The Sims (2000)

I finally had enough time to tinker around with The Sims: Legacy Collection for a bit longer than a couple of minutes so here's a couple of hot takes from it:

• The resolution is indeed crisper and much more high quality than the TS Starter Pack I was using.
• It supports widescreen resolutions.
• The game performs relatively well as far as loading times go.
• Nothing has been changed or removed from the original games.

It's an okay bundle if you want to "own" The Sims (2000) in a digital format.

Not long after getting our first family PC we got The Sims. I remember waking up early and trying to start the computer quietly (which wasn't easy back then) and boot up Sims just to get lost in the building editor for hours and hours, cuz that was my favourite thing to do. The actual gameplay, the 'people simulator' was fun for a few hours and offered a somewhat limited experience in my opinion, until it was time to sabotage, sacrifice, give it all up and start all over again.

Eventually I found a way to download skins and mods etc, which offered an additional couple of hundred hours of gameplay, easily. Huge game that was loved all over the world when it came out, started a movement and birthed a new generation of gamers. Also, that wonderful music is stuck in my head 'til this day.

This is one of the most nostalgic games of all time for me, so going back to it was like a dopamine bomb setting off in my brain. However, about five hours in, I started to remember how much of a pain in the ass this game is. It focuses so much more on keeping your sim alive and fulfilling (increasingly difficult) objectives, that it's kind of hard to have fun with it. It's sort of like cookie clicker in that aspect, just monotonously repeating tasks and hammering away objectives.

That said, it is a fun game. I love the soundtrack, the humor, the style. Nothing quite beats it in terms of childhood glee. But every game that came after has pretty much only improved the playability and fun factor.

God, this game is hard.

I grew up with The Sims, almost literally. I was barely 7 when it came out on the shelves and I asked my father to please, please, please buyt it for me: my little brain saw the possibility of making houses and exploded, I suppose.

It's a nice time consuming, time management and generically user friendly video game that, sadly, doesn't hold up anymore to the raised standards we've come to expect in 2018. Still, it's quite the nice game to pick up and re-run every once in a while to get that old feeling of having the bare essentials, little to none customization and just the sheer continuous talk of your sims at a volume that was much higher than the OST's one sometimes.

Highlight of the series, for me, was Makin' Magic.