Let's Play The Sims 3 Roaring Heights!

I love this town so far! It may be the best one yet.

The Sims 3 Store Review: One With Nature

My sims love the outdoors, so naturally this set should get some good use!

Review: The Sims 3 Movie Stuff

My first stuff pack review! Superheroes :D

Sims 3 World Showcase (playlist)

Yay! This was another thing I've been wanting to do for a long time. Custom worlds don't get a lot of attention on YouTube and I think that needs to change. So now I'm doing a series where I show off the best custom worlds in the community, often ones not many know about! The first episode has already received a lot of positive feedback, can't wait to see what people think once more are released!

New Intros!

As a videographer in real life, I realized my let's plays were missing an important element. I needed something to catch the viewer's attention right off the bat. What better way to do that than to produce snazzy intros? Here's a couple of them, with some "behind the scenes" sort of commentary.

 Doing intros is also a nice way to show what my sims are like and give them "character themes" much like in the Sonic Adventure games.

This one was really fun to make. Since Island Paradise is all about living the island life, I decided it would make sense to use a scrapbook design since people usually vacation in those types of places, and scrapbooks are a great place to keep memories. The Moonlight household are laid back and carefree, so some relaxing music in the background was ideal.

Ladford is the first of the two sims to receive an intro, but the filmstrip transition will very likely apply to both him and Alice. With the "Rivals" aspect making the let's play more story-driven and the Medieval atmosphere of Dragon Valley in mind, I knew I had to do something more film-like with both the look and the music.

The Sims 3 Store Review: Surf's Up Sun and Fun Collection

I never expected this! I love it!

The Sims 3 Store Review - Business as Usual Bistro

This is a pretty cool venue. Finally open restaurants in The Sims 3! Well, sort of. The chefs are the waiters. Actually in my case the bouncer was the chef waiter.

Island Paradise MADNESS!

Well, it's been a busy past couple of days. Island Paradise came out on Tuesday (released on Origin pretty much right on time too!) and it's glorious. Glorious enough that my new Let's Play for this expansion has already caught up in number of episodes to Let's Play Dragon Valley Rivals. I love expansion packs that can offer a completely new lifestyle just as Late Night and Pets have done in the past, and Island Paradise falls into the same category.

Here's the full playlist:


Some pictures will be coming later too! Have fun :)

SimGuruCopeland's Pyramid of Doom Gym

Hey everyone, here's a quick overview of a bonus venue SimGuruCopeland uploaded to the exchange, the "Pyramid of Doom Gym." Love that name. This is meant to go with the Skylight Studio of the Performing Arts (Click here to watch my video review).

The exterior. First thought was "Whoa, this is really bright!"

Here's what you see when you first come in. Interesting use of blue, I like it.

This is the second floor. Orange lockers! :D

Third floor. Very bright green. Not sure what to think :P

Fourth floor, easily my favourite. Nice view up here! Perfect place to be at peace with oneself.

Hope you enjoyed this post, leave a comment letting me know what you think of this lot. Thank you SimGuruCopeland for sharing it with us!

Island Paradise Patch Goodness!

While a week later than everyone expected, the Island Paradise patch (AKA patch 1.55) is out! Like the Seasons one, there is much awesome contained within. Three ghosts, stilted foundations, ability to move to a different town, ability to own multiple houses, a ladder, a spiral staircase, a new arch, and many fixes.

The lot I made for the ghost video (I suck at building) (Click here to watch the video)

Death By Drowning While Scuba Diving:

Death By Dehydration (Mermaids)

Death By Shark (My favourite!) 

MY EARS!

I'm very excited to see what sorts of lots people will make using the stilted foundations!

It Begins With Ghosts 'n' Weirdness!

Part 1 of the Let's Play is up!

I really need to get used to seeing ghosts walk through stuff.

Let's Play! With A Twist!

It was a very long time coming, but I managed to start work on a Let's Play for The Sims 3! I was first inspired by the likes of HeadbuttArcade and Quxxn, but at the time I didn't have a decent computer or software to record. Now in 2013 I finally have both.

In the past couple of years, several simmers have started their own Let's Plays. As time went on, I realized I wouldn't be happy if I followed the single household/generational gameplay/no mods/no cheats format everyone else seems to be following. Being unique is a big part of my personality. I rarely  play past generation 2 anyhow, because I get too caught up in my sims "having to" do this or that before I contemplate aging them up. While the "conventional" LP isn't out of the question for the future, I also wanted to take the opportunity to change things up a bit and doing that in a Sims 3 Store world was the perfect way to do it, rather than in an expansion pack where there's many more features to explore at the same time. With Island Paradise on the horizon I don't know exactly how many parts there will be, but I know I'm not stopping this Rivals LP when that game releases.

This LP focuses on two different sims leading their separate lives. One is the "Hero" character, and one is the "Dark" character, though whether for the right reasons is questionable. Every other part or so I'll switch between them. I'm hoping this keeps things interesting, especially later on when there's less new things to see. I plan to have their paths cross once in a while (hopefully both accidentally and on purpose!), where they'll clash and try to make things miserable for the other.

Up first will be Ladford Hemming, our Hero character!

We'll get to know him better in episodes 1 and 2. Episode 1 should be up tomorrow if all goes well.

Dragon Valley From Another Perspective...

I've been hard at work for the past couple of days on a rather unique way to show off Dragon Valley. It's a Medieval world...so why not explore it on horseback? Really glad about how it turned out! I didn't even get to use everything I recorded. There's so many different locations in this world I couldn't have covered them all here.

Gameplay Gallery: Dragon Valley

My first impressions of this world are pretty good. Considering replacing everyone's cars with horses though. More after the break!

Tweeting!

Follow me @Iron_CGull for more fun things Sims, as well as other gaming-related stuff and seagull humour! Join the fun!

Ah, Slightly Outdated Memes.

(Must...ignore...!)

Family Bonding

Nothing like some family bonding over a bonfire on the beach! The Esposito siblings are having a great time at Sims University.

The Sims 3 Store - Fowl and Feathers Chicken Coop

...Well, this is interesting. Thanks to the Store team, we have chickens for the first time in the series!

I'll be doing more videos with commentary in the future. There will still be some random videos without it, but we'll see what happens!

And yes, I do have Internet now!

Selfie

The jocks are going to love this shot? Okay then.

It's taken much longer than expected to get Internet at my new place. Still not sure when I'll have it! Guess I'll have to go to Tim Hortons, Starbucks, and McDonalds for a bit longer....

Another Full Moon...

"Gotta get out that umbrella. That should protect me from the werewolves...."