Does this pack feels like PSa ?
Looking at the recent trailer.The pack is feeling less like a fun simmer pack, and more like a PSA?
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As I've said in my previous criticisms about the reveal trailer and the gameplay trailer, this pack really does feel like a PSA due to both its revealed content and the direction that the marketing team decided to go in. It approaches ecology and environmentalism in the same overly-simplified way as the PSA's that I remember seeing all the time when I was a kid. Ones like this one, which ran from the mid-80's to sometime in the mid-90's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6MLdPPwv1I
A Sims expansion should NEVER remind people of Charlie the Cardinal, O.K.? It's too preachy to even be a Captain Planet episode...because at least that show had some edge to it (some actual villains, some real conflict, people's cousins dying of drug overdoses...way too hot for TS4...mind you, that was a KIDS' SHOW FOR VIEWERS 5 AND UP). No. This EP's trailers and what I've seen of it through them feel like a corny PSA that you would see on the commercial break while you're trying to watch cartoons--shallow, saccharine, and makes you just want to get up and take a bathroom break real quick...Wait. Is this EP the Sims Team's cue for us to get up and take a pee break...? That would explain SO MUCH...
But, it's not the theme that makes this pack feel like a PSA, it's the approach to that theme and the pack's marketing that makes it feel that way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6MLdPPwv1I
A Sims expansion should NEVER remind people of Charlie the Cardinal, O.K.? It's too preachy to even be a Captain Planet episode...because at least that show had some edge to it (some actual villains, some real conflict, people's cousins dying of drug overdoses...way too hot for TS4...mind you, that was a KIDS' SHOW FOR VIEWERS 5 AND UP). No. This EP's trailers and what I've seen of it through them feel like a corny PSA that you would see on the commercial break while you're trying to watch cartoons--shallow, saccharine, and makes you just want to get up and take a bathroom break real quick...Wait. Is this EP the Sims Team's cue for us to get up and take a pee break...? That would explain SO MUCH...
But, it's not the theme that makes this pack feel like a PSA, it's the approach to that theme and the pack's marketing that makes it feel that way.
