Trying out Body Shop

On "vacation" leave for a week. I didn't feel like playing Sims2 and I've given up trying to get past the "Cash Flow" level of Outpost Kaloki. Being the lazy person that I am, instead of cleaning my room I decided to tinker with the Sims2 Body Shop.

I've tried doing something with it before but never got around to finishing anything ... as making a house in the game is easier than customizing a sim. I challenged myself to creating an approximation of the gown that the Encantadia character Danaya wears in the promo picture on the website.

Ergo, I spent most of yesterday in front of my PC going back and forth between layering in Adobe Photoshop, looking at the downloaded picture of Danaya, and refreshing the Sims2 Bodyshop viewpane.

I liked what I did and tried making Danaya's warrior outfit too ... final product wasn't bad ... although to begin with I can't find a mesh that's near enough... and nope, I don't like to hazard making my game crash by downloading a customized mesh.

Just realized my BBS ranking is "Stammering Sim". Wonder when that happened? Guess I've earned enough creds though I don't hang out at the forum as often as I wish (can only access it at home as it's one of the sites blocked by the office server).

Disappointing Packaging

Bought Pets last Thursday (26-Oct) installed it only this afternoon.

I have been hooked on some Yahoo games lately and the Prime Suspect game (from Big Fish) that I haven't been playing Sims2.

When I did decide to play OFB again, I realized I did some uninstalling before but I don't remember exactly what I did ... so I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the main game and every expansion pack.

Then I re-installed the objects I downloaded from the sims2 exchange.

I thought, might as well do some driver updating ... when I was done with that, I realized to my horror the updated audio driver doesn't work and i can't roll back to the previous driver. I had to look for my old installer cds to find the one for the audio ... and the last time I used that was when I bought my PC (2002).

When I was about to register Pets on EA... I couldn't connect to the site... really irritating. Well, I'm on line now.

It's evening so maybe I'll start playing with Pets tomorrow. It won't be enough time to get a hang of the game though. Good thing Nov. 1 is a holiday ... I could spend that day getting familiar with this EP.

I still have to figure out where the teaser for the next EP is ... and I don't know if that comes with the Asian version of Pets (the CDs available here are made in Singapore).

...just checked the boards ... there is no trailer ... just a piece of paper in the CD package ... which I think isn't available with the packs manufactured in Singapore... wow, another disappointment.