Maybe Sims2 again?

When I quit Sims2 (more than 2 years ago) I deleted all my downloads (darn....) and deinstalled and sold the game plus all expansions.

After my decision to not buy Sims3 I am honestly considering to play Sims2 again... there is so much beautiful stuff out there and I could get many of my old downloads back still. (Not all of them, some were donation etc... oh, idiot me, I shouldn't have deleted everything... I spent so much time (months and months) sorting my downloads and editing them... wow, all that work lost...)

I am not sure... there was a reason I quit of course - many reasons even. I didn't have enough time (and still don't), the game crashed over and over - even without any downloads! - and because of all the work I had with editing the files (mostly skin files... but as I always used a base from someone else I couldn't upload them here, they were just for personal use) I didn't get to actually play the Sims for many months - which is ridiculous... as I just did that for improvement of the game of course.

The TIME I wasted on all that... unbelievable.

And now I'd have to spend a huge amount of money to re-buy everything plus new expansions etc. and maybe even some stuff packs... (as I see so much phantastic houses here for example which need all stuff packs...)

Phew.

Still I'd love to play Sims again so very very much.... For many years Sims were my passion. And as I am surfing Sim sites again since some time I recognize I'm still addicted... (guess that's the same as with alcohol - once you've been an alcoholic you stay that for your whole life even of you don't drink anymore ;-)

*sigh* I can't decide.... to sim or not to sim... that's the question here. (Hm... Hamlet's answer was "not to be" if I remember correctly, so that would mean not to sim... but who is Hamlet anyway? ;-)

Sims 3

I was so looking forward to Sims3 - nearly since I quit Sims2 1,5 years ago.

There were some disappointing news about it but mainly okay (although I had expected a little more - like weather and seasons for example in the original game, not needing to buy an expansion pack later on, and some minor things....) so I pre-ordered my copy a while ago already.

Well, yesterday I read a detailed review from people who were alowed by EA to play an early version - wow, that was quite a shock... obviously I hadn't read any and every information available or I guess I had known about those "rabbit holes" for example or that you can't design your own neighbourhoods and many more things like that... But my way of playing the Sims - since Living Large came out! - was to have one neighbourhood with "normal" Sims, one medieval and old roman, one scifi, one creepy etc. etc.... and I tried to get everything in that neighbourhood as realistic as possible, so that my Sims from ancient rome don't have to go to a modern downtown etc.

So, I can totally forget about that way of playing. Even if I could have several neighbourhoods, they would all seem fairly alike because of that ridiculous rabbit hole nonesense! I am SO disappointed and sad about that!!! I was SO looking forward to this game!!!

I canceled my pre-order. I won't start playing Sims3.

Well, I will wait and see if maybe the fan-community can do something about it or if future expansion packs will change everything totally or whatever... but I guess that will take quite a while. Maybe I get lucky in 2010.