Sims 4 Adventure Awaits Negative Discussion thread.
Hello,this is the negative discussion thread for Adventure Awaits.Here you can place all your concerns and criticisims. Rules no attacking each other or the sims team.
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This EP feels weird, about half a year after businesses and hobbies. Both offer community lots with set activities. Not exactly the same but similar enough. One can be owned while the other has a time schedule. Also this pack offers more hobbies than the pack with hobbies (plural!) in the title? We get archery, bug collection, paper crafts, more fitness options, diving boards, kayaks,... Where the hobbies pack only offered one (!) hobby: pottery
This feels like leftovers and scrapped ideas bundled under a getaway flag. I think the features look actually decent but a lot of them feel like they belong in an existing pack. Playgrounds would have been perfect for growing together, bugs are a variation on outdoor retreat insects, love island screams love struck and the blender was part of a vote for a stuff pack. It's nice to get them all but combining kids gameplay with fitness and love island feels like a random collection of themes.
And then there is the big absence of the word 'hotel' . A bed and breakfast is shown and it is close enough to play pretend to stay in a hotel. But why not actual hotels in this pack? At this point I can only conclude EA will ask another 40€ (or more with inflation) when we finally get hotels.
I think it's because the sims team engineers have chosen to build future packs iteratively. If that makes sense. They are not building one pack for one large concept. They are trying to build different features that can support different options in The Sims 4. And these different features (probably because of budget) are being built upon in multiple packs.
With Business&Hobbies the game supported custom businesses, with Adventure Awaits, the game will support custom venues and roles. The next step could be to see if they could work that into a "hotel" model.
I still want them to work on a sims5, but I will admit that it is a bit interesting that it looks like the sims team are focusing a bit more on depth now. But that seems to leave them little budget sometimes when it comes to other things though like you mentioned, what's the difference between catching butterflies and catching insects in outdoor retreat? (which have butterflies).
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