Ang Sims: Tagalog Version

That would be extremely corny, no? Sims speaking in Tagalog instead of the gobbledygook that is Simlish. Pshaw!

Baduuuuy!

I may be extremely late to the party, but I just found out today that the meaningless gibberish your characters in The Sims mutter could have been Tagalog instead!

[W]hen The Sims was originally designed Will Wright wanted the language the Sims spoke to be unrecognizable but full of emotion. That way, every player could construct their own story without being confined to a Maxis-written script (to say nothing of the mind-numbing repetition). We experimented with fractured Ukrainian (one of the original The Sims designers was a native speaker), and the Tagalog language of The Philippines. Will even suggested that perhaps we base the sound on Navajo, inspired by the code talkers of WWII. None of those languages allowed us the sound we were looking for, so we opted for complete improvisation[.]

Ahay! Seryoswo?

That could have been extremely cool, and freaky, playing Tagalog-speaking Sims, no? Although I probably would have still lost interest after I made two dudes kiss.

I mean girls. Yeah.

Hey look, Pussycat Dolls sang in Simlish!