Pleasantview 2.0 - New Gameplay Ideas | Sims 2 

Of course I forgot a few things, I didn't go too much into detail about some Sims :D So if you'd like, I can do a livestream with some extra info :)

"I will be talking a lot and there will be a lot of confusion." No one has ever summarized my therapy sessions so good like that.

"The sound male sims make when they can't reach something" 🤣🤣🤣 My goodness that absolutely sent me!

Brandi and Darren is one of my favourite Pleasantview pairings too; Darren makes beautiful children, and Brandi constantly wants to have more 😂

I'm a complete purist when it comes to Pleasantview. Everyone has to be happy, some Sims never age at all (Alexander Goth is a child forever, because his older versions give me the creeps), some have big families. But I never age anyone past Adult, because I couldn't bear watching them die. But a few weeks ago I stumbled upon your instruction on doubling neighborhoods and created myself a nice, fresh Pleasantview. I wanted to play like a normal person for the first time in a decade, to go a little wild! Well, everyone's having a kid with everyone, people are going crazy, half of the neighborhood wants to destroy Don Lothario's trash can and steal his papers, half of the neighborhood is cheating. I might not be cut out for this type of gameplay.

Pleasantview always had this soap-opera vibe to me, so this all Goth-Lothario-Caliente drama is what I live for each and every time I play this neighborhood! I love it how you got Dina pregnant with "Mortimer", I've never thought of that even though it sounds soooooo logical. I always have this backstory in my head that Dina was slowly poisoning Mortimer so she'd get the house and everything, but it didn't work out because Cassandra walks on her and Don XD

"Her husband is Gordon King, the burglar. And he's actually lovely!" I don't know why but this part made me laugh so hard XD I love your channel, and absolutely love watching videos like this that go into detail about someone's play-through, because it gives perspective on how many ways Sims 2 can be played (plus it never hurts to get ideas for couples/new gameplay from videos like this lol)

Just started watching, but may I say how much I appreciate someone making a Sims 2 gameplay in 2020? I have been playing The Sims for over a decade, and tried Sims 3 and 4 as well, but The Sims 2 with all the expansion packs remains to be my favourite. I had a marathon of it jus last night.

the 7 rings on the beginning ksjskjddj become a professional singer. i dare you

Omg I did the exact same thing with Mary-Sue and put the pottery thing in the exact same spot! But when she caught Daniel cheating she had a mid life crisis and started a pottery business lol

I like your way of determining family size based on Sim aspirations. I usually play pretty similarly, though there's a bit more calculus with secondary aspirations, wants and fears, and just how I see the Sims as people (e.g. Cassandra Goth has always struck me as wanting two kids). I tremendously disagree with the Lilith/Dustin ship, though, even as a "be mean to Angela" thing, because I don't think Lilith would cheat on Dirk. I also don't think either twin is "the mean one;" I used to cast Angela as the mean one, but nowadays I think it's less that either of the girls is mean, and more that Daniel and Mary-Sue are really bad parents who played favorites in a big way and it had a really negative effect on both of them. They're both sweethearts deep down, but Angela was spoiled and Lilith was neglected. I do like Dirk and Lilith still being friends, though. I usually do break them up eventually, but the way I see it it's a mutual "let's just be friends" thing when they realize that they're not really compatible in the long term (Dirk wants kids and Lilith doesn't).

Gordon just looks like a nice old neighbor who had a shady past, if he wasn't a burglar, I would say he was a War Veteran and then became a burglar and after prison he changed his life around. Also, this would be the best soap opera, just sayin' and I loved the video, thank you for your content.

Idk why but this has become my comfort video! Like this has helped me sleep so many times and I've watched it (consciously) all the time through several times.

This is great! I love that you went your own way with Pleasantview instead of going by what EAxis wanted. Your ideas were fantastic, and you came up with so many I would’ve never thought of myself. Well done! I hope you post more of this.

1:08:55 Beau actually means "beautiful (man)" in French XD

If you delete Angela’s husband while on lilith’s lot he will stop hanging around the apartment. I had that happen to Dustin when him and Lilith both lived in the same apartment building. Dustin moved into a house but when I played Lilith he was still on the apt lot and kept getting sick and freaking out on the lot lol!

Omg in my Pleasantview I got Dina and Daniel married! And Dina had a child with Don and I called him Carlos! I freaked out a bit when you said that hahah

I went the complete opposite route with Lilith - she's in a relationship with both Dirk and Melody Tinker (thank you Simblender's No Jealousy adjustment 💕) they're all very happy and raising two kids together. I considered the No Jealousy mod but I do like the slapping elsewhere ;)

So I saw the length of the video and thought, "eh, bit long, but I'll watch a wee bit". Over an hour later and I'm sad it's over. Your voice is very chill and pleasant (pun intended 😜) to listen to. This turned out to be a great way to wind down tonight - I'm feeling very relaxed now. It was fun to see how you'd played the characters and the new twists in the "plot of the pleasantview soap opera" 😅 I recently reinstaled the Sims 2 and have been struggling to decide what direction to take pleasantview in. I've definitely been inspired by your tour/story.

The downtown area built by the Goths and the lots there being named after them is such a cool idea!! Also i love vids like this, so fun!

In the brazilian portuguese version Mortimer is named Vladmir and Bella is named Laura xd I still don't understand why they changed it

When I saw Elaganda... I knew it hahaaaa you gave me the urge to play again I downloaded some interesting custom neighborhoods I NEED to continue playing

What i slept seeing youtube and i wake up with this video

I haven't played the sims 2 in years but I've been watching your videos so much lately cause they're so relaxing.

I was just at your Polish channel "merta" watching you play the Pleasantview and I saw you started a new one I am very exited. I love that you added all the mods and stuff in the description, you have very good mods I added some to my game already! I can't wait for the next episode! Edit: just throwing this out there i recently learned that you can achieve perma-plat if you score enough lifetime wishes so you dont have to do the lifetime wish thing to get that.

1:08:50 Beau itself actually means beautiful in french

I’m so glad I found your channel! I’m loving your content :)

I'm a huge sims 3 player but I'm getting back into sims 2, I am so using your videos to help me out relearning the game! Love your videos

Over hour of Marticore yaassss ♥️

25:00 Clean versions of hood also change genetics of the Sims, when I wanted to have your Morgan in my game I had to download clean Riverblossom Hills, because on the base verion 3rd mix was different even with Evie's genetics mod

Wow, I think I like your English channel more than Polish one, maybe it's because this one is more cameral and not so big as Merta

Great video Marticore!! You've actually really inspired me to play PV again, lol. I always did the same things and it got very tedious but now I wanna try new ships/stories!! I'm wondering also how you do your jail. I noticed it has the apartment icon over it and I'm very curious!!

i'm only halfway through but DAMN alexander goth is 😤👌🔥🔥🔥

I watched video about Pleasantview 2.0 on pl channel a lot of times, soooo now I can watch this on eng channel xD Beautiful!

I've never watched a video this long in my life before xd guess I need to start playing the Sims 2 again very soon!!! Love your video, I had to subscribe + greetings from Slovakia! 🇵🇱🇸🇰

I really like these videos going through the families

I'm such a fan of your Pleasantview 2.0! I like especially the Elaganda story with alien twins, what you did with Alexander and Lucy+Dirk are perfect together :) It'd be great if you make some video with updates from time to time (here or on polish channel)

I always really like watching update vids for peoples' neighborhoods on Sims because I like to see how everyone tweaks the story to their liking :~) I'd love to see what you did with Strangetown!!

this is amazing!! so many ideas

I thought I was creative by shipping Nina/Daniel and Brandi/Darren together and then I see you did the exact same thing 😭. Still, love the neighborhood, you did a wonderful job

Loved it! Make more videos this way

This was amazing. ❤

I can imagine the number of facepalms Carlos would have growing up with two Romance parents XD And the story with Alexander and Dina is freaking awesome though it does have a vibe of a certain video category on a certain Canadian website.

i love your accent and your gameplay methods!

Some interesting ideas there. I'm currently starting a uberhood, so my couples are still developing and have a few more options. I decided that Mortimer and Bella, since she came back, would remarry and have another child. Don and Cassandra are married and she is pregnant but his eyes keep wandering. Dina was pissed both guys she had promised herself a brighter future from chose someone else over her and she hooked up with Consort Capp, got pregnant und proud and conservative Consort married her because of that. Juliette, as head of the Capp family, denied them the Capp name, so they go by his birth name of Thor. Nina is still in Pleasantview and hasn't decided what to do with her life yet. Brandi had triplets which is why Dustin didn't go to college but started to work immediately. The teens have all broken up which each other and are mostly adults or young adults already. Lilith actually moved in with the Goths for a while because Cassandra took pity on her. Lilith and Alexander shared a short but steamy romance before they went to college together. Alexander is a wild child with a conservative facade in my game. But as the Goths as well as the Montys, Capps, Landgraabs etc. are part of my social elite, he will soon have to make a good match. His future wife might be Tara DeBateau. She is rich and so far the only child of her father, although this will probably change as he just married Bianca Monty. I actually want my social elite to be all interrelated like nobility. I even decided to have the Montys and Capps bend the social rules a bit by allowing them first cousin marriages, e.g. Juliette is engaged to Hal (who is currently in college) and Beatrice to Mercutio. For now, I have decided that the family feud will continue for at least another generation. I'm still undecided on the Dreamers. Yeah Brandi would be a good match but I'm also not sure if I don't just want to keep Darren an artists who never gets over his beloved Darleen.

amazing vid! love these vids!

in my clean version i had bella move in with kayleen (inspired by pleasant sims) but instead of a happy ending with mortimore i get her with don which causes so much drama since cassandra was married to him and basically got divorced because of her own mother - and don kind of got his ultimate dream girl but the whole old condo neighbourhood is severly on edge since theyre the reason she got abducted and bella could ruin their lives if she wanted to

Idk why bur Erik Swain is seriously good. I'd done some sort of rags to riches university challenge with him and it went super well. He had one of the uni townies constantly showing up at his door while he was in class or just hanging out at his front door (after he actually got one, I'd started him on an empty lot). Had them engaged before he graduated and living together. And then the fiance set herself on fire when left alone in the house and died. So I decided to put Erik into paranormal career for the famous phone and turns out their relationship was deleted when he'd moved out (I'm playing no-mod in belladonna cove), so she wasn't coming back. Decided it was time for him to move on, but not completely. He's got no romantic relationships at all, not interested in at all, but three adopted kids who just love to visit all my other families after school. They're a pretty lovely family who likes to play basketball together.

I love your videos!!

Bob's dad is also Bob sr/Robert :o that's a lot of Roberts in Newbie family line

I've got my own version of Pleasantview with the first settler family about to arrive onshore from the wooden sailing ship they were transported on to establish a new colonial settlement in 17th century Early America and they won't reach the present day era for about 420 years.Eli and Ami Jankowsky are about to take their homestead claim as the first settlers in my Pleasantview as one of the branches of Goth family ancestors.Andy and Carol Pleasant are ancestors of the modern day Pleasant family.

would you consider playing this neighbourhood as a series? this video is detailed enough for you to just start a playthrough and everyone would know what's going on and I really like what you did with this Pleasantview so i'd love it to be a series.

Daphne is so beautiful

I have never played the townies. Not even one day. Maybe in Sims 1 I played the Goths for a bit and that was it. So all this townie talk and how people have a vested interest in them is crazy to me 😂❤

Jessica is gorgeous! I think she looks like Angela but with Dustin’s eyes :)

I really like listening to your voice. I don't know it's just nice

BTW ELAGANDA I LOOOOOOOOOVE IT HAHAHAHA MADE MY DAY

In my game Daniel and Nina have a daughter called Marina and Daniel and Nina got married and never cheated but just kept rolling Woohoo wants and ended up with 120,000 aspiration points

Pleasant view 2.0 whoo hoo!

Lol the Arianna intro was so cute.

I didnt know I missed a town this much. And the town is a virtual town lol

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What a lovely video... I was wondering if you could tell me how to change the image of the preview neighborhood

1:12:03 English is not my native language too but as I remember these types of houses are called semi-detached houses, where two families can live c: P.S. love your videos ❤

1:09:38 I think the rule should be that male aliens can get male human sims pregnant, since pollination technicians already do this when they abduct a male sim but i guess your rule works too

19:13 u can use moveobjects to delete him, it won't affect the sim itself

Im going to have to get some of those mods, specifically the new apartment buildings, I've tried modding some in before but they never worked

I don't like Kasandra either. I usually put brandi with daren as well. Cindy put Brandi with Mortimer in her sims 3 series. I kinda like that. If I ever get this game again. I'm going to try that.

49:25 GARRETT!!! My #1 sim crush foreve

Now i have the need to start a new pleasantview 😩

56:44: the baby is doing a karate kick!!!

He forgot he had a daughter

Omggg I'm so shook that it's actually possible to have a human skinned sim but with alien black eyes! I mean Onyx is gorgeous 💜 I tried to get exactly this combination sooo often, but it never worked out, so I just thought it's simply not possible You gave me new hope to try it again hahahaha Do I have to pay attention to something special while trying?

Tell me why I just watched this whole thing at 5am!

Omg 1h of Marticore thank you god 😌😌🙏🙏

45:43 Dina is being gold dug

Little Jasmine has Margarine's vibe :D

This is great! I really enjoyed your take on Pleasantview. I may have missed it if it was in the video, but how did you get alien kids to have black eyes in your game? It looks a lot better than the stretched out human eyes you usually get.

Bald Don is not something I expected to see today I gotta say. The testosterone reasoning makes a lot of sense... still kinda funny though

You pronounce Gunther gun-therrr if that makes any sense. Also I love listening to your voice!

You want it, you got it. Lemme sample that real quick for you. Remix coming xD

i kinda didn't want to watch it, because i thought it would be the same as on your polish channel with english voice-over, so i was pleasantly surprised! you might want to use batbox to fix 'juan situation', fix > bad apartment residencies that baby is just chillin' i don't know what you want from them xD

Don gives off Mr Clean vibes

how the hell did you combine both Pleasants and Oldies in one house? xD in the original Pleasant's house there isn't really much space left for other people...

‚It’s super easy to bring her back na clean version’ haha xD musiałam

Simlish is a mix of a bunch of different languages, to make it sound universal to everyone. It's really interesting lol. Honestly its one of the smartest things they did in the Sims, no need for different voiceovers for different languages.

For a second there I thought Jen was still an adult because of her not having grey hair!

Yes, marticore, yes,! This is what we want.

Is it weird that I ship Alexander and Lilith?

I also put Dina in the adventurer career. She usually likes travel in my game.

1:09:21 His nose and the outfit on this guy's thumbnail, actually resembles me of Michael Jackson a lot 😂 There's some similarities!

45:37 oh my... with this hair Dustin looks like my crush so much....

Did you build the Lilith's apartment or is it downloaded? Either way if you can, can you link it? I really like that grungy look of it.

The Goth name tradition is actually real. Male sims end with "R" and female sims (most of them) end with "A". There's only one female sim that doesn't follow that, i think its gunther's mother. Not sure.

Don Lothario balding is such a good idea! I think I'm going to make him start balding as an adult (30s-50s) change hairstyles to make his hairline recede more and have about of his male descendants inherit that

I like the idea of names ending in -er for the Goth males. I think I‘ll go with Casper for Alex‘s son.

OMG, I also put there the trailer 😮😂

hey, i have a question i downloaded the clean templates from meetmetotheriver I believe? and now when I load sim pe the new babies just won't appear, and Angela, Lilith, Dustin and Dirk who went to college and came back, still appears like teens even tho they're adults i hope that made sense, English sometimes gets tangled in my mind, thanks you!

I choked on cornflakes at 25:38

I find kinda satisfying to see how everything boils down