"SimsILikeSims;c-18002577" wrote:
"simmerorigin;c-18002429" wrote:
"Peral;c-18000075" wrote:
The usual Landgraabs of course also Goths, Villareals, Pancakes and Calientes
I find it interesting that Landgraab is your first family when they were only added as recently as the Sims 3
Actually, there was a Landgraab in Sims 2, but he was introduced in an expansion pack.
And predates the Sims, given that Malcolm Landgraab appears in SimCity 3000 (looking completely different to later iterations) as well as the Console spinoff games where he got the most character progression.
"simmerorigin;c-18002431" wrote:
"dearie_blossom;c-18002364" wrote:
I don‘t like any of them tbh. Maybe the good looking guys for eye candy, e.g. Akira Kibo, Salim Benali.
Have you played the Sims 2? I feel like it's impossible to spend time in that game and NOT feel connected to at least one of the families.
Honestly, I never gelled with Pleasantview. I found it really disheartening they decided to essentially kill off everyone we knew and loved from TS1, and replace them with their trashy children, engaged in trashy soap opera drama (seriously the only people in a healthy relationship in Pleasantview weren't even living in Pleasantview). Not to mention they made the single most popular character from Ts1 unplayable as part of a alien mystery storyline.
Side note, but I feel Bella Goth is the Peter Parker of the Sims lore. Peter Parker (Spider-man) is Marvel's comics most popular character without a doubt - and rivals Batman in popularity in comics overall. However, it is obvious editorial does not want any meaningful change of status quote, any any change is usually reverted shortly afterwards so he feels "relatable". This means him being single, under 30, broke and living with roommates, operating anonymously as Spider-man with an ailing Aunt May in the background. This lead to what is considered the worst comic storyline ever - One Day More - where a married, successful Peter Parker sacrifices his marriage to Mary Jane, and his first born child to the devil in order to save the life of his dying Aunt May who was shot because Spider-man's identity was known - this erased decades worth of storyline and character development because parenthood and marriage was seen by the head of Marvel comics as ageing him too much and being too unrelatable to younger readers.
I sort of see this with Bella, they are always concerned with not deviating too far from status quo, she always has to be adult or younger (despite literally everyone else dying from old age, even her fresh out of college brother Michael dies of old age 25 years later - seriously why did they add a hard number of years to a game that doesn't operate in hard numbers?), so anything that "preserves" her, her appearance is prioritised. They don't want to age her up to elder, they don't want to kill her off.
However, saying that, I would personally prefer if they returned to older lore in the timeline, ie, between 1 and 2, where the family founding fathers (like Bob and Betty Newbie, Jeff and Diane Pleasant, Brad and Tiffany Burb) are still alive, and move past the era of meme boss Nancy Landgraab and return Malcolm to centre stage, perhaps with Dudley and Mimi, and an ex wife to boot, plus the drama obsessed folks can have teenage Calientes.
In terms of characters that were introduced in TS4, Judith Ward just has to return in a TS5 fame pack, along with a chain of ex husbands, lovers and maybe even an estranged child or two.
Know and his mothers would be a welcome return too, but only if we have suitable eco stuff in the game or pack they come in.
Controversial opinion, but I wouldn't mind seeing the Mother Plant again.
