User blog comment:Woganhemlock/Monthly Question - January 2015/@comment-67.60.93.80-20150204045106

I'm not exactly sure if I have a specific way of playing the Sims. I build a house here and there when I am inspired to or I just create family after family with stories in my head while making each member.

I've had a taste of all four games and I would have to say the third is one of my favorites, although the second brings back a generous amount of nostalgia since it was the very first one for the computer I have owned. Unfortunately for the third Sims game I was never able to actually try any of the expansions for lack of better computer and graphics drive to handle it. I have a love for just the basics and simplicity, though I would love more. I quite enjoyed the different life states on the Sims 2 and, with cheats, loved to cross them.

Unfortunately I get bored after a while of playing with one family and just create a new one. Which ultimately means I have quite a bit of abandoned families that I never return to.

What's kept me playing this series is the aspect of creating, playing, and controlling the daily lives of these characters that your personally customized and that you're able to shape and mold to what you want them to be. It's a wonderful game to vent your emotions to or just plain satisfy any fantasies that you have. There's no wrong way to play this game and it's not something that you can "lose." (I have a hate relationship with games like that, with a few exceptions). I believe this game to be like a drug. Once you try any part of this franchise, you just yearn for more lest it be for the PC or a console/portable device with old or new versions. But, of course, that is my opinion.