Next occult coming up...?

"DaWaterRat;c-17953692" wrote:

"Isharell;c-17953691" wrote:
For our next occult... while I think Fairies would be nice, after the super sweet prettiness of CoL, I think going the opposite and having hairy gritty snarly gnarly werewolves would be better. >:)

Don't get me wrong, I LOOOOVE CoL, but having the next occult be super sweet pretty fairies would be too much, 'cause I really doubt they'd give us gnarly gritty fang-gnashing fairies :o

Despite knowing you're probably right, I keep holding out hope for Redcaps... and Spriggans... and Swamp Hags...
Except that thanks to the Victorians, most people wouldn't believe that these were real fairies...

I defintely know what you mean. While I would love to see all of the ones you mentioned, I doubt we'll get them either. But as long as they give us a way to represent both the Seelie and Unseelie court I'm good. They won't give us the court systems I'm sure, but I'd hope they give us a few darkly-iclined powers we can choose in addition to some of the "good" ones.

To those that hated zombies in ts3 NO occult in ts4 is a replica of ts3. Even if they don't eat sims I highly highly doubt they will eat your garden. Your plants are safe. Every occult has been done differently. Especially since I'm sure they are aware how much simmers hated the plant eating.
I would hope zombies could at least bite a sim like vampires.
Either way not everyone wants zombies but not everyone wants all of anything. But for those fellow zombie fans out there they have a lot of potential!!
I keep envisioning this post apocalyptic world they sims can rebuild, survivors can be rescued. Zombie break in lot challenge. Doors can be barricaded.
Witches can rise them from the dead for an undead army. I would love them to work with moon phases. ?? hide from zombies interaction.
They could even go the walking dead route. ?‍♂️
Would be super interesting to play as one also!

Also super excited to see what they have planned for wearwolves!! I still believe that's what they are saving body hair for.
Not too into fairies...

In terms of which one is coming first I think it's fairies based on all the hints

"Onverser;c-17866717" wrote:
I'm team fairies, didn't particularly care for werewolves in past games they're my second least favourite occult just above aliens they don't interest me

I don't care for werewolves either. I'm not into them past what we already have. However, if they have to waste a pack on it, I'd rather have fairies. At least they are beautiful. I played with mermaids and vampires in the Sims3, but dabbled with fairies seldom. I did however enjoy choosing how to make them in CAS and the Sims3 did give players loads of wings ect to make them, which after looking at the farming pack, I'm sure we won't get. I wouldn't mind the plant sim although I wouldn't use it much. I loved mermaids in the Sims3 because the underwater areas gave them places to go and things to do and it was exciting seeing them underwater. I'm glad they're in the Sims4, but I don't really use them because they really don't have a place to go underwater.

"temporalgod;c-17956661" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-17953692" wrote:
Despite knowing you're probably right, I keep holding out hope for Redcaps... and Spriggans... and Swamp Hags...
Except that thanks to the Victorians, most people wouldn't believe that these were real fairies...

Aren't plant sims Spriggans? Sorry if I messed up on the lore but the ones I know of are from the elder scrolls.

Not sure what they're like in Elder Scrolls, but in folklore they're small, wizened creatures usually found in ruins and around burial mounds. They look small, but they have giant strength and they can make a noise like a giant when they walk. They're also ill tempered and like playing mean/cruel jokes on humans.

Sigh. sometimes I don't know who I'm more dissapointed in... the Victorians, for reducing Faerie to the Tinkerbell model, or Game Developers who grab names out of mythology or folklore for creatures that are nothing like (This goes all the way back to Gygax... my first pass through the Monster Manual had a lot of "are you kidding me?" and I was 12 at the time.)

I really hope the next big pack will be something more out there and unexpected. I'm bored to tears with samey mundane packs

I'm hoping for zombies, in particular. I loved my zombies in Sims2.

If The Sims 4 ever gets another occult, it's obviously going to be fairies, and the reasons are simple:
1. They are the lowest effort occult to implement as far as what we have left : all it takes is adding sparkly wings to CAS humans basically. And reuse certain magic spell/potion effects for their abilities.
2. They are very popular amongst girls/young women which are a big chunk of the current playerbase.

fairies is probably going to be the next occult there is just to many hints the only question is will it be a game pack or an Expansion pack still I've been wrong before

As much as I loved werewolves, genies and fairies in TS3 I'm hoping for something new and fresh we haven't seen before. Something to catch my interest, that I just HAVE to play because I've nerver experienced it before and I won't have an already established idea of what the occult can do.

If we get werewolves or fairies I won't have much of an expectation because so far, while I love vampires, the other occults have not withstood their TS3 counterparts in my opinion and I'm a little tired of being a bit disappointed every time a 'new' occult is announced for TS4.

I so wish it was like TS3 with a new occult in every pack, that way everyone got at least something that they wanted to play with. With TS4 I have to wait, and wait and wait.

Fun thought I had. It isn't necessarily new, because it has to do with Faeries, but all my internal ranting about how the Victorians reduced True Fae to small pretty things with wings gave me this idea

What if they did Faeries with a Steampunk Victorian aesthetic? Clockwork wings and Top hats with goggles, and striped hose under bustle skirts...

And we get courts, but it's Clock-punk vs. Garden?