Opinions on Goth makeover?
Today the SDX was a makeover for the Goth family. Morty has Vlad's speedo and I don't know how I feel about it... https://i.imgur.com/S9V2dkb.png
Forum Discussion
So...here's my Goth story and why I am totally biased to the old look.
First, to be completely honest, I have never much cared about Sim NPCs, save for the "special" Occults in Sims 2, (who couldn't be played or changed and needed to be pursued and befriended to be granted the same "Occultism".) But in Sims 4, something about the interesting characteristics of many of them and recognizing them around town for many, many years (I play the same long save with aging off) has grown on me and somehow put a few pumps in my cold, dead, still heart. I always loved their house and allowed it to stay, with them in it, whilst the majority of all other NPCs got booted out of their lots or moved around to other places. The Goths were the one "normal" family, (or not so normal,) that I took to. And they started getting my attention in ways I didn't expect.
It started, like many things do, with Cassandra. I used to use a modded game many years ago, so when a new EP came out, I would load a separate vanilla game that I had on the side, to test it, so I could identify if there were any game bugs as opposed to possible glitches caused by my CC or mods. This ended up being the save that I stuck with, eventually. Here's what happened:
Now, because I play one save and keep aging off, I do go around to households to age up Sims when I'm ready, and refresh their outfits. I aged up Alexander Goth, and then came across him in San Myshuno, looking disdainfully at the street art. I decided immediately that he was more interesting than I had anticipated:
Finally, the tale of Bella. To preface this, I just need to say that her fate was the result of a dev contest that was an NPC popularity poll that was shared on these forums a few years back, and we got to vote in segments through process of elimination. Vlad lost to the Bjergsens (Yes, this is important) and, of course, Bella Goth won the finals for the crown of most popular premade. I was to have my revenge on Vlad's loss, so I took it to my game...
As for Mortimer, well, he called up Bella because one of Dracula's Brides was apparently stalking him for dates and he asked Bella what she thought of her and if he should go. I took it as a sign that he was trying to let Bella go, sadly, not understanding her situation, or the fact that he was now in danger himself. Bella told him to stay the heck away from that monster woman.
Alas, that is where the tale currently sits. We shall see where it goes from there, but I have grown attached to the fate of the old Goths in my game and I just won't be able see the new ones the same. Maybe I'll put them in my game as a Multiverse twist and have the Vampire council eat or enslave them. Or maybe new Mortimer will worm his way to another fate, he does look a little sly. We shall have to see.
First, to be completely honest, I have never much cared about Sim NPCs, save for the "special" Occults in Sims 2, (who couldn't be played or changed and needed to be pursued and befriended to be granted the same "Occultism".) But in Sims 4, something about the interesting characteristics of many of them and recognizing them around town for many, many years (I play the same long save with aging off) has grown on me and somehow put a few pumps in my cold, dead, still heart. I always loved their house and allowed it to stay, with them in it, whilst the majority of all other NPCs got booted out of their lots or moved around to other places. The Goths were the one "normal" family, (or not so normal,) that I took to. And they started getting my attention in ways I didn't expect.
It started, like many things do, with Cassandra. I used to use a modded game many years ago, so when a new EP came out, I would load a separate vanilla game that I had on the side, to test it, so I could identify if there were any game bugs as opposed to possible glitches caused by my CC or mods. This ended up being the save that I stuck with, eventually. Here's what happened:
Spoiler
When Cats and Dogs came out, I was really excited to see the docks and the stray cats so I randomly grabbed the Goths and went to BB. Cassandra came across this little cross-eyed stray who seemed to take to her...
https://i.imgur.com/WvBDxNb.png
His name, the name that the game gave him, is Monster. It was fate, and I knew he was meant to go home with them. He still resides in the Goth mansion to this day.
https://i.imgur.com/pWM0mPY.png
When Realm of Magic came out, the game chose to make Cassandra a Spellcaster, which I thought was absolutely fitting. She was becoming more and more interesting to me, so I sent her to University with some of my weird college Sims. (Sorry, no pics of that, I didn't get to play that dorm very much.) But she is on my radar for the future.
When Cats and Dogs came out, I was really excited to see the docks and the stray cats so I randomly grabbed the Goths and went to BB. Cassandra came across this little cross-eyed stray who seemed to take to her...
https://i.imgur.com/WvBDxNb.png
His name, the name that the game gave him, is Monster. It was fate, and I knew he was meant to go home with them. He still resides in the Goth mansion to this day.
https://i.imgur.com/pWM0mPY.png
When Realm of Magic came out, the game chose to make Cassandra a Spellcaster, which I thought was absolutely fitting. She was becoming more and more interesting to me, so I sent her to University with some of my weird college Sims. (Sorry, no pics of that, I didn't get to play that dorm very much.) But she is on my radar for the future.
Now, because I play one save and keep aging off, I do go around to households to age up Sims when I'm ready, and refresh their outfits. I aged up Alexander Goth, and then came across him in San Myshuno, looking disdainfully at the street art. I decided immediately that he was more interesting than I had anticipated:
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/cKPKwbh.png
https://i.imgur.com/cKPKwbh.png
Finally, the tale of Bella. To preface this, I just need to say that her fate was the result of a dev contest that was an NPC popularity poll that was shared on these forums a few years back, and we got to vote in segments through process of elimination. Vlad lost to the Bjergsens (Yes, this is important) and, of course, Bella Goth won the finals for the crown of most popular premade. I was to have my revenge on Vlad's loss, so I took it to my game...
Spoiler
I decided that if Vlad couldn't be the most popular, he would instead control the most popular Sim in the nation. So he set out with an emergency gathering of The Vampire Inner Council to the Goth house, where it just so happened that Bella was out front by herself. (I swear, the game either knows me or truly wants these things to happen, lol. Well, the Vamps surrounded her and she was embraced:
https://i.imgur.com/6H5w8tI.png
She showed up at Vlad's mansion once she had fully transformed, and after a Vampire makeover, she was taken by the entire Council to wreak havoc on the Bjergsens, who she had known in mortal life. She did not partake of their blood like the others and got pretty angry being surrounded by wicked deeds. I will spare all of the glorious details (and bazillion screenshots) .
https://i.imgur.com/OLDS4hH.png
She challenged Vlad to a battle, trying to save the Bjergens and fight for her freedom, but lost. However, she fought well. Vlad respected her feisty spirit, and agreed to leave the Bjergsens in peace in return for her surrender to be his Queen and ambassador to mortal society. She reluctantly acquiesced.
https://i.imgur.com/aqtEIs3.png
https://i.imgur.com/KLZQixQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/Mo6Ci3S.png
She is now one of them, a prisoner to her fate. >:)
https://i.imgur.com/nAHNZCd.png
I decided that if Vlad couldn't be the most popular, he would instead control the most popular Sim in the nation. So he set out with an emergency gathering of The Vampire Inner Council to the Goth house, where it just so happened that Bella was out front by herself. (I swear, the game either knows me or truly wants these things to happen, lol. Well, the Vamps surrounded her and she was embraced:
https://i.imgur.com/6H5w8tI.png
She showed up at Vlad's mansion once she had fully transformed, and after a Vampire makeover, she was taken by the entire Council to wreak havoc on the Bjergsens, who she had known in mortal life. She did not partake of their blood like the others and got pretty angry being surrounded by wicked deeds. I will spare all of the glorious details (and bazillion screenshots) .
https://i.imgur.com/OLDS4hH.png
She challenged Vlad to a battle, trying to save the Bjergens and fight for her freedom, but lost. However, she fought well. Vlad respected her feisty spirit, and agreed to leave the Bjergsens in peace in return for her surrender to be his Queen and ambassador to mortal society. She reluctantly acquiesced.
https://i.imgur.com/aqtEIs3.png
https://i.imgur.com/KLZQixQ.png
https://i.imgur.com/Mo6Ci3S.png
She is now one of them, a prisoner to her fate. >:)
https://i.imgur.com/nAHNZCd.png
As for Mortimer, well, he called up Bella because one of Dracula's Brides was apparently stalking him for dates and he asked Bella what she thought of her and if he should go. I took it as a sign that he was trying to let Bella go, sadly, not understanding her situation, or the fact that he was now in danger himself. Bella told him to stay the heck away from that monster woman.
Alas, that is where the tale currently sits. We shall see where it goes from there, but I have grown attached to the fate of the old Goths in my game and I just won't be able see the new ones the same. Maybe I'll put them in my game as a Multiverse twist and have the Vampire council eat or enslave them. Or maybe new Mortimer will worm his way to another fate, he does look a little sly. We shall have to see.
