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In what way could a Generations pack differ from its Sims 3 counterpart?

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I've been thinking about a potential Generations expansion pack and I actually believe it's really likely we'll get one. At least if they were interested in community wishes we'd be getting one for sure. It's almost always the pack brought up when people are asked what they want, even more than a farming pack (also a popular choice).

However, I'm having trouble coming up with ways they could make a Generations pack unique in the Sims 4. Or rather, I'm dreading the ways they could make it unique. It was such a wonderfully executed idea in the Sims 3, and in the Sims 2 it just wasn't needed, since the family gameplay was already top notch. I'm just skeptical that the things they would come up with would be good enough to compete with the Sims 3 version, yet they can't possibly release an expansion that is exactly the same. What do you think?

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  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    edited April 2021
    I hope it doesn't include many activities tied to the specific world Generations comes with. So I hope it doesn't come with any world at all and just expands gameplay between Sims. TS4 has the big problem that it does provide some fun activities (Hiking or Skiing/Sledding in SE, Swimming in the ocean in IL), but they aren't possible on a global scale, they're tied to one specific world or object. Also I hope it comes with lots of group activities which let Sims interact and build relationships. Why can't our Sims cook or jog together and build relationships while doing so? Why can't they build relationships while relaxing in the sun?

    Also, I want more play-together-options not bound to objects for children: tag, mary-mack, cops and robbers and I really need more playground equipment (loved TS3 Generations for it).
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    Dakota88 wrote: »
    I hope it doesn't include many activities tied to the specific world Generations comes with. So I hope it doesn't come with any world at all and just expands gameplay between Sims. TS4 has the big problem that it does provide some fun activities (Hiking or Skiing/Sledding in SE, Swimming in the ocean in IL), but they aren't possible on a global scale, they're tied to one specific world or object. Also I hope it comes with lots of group activities which let Sims interact and build relationships. Why can't our Sims cook or jog together and build relationships while doing so? Why can't they build relationships while relaxing in the sun?

    Also, I want more play-together-options not bound to objects for children: tag, mary-mack, cops and robbers and I really need more playground equipment (loved TS3 Generations for it).

    I so wish hiking was available on other worlds - I loved that interaction.
  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    MElleSims wrote: »
    Dakota88 wrote: »
    I hope it doesn't include many activities tied to the specific world Generations comes with. So I hope it doesn't come with any world at all and just expands gameplay between Sims. TS4 has the big problem that it does provide some fun activities (Hiking or Skiing/Sledding in SE, Swimming in the ocean in IL), but they aren't possible on a global scale, they're tied to one specific world or object. Also I hope it comes with lots of group activities which let Sims interact and build relationships. Why can't our Sims cook or jog together and build relationships while doing so? Why can't they build relationships while relaxing in the sun?

    Also, I want more play-together-options not bound to objects for children: tag, mary-mack, cops and robbers and I really need more playground equipment (loved TS3 Generations for it).

    I so wish hiking was available on other worlds - I loved that interaction.

    I wish that too.
  • TTNsimmerTTNsimmer Posts: 669 Member
    I hope its not all about fleshing out the different life stages because they didnt deel all that fleshed out the last time. I wish they focus more on general family gameplay adding more options for dating, marriage, birth, divorce, inheritancd. We could also get loans.
    A new feature they could add is using the calendar feature to plan family get togethers where sims will honor different for every family traditions or to assign chores to different household members (so you could have a kid clean every saturday afternoon).
    One other thing they could do is add generations as behavioral traits for different age groups. Every generation would feel different than the previous one.
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    kostasmpi wrote: »
    I hope its not all about fleshing out the different life stages because they didnt deel all that fleshed out the last time. I wish they focus more on general family gameplay adding more options for dating, marriage, birth, divorce, inheritancd. We could also get loans.
    A new feature they could add is using the calendar feature to plan family get togethers where sims will honor different for every family traditions or to assign chores to different household members (so you could have a kid clean every saturday afternoon).
    One other thing they could do is add generations as behavioral traits for different age groups. Every generation would feel different than the previous one.

    I'd love if they added separate funds for each household member. Then we could have pocket money and stuff like that.
  • rudy8292rudy8292 Posts: 3,410 Member
    edited April 2021
    Well, I hope Generations does not come with a new world. Instead they should focus on bringing more depth and more ''engaging'' content for every life stage. Imo we don't need a new world with that EP.
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  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    rudy8292 wrote: »
    Well, I hope Generations does not come with a new world. Insted they should focus on bringing more depth and more ''engaging'' content for every life stage. Imo we don't need a new world with that EP.

    Oh yeah, for sure. Cause then their only focus (as usual) will be to make the world aesthetically pleasing and gameplay will be lacking.
  • ChadSims2ChadSims2 Posts: 5,090 Member
    I'd be so mad if half the budget for Generations was spent on another ugly world please no world spend it all on animations seriously all of it I don't need a world or new hair give me group activity animations and things to do.

    For babies besides being patched to be free of their prison known as the most ugly bassinet in history game play needs to be added in Generations besides the stroller giving them the option to travel with family and not be a forgotten object always left, we're heading out and leaving you with the unknown babysitter... they should be the gap filler toddlers walk well then babies need to play to their potential and learn to roll around and move sit up and eventually crawl play with toys and interact with all life stages

    Kids need to be kids and not mini adults give them games to play together be it in the pool, water gun fights cops n robbers hanging out in the tree house together playing dress up and actually acting like what they dress up as in

    Teens need more unique things to separate them from adults now more than ever the usual prom (active if a high school pack ever comes where they actually dance together) learning to drive there needs to be activities for them like skate boarding and things to do with friends like going to the mall or movies, though this is Sims 4 I probably just listed at least 5 packs of content

    Young adults give them nothing this entire game is built for them

    Adults need midlife crises

    Elders need canes, better aging face masks and walk styles

    Dead Sims Graveyards
    Sims 4 went from "You Rule" to "One of the stories we want you to tell"
  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    I want gameplay for babies - I want them to be able to learn how to crawl and learn how to stand up :)
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    ChadSims2 wrote: »
    I'd be so mad if half the budget for Generations was spent on another ugly world please no world spend it all on animations seriously all of it I don't need a world or new hair give me group activity animations and things to do.

    For babies besides being patched to be free of their prison known as the most ugly bassinet in history game play needs to be added in Generations besides the stroller giving them the option to travel with family and not be a forgotten object always left, we're heading out and leaving you with the unknown babysitter... they should be the gap filler toddlers walk well then babies need to play to their potential and learn to roll around and move sit up and eventually crawl play with toys and interact with all life stages

    Kids need to be kids and not mini adults give them games to play together be it in the pool, water gun fights cops n robbers hanging out in the tree house together playing dress up and actually acting like what they dress up as in

    Teens need more unique things to separate them from adults now more than ever the usual prom (active if a high school pack ever comes where they actually dance together) learning to drive there needs to be activities for them like skate boarding and things to do with friends like going to the mall or movies, though this is Sims 4 I probably just listed at least 5 packs of content

    Young adults give them nothing this entire game is built for them

    Adults need midlife crises

    Elders need canes, better aging face masks and walk styles

    Dead Sims Graveyards

    Yes!! Animations...and this is probably an unpopular opinion but i want animations that feel more...natural? is that the right word? than what we get in the sims 4 already. i HATE flirting with other sims and it's this over the top annoying forced goofiness. the sims 4 team seems to have missed that the humor in the game came from the unexpected and surprising situations that were implemented in a NATURAL way and not these fake, ridiculous (and 10000 times recycled) animations. it makes me so irritated and i would love animations that feel a bit more natural with a generations pack. for example: i LOVE the woohoo animation in get together. more of that please.

    lol i'm pretty passionate about my dislike of the sims 4 animation choices if you can't tell.
  • Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
    edited April 2021
    ChadSims2 wrote: »
    I'd be so mad if half the budget for Generations was spent on another ugly world please no world spend it all on animations seriously all of it I don't need a world or new hair give me group activity animations and things to do.

    For babies besides being patched to be free of their prison known as the most ugly bassinet in history game play needs to be added in Generations besides the stroller giving them the option to travel with family and not be a forgotten object always left, we're heading out and leaving you with the unknown babysitter... they should be the gap filler toddlers walk well then babies need to play to their potential and learn to roll around and move sit up and eventually crawl play with toys and interact with all life stages

    Kids need to be kids and not mini adults give them games to play together be it in the pool, water gun fights cops n robbers hanging out in the tree house together playing dress up and actually acting like what they dress up as in

    Teens need more unique things to separate them from adults now more than ever the usual prom (active if a high school pack ever comes where they actually dance together) learning to drive there needs to be activities for them like skate boarding and things to do with friends like going to the mall or movies, though this is Sims 4 I probably just listed at least 5 packs of content

    Young adults give them nothing this entire game is built for them

    Adults need midlife crises

    Elders need canes, better aging face masks and walk styles

    Dead Sims Graveyards

    While I don't think the worlds are particularly ugly I 100% agree. This is a pack that much like Seasons should not include a world. It also does not need to include hair or clothing catered to YA's. 90% of the time and effort needs to go into the gameplay. New animations for new social interactions especially, for the different lifestages.
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  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    I don't think the worlds are ugly at all, most of them are quite beautiful. It's just that you can't interact with most of the things that are in the worlds.
  • bookish_sammybookish_sammy Posts: 223 Member
    I 100% agree that there shouldn't be a new world with a generations pack. The budget should be used for new animations and unique objects. I also agree that we don't need more clothes for young adults. We need more focus on toddlers, children, teens, and elders (and babies if we get better ones). We need more activities for all of these life states. I want to be able to take my toddlers for a walk in a stroller, but I also want them to be able to go to their grandparent's house for a few days. It would also be really awesome if we could have sleepovers for children and teens, but I would also like a non-romantic option to invite family members to stay at your house during the holidays or whenever.

    I want grandparents to tell their grandchildren stories about their own childhood/teen years. I want a bake or cook with grandma/grandpa option. Child sims should be able to dance with an older relative by standing on top of the adult's feet. It would be funny to have an interaction "In my day" where an elder sim gives the speech of "In my day we walked 15 miles to school and back..." I'm all for the return of the midlife crisis as well. Elders could also be an option for childcare instead of a nanny or preschool. My grandma watched me when I was a toddler and my parents were at work. Teens should also be able to be hired to babysit children and toddlers.

    Teen and child sims should have more options for being involved in sports or other after school activities, but I don't want it all to be rabbit holes. I want to follow them to some of their gatherings or events. I want the costume trunk back, but I also kind of want to see sims be able to perform in a dance recital or a play at school. It would be cool to add arcade games and comic books, so kids and teens can go to an arcade or comic book store. They could upload these builds to the gallery for us to place in our towns. I also want mini golf, so families can go together or teens can go with their friends. Maybe we could even get a skate park? Again, these places would be lots we could choose to place. Teens also need more to do socially. I want the hangout option back where they would sit around on the floor an chat in a group. Slow dancing should be added back, and I want proms that we can actually attend. This is probably unlikely, but I wish they would redo the teens to make them actually look like teens. I wish they were a little shorter and looked a little more awkward (like Sims 2 teens).

    There is a lot more I'd love to see, but I will leave it at that. It's supposed to be a life simulator, but there are huge parts of life that are still missing from the game.
  • GordyGordy Posts: 3,015 Member
    I don't think it needs to be different. We're asking for returning content. If they imported all the stuff from the old pack into the new one, would anyone really care? As you said, it was well-executed in 3. Especially since most creative liberties and differences the Sims 4 team makes are usually for the worse.

    But here are some changes from Generations I'd like to see added in addition to what we could already get. As in, build on what we got before, asmost sequels should do.

    Babies
    • Freedom from bassinets, and we also get cribs
    • Being able to put them in a stroller or one of those baby-holders you keep on your chest.
    • Letting them roll around a baby mat.
    • Toddlers can walk automatically in Sims 4. If this isn't changed, maybe you can teach older babies to stand up.
    • Returning feature: Babies will barf on people.
    • Letting your baby out of the basinet and interacting with it will give it a head-start on toddler skills once it ages up.

    Toddlers
    • Returning feature from Sims 2: A hungry toddler will try and take food/bottles from another toddler.
    • Once a toddler maxes a skill, it can start learning the corresponding child skills.
    • Toddlers can be put in cribs, as they could in older games.
    • Include a TV channel for pre-schoolers, where toddlers can watch and gain some skills. Sometimes, an episode might be too scary for a child and frighten them.
    • Obsessions. Like how TS4 pets could become obsessed with things, kids can become obsessed with certain TV shows, NPCs or items. You can indulge your kid with plumber costumes, give them a Grim Reaper plush, or slap Voidcritter posters all over their room.
    • Returning feature: Toddlers can sleep in regular beds. Maybe they can autonomously climb into their parents' bed if they wake up from a nightmare.
    • Toddlers not properly potty-trained might wet the bed. You'll have to wash the sheets, or use a special spray to clean it.
    • Rabbit hole: Puppet Play Theater. Take your toddlers to a puppet show, where they can learn important life lessons and be entertained. Your sim may or may not hate it, but at least they can bond with their child and sibling.
    • In Generations, kids could have tea parties. Here, toddlers can have tea parties, as well.

    Children
    • We got afterschool activities in Generations, as well as in two TS4 EP's. Let's bring back ballet, but also add a chess club, a swim team, a book club, and a Voidcritters card-collecting club. They'll be simpler than Seasons' scouts, but deeper than Get Famous' drama club. Doing well in them will give you bonuses related to that club's theme, like learning Logic faster and doing better in chess; swimming faster and being able to keep your weight under control; and getting Bookworm interactions despite not having the trait.
    • Bullies. Some townie kids might get the [Bully] designation, where they will perform mean interactions on other children or get into physical fights. Bullied kids will cry, some will fight back, some will try and bribe the bully, and some will try to befriend the bully. A parent can also call the bully's parents over the phone and end the bullying instantly, if this gameplay is too much for you.
    • Kids can develop crushes on each other. At most, they can hand-hold, kiss each other on the cheek, and send love notes through the mail.
    • Returning feature: Tag, Cops & Robbers, etc.
    • Children can now garden.
    • Voidcritters return, this time with a ton of merch and a new set of cards. There will also be a rival franchise with similar merch. If your child has declared a preference for one franchise (and hasn't done to the same for another), they can fight other kids in the opposite fandom.
    • (Shared with teenagers) active school days. May only be for regular school, and not boarding schools.
    • Homeschooling.

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    The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    Gordy wrote: »
    I don't think it needs to be different. We're asking for returning content. If they imported all the stuff from the old pack into the new one, would anyone really care? As you said, it was well-executed in 3. Especially since most creative liberties and differences the Sims 4 team makes are usually for the worse.

    But here are some changes from Generations I'd like to see added in addition to what we could already get. As in, build on what we got before, asmost sequels should do.

    Babies
    • Freedom from bassinets, and we also get cribs
    • Being able to put them in a stroller or one of those baby-holders you keep on your chest.
    • Letting them roll around a baby mat.
    • Toddlers can walk automatically in Sims 4. If this isn't changed, maybe you can teach older babies to stand up.
    • Returning feature: Babies will barf on people.
    • Letting your baby out of the basinet and interacting with it will give it a head-start on toddler skills once it ages up.

    Toddlers
    • Returning feature from Sims 2: A hungry toddler will try and take food/bottles from another toddler.
    • Once a toddler maxes a skill, it can start learning the corresponding child skills.
    • Toddlers can be put in cribs, as they could in older games.
    • Include a TV channel for pre-schoolers, where toddlers can watch and gain some skills. Sometimes, an episode might be too scary for a child and frighten them.
    • Obsessions. Like how TS4 pets could become obsessed with things, kids can become obsessed with certain TV shows, NPCs or items. You can indulge your kid with plumber costumes, give them a Grim Reaper plush, or slap Voidcritter posters all over their room.
    • Returning feature: Toddlers can sleep in regular beds. Maybe they can autonomously climb into their parents' bed if they wake up from a nightmare.
    • Toddlers not properly potty-trained might wet the bed. You'll have to wash the sheets, or use a special spray to clean it.
    • Rabbit hole: Puppet Play Theater. Take your toddlers to a puppet show, where they can learn important life lessons and be entertained. Your sim may or may not hate it, but at least they can bond with their child and sibling.
    • In Generations, kids could have tea parties. Here, toddlers can have tea parties, as well.

    Children
    • We got afterschool activities in Generations, as well as in two TS4 EP's. Let's bring back ballet, but also add a chess club, a swim team, a book club, and a Voidcritters card-collecting club. They'll be simpler than Seasons' scouts, but deeper than Get Famous' drama club. Doing well in them will give you bonuses related to that club's theme, like learning Logic faster and doing better in chess; swimming faster and being able to keep your weight under control; and getting Bookworm interactions despite not having the trait.
    • Bullies. Some townie kids might get the [Bully] designation, where they will perform mean interactions on other children or get into physical fights. Bullied kids will cry, some will fight back, some will try and bribe the bully, and some will try to befriend the bully. A parent can also call the bully's parents over the phone and end the bullying instantly, if this gameplay is too much for you.
    • Kids can develop crushes on each other. At most, they can hand-hold, kiss each other on the cheek, and send love notes through the mail.
    • Returning feature: Tag, Cops & Robbers, etc.
    • Children can now garden.
    • Voidcritters return, this time with a ton of merch and a new set of cards. There will also be a rival franchise with similar merch. If your child has declared a preference for one franchise (and hasn't done to the same for another), they can fight other kids in the opposite fandom.
    • (Shared with teenagers) active school days. May only be for regular school, and not boarding schools.
    • Homeschooling.

    Oh, I would absolutely love if it was just the same stuff. I'm just skeptical that they would do it. Generations was introduced with TS3 so I'm not sure if they consider it one of the packs whose content is as obvious as that of pets or seasons. Your suggestions are sooo cool though.
  • CelSimsCelSims Posts: 2,270 Member
    I'd like to be able to send the children off to Boarding School and not have to see them again til they come home the afternoon before their teen birthday.
    Also homeschooling for my families who actually like their kids.
    Let My Kids Garden! And toddlers.
    Add trikes for the toddlers and bikes for the kids. And take a loot at Pandas toddler mod and add all of that.
    Some actual interaction between toddlers and kids. Games that don't require props such as Tag.
  • LoanetLoanet Posts: 4,079 Member
    First of all, you've got to ask, what parts of Generations aren't already in Sims 4. We got Toddlers and Parenthood, and Discover University. We will probably get a pack dedicated to babies when babies are unlocked.

    We have a lot of the stuff from Generations, but it's spread out over multiple packs.
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  • catloverplayercatloverplayer Posts: 93,362 Member
    MElleSims wrote: »
    I've been thinking about a potential Generations expansion pack and I actually believe it's really likely we'll get one. At least if they were interested in community wishes we'd be getting one for sure. It's almost always the pack brought up when people are asked what they want, even more than a farming pack (also a popular choice).

    However, I'm having trouble coming up with ways they could make a Generations pack unique in the Sims 4. Or rather, I'm dreading the ways they could make it unique. It was such a wonderfully executed idea in the Sims 3, and in the Sims 2 it just wasn't needed, since the family gameplay was already top notch. I'm just skeptical that the things they would come up with would be good enough to compete with the Sims 3 version, yet they can't possibly release an expansion that is exactly the same. What do you think?

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  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    edited April 2021
    Loanet wrote: »
    First of all, you've got to ask, what parts of Generations aren't already in Sims 4. We got Toddlers and Parenthood, and Discover University. We will probably get a pack dedicated to babies when babies are unlocked.

    We have a lot of the stuff from Generations, but it's spread out over multiple packs.

    No, it's not, there is a lot missing that made TS3 Generations great, e.g. more playground equipment (we have less than in TS2 and TS3 and I really miss the mary-go-round, the seesaw, slides and those little thingies for toddlers), teaching your teenager how to drive, slumber parties, canes for elders, school dances, prom night, graduation ceremony, bachelor/bachelorette parties, boarding school, more after school acitivites (we only have like 2 so far!), costume chest, strollers, tree houses (I loved those so much), midlife crisis, field trips, spiral stairs (yes, they came with TS3 Generations), a daycare profession and also body hair came with TS3 Generations!

    We are far away from having all of these features "spread out over multiple packs". The only things we have that came with TS3 Generations: slip'n'slides, bunk beds (which came in an update only recently), wedding arches & cakes, dating, the entertainer for parties and woohooing in the shower.

    So there really isn't a lot. Also I would really like to see the best babies TS series ever had for TS4. I love the toddlers they made, I think they can do even better with making babies similar to TS Freeplay.

    And let's not forget we miss group activities for our Sims and that lots of great activities we got in TS4 are tied to one world or are only be done with 2 Sims only (not more). We miss real soccer matches for it being an activity for more than 2 Sims, hiking in every world, swimming in open waters in every world, skiing/sledding on slopes and hills in every world, board games for more than 4 sims that are dragable and not tied to a table.

    Then we also miss
    • a beach ball / volley ball net
    • the pool table
    • a trampoline
    • a ballet bar (I could even pretend ballet classes if they gave us an interaction to teach ballet)
    • an activity table for toddlers where they can play and interact with each other (I would love two options: one for drawing and one for building blocks)
    • balls Sims can just throw to each other like they could in TS3
    • games like marco polo Sims can play in the pool
    • we miss specific interactions for kids and teens in the pool (play together like kids and teens would play and tease each other)
    • we miss an attraction system (which is romantic, but romantic relationships are the root for all family gameplay so we need more romantic gameplay!)
    • and wants & fears (I hope the latter come with growing pains we read about in one of the surveys)
    • I also would like a "daycare career" for toddlers (comparable to the one KawaiiStacie made, unfortunately she's very slow updating it out of personal reasons, so you can't use it all the time)
    • and more instruments (I always loved to play music families like The Kelly Family and have my family make music together)
    • I also would like instruments for toddlers even though we never really had those.
    • hopscotches

    I hope toddlers are not excluded when we get a music pack at some point. We also miss singing around the campfire - why can't you use the guitar sitting in front of the campfire anymore? I miss it. :(

    I also really miss the hobby system we got in TS2. I know some people found it annoying, but I think it's fun and there should be an option to toggle it off.

    If we get most of these things and perhaps even preteens, then I'm as happy as I can be and will stop complaining about TS4 missing family gameplay because there will be nothing to complain about anymore. This could be a really great game for family gameplay. But it isn't so far.
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  • SthenastiaSthenastia Posts: 651 Member
    Honestly I think that a world will be an important part of potential Generations pack. EA has enough money to create strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice CAS and BB. We shouldn't accept any limitations. I expect a new world with big open areas for families. For example interesting playground for todlers and kids, open picnic area, parks ect. Something similar to Mt Komorebi, but with less fake textures. In this world we can have also school and daycare (as a rabbit hole or not).
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    Sthenastia wrote: »
    Honestly I think that a world will be an important part of potential Generations pack. EA has enough money to create strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice CAS and BB. We shouldn't accept any limitations. I expect a new world with big open areas for families. For example interesting playground for todlers and kids, open picnic area, parks ect. Something similar to Mt Komorebi, but with less fake textures. In this world we can have also school and daycare (as a rabbit hole or not).

    I totally agree that they have the funds for it.i hate that the community feels like we have to compromise because they haven't given us detailed content in the past. If there was a choice between detailed gameplay and town, I would go for gameplay in a heartbeat. If a nice town did not gave an effect in gameplay, I would really like a small town type of world. Think it would fit the theme nicely.
  • SimKonfettiSimKonfetti Posts: 1,361 Member
    edited April 2021
    You both are right. I totally agree. After all of these years of shallow gameplay we should finally get a huge gameplay expanding EP for family gameplay (and for farming for the second EP this year) - and I also want occult players to get really good gamepacks and have the occults updated that aren't on the level like Vampires and Spellcasters. And why can't children and toddlers show SOME occult features? I'm not an occult player, but the whole occult vs. family gameplay issue is an issue because there is not enough gameplay on both sides and this is EA's fault.
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    Dakota88 wrote: »
    You both are right. I totally agree. After all of these years of shallow gameplay we should finally get a huge gameplay expanding EP for family gameplay (and for farming for the second EP this year) - and I also want occult players to get really good gamepacks and have the occults updated that aren't on the level like Vampires and Spellcasters. And why can't children and toddlers show SOME occult features? I'm not an occult player, but the whole occult vs. family gameplay issue is an issue because there is not enough gameplay on both sides and this is EA's fault.

    Yeah exactly! And this possibly alienates some family players who might want to try occult: they won't because gameplay for younger occults is nonexistent. Also family needs a huge update, and needed one since the start. I can't believe they launched the game without toddlers. At least they mostly did a good job when they added them in.
  • rudy8292rudy8292 Posts: 3,410 Member
    edited April 2021
    Sthenastia wrote: »
    Honestly I think that a world will be an important part of potential Generations pack. EA has enough money to create strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice CAS and BB. We shouldn't accept any limitations. I expect a new world with big open areas for families. For example interesting playground for todlers and kids, open picnic area, parks ect. Something similar to Mt Komorebi, but with less fake textures. In this world we can have also school and daycare (as a rabbit hole or not).

    We all know that expecting a ''Strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice cas and BB'' is very unrealistic for Sims 4 standards.

    It's been almost 7 years already. Limitation is the key word of the Sims 4.

    Yes, they absolutely have the money, but we all know that they aren't going to suddenly change the way they are doing things. Which is a sad thing, indeed.
  • MElleSimsMElleSims Posts: 77 Member
    rudy8292 wrote: »
    Sthenastia wrote: »
    Honestly I think that a world will be an important part of potential Generations pack. EA has enough money to create strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice CAS and BB. We shouldn't accept any limitations. I expect a new world with big open areas for families. For example interesting playground for todlers and kids, open picnic area, parks ect. Something similar to Mt Komorebi, but with less fake textures. In this world we can have also school and daycare (as a rabbit hole or not).

    We all know that expecting a ''Strong EP with a lot of gameplay, huge world, nice cas and BB'' is very unrealistic for Sims 4 standards.

    It's been almost 7 years already. Limitation is the key word of the Sims 4.

    Yes, they absolutely have the money, but we all know that they aren't going to suddenly change the way they are doing things. Which is a sad thing, indeed.

    Yeah, this. A fully fledged expansion is something that should be expected but isn't at the current state of the game. If they don't add a world they won't have any excuse for lackluster gameplay.
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