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Awesome IKEA Gameplay Footage
Posted by Owen Good at 1:00 AM on June 30, 2008
This hits close to home, because home is a shithole (that's what $AU 1562.4 rents you in Silicon Valley) and I'll soon be paying IKEA plenty to make it look less so, because it's right around the corner in the East P.A. and I can't afford Ethan Allen. And if you want to trick out your Sims pad with BJARNUM or HENSVIK or DIKTAD or whatever fake words the Swedes come up with next, that expansion pack has now dropped (as of Thursday). This is the trailer showing all the shit you'll be throwing in your Sim dumpster in three years.
Clearly, there is very little probative value to this post, I just wanted to write the word DIKTAD (the name of a toy chest they sell). Three years ago my friend Ryan (Flying Squirrel, to those in the know), who now writes for the Sacramento Bee, went to IKEA with me to help me trick out my former shithole (rented for $AU 1140.55 a month. Housing bubble? What is this you speak of? Rent is a rock solid investment that only appreciates.) We came around the corner and saw DIKTAD and that instantly became our new term of abuse for each other, like "Heat Stick" and "Grandma's Tongue". And now I bequeath it to you. Please call each other that in the comments.
The Sims 2 IKEA Home Stuff Trailer [Simprograms]
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FatalisticDread
Posted 1:50 AM 30/6/08
@MOP88: I tried to find Sims2 the other day and couldn't figure out which one was the actual game and not an expansion...
FatalisticDread
FatalisticDread
Posted 1:49 AM 30/6/08
@Yonderboy: LOL! And what's sad, is that that is so true, I'm going to go home later today to fix an ikea bed that keeps falling apart after being moved from one side of the bedroom to another. Glue....lots of glue.
FatalisticDread
MOP88
Posted 1:47 AM 30/6/08
Are there so many expansions to S2?
Combined, they must occupy more space than half the internet.
MOP88
CaptLtrl
Posted 1:41 AM 30/6/08
Only a diktad would buy this expansion.
CaptLtrl
FlashIV
Posted 1:32 AM 30/6/08
@MoeB: No longer available?
FlashIV
DONAR
Posted 1:29 AM 30/6/08
It's all well and good, but will your Sims also get the meatballs in gravy and cranberry sauce?
I'd almost buy this out of curiousity had I not purged all things Sim from my PC two years ago. Once you add a few add ons it all seems to get a..bit....slooower....
DONAR
dmaggio12
Posted 1:29 AM 30/6/08
@MBC: You beat me by like 5 seconds. Well played sir.
dmaggio12
willsueforfood
Posted 1:28 AM 30/6/08
I can't believe I recognized more than 1 piece of furniture in that trailer.
willsueforfood
SteveIsRad
Posted 1:26 AM 30/6/08
no need to buy this, half of my house is practically from ikea...
oh.
no.
SteveIsRad
MBC
Posted 1:24 AM 30/6/08
but do you have to put it together yourself?
MBC
Vidunder
Posted 1:21 AM 30/6/08
$1500 is a "shithole"? Man, you must be bloody rich.
Vidunder
Praetor
Posted 1:17 AM 30/6/08
@Luckyjim:
I was actually thinking just the same.
Praetor
Antiterra
Posted 1:17 AM 30/6/08
@Turtlestack: Funny how we come to associate certain character traits to certain names...
All the Julies I've known were pure bitches (not nuts, just bitches).
Nathalies tend to be rather dumb (again, in my coincidence-filled experience), and Juliens... well, Juliens are total DIKTADs.
Antiterra
Yonderboy
Posted 1:16 AM 30/6/08
The realism of this set is pretty impressive. Move any of the IKEA furniture from one room to another, and watch as advanced physics engines realistically model the low quality compressed wood falling apart. Just like in real life!
Yonderboy
Luckyjim
Posted 1:14 AM 30/6/08
Reminds me of that scene in Fight Club when Edward Norton's character walks through an IKEA catalogue - only without the biting satire.
Luckyjim
Turtlestack
Posted 1:10 AM 30/6/08
Either I'm getting too old or games are getting too focused but for the first time in my life I don't belong to any segment of the intended audience for a video game. Well, maybe 'American Girl: Julie Finds A Way' but I at least dated a couple of girls named Julie (all of 'em nuts, by the way).
Turtlestack
waza
Posted 1:05 AM 30/6/08
how lame
waza
MoeB
Posted 1:04 AM 30/6/08
+ Watch video
MoeB
PsycheE
Posted 2:31 AM 30/6/08
So the furniture does look real?!!
PsycheE
SWATJester
Posted 2:26 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: My 1 bedroom basement apartment in Northwest DC is 1800 a month. It's an upgrade from a 2 bedroom in the ghetto, that my half was 1500 a month. Not everywhere has cheap housing.
SWATJester
SWATJester
Posted 2:25 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: I pay 1800 for a basement apartment 1 bedroom in a decent neighborhood in Northwest DC. I was paying 1500 (my half) before that for a nice 2 bedroom that was on the border of the ghetto.
Not everywhere has low rent prices.
SWATJester
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
Posted 2:24 AM 30/6/08
What's up with the site today? Now the commenting thing is accepting posts, but not clearing the submission window? Could the Gawker guys please un-upgrade the sites back to the old, working state?
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
Vidril
Posted 2:21 AM 30/6/08
@Luckyjim:
Too bad I didn't see any yin-yang coffee tables.
Vidril
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
Posted 2:21 AM 30/6/08
@Aglet: You BARNSLIG FÅGEL. Don't disrespect our mothers.
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
geekgrrl
Posted 2:20 AM 30/6/08
@wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!: i personally know a Dyke (male). what's better? he's a Jr.
geekgrrl
Pornosaur
Posted 2:18 AM 30/6/08
I never quite understood those paper bag lamps.
@Vidunder: He's in Silicon Valley, where your average 2 bed 2 bath house is still probably worth a $1,000,000.
Pornosaur
Slatz_Grobnik
Posted 2:18 AM 30/6/08
Okay, I already found myself accidentally making home improvement purchases based on stuff in the Sims. This means I will quite likely be able to make a Sim-home (er, apartment-turned-home) that is basically indistinguishable from my own)
Also, needs more Fight Club
Slatz_Grobnik
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
Posted 2:15 AM 30/6/08
@Antiterra: I've never known any Juliens-- blame my nor'easter upbringing?-- but I've known many diktads. And a couple Dik Dik Van Diks, too. All the Natalies I've met have been really unkind-- and the Julies, while not unlikeable at all, have been decidedly odd-- usually in ways that would make Parson Weems poke his eyes out, and have made Larry Flynt a terribly, terribly wealthy man.
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
imbusion
Posted 2:14 AM 30/6/08
"because its right around the corner in East P.A."... you are moving to Eastern PA?... where at? I make my home in West Chester, which is a little west of Philly.
imbusion
zlimness
Posted 2:14 AM 30/6/08
You guys might scoff at this, but each of these expansion packs average around 3 million copies. That's a shitload of money. IKEA gets free exposure and those who play The Sims get licensed stuff. Its really no worse than licensed cars in Gran Turismo or real teams and names in sports games. Regardless if you like it or not, this is casual gaming done right :E
zlimness
Antiterra
Posted 2:10 AM 30/6/08
@Aglet: I'll have you know that my mom has always prided herself on being a BJARNUM, certainly not one of those DIKTAD trollops, mister!
Antiterra
Shin-san
Posted 2:07 AM 30/6/08
You are basically paying for a huge IKEA advert. Now if the expansion sold for $5-10...
Shin-san
Aglet
Posted 2:07 AM 30/6/08
Let's make this one short and easy. You guys are all diktads, and so are your moms!
Happy now Mr. Good?
Aglet
Owen Good
Posted 2:05 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: I am not making that up. This place is an overpriced dump. Seriously, ask friends in the Bay Area. If you don't have a roommate, you pay through the nose for nothing.
Owen Good
FoxyGaz
Posted 1:57 AM 30/6/08
Geez, all the DIKTAD's at EA try to cram these DIKTAD add-ons down our throats.
FoxyGaz
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
Posted 2:59 AM 30/6/08
@geekgrrl: Yeah, that might be a problem when it comes time for the finding of a wife, I think... not many ladies would imagine, as young girls, one day I'll be a Dyke and I'll be raising all these little Dykes...
wild homes is weathering cephalopod trouble!
chaos_isnt_here
Posted 2:54 AM 30/6/08
wow....
was this really needed?
chaos_isnt_here
nes3
Posted 2:50 AM 30/6/08
whats sad is that i own that cubby hole coffee table... wanna know what the best part of putting stuff together? the little picture in the back of the building instructions with the guy who's calling ikea for help. gotta love the IKEA in east palo alto
nes3
Reetesh
Posted 2:48 AM 30/6/08
It took them 10 seconds to show all the Sims2 Expansion.. Wow that really shows something about the Sims Series...
Reetesh
hrabbit
Posted 2:48 AM 30/6/08
ok now all these expansion packs are just getting silly now >.> next it will be the sims "Sears collection" lol... wait... did that already come out? o.o
hrabbit
imbusion
Posted 2:44 AM 30/6/08
Whoops! :)... thanks for the clarification.
imbusion
Owen Good
Posted 2:39 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: @imbusion: East Palo Alto
Owen Good
Xenon
Posted 3:49 AM 30/6/08
SIMS 2: SPEND AN ENTIRE DAY FRUSTRATINGLY PUTTING FURNITURE TOGETHER "WHERE'S MY FUCKING SCREWDRIVER" EDITION
Xenon
thejakeman: still using an old joke that no one finds funny anym
Posted 4:18 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: er, no, it's just expensive to live in california. get out much?
thejakeman: still using an old joke that no one finds funny anymore. i have no friends.
Krondonian
Posted 4:16 AM 30/6/08
I have a lot of Swedish family, and I could have sworn they make half of their words up.
My favourite is that 'help' is 'yelp'. Priceless.
Krondonian
Hoogie
Posted 4:14 AM 30/6/08
Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct.
Hoogie
sarcasmOD
Posted 4:09 AM 30/6/08
I'm pretty sure when Will Wright came up with the concept of the sims he didn't plan to turn the games into giant interactive furniture catalogs.
sarcasmOD
thurauh1
Posted 4:09 AM 30/6/08
-ehm-
diktad actually means 'made up' or 'poetry'.
Hensvik means, I think, cove or bay? It could also be the name of a Swedish town.
Even though I am Danish, I doubt the Swedes just make up words to annoy people...
thurauh1
Tikey
Posted 4:07 AM 30/6/08
wow, I HAVE to buy this. It's the pinnacle of gaming.
Tikey
Bboboo
Posted 3:53 AM 30/6/08
Wow, I knew the Sims was bad on the whole expansion thing, but I didn't realize it was this bad...
Bboboo
psychicfriend
Posted 4:54 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder:
Welcome to Northern California, where a family with two kids and a $200K/yr combined income can usually manage to barely get by.
psychicfriend
The_nub_next_door
Posted 4:54 AM 30/6/08
Seriously though, if you ask me Spore is just an excuse to push out 9999 Sims expansion while everybody is occupied being amazed. At Spore that is.
The_nub_next_door
The_nub_next_door
Posted 4:50 AM 30/6/08
@thurauh1: Äröåyöäåöxååo HEHEHE its fun try it.
The_nub_next_door
anarfox
Posted 5:17 AM 30/6/08
@Krondonian:
It's hjälp. You fail!
And here's how they name their products:
[en.wikipedia.org]
anarfox
themule
Posted 5:12 AM 30/6/08
WHAT THE SHIT........................Incase you missed it I said "WHAT THE SHIT". What is happening, someone kick me in the face I'm in a surreal world where up is down and right is left...can this be happening an IKEA game, ITS A FUCKING IKEA GAME.....CANNOT COMPUTE *cowers in a corning and counts down to self destruction* 5.....4.....3.....2.....1 *brain explodes on unsuspecting wall*
themule
RageW
Posted 5:58 AM 30/6/08
Haha, if I ever go mental and decide to remake my home in The Sims 2 I really need to buy this. Almost everything in my room is IKEA =(
RageW
blacksamurai87
Posted 5:48 AM 30/6/08
You're all a bunch of DIKTADs.
...I feel so immature right now.
blacksamurai87
Quicksilver4648
Posted 6:44 AM 30/6/08
At 1:05-1:07 is the dad making out with the baby? Or was I the only one who noticed that...
...I will just go ahead and sit over there...
Quicksilver4648
Thassodar
Posted 6:20 AM 30/6/08
@Yonderboy: NEVER, you DIKTAD.
Didn't even make sense.
Thassodar
haggis
Posted 7:20 AM 30/6/08
You're all a bunch of JERKERs! :P
Anyway, as previously pointed out, these names are not fake:
BJARNUM refers to Bjärnum, which is a place in Sweden.
HENSVIK is yet another place in Sweden.
DIKTAD means 'made up' and is also used to refer to a piece of poetry (the swedish word for poem is "dikt")
Commonly, IKEA products refer to places or names, or describe the functionality of the product with some corny play on words.
haggis
segamanxero
Posted 7:14 AM 30/6/08
@Vidunder: in some places a $1500 a month does buy a literal shit hole! here in boston $1500 a month buys a tiny studio apartment filled with mice and cock roaches to steal your food, in a nice gang ruled neighborhood with complementary muggings every payday and break-ins to keep you from having anything remotely valuable. oh and terrible public transportation that never follows the set schedule... oh and last but not least a slum lord that will demand his rent on time, but wont fix a damn thing in your apartment.
segamanxero
hollowfreak
Posted 7:12 AM 30/6/08
@Quicksilver4648: um yeah you were the only one that "noticed" that cuz it kinda doesn't exist ... ya perv
hollowfreak
D00mM4r1n3
Posted 8:09 AM 30/6/08
@Owen Good: For $1500 a month, you must be splurging for a 1 bedroom unit. You can save yourself $200 and get a studio. As for my self, i've convinced the company I work for to relocate my position to their Chicago office, so i'm moving there in 2 months where I can get an apartment for half the cost here. The company is even footing the bill for moving costs. As for Ikea, everytime I find something I would want to buy on their website, it's only available for purchase in-store, and there's no way in hell i'm going near East Palo Alto.
D00mM4r1n3
Kaizuden
Posted 8:23 AM 30/6/08
Wow it's like I get to play an ad! But while at work this was requested to me from customers to go grab any copies of the IKEA Sims... and they specifically wanted it. Ugh. But I guess it's like what Fry said: "Those Swedes sure know how to put in almost everything you need!"
Kaizuden
randomshagz
Posted 10:12 AM 30/6/08
I have that chair with the holes in it.
randomshagz
TheDollHouse
Posted 10:37 AM 30/6/08
*sigh* I guess I'm the only one who's slightly exited about this. I love IKEA it's like toy store for grown-ups. It makes furniture shopping fun! Maybe I should get out more...who knows.
This is a Stuff pack (as if most of you care 9_9) That means its like a mini-expansion pack.
TheDollHouse
gique
Posted 1:59 PM 30/6/08
don`t tell me you have to pay for this expansion...
gique
AntiZERØ
Posted 5:56 PM 30/6/08
Does it include the trendy plastic televisions and computer monitors? If so... you still don't need to sign me up.
AntiZERØ
thisisasignin
Posted 6:42 PM 30/6/08
Only diktads play sims.
Oh and what the hell is up with that never ending line up of all their games? Its like they are making fun of themselves.
thisisasignin
squirrelz
Posted 7:21 PM 30/6/08
@Owen Good: I see your DIKTAD and raise you a JERKER. Yes, my computer desk is called a Jerker. In fact, it is the desk that is featured in the 'trendy office' part of the video.
Jerker. Is there anything it can't do?
squirrelz
lumpi
Posted 8:41 PM 30/6/08
I just read "A chick living room" for a second...
Plus there's a *$#!%-load of expansion packs out there. No wonder Maxis is making Billions.
lumpi
mariospants
Posted 12:09 AM 1/7/08
I lived in Los Gatos for a couple of years during the dot com heyday. Cost me $2800 a month for a tiny 2 bedroom bungalow on a busy street...oh and there was a super-tiny one-room addition on the back that charged $800 a month - you literally could not swing a cat in that palace. The first tenant in the addition was a super-bitch and since the hot water came from my hot water heater and she refused to offer to pay a portion I shut the hot water off whenever she took a shower. Happy days.
Cute point #1: turns out years later watching HGTV that the house in LG was IDENTICAL to Walter Disney's first home. Exact same house.
Cute point #2: the IKEA product names are actual Swedish words. Certain product categories named after places, food, objects etc. "DIKTAD" however, probably means what it sounds like.
mariospants
weblet51
Posted 7:45 AM 1/7/08
I love the way they cant even be bothered to think of a name for these expansions anymore. "Right its an add on for the sims 2 about stuff you can get for your homes from Ikea." "what about Ikea home stuff?" "Yeah I guess that will do. Right lets go to the pub."
weblet51
Renkenji
Posted 5:46 AM 30/6/08
DIKTAD indeed. :D
After seeing that video, I have half a crazy notion just to visit IKEA and take a look at the real products and try to visualize them into my Sims home. Yes indeed, how un-geeky that would be.
Renkenji
sunami88
Posted 4:26 AM 30/6/08
Why was that man making out with that baby at 1:05?
sunami88
sunami88
Posted 4:10 AM 30/6/08
Why was that man making out with that baby at 1:05?
sunami88
ReyQune
Posted 2:12 AM 30/6/08
Seriously, WTF?
What's next?
The Sims 3 Microsoft add-on?
ReyQune
KilgoreKraut
Posted 5:40 AM 30/6/08
Virtual materialism...disgusting.
KilgoreKraut
tOPO80
Posted 1:12 AM 30/6/08
Quote: "And if you want to trick out your Sims pad with BJARNUM or HENSVIK or DIKTAD or whatever fake words the Swedes come up with next"
I thought that was pretty ignorant said of you, i'm sweden, and those words either mean something or are places on the map of Sweden, either way, you should do your homework before claiming stuff.
Otherwise good site.
tOPO80
ronaldhennessy
Posted 3:03 AM 30/6/08
Did I see my desk in that trailer? You know, the JERKER desk? Those desks are the shit man! The leatherman of desks which can be configured in a ton of ways.
ronaldhennessy