The end of an era… until next year!

I didn’t really have to think it twice. When Jon asked me today “are you sure you want to delete Sims 2 from your computer?” I said YES straight away. To be honest, I haven’t played for months. I used to love it, but after having played thousands of times and made quite a few videos, I kind of got bored of it. I seemed to spend all my spare time downloading more skins, more clothes, more applications, for what? To end up having Gbs and Gbs of crap in my computer? Yes.

I made a Sim of myself and I used to play that Jon and I had an amazing family, an amazing house, amazing jobs, etc. At the end of the day that’s what Sims were for, weren’t they? To let you create a better you (okay, other people used the game to kill sims or make them miserable). But then, when everything was amazing, and there weren’t many more thing that I could turn into amazing, I decided to switch into Music Videos. I managed to finish three (you can watch them in my youtube account: www.youtube.com/marialachica) but I started another 4 or 5 that I never finished. I had lots of ideas, I just didn’t have the right skills to put them into videos.

And after that, coinciding with my discovery of ANTM, I became almost obsessed with Sim-modelling. I made the catwalk, I created the judges, the poses (well, the poses weren’t mine of course), the dresses (the dresses either), etc. I started “Sim City Next Top Model”. With lots of snapshots I made little videos and then the judges would eliminate one. It was a brilliant idea, and I was really into it when disaster happened: I installed a new extension pack and god-knows-how I lost all my saved games. That meant I lost all my sims. I had to start all over again. But then the game was never the same. I lost interest as well as the games.

And that was it. Months later I have decided to give up Sims 2. Only because I know that something bigger and better is coming in 2009: SIMS3!

I can’t wait.