The Sims 2, Underground™ 

True happiness comes from the friends along the way holes.

This is deep, not pit deep. but deep.

Stanley Yelnats intensifies

it's a youtube video settle down

@@Squirty___ joke /jōk/ noun a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.

Yeah I get that. If you like that sorta thing, look up GTA Pacifist by Goldvision. Poetic as fresh hell

@@Penultimeat thank you, it's brilliant!

@@Penultimeat I came back just to thank you. I doubted your recommendation would be good, but I was wrong. This playthrough is legitimately one of the best I've ever seen.

@@Penultimeat I just watched the entire playlist. That was amazing, thanks for the recommendation.

he is lazy enough to produce this masterpiece

I would pay so much money for that book.

that's... beautiful..

*Gurren Lagann intensifies “My drill is the drill that will pierce the Heavens” - Simon the Digger But how, you ask “Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb. That’s how Team Gurren rolls!” - Kamina

Actually sounds like a real book in The Sims lmao

No wonder his novels were bestsellers

And it’s will probably get worse from there

You can customize the length and angles of staircases in Sims 4. Sims 2 didn’t have spiral staircases in the base game either. Every version of Sims sucks when it first comes out. 4 years ago, I was a total hater of TS4. I thought everyone who was excited for it and jumping on the bandwagon was a chump. “Why can’t they just keep updating Sims 3? This is a total ripoff!” But now, especially since Cottage Living, I actually think TS4 is pretty good. I’m still not a fan of the art style, but in terms of gameplay, there will always be pros and cons to each version, but in some ways I think 4 is better than 2 or 3. NOW, everybody is complaining about it. Now that it’s been fixed and even I, pitchfork holder that I am, have come around. Everybody is just wrong all the time!

And Sims 2 came out only 4 years after The Sims, yet they still made all these insane improvements. Meanwhile we're slogging through year 8 of Sims 4 with no Sims 5 in sight.

@@heathercalun4919 How about the My Wedding Stories pack fiasco? 😬

@@emilyb.8219 Elaborate?

Need for Sims: Underground 2

I would die for another long Zomboid series

I am assuming your referencing the book Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky. It presents a loosely organized set of perturbed ramblings by an unnamed narrator. Rather fitting for this narrative. I doubt it was on accident, given your vocabulary it makes sense that you are well read. Thanks for the thought provoking content.

I have an idea! What if you did a Sims 3 challenge where you have to live exclusively in the future and work out a way to send money back to your ancestors. Like some kind of reverse inheritance, I think that could be interesting!

This series has been a lot of fun. I have different nostalgia games so I didn't expect much of it, but even never having played these, your storytelling is enthralling.

It is not AA who is horrifyingly existential. It is the world.

You could say it's... Just below the surface.

with everything in the world being such existential, we have no choice but to overcompensate by embracing excessive nihilism, thinking about nothing but the survival of the self, for prolonging existence is the only way to keep the idea of its counterpart afloat. and the circle continues, for exintence could breed nihilism, but the opposite may never occur aside from life suddenly just happening in the universe of chaos. such irony.

Agreed. Sims 2 is the only real successor of the original Sims. It has captured the charm and quirkiness that the Sims 1 had, and made improvements upon it. Sims 3 and Sims 4 are just simply games who share the same franchise title. Their design has gone in a different direction. Not that different is necessarily bad, though... just that it doesn't feel the same as the original Sims anymore.

Sims 3 is obviously better because of customization, open world and quests, also the wishes are harder to accomplish and less repetitive like in Sims 2 and the needs make more sense, like for example if your sim is in total darkness it will have a bad effect on their mood, same as staying home for too long, it's not just bars to fill in

I like your words.

And the easiest to mod.

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Why didn't anybody tell me this before I got old?!?

Ahh shit. This is gonna bite me one day for sure.

@@Rawi888 well yeah, with that attitude

I snorted.

@@rhythmandblues_alibi cocaine

So glad I read this just as is was said

It's apparently actually not that difficult. My sister manages to play it on Windows 10 🤷‍♀

I get running the PC version but I mean if you really wanted to play it you can just get an Xbox/PS2 emulator and download the ROM and play it with controller very easily

@@savues That is an incredibly different game

You just need to download one fixing mod. Maybe the higher resolution mod, if you don't feel like doing windowed. 🤷‍♀

@@Explodingbunny93 interesting, didn’t know that

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?!

To be fair, 90% of the game that Sims used to be in 2 and 3, isn't a thing in 4, they really stripped the game out.

@@Andricknight wasn't the sims 4 supposed to be some live service online game originally which is why so much is stripped?

It seems the Sims 4 doesn't have anything worth stealing :)

@@TheMrSeagull that was a good one

A fallen hero

@Animation Shorts 🅥 no one cares

Finally “goblin mode unlocked”

We should've seen this coming. They're both GREEN

up in sovngarde, we shall see his goblin self, stealing everything

Dwarf and goblin way

Well, it *worked*, so...

Thanks - I'm grateful you like the nostalgia as much as me - with regard to some requests, I'm getting the bug to head back over and do some modern indie games again soon - I appreciate the sentiment :)

Consider.checking out shadows of the forbidden gods if you haven't already, it's kinda like crusader kings but you play as an evil eldritch god

Wilburgur did it first :)

When it came out, it ran poorly on my computer, had long load times into the neighbourhood which were apparently never fixed, and the addition of ageing put off many kids who just wanted to enjoy the game without existential dread. While you could turn that off, it seemed like it wasn't the intended mode of play. But it definitely added way more to do than the first game, which was pretty much all grinding for money in the end.

I think Sims 3 was pretty hyped-up. Many of my peers were sharing one copy of Sims 2 because parents and stuff, but with Sims 3 coming out, they were also old enough to purchase Sims 3 with their pocket money. Not like it is the main reason or a reason at all, but it's interesting to think about I think. I also think that a lot of the people who are die-hard Sims 2 fans now were born too late to buy Sims 2, which is even more interesting. Also according to wikipedia, not sure where you saw your statistics, the sales numbers differ only by 1 million, which... isn't a lot? And the Sims 4 numbers are probably inflated because a lot of people tried it when it had a free period, which imho shouldn't count (although that would still make Sims 2 the lowest one). Also, a bit of my own opinion, Sims 2 is amazing when you have a lot or all of the DLCs. But having just the base game is kinda meh. Sims 3 is more engaging base game-only.

Lowest selling game of the entire franchise? Really? It's a game that came out in 2004, an era where gaming wasn't as widespread then compared to now where everyone could afford one computer at home at the very least. Looking at the Sims 2's sales figures, it was a smashing success for a game that came out when gaming was seen as a childish hobby that older people looked down on. By that metric, The Sims 2 was a massive success for the era it came in. Still has loyal fans who grew up with the entry up to this day even so very few games could say the same. The Sims 4 is lucky to have come out in 2014 where more people have access to computers. That alone might've saved it from being a massive failure like SimCity 2013 did. However it's also by far the most controversial installment to the franchise. The only ardent defenders of Sims 4 are what? Teenage girls and children. Granted I was a teenager myself when it came out being 16 in 2014, but I was already old enough to see past EA's slimy money grubbing tactics with the constant streams of DLC after DLC coming out in my late teens. It couldn't hold my attention then as its intended age demographic, it still fails to uphold my attention now approaching my mid 20s. I prefer to pirate it in its entirety since I'm not spending a single dime on the travesty known as the Sims 4. It doesn't deserve my money.

Just add open world to the sims 2, let all other npcs age with your characters and it’s going to be the best game ever

@@Azzzz73 there are mods for that. But personally, I don't want story progression in my game.

@Animation Shorts 🅥 please stop rickrolling people

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

Plus being able to modify materials of the objects was amazing if you're into building

It took me a long time but you can optimize it with intensive performance modding, replacing vanilla maps with cleaned up versions from the community, and background scripts to clear junk, minimizing the amount of times you save over an old save file, etc. And you have to occasionally reset everything in your town with modded cheats. Alot of maintenance :/

Also limiting the frame rate! TS3 has no fps limit and can go as high as 100, which causes a ton of lag

@@satuisaburda8969 if I remember correctly the main cause of the performance issues are invisible cars, apparently the dlcs do some funky stuff with invisible traffic lmao

Agreed. If 4 had been 3 with a cleaned up game engine, instead of a more limited version of 2, I'd have been very happy.

Yes, truly one of them.

one of the content creators i have ever seen

Have you read the original poem?

He lived for 4 days, you will live for 40,000 days or more.

@@leeknivek You ever hear quality over quantity, bud?

@@dominicmanester8125 idk it's your life

Angelina Holie

@@Draikedraike I wish I came to that idea sooner!

@@mitraj7763 it probably would have came to you if you had let it sink in for longer

Really

Well those homeless people should start buying houses and stop being homeless then.

@@diggernick901 just don't be poor lol

@@kevinmclarkey621 some people want to be homeless

That's not a fun fact at all!

...ok? There exists a thing called money. You BUY houses, not get them for free. Housing MARKET.

@@peanutm9346 hush child go back to bed

It really was

Because it’s so good.

'cause it's wayyyyy easier than Sims 1