A History of Zombies in The Sims (The Sims 1, 2, 3 and 4) 

Omg same. I think it scarred me for life lol

What is free will?

My favourite part was how the burglar went out of his way to walk back down so the peashooter could attack him even though he was almost in the house at that point.

I did wonder if it was a metaphorical thing because that would make more sense. It also occurred to me after I finished editing this that it could be referencing the Hula zombie though I think that's less likely. Oh yeah I should have emphasised they don't lost all their skill points, I wasn't sure of the exact number they lose (I actually thought it might be random,) so that part was a bit vague.

That whole scene was the definition of the sims 3 lmao

I didn't know about that cold glitch that is annoying. I've never had a Sim die to a cold before (well at least now without cheats,) somehow they always recovered but I did wonder why it never progressed into pneumonia either lol. I heard there were some mods that make the colds more deadly and figured it was just because it's really hard to get Sims to die from illness during normal gameplay. I wonder if the child zombie is a glitch they fixed or not, that is weird but I haven't tried resurrecting children with the lamp myself. 🤔 Did you age her up to see if she had zombie traits then? I'm guessing it probably only effected the memories and want/fears though.

Yeah the zombies in TS3 used to piss me off theyd show up like every night and eat my plants

Unless I'm playing a specific kind of supernatural world I always turn off the lunar cycle because the zombies kind of break immersion and are also pretty annoying when you're wandering around. There are a bunch of full moon related moodlets and wants that are cute/fun though even in regular worlds like wanting to kiss under a full moon. You can probably disable the zombies with mods but I've never really looked into that.

@@CalipersandTongs i think nraas has settings for supernatural tweaking

Yeah since zombies were added as the university occult type I think they wanted to incorporate that into the pack theme so they added the scholarship and let teen Sims be zombies so they could go to university.

It does seem a bit random, but they included a bunch of plants vs zombies stuff in the extra content + limited edition stuff. Then again the Sims has Cowplants so why not lol.

It's the best supernatural pack imo there's just so much stuff packed into it.

I kind of imagined them having a playful rivalry in this video so since Caleb was a bit aggressive with drinking Morgyn's blood they decided to freeze him with magic lol. I haven't actually played the Sims 2 on DS, but I've been using a lot of the older console game music since it kind of fits the Sims theme.

@@CalipersandTongs freezing with magic isn’t playful rivalry LMAO XDDD Hearing it in the vid actually made me look up the OST and I found a song that is a banger! I’m now obsessed with it XD I did play the DS game as a kid. It’s so good! I’d suggest giving it a try!

Hah yeah I didn't notice while I was playing then when I was editing I thought 'is he maybe just wearing underwear? but it's everyday clothes...' But then I was messing around in CAS later and noticed what must have happened lol.

Oh I never installed that pack so didn't realise it had a runway. For some reason I thought that pack just added a shop and some clothes.

@@CalipersandTongs nope, it had more. It was functional too. But here again, this was way after university I think "zombie" in this context might've just been an early codename for npcs

Yeah I didn't even notice that Sim wasn't wearing trousers or anything until I was editing lol. I actually didn't plan on Jill falling over she just did so I decided to include it. I've had that happen before I think while I was playing since the game just turns random Sims into zombies. I also think one time I was going to invite my Sims friend round on a full moon but then noticed in the thumbnail they were a zombie and was like 'hmm perhaps later then.'

Yeah that's possible too. Someone else in the comments also suggested it might not have been a literal zombie transformation but just a reference to a Sim without freewill being forced to follow a script, so there's lots of possibilities. I'm working on a Sims 2 game corruption video atm and one thing I noticed while messing around with mrs crumplebottom is she has a script interaction when boolprop is enabled that says '*redo outfit' in the pie menu, and thinking about it in regular gameplay she has control over people's outfits (which is what that pie option would have been testing but without the animations like with tom's clothing tester,) but I don't know whether she was planned for the basegame or not, but she's also existed since the Sims 1 (well technically that's not the same Sim but a relative, but same idea) so that's possible as well. I think it would have been funny but annoying if Mrs Crumplebottom turned your sims into zombies temporarily lol. Actually now that I think about it there are the Crumplebottom sisters from Moonlight Falls who are witches too... So it could work canonically for her to be a witch. Kind of funny I included them in this video I wasn't thinking about any of this at the time lol.

I'm not quite sure what you mean so probably not 😅

@@CalipersandTongs like beta sims from riverside or waterside like how veronaville Viola Monty

Oh I was wondering what you meant by strings. There are some references to the Baxter family and some other pre-release Sims in the game files (including some based on the old British TV show Fawlty Towers,) I'm not sure there's much info to go off though.

This subreddit has some useful info on installing The Sims 2 on new computers: www.reddit.com/r/sims2help/ There are also some videos on RU-vid that help with certain parts of the process like installing the 4gb patch etc.

@@CalipersandTongs Awesome! Thanks a lot. :)

Oh OK I read the zombies were introduced in Livin' Large but I never played the base game on it's own so didn't know.

@@CalipersandTongs No problem, just gald I could help but I never got living large so I don't know if Zombies were changed or improved in that pack so maybe that's the mistake. I was really surprised when my Sim Nick Carters wife died and even more when the Grim Reaper showed up and I failed to beat me then Nick cryed so I got a message the "Grim Reaper took pity on you and will bring your wife (I forgot her name) back but as a Zombie. I also remember when the clown invaded my house and caused trouble making sims unhappy I tryed to trap him in a small room with no door but he took out a hula hoop put it on the floor jumped in and teleported after trying to use the phone I found out you can call the clown catchers MIB looking guys who used a weird gun to suck up the clown.

Sadly no lol. If you kill a zombie and resurrect them again even if you pay the Grim Reaper the full amount so you get the 'wow your generosity is out of this world' message the Sim will still come back again as a zombie.

I low-key like that. It's like the grim reaper is messing with you on purpose