Most enjoyable occult for you?

Of those listed, vampires. But! I’d like fae more.

I like both spellcasters and vampires, but spellcasters seem more interesting.

I like aliens too, but I just have a problem with their disguises when it deals with genetics.

I love Fairies. Mermaids are fun too. I loved the Sims 2 PlantSims a lot too.

Spellcasters, I rely heavily on Practical spells to take care of cooking, cleaning, and repairs. I'd be lost without it!

When I can manage to use mods that enhance autonomy and Vampire play enough that they actually do things on their own and have more depth, the vampires are wonderful. Zero has an extensive line now of mods for the vampires and for the ability to have that world blend with the spellcaster world in an interesting way, that make it all more interesting.

Otherwise, I found spellcasters pretty boring. Everything was too easy, too shallow, but good for storytelling. I'm just tired of storytelling and wanted to game for the fun of it, so my attention has been taken by Sims3.

Aliens are cool too, but I never bother with disguises. Like, why be an alien if you don't look like one? One of my Sims married an alien, and she never wore a disguise, in fact I was surprised when I later discovered that was even an option, and I didn't like the look of her "human suit" anyway. Sadly, though, alien gameplay is pretty shallow. I wanted there to be more to it than "secret alien handshake" and such. They have some powers, and that's fun, and going to Sixam is fun but barely a place. Aliens have so much more potential than is filled out in the game. Kind of like that greenhouse in The Realm of Magic, that you can see, but you can't interact with or even walk into. Too much is fake.

It took me more than a year to decide if i should buy RoM. I read so many threads about it... about how the spells are just cheats, how it is so easy to master all schools of magic, and so on...
The thing is: i love spellcasters! I can play a badass spellcaster or a regular guy that practices magic unnoticed. I love LOVE the bloodlines. Playing legacies i can watch my magic bloodlines flourish and then be forgotten... i can practice a bit of everything or specialize in one school of magic.

Aliens: I thought they'd be fun, but they ended up annoying me so much that at one point I was about ready to drop the game altogether. But then I found out how to make them disappear from my game (through mods, of course).

Mermaids: I don't play them, and they too, don't exist in most of my saves. Not because I don't like them, exactly. I have a lot of respect for the various myths and folklore about sirens, selkies, and the like around the world, and in my opinion not a lot of media does them justice. A completely non-serious game like this one certainly isn't going to ever do that (for me).

Vampires: I don't even have the pack, mainly because of exactly the same sort of thoughts as I have for Mer-people.

Spellcasters: So far I've been able to enjoy spellcasters because I can treat them as humans who just happen to have some extra talents. If Maxis and/or EA had tried to make them more purely magical kinds of creatures or caricatures with cackling hook-nosed hags with warts, they probably would've fallen victim to the same thoughts I have about Mer-peeps and Vampires.

Plantsims: They're... green. Yeah, that's all I've got.

Vampires are so well done (when you leave them in the sun! Jk. I'll let myself out)

But really, I love the CAS, BB, and gameplay for Vampires and it rare to get all three for me. Few if any complaints. Best pack they made imo. The only thing wrong with that pack are that the complainers ruined break ins?

i like vampires most
they feel like they have most to do
and l love the flaws and all
so I often play them casually

but also probably just cause i read lots of random vampire books as kid/teen and it makes me fond of them in general


one annoyance maybe would be game random generating the vamp townies cause i dont like that id rather just have vampires of my own but thats more like whole game problem and not so much of specific occult problem

and maybe second annoyance is that sims dont actually make garlic objects like the finished thing just appears in inventory which is kinda sad cause it could have been cute crafts thing to watch your sims do

second place would actually be aliens

third place would be mermaids and plantsims

aaaand after all these comes spellcasters that are big fat disappointment if ive ever seen one

I like vampires and aliens the most. I think they're the most interesting and some of their quirks make me laugh. I haven't played many mermaids/mermen but they're pretty and I love Sulani. I've played spell casters the least, I find them less interesting to level up and I'm constantly telling them to stand still in cas. ;)