The Sims is the most ridiculous game ever.
There's no 'end', it just keeps running and running. Eventually your guy just gets depressed and cries (and it's quite an upsetting sound) and moans that he hates his job. Then he refuses to go to his job. Then he gets fired. Then loads of stuff gets repossessed cos you've not paid the bills, or a burglar bowls in and picks up your snooker table and pops it into his swag bag that's the size of a Tesco carrier bag. Then your bloke moans that he has no mates and that he hates his life, and every time I played it he eventually died because of the multiple reasons above. The Death character waltzes onto your screen, takes your bloke away and there's a little gravestone by your front door. That's it. The end.

I played The Sims when I was about eight and I'm quite sure it's the reason I'm so miserable now.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 10:54, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

In the Sims 3
your sims grow old and die and your Sims kids take over.

Are you sure you were playing the Sims and not just, y'know, living?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Is there a Waterproof Trousers expansion pack for the Sims?

(Cave Duck, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I don't get this waterproof trouser thing
splain pls?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Me and Vipros had a conversation about the merits or otherwise of brands of waterproof trousers
Much hilarity ensued.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:15, Reply)

It did feel like art imitating life when I was playing it I must admit.
I would genuinely love to hear of someone who's done well on the original Sims though. Even when I used the cheat and made my bloke a millionaire and filled every room in the house with priceless art and plasma screen teles he'd still cry and then top himself.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:06, Reply)

yeah my Sim in the original Sims kept crying
They've made it much less hard work in the new one, their mood bars don't decrease as quickly. The social one was such a pain on the old one, it would decrease constantly but you didn't have time to invite people over.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 2 Dec 2010, 11:29, Reply)