Kind of annoyed at the scared emotion

"Aine;c-17800679" wrote:

"sims2freak737;c-17800501" wrote:
I'm not too crazy about it with my Sim that lives in a haunted house. She's too scared to do anything.

She won't sleep because she has a nightmare.
She'll only shower for a couple seconds then get out because she was too scared.
She won't go to the washroom because she's too scared.
Then when the emotion goes away, she sees a spooky puddle then gets scared.
Then she won't remove the puddle because she's too scared
Then she get's terrified and won't eat because she has to stand up to scream at the doll after every bite.
Etc. etc. etc.

It's not challenging gameplay, it's just obnoxious because I can't even play the game. I try to have her watch the comedy channel or do something else to give another emotional boost but it doesn't work because she won't do the thing I tell her to do.

That's YOUR choice - It's definitely a choice to have an obnoxious game, you do that - there's a lot of things that you can do make the game super easy, just follow the rules of the haunted house with the medium skill and seances. I don't understand why these kind of complaints even exist about things that are just about properly understanding how the game works.

Because some folks are more inclined to complain instead of just playing the game and figuring things out. Or read/watch a guide. I have Meaningful Stories in my game and although I've not played with haunted houses, I've yet to experience the emotion at all, the complete antithesis to the OP's experience. And I've been playing pretty regularly recently.

"TS1299;c-17800825" wrote:
This is what I am afraid. Adding depth into the game and players complaining that t will be too annoying. What's next when they add deeper personalities they will complain how sims react differently and then annoying with sims living with oppossite traits?

The team just can't seem to satisfy everone even when there are Ootions.

They shouldn't try to satisfy everyone as it's obviously futile. I think the game itself would improve on just that renewed focus alone. But I digress.

I've actually only noticed it when I play a Haunted Residential place. Other then that I don't really have it come up. For the Haunted house part though I think it's a fun touch.

And there it is, now it's gonna get nuked out the game

The only issue I have with it is that when my Sim's were living in a haunted house they would automatically come home from school if the terrified moodlet took over. A box would pop up asking me "are you sure you want to bring them home." like I had requested them to come home, and no matter when I pick, they come home anyways, Eventually unhaunted the house to avoid school and work failure.

"Dannakyri1;c-17801353" wrote:
The only issue I have with it is that when my Sim's were living in a haunted house they would automatically come home from school if the terrified moodlet took over. A box would pop up asking me "are you sure you want to bring them home." like I had requested them to come home, and no matter when I pick, they come home anyways, Eventually unhaunted the house to avoid school and work failure.

I have this issue as well. It affects everybody in the household. Kids come home from school, adults come home from work and sometimes they just don't go at all. It got to the point I had to bring the spiritual serenity of house up or they would run out on money.

I love the scared emotion and hope they don't ever nerf it.

"CelSims;c-17801486" wrote:

"Dannakyri1;c-17801353" wrote:
The only issue I have with it is that when my Sim's were living in a haunted house they would automatically come home from school if the terrified moodlet took over. A box would pop up asking me "are you sure you want to bring them home." like I had requested them to come home, and no matter when I pick, they come home anyways, Eventually unhaunted the house to avoid school and work failure.

I'm not sure this is related to being terrified or living in a haunted house. I have had this issue with sims before the new emotion was patched in. For me this bug has seemed more general and not specific to the emotion. Incidentally, none of my sims in a haunted house have had this happen yet.

Yeah I had this issue when Get Famous came out, way before this.

Does simgurus frequent the forum? It would be nice if they read threads like these and learn that the majority of people love the features the add and don't want them nerfed. It seems like they only read Twitter posts since it's so easy for people to tag them there.

I don't have the paranormal pack. I have only seen one scared sim, and it wasn't the one I was playing.

I finally played some days in a haunted house and I have to say, it's very refreshing with an emotion that actually adds a lot of gameplay, you actually have to play the game, read and listen to what the game is telling you and do the right things to not have your sims scared and I love it. I really hope they don't nerf it because this is the kind of gameplay that makes the sims fun.