MySims

[The GIGGAS]

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That sounds very fun.

That does sound very fun.

[aukevin]

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yeah it is fun. I thought I'd get bored of just running back and forth between Sims and my workshop building stuff for everyone, but it has been entertaining.

You have to go out and explore around to get the "essences" to build stuff with. You always have the wood to build a bed or something out of, but the Sim might want it built with 8 scary essences, so you got to have those to build into the construction with. Everything you build is rather easy, you get a nice blueprint of what pieces to put together, it is just up to you how to work in the essences into the things you build. For instance, I had to build a boombox for one Sim that was like 6 pieces of wood (yeah wood for a boombox, LOL), but I also had to use 9 esssences, so I had to make 3 additions to the blueprint to work them all in.

I wish there was some kind of online part to the game, but the way the game plays, there isn't really a need for it. The biggest annoyance with the game is the load times. It always takes you to a load screen whenever you enter or exit a house, so that's very PS2-ish. I've gotten used to it now, but at first it was kinda annoying. When the day transitions to night all of a sudden, it also lags a bit, but that's just for a sec.

But playing the game is fun, the characters have a lot of expression. Animal Crossing has more depth to it I suppose because of all the things you collect (bugs, fish, etc), whereas this game you just collect essences to build items for other Sims. But you are rewarded by your hard work by getting decorative items or blueprints to place in your house from happy Sims.

[aukevin]

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I'm about 16-18 hours into the game now (the load screen tells you how long you've played) and I'm still enjoying it a lot. The M.O. of the game hasn't changed, it is still building items in your workshop for Sims in town. The construction of the objects has gotten a little bit more difficult, you really have to be creative with your construction. For instance, I had to build a table last night for the ice cream shop. Now a table, even a fancy one, is only about 10-15 pieces of wood, but the ice cream shop owner wanted me to use 40 essences on it (20 or two types). Essences can be used to either paint a block of wood or you can just put an essence object on the item (like an apple is an essence) but that usually looks pretty ugly. It probably took me 30 minutes to build this table for the Sim because I had to use all those essences and I still wanted it too look really good. I wonder if the tasks I get as I get further in the game keep getting harder or if it is just this particular Sim because she keeps giving me tough assignments.

I'm at a 3-star level now, so I've unlocked two areas that make your world a lot bigger, much bigger than anything in Animal Crossing. There is one more thing to unlock I guess when I get 4-stars which will open more areas.

I haven't really built anything for my house, except a racecar bed, and I haven't built much for the Townies either. There are two types of Sims in the games, Townies which just live in your town, and the Commercial sims like the ice cream shop owner. The commercial sims are the ones that give you tasks to build stuff for them in your workshop. They reward your tasks with blueprints or decorative junk for your house.

The townies don't give you tasks but they might ask for something like a bed, but you don't get anything from them that I can tell. Maybe if you give them lots of stuff that matches their personality (adding essences to the items you build for them that match their personality) they might give you something. The only thing I've gotten from a Townie is a blueprint for one item in their house when I became best friends with them. There are three levels of relationships in the game with all the sims, acquaintance, friend, and best friend. You build up to best friend by using the Be Nice option on the screen when you go up to a Sim. I'm only best friends with one sim in the town right now but I'm trying to be best friends with this one dude with a widescreen TV in hopes that he gives me the blueprint to it

Commercial sims seem to be the most important because as you get more businesses in your town, your star rating increases and you want to get it to 5. I have all the empty lots in the main part of the city full and now I am expanding into the unlocked areas. I have 5 townies and I think 5 or 6 commercial sims in my town now. I'm probably going to just invite commercial guys to come in until I get my 5-star rating and they are the most fun sims anyway, but I do like having a few townies around.

The load times are still the biggest issue with the game. The load screens don't bother me that much, but I was in one of the unlocked areas last night doing some prospecting for essences and the game just couldn't keep up with the graphics so it got really really really laggy to the point that I had to just but the controller down for about 5-10 seconds until the game recovered. It happened a couple other times in that one little area, but nowhere else just yet but things do slowdown around the town from time to time. So that's been the most frustrating problem with the game. It's not like you are in a big hurry for anything in this game, so the slowdown is only annoying, it doesn't hurt what you are doing in anyway. Either this game wasn't programmed too efficiently or it really hits the limits of the Wii hardware. I hope it is just the programming because there isn't anything that huge in the graphical abilities of the game. I've played some Wii games with more realistic graphics without slowdown, but this game does have the most on-screen action of any of the Wii games I have because there isn't only your character running around the town, you see all the other Sims in the town running around too doing stuff like talking, picnics, and just goofing off around town. It's mainly just when you are prospecting in this one new area or the time of day changes that the game lags.

Anyway... those are just a few more impressions for anyone interested.

[CaptainZombie]

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I'm about 16-18 hours into the game now (the load screen tells you how long you've played) and I'm still enjoying it a lot. The M.O. of the game hasn't changed, it is still building items in your workshop for Sims in town. The construction of the objects has gotten a little bit more difficult, you really have to be creative with your construction. For instance, I had to build a table last night for the ice cream shop. Now a table, even a fancy one, is only about 10-15 pieces of wood, but the ice cream shop owner wanted me to use 40 essences on it (20 or two types). Essences can be used to either paint a block of wood or you can just put an essence object on the item (like an apple is an essence) but that usually looks pretty ugly. It probably took me 30 minutes to build this table for the Sim because I had to use all those essences and I still wanted it too look really good. I wonder if the tasks I get as I get further in the game keep getting harder or if it is just this particular Sim because she keeps giving me tough assignments.

I'm at a 3-star level now, so I've unlocked two areas that make your world a lot bigger, much bigger than anything in Animal Crossing. There is one more thing to unlock I guess when I get 4-stars which will open more areas.

I haven't really built anything for my house, except a racecar bed, and I haven't built much for the Townies either. There are two types of Sims in the games, Townies which just live in your town, and the Commercial sims like the ice cream shop owner. The commercial sims are the ones that give you tasks to build stuff for them in your workshop. They reward your tasks with blueprints or decorative junk for your house.

The townies don't give you tasks but they might ask for something like a bed, but you don't get anything from them that I can tell. Maybe if you give them lots of stuff that matches their personality (adding essences to the items you build for them that match their personality) they might give you something. The only thing I've gotten from a Townie is a blueprint for one item in their house when I became best friends with them. There are three levels of relationships in the game with all the sims, acquaintance, friend, and best friend. You build up to best friend by using the Be Nice option on the screen when you go up to a Sim. I'm only best friends with one sim in the town right now but I'm trying to be best friends with this one dude with a widescreen TV in hopes that he gives me the blueprint to it

Commercial sims seem to be the most important because as you get more businesses in your town, your star rating increases and you want to get it to 5. I have all the empty lots in the main part of the city full and now I am expanding into the unlocked areas. I have 5 townies and I think 5 or 6 commercial sims in my town now. I'm probably going to just invite commercial guys to come in until I get my 5-star rating and they are the most fun sims anyway, but I do like having a few townies around.

The load times are still the biggest issue with the game. The load screens don't bother me that much, but I was in one of the unlocked areas last night doing some prospecting for essences and the game just couldn't keep up with the graphics so it got really really really laggy to the point that I had to just but the controller down for about 5-10 seconds until the game recovered. It happened a couple other times in that one little area, but nowhere else just yet but things do slowdown around the town from time to time. So that's been the most frustrating problem with the game. It's not like you are in a big hurry for anything in this game, so the slowdown is only annoying, it doesn't hurt what you are doing in anyway. Either this game wasn't programmed too efficiently or it really hits the limits of the Wii hardware. I hope it is just the programming because there isn't anything that huge in the graphical abilities of the game. I've played some Wii games with more realistic graphics without slowdown, but this game does have the most on-screen action of any of the Wii games I have because there isn't only your character running around the town, you see all the other Sims in the town running around too doing stuff like talking, picnics, and just goofing off around town. It's mainly just when you are prospecting in this one new area or the time of day changes that the game lags.

Anyway... those are just a few more impressions for anyone interested.

Thanks for the impressions.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I'll have to look for MySims on half.com in a month or so and pick it up for cheap. Sounds like a really fun to just pick up and play. I'm assuming with the blueprints, that means you can then build that item for yourself?

[CaptainZombie]

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I'll have to look for MySims on half.com in a month or so and pick it up for cheap. Sounds like a really fun to just pick up and play. I'm assuming with the blueprints, that means you can then build that item for yourself?

I was going to do the same, take the ebay route.

[aukevin]

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I'll have to look for MySims on half.com in a month or so and pick it up for cheap. Sounds like a really fun to just pick up and play. I'm assuming with the blueprints, that means you can then build that item for yourself?

you start out with some basic blueprints for chairs and stuff (the mayor of your town gives you those at the start) and as you do more stuff you get more blueprints (fancier chairs, stoves, flower stands, etc). Yeah, once you have the blueprint you can build that stuff for your house if you want. You have to build from a blueprint, there isn't a sandbox mode or anything, but you don't have to follow the blueprint. The way it works is this, say you want to make a chair so you go to your workshop and pull up one of your chair blueprints. Then a ghost image of a chair from your blueprint is shown and a bunch of wood is laying around. The green pieces of wood are the ones that the blueprint calls for. The important part of the blueprint, and the reason you have to start from a blueprint, are the critical parts of the design. For the chair you will see 4 twinkling stars, this is where a piece a wood MUST be. So for the chair it is seat part (a bed has like 8 key points for where the mattress). You have to start from a blueprint and cover the critical points because the Sims have to know how to interact with an object like a chair.

[aukevin]

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I was going to do the same, take the ebay route.

I probably would have done the same, but I got a $50 Best Buy gift card for my b-day and I had like $20 in reward zone credit there, so I went ahead and got it. I'm very happy I did. I finished out my 5th year in my Auburn dynasty on NCAA and started playing this. I haven't really felt like starting my next season yet on NCAA because I'm having such fun with this. I was so addicted to Animal Crossing on the Cube, this is the same way. But luckily this game doesn't seem to mind if you take a day off or so whereas in AC your town would go to hell without you. I don't see anything that makes the game run in real time like AC does, so this game does give you the flexibility to take a few days off. I'll need it this week with skate finally coming out for the PS3 and I'm sure NCAA will start calling me again very soon. It was a good weekend to get into MySims because Auburn wasn't on TV and that squelched my football gaming bug for at least a week.

[CaptainZombie]

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I probably would have done the same, but I got a $50 Best Buy gift card for my b-day and I had like $20 in reward zone credit there, so I went ahead and got it. I'm very happy I did. I finished out my 5th year in my Auburn dynasty on NCAA and started playing this. I haven't really felt like starting my next season yet on NCAA because I'm having such fun with this. I was so addicted to Animal Crossing on the Cube, this is the same way. But luckily this game doesn't seem to mind if you take a day off or so whereas in AC your town would go to hell without you. I don't see anything that makes the game run in real time like AC does, so this game does give you the flexibility to take a few days off. I'll need it this week with skate finally coming out for the PS3 and I'm sure NCAA will start calling me again very soon. It was a good weekend to get into MySims because Auburn wasn't on TV and that squelched my football gaming bug for at least a week.

My wife would love this game, she was a big Animal Crossing fan. I agree with Animal Crossing, that if you didn't pay attention to your town for a day or two.........all hell broke loose. LOL!

[caseyd]

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I am totally addicted to this game. My daughter loves it too. Only on level 2 right now. Kev, let me ask you something. Chef Gino wants an oven with 4 apple and 2 stones. There are only 4 pieces to the blueprint. I understand that I need to be creative and add to it, but what can you really add to a stove that doesn't make it look stupid?

[aukevin]

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I am totally addicted to this game. My daughter loves it too. Only on level 2 right now. Kev, let me ask you something. Chef Gino wants an oven with 4 apple and 2 stones. There are only 4 pieces to the blueprint. I understand that I need to be creative and add to it, but what can you really add to a stove that doesn't make it look stupid?

cool! do you have the arcade Sim? I think his name is Vic. He's suppose to come early in the game but I haven't seen him at the hotel yet. I'm hoping he shows up sometime, I want him to move in.

How far are you into it?

[caseyd]

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cool! do you have the arcade Sim? I think his name is Vic. He's suppose to come early in the game but I haven't seen him at the hotel yet. I'm hoping he shows up sometime, I want him to move in.

How far are you into it?

Not too far. The only person I have moved in is Chef Gino. I've just been helping out townies so far.

[aukevin]

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Some guy created a Flintstones car bed in MySims. I am definitely building this tonight!:

[caseyd]

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That's too cool. I was wondering how he got the hole in the back, but then I saw those little angle type pieces that you can stack on each other to do it. Stuff like that is cool. Almost like the fun I used to have trying to paint cool looking stuff in Forza.

[aukevin]

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That's too cool. I was wondering how he got the hole in the back, but then I saw those little angle type pieces that you can stack on each other to do it. Stuff like that is cool. Almost like the fun I used to have trying to paint cool looking stuff in Forza.

You get more objects to build with as you increase your star rating/get more blueprints. You'll get the stuff to make these designs soon.