A modest idea for a new Sims series.
This is rather an "out there" suggestion for The Sims team, and it's no doubt wildly unfeasible, but I'd like the Sims to develop an alternative Sims game that's a cousin to the current Sims game called Sims 4: Into the Dark or something like that where they would focus almost exclusively on the supernatural and occult Sims.
It would still be the same dollhouse life simulation as the Sims, but with the main focus being on arcane Sims. Take the Sims 3 Supernatural as a starting point with six or so life states - Human, Vampires, Spellcasters, Werewolves, Ghosts and Fairies - all living together in a quasi haunted, Halloween-inspired world. Human Sims would then have the choice to embrace the freaky and weird, become a part of it or fight against it. Subsequent packs could introduce new life states, new magic spells and items, pets, and new magically-infused, or light horror-infused by-way-of-the-Sims experiences, each with loads of the new CAS and Build/Buy assets we're used to getting.
Expansion, Game and Stuff packs practically write themselves. An Arabian Nights EP could bring us to the Middle East where we meet djinns, flying carpets, magic lamps. An Egyptian inspired EP could bring back tomb exploration and mummies. A Search of Atlantis EP could offer up merfolk, sirens and Creature From the Black Lagoon style Sims as well as underwater exploration and living. An Ancient Greece inspired pack could give us demigod powers, new Nymphs (PlantSims) and Satyrs life states, Minotaur encounters, Gorgons, you name it. A Cryptids pack brings back Big Foot, and other legendary creatures. Fairytale pack could have you investigate gingerbread house-building witches, tricky gnomes, hard-working dwarves. Alien encounters could bring us, you guessed it, Aliens and a chance to visit Sixam properly ... or maybe their evil galactic enemies!
Some of your Sims would still need to work, so jobs would be the same, but some new ones could be created, like Magical Creatures veterinarian, Apothecary technician, monster hunter, etc.
By making it its own series, a dedicated team could go hog wild and create some really interesting new game play and features with which we could craft our characters and their stories, but also allow themselves the room to expand on past occults with new magic powers, vampire lore, werewolf abilities, etc. You could also potentially build the regular Sims game and this game on the same engine so if players wanted to mix and match packs between the two games they could, or conversely, if some Simmers wanted pure normalcy, they could have it, no toggles necessary.
I know it's the pipe dream of all pipe dreams, and elements of it are no doubt unfeasible at this point in time. But it's an idea that's been nagging at me for a while now, and hey, if I don't at least try planting the seed it'll never get the chance to grow into anything at all.
It would still be the same dollhouse life simulation as the Sims, but with the main focus being on arcane Sims. Take the Sims 3 Supernatural as a starting point with six or so life states - Human, Vampires, Spellcasters, Werewolves, Ghosts and Fairies - all living together in a quasi haunted, Halloween-inspired world. Human Sims would then have the choice to embrace the freaky and weird, become a part of it or fight against it. Subsequent packs could introduce new life states, new magic spells and items, pets, and new magically-infused, or light horror-infused by-way-of-the-Sims experiences, each with loads of the new CAS and Build/Buy assets we're used to getting.
Expansion, Game and Stuff packs practically write themselves. An Arabian Nights EP could bring us to the Middle East where we meet djinns, flying carpets, magic lamps. An Egyptian inspired EP could bring back tomb exploration and mummies. A Search of Atlantis EP could offer up merfolk, sirens and Creature From the Black Lagoon style Sims as well as underwater exploration and living. An Ancient Greece inspired pack could give us demigod powers, new Nymphs (PlantSims) and Satyrs life states, Minotaur encounters, Gorgons, you name it. A Cryptids pack brings back Big Foot, and other legendary creatures. Fairytale pack could have you investigate gingerbread house-building witches, tricky gnomes, hard-working dwarves. Alien encounters could bring us, you guessed it, Aliens and a chance to visit Sixam properly ... or maybe their evil galactic enemies!
Some of your Sims would still need to work, so jobs would be the same, but some new ones could be created, like Magical Creatures veterinarian, Apothecary technician, monster hunter, etc.
By making it its own series, a dedicated team could go hog wild and create some really interesting new game play and features with which we could craft our characters and their stories, but also allow themselves the room to expand on past occults with new magic powers, vampire lore, werewolf abilities, etc. You could also potentially build the regular Sims game and this game on the same engine so if players wanted to mix and match packs between the two games they could, or conversely, if some Simmers wanted pure normalcy, they could have it, no toggles necessary.
I know it's the pipe dream of all pipe dreams, and elements of it are no doubt unfeasible at this point in time. But it's an idea that's been nagging at me for a while now, and hey, if I don't at least try planting the seed it'll never get the chance to grow into anything at all.
