The Sims' Weird Console Story Modes - The Golden Bolt

I honestly love the handheld versions. Especially Urbz on GBA is still my most loved game to this day. Next is Sims 2 on PSP.
Both are actually more like an RPG where you have one character and do quests.
Sims 2 on DS also deserves a mention.

Generally it's good to be part of the PC master race, but I'll always be sorry for all the sims games I missed on console! It seems like these retained more of the quirkyness from TS1 and early Maxis games

I remember playing sims 2 on Xbox so fondly. My little Brother and I played co-op so much! And I remember arguing with him because he would be busy having parties while my sim was trying to sleep for work in the morning and he kept me awake all night, on top of being completely lazy and hardly holding a job 🤦🏼‍♀️
Castaway on PSP was so awesome. It was like a modern day “Survival Kids” from GBC

I recently got a really good gaming PC and relived some nostalgia with sims2 on PCSX2 but it just isn’t the same with my lil bro playing beside me

lol not me watching this man not love Castaways as I’m replaying the game for the 400th time. And I’m a mom of two with another on the way lol

my ps2 games were slightly different somehow?? 🤔🤔

I wish my dad was James Gunn. 😢

I can only imagine what a Sims game on Dreamcast would be like considering a keyboard and mouse could be used.

Sims 3 wii was a whole other level

When i was a kid, the sims 2 for ps2 was the best game.
Don't understand why they never went back to third person control on consoles

castaway is not a expansion pack for sims 2. Its actually a seperat game. The PC game has its own story mode.

Never played any of these, but I am in the middle of a project to play through my extensive Xbox collection so at some point I must olay these... And I'm scared 😅

The Urbz will forever remain goated i literally replayed the game this year. Whoever developed it i wanna marry you

I always played The Urbz over Busten Out cause I hated starting over and over in Busten Out when ever something stupid happened and my character would get soft locked or the game would crash mainly due to my PS2 getting thrown by my drunkard of a father in this case which would end up corrupting my saves EVERY TIME MY PS2 CRASHED, idk how many times I had to go through getting all the licenses over and over on Gran Turismo 3...

Bustin' Out probably has my favorite soundtrack in the entire Sims series.

Urbz girl be banging. Someone needs to Rule 34 that shit asap.

Wasnt there a teo player sims on ps2 ? I fant remember if me and my freind were playing two player or single together

After hearing about the "Full Control" mode of the Sims 2 on console, man do I really wish future games had it, lol

URBZ was phenomenal.

The sims 2 on ps2 changed my liiiiiife

I miss these kind of Sims games. The wacky, pop-culture, teen-rated vibes are what made me fall in love with the franchise, especially Sims 2 and Bustin’ Out. Very good memories! The handhelds were AMAZING and I spent so much of my childhood playing them.

Imagine if TS2 had a PS3/360/Wii version

The Urbz was the best sims game no questions asked

Those 3 games in the thumbnail are what introduced me to sims and made me the fan I am today

the sims console depression loop is IRL millenial experience

No,no,no you're not wrong. Even on PS2, Urbz had imput issues when it came to the jobs

I had Urbz. Freaking weird but fun

I played the Sims on GameCube a few times back as a kid. I had it as a rental and maybe even owned it at one point, it's hard to tell. It's an incredibly difficult game and you were basically just grinding to accomplish a specific task before your mood inevitably drops and the Sims Bustin' Out was not much better. I think in that one I got stuck on the Goth family manor.

It's not that it isn't kind of fun for a while, but it only gets more frustrating and less fun. I enjoyed the Urbz a lot more, since it involves changing your style to match each area and stuff, which could be a lot of fun, but I never beat that one either, I think.

I had the Sims 2 Pets on PS2 for a while. Still do, technically, but I don't think I ever really liked it. By that point, I had full access to a PC at home and not just at my grandfather's so I wasn't really inclined to keep playing it for long because it was a lame, limited version that I couldn't mod like I could the Sims 2 Apartment Life.

This was during the period where EA was really trying to rip people off with the Sims, so expansions were getting out of hand and we were getting lame "stuff packs", so I didn't own as many Sims disc expansions as I'd have liked. I would always look at them in the Walmart section and wish I could get more, but at best my mother would buy me a stuff pack or something and I'd just have to settle with that. Mods made it more bearable, but I drifted for a time before I got into the Sims 3 on 360.

Now that was a really fun version of the Sims. It was finally a proper fully-fledged Sims games on console. Sure, there were limitations like previous versions, but you didn't feel them as strongly, imo, especially if you didn't own the Sims 3 on PC to see the differences. When I learned aliens weren't in the 360 version, I was pretty dejected (in fact they weren't even introduced until the Seasons expansion which I never bought even when I got the PC version), because I had spent so much time fiddling with telescopes in the game trying to get my character probed so I could have an alien family member. There were some cool features in the console version with those power-ups, though I don't remember them all too well off the top of my head.

The only Sims Castaway game I owned was for the Nintendo DS. I wouldn't call it a favorite, but it was a neat puzzle survival game and honestly, it was something different, so I guess I cut it some slack because of that. Still, as far as DS spinoffs of games go, it wasn't that astounding. If I wanted to point out a good way to do a spinoff of a franchise, I'd give Spore Creatures more credit than Sims Castaway. That game was fun.

The Urbz was one of my favorite games!!!

Love urbz sims

I like sims 2 castaway so much that i played tons of AI Shoujo on steam kekw

I genuinely feel like console "ports" (more like spin-offs, really) of The Sims in the TS1-TS2 era are straight up hidden gems of games. The humor and weirdness is impeccable in some of them and the gameplay is genuinely fun, if grindy. I think a lot of people missed out on them because yeah, I guess why would you want to play a graphically weaker port of Sims? But they're way more than that.

You missed Sims 3 on PS3 😢

I liked the Urbz! 🖤

Sims 2 castaway was my first ever sims game, and it may be one of my favorite games of all time. That may just be the nostalgia talking, but I still come back and play it on occasion. It is very different to the other games, but it's not just a survival game either. There's honestly nothing quite like it out there.

I gotta say, anyone today going back and playing any of the mentioned games would probably call them bad. Getting those games and playing them when they released, it was fantastic. I have such great memories of playing the Urbz on ps2, sims 2, and castaway. those were some of my favorite ps2 games. (other than the ratchet and clank series, or crash bandicoot)

EA will never make something as fun as The Sims 2 on console ever again I hate to say it I don't find that official copy from the 6th generation orders emulate the game because EA will never allow fans to have a true remastered Sims 2 experience or even Sims 2 castaway experience that would be worth paying $60 for

My first exposure to the Sims was on the PlayStation 2 with the Sims 2 I fell in love with the game and I kind of felt nostalgic for a much simpler time in I actually went and bought it for the GameCube so I could experience it all over

It's wild seeing how the home console version of Urbz was b/c I only ever played the DS version and I actually really loved that version of it.

As soon as I heard softlocked and reached the short red loop, I realized what 5yo me went through

I want that style of control to come back as well. I loved Sims 2 on PS2 back in the day. \m/

I take you are a Yakuza fan! So am I they are such great games!

I remember playing a Sims 2 pets game on PS2 in wich your pets could get careers. Both dogs and cats. Cats could work as cat burglers. And i remember there were unique story missions for each (dog and cat). Dog's one involved solving a mistery related to some ancient pirate treasure while cat involved unlocking the dark goth mansion in the neighborhood.
Pretty sure it was not a fever dream

I love Urbz too, maybe bc the subculture around it during early 2000s etc. God I wish EA just remaster all of the sims spin-off to modern platform. Man I missed those days.. Urbz and Sims Castaway were the best. 😭😭

Mall Tycoon 3 was awesome!!!

Playing sims 2 on console because my laptop could only run mall tycoon 3 is the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard in my life 😭

The Urbs for gba/ds has almost none of the issues of the console version, you own one house, that you can change by buying another, you don't need to dress a certain way or anything and build up relations by finding out what each topics sims like, the sims elements are also a lot more prominent

I remember rolling for alien parents on the sims 2 ps2 for so long