The main purpose of The Sims is to get rich. It is also shown in the trailer for the game, where the Sim's house keeps getting better and bigger, and the interior contains more expensive and better objects. Basically, you go to work, improve your skills and find friends to advance your career, get money, buy new furniture and other things that will help you fulfill your Sim's needs. The entire first The Sims game is based on this principle. Why am I writing this? Because even the neighborhood map reflects this principle. You start in the bottom left corner of the map in a cheap house, which of course you can upgrade or move towards the top right corner where the huge villa is located, which can be end game for a lot of players. I just wanted to point this out because you used location as a category. Great video by the way.
@@Midnight99 I always loved the design of that Frankie house and the white one with the pool but I couldn't never rebuild them in Neighborhood 1 (not for the lack of trying). I don't know how but those two houses cloned themselves into my N1 some years back. I have got my own families in there and I'm as happy as can be.
When I was a child and played Sims 1, I still didn’t know much about how the game worked, but I always saw the big mansion and dreamed about moving inside it. I never was able to, but I do remember that I had dreams (literal dreams when I sleep) about seeing the inside of that mansion. Even though I eventually built more bigger and beautiful homes that house will always be the one that got away. I could potentially build a replica on Sims 3 or 4 but it will never be the same.
Awesome Video! Can you do a "what is the best job"? I remember arguing as kids what the best job was, not by the amount of money on the highest rank but also work time and events.
So weird to think about how the sims 1 didn’t have foundations so everything even the porches are flat to the ground lol. I love these videos as this game is so nostalgic but I can’t get it to turn so seeing all the houses up close again in a video unlocks so many happy memories!
Huge Kitchen house was always my fave, its sooo visually pleasant & elegant... but yeah I would remove wodden fence & do adjusments to upstairs 😂 My sisters fave was always the Middle Bathroom one, whenever we install the game again, that house had to be hers 😅 Goth house does look creepy, but its meant to be that way. They are based on Addams family And for the mansion... I agree its overpriced, price of 50 000 was just to put there to force you to play more & more... I don't think its worth more than 35 - 40, as such large rooms were difficult to furnish, they end up looking repetetive Even bigger failure was Maxis medieval castle from Hood 2 - for price of 117 000 - you get bassicly nothing. I remember I evicted my Sims once out of it, and new price was 40 000 lol
Honestly I just dig the idea of ranking something based on the vibes of it all because it doesn't matter how fancy it is, if it ain't vibing then it ain't worth it.
Life is so simple in sims 1 😢 You don't need interview to get a job, you'll get right away. You can have a boy/girlfriend by talking with them days by days, date is not necessary. Woohoo (lol 😂) is not necessary to get a child. Sims1 literally my euthopia 😢
Obviously, you can to do whatever you want with them, but the developers intended the Grey House to be for the Bachelor family. and the Middle Bathroom house to be for the Roomies family. And then the large kitchen and mansion houses are just meant to give you a goal to works towards with your families.
I'm kinda sweaty with the house layout. I usually judge it on how quickly they can go from the bed to the fridge to the cooking appliances to the table to the toilet to the shower. If they can do all that from 6am to the moment the carpool arrives it's good.
@@TubeCody oh it's a term we mmo players use to describe people who go over every fine detail in a game to figure out how to play it with absolute efficiency and success
@TubeCody the console game for Xbox GameCube and ps2 the game they made right before bustin out the goths are in it in freeplay mode but there house is totally different and if you want any of the good furniture in freeplay mode you have to unlock it in story mode ,story mode also has a player vs player function you can unlock all you have to have is a second controller but you can play storymode and freeplay mode with just one controller plus there are all sorts of fun furniture options in game that in pc version you just don't see or have to get packs in order to have
Thanks for the video! I needed the floor plans but got very into this! I loved playing the Middle-Bathroom-House and I think you rated the lot wrong. It clearly has the best lot as it is good access by the road and it’s right by the river with amazing river views!
I'm surprised you like the newbie house as much as you do. I personally hate it lol. It's overpriced and too small. The "grey" house is one of my favorites because it's affordable and the floorplan makes sense. I don't like the "large kitchen" house and actually never played in it, because it bugs me that you move Sims in and immediately have to go to build mode because there's no premade bedroom. I love the "weird bathroom" house. I think it's a good price and liveable and nice looking. You can delete one of the 3 bathroom doors to make money back. I use that house so much tbh. But I enjoyed your video! I love Sims 1 content 😁
Great video!! Now all I need is a ranking video for all the lots in the expanded neighborhood !!! ❤❤ btw living in EITHEr of the first two houses you rated would drive me absolutely insane! if you had a partner/roommate live with you in those places you wouldn't be able to walk three steps without seeing them! having to combine the kitchen with a dining room and living room i mean come onnnnn
Tbh, I couldn’t start the Sims 1 without remodel or rebuild the house in the game first. Like, Maxis released poorly built houses intentionally, and forced you to build things on your own.
Middle Bathroom House is my favourite, I used to build it even newer Sims games ;D btw one house on Old Town is practically the same but has doors in other places and first floor. My second best is Large Kitchen one :')
I stopped playing this game after I got the mansion because the gardener got stuck and I think the game started glitching out. Looking at it now, I think it's because there are plants in the middle of the pool and the pathing short circuits, but I didn't bother figuring out what the problem was, I just quit playing.
@@TubeCody Yeah, I think the save file was basically useless, I don't really remember. I just remember it started with the gardener freezing. This was a very long time ago, and it was after I made enough money to move into the big house anyway.
A house for less than 12k, and you can make friends just by going out and talking to the first person you encounter... And they wonder why we'd rather live in the sims world than in the real one 😩
You say early in the video that we will find out which house is objectively the best, but then you say that you don't like a few things about certain houses, making your ranking a bit subjective. Personally though I think the mansion is a bit too big for my preference since it just takes up time for sims to walk between the rooms, the Huge Kitchen one looks awful with the green tiling on grass(in my opinion). The Goth House I like because it is an obvious nod at the Addams family, and the Grey House is a great starting house. The river house has too many flowers I feel (if they wither your room will decline really fast). The Newbie House is also a good starting house.
I am not a good builder or architect, I love original houses no matter what because I can't build my own house since I'll just make boring rectangle then I'll divide it to 4-5 rooms
The fact that bathrooms in Sims can be accessed from multiple rooms always confused me. Do people actually build houses like that? So you lock 2-3 doors when using the bathroom? I've never seen this in Europe, wonder if it's an American thing.
I think they're built in such a way as to meet the conditions of "Layout" (it is available in the tab with the house icon in the HUD under the career icon, I don't know what it's called exactly in English because I always played in Polish). I think this is what the creators wanted - to build houses that will meet this weird game's requirements - and as I remember - the more transitions between rooms, the better this 'Layout' is. I haven't encountered this in real life at home either, though.
I find all the houses useful in some form or another, and have used them all. My favorite is the huge kitchen house. When I got a couple of expansions, I like the fact I could view the house before moving someone in. I would downgrade it to under 20k simoleons so I could move sims in right away. There was a glitch that if you bought pjs or swimwear and then changed houses, it didn't carry over and you'd have to rebuy (though I can't remember if it was every time the game was loaded). With huge kitchen and Goth houses, I expanded the second floor entirely to line up with the first, though I left the balconies. The mansion just never worked for me. Ultimately I have settled on the mansion in Magic Town. It's not as spacious but it does work for me.
