"Ivyeyed;c-17605955" wrote:
I’m not super into Star Wars, but I have often wished I could take the Sims ‘life sim’ style into other genres.
On the one hand I love a modern realism based game and in some ways understand folks who are like ‘get this scifi/fantasy stuff out of my life sim!’ and on the other hand I’d really love to play a life sim set in other worlds, for the chance to play in those worlds without it necessarily having to be a big violent high stakes adventure.
Like I know I’m not the only one who was disappointed when The Sims Medieval was a story-based RPG instead of just The Sims: But It’s Medieval Now.
If they came out with a full fledged The Sims: But It’s Star Wars Now, especially if the emphasis wasn’t on existing characters, but instead on the regular people (and aliens!) and the world, even though I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan out there, I’d definitely be interested in the change of pace.
I was discussing the new trailer for State of Decay 3 with some people and, aside from zombie wildlife and snow it doesn't reveal much about what might be in the game. So we started talking about what we'd like to see, and my list was basically The Sims: Zombie Apocalypse. Let me design and style my survivors, let me turn any building into my home base, let me spread my survivors out to different bases across the map, let me control interactions between my survivors more. (And, oh, yeah, get around to dealing with zombies eventually.)
I have Sims Medieval on my computer still because I keep thinking I'll actually play it, but I definitely didn't want a story-based thing. I
still really want a game that's just the Sims But It's Medieval Now.
And I'm the same way about Star Wars. I wouldn't want a Star Wars Sims game like The Sims Medieval, but a The Sims But It's Star Wars Now would be fine by me. Heck, while we're at it, give me The Sims But It's The Marvel Cinematic Universe Now, where there are established "households" of various MCU characters, both super and not, and you can make your own characters as well. I'd definitely be less interested in a licensed Sims game like that if it didn't have the established characters, but I wouldn't want to only play as them. (And I'd want generational play anyway, so I could play out what the next generations of the setting might be.)
