Drew’s Sims 4 Alien Legacy founder, Motie Alien
Hello everyone, and welcome to another Challenge Accepted! I thought it would be fun to get to know some of the Simmers that play the Legacy Challenge, Wonder Child Challenge, and/or Apocalypse Challenge (and any other challenges that we post here), so I am going to be sending out interview questions to Simmers to learn more about them and how they got into the Sims. If you would like to participate, please let me know!
This week’s Challenge Accepted! features Drew, writer of the Alien Legacy. The Alien Legacy is currently up to the third generation and was founded by Motie Alien and follows his story as he discovers who he is in a strange world. Here is what Drew has to say:
Mystic – When did you start playing The Sims?
Drew – I started playing the sims back in 2000 when it first came out. I’d
enjoyed several of Will Wright’s games, especially SimCity, and was really
intrigued by this new direction he was taking. I’d just come back to the
States after living in Japan for a few years, and that was the first
English game I picked up. It was a very pleasant surprise.
What made you decide to try the Legacy Challenge and/or other
player-made challenges for the game?
I decided to play the Legacy Challenge largely because I’d never done it
before. I’d heard about it, and it seemed to fit my favored play style – I
usually like following a family through multiple generations. So it just
sounded like an interesting thing to try out. It also gave me an excuse to
start writing it up and maybe getting to meet other players.
What is your favorite game and expansion pack for the franchise?
My favorite expansion was Sims 2 Seasons. Sims 2 Pets was a very close
second. Sims 2 in general was extremely well done and a lot of fun to play.
It helped that I worked at EA at the time and could get all the expansions
quite cheap 😉 Seasons added a lot of gameplay and changed the way the
world worked; it was just amazing how much adding weather made the world
feel more real. Pets was very close, partly because I loved seeing dogs in
the game, but also just for all the technical challenges they met on the
animation system. It just looked good.
What is your favorite Sims challenge to Let’s Play/Stream/write about?
Well, that’s easy. The Legacy Challenge is the only one I write about,
so it’s clearly my favorite as well. I like reading other legacies too, and
I’m starting to read a few apocalypse blogs also – they look like a lot of
fun. While I’m jealous of people who can write multiple stories at once,
the time is simply not there for me, so I’m sticking with one at a time.
Of all of your Sims, who is your favorite?
Back in Sims 2, I ran a family through lots of generations – not a
legacy challenge, they moved around and did all sorts of other things, but
it was a fun way for me to play. Penny was a second generation daughter who
became a vampire. I wound up keeping her around through 5 generations of
her family while she achieved every aspiration in the game. She was just a
lot of fun, and I still remember her fondly. In the current version, my
favorite so far was my first legacy spouse, Candice.
Of all of the Sims games, what is your favorite lifetime
wish/aspiration?
Funny. This one’s harder. I don’t think I really have a favorite
lifetime wish or aspiration – I can think of a few that I don’t like, but
then pretty much all the others are generally fun. I guess I’d probably go
with the earn 100,000 simoleans wish from Sims 2. I used that one a lot,
because there were so many ways to go about meeting it. But that’s really a
pretty weak favorite – I like almost all of them, and really like the
variety.
Do you have any tips for people that are just starting out playing
Sims challenges?
If you’re just starting out and want my advice, embrace the randomness.
The legacy challenge will get you to cover pretty much every part of the
game, but it will also give you sims with traits or aspirations you
wouldn’t have chosen, especially in some of the combinations you’ll end up
with. Run with it. You’ll see your sims do things you wouldn’t have seen
otherwise, and you’ll wind up playing differently. Maybe you’ll find
something new that you really enjoy – and if not, at least you’ll have the
fun of trying something you haven’t done before.
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions, Drew!
