Just me or Supernatural Gameplay seems lacking?

I agree, namely. I love the vampires in Sims 4, but when you have to rely on one life state for all of your supernatural needs it can only do so much.

I expected more from ROM. They are sound enough at the base, but there are not enough ways to make original casters beyond aesthetics (I tried to use curses like vampire weaknesses, but it does not work well). Also there is no overlying magic for all life states or supernatural elements. The BB and CAS assets are good, but the gameplay is just lacking and witches have been my favorite life state in the past iterations.

I like mermaids, but they do need more. Like underwater gameplay and a skill tree. Aliens at least have a world and connections with rockets, but there is nothing special about them beyond a few funny social interactions and "brain power." If they had more to do in their world or have "Earth missions" or something to make them more unique it would be better.

Not to mention plant Sims need some substance themselves.

Let's not even get started how HQ was spectacularly decorated in trailers and everyone thought the 'original' Practical Sage was hot...

I feel like they have forgotten about the supernatural stuff & cater more to the realisms players.

The Odd thing with ROM is that it made my other packs (Discover University and Jungle Adventures) more fun than the ROM pack itself when I had my spell casters play through them. My spell casters made short work of all the things I did not like about those packs. :D

The Only True Life State we have are

Aliens, Vampires, Spellcasters, Mermaids and Servo. One of which are fully fleshed out (Vampires) while the other one feels like should have been an Expansion Pack because there are so many things that the devs would like and can do in the lifestate but they can't because it is a gamepack (Realm of Magic) {I still wish Island Living was a gamepack and RoM as Expansion Pack :(( } Meanwhile The other Two (Aliens, mermaids and Servo) are nothing but a side feature of an Expansion Pack that did not receive enough Depth.

We also have the "Abandoned Occults". These are for me Life State that should have been an occult but the devs do not classify them as one. We have Ghost which are just sims with different colors with one or two abilities, Plantsims which are sims that have a different skin color and has one or two abilities with little minor changes and Skeletons, which are sims that have a different body looks and has only one or two abilities with little minor changes. I am sensing a pattern here....

So definelty the Occult Gameplay is severly lacking in The Sims 4.

Skeletons need to be more fleshed out... oh wait a sec...

"CK213;c-17587554" wrote:
The Odd thing with ROM is that it made my other packs (Discover University and Jungle Adventures) more fun than the ROM pack itself when I had my spell casters play through them. My spell casters made short work of all the things I did not like about those packs. :D

Oh when I send my students off to university I make sure they have plenty of Plentiful Need potions on hand, and get them to the Magic Realm to make more when need be.

"Admiral8Q;c-17587717" wrote:
Skeletons need to be more fleshed out... oh wait a sec...

LOL, good joke. But yes always would love more fleshed out supernaturals. I can't stand the temp state ones which annoyed me in the Sims 3 too.

I agree for the most part - I do think the Vampires in TS4 are very well done though. For me Spellcasters are a different story. I still love ROM and I play with it a lot, but I think there's so much unused potential. They could have applied the weaknesses from Vampires to Spellcasters as well, and yesterday I realized there are so few gameplay objects in ROM. Especially when comparing it to earlier Magic Packs like TS1 Makin' Magic. They could have really rounded out the pack by adding objects like a dragon egg hatchery, a wand crafting station (or wand charger) , a grinding wheel for magical stones, etc. More fleshed out gameplay could also have done a lot for the overal feeling of the pack. Like a magical recruiter NPC that stops by your house when moving into Glimmerbrook (or other neighborhoods), having to make your first wand in stead of just buying one, magic with wands as an exclusive thing for higher ranks, casting curses becoming available at higher ranks, kids being able to practice magic, etc... Oh and more imaginative spells with new animations.

And the same story with Mermaids. Although I didn't really expect them to be fleshed out because they weren't the focus of the pack.. But an update to those two occults would be very welcome imo.

It's just typical Sims 4, too much focus on making things look pretty, not enough on making solid gameplay. Unless you're a passionate storyteller with a whole occult storyline there's very little to actually do in these packs.