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Best and worst in Realm of Magic
texxx78
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What is the absolute best and worst features of the game pack Realm of Magic in your opinion? Only one best and one worst.
What is the absolute best and worst features of the game pack Realm of Magic in your opinion? Only one best and one worst.
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Best - CAS and Build/Buy items. I'm using a lot of the stuff for my non-magical Sims and builds. I love the gameplay too but I feel I can use the CAS and Build/Buy items for a long time, even if I lose interest in having spellcasters.
Worst - Familiars. I feel like they don't do much. I feel its really lacking interactions. I have no connection with them. I usually use pets as familiars to make it feel like there's a friendship there.
Realm of Magic is one of those packs that I thought I wouldn't enjoy as much as the others, but I am surprised by it and I'm enjoying it a lot.
-Lack of unique and interesting spells
-Lack of unique and interesting potions
-Lack of new potion ingredients
-Poorly implemented familiars
-Small magic world with nothing to do there
-Spells have no real impact on sims
[Removed as this was inappropriate ~Rtas]
Best:
-The world looks cool I guess
Worst: I feel like becoming a high powered spellcasters happens wayyyy to fast and makes it less challenging than it should be.
Con: If my spellcaster knows how to use their magic to create dinner, why are they still going to the fridge? If they have magic to clean up messes or themselves, why are they still going to the trash can or going to the shower. And I honestly wish seeing random magic from other spellcasters wasnt solely in the Magic Realm. Why can't I see a random magic battle in Newcrest and have my sim fight the winner to establish dominance? Also, can we please give occult kids more to do? Why cant my kids learn any basic magic?
Worst: Situational outfits on every spellcaster in the magic realm.
Best:
- the return of magic to the game, finally. I love the fact that magic is possible for the sims. It makes their life so much more fun and interesting
- build and buy: I absolutely love this style of furniture, and there are some neutral swatches for the windows as well
- the magic realm has a unique look and if you edit the headquarters, you can add literally anything for sims to do there
- the fact that you don't need to limit your sim to one school of magic, you can learn whatever spell you like from each category
- magic with and without wands
- the word 'spellcaster' : you can have all kinds of magical sims, they don't have to be the classical witch
worst
- you can easily overpower your spellcaster the game is unbalanced (I try to make it more balanced in my game by not allowing my spellcasters to get all perks, to have only limited use of copypasto, I use a mod to tone down the potion of plentiful needs,...)
- the situational outfits in the realm of magic (mods again)
- it would have been nice if our sims could live in the magic realm.
all in all the pack despite some flaws is one of my favourites.
Best:
Good:
Bad:
Worst:
I just feel like Patchy is a more helpful sidekick and the curses from Jungle Adventure are more entertaining.
Worst: BB. Too ornate for me.
I wouldn't even call it ornate. The art nouveau style is trash completely worthless. but what is the absolute worst is the Concept of the three Sages, the fact a sage must always be present.
The best thing about the pack is Spell casters leaves room for player design and strategy... Although I would love a mod to change ingredients for potions.
My Mood:
Worst: the. Flipping. Builds. They are UGLY. The non-decoratable world around all of the lots is really pretty. Imagine walking around that. It's a gorgeous world, but the lots are...eughhhh. Just..no. He'll no.
Worst: boring spells, kids can't do magic despite having the animation to do so
It's so lacking because I feel like I can either choose to only use the furniture from the pack or I have to drop using them because they just stick out and look like they don't belong, the furniture in themselves aren't bad and I like them, but the color swatches are just meh and really hard to match up with other things, I don't mind the black and white, but It's not really a color I would use for a medieval/fantasy-ish witch house.
I also wish there were more clutter, stacks of books, crystals, etc that I could put on any other furniture.
There are probably more important things to complain about but as a builder mostly it's kind of something that I care about.
They should have made swatches that they would always stick to, no matter what pack, so you wouldn't have trouble combining things.
Best : 25% off.
I like a lot of the spells, especially Transportalate.
I like many of the animations.
I really like Glimmerbrook
Typical
There are two pieces of torn male clothing that came with this pack - a top and a pair of jeans. They look shabby, which is fine but it would have been nice to have had untorn options for each piece of clothing. I guess it's too hard to do things like that though. It's a good thing that this stuff can be edited by players
There's a male leather bracelet that came with RoM that has a texture flaw. Although it's been reported, it hasn't been fixed. It's a good thing that flawed accessories can be fixed by players who paid for this object.
All of the builds that came with this pack were awful. Maybe they were intended as a joke. That's how they were perceived anyway.
Minerva Charm - poor thing.
Worst - Spells 'cause unlike in previous magic packs they don't bring nothing new to the table.
It's a picture showing some sims I made with some CAS items from Realm of Magic (bracelet, makeup, full-body outfit). I still think the CAS items from RoM are very good. If you have vampires you can create some very fantasy-looking spellcasters, that's what that picture mostly shows.
You wanna reset you current age? Great! Now you got one (actually two with very little difference) spellcaster potion, but why? There is a potion from the reward store (and lots of in-game ways to do that already).
Nothing new or exciting.
There is no real incentive or reward specific for a spellcaster that would entice you to make/ play/ have one.
Why not a potion to increase the likelihood of triplets? Or a potion for attracting aliens? A spell for changing a sims look (like into a frog with a cool down), turning a sim into a (permanent?) ghost with a tombstone or why not even a spellcaster? Why do all sims have to go and talk to a sage when my own (other) sims are super overpowered and actually more skilled than the sages?
The gameplay isn't really there in general.
And let's not even get started on the "customisation" you can do looks wise. Hello vampires! (Again) basically.
Familiars had too much potential, they could had been better. But even now when I try to play with them on, the simulation slows down and the sim sometimes get stuck, which is annoying. I was hopikg for some classic spells/potions from ts3 (midas touch :")) but no luck.
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