Carnivals/parades definitely have some of the same elements of Pride. Fabulous flamboyance, dancing in the streets, colourful clothes, party atmosphere etc.
If it's true, they should better change the name of the kit into brazilian carnival streetware kit or so. It's not the same like european traditional carnival, where people wear costumes. If I read carnival I have already a picture of a Funkenmariechen in my mind, or satirical parade trucks. People would freeze to death with wearing such hot weather outfit outside during the wintertime with degrees below 0°C.
They went the lazy route with the ‘streetwear’ addition. It can mean anything. If I didn‘t already know the name I would guess it‘s a crossdressing kit or some Pride goodies.
Yeah I would've preferred a kit with actual Carnaval costumes. Crazy I know but I would've definitely gotten more use out of them!
All this bits and pieces of trash are really insulting. Who is buying this garbage?
Well…you know…one person’s garbage is another person’s treasure. Glad we don’t all have the same brainchips installed. What a boring world that would be. Be. Beep. Beep. 🤖
I'm not a fan of most of the kits that are just CAS items either, but I gotta also say that I've been playing the Sims games since the original and 4 is the first one in the franchise where I actually think Maxis is doing a nice job with the styles of clothing.
I may not personally like all of the styles, and thus not buy the Kit, but I think it's wrong to say the quality of their work is lacking. It's really solid, just mho.
It's good that kits divide us so cleanly between 'going to buy it' and 'not going to buy it'. They're not all for everyone.
Exactly. I thought that would be the point of the kits in the first place, adding a bit odd stuff that will please lots of simmers, but not necessarily all. I don't feel like I need lots of more CAS content for the way I play my game, but I'm fine with skipping kids (as long as they are liked by others, otherwise it would be wasted releases)
If it's true, they should better change the name of the kit into brazilian carnival streetware kit or so. It's not the same like european traditional carnival, where people wear costumes. If I read carnival I have already a picture of a Funkenmariechen in my mind, or satirical parade trucks. People would freeze to death with wearing such hot weather outfit outside during the wintertime with degrees below 0°C.
They went the lazy route with the ‘streetwear’ addition. It can mean anything. If I didn‘t already know the name I would guess it‘s a crossdressing kit or some Pride goodies.
I guess you are right. I just saw the picture and had the association with the brazilian carnival (the Sim right wear a green/blue outfit, which are their flags primary colors, also the dancing sims in the background which screams after the sambadrom (I've watch a lot of documentations about it). A kit with actual carnival costumes from all over the world, I would definitely spent my money on that, although I'm still not a fan of kits. But just streetware? Sigh I don’t think so, I have enough options for sexy outfits.
If it's true, they should better change the name of the kit into brazilian carnival streetware kit or so. It's not the same like european traditional carnival, where people wear costumes. If I read carnival I have already a picture of a Funkenmariechen in my mind, or satirical parade trucks. People would freeze to death with wearing such hot weather outfit outside during the wintertime with degrees below 0°C.
This was exactly my thought. My first thought when I read carnival was definitely not Brazil. I was more thinking about the costumes of people elected to be prins or princess carnival.
Brazilian carnival would have been a name with more clarity. Same goes for the modern menswear kit, that should have been called high fashion mens wear or something along those lines.
I just hope the Game Pack isn't a "Wedding Planner" Pack. That's not enough for a whole Game Pack.
That would break my heart
and afterwards they'd have to lock me up in mental asylum or something probably
so lets hope its actual romance pack cause i swear if this is another "career and random stuff" I'm done. and the sims will feel my wrath
I didn't wait all these years to be a party planner
in fact if i had to plan party while in my deranged state i might just make it very deathful
red weddings for all i guess
I'm hoping that the "party for love" text are the marketing people just trying to be clever with the celebration theme for the season and it will not just be a wedding planner pack.
Ooh, so it is a wedding pack! 😲 I still hope there is a base game attraction system to go with it, though.
I would totally love a wedding pack, but I wonder what the gameplay element would be (to justify the pack having the game pack label instead of a stuff pack label). 🤔
Wedding planner gameplay is the only thing I think of, at the moment, unless they bring out a honeymoon destination.
I don't understand why so many people are so down on a wedding planner career? It might actually be a fun career to play out? And this is coming from someone who has never ever done a wedding in the sims. Like seriously, never.
I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
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I don't understand why so many people are so down on a wedding planner career? It might actually be a fun career to play out? And this is coming from someone who has never ever done a wedding in the sims. Like seriously, never.
I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
I'm not huge on Romance either. I've thrown a couple of weddings, but every time I'm reminded that they're generally more of a hassle than they're worth.
As for playing a Wedding Planner... Others might find it fun, but it's not for me. I don't do the Home Decorator career much either.
That said, it's not clear yet what the pack will be other than having Weddings as a Major Thing. As for what that means...better weddings? Better wedding parties? More Wedding outfits? Better Romance and Pre/post wedding interactions? (Bachelor/Bachelorette parties, Wedding Showers, Book a vacation specifically as a honeymoon?) More Rococo themed build/buy? And a wedding themed pack certainly doesn't preclude an attraction system.
I don't understand why so many people are so down on a wedding planner career? It might actually be a fun career to play out? And this is coming from someone who has never ever done a wedding in the sims. Like seriously, never.
I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
Maybe, I ended up liking Dream Home Decorator more than I thought. So maybe Maxis will surprise us.
But their recent wave of kits haven't really given me much hope that they will actually improve romance in the sims4, which is what I think many people were hoping for.
I don't understand why so many people are so down on a wedding planner career? It might actually be a fun career to play out? And this is coming from someone who has never ever done a wedding in the sims. Like seriously, never.
I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
I would love a wedding planner career, too, but, I think many folks are worried about the career being half-baked, or being the only gameplay aspect, when many of us are also hoping for more romance gameplay improvements.
I think it doesn’t help when this is the only pack this quarter, and the other two items are just kits. For other folks who don’t like Sims weddings or don’t usually do the whole big wedding stuff, that means they would have to wait even more for any new pack content…
I don't understand why so many people are so down on a wedding planner career? It might actually be a fun career to play out? And this is coming from someone who has never ever done a wedding in the sims. Like seriously, never.
I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
It's really not my thing. My Sims hardly ever marry because I just don't care about weddings, I don't think they're necessary (in real life as well. I know, that's probably weird, lol.) I'm more about the journey of trying (and sometimes failing) to find the "right" partner. I didn't get the Decorator pack because I can already decorate enough as a player so that pack felt redundant to me. I'm not really into playing out jobs either unless they're weird or exciting. I guess I'm just not a "dollhouse" player, I want more adventure and Occults and mystery and fantasy and drama. Deeper romance and chemistry/attraction would spice up "regular" Sims for me and add a challenge of being rejected by a crush or risk unpredictable attractions that could complicate relationships or just add some randomness with blind dating. I want my Sims to have some agency beyond the same ol' object attraction in their environments and empty conversations with every Sim in the vicinity. I don't want to have to make all of their romantic choices, that's just too much predictability and it's boring for me. I'd love to have the old feature from Sims 2 where a Sim could "Scan Room" and the ones who fit their attraction preferences would light up and the game would suggest (but still leave it up to you) who is the most compatible. And I miss the Matchmaker. Weddings, for me, are just superficial gameplay that would wear out in a week. How many weddings can a player have in their game, anyway?
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Yeah I would've preferred a kit with actual Carnaval costumes. Crazy I know but I would've definitely gotten more use out of them!
Well…you know…one person’s garbage is another person’s treasure. Glad we don’t all have the same brainchips installed. What a boring world that would be. Be. Beep. Beep. 🤖
I may not personally like all of the styles, and thus not buy the Kit, but I think it's wrong to say the quality of their work is lacking. It's really solid, just mho.
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Exactly. I thought that would be the point of the kits in the first place, adding a bit odd stuff that will please lots of simmers, but not necessarily all. I don't feel like I need lots of more CAS content for the way I play my game, but I'm fine with skipping kids (as long as they are liked by others, otherwise it would be wasted releases)
I guess you are right. I just saw the picture and had the association with the brazilian carnival (the Sim right wear a green/blue outfit, which are their flags primary colors, also the dancing sims in the background which screams after the sambadrom (I've watch a lot of documentations about it). A kit with actual carnival costumes from all over the world, I would definitely spent my money on that, although I'm still not a fan of kits. But just streetware? Sigh I don’t think so, I have enough options for sexy outfits.
This was exactly my thought. My first thought when I read carnival was definitely not Brazil. I was more thinking about the costumes of people elected to be prins or princess carnival.
Brazilian carnival would have been a name with more clarity. Same goes for the modern menswear kit, that should have been called high fashion mens wear or something along those lines.
"Extra to the max" Sounds like another kit of our there clothes.. Woopee. 3rd kit in a row giving our circus-escapee townies more to wear
Only if you buy it. 🙂
A GP that is devoted to wedding?? There must be something else in that 500-800MB content.
*Slowly dies inside*.
eh...hrm...yeah...about that...
Ooh, so it is a wedding pack! 😲 I still hope there is a base game attraction system to go with it, though.
I would totally love a wedding pack, but I wonder what the gameplay element would be (to justify the pack having the game pack label instead of a stuff pack label). 🤔
Wedding planner gameplay is the only thing I think of, at the moment, unless they bring out a honeymoon destination.
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I always create ready-made families. I've never played a single sim who dates, romances, and then gets married. My sims are either already hooked up as a couple or small family, or they're a single sim who wants to stay that way.
Yeah I know... I'm the only simmer on the planet who doesn't do the lovey dovey romance/dating/wedding thing.
But I could totally see myself playing the role of a wedding planner... picking out flower arrangements, colour themes, decorating a wedding venue, hiring a DJ, choosing the music type, dealing with a demanding 'bridezilla'. Might be fun, no?
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
I'm not huge on Romance either. I've thrown a couple of weddings, but every time I'm reminded that they're generally more of a hassle than they're worth.
As for playing a Wedding Planner... Others might find it fun, but it's not for me. I don't do the Home Decorator career much either.
That said, it's not clear yet what the pack will be other than having Weddings as a Major Thing. As for what that means...better weddings? Better wedding parties? More Wedding outfits? Better Romance and Pre/post wedding interactions? (Bachelor/Bachelorette parties, Wedding Showers, Book a vacation specifically as a honeymoon?) More Rococo themed build/buy? And a wedding themed pack certainly doesn't preclude an attraction system.
Maybe, I ended up liking Dream Home Decorator more than I thought. So maybe Maxis will surprise us.
But their recent wave of kits haven't really given me much hope that they will actually improve romance in the sims4, which is what I think many people were hoping for.
I would love a wedding planner career, too, but, I think many folks are worried about the career being half-baked, or being the only gameplay aspect, when many of us are also hoping for more romance gameplay improvements.
I think it doesn’t help when this is the only pack this quarter, and the other two items are just kits. For other folks who don’t like Sims weddings or don’t usually do the whole big wedding stuff, that means they would have to wait even more for any new pack content…
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It's really not my thing. My Sims hardly ever marry because I just don't care about weddings, I don't think they're necessary (in real life as well. I know, that's probably weird, lol.) I'm more about the journey of trying (and sometimes failing) to find the "right" partner. I didn't get the Decorator pack because I can already decorate enough as a player so that pack felt redundant to me. I'm not really into playing out jobs either unless they're weird or exciting. I guess I'm just not a "dollhouse" player, I want more adventure and Occults and mystery and fantasy and drama. Deeper romance and chemistry/attraction would spice up "regular" Sims for me and add a challenge of being rejected by a crush or risk unpredictable attractions that could complicate relationships or just add some randomness with blind dating. I want my Sims to have some agency beyond the same ol' object attraction in their environments and empty conversations with every Sim in the vicinity. I don't want to have to make all of their romantic choices, that's just too much predictability and it's boring for me. I'd love to have the old feature from Sims 2 where a Sim could "Scan Room" and the ones who fit their attraction preferences would light up and the game would suggest (but still leave it up to you) who is the most compatible. And I miss the Matchmaker. Weddings, for me, are just superficial gameplay that would wear out in a week. How many weddings can a player have in their game, anyway?
Now funerals... funerals, I could do.