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The Sims 1 and 2 Getting Re-Release on PC This Week, All Expansions Included - Kotaku
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NinjaMouse
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Time for my Sim to live on pizza delivery and kick Mortimer's ass daily again.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Sweet. The first two games (especially the second one!) were great fun. Starting with the third game, and especially the fourth, it kinda went off the rails.
touchfuzzy
Member
Seems like a slam dunk but let's watch and see how EA somehow screws this release up...
Puscifer
Member
I always wished they brought the story modes to PC. I always liked it gave you direction before going into the sandbox
squidilix
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I wonder if they will be reworked
Sims 1 is hell to run (old version of DirectDraw) and on a 1440p screen, you can't see anything
Sims 2 does not detect resolutions above 900p by default, anti-aliasing does not work and I am convinced that there are other lighting or shadow bugs. In short, it needed a lot of mods.
The ideal would be a remade Sims 2 engine, x64 compatible and supporting the speed of SSDs. Removing all the slowdowns caused by the extensions. But, it will not happen.
Sims 1 is hell to run (old version of DirectDraw) and on a 1440p screen, you can't see anything
Sims 2 does not detect resolutions above 900p by default, anti-aliasing does not work and I am convinced that there are other lighting or shadow bugs. In short, it needed a lot of mods.
The ideal would be a remade Sims 2 engine, x64 compatible and supporting the speed of SSDs. Removing all the slowdowns caused by the extensions. But, it will not happen.
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DownLikeBCPowder
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This would be my immediate concern. What's going to be wrong with it? Always online? Some other strange issue? I love the original Sims and still play from time to time.
Not sure what I'm doing right, but it runs and looks fine? - Though I don't run the game at 1440p, I run at regular resolution (800x600 maybe?) and the screen supports that with no problem.
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squidilix
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Pretty sure you need to remplace an old .dll or some file because old DirectDraw game not working well on W10 / W11.
I hope this is true. I would like to get it from my wife. When she was pregnant with our son. She had to do a lot of bed rest, so she pretty much just played Sims 2. It kept her occupied, and let her express some fantasies of killing and torturing a lot of people when the pregnant crazy brain took over. I always lamented not grabbing it when EA was giving it away. Hopefully this gives me a second chance.
MSduderino
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had the same feeling. Sounds awesome, but I hope it's not 60$ and/or runs like crap
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The first game doesn't work for shit unless someone scans through the PC gaming wiki, a modern OS compatible release with native widescreen support would be great.
Pegasus Actual
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Only played Sims 1 a bit. If I recall you could murder your Sims by walling them into a pool or maybe just wall them Cask of Amontillado style and wait for them to starve? Either way I assume they stopped letting you do that and that's why it is now a series for women.
DownLikeBCPowder
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That's right. No idea if it was removed in later games, though.
AeonGaidenRaiden
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I only played up to the second part but it baffles me that instead of sequels, for 10 years EA pumped out only DLC for 4th entry.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
One of my family members was really pissing me off so I put her in a room with only a refrigerator and a chessboard, then walled her in.
demented waffle
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Hmm, most people who wanted those 2 already have them due to being abandonware. Wonder if they're gonna at least modernize it to new resolutions and add 64 bit.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Dont have to wait and see when they have this shit attached to their games
That knackers it from the off.
Mhmmm 2077
Member
If priced correctly, it's day 1 for me.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Dont have to wait and see when they have this shit attached to their games
That knackers it from the off.
To be fair, they didn’t do this with the C&C collection
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
FULL LEAK: The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 Rerelease Features
The entire features list and first images for The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 rereleases have leaked! See what to expect games coming this Friday.
simscommunity.info
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HJuggernaut
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I feel like the game has not changed since sims 2
DownLikeBCPowder
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And here I was avoiding the newer titles because they looked like they had changed too much for me!
Hari Seldon
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If these games are not being reworked I don’t get the hype. The graphics are prehistoric.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I think the main goal with this re-release, especially for the first one, is to make it compatible with modern OS, not a remastering of any kind.
Emedan
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Graphics don't make a game. I'd say The Sims 2 at least would still be very playable today, The Sims 1 more of a novelty I guess, but that's due to lack of content rather than graphics.
alphachino
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I'll probably be skipping these unless there's something special about them... I have the first three games installed on my Deck already. The first two have all the expansions.
Something tells me that these are just re-releases with nothing added except for EA App requirement. no thanks.
Something tells me that these are just re-releases with nothing added except for EA App requirement. no thanks.
Shadowstar39
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Memories. I remember my daughter building a room with a bed and putting furniture around it so my son got trapped, pissed himself and starved to death Grim reaper came and he cried ( he was 5 or 6 in real life). That was Sims 3. Sims 4 was missing so much. Best ones were Sims 1, 2, 3, and medieval.
Now do Sim city 4 and a new Sim city. Ea is restarted, city skylines made bank and 2 is choking on unity engine. They could make a good Sim city 6 but they won't.
As for Sims 1 and 2 is this on steam or is it origins only. Also
Now do Sim city 4 and a new Sim city. Ea is restarted, city skylines made bank and 2 is choking on unity engine. They could make a good Sim city 6 but they won't.
As for Sims 1 and 2 is this on steam or is it origins only. Also
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Very true
I should have known that as I bought it. If that's the case for this, I'll buy them both.
That's good news, these games can be a bit problematic to run on modern Windows versions. Sims 1 only supported 2 resolutions (800x600 & 1024x768) and required hex editing the games executable to enable custom resolutions. It also suffered from DirectDraw issues from Windows 8 onwards, hopefully this re-release will enable higher resolutions.
Sims 2 mostly works ok, though if the game cannot detect your graphics card it will fall back in safe graphics mode that disables most of the effects, and may result in black boxes appearing underneath the sims, can be fixed by modifying the graphicsrules.sgr file.
I wonder if EA will re-release the console spinoff titles (Urbz & The Sims Bustin Out) which are pretty unique titles with Urbz mainly focusing on an urban city environment, whilst Bustin' Out having its own level based story mode.
Sims 2 mostly works ok, though if the game cannot detect your graphics card it will fall back in safe graphics mode that disables most of the effects, and may result in black boxes appearing underneath the sims, can be fixed by modifying the graphicsrules.sgr file.
I wonder if EA will re-release the console spinoff titles (Urbz & The Sims Bustin Out) which are pretty unique titles with Urbz mainly focusing on an urban city environment, whilst Bustin' Out having its own level based story mode.