Lauren started writing for PC Gamer as a freelancer in 2017 while chasing the Dark Souls fashion police and accepted her role as Associate Editor in 2021, now serving as the self-appointed chief cozy games enjoyer. She originally started her career in game development and is still fascinated by how games tick in the modding and speedrunning scenes.
should not be a game that makes my blood pressure spike. Decorating houses and making my Sims practice the guitar for hours is a meditative exercise in wish fulfillment. My own house is cluttered, yes, but not in the whimsically intentional way that amazing Sims builds are. And at this rate, let's be honest, my real life guitar skills will never be a 10. In The Sims, everything is exactly the way I want it to be.
I experienced this deep betrayal once again this weekend when I decided to build a penthouse flat in the newexpansion. Filled with modern art deco inspiration, I envisioned a floor plan with soaring ceilings and a minimalist, open kitchen concept. What better way to add whimsy than a set of brightly-colored countertops?
I decided on the basic but flexible Harbinger counter set in baby blue, nothing too extravagant or expensive, but a nice airy pop of color in my penthouse lot. They looked great. And they would look even more great once I paired them with matching kitchen cabinets. Matching cabinets? Oh hubris, oh cruel irony, why did I think they would match?
Mildly infuriating fact: the baby blue Harbinger cabinets are just a slightly different shade of blue than their counter-parts and, worse yet, they have different colored hardware: silver metal handles versus matte white. There are in factsets of baby blue Harbinger cabinets in The Sims 4 and two baby blue counters. What a wealth of choices but a dearth of satisfaction. None of them match.
I refuse to keep living this way, trapped in a house haunted by unmatched cabinets, so I put down The Sims 4 and spent the rest of my weekend in The Sims 3 instead. In case you've not played it—I myself had skipped over it having grown up on The Sims and The Sims 2—the third Sims game has a feature called"Create-A-Style" which allows you to customize nearly any piece of clothing, house finish, or decor object with your choice of material and color.
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