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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 Sims 4 on PlayStation 5 Infants

On By Michel McDonaldIn GamesLeave a comment

I started playing The Original Sims when it first came out. I was in my late 20’s back then. I didn’t play around with kids because I wanted to focus on playing with regular adult Sims because it was just easier. I always focus on what’s easier, and believe me it was difficult enough just to take care of one Sim let alone two Sims and a baby.

From what I understand, the infants is a brand new thing for The Sims 4. Apparently it came in a game update. Here is what I found on Game Rant.

Since The Sims 4 was first released, a common complaint was that babies were essentially objects. They are restricted to their bassinets and have limited options for interacting with other Sims and the world around them. However, the Sims teams freed the babies with a life stage called Infants that came in a base game update on March 14, 2023.

So I am more than a year late to this, but I didn’t want to mess with infants or children in general because it’s a huge timesuck away from my other Sims. The reason I decided that I wanted to try children this time was because I’m pretty bored with my Sims. One of them is at the top of his career and has been for quite some time and he keeps getting raises even though he’s already at level 10 of his career. And he only works 2 days a week. The other one is still working on career because I wasn’t focused on him as much as I was the original Sim. But I decided to get him started on his career.

I didn’t actually get any Sims pregnant considering they’re both men and I didn’t want to have to go through a pregnancy. It’s possible, because I know that men in this game can have babies, I just didn’t want to do that. I was tempted to have a science baby on the computer, but saw there was an option to adopt and I chose that option. There were lots of children who were teenagers or just children in general, but I saw there were a couple of infants and I thought I’ll just do one of the infants because I wanted to start with a baby because of the milestones.

So apparently infants have these milestones that you have to go through. I don’t want to age the baby up to toddler until I’ve gone through all of these milestones. I’ve completed most of these, but I still need to learn to crawl, stand and dance. I’m having a lot of trouble with the crawling part, but I know she’ll get there eventually.

The main reason I decided to start this whole new Quest is because I bought the high school years expansion pack and I wanted to see a Sim child grow up from infant to teenager in high school and then go to university. I’ve had the university one for a long time, but I’ve never actually sent a sim to University, so now that I have the high school, I’ll be able to do all of the stages of childhood, and all of the schools.

Another reason is because of the trophies. I don’t think that I’ll ever be able to get all of the trophies available for this game in the PlayStation trophy section, but I won’t ever get them if I don’t ever play certain characters or certain scenarios.

I have never played more than one generation, I don’t know why. So this baby will give me the option or the chance to start doing that. I don’t want to age my current Sims that have adopted this baby, but I will age this baby to adult and then have that adult get married and have children and then eventually their children will have children and so on and so forth. I will have all of these generations live and die, but my original two Sims are going to still live. I don’t know if that makes sense, but these Sims are based on my life partner and I, and I don’t want to lose them. Other Sims of different generations are one thing, but I don’t want my two Sims to age and die.

This is my Sims 4 game along with the trophies that I have. I haven’t been focusing on completing trophy goals because I’ve just been playing my Sims. I started playing The Sims 4 on my PlayStation 4, but the more expansion, game and stuff packs I bought, the slower the PlayStation became. Oh and it was overheating too. That was originally the reason I got it on my PlayStation instead of my computer because I knew it would slow down my computer too much.

I stopped playing anything on my PlayStation 4 because of the overheating issue. I eventually got the PlayStation 5 and decided to take a chance of installing the Sims 4 on it and everything that I bought just to see if it would be too slow or too much on the PlayStation, but it seems to be fine. I haven’t really had any issues of it being too slow or hearing the fan blowing so hard that it might take off into outer space. I also have my PlayStation sitting on top of a thing that has a fan that blows the hot air out the back.

I have all but the last two expansions, all of the stuff packs and all of the game packs. I have maybe six or eight of the kits, but I haven’t gotten them all because those are never on sale. All of the expansions, game and stuff packs that I’ve bought, I only bought them when they were on sale. I’ll only get a kit if it interests me or if it has something to do with something that I’m currently working on. Eventually I’ll get those last two expansions, but for now I don’t want to spend the money. I think Black Friday or Christmas sales will be when I buy them.

Anyway, I’m working on this infant character and I look forward to seeing how it all works out with the generations and trophies.