The Bella Bug: The glitch that created Bella Goth's mystery | The Sims Lore

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The mistake that fueled Bella Goth's mystery. How one producer and one code bug became one of the most intriguing game mysteries ever!


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[TheSimsLore]

Hey besties! Hope you enjoyed this! 🥹💕 I also forgot to mention that back when TS2 was released, you had to go on the actual website to download patches - which is something people did not do because they just simply didn’t know about it! Good to keep in mind as to why it was YEARS before people realised there was a bug!!!

[yesthatmousyiris]

I had a feeling Strangetown Bella could be the real Bella I remember that Playstation Sims 2 Bella did reveal that she's scared because she was abducted by aliens and talked about her relationship with her family.

[auntiemthman]

I remember my friend telling me if you found Bella in Strangetown then you "won" Sims 2. I low-key believed her until I saw her just chilling around town and nothing happened 🤣

[Queerlien]

Im so confused as to how Lindsay had such a huge involvement with the biggest mystery and best story of the entire series, and yet since she's been in a higher position with the sims 4, she has not implemented this obviously brilliant story telling into the sims 4... maybe its because she's in a higher position she is less hands on, but still, wouldnt you think she would realize the significance of this for the fan base? The sims 4 feels so empty and dead for so many reasons but I think the lack of story telling is the biggest. I hate that they simply use bios to tell stories and they never actually SHOW us you know? Anyways, fantastic video! Love anything to do with Bella Goth and The Sims 2!

[EJaj]

I always thought that the saddest part about Bella goth being abducted then dropped off in strange town was that she could never return to her family. That was always so heart breaking to me, even though she never showed up in my strange town when I played the sims 2.

[Gulamaja]

Too be fair. This is a brilliant way to make people more intrested in the game and buying it.

[glanni]

I totally agree that the Sims 2 pushes for imagination over full storytelling. The characters are iconic now, but they were originally just a means to an end (which, with how much we obsess over premades now, is mindblowing).

When I was a kid that lack of a satisfying ending for Bella was really annoying to me (also I didn't know about Strangetown Bella at all because I barely played that town after being freaked out the first few times lol). Now I value that highly because it's in part what makes me love those characters so much. Making up and connecting the storylines is the most fun tbh.

[NawiTheCore]

Just to give you a technical explanation as to why Strangetown Bella never showed up in the base game before patches: she was put in the "Default" household (the same that contains all the Universal NPCs). The game is coded to *IGNORE* the "Default" household for most actions, including spawning Sims on community lots and as co-workers of your Sim. Because of this oversight, Strangetown Bella will never appear in an unpatched base game. What they did later was to write a special line of code that MOVES Strangetown Bella from the "Default" household to one of the townie households so she'd behave like every other townie.

[procter]

It doesn't matter what I am doing, when I get a notification that the sims lore posted, automatically top priority

[Fiffi]

Funny thing is, they kind of ran with fan theories again once reaching The Sims 3, although not as obvious as in The Sims 2. There is some interesting information to be found that contradicts that Bella ever ended up in Strangetown… 🧐

[おーおー-pu]

Well, if the game developers say that the Bella in Strangetown is the REAL one, hear this.

What if the real reason why Mortimer and Bella (Pleasantview version) would not be attracted to each other and fight all the time after resurrecting her... is because she is the alien clone one? And Mortimer realized the truth over time?

Heck, Alexander could be half-alien in this case because real Bella would be long lost.
And someone just killed or kidnapped the clone and somehow Mortimer benefited from it (+10000 simoleons memory) because he wanted to get rid of fake Bella?

I should get back to work instead of writing this but I couldn't help it😂

[HaruWuu]

"So less fun"
That explains for TS4 lol

Good video

[ZooGal]

Bella Goth going missing in Sims 2 is one of the best happy accidents they could have ever asked for. Her "Missing Person's Case" spans HEAVILY into Sims 3 and even shallowly in Sims 4. Her life and disappearance is a franchise, lol

[liegeoflunacy]

I've been playing the Sims for over 20 years and today I learned that the characters have backstory and lore

[kytiladdy]

i played the sims 2 a lot as a kid and now i'm an author. i can definietly see the parallel between playing the sims 2 and writing stories and it never ceases to amaze me

[bellarina]

I used to run w this story all the time, and play Bella's whole life out in Sims 3 to get her to become an astronaut so she could make it to Lunar Lakes, too! 😂 But have they ever mentioned the diff traits of Strangetown Bella...?

[isak]

My tonsils are inflamed and making me feel so bad, but a grilled cheese and a Miss Lore video helps me feel better 💙

[renakunisaki]

More game developers should embrace glitches and the lore potential they create. Missingno and the Minus World already created this kind of buzz; imagine if Nintendo had fueled that fire instead of just saying "oops, ignore that"?

[ChibiDanyz]

Lindsay accidentally gave us tons and tons of hours of fun! I really hope the best for her!

As for how Bella looks (in every game) I like to personally think about the theory of the multipe Bella Goths (It's kinda elaborated but It's my favorite one!)

The theory states that all the Bellas ARE Bella Goth but from different universes. The Bellas that got abducted by aliens unfortunately will not return home (Or at least not all of them), thats why one died at Lunar Lakes and other is in Strange Town. In order to travel the universe spaceships should be able to create wormholes (As we see in the Sims 4 to travel to Sixam) but errors in creating said hole can lead to interdimensional and or time problems, explaining why there is a deceased Bella in the Sims 3 if she is only a child. Strange Town Bella looks different from the Pleasent View Bella because she is not from that universe. Her parents were the same, but the DNA combined differently (Like it happens with our siblings, we are from the same parents but look different. Same DNA, different combinations). Another Bella is the one that is being praised in the chance card in the Sims 3.

Console Bella, is also other Bella that is really scared of aliens, other one is the one that married Mortimer only for money, another one is the one in the Sims 4 that lives happy, and also, every single one of our individual games is another universe where Bella formed and our gameplay is the life she got to live in that universe.

This also applies to all the characters, and would explain why in the Sims 3 there is a book about Bella wroted by her child. One of the many Alexanders that lost their mother travelled to the past looking for her and maybe never got the chance to get back.

[Nuhtalley]

Huh. I never knew this. When Sims 2 first came out, the first thing I did was play Strangetown. Bella showed up as one of the Sims part of the welcome wagon for my sim. I was in SHOCK lol.