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rosebeeI've been alternatin between 3 video games lately.
Kingdom Hearts (the original one) in anticipation of the release of Kingdom Hearts 2 being released in the next couple of weeks (at least I think it's supposed to be released soon).
A FABULOUS RPG I recently found called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This is an amazingly huge world with a massive amount & variety of quests & it's completely customizable. I play a female wood elf I've called Seramia. She's a scout and I've been playing her as a combination fighter-thief. I LOVE this game!
I've also been having lots of fun with Sims2. With Sims2 I've discovered it's best if I have several hours in front of me where nothing is required of me. For this game will literally suck hours upon hours out of me! Morrowind & KH are much easier to pull away from. Morrowind because there are different quests that I'm given so as I complete each quest, it makes a natural stopping point for me to quit the game and move on to other important life activities (like sleeping, eating, & going to work). KH is easy because I've played it through for so many times. At this point it's like a beloved book that I'm rereading for the umpteenth time. :)
But on to my love with the Sims2! I created a town, and populated it with a few people. Then I realized I needed to go into my families and have some kids so the other people I created would have someone to fall in love with & marry! So I went into a family and started having them reproduce.
A sim family of 3 is easy to manage. Both the mom & dad & the baby/child can easily get their wants fulfilled. A family of 4 is also manageable, especially if the oldest kid is at least a child and capable of doing things like taking out the trash & doing dishes. A family of 5 (with 3 kids) is a little bit more difficult, it requires one to be very attentive to each sim (occasionally pausing the game to make sure each of the sims is doing what they need to be doing). A family with 4 kids is a challenge. At this point I had mom (who was stay-at-home), Dad working as a police officer, eldest teenage girl Betsy, teenage son Brandon, child son Brett, & toddler son Brian. Betsy was about to grow up to an adult and move out and MomSim wanted *another* baby, so I said why not? She got pregnant again, had the usual morning sickness, and then when the standard thing popped up to say hold on the stork is loosening the knots, it said that there were TWO babies on the way! My first set of twins!! Twin girls. :)
The fun part was that I thought I was going to go from a family of 6 to a family of 7 (soon going back down to 6 when Betsy moved out). But instead I went to a family of 8!! Now that was difficult! If I didn't have 2 teenagers who were capable of feeding & caring for toddlers & babies I never would've managed. As it turns out I was very lucky in that my toddler son Brian aged up into a child on the same day the twins were born. So at least I only had 2 crib-dwelling individuals in the house at the same time. Betsy aged up & moved out of the house shortly before the twins grew up into toddlers. Brett grew up into a teenager around the same time. Brian still has several days to go before he's a teen. Twins are a handful! It wouldn't be so bad if I had a bigger house and they could each have their own room (because when one wakes up & starts screaming to be fed/changed/let out the other one wakes up). But my family of 7 is living in a two-story house with only 4 bedrooms. There's one for the parents on the main level, a nursery on the main level, and then upstairs there's a bedroom for the boys & a bedroom for Betsy (which will soon be a bedroom for the twins). I have 1.5 baths on the main level and 1.5 baths upstairs. It's a tight fit, but it all works. I still only have 1 hichchair so feeding the toddlers is done in stages.
I'm hoping I'll manage to get the twins potty trained & walking & talking before the grow up. Poor Brian (who turned into a child on the day the twins were born) I didn't get any of that stuff done, and not only that he had several fears accidentally come true (it's hard to track all the fears & wants in a family with more than 4 or 5 people in it) so Brian grew up poorly causing the mom to have a nervous breakdown while holding one of the twins as she realized one of her own fears.
Sheesh! The details are difficult to manage especially with so many people in one house. My experiment in large families was a riproaring success however and highly enjoyable. Even so, I think I'm going to limit myself to no more than 5 sims in a house at a time (6 if I have to). Of course if I get a family sim who wants nothing more in the world than to constantly have babies around, who am I to argue? ;)
I want to grow up these kids in this house & move them out and then start running families of a more manageable size (and families were I don't use the money cheat).
I have one newly-adult single woman (Lucy) who recently set up house and is just looking for the right guy to settle down with and raise a family (not Betsy from above, this is another Sim I created). I think I'm going to have Brandon (who's going to be an adult in a few days) call up Lucy and see if they can get to be friends.
Kingdom Hearts (the original one) in anticipation of the release of Kingdom Hearts 2 being released in the next couple of weeks (at least I think it's supposed to be released soon).
A FABULOUS RPG I recently found called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. This is an amazingly huge world with a massive amount & variety of quests & it's completely customizable. I play a female wood elf I've called Seramia. She's a scout and I've been playing her as a combination fighter-thief. I LOVE this game!
I've also been having lots of fun with Sims2. With Sims2 I've discovered it's best if I have several hours in front of me where nothing is required of me. For this game will literally suck hours upon hours out of me! Morrowind & KH are much easier to pull away from. Morrowind because there are different quests that I'm given so as I complete each quest, it makes a natural stopping point for me to quit the game and move on to other important life activities (like sleeping, eating, & going to work). KH is easy because I've played it through for so many times. At this point it's like a beloved book that I'm rereading for the umpteenth time. :)
But on to my love with the Sims2! I created a town, and populated it with a few people. Then I realized I needed to go into my families and have some kids so the other people I created would have someone to fall in love with & marry! So I went into a family and started having them reproduce.
A sim family of 3 is easy to manage. Both the mom & dad & the baby/child can easily get their wants fulfilled. A family of 4 is also manageable, especially if the oldest kid is at least a child and capable of doing things like taking out the trash & doing dishes. A family of 5 (with 3 kids) is a little bit more difficult, it requires one to be very attentive to each sim (occasionally pausing the game to make sure each of the sims is doing what they need to be doing). A family with 4 kids is a challenge. At this point I had mom (who was stay-at-home), Dad working as a police officer, eldest teenage girl Betsy, teenage son Brandon, child son Brett, & toddler son Brian. Betsy was about to grow up to an adult and move out and MomSim wanted *another* baby, so I said why not? She got pregnant again, had the usual morning sickness, and then when the standard thing popped up to say hold on the stork is loosening the knots, it said that there were TWO babies on the way! My first set of twins!! Twin girls. :)
The fun part was that I thought I was going to go from a family of 6 to a family of 7 (soon going back down to 6 when Betsy moved out). But instead I went to a family of 8!! Now that was difficult! If I didn't have 2 teenagers who were capable of feeding & caring for toddlers & babies I never would've managed. As it turns out I was very lucky in that my toddler son Brian aged up into a child on the same day the twins were born. So at least I only had 2 crib-dwelling individuals in the house at the same time. Betsy aged up & moved out of the house shortly before the twins grew up into toddlers. Brett grew up into a teenager around the same time. Brian still has several days to go before he's a teen. Twins are a handful! It wouldn't be so bad if I had a bigger house and they could each have their own room (because when one wakes up & starts screaming to be fed/changed/let out the other one wakes up). But my family of 7 is living in a two-story house with only 4 bedrooms. There's one for the parents on the main level, a nursery on the main level, and then upstairs there's a bedroom for the boys & a bedroom for Betsy (which will soon be a bedroom for the twins). I have 1.5 baths on the main level and 1.5 baths upstairs. It's a tight fit, but it all works. I still only have 1 hichchair so feeding the toddlers is done in stages.
I'm hoping I'll manage to get the twins potty trained & walking & talking before the grow up. Poor Brian (who turned into a child on the day the twins were born) I didn't get any of that stuff done, and not only that he had several fears accidentally come true (it's hard to track all the fears & wants in a family with more than 4 or 5 people in it) so Brian grew up poorly causing the mom to have a nervous breakdown while holding one of the twins as she realized one of her own fears.
Sheesh! The details are difficult to manage especially with so many people in one house. My experiment in large families was a riproaring success however and highly enjoyable. Even so, I think I'm going to limit myself to no more than 5 sims in a house at a time (6 if I have to). Of course if I get a family sim who wants nothing more in the world than to constantly have babies around, who am I to argue? ;)
I want to grow up these kids in this house & move them out and then start running families of a more manageable size (and families were I don't use the money cheat).
I have one newly-adult single woman (Lucy) who recently set up house and is just looking for the right guy to settle down with and raise a family (not Betsy from above, this is another Sim I created). I think I'm going to have Brandon (who's going to be an adult in a few days) call up Lucy and see if they can get to be friends.
