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"Beardedgeek;c-17152166" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-17151818" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17151249" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;c-17151171" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17151139" wrote:

"keekee53;c-17151129" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17150909" wrote:

"jooxis;c-17150897" wrote:
I'm having trouble getting into it. I feel like I've already done everything that the pack offers in my first day of gameplay.
I feel this is easily the weakest expansion pack they have released so far in terms of gameplay and it is even weaker than most of the game packs in this regard which is alarming. And that makes me quite sad and not very hopeful about Realm of Magic.

I think it depends on what you consider "gameplay". I have been playing every day since this pack dropped and I still have tons of things to do.
Plus I just genuinely love what I have already done.
Spending every day snorkeling, free diving for seashells and doing yoga in the evenings... (who me? Jealous of my Sims? Nah...)

huh It is very clear fun is subjective because watching my sim swim around a buoy, watching bubble as they dive and then watching them finish the evening with yoga...I need more going on in my game for entertainment.

Apparently so.
I loathe interactive careers ( working from home I can deal with, but doctor or scientist? It's soooooo frustrating after awhile).

I also enjoy them doing similar tasks as snorkeling. Which is all the tasks.
I still don't get why snorkeling is wrongfully percieved as a "rabbit hole" when you have the exact same interactivity there as literally all other tasks. You can describe every action in the game like you describe snorkeling: workout? Check. Jogging? Check. Cooking? Check. Swimming in a pool? Check. Karaoke? Check.

Clearly those referring to snorkeling as a rabbit hole are talking about diving. You know that, you’re just trying to play semantic games with it.

Snorkeling is just as thrilling as diving tho. Your sim swims around a small area and pop up’s tell you what they find. I mean at least they don’t disappear but it’s not like snorkeling is a super exciting activity that adds so many dimensions to the game. It’s like a different form of jogging, and I don’t consider that very entertaining to watch given the repetition in just one play through.

So two things:

1. If you first try to correct me then say you don't find a reasonable difference, then your correction is pointless.

2. Why play the Sims if the default-for-all-interractions is boring to you? And has been in all Sims games, 1-4?

What exactly is “default for all”? This is an expansion pack and it should provide a hefty amount of *NEW* gameplay, *NEW* features, and new stuff. Snorkeling is supposedly one of the new gameplay features of this pack and I said it’s about as thrilling as going for a jog. Clearly you aren’t understanding what I’m saying. Whether that’s intentional or not, I don’t really know or care.

I corrected you because you were trying to create an argument based off your own misunderstanding. I’m not trying to get into a game of semantics with you, just clearing up some misinformation you are so gleefully spreading even though you knew what they meant. Other poster thinks I can read minds, no, I can read text on this website.

I really would like you to clarify a bit on that second bullet. It sounds like you are putting words on my mouth on that and I would like more details about what you mean before I respond to it. @Beardedgeek

ETA: @keekee53 you make such an excellent point with the interactive vs skill based gameplay!! You took the words right out of my mouth.

Again, you seem to have an extremely odd expectation for the pack.
And you obviously misunderstood me. What I mean with "like all other interactions" is that's the same TYPE of interactions. To work out you click on the workout equipment and wait for 10 minutes while the sim cycles an animation. Same with gardening. Or diving. Or cooking. Or watching tv.
But for some reason you single out this pack?

I didn’t misunderstand you I asked for clarification, thanks for providing it. Clearly you and I have a much different view of what constitutes “fun” gameplay.

Skill based gameplay is fairly low level for myself. That includes cooking, fitness, gardening, anything that revolves around building skills. It’s more or less a background feature and a means to an end. I don’t play the game to watch my sim constantly cook, or workout, or garden those are skill based activities that fall to the background. I have never appreciated the numerous animations they created for cooking because they don’t change anything about the process or the end result. Cooking is a means to fill hunger, and it’s not like there is a ton of fun gameplay revolving around cooking. Now before you say snorkeling and cooking aren’t the same I am JUST making a comparison! You missed that when I compared snorkeling to jogging and you created a sub-discussion on that when it wasn’t my meaning at all! So I figure I need to clarify numerous times for you to not misinterpret my words.

Snorkeling is not your standard run of the mill activity like cooking, or working out, or gardening. It’s an activity that you won’t be doing daily, and if you do there is no real benefit to doing it. This might be where you and I are at odds, I get where you are coming from, and I am saying that for a “major feature” of this expansion pack this gameplay should be more than what it is. It has the complexity of the run of the mill interactions when it should be interactive and should add something to the game beyond watching your sim swim around a buoy.

As for why I am singling out this pack, am I supposed to single out some other DLC? Snorkeling, diving, both came with IL. Should I single out CL or C&D because snorkeling is a low level feature? This pack is the one being discussed here, I don’t know why you have a problem with anyone singling it out.