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.
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I feel a bit guilty about that: I didnt realise your savegames would be ruined by uninstalling one of the plugins!!!
But we will make the PC great again before 2009, enough to handle the new game! you deserve it, and I bet Sims 3 is going to be amazing.
Hell, I might even get into it for a while like I did before…
Maria,
Wow, you are amazing! Just saw your videos, love Monday Morning and Goodbye. Is there anything you “can’t” do 
I used to do a Sim of sorts too. I was very much into Microsoft’s Flight Simulator. You might say I became addicted. I began making instrument panels and aircraft for it and was on their beta team as well. Actually fed my family for a couple of years selling them on the internet under the PROPELLERhead name. My Achiles Heel was that I wasn’t a software engineer just a good graphic guy. As such I was always playing programming catch-up when the new version came out. You definitely have an artistic eye and a depth of feeling. You ever thought about doing something in TV business? You should contact Ian at Pilot Productions and become one of his “Globetrekkers”?
