Why do I fancy The Sims (1, 2, and 3, but most hardcore for the original and its bazillion expansion packs and glitches) over other games, such as World of Warcraft? It all comes down to one simple factor: interior design!
Okay, so I'd make a rotten interior designer in real life, but in The Sims, it doesn't matter how fugly and mismatched everything is! You can have rainbow-coloured polka-dotted wallpaper, cement for indoor flooring, and dumpy, rickety, nasty furniture. You can hang up lame-looking paintings and photographs. You can make the backyard as ugly, chaotic, whatever, as you want. And you know what? It's all good.
Never mind the fact that characters can actually wet themselves (with blue pee, WTF, are they smurfs), have wild monkey sex (visible with proper things installed), and start fires by using a microwave in which they die horrible deaths. Never mind that babies can be taken away by child protection services, Sims are fanatically obsessed with grills, and that they will bitch and moan in a made-up language that sounds like a mesh of Japanese, German, Russian, Korean, and possibly Finnish. Never mind that they can embarrass themselves on dates, in front of celebrities, or in the comfort of their own homes. Never mind that they can have totally awesome catfights a la Real World style. Never mind all that. The interior decorating part is the best part of playing The Sims, hands down.
Don't believe me? Put down the mouse a second, forgo WoW or your average Internet games, and pick up a copy of The Sims; any version will do. You will become strangely addicted and somewhat Queer Eye for the Straight Guy-esque when you design your Sims' homes. I kid you not. You will go onto every Sims download site still online, download one - nay, ten- thousand files of just walls, floors, roofs, furniture, and garden paraphrenalia. You will be addicted. You will love being the Sim-God of Interior Decor.
Damn it, now I want to play Sims...
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