Robles family

I can honestly say I have never heard of that city or knew anything about it, must be a Cali thing.

I'm in the midwest. And, I'm also a beerage chick, no vino for me.

I'm just wondering whether it's a hint to nectar-making coming back. I don't believe for a minute that they just pulled that name out of a hat.

That is a neat comparison and I would love it if nectar making came back.

I think the name represents strong family roots or a family tree. Roble means oak tree in Spanish.

"lunaoddity;c-18225455" wrote:
I think the name represents strong family roots or a family tree. Roble means oak tree in Spanish.

Yeah, that's certainly possible, and if the EP weren't set in a California-style world, I would lean toward thinking that was the only meaning. But come on. The devs live in CA. There's no way they're not familiar with Paso Robles. They had to know someone would make that connection.

Considering this is the family and generations expansion pack, I highly doubt it's coming in this one. Perhaps later but aboslutely not now.

What happened to the Michaelsons? Are they different family from the Robleses? Anyway, they did hint strongly at horses, maybe we will get wine country with the horses in next EP. I was really hoping for a big tree forest in this EP.

"Amapola76;d-1006297" wrote:
Guys.

The prominent family mentioned in the blog is the Robles family.

Robles. CA. Am I the only one whose mind goes to Paso Robles? (I.e., CA wine country?)

Yep, I thought of Paso Robles too, when I heard that name, and there are a lot of wineries on the interior ( opposite side of the ocean ).

But San Sequoia seems to be kind of a combination of San Francisco ( the bridges over the ocean ) and Sequoia national park, which is south east of San Francisco, there are huge Redwood tree’s above San Francisco too though, so I think the city will be like SF, it looked rather hilly like SF too in the video, and at least one neighborhood will be very woodsy. I think the pack will be based on on mid/upper California. Hopefully with swimming and piers in the warf area.
I would love to see trolly cars make an appearance too, but I doubt we will see that.

I wonder if we will see a forest fire lot trait ( like the volcano and earthquake one ) as we have seen lots of forest fires among the Sequoia’s in California in the last few years.

"Simmerville;c-18231622" wrote:
From the trailer I got a weird Asian vibe re one family, not their surroundings. No idea what the family was named, probably the Michaelsons. The family that was visited by grandparents. Even the hairstyle of the infant starting the trailer looked Asian-ish to me, although I'm pretty sure that hairdo is rather common (and practical) to infants/toddlers all over the world ;)

Is there any past immigration/cultural influence involving any Asian country in the RL area that San Sequoia is based on?

Loads of Asian influence in the Bay Area. Relatives (Filipino) are in Daly City, there's Little Saigon, and Japantown and Chinatown.

"SheriSim57;c-18231612" wrote:

"Amapola76;d-1006297" wrote:
Guys.

The prominent family mentioned in the blog is the Robles family.

Robles. CA. Am I the only one whose mind goes to Paso Robles? (I.e., CA wine country?)

Yep, I thought of Paso Robles too, when I heard that name, and there are a lot of wineries on the interior ( opposite side of the ocean ).

But San Sequoia seems to be kind of a combination of San Francisco ( the bridges over the ocean ) and Sequoia national park, which is south east of San Francisco, there are huge Redwood tree’s above San Francisco too though, so I think the city will be like SF, it looked rather hilly like SF too in the video, and at least one neighborhood will be very woodsy. I think the pack will be based on on mid/upper California. Hopefully with swimming and piers in the warf area.
I would love to see trolly cars make an appearance too, but I doubt we will see that.

Yeah, that's why I've been talking about the resemblance to Marin County since even before we got the trailer, which technically encompasses both some suburbs of San Francisco and some points further north (including, I believe, Muir Woods). It kind of sounds like the different neighborhoods will encompass different aspects of those areas, or at least hopefully so.

Anyway, it's certainly farther north than Paso Robles, but given that this is an unmistakably California-inspired world, it just doesn't seem like a total coincidence to me.

"Simmerville;c-18231622" wrote:
From the trailer I got a weird Asian vibe re one family, not their surroundings. No idea what the family was named, probably the Michaelsons. The family that was visited by grandparents. Even the hairstyle of the infant starting the trailer looked Asian-ish to me, although I'm pretty sure that hairdo is rather common (and practical) to infants/toddlers all over the world ;)

Is there any past immigration/cultural influence involving any Asian country in the RL area that San Sequoia is based on?

Definitely! As Haflinger mentioned, there are several different Asian communities, but probably it's most well-known for Chinatown.

Going out on a limb, though, I don't think that family is going to be the Robles family, though I hope we do get them as premades.