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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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.
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.
Oh yeah, for sure. Cause then their only focus (as usual) will be to make the world aesthetically pleasing and gameplay will be lacking.
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.
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.
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.
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
Toddlers
Children
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
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.
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.
We have a lot of the stuff from Generations, but it's spread out over multiple packs.
Working Cinemas and Malls.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.