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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

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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.

The Golden Girls in The Sims 4

On By Michel McDonaldIn The Sims, TVLeave a comment

The Sims™ 4

I’ve been watching these live drag stage productions of classic episodes from The Golden Girls on the SF Oasis YouTube channel. They are absolutely hilarious. They have also been doing Three’s Company, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (my absolute favorite) and other shows like Sex and the City.

While I was watching their latest episode of The Golden Girls, it occurred to me that perhaps there are Golden Girls characters and their house in The Sims 4, and so I looked and someone did make these characters and their house. I immediately downloaded them and started playing, but ran into a bit of a snag.

You see, the Golden Girls come as a family, and they only have §26,000 (Simoleons is their currency) and the house is worth §117,373. So, the only way I can afford the house is to either do the cheat, or work to get these characters’ careers up high enough that they can afford it. I don’t want to use any cheats because I am not quite sure if using a cheat will prevent me from receiving PS4 trophies or not. And also, I’m gonna have to do the work anyway, so I would prefer to get all these characters skills and jobs all the way up the normal way.

So here’s what I’m doing. I started playing them 1 at a time starting with Blanche Devereaux. She was hard to play because she is such a romantic and I didn’t want to just hook her up with anyone in the game, because I can remember she had a husband. I Googled him and his name was George and he was a lawyer. So I created George as an elder (since all the Golden Girls have been created as elders) and put him in the law career. Well, he’s already at the very top of his career and he has so many skills up already, so I’m going to stop playing him for now. Oh, and they have already started a relationship, so they are in love.

Now that George is finished for now, I’m going to go back to playing Blanche. I’ll continue working to get her career to the top as an artist. I know she worked in a museum, and they have museums in the game, but they only have museum curator as an aspiration, which means as an artist, Blanche can sell her paintings to museums, which I have been doing. So I think that is good enough. Once I get her career all the way to the top to where she can’t get any higher, I will continue working on their relationship so they get married and move in together so they can pool their combined money and income so I can hopefully buy the house.

Once I get the house with Blanche and George, I will make them both retire, and um… well, we all know George died and then Blanche had to rent rooms out to people. I found out that both Rose and Dorothy responded to the room for rent ad in the episode on IMDb called The Way We Met,

“The girls remember how they came to live together; Blanche put an ad for a room for rent on a grocery store bulletin board, and Rose and Dorothy answered it.”

So since I now know how they met, when I finish with Blanche and George, then I will get to work with Sophia, and considering I have no idea what she did for a living, knowing she became a chef in The Golden Palace when Golden Girls was over, I will put her to work in the food industry. Get her career up until she gets to the top, then retire her. I will include Dorothy in the family as her daughter, so I can work both characters at the same time, and do the same with career as a teacher. She was a substitute teacher, but I’m not going to make her retire from being a sub, I’m gonna make her go all the way to the top before I retire her. Then get to work on Rose. The only thing I know about Rose is that she worked some jobs in fast food, and they actually have that job available in The Sims 4, so I will put her in that industry and again, retire her.

Once all these characters have reached the top of their career and have retired, then I will be able to have fun playing them in the Golden Girls villa. I think it will be fun to play.

If you have The Sims 4 and you want to play these characters, you can do a search for them and their house, download them and then play them. I’m sure you will have a blast.

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I am on The Sims 4 game on the PS4 and PC with the username Xanapus.

The Sims 4 for PS4

On By Michel McDonaldIn Games, PS4, The SimsLeave a comment
The Sims™ 4 for PlayStation 4

I’ve been playing The Sims since they began in the late 1990’s on my very old and so long gone first computer that had less than a 1GB hard drive. I started with the original Sims, played The Sims 2 Pets on my PSP and have played The Sims 3 on my PC, then The Sims 4 on my PC and when it came out for the PlayStation 4, I couldn’t help but want to buy it because I spend most of my gaming time on my PS4. My current PC is only a couple of years old and has way more ram than my last PC, so I could play it on my computer, but I still prefer to play it with a game controller.

I can’t recall when The Sims 4 came to the PS4, but I had pre-ordered it and I played it a lot, but then I kind of got bored, which happens with The Sims games. I mean, it does get boring and I can only take small doses of it before I have to take a break from it, but I get bored easily, and it’s not just this game, it’s pretty much every game I’ve ever played. Although, I did play EverQuest for 6 years straight, every day for 12 to 14 hours a day. Every. Day! But that’s not a single player game, so I was playing with other people which made it less boring.

But when I bought the PS4 version, I only bought the Vampires game pack because I couldn’t really afford to buy any of the other expansions, game and stuff packs. I eventually bought some when they were on sale, but I can only afford to buy so many. I have pretty much stayed away from the game until there was a sale and then I played for a bit with the new content. The Sims have been on sale recently and I couldn’t pass up some of the savings.

The Sims™ 4

As you can see only expansions are 50% on the PS4, while they are all 50% on PC. I did get a better deal with the bundles though. One bundle had an expansion included and 3 stuff packs, the other was an expansion with a stuff pack and then I also bought an additional expansion for 50% off and a game pack at 25% off.

Update: Since I posted this, I have bought even more expansion packs, game packs and stuff packs, so I’ve updated the image. I will keep updating the image as I buy new packs. Ok another update, I bought everything because they were on sale again on September 4th. I am just missing Eco, but I will wait for the day that is on sale. I am going to buy the Star Wars game pack when that comes out on September 8th.

My character (seen in the top) is based off of me, but not totally because he looks like me from a well, a skinnier time, and I still made him fat, but he is still skinnier than me lol. I gave him glasses, but for some reason when I changed all of his outfits, his glasses disappeared and I can’t seem to find them. But his looks and no glasses aren’t that big of a deal.

He was a vampire, because I wanted to play him that way, but when I bought these expansions, I wanted to take away that curse and just make him human again. The first week of not being a vampire was really difficult. I couldn’t get him to sleep in the bed for more than 6 minutes at a time (6 seconds real time) because of the restlessness from being a vampire, or whatever the term was. But he’s all better now. I really wanted him to be human again so I could take him on vacations to the islands and not have him burst into flames and die lol. I thought being a vampire was fun, but it was very restricting to my game play.

Anyway, we’ll see how long this lasts until I get bored again, and then wait for the next sale where I will probably end up buying all the rest of what I missed this time around. Who knows, maybe I’ll get my character a mate and we will raise kids. Maybe. MAYBE!