The Sims > Myst

See, Steve just inadvertently mentioned why it's successful - chicks dig it. Chicks REALLY dig it (I know a few women who ONLY play it, plus maybe Diablo II, no other games). It's the social nature of the game, plus women tend to be a little more nosy than men so I can see looking in on even a pretend house can appeal. The cynical side of me says they also generally enjoy manipulating people more, but that's not really true. ;)

God knows how Will Wright stumbled on the magic formula, but with the Sims he did. Chicks dig it, casual gamers dig it... it's no wonder it's sold this much, it has broader appeal than most other games. I wish it hadn't broken this record, as a hardcore gamer I think so many other games deserve to sell better than it on so many levels, but WTF, kudos to Maxis anyway.

I bought the game when it first came out basically because there was nothing better at the time. I installed it, played it for 2 hours then promptly tried to return it to EB...they checked it and claimed it had a huge scratch on it...I looked at it and sure enough it did have a scratch. I told them I had just bought it and the scratch wasn't from me. Anyways they wouldn't take it back and I got stuck with the piece of shit. Haven't played it again to this day. =(

Im personally a HUGE Myst FAN -

Myst 1 : Tough game, tho it was the first of its kind and the storyline was really awesome...backed by great graphics and a unique experience.

Myst 2 (Riven) : VERY TOUGH game, but also like a hacked up version of Myst 1. It was well worth the wait when it came out. They still were pushing the envelope with their graphics.

Myst 3 : Awesome job. They hacked it up better than the two last ones as far as technology was concerned, but that's kinda obvious considering how long we had to wait between Myst 2 and 3. It was the easiest one out of all the series. The good part was that Brad Dourif was playing the bad guy, Saavedro in this one. That guy is a real underrated actor. Ever since I saw "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" and I heard some of his sick shit in Exorcist and Childs Play, I knew that this guy would add a lot of life to the story.


The Sims was awesome too, but I got sick of it too fast. I dont know why but women tend to get wet on this game and all the rest of the expansion packs. But its good to know that they reached the #1 sales mark.

Now Cyan is working on a game codename "Mudpie" and it's like a World of Warcraft type of thing. Not TOO RPG'ish, but still a unique experience. I dont know how this is gonna work, but they for sure have a lot of fans that would look into it.

I never bought into this game. Is it really good enough and worthwhile for an FPS gamer like me to bother spending time on? I'm pretty open minded and always willing to try anything, but this never struck me as action oriented enough to waste the effort. What have I been missing if anything?

I wonder how many copies Rollercoaster Tycoon and it's addons have sold? Man that game has been on the charts for years ...

agressiv

where are the official rankings available ?

A real life simulator game?? I can't think of anything worse, it goes against everything gaming stands for.

I wouldn't even shove this game up my arse...

Were the expansion packs included in the sales numbers here to make The Sims the best game ever, or are the numbers used in their statistics just from The Sims itself, and not the 3 or 4 expansion packs?

sims || myst < poop

i thought deer hunter was the best selling game?

Next month they'll be releasing "the Sims: w3 0wn j00" expansion pack.

It was a wonderfully made game, imaginative and innovative.

It's a nice game to have at the top.

That said, I bought it and found it an incredible waste of my time.. I felt that playin any other game was a more "constructive" use of my time...

wow thats crazy.
I bought the game the day it came out, I was pretty stoked on it, it sounded cool.
I was addicted to it for about 5 weeks straight, it kept me up till dawn nearly every single night...

I havent touched it since.
maybe I should check it out again? get one of the expansion packs and play around with it or something, it was pretty neato

This does not surprise me in the least. My Sims page runs 300,000 hits (raw hits, don't know the number of visits) and eats up 1.4GB of bandwidth every day.

alright, all the men who love this game out there, explain to me how you're doing anything but playing with dolls when you play this game :)

The Sims is what you call generic.

Thank god. Finally I dont have to hear Myst fanboys bragging about that shitty slideshow they call a game.

They've, like, made over a quarter of a billion on this game!

More Myst games! Argh!

dear god! am i the only one who's getting a huge animal planet ad in the middle of the news page?

My wife LOVES the Sims. she also owns all the expansion paks.

I cannot recount the HOURS she has speant downloading new skins, objects, houses.

sims < *.*
that game is cool for like 2 hours, when i have the cheat code for money and then i build the biggest pimpest house ever, then it is boring i think

I don't remember why I bought this game exactly, maybe it was because I had enjoyed simcity/2k/3k so much.

I found the game quite fun for about a day or two then never played it again.

sad waste of money

I found this game to be boring, pointless and lacking of any redeeming features.

Like 99% of all software releases these days.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I got bored of this game pretty damn quick. My guess as to why it has become so popular is because its a game that girls might actually want to play... so like, the market expanded 50% :P

I still don't have this game and don't plan on buying it. I've played it many times (since everybody I know has it) and it sucks.

wow nice news!!

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