Comments on: EA: The Sims 3 “The Most Successful PC Launch”

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:35:45 +0000

As soon as this family dies I’m making an entire otherworld house!

By: Captain Haplo

Captain Haplo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:28:45 +0000

God I am sick of the ‘housewives and children’ label being placed upon games. Total accessability should not somehow mean ‘NO HARDCOAR GAMERS!’.

I’ll pick this baby up when I get the chance. I’ve been looking forward to this.

By: Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:32:29 +0000

I made up my Sim’s kitchen into a silent hill otherworld-esque hellhole.

Instead of walls it’s only separated from the rest of the house by a rusty chain-link fence and everyone within it in covered in a layer of rust and/or meaty flesh.

Do you still feel like eating? DO YOU STILL FEEL LIKE EATING?! DO YOU WANT TO EAT IN MY MURDER-KITCHEN BECAUSE YOU’RE ON THE MENU BROTHER!!!

By: lumpi

lumpi — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:21:07 +0000

There you have it… PC gaming is dead and unprofitable…

Wait…

By: Grey_Ghost

Grey_Ghost — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:34:34 +0000

Um, that pic made me think of “John Wayne Gacy” for some reason. Hope I can sleep tonight… *clowns*.

By: catska

catska — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:39:40 +0000

Did anyone really expect this game to NOT sell like crazy? It’s common knowledge by now that the only games on the PC to get these kinds of numbers are casual games aimed at housewives and children. The thousands of people pirating this game before it’s release were never going to make up the bulk of its sales, people who have no idea what a torrent is are.

So long as games like this being the only things that sell, expect more and more of them to come out. I expect much like the last few years, PC sales charts are going to be 50% Sims and Sims expansion packs, and 50% Blizzard (WoW + exp).

By: Taillefer

Taillefer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:29:26 +0000

That gives me the idea to make a black widow. And see how many mansions I can inherit.

By: Matzerath

Matzerath — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:25:57 +0000

I remember making a serial killer in the first one, who would trap people in the walls of his house. Great fun, though it became increasingly difficult to maintain him, as he didn’t have a job (I was going for a cinematic Jason/Michael Myers type), and needed to have at least some level of social acceptance, so victims would come over in the first place — and of course he was tormented every night by the ghosts of his victims. Gosh that was a good time.
Please don’t call the police.

By: pilouuuu

pilouuuu — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:13:06 +0000

Mmm, just wondering… Is there a man that assumes to play and like The Sims and not because a woman in his family plays it?

I really can’t understand the prejudice against The Sims games. They are so sandbox and you may play it in which ever way you like, so they can be as casual or hardcore as you play it.

And they can also be as girly or manly as whoever plays it. So, some people may concentrate on building houses, other prefers to create a soap opera, others play it like an strategy game, trying to get to the top of the career, etc, etc, etc.

Why is it that now, ten years after the first game was released, most people say The Sims is a casual game for girls? Especially strange considering how intelligent RPS readers seem to be.

And The Sims 3 is an amazing and the best game in the series and has no DRM, so I can recommend it to everybody.

By: Moonracer

Moonracer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:11:19 +0000

I bought it but have put it aside till a patch comes out. There are some serious bugs in the game that have already put me off. Still, from what I have played it is a lot of fun to mess around with.

By: Captain Bland

Captain Bland — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:41:27 +0000

Thanks Man Raised By Puffins, now I can get down to the long, complicated process of working out which haircuts are BEST. So that I can spend my SimPoints on them.

By: Anthony Damiani

Anthony Damiani — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:51:22 +0000

I wish it had an autosave, though. There’s something really disheartening about losing five hours of play if the thing crashes.