Next GP and Kit Guesses?
On Inside Maxis they let us know there is going to be GP and Kit soon... so guesses as to what these will be?
Forum Discussion
"bixters;c-17867329" wrote:"Simmingal;c-17867323" wrote:"alanmichael1;c-17867318" wrote:"Sigzy05;c-17867307" wrote:"RememberJoy;c-17867277" wrote:
I'm still thinking it's going to be centered around the teen life stage. That could include high-school, bands, after-school cheer-leading, malls, etc.
Personally, I hope that it's not just school focused, and gives more activities for teens to do at home or with friends.
If it's a GP it's probably just the high school if it's that. My issue with the active type careers of TS4 is how extremely repetitive they can get with awful event tab goals. "Pick three apples" type gameplay... isn't really gameplay imo. What makes the scientist career more fun though is the whole crafting aspect of it and getting breakthroughs as if you're leveling a skill. So we'll see. I hope they don't just re-use the GTW/GF formula to do highschools.
Why is everyone expecting a school pack when the devs avoided all classroom gameplay in University? If such pack brings TS3 only rabit holes I don't need it.
american highschool was mentioned on survey which also had snowy escape questions so its possible something related to american highschool might be coming soon
though i personally would have about thousand other themes over school
I'm looking forward to a School Pack. They need to focus less on completing tasks and more of the drama of school- gossip, cliques, school clubs, dating, prom, etc. That would be interesting.
If it's just read 3 books and write 3 essays, just completing boring tasks, than that would be pretty boring.
So in essence what people want is a school pack without the actual school. A decorative set piece to fulfill their 90210/OC/Riverdale stories.
The university packs get away without the actual university simply because the focus is on activities outside of lectures. Schools in contrast are very much more structured and lead by another person before going home. In order to make school gameplay compelling, they would have to pretty much strip out anything that would identify it as a school.
In my opinion, the Sims is more about domestic situations, and youth activities in game would be better fulfilled with places such as skate parks, arcades and other such hangouts and activities.
And I can already imagine the complaints that all prom is is just s time limited night club for teenagers with a punch bowl instead of a bar.
