Thinking about Getting Famous...
Sul sul, everyone. I own all the expansion packs for TS4 except Get Famous and Eco Lifestyle. After playing the free trial of EL a couple weeks ago, I decided to hold off on buying it for a while....
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To be honest, I don't really like the world. On top of being small, it feels small and there really isn't room for a middle class family without some major adjustments. Just upstarts and successful celebs.
As for the premades... *shrug* Trailer girl is fine. I've played with Ward the most, typically giving her a couple kids. No one is particularly offensive, but I'm not super attached either.
I do really like the BB, though, and the CAS is nothing to sneeze at. The career is fine. I've had some issues, but am pretty neutral as far as active careers go. I do especially like the lot traits that come with it. They are more important for celebs, but setting lots as established or not has been useful in my game.
Fame itself is fine. I like it much better than 3's and I like my perk trees. However, the quirk system is super spammy and can be pretty annoying. So are stans. I realize they are meant to be that way, but I feel we were not given the proper tools to deal with what is probably the darkest realistic official content. I left my doors unlocked exactly once and one came in and starting interacting with the children and just no. The only other fairly annoying thing besides the bugs is that I see my five star celebs walking around everywhere, and you will notice them be it shine or walk style or just how often you see their faces. It is pretty ridiculous sometimes.
Oh, and I guess befriending a celebrity as another Sim is super annoying, but that is supposed to be a selling point. Celebs do not make friends they do not approach easily. I am not too bothered over this myself, because of course there is a division there, but it could bother you.
There really is both good and bad to GF, and I am not super in love with it or its fame predecessors. However, as someone that doesn't particularly care about fame I have still gotten a fair bit of use out of it. I do not mess with the content creator stuff at all, or the filming drones. However, I do think that generic desire to be famous is an interesting starting point in life for a lot of Sims, whether they ever get there or not.
As for the premades... *shrug* Trailer girl is fine. I've played with Ward the most, typically giving her a couple kids. No one is particularly offensive, but I'm not super attached either.
I do really like the BB, though, and the CAS is nothing to sneeze at. The career is fine. I've had some issues, but am pretty neutral as far as active careers go. I do especially like the lot traits that come with it. They are more important for celebs, but setting lots as established or not has been useful in my game.
Fame itself is fine. I like it much better than 3's and I like my perk trees. However, the quirk system is super spammy and can be pretty annoying. So are stans. I realize they are meant to be that way, but I feel we were not given the proper tools to deal with what is probably the darkest realistic official content. I left my doors unlocked exactly once and one came in and starting interacting with the children and just no. The only other fairly annoying thing besides the bugs is that I see my five star celebs walking around everywhere, and you will notice them be it shine or walk style or just how often you see their faces. It is pretty ridiculous sometimes.
Oh, and I guess befriending a celebrity as another Sim is super annoying, but that is supposed to be a selling point. Celebs do not make friends they do not approach easily. I am not too bothered over this myself, because of course there is a division there, but it could bother you.
There really is both good and bad to GF, and I am not super in love with it or its fame predecessors. However, as someone that doesn't particularly care about fame I have still gotten a fair bit of use out of it. I do not mess with the content creator stuff at all, or the filming drones. However, I do think that generic desire to be famous is an interesting starting point in life for a lot of Sims, whether they ever get there or not.
