Carl's review of Dream Home Decorator pack is out

"83bienchen;c-17898455" wrote:
I liked grimcookie's review better.

He was honest, but it wasn't as over the top as Carl's is. I mean we all knew this pack is weak on Gameplay before, no need to dedicate the whole review to making fun of the shortcomings of the career.

I know we already have sofas and stoves and shelfes, but doing what they did with these is hard work and while it does not justify the price tag of a GP in my eyes, I would still expect a review to mention that the BB is of good quality. These aren't really new gameplay objects but they also aren't just carbon copies of assets we already have in the game, there is more to them than jus ta new sofa that functions exactly the same as sofas in previous packs.

I understand that the Buy Mode assets were technically new , and great in quantity (Build mode was an ABSOLUTE JOKE with a single wallpaper and 3 doors). However, the issue I have (and Plumbella did too, along with several people on the subreddit) is that the style is something that we have gotten ad nauseum to the point where we are numb to this mid-century modern IKEA-esque furniture that they keep spitting out in tons of packs. It's overdone to an absurd degree, so even if the models are new and each piece is unique, it all looks so similar to existing pieces that it's incredibly easy to gloss over the newness of it and go right into being unimpressed by the same stuff we've already got. If this was a new style that the Sims team hadn't given us tons of already, or even if the pack included like 4 different styles instead of just the one, it would feel a lot better, but with a style we've seen time and time again, it's hard to really appreciate it. If we had gotten more styles like Victorian, Art Nouveau, Colonial, or Rococco, I think a lot more people would have overlooked some of the shortcomings of the career since we'd be getting furniture that isn't well represented, but that's not the case.