Thoughts on festivals?
I think we need to have a discussion on festivals. At first I thought they were such a great idea and had fun with them when they were first introduced. It gave our sims something fun to look forward ...
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"lexibee;c-18155194" wrote:
The festivals in City Living are the only ones I still pay any attention to. While they're pretty limited, there's at least things to DO there. Eating spicy food at the spice festival, dressing up and participating in contests at geek con, drinking tea and talking to the romance guru at the romance festival, picking a team and being mischievous at the humor and hijinks festival with fireworks at the end for the winning team. Even the flea market can be fun to attend, and you can even set up your own table.
Comparing those to the ones we're getting in HSY, it's pretty pitiful honestly... So, you what? Take selfies, throw a football, and show off your cheerleading skills? That's it?? And it's so SMALL too. Would've been nice if it took up the whole football field. If there were actual games for your sims to play. Maybe it would've been better if it was more of a school spirit kinda thing, especially since by default you have to schedule on your own the non-sports related events. Why not have them all together? Have some more competitions? Maybe be able to try out for a team? Make it like an event where the clubs are trying to recruit new members? Maybe there could've been the school mascot there that you can talk to and take pictures with like you can with all the other mascots? Get hyped about school spirit or mock it instead? Maybe even prank the mascot? I mean they DID design the Womp Womp, why not make it an actual mascot that one of the teens dresses up as?
I like the idea of the festivals, and like I said the CL ones are still fun to attend from time to time. But they are definitely getting more boring. The HSY one is definitely the worst to date. Give my sims something to DO!
I agree. I think the City Living ones I come back to now and again. I noticed I have completely avoided going to any other ones because there is literally nothing to do there that my sims can do at home.
HSY has sadly taken the laziest approach to these festivals and it's actually quite laughable and disappointing. Your suggestions would have helped to lived it up a bit. I really think we need more gameplay objects with these expansion packs. They seem to be avoiding gameplay objects for some reason. A few more objects related to football or something could have made it maybe more fun?
