Welcome to my first-ever gaming blog! Over the years, I’ve owned all the base game
incarnations of The Sims, so I was really excited to hear that a fourth Sims was
coming out, and even more excited to finally get it for myself! Just a disclaimer: this blog isn’t affiliated
with EA games or Maxis or with The Sims – it’s just a fan blog, for me to share
my thoughts and feelings about the game, and also for me to share stories from
my own personal gameplay.
I’m still learning how to play right now – the controls are
quite different from The Sims 3 and it definitely takes a bit of time to get
used to. I do love the game though, even
with all its differences. The
differences I’ll talk about include (but are probably not limited to) toddlers,
family trees, pools, babies, relationships, woohoo, pregnancy, careers, Create
A Sim, open world, build mode, buy mode, and more.
Right now, there are a lot of things I’m still trying to
figure out in this game, so I’m playing around a lot and just working with a
bunch of families. Right now on my
screen: the Lindstrom & Kotters families.
In Create A Sim, I created two female young adult roommates: Reese
Lindstrom, who is active, a foodie, family oriented, and domestic, and who wants
a successful lineage; and Allison Kotter, a serial romantic who tends to be
romantic, a perfectionist, family-oriented, and alluring. Reese and Allison started out, just friends
in a small, pre-built house within their budget. Allison went out on the town first, with her
sizzling red hair and her sexiest outfit, she was hot and ready to flirt. She met a few townies and made a few friends,
but the first guy she really clicked with was a man called Rodrigo
Carrier. I’ve never played Rodrigo, but
Allison was a fan, and they immediately hit it off and started a casual
romantic relationship. Allison and
Rodrigo had a child together, a boy named Harrison, but the couple broke up
shortly after his birth. Meanwhile,
Reese was taking it slow with another townie, a guy named Yahir Fitch. They inevitably hooked up and made a baby of
their own (daughter Shayleen), but Allison and Yahir had a quick fling not much
after that, and Allison got pregnant as well (with daughter Helen). To get over Yahir, Reese started seeing an
older gentleman who she fell for hard and fast: Tory Fisher. Tory and Reese are still seeing each other
and still very much in love. Reese
wanted to continue adding to her family, and they are now expecting a child as
well. I know it’s all kind of crazy, but
the goal here was not to make realistic families or realistic people or
anything the like. The goal really was
just to create some people and develop some relationships, and obviously it got
out of hand, haha. I wanted to try some
romantic relationships, and I wanted to build some little families. It was actually easier than I expected to
build those romantic relationships, and it was actually easier to make babies
(all over the place, with everyone in the town, almost…) pretty quickly. I was surprised by that. I almost feel like the relationships were
built much faster in this game than in Sims 3. So that was my blurb about relationships in Sims 4.
I'm excited to create some more realistic families and learn more about playing this awesome new game!
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