Journal - "TS3... again!"

[leskuh]

Just one little thing:

When you throw away good food it gives you a bad moodlet and says that there are starving children in Strangetown! XD

Comments

[hjsnapepm.livejournal.com]

Teehee! It makes me wonder about where Strangetown stands in the prequel. I'm getting this odd, post-Apocalyptic vibe off of it, like some big, bad, supernatural thing happened that they have only recently recovered from by Sims 2, timeline-wise, which could be interesting.

Unfortunately, I'm only interested in Sims 3 for the plot. My computer can't run it, and I'm not sure I'd want to if it could. :(

[simgaroop.livejournal.com]

LOL

Well, considering that Strangetown is a tiny one road town placed in the middle of nowhere (aka a huge desert), I guess there's not much food available there (unless the geniuses there developed a way to grow all kinds of crops under that harsh weather, or maybe they are relying on alien technology, considering how P.T. Smith has a green lawn and everything!).

I've always thought that ST is also isolated from other towns, so it'd be hard to get food from other places (at least no frequently).

But the truth is that since it's the sims, they probably make the food appear ~magically~ from their inventories XD.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That's cute, but the stickler in me gets annoyed at all these careless references to Sims 2 stuff that doesn't really make any sense.

Also, Strangetown is not a third world country. You can order pizza there and there's a downtown close enough to it that you can hope in a cab to get there (or even walk)! :P

[simgaroop.livejournal.com]

That's cute, but the stickler in me gets annoyed at all these careless references to Sims 2 stuff that doesn't really make any sense.

sawcat posted the official titles of the books you can read on the Sims 3 (some of them are identical as the sims 2 ones) and one of them, the mystery novel, is named "Murder in Pleasantview, by Alexander Goth" ;P.

I laughed quite a bit, but then I realized it doesn't make sense to have that book on Sunset Valley. Unless the writer of that book is a Goth ancestor also named Alexander, imagine the shock for Mortimer and Bella if they read a book written by their future son! XD

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard about that one. It sounds like maybe Don brought that back in time with him in his time machine? will_o_whisper explained it pretty well, but suggesting that sending someone as careless as Don back in time with probably result in the break of the very thread of time, so all bets are off for the Maxis storylines. It would explain the millions of alternate universes being created for the Goth family, etc. that have nothing to do with the original.

Also, I just noticed that I typed "hope in a cab" instead of "hop in a cab." XD

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I dig that vibe and hope that they don't make a Strangetown hood just so that this can be official canon. Or like... it'd be really neat if they hadn't mentioned that starving bit and instead had made ST a thriving, green utopia to give the impression that something AWFUL must have happened between this game and TS2.

I'm having fun just playing it. I don't have a great attachment to TS2 like a lot of people I know. I never did a legacy and something about the personality system fell kind of flat to me. It's easier to love the Sims themselves in TS3 than it is in TS2. Whereas in TS2 you had to kind of fall in love with the character behind the sim, which didn't really work for me, because I flesh out characters by DRAWING them.

Also I dig the TS3 plot that we've got so far. I really wanna make a fresh hood just to peek in on Kaylynn, because I wanna know if she really even knows/likes Mortimer or what.

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

I like hjsnapepm's idea. That Strangetown might have actually been an okay place and then something TERRIBLE happened and it became just a road.

I was just super psyched to find a cute little connection like that. This is why I actually love that they went with a prequel angle for TS3. Even though some of the canon is HELLA wonky, it also kind of makes you start going: "Whut?" and trying to rationalize it all in your head. I've now got this wacky plot brewing somewhere about Kaylynn going to Mortimer after Bella disappears and the reason she's young is that at some point he paid her off in Elixir of Life if she promised to stay out of his and Bella's lives forever.

I also like you and ST's witch idea!

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's all been recently built though? I dunno, maybe Strangetown of old was completely desolate and they're just now getting to technology and connections in TS2?

I dig it. I think the references are cute and I like that it makes you stop and think about it. Even if those bits are just pulled out of the creator's asses, it's still fun to speculate. :3

[leskuh.livejournal.com]

1) Don reads? (JK JK)

2) Would you mind directing me to the place where will_o_whisper talks about this? I'd love to read what she had to say on it. :3

[ikichi.livejournal.com]

PICS OR IT DID NOT HAPPEN.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

2) It was in the comments of this entry: http://strange-tomato.livejournal.com/163069.html

It was the idea that Don would end up "breaking time." XD