Life and Death Negative thread
This is the place to put your thoughts and concern of the new expansion pack.
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This will be the first expansion I do not buy. After a world wide pandemic killed so many and caused world wide mourning on an epic scale, I think this dark side expansion is macabre. New death types and new ways to mourn? A funeral party? An afterlife of more chores to complete, that were never finished during life? A "reward" of having to be born back into the game to do it all over again? Grim as a "nice guy" you want to emulate and then become?
So the sims franchise's answer to what lies ahead is ... nothing but chores and the ability to recycle if you work hard enough. Lots of ghosts, but no angels. An eerie half life location where you wait to recycle, but no heaven.
One thing I have (previously) admired about the sims franchise is their ability to balance the light and dark side so people could choose to play either one or a combo of both. But this is decidedly glorifying ONLY the dark side, timed to Halloween. With no light side option.
I had hoped for angel wings and harps, at a minimum. I had hoped for a "heavenly" realm to play in where dead sims got a new body to enjoy a new immortal afterlife with their dead loved ones. They could have at least given us that along with all the other stuff they wanted to promote. A bit of a nod to the light side for those of us who wanted to play that option. Instead we got TWO dark side locations along with one half life waiting zone. But no light side location.
This expansion is more than a disappointment. It is the death of the sims as I once knew it. They chose to go dark.
I feel like there's no way the idea of a "Sims heaven place" didn't arise at some point during development but either they couldn't do it because of time/money reasons or, and I think this is very valid, you can't come up with a fictional "'resting place"/heaven without going into religious territory. They got such a huge backlash back when Snowy Escape released because of a "bowing" gesture, I'm sure they want to distance themselves as much as possible from any possible religion related scandal.
But I do agree, the whole theme of the pack is so GLOOMY and realistic I'm actually surprised it doesn't have the usual Sims goofiness twist to it. The Sims 2 death by old age animation with the two dancing vahines is still the best way to die lmao, dying in bed reminds me too much of my grandfather who passed away like two months ago, it's not even funny.
Yeah, I think the religious aspect of heaven is the reason they didn’t include it or angels. I’m glad there are funerals now though, wills and cemeteries. I never expected religion in the game, But it is something we can bring to our own game if we want to. And I personally like the idea that sims can die in bed of old age. It just seems more respectful of death to me. What I wonder is what happens if your sim dies somewhere else but your house, and how does that work with rotational play?
