While I love this game there are just a few things wrong with it.
First of all, you can decide to go to college or go straight into a career when you start the game. Great! There are jobs that you can get only if you have a diploma and they have a higher pay grade. I can deal with that. What I don't like though is how much you pay to go to college. $60,000. Not that much really and it is reasonable and very real. What isn't real is how fast you can pay it off! Maybe I just got lucky with my career that I picked from a stack with a high pay...Who knows.
Though, in real life, so far I only owe about 30 thousand dollars for student loans...so maybe this makes sense. I just don't like how quickly I was able to pay it off.
Now, second. It makes you get married! Not everyone in life is going to get married. Dating usually comes first doesn't it? What happened to dating before you get married? You land on the "Get Married" spot and you marry some random blue guy (or pink chick for the guys). Yeah, that is how I want to do it in real life. Just show up at the chapel and marry the first guy I pick out of a bag. Though, at the rate I am going that would probably lead me to a better outcome.
Now, by time I landed on the "get married" tile I had already paid off my student loans. Yay! Me and the husband went out every night because I at least had a good job! He didn't work! He just sat on the couch all day watching TV and getting fat. Then all of a sudden we had to buy a house. Thank goodness I had a job to pay for the house but it took all my savings.
If you have played life you know that you have to draw two random cards from the house pile. One house that I got was really cheap and split in half! Now, with the husband being such a lazy bum I knew he wouldn't repair the house even if I asked him to. So, we had to go with the expensive house that had 8 bedrooms. Me and the blue man hubby had discussed having a bunch of kids one day...
Then back to work I go to save money for what ever happens next in life.
Then there are the kids. I got lucky in this round and only had one kid. Probably because my husband was fat and ugly by this point and I couldn't stand to lay in the same bed as him. Luckily with the large house that I bought I set up my own room and my only child (a boy) was used to me and the husband sleeping in different rooms.
Of course with us only having one child I had to spoil the child. He had to go to a private school...there was more of my money. Then he had to go to summer school. I guess he will turn out like his father. Lazy bum.
By the end of the game I had over a million dollars saved, so of course I won. Yay retirement.
Why can't life be as simple as the game...though, I had a bit of a rough time with the husband not working and the son turning out just the same. He is waiting for his mother to die so he can take all her money.
By the way, I divorced the husband at the end. I tried to wait for him to die but he just wouldn't die. I made a good case though and got off free. He didn't get a dime...just the old house that was split in half that I bought for him later.
The game of LIFE, always a reminder of how much life sucks (sometimes.)
