The Sims Stories: The Sims 2 with Story Mode

[@TheBinsQueen]

I will truly never understand why EA abandoned deep lore/story based Sims games

[@PeachesHoneyBun]

everyone who cared about the sims sadly left development a long time ago

[@refillpan]

@@PeachesHoneyBunjoy!

[@VictorJeffersonOlar]

too much work I guess

[@citrusbutter7718]

Because EA wasn't the original company that owned the sims, they bought it and then ruined it.

[@journeytree]

because they can release broken, buggy dlc every couple months and make tons more money.

[@iwishihadacreativeusername8905]

The satellite falling on Naomi made my jaw drop 😭

[@anastaciyaknoll]

my jaw is currently ON THE FLOOR

[@FloydOschie]

i audibly gasped

[@monelmonelmonel]

So comical 🤣🤣

[@breaddan8210]

Such a classic and hilarious way for a sim to die, completely just unwarranted and spontaneous

[@la912]

And it was Vincent's own satellite

[@Sam-lr9oi]

Oh wow, RIley's story has that tragic twist at the end. She was knocked up by a DJ

[@arashi86]

Knocked up by a DJ, you hate to see it

[@QJ89]

A DJ with an annoying laugh, no less. You guys hate them, don't you? I do get why.

[@miracle9445]

A DJ with the romantic aspiration, the worst part

[@aila6814]

a PARTY DJ no less, like damn girl.

[@jinwithanx]

The riley story genuinely blew me away I didnt know their writers were that genius

[@vanyadolly]

It's incredible. TSM is peak sims insanity when it comes to the writing, but the stories are definitively the runners up 🤣

[@bgjck]

It was weird that EA/Maxis made laptop-friendly versions of the Sims 2 because as a kid , we never had super beefy desktop or laptop PCs and The Sims 2 with a couple of expansion packs ran perfectly fine. This wasn't the case with The Sims 3 though 😂.

[@briteeni]

This was my experience too - The Sims 3 ran so horribly on my laptop. It fried my motherboard trying to run it 😭

[@vanyadolly]

Every Christmas and birthday was me begging either for more ram or a new graphics card. Can't say I miss that part 😄

[@NerevarineKing]

SIms 3 was actually ahead of its time by only running well on PCs that didn't exist yet :)

[@CurlySpicyGirl]

@gina-hp2josaaame it wasn’t easy at all

[@kosmic100]

​@@briteeni Jesus, new fear unlocked

[@Vic_Coco]

Sims 2 Life Stories were absolute peak Sims. I would love for more of them to be made! I’d actually pay for DLC

[@Granolie]

I was NOT prepared for 24:55 JEEEEEEEESUS

[@cieller4042]

vincent being permafried help 😭

[@1dasd22Al]

Castaway Stories was my FAVE out of the "Stories" games. I remember getting the game back in 2008 and I stayed up allllllllllll night until I completed it.

[@KaySutcliff-Michaelis]

I've fallen into the Harvest Moon/Rune Factory hyperfixation hole the past days so YES??? PLEASE??? DO THOSE SERIES NEXT??? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@KotaonPC]

I loved harvest moon as a kid. But I have yet to get equally obsessed with rune factory despite having both Wii and DS rune factorys. Please help!

[@ma.2089]

Yes Rune Factory! :) needs more attention

[@RexZShadow]

My favorite farming sim by far too.

[@DeadlyPL]

Fun fact: after finishing "Best in the Show" you can from the neighbourhood view check Diana and Precious to learn that the seesaw is actually Precious's weakest trick and it's the least trained in it.

[@mooncresscent_]

A detail I love is that the sim in the car who comes to get the aunt is Dylan !

[@KangaRhrew]

I love how all of the old sims game were about finding love🤣 I know there’s more lore but I always love how that’s a part of it hahahaha

[@houraisheperd9721]

Makes it feel more like a movie, since those always have an obligatory romance plot.

[@KangaRhrew]

@@houraisheperd9721 lmao very true!

[@jesaea]

I loved Castaway endings, if you decide to give Reinhardt youth then he becomes a toddler and someone adopts him, you can play with him as a toddler LMAOOO

[@MjArmstrong35]

I dunno if you ever sat out to be a cozy channel but this has become my favorite cozy place, tonight I have hot chocolate, a snuggly cuddly sleepy puppy, it's 10:25 pm on a Alabama Thursday night, approximately 34 degrees, grilled cheese and tomato soup here in a few, imma turn out all the lights, leaving nothing but shadows on the walls and lass as company, hiiii chat, hope y'all doing alright 😇

[@animdoodle]

Sounds like a dream ^^ you deserved it

[@laurieb3703]

That sounds so frickin cozy 🥰

I'm genuinely in love with the idea of Sims storymodes being straight up romcoms. Not even parodies or satire, just a genuine traditional romcom.

[@Toasteawitch]

I remember being a wee youngin playing Castaway for PC only to pick the local you picked as a love interest and when they moved in together, finding out he has the romance aspiration and the first thing he wants to do is kiss 3 sims and have 5 love interests at the same time 😂 Been picking the girl option ever since lmao

[@keelinbowler]

thank you for continuing to deliver and serve mama! i needed this!

[@DandiLion22]

Life Stories was my intro to the Sims 2! I replayed Riley's story soooooo many times as a kid

[@litneyloxan]

I miss when the sims had storylines in some of their games. I love free play mode but those classics like bustin out or urbz were sooo good. I hope they add plots to the next game or have another stories at least

[@tiio2208]

I see anything Sims 2: Castaway-related, I click

[@QJ89]

Jessica's bather got my attention.

[@prettyptravels]

Yes!

[@aberdeenbabe]

the sims life stories was my true intro into PC Sims game play. I loved bustin out for the GBA and Sims 2 for the DS, so when i saw it in Walmart i got my dad to get it for me back when i was like 9. I literally played it for HOURS the first night. I remember getting stuck at the "im so charming" want with Dylan and figuring out what i was supposed to do like a week later! Thank you for covering this! i really wish they made more of these because they were so good individually and together!!

[@vickyxleigh]

The first four of these felt like a Hallmark film, and the last one was like a lost Tomb Raider movie. But either way, I loved the video

[@keahecat]

Sims Life stories was my first sims game. The nostalgia🥺!!!! I also feel like you would LOVE Baldurs gate 3. It’s not cozy like your usual games but the world and characters have such compelling stories

[@XxBlackAngel141]

Life Stories was my first Sims game experience as a child and it will forever remain my favorite! 😍 Growing up I had an abusive dad so ngl I probably spent like most of my childhood playing it on my sister's pc when she went out with her friends, it was a perfect escape from reality... I loved the gameplay but I especially loved the osts even more. I still come back to listen to these bangers once in a while ❤

[@codezero7981]

I'm totally hooked on these Sims gameplay videos, you're so entertaining!

[@vanyadolly]

I can't even express how much I love these games. 😂 I'm a life-long TS2 player, but these are so perfect when you just want something to take your mind off things for a weekend. And they are INSANE. 🤣 Riley's story is iconic. After TSM, these are like peak Sims ridiculousness.

[@Mizra1985]

I LOVED Sim Stories!!! Bought all of them again in Origin way back when. The story for Life Stories is still one of my favorites of that series.

[@Sa1ntNicolas]

Sorting my mods for the sims 4 so i needed something listen to. This video came just in time, thanks Liss!

[@MrAru-dg4xs]

i remember seeing the cd for the Sims 2 Life Stories at the mall while my dad went out to have some photos printed. I begged him to get it for me and we got it running on my little netbook. My sister and I spent hours playing this game that summer. Good times

[@ffairyvamp]

babe wake up lissy just posted

[@Callieforniiaa]

I love these and even have copies of them myself. I pretty much have all the sims games and expansions for PC except for sims 4. Never got deep into sims 4. But I even own Sims 1 complete collection sealed and Sims cast away stories sealed. They’re becoming more rare sealed these days

[@sCassarole]

the drama in the games are so entertaining lol

[@1hannahalexis]

This was my very first sims games on PC! It forever changed my life and I loved the guided stories and miss them so much!

[@elektrotek4032]

I can't believe that Sims franchise was so fun to play.

[@ShandieHammelmos]

Life Stories was my Sims 2 and man i miss it so much! It was the best sims era of them all.

[@minimcwitch]

I'm fairly new to your channel and I've been watching nothing but your videos for the last week or two (I've now seen every single one!) So I'm super excited for a new one!! 🎉

[@rafaellastokes4450]

I'm so happy someone is talking about the Sims Stories games! The Sims Life Stories is the first Sims game I ever played as a kid and still have my original copy, I still play the Sims 2 today! I love your commentary and seeing the other games in the series that I've never looked at before, it was a breath of fresh air to watch this.

[@ButrScochMonks]

the SSX 3 game discs being displayed during Stephen’s story 🫶🏻 great game great soundtrack

[@aynsliee95]

I loved the sims 2 spin offs! 😭 and in general. Now that I have ditched sims 4 I would rather go back to the sims 2 or the life/pet/castaway stories

[@ShepherdsAmelia]

I always get so excited when I see you've made a new video!!! This series of games is absolutely wild! I never played them when they came out but I remember them existing back then. I do feel like Sims 2 was the peak era for like, bizarreness 😂🤷‍♀

[@SkullCandyKid96]

I've been working through your Sims videos, you make throw a lot of punches at Sims 4 and we absolutely need a video of you shredding it apart

[@sophiesheppard6719]

OMG JESSICA FROM CASTAWAY IS THE SHOW YOU WATCH ON THE ACTION CHANNEL IN SIMS 3

[@la912]

I didn't expect the finale of Vincent's Story

[@user-ti2xu3wp5l]

I never even knew these existed. I wish Sims would at least include some optional story mode things like this now (and maybe they do and I just can't find them)

[@Kintsugi23]

Sims 4 *kinda* has stories in the form of challenges, but it's very watered down compared to this.

[@auctavio]

I can vividly recall back then when the stories are freshly released, I was still a kid, and I was so torn between the EPs and these... every time I get to have a new sims game I always ended up getting the EPs instead. Although I get to have castaway in the end, life and pets have always been a mystery for me. good times, good times...

[@pavladavlas]

Castaway Stories was such a blast. Still play it from time to time.

[@katwinabee]

oh, a one hour banger liss the lass video on the sims??? you best believe this will be my background noise for the next two-three weeks!!

[@Александар-МЈанкоски]

This is one of my earliest memories. As i kid i didn't speak english, so playing the sims took a lot of guess work. I remember one of the objectives in Rylie's(or how ever its spelt) is to hit on Micky. I didn't really understand that hit on was a romatic interaction and i thought she was supposed to fight Micky, and there i was a 9 year old me, spending hours trying to make them enemies so she can fight him

[@stevie9632]

"Stephen is just so fucking dumb" Damn Liss, I know you aren't talking about me but I kinda felt it. lmao

[@cariwhyte]

yess finally some love for sims stories!! idk why it's so fun and campy, and it often goes overlooked

[@simonhaselbacher6]

No one: Cat owners: "I dont really like dogs, i like cats more. Except that dog that likes me and ive bonded with. hes the best"

[@reraduke]

this version of sims 2 was my only sims in a childhood (until sims 3), I spent very enjoyable hours with that stories

[@darkovikaplayssimgames]

Oh my lord, I was a neopets kid too hahaha! I learned HTML and CSS on that website and years and years later, got a job as a web developer and software engineer lmao. I absolutely attribute that to Neopets XD

[@Kintsugi23]

In hindsight, it was really cool that Neopets offered HTML tutorials for kids

[@Bollywoodlover100]

i was obsessed with this game i hope my mom didn’t throw them out because i’d love to play it again

[@MariaBear94]

I remember having this game and not being able to play it on the laptop/computer I had at the time I was so sad. Eventually it did work but super fucking slow and it sucked. So this is bringing a lot of memories back. Thank you, I love it!

[@kiaraa7353]

I love the way you make the sims videos easy to watch and shows Everything you need to know, thank you ❤️🙏

[@dannyl434]

I’ve been loving your nostalgia look into these sims spinoffs I’ve watched almost all of them tonight!! I loved playing multiplayer on sims 2 ps2 and my enjoyment of survival games definitely started on castaway for psp 😅

[@Jazzy-Mintz]

You crack me up , I’m really loving your Sims series ✨

[@DjBasA38]

I never really played Pet Stories and Life Stories, but i did play a lot of Castaway Stories, as i didn't have a console so i couldn't play The Sims 2 Castaway, so The Sims Castaway Stories on PC was my fix for that. (not entirely sure if the regular Sims 2 had content from Castaway Stories, i didn't own the Bon Voyage Expansion as a kid, only got it later on through the Ultimate Collection on Origin.... i mean, the EA app) I had The Sims Stories games on my laptop at the time, while i had the ''full'' Sims 2 game on the family PC. I liked how the Story games adjusted the graphics settings on the fly based on if i'm playing using the battery or plugged into the wall, along with showing a battery indicator in-game at the top right (i think) and also warning me to save and quit when the battery percentage got to 10%. The full Sims 2 game doesn't have that, asfar as i know.

[@swemtpotamtam]

Every time you upload a new video I get so excited!! Thank you so much for go through all of these super nostalgic games! Also, hell yeah, a whole hour of wonderful content 🙌

[@jimmyngo2191]

After replayed Sims 3 and watch your video. I concluded because of the Sims 4, we forgot how dangerous it can be in the Sims' universe. Only play Sims 3 again for 5 hours and there are 6 dead with 2 burnt alive, 1 from a electrocution and 3 from Meteor Shower.

[@Zectifin]

I never even knew these "stories" existed until just now and I've been playing the sims since the original.

[@fondajames]

the laugh from that guy you said reminded you of something. its a lot like the yellow eyed bully in A Christmas Story

[@A.Love326]

I GASPED OUT LOUD AT THE METEOR WTFFFF

[@jimified_]

You should definitely try out the Final Fantasy spin off games like Crystal Chronicles. Also similarly the Dark Cloud/Dark Chronicle series, it’s a great fantasy series that’s sort of like a mixture of FF and Zelda that I could see you really enjoy playing! 💚

[@DylanScottDavis]

I would love more Sims story like games. Even if it were to be Sims 4 and they were to release like small story packs of preset characters with certain events/goals/etc. with cutscene and story elements it would probably get me to buy it.

[@mmqij]

I loveeee castaway stories girl you need to play the sims 2 for psp is definitely the best console port

[@kendalroyco]

is that the one in strangerville (?) where bella sells u a haunted house? i love that one the amount of hours ive spent playing and replaying it is crazy 😭😭

[@mmqij]

@@kendalroyco yesss it is super fun I love it so much 🙏🙏

[@fromnibelheim7130]

I've been binging your videos and omg I would love to see you play any of the ds rune factory games!! Those games were my childhood, one of my all time favorite series

[@mcmike89]

Installing the Sims 2 Life Stories, Pet Stories and Castaway Stories is a bit tricky to install unlike the main Sims 2 game since you have to tweak some settings with downloading a piece of software that optimizes the game to work correctly.

[@JoqsanCastellanos]

I just played Riley's story and got stuck there. I just continued playing with Riley even when the story was over.

[@laneyrae6897]

an hour long video? i'm sat. i always love your content

[@DJFrenchFry]

I found your channel through Nontendo and now I am sad I have seen all your sims videos and I am eager for more haha. Also you mentioned doing Rune Factory that's a big yes!

[@yshh00]

I like your commentary on this game! Thank you for this!

[@laffin_out_loud]

I wish sims 4 sulani island had a castaway game play where if you swam in the ocean during a storm. You'd get swept away and be lost, so your family wouldn't be able to find you until you became a mermaid or made a raft.

[@PGJ0908]

The Stories spin off were elite! Gods, I miss the times when the Sims series was actually good… Also, some Sims fans have recreated the Stories neighborhoods, so that you can download them for Sims 2! Riley’s neighborhood in particular got a huge update last summer, and it is elite now! :) So now you can have the awesome story neighborhoods AND the full Sims expansion experience! Other modders have even also managed to recreate the exclusive furniture, build stuff and story rewards for Sims 2 as well! It’s all fairly easy to find if you google a bit, and I highly recommend it for the full Sims 2 expanded experience

[@clbl8706]

Castaway stories 💙 that game was my life when my adoptive mom bought it for me in 2009.

[@mampfuart]

an hour long video from THE liss the lass?? this day cant get any better

[@kathyazzari839]

I played Sims 1 with multiple expansion packs and then Sims 2 when it came out. I never paid attention to the lore or paid any heed to the preexisting Sims. I only wanted to play with Sims I created, so when I hear people upset that lore is missing from the Sims 4, I genuinely don't remember any of that. I started playing Sims 4 in November, and I love the infants and toddlers and populating the game with my own families. This storyline reminds me of any predictable bad drama.I would be eager to get it over with to do my own thing.

[@NeoInsomniac]

These are like if Hallmark movies just completely lost their mind And honestly, I want to see them.

[@nixie921]

i would love if you could cover the sim animals games!! they were my absolute favorite as a kid but i don’t hear anyone talk about them at all

[@mate544]

In Pet Stories, the Paw gift actually lets you control pets.

[@rkndmr7324]

i realized that id love a letsplay from you :,)

[@kayleehenderson9059]

i had sims 2 life stories growing up but it never really hit the same for me as all my expansion packs... watching this now i realize it's because these are the complex, dramatic ass storylines i imagine for my sims as an adult🤣

[@TaylorCapps-dq8gi]

This was my only way of playing sims2 growing up. Forever in my heart ❤️

[@ayou2470]

These were super fun to watch.

[@danikabrison]

Watching what Sims 4 could have been just makes me sad. Sims 2 is amazing and now I need to play it again.

[@Hannah-qy9sl]

Liss you should totally play bandle tale! it’s another stardew-esque game but in the league of legends universe and it’s soooo cute

[@Moonladyspirit]

i love when you make videos like this, they are so entertaining

[@kikipeachie]

you have no idea how many times i played castaways it was SO FUN

[@belleeec]

i clicked on this video so fast, this was my first ever sim game i played! so long ago that my memories of it are pretty chopped up, but i remember sitting on the floor of my moms bedroom and playing it on her round white & blue iMac (yeah, this game was able to run on a computer from 1999 in 2009)

[@belleeec]

I remember i broke my save somehow because i had my sim go to the store, and while she was there i let all her needs fully deplete. The game didn’t let you die on public lots, so it forced her to take a cab home, which saved the game, and as soon as she stepped out of the cab she died. Then the game would reload to the last save, which was her stepping out of the cab and dying. I somehow didn’t figure out how to just start a new game, so I never played it again

[@seanpaulang]

Love this sims series, can’t wait for you to play the psp version ✨

[@lylithkiss]

I THANK YOU FOR THE CONTENT PROVIDED TO US! I love your content and an hour long video about the Sims feels like a warm hug with a cup of milk after playing all day in the snow. Love you wife.

[@bridgetbakie3260]

I am begging the sims to release more story mode games like this and the console games

[@banana360]

24:57 AAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I feel I should've seen that one coming given the story, but WOW. That was so brutal and unnecessary it was hilarious! XD

[@marianack111]

THE QUEEN IS BACK ❤❤ how are you ? I hope fine ahaha Thanks for the new video as always ❤

[@ryebread9]

Liss, you should play the slime rancher series if you haven’t already, I think you’d love it!

[@KatPadmore]

i only ever played that sims game on the ds with the hotels and the aliens and watching these videos still somehow give me nostalgia

[@crestflames492]

I would love to see you play the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series after you finish with all the sims games!!!

[@alphacentry]

The laugh is giving early barbie movie era. Like fairytopia, nutcracker, princess and the pauper, that one pegasus ice skating one, TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES GIRL.