My other addiction(part 2)

Category: Misc
The Beginning of the End:
So the release date for The Sims 2 rolls around and I of course make my way to Best Buy and purchase it. I got the special DVD edition that has Sims bloopers and videos of the people they based some of the characters off of. Very entertaining.

When you start the game it asks you to create your family. Now this stuff is amazing. You can choose skin tone, body type, eye color, hair color. You can even alter the shape and the size of facial features. In other words if you so choose you can create a character that looks very simialar to yourself. Which of course I have done.

Once you have created a family, wheter that's one person or several you choose the neighborhood and house that you want to live in. That's where the real fun begins. Your Sims need to have jobs so they can buy cool stuff and food. They have parties and grow old and even die.

I think the thing that draws me to the game is trying to accomplish the life aspirations that the characters have. You have to meet these goals and still make sure that they carry out their day to day needs, like eating and sleeping. When I play the game I try to set an alarm so that I only play for a couple hours. That doesn't always work though. Sometimes I set the alarm with every intention of stopping and then I tell myself one more hour. The next thing I know I hear the garbage trucks in the alley and I look outside and the sun is starting to peek it's head over the buildings.

Damn another night with only two hours of sleep. As I pass out I vow to myself that this will not happen again tomorrow. And yet time after time I find myself drawn to the game. I keep telling myself that I can stop at anytime. I'll quit when I'm ready. But I've been coming to the realization that I can't quit.

EA draws me deeper into it's world:
I visited the Sims 2 website recently and saw that there is an expansion pack that I really want to have. I was able to resist the first expansion pack called University. Where your teen Sims could go to college and join frats. This new one is different though, now your Sim can go out clubbing and even have it's one car. No more car pooling to get to work. I know I must have it. I'll probably find myself wandering into Best Buy sometime this weekend. I'll tell myself I'm only going in to browse, maybe buy a new ink cartridge for my printer. But deep down I know I'm lying to myself. I need to up the dosage. Having the plain Sims game isn't cutting it any more. Somehow I will find myself wandering into the games section and there it will be. And it will probably be on sale too. It's as if this program was meant to be mine. Oh, well I guess I have to give in to fate. My roommate will forget what I look like. My friends will forget my name. The bags under my eyes will increase and be bloodshot from lack of sleep. But once I get over the first wave of enjoyment I'll be able to mellow out. I've been there before. I'll make it through.