Happy Haunts was wasted!

I'm pretty horrified by how cutesy the "ghosts" looked. Even less scary than the transparent-people ghosts. And they're like gnomes, where you have to appease them?

So everything has to be cutesified into oblivion, because of "Won't Somebody Think of the Children!?" and people who want nothing to do with the gameplay of various packs, buy them, then get mad when the packs deliver anything except more decorations and fashion stuff.

Hairstyles and fashion choices were of completely secondary importance in the original Sims game, and it was loved by everyone, not just one demographic, because it had surprises, humor, adult humor, excitement. But now the game seems to be increasingly catering to those who just want to use it as Fantasy Fashion Show and Better Homes and Gardens, and a lot of them do not even play the game. They don't even care about it as a game. To those players, it is, and should be, nothing more than a dollhouse to decorate and clothes to pick out and hairstyles and makeup to play with.

But that's not a life sim game at all. That's a valid interest to have, for those who do, but making the game more reflect that play and less reflect dynamic gameplay, chops off at least half the game's fanbase and identity.

Some of the ghosts look cute, some of them look creepy. And I bet we'll get people saying how terrible it is that their HAUNTED house has nasty ghosts that constantly drop ectoplasm out of mischief and it always needs cleaning up and how UNREALISTIC their PARANORMAL pack is.

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"SimmerGeorge;c-17775271" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-17775231" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17775191" wrote:

"Loanet;c-17774765" wrote:
It reads like half a game pack because of the free update that's coming out at the same time.

@Loanet @Daephene I agree. It reads like half a game pack (which half a game pack is 10$ btw so the price of a stuff pack, you know as it should be) but I think it's only because of all the stuff that comes with the free update.

They did the same thing with Snowy Escape, the update came with tons of stuff and people thought "oh this new pack is so full of content" meanwhile me who didn't buy the pack realized mid-way "hey all the new stuff, platforms, sentiments, rentals etc." are in the update so what's the point of buying the pack.
And this is why I never bought it.

Wait - what’s “all the stuff that comes with the update”? So far I only know about the fear emotion.

@Pamtastic72 Also the brave trait, which is just a reward trait but still. I'm guessing there might be another surprise that will be revealed in the livestream but no guarantee.

Oh - okay, I knew about those. I thought I had missed something. :D And I agree @CelSims the fear emotion is a big deal, I am really looking forward to it!

"Loanet;c-17775278" wrote:
Some of the ghosts look cute, some of them look creepy. And I bet we'll get people saying how terrible it is that their HAUNTED house has nasty ghosts that constantly drop ectoplasm out of mischief and it always needs cleaning up and how UNREALISTIC their PARANORMAL pack is.

I completely agree and this is my biggest fear with this pack. The “realism” players who don’t want any spontaneous occurrences in a life simulation game. I have been on this planet for awhile now, and I have never once had my life go entirely uninterrupted by some random thing that I did not expect to occur. Some of it is taken in stride, and some of it has entirely altered my course, and all of it was very very real, and that’s what’s missing in this game, and what’s really frustrating is the toggle crowd. Those who say toggles are the key to not having features nerfed. Seasons proved that wrong.

They gave us a toggle to keep temperature effects from affecting our sims, but “realism” players left it on and then complained about sims dying from weather to the point of it pretty much just not happening no matter what you set the toggle to. It’s frustrating. We get sometimes multiple trailers, we get multiple blog posts, and we get live streams all clearly outlining these features and generally it’s these random happenstance things that make me most excited for a pack. I pay for them specifically and then, the following month we get a patch and “abracadabra” they’re gone!

"CelSims;c-17775284" wrote:

"Loanet;c-17775278" wrote:
Some of the ghosts look cute, some of them look creepy. And I bet we'll get people saying how terrible it is that their HAUNTED house has nasty ghosts that constantly drop ectoplasm out of mischief and it always needs cleaning up and how UNREALISTIC their PARANORMAL pack is.

I have to admit I saw her mopping in the trailer I immediately got mopping up outside puddles vibes. Not to mention how over the top the Strangify drips every where are. Still, I always expect to have to mod some thing out or in.

Yeah, it is the same animation for mopping with ectoplasm. How dare the Devs have us do something as TEDIOUS as cleaning up puddles of ghostly ectoplasm!

"CelSims;c-17775302" wrote:

"Loanet;c-17775296" wrote:

"CelSims;c-17775284" wrote:

"Loanet;c-17775278" wrote:
Some of the ghosts look cute, some of them look creepy. And I bet we'll get people saying how terrible it is that their HAUNTED house has nasty ghosts that constantly drop ectoplasm out of mischief and it always needs cleaning up and how UNREALISTIC their PARANORMAL pack is.

I have to admit I saw her mopping in the trailer I immediately got mopping up outside puddles vibes. Not to mention how over the top the Strangify drips every where are. Still, I always expect to have to mod some thing out or in.

Yeah, it is the same animation for mopping with ectoplasm. How dare the Devs have us do something as TEDIOUS as cleaning up puddles of ghostly ectoplasm!

Thats what Bonehilda is for ;)

I just wish she wasn't a re-skinned butler but a re-skinned servo like she's supposed to be! /Sarcasm
(Sorry, had to. The people complaining she's a re-skinned butler obviously have forgotten she was literally a servo with another skin).

She's a MAID, whose animations is she MEANT to use, if not a Maid's cleaning animations and a maid's clothes? And she's a Skeleton, whose skeleton is she meant to use if not the skeleton from Jungle Adventure.

But she hasn't got a coffin apparently guys... :(

"Loanet;c-17775317" wrote:
She's a MAID, whose animations is she MEANT to use, if not a Maid's cleaning animations and a maid's clothes? And she's a Skeleton, whose skeleton is she meant to use if not the skeleton from Jungle Adventure.

You see I dont know why people are annoyed at this, bonehilda is a maid so she will have the maid animation's, as for a recycled skeleton of jungle adventure, how different do they want the skeleton to look like, it's a skeleton, human skeletons all look the same ?, I do understand people annoyance to recycling already used animations but come on it seems that sometimes some people just want something to complain about

Actually, Bonehilda comes from previous Sims games like Sims 3 Supernatural. She's been around along time.
She's not a Jungle Adventure Skeleton.