Re: Year in Review: 2004

On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:31:19 -0400, Joshua Allen
<josha12@googlemail.com> wrote:

On 3/18/2024 1:21 PM, LucLan wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
All my memories goes to NFS U2.

halo 2
killzone
the sims 2

Did "The Sims 2" come out in 2004? My god, you're right; it did! It
definitely deserves a mention.

I've never entirely warmed up to the entire Sims franchise and,
really, the only I actually /enjoyed/ playing - if even for a short
while - was "The Sims 3". Still, "The Sims 2" was notable because it
took the concepts created in the original game, gave it a good deal of
needed polish, and made it a game worth playing. It's a game I may not
like, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize it as a great game.

It was, probably, the best in the franchise... if only because EA
hadn't gone /completely/ mad with the idea of nickle-and-diming its
customers with endless expansions yet. The original "Sims 2" was a
complete game unto itself; the many expansions only added to the
experience. Starting with "The Sims 3", EA released base games that
offered /less/ than their predecesors and demanded players buy
expansions to make up the lack.