What do you think of Get Famous?

"Cinebar;c-16769321" wrote:
Acting is the only hands on career? All careers in game will now have a famou track? Reusing assets already in game (previous careers) like they used base game actual objects as festival objects....now it's reuse careers. :s

TS3 papparazzi anyone? Now if all Sims can 'get famous' in old careers will that double your pleasure, double your fun with papparazzi everywhere?

New world, tired of LA and Rodeo Dr. in these games. Oh look, more fake backdrops of skyscrappers. More money spent on backdrops like in CL than the actual gameplay?

Is anyone (director) going to tell the Sim 'You can't act your way out of a paper bag, get out of here!' ? -SuperStar. I doubt it.

It's called an expansion pack for a reason -- it expands on the base game content. It would make no sense to have a pack about fame and leave out existing careers. Sims 3 Late Night included base game careers (like writer and painter) in its celebrity system -- did anyone accuse that pack of "reusing assets already in game"? Didn't think so. I'm actually more interested in how fame will impact current careers like entertainer, athlete, etc. than I am in the new active acting career -- I've found that active careers don't really work well when your Sim is trying to raise a family.

Plus, why reinvent the wheel? If you've got existing content in the base game, why not use it? We've already got musicians in the Entertainer career -- why do we need separate singers? (I'll admit that bands would have been a nice addition, along with more instruments like drums and bass, but those could come in another pack then incorporated into Get Famous for the players that have both packs.)