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How would you rate Seasons?
AlbaWaterhouse
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I would love to know how simmers are enjoying (or not) Seasons and if it was what they expected.
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All my creations are CC free.
All my creations are CC free.
How would you rate Seasons? 218 votes
Amazing! Even better than anticipated. Best.Pack.Ever.
23%
51 votes
Really good, I am thoroughly enjoying it
59%
130 votes
It's alright but it could/should have been better
13%
30 votes
Meh...it is missing features I think are very important and/or it has features that are poorly executed
1%
It's bad. I want my money back!
1%
3 votes
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It could and should have been better but I am still having a fair amount of fun with it. Although a lot is missing or lacking in my opinion.
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I especially love the addition of the calendar and the ability to plan events with set days and times in advance.
Would have loved to have something like this for Sims 3 already (IIRC I even suggested it for Sims 3 once)
I'd give it a solid thumbs up.
I am enjoying game play a lot more than I expected to. I was unsure about the calendar feature, but so far that's working out quite well and I love, love that you can PLAN things like birthdays and weddings.
The level of detail is really quite nice. I love how breath becomes visible once it's cold and that the windowpanes frost over. So far I'm enjoying this more than Cats & Dogs and I really loved that pack.
On top of this, several features are badly enough documented that I had to resort to googling or Wiki to figure them out (what IS the use of the thermostat? HOW do I get my sims to use an umbrella? Is there any way to get non-playing sims to use a skating rink?)
It could have been executed better. My game is full of bugs
The use of the thermostat is to give your Sims a happy buff and increase your bills. That's it afaik.
To use an umbrella buy the umbrella stand in build mode click it and have your Sim choose an umbrella. If you have done this and it doesn't work it's very likely a mod is conflicting with it, I had this problem and it was caused by Littlemssam's Pregnancy Overhaul Mod.
I don't think NPC's use the skating rinks, I also hate that no one is using it.
Could be an age thing.
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Positives:
-the weather effects are just really well done, they look realistic and what's great is that they're gradual (e.g. rainstorms gradually getting worse, leaves changing color then falling off.) I know there was some controversy about the snow, but I think it looks really good the way it is now, with the sparkles, footprints, texture.
- holidays - so much fun to make your own, and the celebrations feel realistic. I love that you can customize traditions and decorate.
- -love the new radio stations and carols. They really put me in the holiday spirit.
- the calendar is great, so much fun to see the events and sims' birthdays - they actually have birthday days now e.g. fall day 5.
- decorations are so much fun to put up and I like you can change their pattern for different seasons.
- -gardening is much easier now, plants change with the seasons,
- -the humor. This one is a big one. I felt that many of the past packs have been missing that quirky Sims humor. It is back with fun things like the scarecrow, gnomes, bees, that don't feel that they're trying too hard to be funny. (For example, the talking toilet.) That is what I've been looking for.
- flower arranging is fun, haven't experienced much of it yet.
- new objects are great.
Neutral:
-not a big fan of some of the hairstyles, they are just ok
-snow depth: although I like the way it looks now, snow depth would've been cool.
Negatives:
-we need more traditions, some of them get repetitive fast!
-we need the ability to change seasons in the world map
- scouts were a fun idea but it just feels like a grind, doing the same task the requisite number of times.
- some animations are missing, e.g. for egg hunting the Sim just stands there and "swipes" the egg. That really broke the immersion
-i wish there was a raingear category, you have to pick between that and a coat.
Love love love
The holidays
The beautiful worlds
The gardening overhaul
The glass roofs
The flower arranging skill
The bee keeping
The little detail of being able to make Bee tea with honey
The new grand meals
The new seasonal food stands
The skating
Gift giving
The gnomes that can come to life
The new npc’s - patchy, father winter and the bunny.
How the weather transitions
The way the weather varies from world to world
Okay so on to the cons
The biggest one is the outfit system - I don’t like that sims wear their winter wear inside even if the house is warm.
I don’t like that sims can die in large numbers if they decide to go jogging or to the gym.
Sims at festivals also often aren’t wearing their correct cold outfit and turn blue and die.
I do like that sims can overheat or freeze- I don’t like that it’s a major overkill here (excuse the pun)
I really, really, wish we could’ve had an outerwear for each category.
Next con is the gardening career.
I love the career... however since they decided not to put a new world into seasons, there are no npc’s in that career. Which means my sim is literally the only gardener in town. I was hoping she’d have coworkers!
The traditions for holidays - I thought pretty much every activity in the game could be a tradition. Not the case. Sort of a bummer I can’t have my sims watch movies in their PJ’s on winterfest day. Or have an ice cream social holiday in mid summer where they eat ice cream and roller skate.
Father winter can be seen all over town just hanging out and stuff, kinda takes away the magic of him.
When doing a holiday with the grand meal all the guests don’t sit down togethar and eat the meal.
That’s really about it. The clothing thing is my biggest complaint. If that was better I’d have rated it the best pack ever despite the other cons.
It's unfortunate not everyone feels that way but I guess that's unavoidable
Yeah. I don't get some of the clothes choices:
If you look at styles, heavy raingear is listed as "every day". Did they plan a separate rain category and ditched it?
Cold clothes don't make sense either. it bundles together everything from slightly chilly spring, to late fall, to heavy winter. You can have one Sim dressed like the Michelin Man and another in an open leather jacket and a thin long-sleeve t-shirt and both are equally protected???
I Love :
-The attention to details and the visuals, the worlds are so beautiful !!
-The holidays and traditions,
-The decorating system
-The weather
-The CAS and Build/Buy modes stuff
- Beekeeping
- Flower arrangements
BUT
- It's missing activities. There isn't that much to do during each season (especially summer and spring).
- I was disappointed that there is no pool parties or new pool items (except the kiddie pool).
- There could have been more new interactions
- The bills are sky high with the thermostat !!
- I miss the pumpkins as a harvestable and making Pumpkin Pies (yes, I like them, even though I'm from France and they taste very spicy for me aha)
- Some buy/build mode items are recycled from other packs, like the halloween decorations are the ones from Spooky Stuff in a different color (speaking of, if you don't have Spooky Stuff I really wonder what you can do for Halloween....).
- The new cold and hot weather clothes add a LOT more laundry to do if you have Laundry Day!!
I've seen NPC Sims use the skating rinks a couple times.
I haven't seen any
I guess it's rare then.