"Sk8rblaze;c-16963951" wrote:
It definitely looks like it was inspired by the huge popularity of Stranger Things.
It’s content I don’t really feel belongs in a main series Sims game. When I solve that story, am I ever going to want to play with this pack again? If I don’t want to solve it at all, am I basically paying for a world? And who knows if they truly are able to contain the crazy Sims in that one world with the way the bugs in this game run rampant sometimes.
It feels as if the developers were finally catching up with providing us creative tools, but taking away our ability to freely tell a story with a world, and forcing their own upon us is something I hope doesn’t return in the series as a pack’s main and entire selling point ever again.
We still have more to see, I’m sure, but right now, I’m not too enthused whatsoever. In fact, I don’t know if it’s something I would want in my game, even if given to me for free.
I agree with a lot of this.
I don’t have any problems with the theme and for me as a huge gamer and love of horror games, the trailer didn’t faze me personally I think if anything the game needs a break from happy utopia land where consequences are minimal.
But my biggest concern is the story. Ive been told it’s about five hours long in sim time and the fact it’s linear means you probably won’t do it more than once. A producer said once “it’s not the story WE want to tell” but I’m not sure I want the game telling stories for me. Especially if their version of a good story is different to mine. I guess we can only wait and see.
