The Sims 4 Country Livin'

"jadonbakes;c-17481113" wrote:
Excited for any new content, but I’m afraid we already have too much country-inspired build/buy. Hopefully they’ll take this pack in an original direction, object-wise.

@jadonbakes! Agree! I’m excited for a new type of gameplay! But so much of BB is country-inspired. Not really my jam, so not looking forward to more ranch chic homestyle decor.

"jadonbakes;c-17481113" wrote:
Excited for any new content, but I’m afraid we already have too much country-inspired build/buy. Hopefully they’ll take this pack in an original direction, object-wise.

I hope so too. I would love to see the middle ages be apart of it. I did a paper on being a serf and having a farm in junior high. Also love the idea of a dragon in the pack. I guess I could use the Realm of Magic dragons, but would be fun to ride one and preparing the farm fields for new harvests.

"SelinaKyles;c-17481146" wrote:
Seeing people hope for fairies and werewolves and dragons, in the same pack they’re hoping for horses. You all seem to have forgotten this is EA, they’ve failed to bring multiple occult’s in past packs. I don’t see how fairies, dragons or werewolves even fit in a country living pack. Honestly hope werewolves and fairies aren’t in this pack. They make occult’s more fleshed out when they come in GP’s. And even then it’s like they’ll be their own GP’s as well.
We can only wait for EA play, if this leak turns out to be like DU, the gurus kept their lips sealed till the very day they announced it, and EA is holding their conference thing in June, probably won’t hear about it till then

Both werewolves and fairies are creatures often associated with the countryside.
Fairies are usually depicted as highly attuned to nature/woodlands, while werewolves are also the kind of occult that would prefer rural areas where they could roam free in werewolf form and hunt.
I'm guessing at least werewolves will be in, they frankly don't need an in depth system like Vampires or Witches, so long as they give them neat werewolf/hybrid form customization that's more than enough to me anyways. So long as they don't look so ugly and low effort like Sims 3 werewolves, which were more like wolfmen anyways.
Or perhaps they'll just include fairies as they are far easier to implement than werewolves come to think of it, they basically just need customizable wings and some pseudo magic powers.

And yeah, I kinda fail to see the point of horses without Open World. I guess you'll be able to keep them as pets that just walk around your home, yay...

And while I'd love to see dragons, they are far better suited for a Medieval Pack, which I'd love to see as well. If we can get time travel to the Future, why not to the past? Besides, Sims 3 even had a store world that was medieval themed.

Last but not least I highly doubt there will be any other GP devoted to a single occult. Vampires and Witches were always the most popular of the bunch. Considering they included mermaids in IL chances are high we'll get either fairies or werewolves in this new Farming EP.

I'm so thristy for new content that, even though I've never been remotely interested in anything farming related, I'm excited for this lol. I do look forward to some more off-the-grid options and possibly animals.

I think if it was a fake the gurus would say so because they dont want people to get there hopes up about something thats not gonna happen

I'm wary of any pack with "Living" in its title, especially if it's an Expansion Pack. I used to view EPs as sources of new content and features applicable in the entire sim world, like how Seasons adds weather and individual climates to every world, Get Famous introduces many ways of getting famous through jobs and activities from previous packs as well, you can have retail stores everywhere, the same goes for pets, clubs, etc. But both City and Island Living only introduce a new world that you have to live in or at least frequently visit to really get anything out of them, and I'm afraid something like Country Living, if it's even real, would follow the same pattern.

If the main feature happens to be farming, they're going to give us a new world that either has many huge lots to build our own farms on (in which case you could still do that wherever you want, but it would probably look out of place in any other world that isn't the countryside of Windenburg), or the crops and animal farms will be part of the uneditable landscape, and you simply build your house on a lot close to them (in which case the feature is definitely and ultimately tied to the new world). If the main feature are horses, then like others have said before, there's not a lot of space to ride them except for this new world, and everywhere else they would just be animated decoration, much like cats. (Not that there wouldn't be any other ways of making them interesting, but... let's not fool ourselves. This is TS4.)

That's where the idea of occult animal creatures, such as werewolves, comes in. I mean... aren't wolves like the archenemies of farmers, because they eat their livestock and pose a threat to people as well? It's not far-fetched, and if the pack has anything to do with wolves at all, I can imagine it having a light story component similar to StrangerVille, where there's a wolf plague or something like that in the new world, but with the added bonus of a new werewolf state that doesn't depend on anything in the new world like mermaids depend on the ocean in Sulani. And if wolves eating livestock is too brutal for some reason (I mean, we have man-eating cow plants, but whatever...), they could go for magical horses instead (read: unicorns) and make that the feature that somehow transcends the new world.

But so far we don't know anything about this pack, not even if this leak is to be believed, so it might very well be something completely different. I'm looking forward to the official announcement.

So is this the pack that they've never done before?

"comicsforlife;c-17481235" wrote:
I think if it was a fake the gurus would say so because they dont want people to get there hopes up about something thats not gonna happen

Yeah, wouldn’t they have shut it down as soon as possible? They wouldn’t want people to get their hopes up then be let down and become angry with the team, especially with this as this wouldn’t be their fault if someone was leaking fake news.

> @AedanStarfang said:
> So is this the pack that they've never done before?

Nope, not if it's an Expansion pack. It's the Gamepack which will be a major first.

"we are also hard at work on our next Expansion Pack. I’m super excited about the theme the team has chosen—I think it will be a surprise to many of you."

"Another group on our team is currently focused on our next Game Pack. This pack is a major first for us, and we are super eager to share it with all of you later this year."

I will only really enjoy this pack if we can breed golden chocobos...
https://youtu.be/b58YxbOligI?list=PL77D98F68F6DBB35D

Wait, wrong game!

Unicorns would be cool, though! As long as there is something for the occult players