|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 4, 2004 16:52:28 GMT -5
I know they said the patch would make it easier to find Bella but i think it's too easy now, first trip to a community lot and she turns up My sim was on the loo and i thought sod it i'm going to miss her but she came into the toilets to wait for me ;D I thought starting over would be easy but i miss my husband, they made such a nice couple, i might resurrect him too
|
|
|
Post by motoki on Dec 6, 2004 9:06:52 GMT -5
Yes some people were complaining that Bella is far too easy to find now. I think with all the mystery behind her, the whole thing now just ended up being anti-climactic
|
|
|
Post by Bravo 1 on Dec 6, 2004 10:34:51 GMT -5
If I may ask...who's Bella?
|
|
|
Post by motoki on Dec 6, 2004 10:53:57 GMT -5
She's this character from Sims 1. She was in the Goth family, one of the default families pre-created families you could play. They were sort of loosely based off the Aadams Family. Anyhow, she can from a poor family and married Mortimer Goth from the wealthy Goth family. In the first game they had a daughter named Cassandra, by this game Cassandra is grown up and they had a son Alexander. Bella, being a 'romance' sim, was also having an affair with Don Lothario, the town male slut who has probably slept with every woman in town. Apparently, she was abducted by aliens while looking through a telescope on his roof. The game hints the Caliente sisters, Dina and Nina (gold digging hoochies) may have had something to do with it as their grandfather was alien and as the game starts, Dina's goal is to marry the rich sim Mortimer Goth. In short, it's a soap opera. Anyway, Bella apparently ended up in Strangetown where all the weird stuff goes on and where Cali plays. Since they just enabled her in the patch but didn't actually give us any info on her or what happened to her, we will probably never really know. It was set up as a storyline in a game that's really open ended and doesn't have much pre-set storyline. There was a lot of speculation surrounding her, but the reality of finding her turned out to be, IMO, a real dissapointment.
|
|
|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 6, 2004 10:58:00 GMT -5
I thought so, i spent about a full sim week hanging around different lots and stuff looking for her and she didn't show up, then first time after patching there she is, far too easy and a complete let down What can i say i like weird ;D
|
|
Regan
Timeworn
Ancient
Must Try Harder
Posts: 2,382
|
Post by Regan on Dec 6, 2004 14:00:11 GMT -5
How moddable is\are the Sims? I got a person & clothes demo on the front of PCJeux (Gamer Fr). But apart from the vast range of facial variations I wasn't ultra impressed. Is the full game much better?
|
|
|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 6, 2004 14:05:00 GMT -5
Well Motoki's probably the better person to answer this but as far as i know, other than clothing, not much as yet Still to be honest for me it's nice to play a game and not keep thinking "I know what this needs" and turning it off to go mod
|
|
|
Post by motoki on Dec 6, 2004 14:36:26 GMT -5
Right now you can rexture clothes and (and can use normal maps on them), hair, skins, do make-up etc.
People have also recently figured out how to retexture objects and reimport them in the game.
At this point, modders don't have the mesh format worked out, so we can't import new meshes into the game but people are working on it.
There's an in-game tool to build houses and export them and a tool to do the skins and such. You can also edit and build neighborhoods, though making one from scratch requires making it in Sim City 4.
A lot of the modding going on right now also revolves around behaviors, or objects that change aspects of the game, teleport sims to your lot, change ages, make sims pregnant instantly, make a writeable diary etc etc.
I really enjoy the game, because I haven't started modding yet. hahah. The graphics are pretty good IMO. Not quite up to shooter standards but nothing is. They are a hell of a lot better than Bethesda's fugly people which were so awful they got me started learning how to mod because I couldn't stand them lol.
|
|
|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 6, 2004 15:07:14 GMT -5
I sometimes think that was their plan, make the game full of stuff you think can be improved and let others do it for you without the need to pay them
|
|
|
Post by motoki on Dec 6, 2004 15:27:42 GMT -5
LOL probably so. I don't think they could have made those heads uglier or more low res if they tried. I actually got off my ass and learned to mod because of them. I think the main reasons I have not modded for Sims 2 is that I am having too much fun playing it and there's just not that much that bothers me really badly about it. Particularly now that there's a program out that lets you edit a lot of stuff.
|
|
Regan
Timeworn
Ancient
Must Try Harder
Posts: 2,382
|
Post by Regan on Dec 6, 2004 15:31:34 GMT -5
It does sound quite intrigueing, as I completely bypassed the 1st Sims games. I'll get that demo out and practice!
You'd think the developers would provide a few more tools for modders to work with, they know that if a game is popular people will want to change\enhance it.
I know what you mean Cali, . . . . but there's always something that needs improvement.
|
|
|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 6, 2004 15:36:20 GMT -5
I'd never played the first one either so i didn't have a clue what it was like, it's great fun ;D
|
|
|
Post by Bravo 1 on Dec 6, 2004 15:36:37 GMT -5
...how many times did I restart this or that just because a new mod came out? I gave up playing altogether after a while and am working to assembling my 'final' game where everthing will be just about right (...wistful thinking I know)...who knows when that'll be ...but until then I pride myself in beating vanilla MW...
|
|
|
Post by Calislahn on Dec 6, 2004 15:39:06 GMT -5
Well i did that sort of, i think i might have had Rhedds heads and that was it really, there weren't many mods then as the game was new
|
|
|
Post by motoki on Dec 6, 2004 15:57:23 GMT -5
It does sound quite intrigueing, as I completely bypassed the 1st Sims games. I'll get that demo out and practice! Well this game is a lot better both graphically and feature-wise than the first sims. Even with the expansions, I got bored with the first one very quickly. I know, they are a pain. But then again in the sims community there's the annoying tendancy to charge for everything, mods, tools, utility whatever. And I don't mean the company, I mean from modders. I can't help but wonder if they are at least in part trying to foil this by limiting 3rd party content creation. Anyway, it won't work as people have already figured out a lot about how the game works and and constantly figuring more things out.
|
|