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Random Sim Acres Musings 10-27-13

As I like to do every so often is wonder WTF I'm doing with this whole blog thing.  And I figure not a whole lot but I still do it.  Even less goes on my tumblr account.  Now I have some ideas but they just seem to take up a lot of time.

Yeah no purpose for this post at all.

A big Sim Acres Thank You!

After coming home from a craptacular day at work I found that I had been gifted 4 items from my wish list.  Thank you fellow simmer!  I hope to return the favor one day!

Go 4th and Sim!

This is the end?

Got my copy of Into the Future today at my trusty local Walmart.  They made it tricky to find since they moved all the PC games by the console games and had it hidden on a bottom row.  But I found it!  Then I played a little Wii U with an employee.  That was fun.  We were both amazed at how far games have come.

Got home, installed and started playing.  I found the game of my nerdiest sim so far and used her to travel into the future.  Why the hell do I keep putting an extra R in future???  Anyhoo, here's some pics.

Plumbots don't like to get wet either.

Harvesting in the Wasteland.

Chilling with some future descendants.

Well, now that's not right.

Future zombie.

Plumbot at the summer festival making friends.

Still need some work on the jetpack.

Overall my first impressions are pretty good.  I think I picked the right kind of sim to try all this new stuff out.  Honestly this probably wouldn't have been my choice of theme for an expansion.  That would've been Island Paradise or Showtime. Yet, I'm enjoying it all so far.

Hopefully now things will slow down a bit with releases.  I still feel like there's so much I want to do with it like everything.  If it's all store stuff from now on it will be easier for me to resist.   I think I'm going to save my reflective thoughts on the entire series for another post.  If this is the last expansion/stuff pack to come out, they did good.  Of course, I would probably say that about anything that came out.

Go 4th and Sim!

Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013

Don't let the 2013 fool you.  This will not likely be a yearly thing.  Just doing my on version of jumping on The Walking Dead bandwagon.  I've never seen the show and really have no interest in watching it.  So yeah.

I now present the Sim Acres Salute To Zombies 2013!!!!

And for good measure The Worst Zombie Movie Ever!!!

Go 4th and Sim!

Random Sims Musing 10-6-13 Sim City Update Edition

I just got finished reading this article about the State of Sim City.  Now I don't own this game but I may get it eventually especially once The Sims 3 has finished it's run and I have money to spend on other things.  :)  The size of the maps has been an issue since Day 1 at least when the servers were working at the time and an offline mode.

Again not having had played it except for a beta version on a computer that couldn't handle it and just going on my experience with previous versions I think I may be okay with a smaller city size.  I usually get lost when I tried bigger cities and preferred the smaller ones.  The guy did say that did look into it and it just wouldn't work out.

Reading the comments on articles like this always makes me laugh..  Some of the commenters don't understand what goes into something this huge.  I believe I may have mentioned this in another musing but the creative teams behind this have to make something that runs for the majority of players and yeah things are going to fall on the wayside (or whatever that  phrase is).  It's nothing personal, people!

What I do think is that they took a really good game and made some really bad decisions with it.  Online only was the biggest one.  It really shouldn't been added later and optional.  But it is what it is and they have to live with those choices.  Hopefully they can come up with and offline mode.  Not that it will still satisfy everyone.

Ahh, people are just a bunch of crybabies and whiners.

Go 4th and Sim!

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