Simulated Reality

I personally have never played the original Sims game but do have experience with the SimCity game and understand the basics of the game. I remember playing the game and feeling almost sucked into it as if I was the actual mayor of the city. It gave me a chance to be someone else for however long I played. It was like I was able to escape my own reality and enter a completely new one, one that which I could control entirely. I think this was the same way that the author felt when he got hooked into the regular Sims game. The difference with Chuck was that he did not see his Sims character as similar to that of his ownself. Sim Chuck was materialistic whereas Chuck in reality did not have many belongings, not even a bed. As Chuck continued to play the game he found out that with all the items he purchased for his character, he still seemed to not be entirely happy. Even after he bought him the nicest T.V., an expensive bed, and all the furnishings for his house that he still could not bring his character out of a depression. When he talked to the creator of the game he soon realized that the Sims game concept was not entirely materialistic. That even though he bought all these things his character would not be happy. Once he found this out he decided to sell all these things and lived more like he would in reality and I think he found greater success in the game.