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jaymancraz
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Anyone else with me? I usually love expansions and as a Sims fan, I just feel this expansion is lacking in gameplay. The neighborhood and items look beautiful but beautiful items aren’t enough to justify the price of an expansion. They could have at least added resorts to the game, but we get dolphins, mermaids, and sunburns?
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Don’t get me wrong I can see your point. I think much if the game play will be exclusive to the world. Although I read they will try and open up ocean swimming for all worlds. But I actually think this EP has a lot more game play potential than say Get Famous.
Personally I'm still excited though, but that's really a personal preference more than anything
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Even if exclusive, we have the ability to world hop which we couldn't before so even if you don't live there you can still experience a lot things and not everything is exclusive either (just the ocean and they said they are looking into the possibility of opening it up to all worlds).
Lets make this a reality!
Diving is a rabbit hole, Aqua jets don’t go far because there’s no open world, and beach water is literally flat. Not trying to be a Debby downer, but it seems like they tried to make this EP fit with the iteration of the game when it doesn’t. The very least they could’ve done was add a resort system which would have fit perfectly with systems already in the game. And I actually think Get Famous had much more realistic gameplay with the added social media elements.
Lets make this a reality!
I guess we just disagree which is fine. I just feel like this EP does the absolute bare minimum with features that don’t seem to work with this iteration of the game... Why are we paying for a volcano we can’t interact with and improved fishing? It just seems silly to me.
You have
Boats
Beach activities
An interactive waterfall
Swimming and snorkeling
Dolphins and more.
I love sims 3 but I wasn’t a huge fan of resorts so I’m not bothered they have been excluded as I imagine it would be a copy of other in game systems. I appreciate lots of people wanted them.
I am disappointed that diving is a rabbit hole but I’m not surprised.
I watched a game changer video and I thought I saw the sim travelling from one part of the Island to another part without a loading screen. I think there is quite a large area so sims can use boats/jet skis and swim/snorkel.
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All of that for me is candy for the eyes and has it purposes marketing wise. I would love the resorts and I would love the houseboats if they were added but they were not and I am not sore as I can go back to previous version and play what Sims 4 lacks in gameplay thank goodness for that. However, looking at the trailer it all looks intriguing and I would be lying if I said I am not but the trailer has it purpose as well marketing wise look at all the sales it may make from one trailer even if some people are willing to wait to see more.
Why is it that TS4's EPs are always so small? In content, in worlds, in gameplay, activities, new interactions, and stuff. They are always so limited.
If I look at TS2's Bon Voyage (ocean swimming) with it's three worlds, numerous activites for all three worlds that can be done anywhere else (ocean swimming etc.) and hotels to book, or run, many different objects to use, dances to learn, things to collect, owning vacation homes etc. etc.
Then there is TS3's IP world with tons of other things to do, and an open world and house boats and so much more. They didn't even have to add ocean swimming we already had it in TS3. And then there is the deep sea diving world, yeah, huge EP, and it's resorts..sigh.
It's not about this EP doesn't have hotels etc., it's always (to me) wow I can get a novel in older games I have to buy Reader's Digest in TS4.
Why is this never answered? And if it is by players, then it's, well, they have smaller budgets, do any of us really believe that anymore? TS4 passed the billion dollar mark months ago...it's all by design, less content for more money is more the truth.
But seeing what all is in the pack and the beautiful ocean lots to build over the water and all the possibilities it adds for my sim world, I am looking forward to adding it to my game.
I've set the map as my desktop background and use it to figure out how my Sulani is going to look.
I love the elementals and the off the grid option coming with it. I love that merfolk can also now have a darker side to them.
I can't wait to set up my B&B and send sims there for "vacation"!
Why do people take it so personally when someone critiques EA? Of course I’m not going to buy it if I don’t want it. That’s not the point of this post. My point is to bring up a concern and wondering if others think the same. This game adds very little new substantial gameplay and I think it should be called out.
Please post your thoughts. EA needs to hear us and make it up to us not them.
Might get it later to play it as a separate save, then "turn it off" for my main save. Hoping for future packs that are worthy of being my very last pack
(also the fact that there is no b/b item I don't like makes me really happy so
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So true and sometimes I feel they can't help it.
(I tried and tried to play Sims 3, but I just got bored with Sims 3 mermaids a lot, as they didn’t really have much going for them besides the one cool Kraken thing. They didn’t lullaby sims or enchant sims. They were just there to be regular sims, which I already don’t like much in Sims 3, who look pretty in the water... and that’s really it. They were basically just boring eye candy who dried out a lot for me, lol.)
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I haven't read about their powers yet, but if it's just about mermaids for some then this could have been a GP as it seems so much smaller than past EPs of older games that offered ten times more in them.
What do you mean by “smaller”? (Genuinely curious, not trying to sound rude! 🙂) I’ve heard a lot of game changers saying this is possibly the best EP so far, so I’m wondering what makes it seem less than others to you?
EDIT: unless you mean smaller than TS3 IP, which then I understand.
one would get more use out of dried fish than mermaids in ts3
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