Sunset Valley, which is still my favorite world. He’s a surgeon with a beautiful wife in the most beautiful home in Sunset Valley. I really love that house and would want to live there. He and Nancy can also afford to buy a vacation home in Champs Les Sims and enjoy the finest Nectar the Sims world has to offer. Really live it up and travel all over Al Simhara and Shang Simla without worrying about the bank, and use that Ambrosia to live the good life forever. Maybe the rich and famous are paying those huge sums for Death Fish, just to use them as an ingredient with Life Fruit. That stuff must taste horrible though. Sure, you put Lemon on some Fish... but Ambrosia is a peculiarly crafted dish. GO: Which has been your favourite variation of the franchise, 1, 2 or 3?
while also making Sims a lot more like real people. We do, in a way, have our own mood bars with things making us happy or dragging us down,
CR: I’m biased toward the
but there are a lot of different emotions you experience as a person
Sims 3, simply because I didn’t
and if Sims is meant to be a people simulator, they needed to bring
get to enjoy all the Expansions
them to life this way. Sims have tended to be stuck experiencing simple
from the first two. I played Livin’
happiness, sadness, and anger without the emotions in between.
Large for the first and University for the second. I can’t believe how much there is to do on the third with every expansion installed. GO: What are you looking forward to most in The Sims 4? CR: Emotions, easily. This
GO: Which Sims 3 expansion (excluding Stuff packs) was your favourite, and why? CR: I used to say Ambitions because I really enjoyed its focus on Skills and Professions, but looking back at how I reacted to each release I’d have to say World Adventures. It capitalized on the open world experience The Sims 3 brought to the franchise the most. I really enjoyed searching through ancient tombs for treasure and having the vacation
is going to bring a new depth
option open for all my future Sims. I wanted that VISA to let me stay
of gameplay for storytelling,
in those destinations longer and find everything there was to find.
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