Do you play with Occults?

If we had more than just Vampires, Aliens and Ghosts I would play them. I got bored playing these cults and am biting at the bit to play witches, Fairies, Genies or Invisable Friends.

I have occults in most of my saves. Unfortunately the choice is very limited. I don't like undead type of supernatural so I mainly stick with aliens. I still hope we can get at least one additional supernatural before the end of sims 4. More would be better but at the pace they are added to the game, it feels very unlikely we ever get a decent choice.

All the time! I love all things supernatural - my main household is actually a supernatural family trying to blend in and live as humans, not monsters. My favourite sim is a good grand master vampire, and in my head (at least just for now, fingers crossed not too much longer) his husband is a werewolf, while their daughter is a fairy/changeling baby that was left on their doorstep by 'the Fair Folk'. I really hope we get more occults soon so I can actually play it out properly. I'm esp. hoping for werewolves, witches and fairies, as it just feels incomplete without them, although vampires are my favourite. I like aliens, but I've always been more into supernatural stuff than sci-fi so I haven't really played them much. I like ghosts too, but again I haven't played them much, probably because I prefer my sims to be solid and not glowing funny colours. My vampire sim is good friends with Mimsy the ghost though.

Why do I love vampires so much? What makes them so popular? There are a lot of reasons, but for me personally I've always loved horror and dark romance - the tragedy of the immortal vampire cursed with bloodlust, ahem sorry I mean 'plasma'lust. There's just something about supernatural lore and stories that I find fun, so being able to create my own supernatural characters and stories in the sims is just brilliant.

They have been in EVERY Sims game - and it is unfair that we hardly have any in Sims 4. People who don't like them could simply not buy those packs - why punish us players who love the game as we've always played it. The game will never feel it is complete until this version also has our beloved occults.

When I get them all - if we ever do - most of my hoods will be occults. Humans to me are boring when that is the most of what we have. Also I do not look at ghosts or aliens as occults. Ghost is the final life stage of humans, and aliens in my view are just citizens of another planet - they are not magical beings - which to me is an actual occult.

"Writin_Reg;c-17013966" wrote:
They have been in EVERY Sims game - and it is unfair that we hardly have any in Sims 4. People who don't like them could simply not buy those packs - why punish us players who love the game as we've always played it. The game will never feel it is complete until this version also has our beloved occults.

When I get them all - if we ever do - most of my hoods will be occult.

Well said, Reg. :)

Most of my saves end up having a vampire in them.

Right now I've got a story going where the Hero Of Strangerville (Lizzy) who is a "woman in black" has been charged to keep an eye on three unusual teens: a vampire, a plant sim, and an alien (although in my mind they are all alien hybrids the government created). Eventually Lizzy will discover the nefarious plans the military has for her three wards and they'll disappear and live off the grid in some remote location (I'm thinking Granite Falls with a mod to make it livable). I'm hoping we might get a living off the grid or farming pack to add some more depth to this idea, but I'll make it work regardless. Also, if/when we get witches, I'll have a teen witch join their little group.

I really like occults in my game because I get board playing regular families for any length of time.

"Writin_Reg;c-17013966" wrote:
They have been in EVERY Sims game - and it is unfair that we hardly have any in Sims 4. People who don't like them could simply not buy those packs - why punish us players who love the game as we've always played it. The game will never feel it is complete until this version also has our beloved occults.

When I get them all - if we ever do - most of my hoods will be occults. Humans to me are boring when that is the most of what we have. Also I do not look at ghosts or aliens as occults. Ghost is the final life stage of humans, and aliens in my view are just citizens of another planet - they are not magical beings - which to me is an actual occult.

Well said. If occults come in a specific pack (a supernaturals EP like we had in 3, or a GP like vampires) , people who don't want them can avoid.

I agree aliens, just like robots, fall into a different category but I like them anyway. That's why I think lifestate would have been a better term.

Yes! Aliens are kind of boring, it's been ages since I last played an alien family but still, when I play a mad scientist's story, he always has an alien baby at some point. On the other hand, I adore my vampires and all the contents of that pack. I loved my withces in TS3 and I miss them, still waiting for my beloved witches&wizards appear in TS4 sometime.

"FurSimsOfficial;c-17013321" wrote:
Hate them. I have all the packs installed for features and content, but I use MCCC to turn off any occult breeding.
My sim was interested in a sim and turned out.. he was an alien. probably came with Strangerville. I was NOT happy with this, but understand the purpose of that town/pack and new alien sims, so I just turned him into a normal sim.

No aliens came with Strangerville. It's got nothing to do with aliens (at least, not humanoid ones; I'm still fuzzy on where the big bad comes from, other than scientific tampering).

I love occults, especially vampires, so I'm really glad they were the first ones to really get a great treatment. I'm hoping to see more, but some types more than others.

Vampires I like. Aliens not so much. If I could remove all aliens from my game without needing any mods then I probably would do.