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Honestly, I'm aching for a superhero themed pack with heroes and villains going up against each other...especially seeing the polluted form of the "Ego Living" world. There was a prime opportunity to have mutagenic ooze and toxic waste give sims super powers! It's a trite old cliché by now, the old "pollution gives you powers" thing, but I just need more WEIRDNESS in my game and, yes, action!!
The cartoon fight clouds are really disappointing, and I'd love nothing more than to have an actual martial arts skill that improves the look and entertainment value of your sims' fights as they get better at it. I want werewolves, high-caliber ones this time, with powers to actively develop and options for their werewolf form to give them a more bestial appearance (including a freaking tail for once), and not just that cheesy "Oops! I'm hairy and my teef got sharp, guess I'mma howl at the moon now, herpa-derp" jive they've pulled for two games straight. I wanted magic, but I wanted magic with more BITE to it, where if you set a sim on fire with a spell, they DIE if no one puts the fire out. I want sims who hate each other or are straight-up enemies to hold grudges and be horrible to each other autonomously. I want my sims' enemies to come vandalize their property like they did in TS2. I want a pack where I can build and customize a straight-up starship and assign sims roles on the crew (I love Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outlaw Star, and Firefly, so to be able to do that sort of thing in TS4 would be awesome).
I like "Strangerville" because I can actually have my sims face a monstrous antagonist...and I want MORE MONSTERS!! I want to be able to create scenarios like the one in that GP for myself, with dungeons and boss encounters and mission phases, and I want to be able to share those scenarios with other simmers over the gallery. Just pretending that my sims have a foe to face isn't that much fun for either gameplay or screenshots. I want to make an actual in-game foe for my sims to face, and I want to have a real climactic battle!
TS4 is often touted as "the story-teller's game," but I'm not getting enough content geared toward the stories I want to tell. Most of it is geared toward people who want to play out stories with happy little families or happy young singles living in a mostly down-to-earth realm where nothing freaky is allowed to happen. But when it comes to the sci-fi and fantasy stuff that's also a part of this franchise, TS4 has been really sparse with it. Two years between aliens and vampires, two more between vampires and merfolk, magic, and a mean, green mother from outer space (and she's bad)!! Ghosts have no sense of terror or mystery to them because they're everywhere, all the time, and everyone who dies gets to be a ghost by default. Plant sims are...nerfed into the pits of Hades, let's be honest. Alien abductions and vampire break-ins got nerfed when a lazy sub-faction of realism players started whining about not wanting to use actual gameplay mechanics to avoid them. There is no Fear emotion, everyone just gets Tense. Ghost hunting got swatted down for frickin' knitting... I'm so hard-up for messed-up, weird stuff in TS4 that I was actually happy to see Death by Flies returning in the "Eco Living" trailer. You KNOW I'm desperate for weird stuff when I'm happy to see someone getting eaten up by a swarm of flies!! And then there are all of these people clanging on for a farming pack when we don't even have werewolves to go with our vampires yet. Play Stardew Valley, it's cheaper, deeper, and already out.
I was promised "Weirder Stories," but most of the packs that come out are geared toward, "Well, first I got up, and then I ate a piece of toast, then I brushed my teeth..." (Yeah, I went there with the Futurama reference.) That's not weird. It's time to up the ante.
The cartoon fight clouds are really disappointing, and I'd love nothing more than to have an actual martial arts skill that improves the look and entertainment value of your sims' fights as they get better at it. I want werewolves, high-caliber ones this time, with powers to actively develop and options for their werewolf form to give them a more bestial appearance (including a freaking tail for once), and not just that cheesy "Oops! I'm hairy and my teef got sharp, guess I'mma howl at the moon now, herpa-derp" jive they've pulled for two games straight. I wanted magic, but I wanted magic with more BITE to it, where if you set a sim on fire with a spell, they DIE if no one puts the fire out. I want sims who hate each other or are straight-up enemies to hold grudges and be horrible to each other autonomously. I want my sims' enemies to come vandalize their property like they did in TS2. I want a pack where I can build and customize a straight-up starship and assign sims roles on the crew (I love Star Trek: The Next Generation, Outlaw Star, and Firefly, so to be able to do that sort of thing in TS4 would be awesome).
I like "Strangerville" because I can actually have my sims face a monstrous antagonist...and I want MORE MONSTERS!! I want to be able to create scenarios like the one in that GP for myself, with dungeons and boss encounters and mission phases, and I want to be able to share those scenarios with other simmers over the gallery. Just pretending that my sims have a foe to face isn't that much fun for either gameplay or screenshots. I want to make an actual in-game foe for my sims to face, and I want to have a real climactic battle!
TS4 is often touted as "the story-teller's game," but I'm not getting enough content geared toward the stories I want to tell. Most of it is geared toward people who want to play out stories with happy little families or happy young singles living in a mostly down-to-earth realm where nothing freaky is allowed to happen. But when it comes to the sci-fi and fantasy stuff that's also a part of this franchise, TS4 has been really sparse with it. Two years between aliens and vampires, two more between vampires and merfolk, magic, and a mean, green mother from outer space (and she's bad)!! Ghosts have no sense of terror or mystery to them because they're everywhere, all the time, and everyone who dies gets to be a ghost by default. Plant sims are...nerfed into the pits of Hades, let's be honest. Alien abductions and vampire break-ins got nerfed when a lazy sub-faction of realism players started whining about not wanting to use actual gameplay mechanics to avoid them. There is no Fear emotion, everyone just gets Tense. Ghost hunting got swatted down for frickin' knitting... I'm so hard-up for messed-up, weird stuff in TS4 that I was actually happy to see Death by Flies returning in the "Eco Living" trailer. You KNOW I'm desperate for weird stuff when I'm happy to see someone getting eaten up by a swarm of flies!! And then there are all of these people clanging on for a farming pack when we don't even have werewolves to go with our vampires yet. Play Stardew Valley, it's cheaper, deeper, and already out.
I was promised "Weirder Stories," but most of the packs that come out are geared toward, "Well, first I got up, and then I ate a piece of toast, then I brushed my teeth..." (Yeah, I went there with the Futurama reference.) That's not weird. It's time to up the ante.
