From toes to tits, it’s all about conformity. Mostly, I just find the game bordering on repugnant. The Black Eyed Peas are in it if you like their music circa 2004! I don’t, but you might! Skill-building and jobs are now done with mini-games rather than watching a progress bar fill, and…that’s all I can think of. I guess you could argue it has more personality to it, but that kind of clashes with the game’s complete absence of individuality. But never mind that, they changed the art style, and it looks rough. I don’t know what it is about console Sims titles of that era, but they always had this weird haze to them. They all look the same they’re practically born expendable. It makes you wish you could put a rug and a fireplace in the club and just burn all the gyrating doppelgangers in one neon blaze. And then, after they get through the door, they just start dancing, blocking everyone waiting from getting in. In particular, whenever the VIP club opens in the evening, everyone attempts to pile in at once. The pathfinding, which has always been a little sketchy for the series, is at its worse here. The Urbz isn’t fun to play to begin with, but then there are problems layered over top of it. If I go missing, check the disc case, you might find my burnt teeth in there. It might have just been emergent gameplay, but I can’t help but feel The Urbz is threatening me. I don’t think they’re supposed to do that, but one area had a taunt where they throw firecrackers at the feet of another Sim, and that Sim just went up in an inferno. Only once you’re popular enough can you get into the VIP area to party with the rest of the beautiful people and dance like you’re part of some sort of cult ritual.Įventually, the neighborhood villain shows up and starts lighting people on fire. Do the same skateboard tricks everyone else is doing. Yeah, to make friends you have to dress like them. You get to create your avatar, but don’t spend too long in the character creator because it’s just going to end up looking the same as every other character in a particular neighborhood. So, actually more boring than the most boring part of The Sims. Except it tells you what social interactions are going to succeed 100% of the time, so you just spam them until someone likes you. To do this, you have to go and make friends with everyone, kind of like the most boring part of The Sims. Apparently, in this city, the most important thing is to become popular because some guy named Darius told you to. That’s the closest it really comes to being The Sims because the rest of the game is about being a poser.
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But, again, why slosh through an apartment full of your useless pet’s elimination when you can just sleep in someone else’s bed? There’s no room stat, so there’s no reason to clean up after it because your avatar is perfectly content living in a lake of urine. Then you unlock a pet and there’s even less reason to go back to your apartment because it pisses everywhere. You spend all your time traveling to different neighborhoods, all of which have the amenities needed to keep your Sim’s stats topped, so you never need to go home. You’re given an apartment, but it’s largely vestigial. Boy howdy, it is definitely not about being the personal God of the whiniest people to ever inhabit a mansion.
You build or buy homes for your hapless little people, drop them into it, then dictate their life until they get rich or you get bored. If you’re unfamiliar with The Sims, that’s weird, but okay.
The result was The Urbz: Sims in the City, and if this is the first time in years you’ve heard the title mentioned, I’m not surprised. They chose to move the game from the weird Edward Scissorhands depiction of suburbia and into the urban jungle where everyone listens to the Black Eyed Peas and the partying never stops.
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Riding high from that, they decided that the franchise wasn’t vacuuming money out of people’s pockets fast enough, so they decided to spin the series off. Then they did it again with The Sims: Bustin’ Out, which I’m not going to make fun of because it was sort of awesome. So, they ported the game to consoles with fresh, 3D graphics and made even more money.
In typical EA fashion, they immediately began to plot new ways to whore out their cash cow. It was massively popular, as you’d expect from a product that allows you to watch someone pee, and sold millions of copies. It was an opportunity for people to look down upon their creations, trap them in the pool until they drown, and have absolutely useless children. In 2000, while humanity was crawling from the wreckage and trying to rebuild after the devastation of Y2K, The Sims exploded on the PC. According to this kusoge, you must fit in at all cost.
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