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Mk_2790's avatar
Mk_2790
New Spectator
4 years ago

The "Generations Initiative"

New lifestage

Pre-teen

A life stage between children and teen. Pre-teen sims can have two aspirations and when their reaches the teenage, choose one of those.

New building mode tool

Spiral staircase

New objects

-Threehouse
-Children stands (lemonade and bake)
-Ballet barre
-Childrens bicycles
-Toddlers tricycle
-Sewing machine (off the grid and powered)
-Nectar maker (off the grid and powered)
-Soccer goal
-Volleyball net (yard and swimming pool)
-Water slide
-Swimming pool filter
-Lawn mowers
-See-saws
-Strollers
-Video cameras as a new live object like smartphone
-Walking canes
-Deep fryer
-Composting bin
-Drawing board
-Pool table
-Telescope
-Drums
-Bass
-Saxophone

New personality traits

Now each life stage will have an unique personality trait from Childrens to Elders

-Children: hyperactive, dramatic, natural born performer
-Pre-teen: rebellious, schmoozer, perceptive
-Teen: virtuoso, night owl, avant garde
-Young Adult: party animal, gatherer, frugal
-Adult: workaholic, procrastinator, nurturing
-Elder: technophobe, eccentric, megalomaniacs

New skills

-Nectar making
-Sewing
-Bass
-Drums
-Saxophone

New gameplay
-New harvestables for nectar making
-Lawn mowing for garden maintenance
-Swimming pool cleaning: using a skimmer (off the grid) and placing a filter (powered)
-Composting returns for mass producing fertilizer from scraps.
-Aquarium care: feeding, cleaning and replace fishes returns
-Sewing crafting: teddy bears, courtains, carpets, bed clothing and CAS clothes
-Attraction and chemistry returns to the game that can be affected by traits and moodlet
-Newspaper returns to the game with a suscription service
-Deliver man returns to the game when a Sim order a product using the computer

New interactions
-Babies are now proper Sims with their accurate skin color and facial traits like eye and hair color
-Childrens and pre-teens can offer to other sims their services like pool cleaning, lawn mowing and others depending the packs installed like rake leaves, snow shoveling, pet care, vaccuum cleaning and garden maintenance.
-Childrens, pre-teens and teens can form bands with the new musical instruments
-Childrens can go now to one of the new nine boarding schools: business, mechanic, agronomy, oceanography, coulinary, posh, military, arts, sports
-After school activities: ballet, sports team (not only soccer), debate team, school band, student newspaper
-More pranks
-Parents can teach childrens how to play pool table
-Sims can discover new celestial bodies using the telescope
-Using the deep fryer you can add fried food to your dishes like french fries, shrimps, onion rings and others
-Parties like school dances, prom night, high school graduation, teen house parties, bachelor/bachelorette partie, new wedding ceremonies like jewish based, sleepovers and slumber parties returns to the game. Also, new parties like quinceañera (from pre-teen to teen), retirement (from adult to elder) and golden wedding.
-NPC animals like ducks, pigenos and squirrels can be feeded by Sims
-Mid life crisis for adults returns
-Children, pre-teens and teen sims can go to field trips to any of the available worlds
-Relaxing on sofas
-Grills can be locked and unlocked
-Sims can watch the waves in a lake or ocean shore

NPCs
-The buglar and the police officer returns and also the alarm. This will be also a feature for BG.
-The genie in the lamp returns to the game with three wishes, including resurrection.

New careers
-Oceanography
-Slumber

New freelance career
-Daycare

Create-A-Sim
-More children costumes
-School and job clothes now available for CAS without cheats or mods, depending of the celebration and holiday, you can have another clothes set
-Body hair returns, this time from teens instead young adults
-Pronouns available for all sims, by default it will be designed by the selected gender.
-Players can choose white hair option when an adult sim surprasses the half of that life stage span time.
  • It's because Sims 4 is the newer game of the franchise with newer graffics and is a life simulation game with millions of players that have different play styles one major group being family players. Lots of people that play/played sims 3 now play sims 4 .Sims 3 generations was the standard set for family gameplay by the sims team i dont see why family players should expect less than the standard. It will be a tool to flesh out the life stages and fill the holes in game play that makes all sims feel the same. There are also generational players like myself that have been playing since childhood and want the best for the game for every play style. It is wise to draw from the best features of the past and improve upon them while also blending in fresh new ideas.
  • CAPTAIN_NXR7's avatar
    CAPTAIN_NXR7
    Seasoned Veteran
    I don’t see all that happen in one pack, but spread out could work.
    Spiral staircases and bodyhair should be basegame.

    What Kids really need though is imaginary friends.
    Not exactly the same as those in Sims 3, but a combination of that and ROM’s familiars . Not another glorified drone either. That would be ridiculous.

    There should be many imaginary friends to choose from or “adopt”. It can be interacted with and it may do chores for the kid depending on their level of friendship. They’re also invisible to everyone except to the child, but it would be interesting if kids can share their imaginary friends with Sims (of any age) with whom they have a great relationship.

    “Owning” an imaginary friend reduces the chance of having a monster under the bed to near 0% or...in some case the monster under the bed can become the kid’s imaginary friend. Monsters Inc. kinda style.

    Right now, kids have almost nothing and if they ever get something as tedious as an active school (why schools of all things kids can do?!) they better get many adventures to go with that.
  • Honestly, I don't get why people want a The Sims 4 Generations expansion pack when they can just buy that expansion pack for The Sims 3. There, problem solved.
    Nowadays, Generations EP is also bundled up with World Adventures, which also comes with nectar-making and new harvestables. So... might as well just buy The SIms 3 World Adventures / Generations bundle for $20.

    The Sims Franchise is a long-running franchise, and the weakness of being a long-running franchise is that fans would often compare the current version with previous versions to see which one would be worth the buy. Had The Sims 4 been the first Sims game ever, then it would be very attractive because of its novelty and uniqueness in the gaming world. But, because it's the 4th Sims game, long-time fans may expect more out of the game than in previous games, when Maxis had done a much better job with the base game and the expansion packs.
  • SEREFRAS's avatar
    SEREFRAS
    Seasoned Hotshot
    I so agree with you @CAPTAIN_NXR7. We do need all that spread out into the Base, Packs & Kits.

    My thoughts for that is:

    BASE
    Body Hair, Nails, Height Slides, New Tattoos, Color Slides for Hair/Outfits/Footwear/Hats/Accessories/Objects/Build Modes, Spiral Stairs, Heartshape Bed, Extended Family Members in the Family Tree, Graduation Events for all types of Schools &
    Playable Babies.

    KITS
    Olden Days Outfits, Medieval Outfits, Kids/Tween Imaginary Friend.

    PACKS
    Adventureland World, Moonlight Falls World & Fantasy World with Amusement Parks for all ages,
    Livable Grade School/High School.