I do enjoy it. I don't know if I myself would have bought it (as I'm very stingy with money), but my biggest and main problem with it is the fact that the expansions make the game run really slowly. I completely quit playing it for months at a time because it just took too much time to load and such.
I find it takes longer to load the game, but in game play is only a little longer. Although that's largely because we bought a bigger video card just because of upgrading the Sims 2. The new video card is awesome, though, it lets us watch the computer on the TV, which is helpful since we don't have cable anymore, so we d/l eps of anime from Japan to watch.
But just today I found out what was really causing the slowness--my brother has literally 3 gb of extra content downloaded from the Sims2 website, and the game tries to scan through it all every time you open a menu or something, which makes it really slow--so if I take some of that off (hopefully he won't notice) it should go more quickly.
Yeah, that'll do it alright! I have some extra stuff, but it doesn't slow me down, I dunno why. Maybe because it's only a few little things like makeup, eye color, hair styles and simple clothes without many new meshes. I think objects may take up more memory.
Is Nightlife any good? My brother really wants that one, but I hadn't heard that there was anything really big in it. Because the turn on/turn off does also come with Pets or University (I don't remember which one, but I know we've got it, so it must be from one or both), and I seem to think that there's something about being able to have cars, but that's all I can come up with.
Ahh, THAT'S where the cars came from! Yes, the cars are worth the expansion. You don't miss work or school anymore that way (although you can get in trouble for being late, it's not as bad as missing a whole day). And you can become a vampire, which I find fun--although make damn sure they go to their coffin by 6:59 in the morning! They start dying in the sun pretty fast. And University was before Nightlife and didn't have the turn on/turn off thing. I didn't really want it, but it was still cool to have. I haven't really used it much, but I may if I ever get time to just sit and play for more than ten minutes at a time again.
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I find it takes longer to load the game, but in game play is only a little longer. Although that's largely because we bought a bigger video card just because of upgrading the Sims 2. The new video card is awesome, though, it lets us watch the computer on the TV, which is helpful since we don't have cable anymore, so we d/l eps of anime from Japan to watch.
But just today I found out what was really causing the slowness--my brother has literally 3 gb of extra content downloaded from the Sims2 website, and the game tries to scan through it all every time you open a menu or something, which makes it really slow--so if I take some of that off (hopefully he won't notice) it should go more quickly.
Yeah, that'll do it alright! I have some extra stuff, but it doesn't slow me down, I dunno why. Maybe because it's only a few little things like makeup, eye color, hair styles and simple clothes without many new meshes. I think objects may take up more memory.
Is Nightlife any good? My brother really wants that one, but I hadn't heard that there was anything really big in it. Because the turn on/turn off does also come with Pets or University (I don't remember which one, but I know we've got it, so it must be from one or both), and I seem to think that there's something about being able to have cars, but that's all I can come up with.
Ahh, THAT'S where the cars came from! Yes, the cars are worth the expansion. You don't miss work or school anymore that way (although you can get in trouble for being late, it's not as bad as missing a whole day). And you can become a vampire, which I find fun--although make damn sure they go to their coffin by 6:59 in the morning! They start dying in the sun pretty fast. And University was before Nightlife and didn't have the turn on/turn off thing. I didn't really want it, but it was still cool to have. I haven't really used it much, but I may if I ever get time to just sit and play for more than ten minutes at a time again.
Anyhoo, glad to see you again!