Plumbellas review

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645663" wrote:

"SimTrippy;c-17645412" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645407" wrote:
Honestly I cannot believe that the world is just set dressing and there is like one interactable lot per district and nobody is tending the shops and the aliens races are just masks and ahhhhh,!!!

I'm with you. Somehow although my expectations were low and I knew I wouldn't like or buy this, they somehow still managed to disappoint me. I'm glad some simmers get what they want here, but as a sci-fi nerd and star wars fan, I still fail to see how this meets any of those needs. But I'm just me I guess..

@SimTrippy For me really I didn't like the idea of a pack specifically about Star Wars but I was open since I thought that if done well it's going to give us some adventure and since I like adventure and action games I thought who knows maybe it will be good. But I also don't see how it is going to captivate even Star wars fans with so little interactable lots and things to do. It's great to look at though.

Agreed, I was open to it as well until we got the first trailer. It just seemed like more of the same, minus a nice world to live in and, as we know now, minus editable lots, minus base camp (????), minus real species (even if non-playable), minus the choice to do anything with Kylo / Rey outside of Batuu, minus ..... gameplay? I just don't see it. Even for those who like goal-oriented gameplay, I fail to see how this won't bore them in a very short amount of time. They can't go to Batuu on holidays with their sim families or make this world their own in any significant way .. they can't even really go there for fun and ignore the quests as there's just nothing there when you strip the repetitive quests and build shells away. For all the hate SV used to get, at least it's a decent-sized world (for a GP), adds a new career that's actually fun, lets us set the state of the world once completed, and the world has an overall interesting atmosphere you can enjoy even if you ignore all the alien invasion stuff. JTB has none of that. My mind is still blown at the number of restrictions and limitations in this pack, and they just seem to keep coming. Every review I watch, I'm more amazed at just how much isn't here at all. Like even for TS4, it's shocking.

"izecson;c-17643180" wrote:
Is the 'alien' only a sim with a costume? really?

"Komura;c-17643233" wrote:
The aliens are only costumes?! The world is disappointing? Who could have ever imagined this?!

Me. I did. Totally me.

It gets worse...it's not even a costume

https://twitter.com/TouchMyGaga/status/1301606386254655488

"Flexono1;c-17645716" wrote:

"izecson;c-17643180" wrote:
Is the 'alien' only a sim with a costume? really?

"Komura;c-17643233" wrote:
The aliens are only costumes?! The world is disappointing? Who could have ever imagined this?!

Me. I did. Totally me.

It gets worse...it's not even a costume

https://twitter.com/TouchMyGaga/status/1301606386254655488

Was it done this way so you could choose whatever outfit you want that sim to wear? I mean, if they had made it a full costume, we'd be stuck without the ability to add or change clothes.

"Flexono1;c-17645716" wrote:

It gets worse...it's not even a costume

I actually like the way they've done that, this way we can still customize the clothes, it's like seconde best to being actual facial features/skin.

Yeah I will agree that this is a good idea so you can dress them in what you want. It doesn't look nice and this is where it would have been better to have the actual skintone be this color and the facial features be in the face category we got with Vampires and IL. But yeah this is better than the whole body costume thing.

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645827" wrote:
Yeah I will agree that this is a good idea so you can dress them in what you want. It doesn't look nice and this is where it would have been better to have the actual skintone be this color and the facial features be in the face category we got with Vampires and IL. But yeah this is better than the whole body costume thing.

I think, though, that Sims can only wear these costumes in the normal Sim worlds and not on Batuu, which is weird.

English Simmer couldn't get them to work on Batuu.

"Flexono1;c-17645716" wrote:
It gets worse...it's not even a costume

Yeah it will work. Wait until we get these new skin tones. It will work even better.

I’m not remotely bothered by this. It give me more customization than if it was just costume.
I do think it’s a pity that there’s none of that for kids. But than again, they can be Jawas. Can’t beat that. :p

"haneul;c-17645834" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645827" wrote:
Yeah I will agree that this is a good idea so you can dress them in what you want. It doesn't look nice and this is where it would have been better to have the actual skintone be this color and the facial features be in the face category we got with Vampires and IL. But yeah this is better than the whole body costume thing.

I think, though, that Sims can only wear these costumes in the normal Sim worlds and not on Batuu, which is weird.

English Simmer couldn't get them to work on Batuu.

What? How does that make sense? :lol:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645847" wrote:

"haneul;c-17645834" wrote:

"SimmerGeorge;c-17645827" wrote:
Yeah I will agree that this is a good idea so you can dress them in what you want. It doesn't look nice and this is where it would have been better to have the actual skintone be this color and the facial features be in the face category we got with Vampires and IL. But yeah this is better than the whole body costume thing.

I think, though, that Sims can only wear these costumes in the normal Sim worlds and not on Batuu, which is weird.

English Simmer couldn't get them to work on Batuu.

What? How does that make sense? :lol:

From what I’ve seen there’s a limited closet of clothes to choose from upon entering the vacation world, and none of the alien clothing is on it. I don’t know how it makes sense either, I feel like you should be able to wear whatever you want. If I bought this pack and wanted to wear a clown suit to Batuu I should be able to?! After all it is my sims Star Wars story, maybe my Jedi is party clown.

"Justin;c-17643160" wrote:
I knew it wasn’t going to be as good when they barley showed anything on the trailer or gameplay. Heck you don’t even have an actual journey getting there. Just a loading screen lol. For a Star Wars pack & many of the Star Wars fan in the EA team I would expect better . Easy pass for me. But I hope everyone else who is looking forward to it enjoy it :)

Also yeeeeesss this is the exact reason the whole phone and teleport thing doesn't make sense and this pack proves it. We need some kind of transportation or journey. It feels so wrong to pick up your phone inside your house in Willow Creek and suddenly you are in Batuu, wth?