Don't Forget The Supernatural Players in 2019

"Magdaleena;c-16963255" wrote:

"mika;c-16960297" wrote:

"Magdaleena;c-16957374" wrote:

Although I like Supernaturals too, this is a game. Comparing it to real life doesn't help your argument and people who dont want it shouldn't be forced to have it in their game. You can't just ignore something that keeps popping up in your game. There should be an option for those who only want the objects of a pack to turn off supernaturals. I don't understand why that would leave a "bad taste" when it's not affecting your personal game? You know Sims is single player, right? I want Supernaturals in mine, but I also want people to be able to enjoy content while choosing what exists in their game and what doesn't. It's only fair. The option is important no matter what you say.

I love Seasons but I hate gnomes. I would hate if I was forced to forgo Seasons because those annoying gnomes kept popping up and ruining things. Thank goodness I can choose to not have them in my game while still enjoying the holidays and weather.

Okay, FAIR. I know I worded it all kinda harshly, it's kinda why I excused myself there in the end. I was kind of sleep-deprived, so sure, my arguments aren't the strongest, as I was mostly speaking from my heart, as lame as that probably sounds. I was venting my feelings about the whole subject, hopefully in a thread where the realistic players would leave us alone. I'm sorry.

(I got a little carried away with typing up the rest of this post, so I stashed it all underneath this spoiler because I really don't feel like clogging up this thread)

Spoiler

The thing is that, at the time of typing, I was tired and fed up with everyone complaining. I honestly still am.

People in the community ALWAYS complain when there's something supernatural going on with the packs these days. Every single time. Why. Some of us love this stuff, but when people hate it, they'll always be super vocal about it, drowning out the people who actually like it, and it's honestly really annoying.
Why can't they just let people enjoy the weird stuff!! Not everything needs to be just like the real world!! It's a game, some of us actually like to play games to escape the real world, wow.

Heck, you see it with how people are reacting to the most recent trailer too. So much complaining.

Though, to be fair, I do kinda agree with you on the gnomes there. Yes, it's good to be able to turn them off, the holiday system this time around is really good like that. The monster under the bed gets frustrating if it happens too often too. I don't hate the concept, it's the repetition that's the annoying part, and I get that.
And, in the pack that's coming next week, I do hope there's a way to actively turn off the hypnotized zombie sims when we don't want to play with that scenario. I also don't want to see them infecting all the other neighborhoods; this alien epidemic should be restricted to Strangerville only, which is supposed to be an isolated desert town, as far as I can tell. Knowing TS4's engine, with how sims from any neighborhood would show up in every neighborhood, I'm rather concerned about that aspect.

Like, there's some nuance to this; I don't automatically love everything that's out of the ordinary. I don't like mindless zombies, they're usually kind of stripped of any personality they previously had when they were people. I do like aliens, however. They're neat and usually have potential.
Overall, it seems like an interesting game pack, and I do hope it brings some extra things I'll actually have use for after playing through its story. Buildable RVs would be really fun to mess with, but I'm starting to doubt they're not just decorations. I hope I'm wrong.

Personally, I prefer supernatural things that I can actually control myself. As in, they're actual playable sims; they're people - aliens and vampires are a great example, and as a sort of "weird" person myself, it rather bothers me that people vocally hate them so much?? It's just kinda personal, I guess. I tend to identify more with the non-human characters anyway, so, you know. I mean, if I was more vocal about my identity in real life, I'm sure more people would hate me too. You know, simply for existing. It's kind of the thing that keeps me in the closet about it all.

But yeah, okay, people are still allowed to dislike them, it's just opinions about fantasy things that don't exist in real life. "Disagreeing" with the existence of supernaturals is also just a bad choice of words that reminds me too much of general bigotry in real life, but let's not get into that.

Also, it's The Sims. TS3 had a non-human lifestate in every expansion. The basegame of The Sims 2 had an alien on the cover, and supernaturals in most expansions. TS1 had Making Magic. It's rather silly to deny that these things exist in the sims world at all.

It honestly seems as if the lack of extra life states in each expansion in TS4 has enabled people to say "they didn't need them anyway", while the rest of us are being left behind and forced to wait for years for more of the proper occult content. You know, stuff that isn't just non-customizable NPC sims and poorly done temporary life states that they apparently refuse to fix up.

Sorry, this got way too long. I... think I care a lot about this???

Overall, I just wish people would stop being so mean about occult stuff simply existing.