"@bixters;c-17562614" wrote:
Zombies could be better if they were done like The Sims 1 & 2, NOT Sims 3.
In Sims 1, you could bribe the Grim Reaper to spare someone from death, but if you didn't pay him enough (or anything), they would come back as a zombie.
In the Sims 2, they had the aspiration reward Death Clock where you could call the Grim Reaper and pay a sum of money to resurrect a dead sim. If you didn't pay them enough, they'd also come back as zombies.
I could see them fitting in pretty nicely in a Happy Haunts pack :)
I never bought The Sims 3 Supernatural because I heard zombies were very annoying.
I didn’t realize that’s how zombies were handled in games before TS3. I’ve never played Sims 1 and although I’m currently looking into some of the Sims 2 gameplay mechanics, I haven’t gotten to that part yet.
Sims 3 zombies are intrusive if you don’t turn off the option to have them in game. I believe it is a Mailbox cheat. There was also a plant vs zombies Peashooter available for a limited time (as a promotional free feature) which could be placed in your sim’s garden to ward off the zombies.I found it odd that a shooter wasn’t part of Supernatural, since, outside of building a fence and locking the gate during full moon, I can’t recall another Interesting way of keeping the things away from the garden.
If a zombie is an effect generated by the consequences of blackmail between Grim and Sim, for me that would be a more appealing gameplay approach. But it needs to be subtle and meaningful. In order to turn Z back to human (or ghost), gameplay needs to be challenging and can’t be a repeat of trying to mix about a 100 cures and testing it on double the amount of Sims before the cure works. That’s not gameplay. That’s pushing the fast speed button. Too much Strangerville.
The cure may have to depend on the relationship between Sim and Grim if a more in-depth system is in place.
In that case I can see that a potential Happy Haunts
could be a suitable Pack for Introducing interesting gameplay elements that includes zombies.
