Quote: "Their common interest is simple: sex."

I played The Sims Online for nearly a year from shortly after Beta Testing until it spiraled down into a world of Mafia's and prostitution. Sex is alive and well in the Sims world and it's called TSO. But I digress...

The Sims 2 will be huge for the market it caters to. Most people I know rarely play their game...they just like to landscape, build houses and decorate them. Unfortunatley, it's a lot like Poser in that unless you have the software available to make your own custom content, you have to rely on other people's "freebies" to make it interesting. The provided content from Maxis is...in a word, boring. It was the fansites with their game hacks and cheats and "House Building Contests" that made it fun. (**Sounds like Poser eh?) If it weren't for the fans creating custom content, the Sims would have died a long time ago.

I've downloaded "Bodyshop" and it does have that "Poser Feel" to it. I thought it was....interesting.

All in all it's going to disappoint a lot of people because it's going to require a really kick-butt computer to even play it. I've already heard the grumblings amongst people over that. People will purchase it, try to play it on a 2 year old computer then be angry because it won't run. I predict stock in Best Buy will go thru the roof from people buing new computers in September.

I'll buy it, I'll try it...then I'll probably delete it from my computer cause it'll be sucking up all my valuable Runtime space.

Message edited on: 07/24/2004 06:27