Does anyone else not play with supernaturals at all?

I don't play much with them either. It's not just about immersion, it's about balance as well. IIRC, vampire is 5x lifetime and x2 learning rate + special perks, with zero downsides.

About immersion, one could make a point that the sims never really were serious, and what you're supposed to be immersed into is a very bad soap opera, so super naturals are fair game. But since, for better or worse, EA Sims is pretty the only representative of its genre, it would be nice to be able to customize the game just like you said, putting most if not all supernatural in the same EP or at least have a convenient way to toggle them off.

You are not alone. I don’t play with the supernaturals at all, not even aliens. I never had an interest in them. Not only that I forget about them. I even forget about having mermaids :/

I am not interested in Supernaturals whatsoever

I seldomly play with Supernaturals as well. The only Supernaturals I do play however are usually limited to the Sims series classics like witches and vampires. Although I have to admit I do enjoy the Sims 4's take on vampires since they're very well done. Though most of the times, I prefer living normal mundane lives with my Sims so I hardly ever touch the Supernatural aspect of the games. I do like that in the Sims 2 that they're just NPCs that appear and a feature you can omit out of entirely. Outside of that I really don't want a fairy centric pack for the Sims 4 tbh since I hated them so much in the Sims 3. So any fairy related pack is a hard pass for me.

Depends on the nature of the story I'm doing and the town I'm doing it in. Pleasantview, not so much; Strangetown, most definitely. That is one place in TS2 where I wish I had TS4 style multi-level basements. TS3 has dungeons/tombs but I don't remember if we could make our own.

I don’t play with aliens or supernaturals at all.

I don't have vampires or realm of magic for this reason. Every so often I'm tempted because variety is nice once in a while, but I just wish there was a supernaturals toggle. Same with ghosts actually. The ghost doctors. Gah. Turn them off.

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I don't have vampires or realm of magic for this reason. Every so often I'm tempted because variety is nice once in a while, but I just wish there was a supernaturals toggle. Same with ghosts actually. The ghost doctors. Gah. Turn them off.

This is the very reason why I dislike how ghosts are handled in the Sims 4. They're supposed to be dead yet they'll still regularly text their living relatives or friends to go out and get a drink. :neutral:

I wished the ghosts were like in the Sims and the Sims 2 again. Because ghosts in those games used to terrify me as a child. In the Sims 2, my god were they vengeful and spooky but that's what I expected ghosts to be like. But like starting with the Sims 3 and onwards, every ghost is now just Casper the Friendly Ghost. :/

I definitely don't play with Supernaturals, no matter which game it is. They used to be fun for me, but they got frustrating for me after a while, both in TS3 and TS4.

I think I just got tired of seeing normal townies become supernaturals in my game.

I don't. I played plantsims once for an hour about a year ago, same with an alien, that Ididn't even realise was an alien until she had a green baby lol.

Island Living is my all time fav pack, all my sims live there full time now and I've spent many many many hours on that pack and not once seen a mermaid let alone played one haha! If I was going to play any supernatural I guess it'd be mermaids, but right now I have no intention of it.

Ghosts are released immediately are deleted from manage worlds, same with aliens.

I don't own vampires.

I have the witches pack but never go into the area that allows magic to enter my normal worlds so again, I never have seen a witch, I bought it for the amazing cas/build buy and glimmerbrook world.



I do enjoy strangerville pack though, as it's not really supernatural. The Sims are still normal Sims just affected by plant pollen, I consider it a bad science experiement and more a poison type affect than supernatural so it doesn't compare to me. I've played it quite a few times now.