Strangerville; anyone else slightly horrified?

It's a game with Cow Plants and a Tragic Clown so no, I don't find Strangerville horrifying. I'm glad to see that there will be an option for players to turn features off.

"Beardedgeek;c-16965184" wrote:

"Pamtastic72;c-16964995" wrote:

"mika;c-16964662" wrote:
The devs said you can ignore the strangeness and play the town normally if you are uncomfortable. Personally, I think more darkness and strangeness is exactly what TS4 needs.

I agree. But I also understand other people's discomfort so I'm glad devs took that into account. I am ridiculously excited to get this pack.

I think it's a great move. But at the same time it kind of feels like a big "why bother at all" if you can skip the story.

Because some people might want the build buy mode and don't want a sandbox game telling them what to do?

It's just you. I'm 100% over the Pleasantville feel of the game. They've been doing better and adding more quirky things in, but this is a breath of fresh air for the series as far as I'm concerned. I'll take quirky color over mundane black and white monotony any day.
http://static.rogerebert.com/redactor_assets/pictures/far-flung-correspondents/the-garden-of-pleasantville/11_Umbrella.JPG

No it's not just you ... not everyone likes the same things.
Me however. I'm over the moon for this idea. I love sci-fi and horror, conspiracy theory stuff ect. I feel they have been adding in basic or family play for so long I'm about to go cross eyed with it. I've been waiting patiently for Witches or Servos ect. This while not what I've been actually anticipating will happen it is right up there with it. I love Strangetown and already have a Sims 4 save waiting. General Buzz has been waiting for a military career and frankly I never thought we would get this sort of stuff in game. I'm so glad to be wrong and very happy it's coming. We'll still get the normal packs (themes) of that I have no doubt.

Well I was about to go to bed, thanks for that :lol:

"domina89;c-16965114" wrote:
*raises hand*
It creeps me out. Those sims look like marionette puppets from some slasher film. I can just imagine a random townie dressed as a clown popping up in my game with that infection. I usually play late at night and that will really freak me out.

I'm right there with Hermitgirl...can't wait for Tuesday to come. With that being said I will have a scientist up and ready to move into Strangeville. :D I'm not a horror fan but love sci fi and conspiracy themes.

I was terrified of the clowns in earlier packs. Vampires and alien bugs are nothing to them. I like the adventure and exploring element of the pack, especially as you can defeat the threat in the end. You never could get rid of the clowns. :#

Mind you - I was a fanatical reader of Lovecraft and '40s and '50s Sf and some of those stories still haunt me.

"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.

"MidnightAura;c-16967281" wrote:

"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.

I have never played the side games with a story, not given them much thought really. Yet I'm very excited that this is coming to the main game because it means I can use my own sims to play through the story and it will seamlessly be part of my rotational save. I wouldn't have bought a separate game for it but I find it interesting that they're expanding TS4 to this direction.

Only thing that slightly unnerved me was the backbreaking angle at the end of the "transformation" scene but otherwise it's pretty tame, lol. But still looks like fun.