I bought The Sims 2 on Saturday. And might I say that it is awesome. We had some trouble getting it running. Every time it loaded the neighborhoods, the screen flashed red and white like a disco ball. But luckily I have a damn smart husband who fixed the problem for me, and now I get to enjoy The Sims 2 along with millions of others.


The kind of god-like control was always verging on the Cliffs of Freaky-ness in The Sims. But I think it's been taken one step further with The Sims 2. In the original game, you had the sort of a third-person omniscient perspective you'd find in a fiction novel. But with The Sims 2, because you can inhabit the little home right along with your Sims, you're up close & personal. And sometimes I wonder if that's just a little too close for comfort? I mean, these sims have facial expressions and it's very intriguing, but how close is too close?


We also picked up a collectible pirate ship game called The Pirates of the Spanish Main. I think it could possibly be the only collectible game that we could get our friend, El Hombre (aka The Man aka Lorie's Husband), to play. But even he has surprised me in how fervert his distaste of anything labeled "collectible" can be. Now, we're not talking collectible action figures where you see a 24" Treebeard and you say, "Wow! That's cool! I think I'll collect it..." but more like games where what you purchase is a mystery, this usually remains in the realms of collectible card games but it does span to other games as well like HeroClix, Mage Knight, and Metallic Falcon (all of which are WizKids games).


I play with The Pirate Ship Revenge, and for some reason I just really liked the sound of that. But then I remembered that The Princess Bride sneaks into my everyday vernacular more often than I realize, and Wesley as The Dread Pirate Roberts was probably why I really thought The Pirate Ship Revenge was awesome.

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