Alright. I must have missed the memo – when did The Sims stop being about cleaning up your babies poo poo, or ‘making whoopee’, and start being about hiring strippers and awesome mid-life crisis’?
Look, I have absolutely no idea if this will turn out to be some sort of terrible ruse, but I’m almost tempted to bust out The Sims 3, which remains in it’s cellophane wrapper – to this day – and give it a bash.
Apparently it allows you to pull ‘hilarious’ teenage pranks, host American Pie-style teenage parties, become the Prom King/Queen and build frickin’ Tree Houses? 
Count me in.
Maybe.
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:08 PMtree houses, you say?
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:15 PMWOAH!! I just had a thought..
Can i make a tree house WITH the corpse of the hookers i strangle in my mid-life crysis during a keg party?
706
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:20 PMI sort of feel like this is the way The Sims should have been. The first game proved that a simulation life could be entertaining and popular. They were then left with a choice, continue working on the ‘simulation’ and make a game where you could build a tree house full of dead hookers and kegs, or just work on making it more appealing to their biggest audience, kids and bored housewives.
I think if they had kept going in the simulation direction, with the freedom and lack of morals as say the GTA series, they really could have made something special. Sure it would get on every news channel and probably banned, but something special all the same.
Imagine if you could make your sim into a serial killer that went about murdering other sims at night, the twist, your day job is as the local detective tasked with catching the killer.
Klutar
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:28 PMThis idea sounds ok, but I was really hoping they would bring out a real-time grass growing sim.
All the excitement and action of growing your very own grass comes to life on a PC near you.
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:34 PMI once made a paint-drying sim… unfortunately it was deemed too excited and refused classification for “extreme impact awesome”
RaygunBrown
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:21 PMSHUTUP AND TAKE MY MONEY
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:21 PMWhat is it bout dead hookers this week? ;)
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:31 PMI honestly believe they would be structurally sound. The use of drugs will make them much thinner, therefore less wobbly bits to make the structure unstable… it would be like building with bones, only their mummified flesh would help fuse it all together.
RaygunBrown
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:54 PMSHUTUP AND TAKE MY DEAD HOOKERS
706
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:13 PM“Chuloopa: We pay cash for your dead hookers!”
This is a completely untapped market
I didn’t mean to make that into a pun
James Mac
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:15 PMFINE!
I’ll go get my car; should I take the rug too?
Wayno@War
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:12 PMI’ve never understood the appeal of the Sims games…
They bore me.
But, anything with strippers in it has got to be good right? Right?
James Mac
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:43 PMWayne, I’m taking you to Darwin for a week.
Eats-a-Lot
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:20 PMCorrect me if I’m wrong but wasn’t the term making “woohoo”?
Not that I would know. Not that I have played the sims 3. Or any of the sims games. EVER.
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:26 PMSpoken like a true gamer ;)
No it’s definitely whoopee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makin%27_Whoopee
But at least we now know when Eats gets down its
WOOHOO!!!!!
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:33 PMi’m pretty sure “woo-hoo” would actually be the response she’d get
Soul Consumer: Hey there big boy, wanna make whoopee?
Big Boy: WOO-HOO!!
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:42 PMBahahhaha!
Funny cos it’s true!!
Eats-a-Lot
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:05 PMLOOOOLLLL!!
Ahh thanks for that link, I feel like I learnt something new today!
jamesmacusedmyhandle
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:07 PMActually i’ve heard you need a 50K+ gamer score, over 300 APM and 100% in Super Meat Boy just to get to second base….
Chuloopa
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 4:55 PMYeouch… that smarts
Talk about high standards…
Adam
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 5:16 PMIn the Sims it is called Woo-Hoo
James Mac
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 3:47 PMI’ve always said that Sims games don’t get enjoyable until around 6 months after launch when all the depraved, wildly inappropriate mods come out for the game.
Matthew
Friday, May 20, 2011 at 12:01 AMcan we have a mid-life crisis, turn into a mafia mob boss and own a strip joint?
or have a strip joint in my bedroom with teh BOOBZ?
SOLD!