The New Flesh

I mentioned in my last post that I’d acquired a copy of The Sims 3. This might not seem that surprising  since it’s a game that’s selling like hotcakes but it was a surprise to me because I didn’t expect to own that game for at least another year. See I’m a frugal kind of guy so I have this rule, I never pay over £20 for a game, I’ve broken the rule sometimes but having got only mild enjoyment out of Sims 1 and 2 I didn’t have a very strong urge to break it for Sims 3 and given the likely decay in prices for an utterly mainstream hit like Sims 3 I couldn’t see it dropping below £20 for at least a year. So how did this happen? Simple, I got a grey import… I hope.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun have drawn my attention to Alice and Kev by Robin Burkinshaw aka roBurky. It’s a truely excellent weblog about the lives of his two homeless sims, the insane Kev and his long suffering daughter Alice. Kev has just made friends with a ghost and Alice is going through some difficult teenage years. It’s funny and heartwrenching and the bottom line is it’s brilliant stuff that makes me proud to have occationally healed this guy on the RPS TF2 server.

Damn, I want Sims 3 now but really with a £30 price tag, my ‘to play’ list in the state it is and the important things I should be doing rather than playing games (or indeed writing about playing games) there is just no way.