What's The Right Way to Play The Sims?

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In this video we're taking a look back at everyone's favourite life simulator, the original Sims game and looking back at the community feedback to try and figure out: What's the right way to play the sims?
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@Hack_The_Planet_ 10 ай бұрын

Putting my sims in the pool and removing the ladder, listening to them screech in sim-lish as they slowly but surely sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. That is the only correct way to play sims.

@Bored_Barbarian 10 ай бұрын

Yes. ❤️ or putting them in a house of 500 fireplaces and removing the exit doors

@Hack_The_Planet_ 10 ай бұрын

@@Bored_Barbarian or removing the doors and toilets from the bathroom.

@Rebel1972x 8 ай бұрын

You need therapy

@jariussmith6688 10 ай бұрын

I swear the best way to get inspiration when writing a psychological thriller, is to listen to people recount what they did in the Sims

@noyoucantnoicantnowecantsostop 6 ай бұрын

TBH never have i seen any game that's so inspo-versatile, ranging from fashion, Crystal & gem art & craft, architecture (brainrot), and... the experience of other players unleashing their deranged side by pure intention or not

@tmdwu5360 4 ай бұрын

*when he slowly turned.... THE LADDER WAS GONE* :D

@nobodyyouknow1065 10 ай бұрын

More like this, please, Flandrew. And no need to make a Skyrim version, everyone already knows that the right way to play Skyrim is whenever Todd talks about it.

@luciusdebeers6176 10 ай бұрын

In Todd we trust!

@ghetoposer1243 10 ай бұрын

That's the right time to pay skyrim. The right way is starting out with a mage, fighter, melee build and progressing straight to stealth archer

@hahalolz4512 10 ай бұрын

Or the right way to play it is installing shit ton of mods only to not play it afterwards

@eklypse21 10 ай бұрын

Building a maze of swimmingpools and a network of ladders only to see the burglar swim the english canal to steal a painting and the cop to chase them swimming was my way of combating the crime wave back in the day.

@barszczpop 10 ай бұрын

I'd love a "Comparing every Sims 2 game"! There were so many unique ports (Sims 2 DS being more widely known as the creepy one, but imo Sims 2 PSP had an even more disturbing atmosphere) and "stand-alone sequels" on consoles and handhelds (Sims 2 Pets, Castaway, etc)

@P5kr 10 ай бұрын

I did something a little more.... uh..... relatable. I smooth talked all the female NPC's, got all of them pregnant, and abandoned all my children. I had about 53 of them.

@dw4124 10 ай бұрын

Love this format, would love to see more! Maybe since you've covered open world games recently, you could ask for crazy/funny things that happened to viewers in open world games, including intentional experiments and unexpected emergent events

@jmal 3 ай бұрын

Besides being an agent of order or chaos whenever I feel like it, I also play _The Sims_ to plan out how to place furniture in my home. In fact, that was the original purpose of the game: as an interior design and architectural tool. The Sims were there to evaluate how well you built the house and laid the furniture out.

@suorastas1 10 ай бұрын

Hey. I did give my guy a computer in his one room house. I would even allow him to play with it occasionally if he did well at work. The mansion did have a home theater though.

@Gamer1990100 10 ай бұрын

I usually tormented my guy like setting off fireworks inside & despawning the pool ladder

@ayyvian5488 6 ай бұрын

Seeing Fable and Black & White at the end of the video just made me feel all sorts of nostalgia (I played TLC and B&W2)

@iChannelz88 10 ай бұрын

When i played the sims i pretty much did the money cheat and built houses then made a new house. i just really enjoyed building and designing houses in that game

@rustyshackleford2943 10 ай бұрын

I would definitely like to see more of these videos for Fable, Skyrim, and KOTOR.

@NoNant55 10 ай бұрын

I remember a lot of stuff I did in Sims 2: -guy who lived in a tent -discovering that you can clone your Sims with the move_objects cheat, -having a family start with just 10,000$ and without full-time work _-putting a Sim on a moutain that couldn't be reached -creating a Fallout Vault that the Sims couldn't leave in short, loads of fun

@SECONDQUEST 10 ай бұрын

RTS city builder games like Black and White would work great for this series.

@DulceDul217 10 ай бұрын

Any of the tycoon games will work great with this, zoo, roller, etc

@thedeadstig123 10 ай бұрын

Always loved the original sims, could never top it and i had every expansion

@averageperson8882 9 ай бұрын

So much nostalgia of me and my sisters sharing the family PC and playing this game. My first sims family that I ever created were me, my mates, Dracula as a guardian (no idea why) and a nerdy guy I named “Poindexter” who had go out and earn money while the rest of my sims just goofed around all day. I also used to do my own version of “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here” where my sims would have to live outside and the one that got “eliminated from the jungle” would be trapped inside a doorless hut and would be burnt alive. Good times.

@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE 9 ай бұрын

I still listen to the "Build" solo piano music from The Sims, very "Lyle Mays" inspired to my ear. So many great memories of this game as a child, first playing it at school in Primary School (Junior), then we got it at home.

@valiant_emmeres2138 10 ай бұрын

Sims 3, Moonlight Hollow. Would place a lot in the middle of the river, make a rock with a castle on top. Put a charismatic sorcerer in the castle who hates children. Adopt 5 children. At one point I had the magic spell book DLC and summoned a random surfy dude to the house. He bugged out and never left. One day caught them autonomously flirting. Had no idea they could do that. Married him, encouraged all the kids to take up sorcery. 10/10 Hijinks. Would recommend.

@ghostPepperWonton 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is a great format. Suggestions that I'd love to see would be the right way to play... Teardown, Minecraft, Doom, Beseige, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom... it's really endless.

@TheInfamousCloaker 10 ай бұрын

Finding the most optimal way of playing the Sims 1 really just showed how flawed the lack of days off was. As the best way to actually get to play the game without having your sims work all the time was to make a gigantic amount of wooden garden gnomes. As at the highest handiness level it has a higher earning rate than even the best jobs. But then you would still have the large issue of the needs going down way too fast to do much of anything in Sims 1

@diostaku2 10 ай бұрын

This brought back a lot of memories, for my part I would always try to play in a way that my characters would become super successful in their careers, only to fail and get quite angry, which resulted in me killing them all to start from 0, but it always ended up happening the same, so you could say that those poor characters were trapped in some kind of eternal time loop with me.😅 Something similar happened to me when playing the Black&White games, I guess I'm just not cut out for that kind of gameplay.

@StuartLugsden 10 ай бұрын

For me it was use the money cheat, turn the lot into party place and throw a party every single day.

@jmal 10 ай бұрын

🎶 So tonight, we're gonna party and the party don't stop... 🎶

@bigmichiel 10 ай бұрын

I like the concept and enjoyed the episode. It was a recognizable nostalgia tour and an eye opener at the same time. Seeing how other people play the same game you played as a kid for hours and hours. I do think it works best for games that are older, like before streaming. We’re already flooded with content containing different playing styles for modern games.

@thetruegoldenknight 10 ай бұрын

Don't have too many memories, just a vague sense of confusion with the stairs being lit on fire or something like that.

@Nostromo1999 9 ай бұрын

I remember a silly experiment I did, I wanted my sims to live outside, no house at all, just all the furniture and stuff on the grass. At some point the guy has to use the toilet, feels the need for privacy and asks the others to go away... Ok, let's compromise, I'll just enclose the toilet in a 2x1 room with a door, there's your privacy. A few moments later the neighbors arrive to greet my family, but totally ignore them and go straight to the toilet's door to ring the doorbell. I wasn't expecting that, but probably these were the things that made the game even funnier.

@alansnyder9 6 ай бұрын

Who needs Lazlo's Hierarchy when you have... HEART SHAPED JACUZZI

@Hatsworthful 10 ай бұрын

The sims 1 and old maxis in general is something that really brings back good memories to me without fail. Since we were very young, me and my brother used to mostly play around with cheats and make either really fancy or stupid stuff (fueled also by the absolute abundance of mods that the sims 1 had, as simple as they were), like a family i made that was a robot and a woman with a skull for a head named miss nezbitt (yes, in reference to that one bit from toy story 1). It wasn't until 2 that we started playing it more seriously, and it was fun, but in any family that had babies/toddlers it was kind of annoying how quick they grew up because unless you disabled aging you would barely have any time for them to interact with other people in that stage. I personally haven't touched the franchise in ages, but my brother still plays 3 from time to time, doing like "challenge runs". The only one I remember was a guy who started with absolutely nothing and had to get his life together solely with gifts and stuff he could scavenge, and hell, in the end that guy managed to score a pretty nice house, other than the bizarrely varied decoration.

@shirakawamaseru 4 ай бұрын

Pro tip, after putting rosebud;!;! (And so on) In the command line, put a invalid letter in there like v It will execute the rosebud commands, but then show an error you can confirm and the command line with your rosebud is still open. So you can just spam the return key (or keep it pressed) to execute the commands, acknowledge the error, execute again and so on

@merceraeolymus 9 ай бұрын

This is an underrated gem. This video was too good and we need to see this exact idea for sims 2

@zogingu 10 ай бұрын

this is probably outside the channel's theme, but rimworld would be a fun game to see all the different ways people play

@rzepek2pl 9 ай бұрын

I honestly tried to have my Sims get a well-paid job, but the promotion conditions were always ridiculous. Sure, I could have them spend hours upon hours lifting weights, reading books, shredding on the guitar, etc. And then, the game was like "Oh, right, one more thing. Do you have 12 friends?" Making AND keeping one friend was a challenge, let alone twelve!

@jak1165 9 ай бұрын

The obvious suggestion for the next video in this series, should you decide to continue would be Pokemon. Whether you play it casually and just surfing everything to death with your overleveled Blastoise, playing challenges runs like Nuzlockes or actually playing the game competitively, if there was ever a game designed with this "what is the right way to play this game" philosophy in mind, its pokemon imo

@MrMegaMario64 10 ай бұрын

Good video idea! Even though I only jumped aboard at 2 Pets for PS2, I’ll say my way to play was to use a bit of cheats here and there, but not a ton.

@JamieBainbridge 10 ай бұрын

I predict this will be your most popular video yet, people love The Sims.

@vnshngpnt 10 ай бұрын

Is just to play a family and do expansions stuff. The game is made in a way that generates tons of fun random events and stories tell themselves.

@rynobehnke8289 9 ай бұрын

I didn't even knew there was a money cheat. When I wanted to mess around with unlimited Cash did I use a trick were you can sell a fire work rocket before it hits the floor allowing you by repeatedly firing rockets and selling them before there hit the ground to gain infinite money.

@NeoVenomStrike 10 ай бұрын

Holy fuck that death game in the pool reminded me of PeanutButterGamer’s old to kill an avatar series, I haven’t thought about that in years

@Elvisbackpack 9 ай бұрын

Not this one, but the second, my mom loved the game and made families and gave them stories. My older brother also played it, and loved to put tiki torches along the sidewalk. One of my mom's Sims came to visit, got too close to the torch and my Mom suddenly had one less Sim the next time she played.

@Canada407 10 ай бұрын

Love this type of video. More more more more

@mordillokiwi 10 ай бұрын

That was a fun video to watch! Definitely a unique way to cover a game with endless possibilities.

@suntannedduck2388 10 ай бұрын

Good video series idea. Yeah Sims I did the skills, easel for money, odd jobs, some cheats, some building, some tiers of items. Ah sandboxes. Ratchet I level up the weapons to max like the Devs intended not repeating weapons. Gean Turismo I go for 100% but nowadays do challenge runs with particular restrictions as I know the games inside and out now. Later entries are so 1 note but older entries restrictions make it fun. I don't have the randomiser or other mods like many KZbinrs do but even the base game allows for possibilities like this of restrictions if you know what your doing. But I also 100% Ratchet and Scaler many times, than do base armour/ability runs. So no upgrades of armour for Ratchet is the highest difficulty, only the 1st invisibility upgrade as you can't progress otherwise but no other upgrades of attacks, health, bombs or more in Scaler. It's interesting how much damage enemies do, using Camo sometimes, the jump strikes, 1 bomb is annoying then the many upgrades lessening that back track to change the 1 up. Minecraft I put my tools and chests a certain way to store and use items. Go for quality of life/tech mods. I am very resource careful with the sticks/wood/coal fuel timers too.

@JohnRDVSMarston 10 ай бұрын

I didn't play the first Sims, but rather Bustin' Out (played one hour of The Urbz too, but I don't count that as played), Sims 2 (Pets and Castaway too) and Sims 3. I played in loads of different styles: traditionally, with cheats, torturing the Sims; making me, making well-known characters, making new characters, etcetera. But one thing I got from all those times playing: without real objectives, The Sims gets kinda boring. That's why I prefer more Bustin' Out, Sims 2 and Castaway, which have at least some semblance of progression than to play another life 'till it either dies eventually or you get bored, being the latter more frequent.

@Bored_Barbarian 10 ай бұрын

Putting 500 fire places in the home. Removing the exterior doors and fast forwarding 😅

@janschaffstall8261 10 ай бұрын

Since sims 3 my ultimate goal is as many children of a inapropriate character i made as possible. I remember having an.... guy that looked like charlie chaplin but it was supposed to be the other guy that looked like this. He had about 40 children, one of them was an alien named "xiep". Xiep was even carried out by my dude, because he got pregnant while beeing kidnapped by aliens. Those were the days...

@realgamerguyvlog32 10 ай бұрын

I mostly played the Sims 3, I've literally been playing it over 10 years

@benjaminheginbotham7927 10 ай бұрын

Please do ‘why’s the right way to play binary domain’ that game was truly underrated with loads of alternative endings

@daskampffredchen 10 ай бұрын

I would always try to train my Sims as much as possible and make as much money as possible. Never got into Sims Relationships

@GamingtheOtter 6 сағат бұрын

My brother burned my house of sims when I was eating dinner... you could tell I shut down my computer after playing from now on.

@dcflake5645 10 ай бұрын

What's the right way to watch Flandrew? Do you watch it on the bus, passively watch it while doing other things or sit at a desktop and pay full attention to every detail? Personally I rent out the local IMAX cinema invite my friends over and have it projected onto the biggest screen I could find.

@maiocruz6562 10 ай бұрын

For me is like this. Install the game, play a little for the nostalgia, get crazy with all the micro managing... ask myself if it was always this annoying, then install mods to stop going crazy with micro managing.

@Zanji1234 10 ай бұрын

back then i kinda made a soap opera. Meaning i create a single Sim and then when he met several other SIMS i switched over to them and played there to see what happend there. The manion house though was for one pre-gen family (don't know the name) so i played and played until they had this house, renovated it and made several parties there. In my head they were the snobs (except for the Girl they got she was kinda cool)

@frazerx01 9 ай бұрын

I liked to build the house as small as possible, looking if the sims are capable of managing tight spaces in different circumstances. Turns out the only thing that really annoyed me was that they only use like...one side of the bed?! Just crawl into it from the small side!

@sithlord3141 10 ай бұрын

My first thought for another game for this series was GTA because my brother and I played them so differently and they had some notorious cheat codes as well, then I saw you display it as a potential title. My older brother would 100% complete everything in them from GTA3 onwards through the ps3 games. Getting all the way through the story and doing all of the side missions. Collecting every unique item and even creating a website at the time cataloging every vehicle in San Andreas. I, on the other hand, would use the cheats to get money and guns and wreak as much havoc as possible in all of the ps2 and ps3 games. When they introduced the rag-doll physics in GTA4, I did nothing but find muscle cars and run people down. I'd drive up the hill on either side of that small archway with pedestrians in the middle of a roundabout. Laughed our asses off at the rag-doll break dance that would happen on the hood.

@KHFMcAwesome 10 ай бұрын

Ah yes the original Sims. My sisters and I played the crap out of this game and we fell into the three classic categories: My older sister would do everything legit, no cheating whatsoever. Even if a Sim died she’d refuse to just reload a previous save file. My younger sister would have the cheats on but would use them mostly as a safety net most of the time. Me I just went for full anarchy and just did the absolute DUMBEST things possible! It drove my older sister insane because I “wasn’t doing it right”! Best example of me doing dumb crap on the game: I made a family of a father, mother and son. I bought them a blank plot of land but got bored building a house so I gave up partway through, only giving them a living room, kitchen and one bedroom for the parents, no bathroom and I would make the child sleep on the couch. One day when the child had gone to school and the dad to work I had the mum meeting the neighbours and I just let her wet herself in front of them, then waited for the child to come home and made the child clean it up. I also trapped the pizza man in an inescapable room. There were a ton of other things too but this comment would go on forever if I posted them all! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@daskampffredchen 10 ай бұрын

You could actually pick up the firework before it exploded if you paused in the right moment. It is worth around 2k

@azzathepopcultureviking 10 ай бұрын

I would love to see videos of Compare Every Version of The Resident Evil main Games and do a separate Video of the Spin Off Games I'm a big fan of the resident Evil Games 😊😊😊

@Needwagon4Speedwagon 10 ай бұрын

Commenting before watching but, deliberate fires. It's always deliberate fires

@MattwosRandomNonContent 10 ай бұрын

There's certainly no shortage of sandboxes out there these days with all the open-world games. Can't wait for the ones on Genshin Impact and Tears of the Kingdom lol

@DarkKagura 10 ай бұрын

Ngl, I wanna see you do Fable or Skyrim.

@dizzard5297 10 ай бұрын

I bought Rimworld recently and I feel like making my sims miserable has prepared me somewhat for Rimworld as well. (On that note I think Rimworld would be an interesting game for your right way to play series)

@dizzard5297 10 ай бұрын

As for how I played the Sims 1, I tended to make up random sim families and not really base them on anything. I also cheated and had some...chaotic playthroughs.

@Spacething7474 10 ай бұрын

320x240p resolution with all the graphics options set to the lowest

@christophercruz1513 10 ай бұрын

I play as a completionist. I would try to complete and unlock every challenge

@lemokemo5752 10 ай бұрын

Love the channel

@superRuan1990 10 ай бұрын

A game I actually thought what is the right way to play this, was Final Fantasy 8 with its strange levelling system. How much magic are you supposed to draw from enemies, only a little? Up to half way? Up to 99 and then never use that spell? Or are you supposed to max your stats as quickly as possible by playing triple triad and using cards?

@Shishkebarbarian 9 ай бұрын

i must've spent a few days playing the sims the "right way" of progression etc. i got fed up and used cheats and spent the next few months in pause mode just designing houses.

@kalarse 10 ай бұрын

How to play The Sims? Yes, all valid options!

@Forgery_world 10 ай бұрын

My sister got the sims, I wanted red alert 2... my parents got me 1 😢 (trip to pc World monday) she was playing methodically but came up against the usual struggles. I asked to play and put my expertise into action... I found a cheat online and found a way to hold maybe shift and enter to repeatedly spam rosebud. I build a marvelous mansion with all the good stuff. My sister couldn't fathom how I did all that in a hour or so. Told her it was easy and never gave the cheat away. Her friend at school told her the cheat anyways so my aura was short lived... I swallowed my tooth eating toffee playing sims... 23 years ago... woah

@gabatreides651 10 ай бұрын

Great video!

@samuel-wankenobi 10 ай бұрын

This is the one main Sims game I haven't played should I? I started with the Sims 2

@NawiTheCore 8 ай бұрын

There's no "right" way to play The Sims. It's the ultimate SANDBOX experience. You can play however you want.

@safebox36 9 ай бұрын

How long before the Sims 2 and Urbz comparison videos? Not gonna lie, the handheld versions of Sims 2 were far more interesting than the PC version to me. And all three of them were incredibly different.

@CodisGod 10 ай бұрын

how are you playing this in 2023? I well want to get back into this game

@thatguywithoutahead 10 ай бұрын

I never knew of cheats since U didn't had Internet and my friends never heard of Sims till Sims 2. Sims somehow was on our computer when we got it and I tried my best to take care of them...wasn't easy tho.

@OkraPlutonium 9 ай бұрын

My friends came over to my house and played on my computer and tortured my Sims and my mom got PISSED.

@soapminer7099 10 ай бұрын

My dad played this game so much when I was a kid he talked simlish in his sleep. He’d only make nomes for money idk why.

@920316player 10 ай бұрын

Ok, this video makes me laught a while XD My only memories with the Sims are with the GBA Game... god dammit that game was very funny nvn Thanks for the video, was Funny at its finest

@HerrGerbrandt 9 ай бұрын

Ha! Just thought about playing the sims 1 again and then I see this.

@jamesdordoy4246 10 ай бұрын

Should have called the dad Ned.

@liammech6694 9 ай бұрын

How do you even get the game? I remember trying to get this game a few months ago, but I couldn't find out how to even buy it.

@Clay3613 10 ай бұрын

I spent most of my time in Sims 1 recreating actual places such as Planet Hollywood, Miami Beach and Bates Motel. Sims 2 I actually bothered with my sims lifestyle, lots of sex and political ambitions...of course heavily modded.

@matthewwalter3257 10 ай бұрын

I played sims 4 for 12h straight as soon as Covid happened and I was at home laid off from welding when oil hit the shitter. But I did take the time to use the washroom because at that point I was a big boy. Still I made my Sims Pooh their pants just so I could vicariously crap my pants without making an obscene predicament for my family to have to deal with. Love you flandrew I made it home safe and sound

@alyctro8158 9 ай бұрын

I would treat it as realistically as life could be. Other times, use cheats to better support the sims needs.

@Cthulhuzohavaitfseh 10 ай бұрын

With WickedWhims.

@Shlonzs 10 ай бұрын

There were OTHER CHEATS?!? I only knew of rosebud 😂

@michaelwallace9461 10 ай бұрын

Um, I've watch pleeenty of Call Me Kevin, so.. I think I'm set 🤪

@Nobodylikesme246 10 ай бұрын

Always heard of the game but never played it, any good?

@ZeusTheIrritable 10 ай бұрын

I already knew I was being watched. It's ok.

@BetoZayasGaoking 9 ай бұрын

What’s the Right way to play the Sims pets 2

@NinPossible 10 ай бұрын

Building the best house with rosebud and then torture the Sims is my way to play lol I tried to play normally but the game wasn't really for me. It was annoying and I couldn't stand the needy sims.