Out of the three THOH Events, does anyone else feel this one is "bleh?"

I am enjoying this year's Halloween event, but I must confess that I also feel a little underwhelmed. On one level, I guess there was no way for it to compete with the expectations I built up in my mind. However, on the other hand, it does kind of feel like a retread.

The first two Treehouse of Horror events were complete free-for-alls. Alien invasions, gods and demons, technology gone amok, and fairy tale creatures all mashed together in a glorious rigmarole of activity. Halloween 2012 -- which I didn't participate in, but read extensively about -- featured zombies, Mayan Gods, aliens, Devil Flanders, witches, and haunted houses, while 2013 featured ghosts, vampires, more aliens, insane technology, more witches, and a freak show. What does this year bring? An alien invasion, which is essentially a retread of Kang's (2012) and Kodos' (2013) story arcs from the previous events. The story arc with Hugo is a nice change of pace, but the reliance on what happened before is kinda...old.

Speaking of old, there is kind of a reliance in re-releasing old content from the past two years. Now, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with rereleasing the old buildings, skins, and characters. Hell, I must have spent $100 to get the old and new content last year. But the new prizes and purchasables feel kind of sparse compared to the volume of past content.

Also, they could have added some more playable characters and skins. The first Halloween event brought us one new character (Kang) and three skins (Mayan Homer, Devil Flanders, and Witch Marge), and the second Halloween brought us a staggering four new characters (Kodos, Suzanne the Witch, Booberella, and Ghost Maude) and two skins (Strongman Homer and Count Burns), but so far all we've got are two new characters -- Hugo and the Space Mutant -- and one skin (Alien Burns). I mean, come on, you introduce the teleporters as a purchasable content, but no Fly-Headed Bart skin?

And even if you wanted to stay exclusively with aliens, you could have included some other playable alien characters, such as some of adult Bart's girlfriends from the recent Days of Future Future, or even Jenda's boyfriend Jerry.

Don't get me wrong -- I'm still enjoying the event, and I'm sure there's some more content that's around the corner (they always have a tie-in to the season's Halloween episode, so we'll see). I just wish it was a little fresher.

This event is far better then Whacking Day!!!!!!!!!!!! It was hard to find the snakes and harder to find the eggs.

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It just occurred to me: as the first Halloween update introduced Kang and the second one Kodos, why not introduce the Rigellian female Kamala this time? It would have played nicely with the invasion motif, and you could have also introduced Bart's Rigellian body as a playable skin (he could have been altered by Professor Frink to infiltrate the enemy's forces).

I didn't read anything in this thread besides the thread title. I think it's a cool event, except the fact EA staggered it into 3 different phases that starts that different times this month. Some tappers like to power through events and knock it out as soon as possible. You cannot do that with this Halloween update. So for tappers how hustle and grind to reach the prizes as soon as possible, it's redundant or boring until the next phase is unlocked by EA on 10/20, etc. so that could make the event "meh" for some folks.

Excruciator69 wrote:

Ohtori wrote:
I guess it's because winning the prizes is set up differently. the fact we had Clash of Clans right before. Or that the old Halloween kitsch is not tie in this year. But the whole event this year seems very under whelming.

I really like the model of staggering out the prizes and milestones over the course of the event. I hope this is a model that continues.

Don't be surprised if the fog rolls in closer to the 31st. EA has shown they are willing to do a lot of small stuff throughout an event now and I love the direction.

Me too!

I love that after this event, I won't have an inventory full of crappy prizes I never wanted (except the peacock?) in the first place, because I get to CHOOSE which prizes I craft for myself. This is a great idea!

Also, I appreciate that I am not penalized when visiting a neighbor who has stopped playing, because there are always aliens to squish.

johncolombo wrote:
"I'm Scottish! I can complain about things"
:mrgreen:

Hahahahaha......

Annathewicked wrote:

johncolombo wrote:
"I'm Scottish! I can complain about things"
:mrgreen:

Hahahahaha......

Glad you picked up on and liked that. One of my favorite lines from the new doctor. Works very well as a catchphrase for this game too. Willie should be able to say that line.

it's not even over yet. we still have 2 phases. chill out people!!!

johncolombo wrote:

Annathewicked wrote:

johncolombo wrote:
"I'm Scottish! I can complain about things"
:mrgreen:

Hahahahaha......

Glad you picked up on and liked that. One of my favorite lines from the new doctor. Works very well as a catchphrase for this game too. Willie should be able to say that line.

yep

I'm enjoying it so far. The only thing that has irked me is the daily cap with the currency from neighbours, Last year no such thing has existed. I blame the friendship points they introduced.

NitroniumSilver wrote:
I'm enjoying it so far. The only thing that has irked me is the daily cap with the currency from neighbours, Last year no such thing has existed. I blame the friendship points they introduced.

you know the funny thing? after i finish the round, i get the maximum fp message too, and i'm at max fp level...