A Sims 4 player recreated the iconic Paddy's Pub from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia this week, building both the exterior and interior of the bar alongside recreations of the main characters' apartments. Creating builds of pop-culture locales in The Sims 4 is a popular pastime for many players, allowing them to flex their creative muscles and building skills within the game. Since its release in 2014 the game has garnered 36 million players worldwide, and even seven years after release it maintains one of the most active creative communities.
User-driven creativity and choice is a hallmark of The Sims series, allowing players to freely create characters and builds and control the lives of their Sims in any way they choose. Building and design is a large part of the game's community - players can upload characters and buildings to The Sims Gallery, a free resource that allows users to download creations from others to play with themselves. The game offers fans a huge amount of architectural options and items to utilize in their builds, which are broadened even further by Sims expansion packs.
Reddit user Emmengard uploaded a stunning array of builds this week paying tribute to the comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, recreating the show's legendary Paddy's Pub as well as the living spaces of the main characters. Everything is captured perfectly within the build: the brick exterior of the pub is instantly recognizable to fans, and the interior features classic Irish-style decorations alongside cleverly placed items that hearken back to the television show, like Frank's prized jar of pickled eggs. The characters' apartments have received the same amount of care, perfectly capturing the design of each residence with Easter eggs peppered in. Dennis's bedroom comes complete with camera, a walkie-talkie the gang always uses sits atop Charlie's bedside table, and Mac's bedroom aptly features workout equipment, perfect for his goal of cultivating mass.
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Surprisingly, this skilled recreation didn't utilize any Sims custom content, a common resource often used by players on builds such as this, as it allows them access to even more items than those provided by the game. This impressive collection of sets shows the creativity and keen eye for detail that makes The Sims 4 community thrive even 7 years after the game's release - utilizing only items and swatches provided by the game, this player managed to create spot-on recreations of 4 distinct locations. They not only created hours of gameplay for themselves, but have given other players the opportunity to spend hours making their own It's Always Sunny storylines by uploading their work to the The Sims Gallery.
Despite complaints from some long-time Sims fans that the game is lacking in content and rampant questions about what features might appear in The Sims 5, creations like this make it clear why the current iteration of The Sims is still one of the most popular simulation games on the market. Seven years later, Sims 4 players are still making impressive content and sharing it with others within the community. Whether it's characters, builds, or custom content, a large part of the game's continued success can arguably be attributed not to EA, but to the players themselves.
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