Comments on: The Complete Alice And Kev

By: Duffin

Duffin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:03:28 +0000

A touching end to a cracking blog.

By: Cian

Cian — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:51:00 +0000

My favourite bit of Alice and Kev coverage was seeing it mentioned in the Pavement, a free, monthly magazine distributed amongst rough sleepers in London. Good work Roburky.

By: Thirith

Thirith — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:18:40 +0000

I played The Sims 2 intensely for a week or so and haven’t touched it since. Reading Alice and Kev, I’d say that I appreciate the Sims games for what they do, but I’d get more enjoyment out of reading or watching what others do with it than I would out of playing it myself.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:56:37 +0000

Excellent stuff. I shall have to dabble in Sims 3 – I shamefully haven’t touched a Sims game before…

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:01:41 +0000

@Roburky
True that. Probably what I’m angling for is more for personality traits to drift/shift outside of player action in a response to the relationships the Sims and their general well being. Certainly Sims experience mood shifts, but they invariably rubber band back to their default positions. The possibility that a happy go lucky Sim just might transform into an evil klepomaniac , or vise versa in response to good/bad fortune simply as a result of how their life is going I think would make for a much more compelling game (sad to say I simmed like crazy for a month after release, then kind of lost interest when those limitations sunk in..). Still I’ve enjoyed your blog, its been an epic tale. I might try and renew my interest in the game later in the year.

Yes You’re right, I’m deliciously evil

By: y2rich

y2rich — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:38:47 +0000

Awesome story roBurky. Definitely got me back into Sims 3 after a bit of a haitus. Time to finish Alices story!

By: roBurky

roBurky — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:19:30 +0000

Kieron just means that it got a lot of reportage in newspapers and mainstream news sites / publications.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:09:23 +0000

Yes, I find it disappointing that there’s no opportunity for character development in The Sims 3.

There’s the mid-life crisis reward you can buy to completely change a character’s traits, but I think a reward to change one single trait would be a lot more interesting.

By: Pags

Pags — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:55:55 +0000

I definitely thought that, as it went on, the quality of the screenshots definitely helped with the storytelling, particularly during Kev’s end-life crisis.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:16:56 +0000

It was bound to end in tears eventually. Kevs epic meander across the game world like for days like a lost prophet was probably the stand out moment for me, principally down to the lovely framing of the screenshots.

Wonderful as the new personality options are in the Sims 3, it seems to me that one of the problems is that the Sims don’t necessarily learn from bad behaviour. Once their traits are defined they are stuck that way which is a bit of a shame (and rather sad really).

It would of been great to see Kev come back from his self imposed exile a changed man, kind and benevolent having set his deomons to rest, but life doesn’t work like that in Sims 3. Maybe in Sims 4 the Sims personalities will evolve over time, rather than just their relationships.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:04:13 +0000

ThoBurky! A brilliant and well written diary. Although the meme appears to have passed me by. Someone care to fill in the blanks?

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:58:15 +0000

Not having played the latest Sims incarnation I’m kind of curious how much of the behavior described is autonomous and how much is the author shoving things in the desired direction.