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Xagest
02/25/09

In reply to The Sims 3 Preview: Smooth Criminal
If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college
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frank0127
02/25/09

@Xagest: That specific quote has nothing to do with Sims 3 at all.

but for that specific quote, you're awesome.
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Xagest
02/25/09

@frank0127:

it was sorta directed at the screenshot.
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Roufuss
02/25/09

In reply to The Sims 3 Preview: Smooth Criminal
All I can hope for is that EA adds in basic features, like pets and nightlife, to the basic package this time.

I will scream if they hold these back for expansion packs for the THIRD GAME IN A ROW!!

It's always their way with The Sims that they strip the new game completely, to piecemeal stuff out that made the previous game so much fun. I would just rather have pets be available from the get go, instead of waiting two years for it.
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AJ Glasser
02/25/09

@Roufuss: Alas, no pets - but fishing is there from the start and there are a ton of careers that weren't in 1 or 2. I really feel like it's a whole game that won't need a bajillion expansions to make it a "realistic" life experience.
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kitsuneconundrum
02/25/09

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how long does it take to go to the bathroom this time?
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AJ Glasser
02/25/09

@kitsuneconundrum: You know, I played a whole sim day and she didn't have to use the loo even once. Not sure if that was a bug or not.
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Porumy
02/25/09

In reply to The Sims 3 Preview: Smooth Criminal
I hope they have that Life Elixir machine in the final build.

I'm obsessed with keeping my sim alive.
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AJ Glasser
02/25/09

@Porumy: No life elixir - but if you get really good at cooking, you can make a recipe called Ambrosia that grants youth. Involves a lot of fishing, I hear.
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Ninja Tree
02/25/09

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I realy hope we can morph all parts of the body now.
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AJ Glasser
02/25/09

@EaGle1337: Not all parts, but certainly more than we used to. And you can actually be fat AND muscular now because they put each function on a different slider.
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
02/25/09

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It seems like just yesterday that The Sims 2 and Sims Online came out...
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snakepliskin
02/25/09

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Man i love this stuff. All the random things make the sims "fun" if you can call it that. I remember i got that stupid crying clown once. It came into my house and just walked around me and cried. You couldnt do shit with him. I tried drowning him, that didnt work. Had to just delete him. I dont know what the appropriate thing to do was... Maybe they should add weapons to the sims...
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AJ Glasser
02/25/09

@snakepliskin: I think the clown came around if you had the sad clown painting and your sim's social stat was red. I got rid of him by throwing parties and selling the painting.
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Nirach
02/11/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
Can they drink?

I'd buy Sims 3 if they could drink.
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Kobun
02/09/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
I prefer Viva Pinata's version where two creatures, possibly not of the same gender or even species, meet for a "romance dance," then await Storkos, a flying fat woman, to deliver an egg. The best part is that you will immediately begin mating all of the offspring and parents in one big southern style orgy to meet the "master romancer" requirement.
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geekgrrl
02/09/09

@Kobun: Achievement unlocked: Incest
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Skunky
02/09/09

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No mention of Pokemon? That has to be a pretty strange way to handle pregnancy, not only does the player not directly get involved with conception, but you never 'see' the pokemon give birth. However, before you simply end up with the new critter, you have to carry around the egg for sometime.
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clobbit
02/09/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
Pregnancy is 40 weeks.

There are 52 weeks in a year.

If 40 weeks = 10 months, that leaves 12 weeks.

By the same logic then 12 weeks = 3 months.

That means there would be 13 months in a year.

/Wife is pregnant and we go to find out if it's a boy or girl tomorrow.
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Sensai
02/09/09

@clobbit: Congrats mate.

Got any names chosen yet, or just playing it by ear?
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Comatose Turtle
02/09/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
Why would she want Guitar Hero to be more like playing real guitar? Why wouldn't we just play with a real guitar?

My point is, she's making a big deal out of very little. Sure, it might be interesting to play a game that was super-realistic on this front, but that any game is not so is not worth worrying over. After all, parents should not be letting their children's important life lessons come strictly from video games, or from television or even the children's friends.

If we were going to worry about that sort of thing, I'm much more concerned about games where someone's goodness or badness is measured on a single linear scale governed primarily by how many innocents you killed. Let's hope parents have that one covered as well.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/09/09

@Comatose Turtle: Agreed. Kids should learn that stuff the old fashioned way: movies. I dont know about you but I learned the Birds and the Bees from a mixture of Alien and Junior.
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Skunky
02/09/09

@OW-Holmes: Face fulla alien wing-wong?
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geekgrrl
02/09/09

@OW-Holmes: you just made my head explode with terror. (after it was pumped full of facehugger jizz)
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
02/09/09

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Falcon Punch.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
02/09/09

@BanjoGinga: I shouldn't have laughed at that.
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pezcore2552
02/09/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
While I see how someone who isn't totally into video games (I'm assuming that describes Clary accurately, but just an assumption) would feel this way about pregnancy in games, but one has to remember that these are games. The most important aspect of a game IS for it to be fun. There just isn't usually a way to depict anything completely accurately and still have it work in the context of a game, especially something as complex as pregnancy and child rearing. I think that while the Sims does do some things that are perhaps kind of silly, they still do a pretty good job of making the pregnancy as real as possible without ruining the experience of playing a game.
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Tiger-Fever
02/09/09

@pezcore2552: Exactly. Complaining about realism in video games when it comes to topics like pregnancy is ridiculous. There's no way I even WANT to see any character go through what happens during a pregnancy. And I certainly don't play them to learn about pregnancy in the first place.
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L
02/09/09

In reply to Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games
I've never experienced the joy of pregnancy in any video game I've ever played.
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Spoony Bard
02/09/09

@L: You've never played the "soft interlude" portion of Gears of War? Or Left4Dead Zombie impregnating mode?
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Zefir
02/09/09

@Spoony Bard: Yeah, but watch out while trying to impregnate the Witch. She'll probably kill you during it.
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Sensai
02/09/09

@Zefir: Or get _really_ attached to you. Next thing you know, she'll be all like 'Come hang out with me' or 'Why don't we ever talk on the phone anymore?'

So, you tell the bitch to step off and what does she do? She kills you. And then she CRIES about it.

...typical.
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