Fear Emotion - Death by Fright?

I'd love a fear emotion! Ghosts are just annoying and pointless right now. They can't even properly scare sims.
Hopefully it would come in a patch with the release of "Happy Haunts" :)

Fear is really needed. It's a basic human emotion.

Yeah, my sims have a family graveyard in the backyard. Family ghosts use to wander around the house at night. I'm ok with family members not feel scared with them, but spouses that don't know them should get scared!

Yeah true. It feels so weird when Sims are randomly chit chatting with a random ghost they just found chilling in their bathroom...

Hmm, I do think there needs to be this kind of scared Fear emotion for the sake of the examples provided. And just like how pets have fears. However, for me, I don’t think Fear as JUST an emotion itself would work. It’d just be one more erratic moodlet for a Sim to flip through.

I’d rather see Fear manifested as a subconscious thing that all Sims are capable of experiencing and actively try to avoid (or for the player to shamelessly indulge in) as seen in The Sims 2. Here, Sims Fear certain things that might happen, but when the thing happens, they’re rarely afraid. They’re usually miserable, angry, sad, grossed out (I’m thinking about all those times my Sims has vermin on their lots because of knocked over garbage cans?).

There needs to be an opposite of Whims to act against positive emotions and that would be the kind of Fear I would want to see.

Yeah, they need something else besides tense which is the most negative emotion I tend to get so it would be nice to get something like fear to difffereniate the emotions

Fear is needed! Also if they add burgulars can they add the Sims 1 danger theme? It used to (actually still does) TERRIFY me when playing the game. Talk about immersive.

Best to listen to at 2am in the dark with headphones:

https://youtu.be/4djJULQHnR0

I don't think fear would work for everyone, as it is something that everyone experiences differently. Like some people are afraid to do things others have fun doing.

"crocobaura;c-17552783" wrote:
I don't think fear would work for everyone, as it is something that everyone experiences differently. Like some people are afraid to do things others have fun doing.

Maybe trait based? Like in TS3 there is daredevil or brave trait that allows them to do things other sims wont, like extinguish fire. A squeamish sim should get afraid around bugs

"crocobaura;c-17552783" wrote:
I don't think fear would work for everyone, as it is something that everyone experiences differently. Like some people are afraid to do things others have fun doing.

And everyone experiences happiness differently, or different things make us focused, yet they've pigeon holed that all down for us. I don't think this is a good excuse for them to not do it. However, fear is more of a trigger for some people so they likely won't add something like this for your very reason.

I wouldn't mind some fear in my game. Tense is used too often and it's not really that sensical for everything negative.

They could also add in some more traits to help with the fear emotion too for some sims, like "brave" and things like "confident" that are already in the game could have some added meaning. Paranoid and squeamish could do more too.

"Camkat;c-17552792" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17552783" wrote:
I don't think fear would work for everyone, as it is something that everyone experiences differently. Like some people are afraid to do things others have fun doing.

And everyone experiences happiness differently, or different things make us focused, yet they've pigeon holed that all down for us. I don't think this is a good excuse for them to not do it. However, fear is more of a trigger for some people so they likely won't add something like this for your very reason.

I wouldn't mind some fear in my game. Tense is used too often and it's not really that sensical for everything negative.

They could also add in some more traits to help with the fear emotion too for some sims, like "brave" and things like "confident" that are already in the game could have some added meaning. Paranoid and squeamish could do more too.

I think tense is fine, because it implies there is fear but sims are still doing stuff. I don't want sims to say, nope, i'm not jumping in the pool because i'm afraid of water, or no i'm not going to explore that dark cave because i'm afraid of monsters. And speaking of monsters, there is the monster under the bed for kids. So there is fear. Death by fear is just taking it to the extreme.