The Young Legacy.

Hey,

Wow it's been ages since I've been on here, I used to come on all the time, but then Sims 3 came along, and it literally blew me away. If anyone's got Sims 3 you might understand it's pull, it is just as addictive as Sims 2, in fact even more so because of the open neighbourhood.

I feel horrible but I have to go back on my promise, I promised I would continue The Young Legacy and at the time I truly did think I would, but as you all know when Sims 2 came along it replaced Sims 1 - I could no longer look at Sims 1 and be like wow I love this game, it seemed so backward and unimpressive, and it's the same with Sims 2 now, if I see pictures of Sims 2, Sims especially, all I can see is how awkward and unrealistic they look, the grass doesn't look green and the houses look all weird.

I love CASt, and I'm used to it, to go back to not being able to drag one colour onto another object, I couldn't do that, you may think I'm weird for not being able to go back to Sims 2, I know some people don't like it and refuse to play it, well that's their choice.

I really do love Sims 3, I don't like the story telling with Sims 3 which is why I don't upload Stories to my sims 3 page, and I will admit I do miss writing about my sim families the way I did with The Young Legacy and I especially loved the comments and folllowing I found on this great site.

But as you'll all probably find out at some point, things change, and now I'm an adult and I don't Sim as much as I used to anyways, I try to, but when I had a job I barely had time to turn on the computer let alone sim, and I'm inbetween jobs at the moment, but i'm hoping that's just temporary.

You never know I might at some point load it up for old time's sake and see where the game takes me, but I can't see it happening at the moment, especially because this new laptop is still having it's overheating issues! :( I just wanted you all to know my reasons for stopping the legacy.

I upload my sim pictures to my facebook account and write captions about them similar to the legacy style humour I used, so if you want to see my Sims 3 family, check them out:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=154774&id=507098283

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=176239&id=507098283

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=160315&id=507098283

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=190045&id=507098283

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=205740&id=507098283

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=209946&id=507098283

Wow didn't realise I had that many Sims albums lol! If you're intirgued about the game or love it as much as I do, feel free to check them out. You should be able to see all the images even without a facebook account I think, but most people have an account anyways so it shouldn't really matter.

Happy simming everyone!!

Shell :)

Why there's been no stories for a while...sorry

Hey

Well I promised some people I'd have a story about Will Young out by now, but things happened beyond my control, first off Sims 3 that distracted me but I promised to get back to Sims 2 to finish the story but then my laptop decided to start overheating even thoug it wasn't even a year old.

So now I'm back on my old laptop until Fujitsu send it back and this laptop also has an overheating problem, but least this laptop is a good deal older, so I'm stuck not being able to play my old Sims 2 neighbourhood, because I can only really run Sims 2 on  this laptop, not all the expansions as well, so until I get my laptop back there won't be any Sims 2 stories anytime soon. Hopefully it will be back by the end of this week and I shall work on getting the Will story finished and out but I also have a resit to worry about in August - real life always seems to get in the way :(

Well I just thought I'd let people know what was happening just in case people wondered why the Legacy had stopped, it will continue I promise, once I get my laptop back! :)

Happy simming everyone!

Shell :)

Thoughts on The Sims 3

Hey

Can you believe there is only 25 days until the Sims 3 is released?

I'm so excited for it, everything just looks so cool with it. Like the fact we can have babies in hospital and at home, and they come wrapped in a blanket or towl as they put it. There has been some debate over whether we will have any pushchairs/prams in the game, I saw on a vid that someone said a baby could be put in a "trolley" but then on an interview they said there wouldn't be any in game, you just carry the toddlers, so the jury's out on that one.

The CASt looks amazing, and I really do think it will mean less CC for my game, my laptop will be happy lol, I don't know about you but the majority of my CC is recolours - so if we can recolour stuff ourselves, we'll only really have to download CC if we can't work out how to get the exact style we want, and someone can.

On the [url=http://www.thesimszone.co.uk/editorials/index.php?ID=74]sims zone[/url] site there is lots of info and wow I really cannot wait!

I love the fact the neighbourhood is seamless - I get so fed up with the blue loading screens, yes it means that I can read a chapter of my book, but it is annoying if you're in a hurry, and the fact we have no loading screens is amazing, we just zoom in to a sim, and then zoom out, and zoom in on another sim. I'm wondering exactly how transport works like does a pop up come up saying where do you want to go or do you in the case of walkin just see where the path takes you?

I forgot that we'll have wind as well, not full blown weather but wind that blows, I wonder if it will effect the sims, I could just see a business man hanging on to dear life to his hat while trying to stay upright. And 28 types of trees - wow that is a lot - I might jut stare at them for a while.

Add to that the CAS - the fact we have ore customisation - I'm sure I'm not the only one that is head over heels in joy because we can finally change the shoes separately to the trousers, and we can CASt them as well - I mean yay EA - I love you I really do! We can effectively make converse shoes of any pattern or rocket dogs - I think that's the make. I am annoyed we only have straight hair but this is only the base game, looking at the hair that came in the sims 2 base game, it's not that good, and to be honest I very rarely use it, I prefer the creative talents of raonsims & xmsims - whic is where the majority of my CC hair is from, so hopefully future expansions they'll give us some different varieties. But then again if we can layer and change the colours of each part, maybe we won't need anymore, who knows.

The clothes look amazing - getting back to CASt again - any pattern on any part of the clothing *passes out in shock* How many times have you downloaded a CC outfit that the only difference with the other CC is that the top colour is different, I have many times and the fact we can customise it ourselves makes all the difference.

Getting to the actual gaming, the trait systems seems to be a really good idea, I cannot wait to mess around, when I play my sims I want them to act more like I want them to, like I made a sim for a beach hut with art stuff in, but my sim did not want to be all that creative, now we can hone our sims to be exactly what we want them to be.

I think I'm even tempted to create myself as a sim in the game and actually play myself which I don't normally do,  I'd be a hopeless romantic, bookworm, computer whiz, family orientated & good sense of humor.

Right well I better go, my friend just called, I'm meeting her she's just had an exam

Happy simming!

Shel :)

About me

Hey

I joined this site years ago, and it's changed a lot, I don't think there were blogs and full pages then, if there were I might have been a bit blinded by all the lovely creations to download to notice them lol

Recently I've got back into downloading CC after a long break (my laptop thanked me for it :P)

I don't really create anything other than stories, which are being uploaded as I type, now I'm positive that wasn't one of the features when I first joined.

So that's mainly what I've been doing for the many years since I joined as far as the sims is concerned, I've been working on my legacy.

Well I'm a student at University, I was at High School when I first joined here I believe - how long ago is 1223 days? Hold on some quick maths - over 3 years ago, well I was at sixth form then, not high school. Anyways I study Business Management - sounds so exciting doesn't it, joking lol - but it is quite fun. Who knows what I'll do after Uni though, and I'm nearing the end of my second year now - arrgh!

I'm loving this upload thing, wow its quick, the in game story uploaded - is soooo slow, but the TSR Wizard Manager is ploughing through the twelve chapters of my legacy.

One thing my legacy is not scored, it's just for fun, in fact I love playing my legacy - apart from the Uni chapters, those drag sooo much lol.

I do have challenges on my page, and I only ever tried the one - embarassing I know, but in fairness now the lot refuses to load - the Sonny Day one, well it did last time I tried it, I'll have to load it up and check it.

Well that's all I can think to say, I'll remember to come here more often now I know how community focused it has become :D

Happy simming!

Shell :)