"trekkiebeth;c-17629823" wrote:
I'm totally out of the loop. I'm excited for my Sims to be able to go somewhere that I love going! Why is everyone disappointed? Not much crossover between Sims fans and Star Wars fans? Was everyone hoping for something specific and this isn't as good?
It just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan. But I just don't think this fits with my Sims gameplay at all.
Look, anyone who is a genre fan... whether it's the Sims, Star Wars, Star Trek, the Buffyverse, LOTR, whatever... you know that the internal consistency of the universe
matters. Are we now to believe that the Sims and Star Wars exist in the same universe? That's a big pill to swallow. I mean, would you really want Harry Potter showing up in Mordor, no matter how much you love either series?
IF I eventually buy the pack, and that's a huge if, the only way I will be able to play it is to create a new save (which I hate to do, I have played in the same rotational save from day one), and only play a single character who travels to this world and runs through all the content, and then never touch it again. That's a big ask, financially. But I don't want the SW world, much as I love it, bleeding into the world of my regular sims. They just do not, in either my head canon or in any logical canon, exist in the same universe.
Of course, the problem with trying to do that is that in my regular save, then I would have Rey showing up at the spice festival and Kylo Ren working out at the gym and townies wandering around with light sabers, and so on. At a bare minimum, I hope that's something they can tone down in the patches that will inevitably be necessary.
Edited to add: I want to be fair here. The pack itself, if you take away all context, looks pretty cool. I might even really like it as a standalone game (like, say, Sims Medieval). It's just that when you start to actually think through the ramifications, it's not something I want mingled with my regular sims gameplay. And I'm not convinced there will be a decent way to keep it separate.
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