Group Activities: New and Current ones?
My apologies if there is a thread somewhere already on this topic, but I couldn't find a recent one, and I've been wondering about it lately, so I thought I would post myself on this issue. Although ...
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I love all these ideas. It sounds like people would like a combination of more group socials and group activities tied to objects. The more the merrier!
I love the ideas already mentioned around children’s games, family interactions between sims of different ages, bands and/ or choirs, sports of various kinds and ordinary joint activities like jogging, dog walking etc. If we ever get strollers again it would be nice if taking a stroller out was both a solo and a group activity for a family. I forgot about pillow fights in TS2; they were fun and well animated. I’d love to have hopscotch and seesawing back and maybe some new kid activities like marbles or skipping rope too. Someone mentioned building forts: great idea, along with group play on couches or in treehouses. I also never thought of charades, or group theatrical performances— those would be lovely if well done (more than reused animations).
For object-based group activities I would like to have the pool table from previous games back as someone mentioned. Ping pong, pinball and the Keg would be great to have back too. One TS2 game I liked, which could be played by adults and kids was Myshuno, a sims version of Bingo — really well animated.
Group photos and portraits would be nice (involving more than 3 sims) — especially candids. From TS3, casino games would be nice to have back. Eating games (like those from TS3’s festivals) would be great to have again too. Cooking or baking or other types of contests, or any type of real competition between a number of sims would always be welcome. (I even have fond memories of the pet competitions from TS1 and the garden evaluations from TS2’s garden club).
For new activities, I personally have always wanted croquet for my snooty sims. Badminton, volleyball (both in the pool and on the beach) baseball or ball hockey could be great games to play with groups of sims at home or at a picnic. Someone mentioned board games — yes.
Realm of Magic has raised interesting new possibilities as well: it might also be fun with magic to have seances, tarot readings, group spell-casting and potion-making. And if we are getting magic duels, other types of individual duels as well as world-wide martial arts or fencing competitions could also be good.
I love the ideas already mentioned around children’s games, family interactions between sims of different ages, bands and/ or choirs, sports of various kinds and ordinary joint activities like jogging, dog walking etc. If we ever get strollers again it would be nice if taking a stroller out was both a solo and a group activity for a family. I forgot about pillow fights in TS2; they were fun and well animated. I’d love to have hopscotch and seesawing back and maybe some new kid activities like marbles or skipping rope too. Someone mentioned building forts: great idea, along with group play on couches or in treehouses. I also never thought of charades, or group theatrical performances— those would be lovely if well done (more than reused animations).
For object-based group activities I would like to have the pool table from previous games back as someone mentioned. Ping pong, pinball and the Keg would be great to have back too. One TS2 game I liked, which could be played by adults and kids was Myshuno, a sims version of Bingo — really well animated.
Group photos and portraits would be nice (involving more than 3 sims) — especially candids. From TS3, casino games would be nice to have back. Eating games (like those from TS3’s festivals) would be great to have again too. Cooking or baking or other types of contests, or any type of real competition between a number of sims would always be welcome. (I even have fond memories of the pet competitions from TS1 and the garden evaluations from TS2’s garden club).
For new activities, I personally have always wanted croquet for my snooty sims. Badminton, volleyball (both in the pool and on the beach) baseball or ball hockey could be great games to play with groups of sims at home or at a picnic. Someone mentioned board games — yes.
Realm of Magic has raised interesting new possibilities as well: it might also be fun with magic to have seances, tarot readings, group spell-casting and potion-making. And if we are getting magic duels, other types of individual duels as well as world-wide martial arts or fencing competitions could also be good.
