker, I\'ll fall in love all over again...
I think I may truly have fallen out of love with this franchise... the ganmeplay at any rate - the creative side of things is slightly addictive still - especially now - with the ability to recolour virtually anything and everything. I\'ve yet to build anything uploadable, which is surprising because I usually build as much as I play. Ah well, only time will tell. Perhaps when the weather becomes cold and the evenings become dark a little quicker, I\'ll fall in love all over again...
I found MacFusty!
POSTE LE
19/06/09
On the sims 2 exchange - Katnick1975 was my absolute favourite story writer. She disappeared from the exchange about 18 months ago, and whenever I have become nostalgic for my simpage, I\'ve checked out her page too, just to see if she\'s written anything - or changed her avatar ( a habit that has reassured me of her continuing existence).
Anyhoo, I just wandered over there - and she\'s been blogging. Very briefly, in true Katnick style - and has registered here (Sims 3) as MacFusty. Mad that I don\'t even know this girl, have never bumped into her on any forum save the BBS, but I\'m chuffed to bits that she\'s still out there, fumbling her way through life as only she can.
If anyone is actually reading this blog, keep an eye out for any stories from her - they\'ll brighten your day.
\'nuff about Macfusty... me... I\'m loading up my Sims 2. There\'s no getting away from the fact, that although a few months back it bored me sh*tless - I now miss it. Sims 3 is a great game for newbies, and some seasoned players are loving it - I ain\'t one of them.
It\'s not the basegame blues. It\'s the whole style of the game. I feel like it\'s aimed at the younger generation - with the opportunities (tasks) etc. I miss the interaction on community lots, the weather, sims being able to swim in the sea... soddit... it is the basegame blues, isn\'t it?
Anyhoo, I just wandered over there - and she\'s been blogging. Very briefly, in true Katnick style - and has registered here (Sims 3) as MacFusty. Mad that I don\'t even know this girl, have never bumped into her on any forum save the BBS, but I\'m chuffed to bits that she\'s still out there, fumbling her way through life as only she can.
If anyone is actually reading this blog, keep an eye out for any stories from her - they\'ll brighten your day.
\'nuff about Macfusty... me... I\'m loading up my Sims 2. There\'s no getting away from the fact, that although a few months back it bored me sh*tless - I now miss it. Sims 3 is a great game for newbies, and some seasoned players are loving it - I ain\'t one of them.
It\'s not the basegame blues. It\'s the whole style of the game. I feel like it\'s aimed at the younger generation - with the opportunities (tasks) etc. I miss the interaction on community lots, the weather, sims being able to swim in the sea... soddit... it is the basegame blues, isn\'t it?
Yo-Yo-ing
POSTE LE
17/06/09
One minute I hate this game, then I love it... then I\'m bored with it.
I think that it\'s my fault, because I tend to play the same way all of the time... 2.4 children with workaholic parents and no social life. Dull, dull, dull. I played Lucky Perkins in Riverview for about 10 minutes, and had no clue what to do with him, as he\'s old... where\'s the 2.4 kids and wife for him?????
I\'ve always considered myself to be more interesting than some and less than others... but good grief... I lack imagination in the gameplay department. Nothing... NOTHING ... is interesting in my game. In the sims 2 I never had a zombie, a werewolf or a vampire. My mate Jaq (Simposiast) came to stay with me and bought her sims with her - and within 10 minutes of loading up her game, she had three new vampires and a guilty conscience.
Why can\'t I play that way? Why does it all have to be nicey, nicey? Why do I have OCD? What is that burning smell?
.... Blackened Frittata for dinner tonight.
I think that it\'s my fault, because I tend to play the same way all of the time... 2.4 children with workaholic parents and no social life. Dull, dull, dull. I played Lucky Perkins in Riverview for about 10 minutes, and had no clue what to do with him, as he\'s old... where\'s the 2.4 kids and wife for him?????
I\'ve always considered myself to be more interesting than some and less than others... but good grief... I lack imagination in the gameplay department. Nothing... NOTHING ... is interesting in my game. In the sims 2 I never had a zombie, a werewolf or a vampire. My mate Jaq (Simposiast) came to stay with me and bought her sims with her - and within 10 minutes of loading up her game, she had three new vampires and a guilty conscience.
Why can\'t I play that way? Why does it all have to be nicey, nicey? Why do I have OCD? What is that burning smell?
.... Blackened Frittata for dinner tonight.
I'd almost given up...
POSTE LE
13/06/09
... but I had five minutes spare so I loaded the game for what I thought would be the last time... and now I\'m well and truly hooked. I\'m slightly p*ssed at the fact that even with the story progression work around, it was still enabled - so I made my sims aging process 190 days. That\'s taken the sting out of it, but other sims will carry on aging.
I thought I\'d love the story progression thing, but I don\'t. I don\'t want my sims having lives that I don\'t know about. They\'ll do as they\'re told, when they\'re told, and they\'ll learn to like it or else.
The downside to 190 days life span - is that babies take forever to age up into toddlers. I think mine (the one I\'m playing, not my own - obviously) has been a baby for four days now (feels longer), with no sign of a birthday in sight. Fingers crossed it happens at some point today - or it\'s a glitch that will put me off playing.
Strangley, I have no urge to build. Possibly because it\'s community lots that I have always preferred to muck about with, and the choices for that in this generation are fairly limited. Or maybe I\'m limiting myself because of my initial disappointment in the community lots that sims can visit, but we can\'t go with them - I\'m actually quite liking that now. The ability to go shop for food that\'s on a discount whilst looking after baby at home and writing a novel, all at the same time - without loading screens and without only being able to go with the sims that visit the community lots... it\'s pretty d*mn nifty :D
I thought I\'d love the story progression thing, but I don\'t. I don\'t want my sims having lives that I don\'t know about. They\'ll do as they\'re told, when they\'re told, and they\'ll learn to like it or else.
The downside to 190 days life span - is that babies take forever to age up into toddlers. I think mine (the one I\'m playing, not my own - obviously) has been a baby for four days now (feels longer), with no sign of a birthday in sight. Fingers crossed it happens at some point today - or it\'s a glitch that will put me off playing.
Strangley, I have no urge to build. Possibly because it\'s community lots that I have always preferred to muck about with, and the choices for that in this generation are fairly limited. Or maybe I\'m limiting myself because of my initial disappointment in the community lots that sims can visit, but we can\'t go with them - I\'m actually quite liking that now. The ability to go shop for food that\'s on a discount whilst looking after baby at home and writing a novel, all at the same time - without loading screens and without only being able to go with the sims that visit the community lots... it\'s pretty d*mn nifty :D
Changeover Blues
POSTE LE
11/06/09
I\'ve tried incredibly hard to like this game, but it\'s currently not happening. I have no inclination to play or create, and I\'ve committed myself to a new Sims 3 website with two friends. Bummer.
I load the game, create a couple of sims, move them into a new home, redecorate it... then quit. I\'ve always enjoyed actually playing the game, and not just creating. I\'ve only ever created for my sims, and not just as a means to an end - I find that boring.
I\'m not even sure if I can go back to playing Sims2, though it doesn\'t get up my nose quite as much as this current generation does.
What to do?
I load the game, create a couple of sims, move them into a new home, redecorate it... then quit. I\'ve always enjoyed actually playing the game, and not just creating. I\'ve only ever created for my sims, and not just as a means to an end - I find that boring.
I\'m not even sure if I can go back to playing Sims2, though it doesn\'t get up my nose quite as much as this current generation does.
What to do?
Naked Neighbourhood
POSTE LE
08/06/09
In an attempt to try to make this game feel like its mine - I\'ve started a new game (new neighbourhood) and deleted all of the resident sims. I\'m very slowly (very, very slowly
) going to work my way around all the houses and revamp them to suit my own style of gameplay. Whilst I\'m building and renovating I hope that I\'ll get more of a feel for the game and it\'s possibilites.
I managed to customise a bathroom and hopefully I\'ll get time to upload it later on today.
I did load up my Sims 2 game yesterday, and the graphics are lovely and smooth and intricate, but the sims themselves look a bit weird... and the loading screens are now doing my nut! Five or six years of loading screens not irking me in the slightest, and suddenly I\'m ready to commit murder at the briefest of pauses... and the inability to customise stuff in game had me turning it off almost as soon as the game had loaded. It\'s strange how very quickly we become used to an entirely different format. It\'s like driving on the right hand side of the road - easy to change to, but very difficult to change back (we drive on the left in the UK).
I made an unsuccessful Strawberry Mousse yesterday - Strawberry Slop. Very nice, but not enough of it... and I ran out of cookies.
I managed to customise a bathroom and hopefully I\'ll get time to upload it later on today.
I did load up my Sims 2 game yesterday, and the graphics are lovely and smooth and intricate, but the sims themselves look a bit weird... and the loading screens are now doing my nut! Five or six years of loading screens not irking me in the slightest, and suddenly I\'m ready to commit murder at the briefest of pauses... and the inability to customise stuff in game had me turning it off almost as soon as the game had loaded. It\'s strange how very quickly we become used to an entirely different format. It\'s like driving on the right hand side of the road - easy to change to, but very difficult to change back (we drive on the left in the UK).
I made an unsuccessful Strawberry Mousse yesterday - Strawberry Slop. Very nice, but not enough of it... and I ran out of cookies.
Loophole Lil LIVES...
POSTE LE
07/06/09
...It\'s an \'in\' joke.
3 days and already I\'m probably in trouble, go figure.
3 days and already I\'m probably in trouble, go figure.
It's growing on me...
POSTE LE
06/06/09
... like mould grows on cheese.
I think that I perhaps found the sheer size of both neighbourhoods, rather daunting and very \"OMG what do I do first?????\" So after chatting with my mate Buttercup (Webbymom11), who was in awe of the landscaping tools - I decided to build my own house to play some Library Sims in. It worked. I was able to adjust my dyspraxic brain enough to at least begin to understand the gameplay. Which I think is rather s*cky (insert \'u\'), but at least I now know why.
I\'ve just invaded the home of someone called Ursuline (I think. Don\'t know if that was the first or last name), she\'s a bit of a butch b*gger (insert \'u\') with a baby. The baby needed a bedroom and I needed to exercise some creativity and OCD matchy matchness... so I customised a load of baby girl bedroom furnishings and decided to share them. Which was fun, but now the baby\'s bedroom is the nicest part of the house so I have to go make the rest look pretty too. Oddly enough, Little Miss Butch has a very pretty home on the outside and pretty b*tt (insert \'u\') ugly on the inside. So someone from EA had a bit of fun with decorating psyche there.
I\'m going to have to stop to eat soon.
I think that I perhaps found the sheer size of both neighbourhoods, rather daunting and very \"OMG what do I do first?????\" So after chatting with my mate Buttercup (Webbymom11), who was in awe of the landscaping tools - I decided to build my own house to play some Library Sims in. It worked. I was able to adjust my dyspraxic brain enough to at least begin to understand the gameplay. Which I think is rather s*cky (insert \'u\'), but at least I now know why.
I\'ve just invaded the home of someone called Ursuline (I think. Don\'t know if that was the first or last name), she\'s a bit of a butch b*gger (insert \'u\') with a baby. The baby needed a bedroom and I needed to exercise some creativity and OCD matchy matchness... so I customised a load of baby girl bedroom furnishings and decided to share them. Which was fun, but now the baby\'s bedroom is the nicest part of the house so I have to go make the rest look pretty too. Oddly enough, Little Miss Butch has a very pretty home on the outside and pretty b*tt (insert \'u\') ugly on the inside. So someone from EA had a bit of fun with decorating psyche there.
I\'m going to have to stop to eat soon.
Dyspraxia's a b*tch!
POSTE LE
05/06/09
So... I got my game yesterday. Not sure if I hate it or not yet. But I\'m willing to keep going with it until I\'ve made up my mind. I\'m unsure of how a lot of it works, and in this instance I blame completely the fact that I\'m mildly dyspraxic. I know I\'ll get it eventually, whatever \'it\' is. But for the moment, I\'m finding the game awkward, graphically incoherent and a bit dull. Maybe when I get the hang of it, I\'ll think differently - I certainly hope so.
I remember the huge awe that I felt when playing Sims 2 for the first time - that hasn\'t happened here. However, it\'s only 10.50am here in the UK, and already I\'ve done my housework, sorted dinner and walked the dog... all so\'s I can play on a game that I currently feel apathy for....other than for CAS that is.
As my friends will tell you, I loathe the Sims 2 bodyshop with a passion. The type of passion that has people jumping off bridges sans bungy rope. But Sims 3 CAS... WOW! I love it! I love the palet tool that allows the creation of custom patterns to apply to clothing (yes, I know we can use it for virtually everything). I love the Sims (though before I actually had the game, I wasn\'t too keen on the images I\'d seen), I love the HUGE ease of the sharing facility - whoever came up with that particular concept is a genius!
And so I\'m off to load my game in attempt at falling in love with it. I\'ll let you know how that goes.
....it\'s 2.37pm and so far... not so good.
I remember the huge awe that I felt when playing Sims 2 for the first time - that hasn\'t happened here. However, it\'s only 10.50am here in the UK, and already I\'ve done my housework, sorted dinner and walked the dog... all so\'s I can play on a game that I currently feel apathy for....other than for CAS that is.
As my friends will tell you, I loathe the Sims 2 bodyshop with a passion. The type of passion that has people jumping off bridges sans bungy rope. But Sims 3 CAS... WOW! I love it! I love the palet tool that allows the creation of custom patterns to apply to clothing (yes, I know we can use it for virtually everything). I love the Sims (though before I actually had the game, I wasn\'t too keen on the images I\'d seen), I love the HUGE ease of the sharing facility - whoever came up with that particular concept is a genius!
And so I\'m off to load my game in attempt at falling in love with it. I\'ll let you know how that goes.
....it\'s 2.37pm and so far... not so good.
