Not too excited...

No. I love the mermaids and dolphins and various other things within the pack. I love the siren-like powers in this iteration, in particular.

"jaymancraz;d-960522" wrote:
Anyone else with me? I usually love expansions and as a Sims fan, I just feel this expansion is lacking in gameplay. The neighborhood and items look beautiful but beautiful items aren’t enough to justify the price of an expansion. They could have at least added resorts to the game, but we get dolphins, mermaids, and sunburns?

All of that for me is candy for the eyes and has it purposes marketing wise. I would love the resorts and I would love the houseboats if they were added but they were not and I am not sore as I can go back to previous version and play what Sims 4 lacks in gameplay thank goodness for that. However, looking at the trailer it all looks intriguing and I would be lying if I said I am not but the trailer has it purpose as well marketing wise look at all the sales it may make from one trailer even if some people are willing to wait to see more.

I agree OP, this is one of the first EPs or GPs since Vampires I got excited about but then I came back down to earth and started to learn more.

Why is it that TS4's EPs are always so small? In content, in worlds, in gameplay, activities, new interactions, and stuff. They are always so limited.

If I look at TS2's Bon Voyage (ocean swimming) with it's three worlds, numerous activites for all three worlds that can be done anywhere else (ocean swimming etc.) and hotels to book, or run, many different objects to use, dances to learn, things to collect, owning vacation homes etc. etc.

Then there is TS3's IP world with tons of other things to do, and an open world and house boats and so much more. They didn't even have to add ocean swimming we already had it in TS3. And then there is the deep sea diving world, yeah, huge EP, and it's resorts..sigh.

It's not about this EP doesn't have hotels etc., it's always (to me) wow I can get a novel in older games I have to buy Reader's Digest in TS4.

Why is this never answered? And if it is by players, then it's, well, they have smaller budgets, do any of us really believe that anymore? TS4 passed the billion dollar mark months ago...it's all by design, less content for more money is more the truth.

I wasn't overly impressed with the trailer since it just showed the girl walking around, and sims dancing and things, and then she turned in to the mermaid at the end. I thought it was pretty "meh" looking.

But seeing what all is in the pack and the beautiful ocean lots to build over the water and all the possibilities it adds for my sim world, I am looking forward to adding it to my game.

I've set the map as my desktop background and use it to figure out how my Sulani is going to look.

I love the elementals and the off the grid option coming with it. I love that merfolk can also now have a darker side to them.

I can't wait to set up my B&B and send sims there for "vacation"!

"mika;c-17106133" wrote:
Don't buy it then.

Why do people take it so personally when someone critiques EA? Of course I’m not going to buy it if I don’t want it. That’s not the point of this post. My point is to bring up a concern and wondering if others think the same. This game adds very little new substantial gameplay and I think it should be called out.

I have few disappointments with this pack but overall the good points of it are double if not triple so looking to buy it soon
(also the fact that there is no b/b item I don't like makes me really happy so :sweat_smile: )

With the world, career, and life State I think it does feel like an expansion. I like all the expansions so far but the only one that hasn't felt big enough to be an expansion to me with City living. That one felt rather small and I feel like I should have been a game pack.

"jaymancraz;c-17106266" wrote:

"mika;c-17106133" wrote:
Don't buy it then.

Why do people take it so personally when someone critiques EA? Of course I’m not going to buy it if I don’t want it. That’s not the point of this post. My point is to bring up a concern and wondering if others think the same. This game adds very little new substantial gameplay and I think it should be called out.

So true and sometimes I feel they can't help it.

As a mermaid player, I prefer how mermaids (sirens) are done in this pack, so to me, it’s worth it. They did more with mermaid here than in Sims 3, though I do miss the Kraken call, and having dive lots.

(I tried and tried to play Sims 3, but I just got bored with Sims 3 mermaids a lot, as they didn’t really have much going for them besides the one cool Kraken thing. They didn’t lullaby sims or enchant sims. They were just there to be regular sims, which I already don’t like much in Sims 3, who look pretty in the water... and that’s really it. They were basically just boring eye candy who dried out a lot for me, lol.)

"bunny-gypsy;c-17106327" wrote:
As a mermaid player, I prefer how mermaids (sirens) are done in this pack, so to me, it’s worth it. They did more with mermaid here than in Sims 3, though I do miss the Kraken call, and having dive lots.

(I tried and tried to play Sims 3, but I just got bored with Sims 3 mermaids a lot, as they didn’t really have much going for them besides the one cool Kraken thing. They didn’t lullaby sims or enchant sims. They were just there to be regular sims, which I already don’t like much in Sims 3, who look pretty in the water... and that’s really it. They were basically just boring eye candy who dried out a lot for me, lol.)

I haven't read about their powers yet, but if it's just about mermaids for some then this could have been a GP as it seems so much smaller than past EPs of older games that offered ten times more in them.