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ThatFuzzyGamer's avatar
7 years ago

Unpopular Opinion about Seasons

First and foremost Seasons is ONE of my favorite packs in every Sims game (followed by University and Pets). The Sims Team did an amazing job when it came to the season's element. The ability to create our own holidays earns my stamp of approval and something I plan to heavily utilize in lets plays on Twitch/YouTube and in my own spare time. However, I've noticed that there are some things missing from seasons that I would have LIKED to see in the expansion that didn't make it for whatever reason.

The pack seems to have taken a fifty percent focus cut on seasons itself while the other fifty percent was focused on gardening. Now I do like how gardening works in the game now and really takes guessing work out I feel. It does make sense to change how plants behave during seasons, but it made me wonder ‘what was cut out due to the decision?’

Would we have hail and power outages during intense thunderstorms?
Would there have been more traditions available for holiday creation?
Would we have had snow that built up and the ability to build snow forts?
Could we have checked the weather on the TV or even the computer?
Could there have been a meteorology career that was playable?

Personally, I feel they should have made a change in how plants behave during seasons instead of a complete overhaul AND then release a gardening game pack itself. I would have coughed up the twenty dollars for it! I’m sure there are others who would too because they did a good job! Just feel decisions were made to cut this out and that out to make room for a gardening overhaul.
  • I hope there will be more bad things to happens to our sims in the future seasons packs. It would be so cool to have to worry if the roof is fixed in time for winter or that the air conditioner is working during a heatwave, flooded streets and dry periods. The game as it is now, well what is the point with any packs if there is no depth or challenge?
    Like they can drink tap water, but why really?