Comments on: Excuses and Excitement

By: bigliberty

bigliberty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:05:21 +0000

Yay, updates are awesome!

By: shinobi42

shinobi42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:01:08 +0000

Well don’t panic yet, I created some chubby sims, and despite improving their athletic skill considerably, they have remained on the chubby side. I am going to do more extensive research on this this weekend.

By: Tiana

Tiana — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:18:23 +0000

Oh noes. That must be the only bit of information about the game that I managed to miss somehow! I’m not sure if my computer could handle it, but I was hoping I could buy it sooner or later. I hope you find out that the slimming down is completely optional!

By: rainebeaux

rainebeaux — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:14:36 +0000

Gee, I was going to play an older version of the Sims sometime and work my way up, but you’re telling me that on Three I can’t be a fatty going about my (virtual) life as is? If that isn’t 30 or so kinds of suck…*insert eyeroll*

*shaking fists* WHY WON’T YOU LET US (pixellated) FATTIES BE GREAT?! *le sigh*

I too must invest in a sewing machine by year’s end…

By: bigliberty

bigliberty — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:09:56 +0000

Oh man, this really, really annoys me. I’m a long-time Sims fanatic, and was really looking forward to the new game because I saw a screenshot with a fatter sim (as we know in Sims 2, the “fat” sims are barely average-looking). I wondered why the other video I saw it in had a fat sim being changed into a thin sim, and I guess I now know why. Gah. Soooo many teenage girls plays the Sims, too, you know? That’s what’s really getting my goat about this. My youngest stepdaughter was absolutely addicted to the Sims 2 when she was thirteen. What kind of message does it send to them when all their fat sims are unhappy, and can only get happy when thinner? You should have seen this little girl fret over the details of her families, that kind of thing would really affect her! Grrrr!!!

By: Dnelle

Dnelle — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:49:57 +0000

i found a Q&A with a sims associate producer, and he had this to say about the weight gain/loss issue in the game: source [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/live-the-sims-3-interview-tomorrow-blog-entry]

Marissie asks: If you create a fat Sim, will he lose weight while you are training? Will he gravitate towards donuts and perhaps be teased by young Sims calling him “fatty fat-nose”? And how fat and ugly can we be?

Grant Rodiek: We wanted players to be able to make their Sims incredibly skinny or much more on the chubby side of things, or everything in between (you can also change their muscle tone). Doing a strength workout will make your Sim more bulky, whereas a cardiovascular workout will make them a bit lighter. If your Sim overeats they will eventually get fatter.

Your Sims will tend to always go back to their starting weight (out of Create-A-Sim, genetics) if you don’t workout and just let them be. As for being teased, over-eating – we deliberately didn’t want to make a comment about weight, skinny, chubby, or otherwise. Therefore, a Sim’s body-size is purely superficial and has no further impact on the game. Being teased for your weight is not something we wanted.