Island Living; is it lacking?
Do you believe Island Living is lacking or feels empty? Many people believe that Island Living is beautiful, and the aesthetic is spot on, however the gameplay is bare and direction missing. Also p...
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I haven’t found the experience of playing the pack to be lacking so far, but I think it depends on your play style. For the first few days I played a homeless castaway family on that empty island lot and just had a blast playing off the grid. Compared to when I played another couple of sims off the grid in Windenburg, it was even more fun. It was much easier to keep the sims’ fun levels high in Sulani because they would constantly just go and play in the sand or make sand castles when they got bored. It also improves family gameplay since kids and toddlers seem to like to play together on the beach and do so autonomously.
The parents have fished, foraged for food, grown plants and crafted wood objects to use and to sell. They also sold sea shells and buried treasure when they had multiples. It was completely possible to support these sims and even develop their skills, socializations and relationships while playing this way— it was even absorbing. What a new and fun style of gameplay! And I hope they build on it in future with more objects and options (and they totally could since they added the trait and associated gameplay in a free patch).
Recently, I have been playing the Conservationist career for the first time and also really enjoying it. I enjoy travelling to beautiful Mua Pelam, cleaning and exploring it. Activities like surveying the island, confronting poachers, spraying invasive species, taking samples and cleaning up the beaches are fun and I have not found any of it repetitive yet because you can choose to do different things once the daily tasks are complete.
Snorkeling using the 1st person camera is amazing especially if there are dolphins or sea turtles around. I appreciate the way that sims can randomly encounter some of the new fish varieties just swimming about the reefs. They look so good both from above and under the water. For me the beauty of the ocean is a constant delight and adds to the pack’s appeal.
As well, I absolutely love how the developers have revamped the swimming and fishing animations and renewed these skills as well. Swimming used to be so boring and silly to watch and now it actually looks very good and realistic. My sims also seem to have more fun doing it and to choose to do it a lot more on their own. Fishing is much better too, and the new fish are great. For a player who likes to complete collections it is wonderful to have so many new varieties. It is particularly nice to be able to catch invasive species and to have the option of throwing back endangered ones, since this ties in with the Conservationist gameplay.
Overall I have been having a ball playing in Sulani and haven’t even wanted to go to another neighbourhood or to play with my regular sims. I expect this will continue for some time yet because I certainly don’t feel bored now.
The parents have fished, foraged for food, grown plants and crafted wood objects to use and to sell. They also sold sea shells and buried treasure when they had multiples. It was completely possible to support these sims and even develop their skills, socializations and relationships while playing this way— it was even absorbing. What a new and fun style of gameplay! And I hope they build on it in future with more objects and options (and they totally could since they added the trait and associated gameplay in a free patch).
Recently, I have been playing the Conservationist career for the first time and also really enjoying it. I enjoy travelling to beautiful Mua Pelam, cleaning and exploring it. Activities like surveying the island, confronting poachers, spraying invasive species, taking samples and cleaning up the beaches are fun and I have not found any of it repetitive yet because you can choose to do different things once the daily tasks are complete.
Snorkeling using the 1st person camera is amazing especially if there are dolphins or sea turtles around. I appreciate the way that sims can randomly encounter some of the new fish varieties just swimming about the reefs. They look so good both from above and under the water. For me the beauty of the ocean is a constant delight and adds to the pack’s appeal.
As well, I absolutely love how the developers have revamped the swimming and fishing animations and renewed these skills as well. Swimming used to be so boring and silly to watch and now it actually looks very good and realistic. My sims also seem to have more fun doing it and to choose to do it a lot more on their own. Fishing is much better too, and the new fish are great. For a player who likes to complete collections it is wonderful to have so many new varieties. It is particularly nice to be able to catch invasive species and to have the option of throwing back endangered ones, since this ties in with the Conservationist gameplay.
Overall I have been having a ball playing in Sulani and haven’t even wanted to go to another neighbourhood or to play with my regular sims. I expect this will continue for some time yet because I certainly don’t feel bored now.
