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8 Problems Everyone Who Has Played The Sims Knows All Too Well

It's your guilty pleasure and you know it.

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8 Problems Everyone Who Has Played The Sims Knows All Too Well
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The wonderful world of Sims. Nothing is greater than something reminding you of the game and turning it on again to be welcomed back by the disasters that you left your families in because the last time you stopped, you got too annoyed and just quit the game. Or you told yourself that you would fix the problem tomorrow and then eight months went by. Either way, whether you'd like to admit it or not, you know that the game once took up a substantial part of your life and you would not be the same if the game had never fallen into your life. With that, are all of the negatives that come along with it.

1. Sims love to die.

It's like the characters randomly decide to go on a suicide mission. They run to the fire instead of away from it, even though you tell them to leave the house, they just stand there and panic. They refuse to get out of the pool even when there is a ladder and just decide to abort all actions to save themselves.

2. House Building

House building is one of the best parts of the game! You get this vision in your head of this amazing house and you set out to build it. Halfway through you realize it's not going to be what you want, so you make the necessary adjustments or sometimes just call it quits. The third option is just to move your family into a half done house and finish it as you go along.

3. Family Problems

Family problems can range from spending hours making the perfect family to no one getting along. When you set out to make a new family, you know just how you want them to be. After long hours of making all of the characters perfect, you move them into a house and no one talks to each other or someone puts the newspaper in the wrong place and the whole family fights over it. It's never just an easy day.

4. Similish

Literally though, what on earth are you saying?!? I guess the game would be boring if we understood what they were saying.

5. Stubborn Characters


This has to be one of the worst issues in the game. You try to make the sim do their homework or practice for their job. They get annoyed and choose to ignore the action. Then when the character fails school or doesn't get a promotion, they are upset and can't function properly for 3 Sims days. You then think, "Well if you did your homework three days ago, you wouldn't be crying right now." The worst is when you set a character to do a series of actions and they begin to do it and when you see that you start to set another string of actions for another character. When you look at character A, they have aborted all commands to do a pointless act that does not benefit them in any sense. The frustration is real.

6. Cheat Codes


Every time you start a new game and a new family you always say "I'm not going to use cheat codes." Then the bills come and your characters are broke with three people in the house working and you type in "motherlode" (several times) and all of your problems go away. You also wish that was a hack for real life, too.

7. Relationship Issues


Sim relationships are unlike anything I've ever seen before. You either meet the love of your life, move in, get married and try for a baby all in one day or it takes you 3 weeks to get the sims to like each other. When it comes to generic relationships you can say one thing wrong and it takes a year to be friends again, but after two jokes everyone is ready for marriage. Sims can hold grudges like no other.

8. Sims Binging


If you say you don't do this you are only lying to yourself. Everyone plays the game for five days straight, sometimes literally, and the stupidest thing makes you mad and you quit for eight months. But as soon as you see something that reminds you of the game, you jump back in and are ready for more adventures.

If you're reading this, I'm probably succumbing to my need to binge and playing the game right now.

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