Do you think we will get any packs in Q4?

My picks for a decent game-pack would be:

Bands

In the past, when I first got into TS4, I remember having tons of fun just watching my Sim play guitar and sing while doing it. Then again at the release of Get Famous, I had a lot of fun with the music mixer object. How fun would it be to get a bunch of Sims together (like what Get Together encourages) and play music? Even if it's just jamming and no way to make a career out of it, no concerts, whatever, I just want my Sims to make music together with a decent amount of songs (maybe 8 at least?).

Besides, it'd be funny to use with certain occults. Imagine an all-Werewolf metal band or a vampire one. Or heck, diverse it up and make the lead singer a Werewolf, the guitarist a Vampire, the drummer is a Ghost, and the keyboardist is a Spellcaster.

Fairies

One advantage TS4 seems to have over its predecessors is having fairly decent occults. Sort of. Mermaids, Aliens, and Plant-Sims suck, but Vampires and Werewolves are incredibly fun for me and Spellcasters are somewhere in the middle. Fairies were an occult I didn't expect to enjoy in TS3, but they're among my favorites in that game. I wouldn't mind them getting a great game-pack here. The world for them can be based on the Sylvan Glade location.

Zombies

If they're nothing like the ones in TS3 and can actually pose somewhat of a threat to your Sims, I'm all for it. And as someone suggested, it'd be nice to have more grungy content to help with apocalyptic story-telling. Strangerville's Possessed emotion is evidence that the Sims can be pretty creepy (the sound effect for the emotion has jump-scared me a few times XD).

Grim Reaper

I believe there was a survey somewhere that suggested the idea of a pack that let your Sims have a reaper career. It's certainly a unique idea and TS4 needs more of those.

Here's hoping the next road-map hints at one of these.

Is it obvious I'm an occult player? I feel like it is, not sure. :blush:

I think we're due a Game Pack, so I'm guessing we'll get one of those in Oct/Nov. Probably also get our usual quarterly quotient of kits as well.

As for what the game pack might be?

Taking out the usual suspects of bands, hotels, and fairies, I'm left with:

Superheroes! - This might be a niche interest, but I'd love to see a superhero pack someday.
A Renaissance Fair - This could be a new destination world with medieval activities and costumes.
Active Criminal Career - Like Dream Home Decorator, but centered around heists and crime.
A Romance Pack - Dating app, romantic world, new types of dates, more romantic interactions, etc.
Hobby Pack - Add in a hobby system and a variety of new activities like Pottery, Ballet, Car Restoration, etc.

"RememberJoy;c-18306982" wrote:
I think we're due a Game Pack, so I'm guessing we'll get one of those in Oct/Nov. Probably also get our usual quarterly quotient of kits as well.

As for what the game pack might be?

Taking out the usual suspects of bands, hotels, and fairies, I'm left with:

Superheroes! - This might be a niche interest, but I'd love to see a superhero pack someday.
A Renaissance Fair - This could be a new destination world with medieval activities and costumes.
Active Criminal Career - Like Dream Home Decorator, but centered around heists and crime.
A Romance Pack - Dating app, romantic world, new types of dates, more romantic interactions, etc.
Hobby Pack - Add in a hobby system and a variety of new activities like Pottery, Ballet, Car Restoration, etc.

+1 on the superhero idea. It'd be great if superpowers were some kind of skill and not tied to an occult since, to me, it's a little weird to imagine a superhero as an "occult". That way, occults can use the powers as well.

I concur on principle on the Romance Pack, but I feel like My Wedding Stories already "fulfills" this theme alongside base-game updates such as likes and dislikes. Tartosa is pretty romantic, in my opinion.

"LJK;c-18306998" wrote:


+1 on the superhero idea. It'd be great if superpowers were some kind of skill and not tied to an occult since, to me, it's a little weird to imagine a superhero as an "occult". That way, occults can use the powers as well.

I concur on principle on the Romance Pack, but I feel like My Wedding Stories already "fulfills" this theme alongside base-game updates such as likes and dislikes. Tartosa is pretty romantic, in my opinion.

I'd be OK with superheroes being an occult, but only if they also add an active superhero/supervillain career that any sim could join, including other occults. But yeah, I could also see super powers being like the fame tree where anybody can gain them if they like. Either way I just really want a well done superhero pack someday.

As for a romance pack, sure Wedding Stories has some romance in it (I actually still don't own this one), but it's centered around getting married and there's so much more to romance that still needs to be explored. I could see a pack centered around dating being very popular, featuring new date locations, a dating app, romantic interactions, a romantic compatibility/attraction system, etc. I doubt it will be our next game pack, but maybe someday.

"Briana2425;c-18296501" wrote:
I think Q4 we'll get kits and a patch either Vechiles, Burglars or Preteens.

Ha game pack with Fairies, Vechiles patch announcement, a kit and maybe a stuff pack because why not. But mostly like a kit, and maybe a fairies game pack.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18308617" wrote:
GP13 Grim Reapers

I think they are crazy for not doing a graveyard/grim/dangerous pack a long time ago. There has been tons of interest in it and I for one miss the Goth looking stuff we had in the Sims 3, the many interactions of Grim, the graveyard/death flower lot, and I really hope if they are adding this then why not add more coffins for vampires.

"Briana2425;c-18308446" wrote:

"Briana2425;c-18296501" wrote:
I think Q4 we'll get kits and a patch either Vechiles, Burglars or Preteens.

Ha game pack with Fairies, Vechiles patch announcement, a kit and maybe a stuff pack because why not. But mostly like a kit, and maybe a fairies game pack.

I just said stuff packs because I missed them and yet here we are!!! The Queen has arrived oh how I missed the.

"LeGardePourpre;c-18308617" wrote:
GP13 Grim Reapers

Hopefully reason why my prediction turned out to be wrong is that maybe the new EP was farther along in production than the GP, so they just "delayed" the GP to maybe January or February and it will be that Grim Reaper GP after all...OR it will be just a SP now that stuff packs have returned, at least with the new one coming soon.