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The Sims Life and Death Expansion Pack

On By Michel McDonaldIn Games, PlayStation 5, PS4Leave a comment
The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack

I’ve been playing The Sims since the beginning when I was in my late 20’s. I’ve never actually allowed my Sims to die because I wanted to work hard on getting them at the top of their career and make millions of simoleons without using any cheats, and be able to afford a nice house big enough to be comfortable. I also didn’t want to have to start over every time with either the same character, or a new character.

I have every expansion for the original Sims game for Windows XP. I skipped over The Sims 2 because I was hooked on MMORPG games, but I did play The Sims 2 Pets on PSP. Then I bought The Sims 3 for PC and have quite a bit of expansions and other packs. I actually bought that just before The Sims 4 came out, so I didn’t buy The Sims 4 until it was available for the PS4. I have every expansion except for Lovestruck. I have every game pack and every stuff pack and I have maybe 6 or 7 kits.

I couldn’t play The Sims 4 on my PS4 for too long because I don’t know if it was because I had bought too many expansions and packs, but my PS4 was having trouble with overheating. That’s actually the reason I didn’t want it for my PC because I knew it would cause my computer to become slow and I also knew if I bought a new computer, I would forget to save everything and have to start all over again. I’m not having any trouble playing the game on my PS5, so I’ve been playing every day.

The concept of death was still not something I was wanting to go through, but I think I’m ready with this new expansion coming because of the whole rebirth feature. I will get to go on a soul journey and create a bucket list and have unfinished business and have powers as a ghost and finally be able to either move on, or be reborn.

My Sims have adopted a child, so I think what I would like to do is turn aging on and let their lives play out so the child can grow to be an adult and then have children of her own and then eventually have my adult Sims be reborn as her children or grandchildren, depending on when my Sims die and finish their soul journey. Then I can see my Sims grow up from a baby back to adult and then continue for generations.

If it’s taking too long to achieve certain goals, I can always turn aging off until I can successfully reach my goals. It’s sometimes difficult to get things done because the whole day lasts for 24 minutes, but actually less because I fast forward until they wake up.

PlayStation trophies for The Sims 4

Generations is a PlayStation trophy I never thought I would ever get because I was so stubborn about not wanting to give up my Sims family who are based on my life partner and myself. So now I can see how the generations will play out and hopefully eventually have all of the Sims PlayStation trophies. I look forward to the day when I can finally finish that. Maybe that’s my soul journey.

This is actually the first time I’m buying a new expansion pack when it first comes out. I’ve been buying all of the expansions, game and stuff packs only when they were on sale because I can’t really afford to pay hundreds of dollars for a game. But I’m really excited about this particular one, so I pre-ordered it for the PlayStation. This will be available on October 31st, so that’ll be a nice Halloween gift for myself.

Are you playing The Sims 4? Let me know if you are buying this new expansion pack and how you like the game.

The Elder Scrolls Online for PS4

On By Michel McDonaldIn Games, MMORPGLeave a comment

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I have wanted to play this game for such a long time, but it was one of those $60+ games that I could never afford. I saw it used at Target for $40, but I thought I would wait and see if it goes on sale, that’s usually when I buy games.

I got lucky because “The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited Premium Edition” was on PlayStation’s Black Friday sale. It’s normally $99, but I only paid $40. It was a good thing I waited.

MMORPG games are my absolute favorite games. It’s a game you can play that practically never ends. There is literally never a time you will find “Game Over.” There is always something to do, like fishing, baking, blacksmithing, brewing etc., and there are hundreds of quests.

I’ve been looking for a game just like EverQuest that I could play on the PS4, but there aren’t any games like it, or so I thought. The Elder Scrolls is exactly what I was looking for.

Here is my character. I’ve only played him for a few days and he’s already level 8. Yes, I named him Xanapus. What did you expect? I am Xanapus all over the internet lol. He is a sorcerer, because I love playing sorcerer’s.

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The edition that I bought came with 6000 crowns, which is basically what they call the currency that you buy with real money to buy in game items. I bought some costumes and a new mount and a new pet. They gave me a Imperial horse and a crab pet, but I wanted to have an alternative for when I was tired of looking at a crab all day lol.

I am having fun so far. My first night playing, someone came up to me and invited me into a group. I don’t normally do that when I’m on a solo quest because I want to finish my quest when they want me to do what they want to do. But I joined her group and she told me that she was BAKED! LOL I thought that was funny. She was running around the game not knowing where she was going or why. Plus she kept saying “Awww you’re so cute”, which had nothing to do with what she was seeing on the screen, apparently she bought a new pet lol. I’m just like ok, I want to finish my quest now lol.

I’m very happy that I finally got a good deal because I’ve been dying to play this game. It’s a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing what happens next.