TS4 Discovering University CONFIRMED Coming on November 15th!
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Forum Discussion
I’m not surprised University is next, but I am disappointed it isn’t a general education pack. I’m not interested in university-only gameplay and would have been much more interested a school pack for all ages.
I doubt we’ll get a school pack now, which is a shame, as we’ve never had one before. I suppose university is just a lot more in demand than a school based one due to the average age of the fan base. I started playing the Sims when it first came out when I was 15. I’ve bought every new base game and almost every pack they released in the past 20 years, but I do feel that older (and by older, I mean not teenaged or early twenties) fans are being left behind a little by this game, which is a shame, as we have shown the most customer loyalty over the years. The gameplay is just too limited to the young adult stage. Ugh, rant over.
I hope that they make this game flexible in its customisation like they did with seasons and making your own holidays and choices. I have always found the past university expansions to be incompatible with my own experiences of uni because they are so based on American university experiences. Fair enough, it’s an American made game, but with most things, they try to make a Moreno international styled game as this game is such a bestseller worldwide.
Sororities, mascots, majors/minors - this is a different world to what happens here in the UK. I’d like to be able to customise details so they match more closely with what I think of when I think of uni. Even choosing a three year degree instead of 4, calling the years something else (1st year, 2nd year etc.). And for people from other countries, they could customise details to match their experiences. The gameplay wouldn’t change much, but it would feel much more immersive to make small changes like that.
I also hope you can do a masters or a pHD and that it isn’t campus based.
Finally, this pack could be amazing if they use it as an opportunity to do something new that could be used game-wide, such as a band/musician system or a more developed sports system. That would alleviate my disappointment.
Longest post, sorry!
I doubt we’ll get a school pack now, which is a shame, as we’ve never had one before. I suppose university is just a lot more in demand than a school based one due to the average age of the fan base. I started playing the Sims when it first came out when I was 15. I’ve bought every new base game and almost every pack they released in the past 20 years, but I do feel that older (and by older, I mean not teenaged or early twenties) fans are being left behind a little by this game, which is a shame, as we have shown the most customer loyalty over the years. The gameplay is just too limited to the young adult stage. Ugh, rant over.
I hope that they make this game flexible in its customisation like they did with seasons and making your own holidays and choices. I have always found the past university expansions to be incompatible with my own experiences of uni because they are so based on American university experiences. Fair enough, it’s an American made game, but with most things, they try to make a Moreno international styled game as this game is such a bestseller worldwide.
Sororities, mascots, majors/minors - this is a different world to what happens here in the UK. I’d like to be able to customise details so they match more closely with what I think of when I think of uni. Even choosing a three year degree instead of 4, calling the years something else (1st year, 2nd year etc.). And for people from other countries, they could customise details to match their experiences. The gameplay wouldn’t change much, but it would feel much more immersive to make small changes like that.
I also hope you can do a masters or a pHD and that it isn’t campus based.
Finally, this pack could be amazing if they use it as an opportunity to do something new that could be used game-wide, such as a band/musician system or a more developed sports system. That would alleviate my disappointment.
Longest post, sorry!
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