Hey! After looking at the beauty that is Sulani, I was wondering where the worlds in-game would be in the real world. Luckily, I made a map to show where they would be!
Let me explain... (in alphabetical order)
Brindleton Bay: I put Brindleton Bay in the U.S. region of New England. The aesthetic of the world just screams "New England!" to me!
Del Sol Valley: Two words... Los Angeles.
Forgotten Hollow: Ok... this one might be controversial. No real life location really fits this world. I chose the Transylvania region of Romania. I know the region does not really look like Forgotten Hollow, but based off of movies it fits.
Granite Falls: For this world I instantly thought of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. I see this as the best fit as the images of Yellowstone look a lot like Granite Falls.
Magnolia Promenade + Newcrest: There was no real place that came to mind with these worlds, other than the general United States and Canada. They are not on the map for this reason.
Oasis Springs: I chose the U.S. states of Arizona and New Mexico for this world. I debated choosing areas of Mexico, but I am not familiar with the region enough to pin point it.
San Myshuno: This one was hard. After looking online, I chose the areas of Tokyo, Japan and Hong Kong. Tokyo because of the architecture and Hong Kong for the geography. Many neighborhoods of San Myshuno do not fit in Tokyo, but I see Tokyo as the best fit for architecture.
Selvadorada: The Amazon Rainforest really looks like Selvadorada. Having my sims go to the Amazon is a fun idea to me!
Strangerville: Due to the military base and odd happenings, I chose Area 51 in Nevada, United States. What's going on in Area 51... what's going on in Strangerville... who knows?
Sulani: Sulani looked like a Pacific island. It gave me Tahiti and Polynesia vibes. I also got a bit of Hawaii from this world too.
Willow Creek: Due to the steamboat, the swampy backdrop, and the trees, I chose New Orleans, United States as the location for Willow Creek.
Windenburg: This world gave me a central and southern Germany vibe, but with a bit of Austria too.
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Sometimes I see them all as next to each other and part of SimCity. But each feels like a diff world.
Sulani would be an island in the ocean a lot of miles off the coast of the other parts of the uberhood.
I don’t honestly play Newcrest enough to know what it looks like, but Magnolia Promenade to me looks just like an extension of Willow Creek and more of real life Louisiana. Either that or it could be Savanah, Georgia.
San Myshuno, with its brick Victorian buildings, suggests to me San Fransisco, not an Asian city.
I accept that Willow Creek is meant to suggest New Orleans, but the "Spanish moss" in the trees throws me as IRL it is grey, not bright green.
Oasis Springs reminds me a great deal of the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona, right down to the over-irrigated grass lawns in gated communities, but I suppose the same is true for most of the Southwest. The prevalence of saguaro cactus however pinpoints it to Arizona, northern Mexico, and parts of California.
Just my 2 cents.
There aren't really many asian towns? Shang sim la, takemizu village, technically also twikkii island, sunlit tides, and fulani are kind of southeast asian? Like Indonesian or something? But besides them I think that the most "asian passing" town is popably bridgeport? Or oasis landing?
@GalacticGal : I'm not too familiar with the southwestern U.S. to pinpoint Strangerville with specific towns, but your description sounds accurate. I can see Roswell as fitting for the town elements of Strangerville.
@Wainwrong (pt. 1) : I agree 100% that San Myshuno really doesn't fit one location too good. I never though of Singapore... that's a good addition!
@amp107 : I agree that Oasis Springs could be a bit larger on my map, I just didn't want to crowd the map in that region. Magnolia Promenade does feel like a Willow Creek extension now that you say it!
@Sindocat : Yosemite is a good contender for Granite Falls! It just comes down to picking a location, and since Yellowstone came to mind first, it's what I ultimately chose. I agree that San Myshuno looks like San Francisco, but, in my opinion, there were too many Asian elements to ignore to pinpoint San Myshuno directly to San Francisco. I guess I could have added it to the arrow web that it is right now.
@Wainwrong (pt. 2) : Since the Sims team works in Northern California, San Francisco is a good base for San Myshuno. In the backdrop, I just saw too many modern Asian elements to not put it in Asia though. If only I would have added San Francisco to my arrow web...
Here is the Ye Knowne Wyrlde map:
They talk more about their map in here.
Sometimes I see them all as next to each other and part of SimCity. But each feels like a diff world.
Sulani would be an island in the ocean a lot of miles off the coast of the other parts of the uberhood.[/quote]
I agree with Wainwrong about San Myshuno. It feels like a mashup of San Fransisco and Tokyo...and I can even see hints of Harlem NY in the architecture of the Spice Market. The private karaoke rooms though are definitely a Tokyo element, and then of course there’s the obvious Asian-aesthetic build mode and CAS items that came with the pack. I think it might just be designed to represent multiple major cities.
I agree! I guess the team wanted everyone to feel welcome!
It seems to be more of an american horror setting, it reminds me of Sleepy Hollow meets every teenage vampire/werewolf/witch themed tv show location.
Romanian architecture is more all Romanesque columns or clunky medieval style.
I do agree. I was just basing that location on the cliche vampire Transylvania. Much love and no shade to Romanians!
Forgotten Hollow has a 19th-early 20th century type... "look". It resembles Moonlight Falls and Appaloosa Plains.
Or maybe the Vatores are the Transylvanian ones, the surname sounds like it could be Romanian although it is not.
And Sunlit Tides would'nt be that far west in the sim Indian Ocean. To me it's near Twikkii and Sulani. They all have that pacific island (Micronesia\Polynesia) thing going on, and the names from those three seem to be the same language. One of the kids in Sunlit Tides is named Twikkii, too. Maybe Sunlit Tides' name is a calque of its native name?
And the islands from Castaway seem like Melanesia or Papua New Guinea so maybe they're right in the south of it.
The world map looks awfully empty in that part.
> Wonder if they'd ever do a Russian inspired world :D
> The world map looks awfully empty in that part.
Yeah, or maybe a Central Asian or Caucasus thing?
@Wainwrong : again, cool!
Maybe not a full 'hood but at least a family from it? Or clothes\food?
But I have to disagree about the sim world closest to my real life surrounding.
1. Windenburg has indeed a German vibe in the old town centre (to be honest this style of houses can also be found in other some other regions in Europe) but the countryside feels more like the UK to me. And the island along with the last name Bjergsen remind me of my trip to Norway.
2. Windenburg is all coastal area so it can not be in central European with high snowy mountains far from every ocean.
To me windenburg feels like it fits in the zone between Germany, Norway and the UK , with a sim neighbourhood in each of them (also close to Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands).