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Ivyeyed
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So we have this leaked logo:
That bears a striking resemblance to the new Star Wars section of Disneyland and the iconography used to advertise it.
And to top it off, the fictional outpost planet that Star Wars Land is supposed to inhabit is meant to have three moons, like in the logo. And we know EA has the rights to make Star Wars games and has tied The Sims into Star Wars before.
So if this IS a Star Wars game pack, what will that entail? Will it be literal or an homage? Will sims be able to freely hop from Willow Creek to a long time ago in a galaxy far away, or will it be kind of cut off from standard gameplay?
Will there be classic Star Wars aliens (that’s... a LOT of new models and animations)? Jedi? Or will it be less overt - a space thing with clear Star Wars Easter eggs and references, but not as direct as “this is part of the shared Star Wars universe now”.
Or will the pack be like a vacation pack, where you can go to a Sims version of this or other theme parks?
Or? Thoughts? What will the actual gameplay of this BE?
That bears a striking resemblance to the new Star Wars section of Disneyland and the iconography used to advertise it.
And to top it off, the fictional outpost planet that Star Wars Land is supposed to inhabit is meant to have three moons, like in the logo. And we know EA has the rights to make Star Wars games and has tied The Sims into Star Wars before.
So if this IS a Star Wars game pack, what will that entail? Will it be literal or an homage? Will sims be able to freely hop from Willow Creek to a long time ago in a galaxy far away, or will it be kind of cut off from standard gameplay?
Will there be classic Star Wars aliens (that’s... a LOT of new models and animations)? Jedi? Or will it be less overt - a space thing with clear Star Wars Easter eggs and references, but not as direct as “this is part of the shared Star Wars universe now”.
Or will the pack be like a vacation pack, where you can go to a Sims version of this or other theme parks?
Or? Thoughts? What will the actual gameplay of this BE?
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I feel the theme park option would be the only one making sense with the sims universe. Although I feel it would end up feeling like a giant star wars ad.
Anyway I have zero interest in Star Wars so I would definitely skip that one if that turns out to be true.
* new world to live in - three neighbourhoods with very different theming
* Lightsabers, duh
* Those hoverbike things
* Droids
* force sensitive life state with mind control, telekenesis, emotional control, athletic ability
* Aspiration of Jedi or Sith Lord
* outfits restricted to that world
It’s not what the sims needs, it won’t add depth to gameplay, it’s not on my top 20 list of hypothetical packs, but it would be kinda cool?
Little BB-8 style buddies wandering around your house 🥺 ahhhhhh so cute.
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More than anything, since it's something that the developers never done before, I'm more intrigued to learn what kind of "crazy" idea that they're going to show it to us.
Though, it's understandable that some Simmers prefer realism, but we should embrace realism & fantasy. Just my 2 cents.
I LOVE sci-fi and fantasy stuff in game! I’ve been wanting an overhaul for aliens (and ghosts!) for ages.
I think my mental block literally just comes from Star Wars being a specific universe that takes place in a specific time. A galaxy far far away is easily solved (we already visit Sixam), but I think I’d need to adjust my thinking to mesh with “a long time ago”, lol. It’s not actually that big of a deal.
I’m also not a major Star Wars nerd, but I have dated them, so I might know too much about the universe through osmosis, and it feels like a lot to try to capture in a game pack if we’re actually meant to be taking our sims to Black Spire Outpost or whatever.
But honestly even if they don’t capture Star Wars very well and the in-universe justification is weak, some fun new sci-fi gameplay would be nice, and I LOVE the Star Wars aesthetic, which we could totally use more of in-game, so I’m open to the idea.
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Yeah, I don't mind at all if they only added in a little bit of Star Wars elements, but it would be even better if they created their own universe. I think, they might be focusing on the story by adding a new gameplay to it, like what they did with the Strangerville. If I must say, Strangerville & the Seasons are the only packs that I've bought on the released date. So, this pack could be one of it too.
Yeah! I hope that they could give us a mini telescope! It's about time!
And I love Star Wars. I'm not as nerdy about it as my friends who are in the 501st Legion, but I was playing West End's Star Wars RPG in the early 90's. When that was the expanded universe. (Seriously, they gave Zahn the existant game catalog as source material)
I'm just not sure how they're going to work tying Batuu to the rest of the Sims world. Having it be a Theme Park makes the most sense to me - literally recreating Galaxy's Edge as a world for the Sims - but SimGuruDuke's tweet from February puts a damper on that theory. Not enough of one that I'm going to discard it, but it's less likely.
My reasons for keeping it open are that the next pack on the list at the time was Eco Lifestyle and it's unclear if the tweet refers to just that or what was in the pipeline in general
We can keep on wishing.
What was the tweet?
The new pack could either be a farming pack or a theme park/county fair pack,since Winter vacation was already done in Sims 1. A future world would be out since the future was already done in Sims 3,and we already have space travel/a space world in Sims 4.
Sorry, it was SimGuruDuke
It's from back in February, when everyone was speculating on a Game Pack for March that didn't happen. But it's from before the Road map, so it's arguable if the no theme park is just what was coming next, or applies to the whole Road Map, or to everything in the works at the time.
"Can one be away from the forum for two days without all of this happening? 😅🤣
At first i looked at the icon and immediatly thought 'winter vacation'. But im kind of biased by all the discussion around the hypothetical winter themed pack... then i started reading all of this thread and the resemblance with Batuu is undeniable imo.
Im thrilled! I've been asking for sci fi content all the time!
I think that to get to Batuu we'll need to build a rocket. Batuu will be a world from where our sims will be able to access the unkown regions. Those will be 'hidden' by portals like the realm of magic. Batuu may also depict markets with all the material we'll need for deeper space exploration.
There are so many different unkown regions but devs can only focus in a few of them... there are ice planets, ocean planets with rocky islands, deserts... let's see which ones the devs have chosen... i'm really curious about the weather effects.
There are also so many themes that can be explored... i think that there'll be a jedi temple, lightsabers, the force, pleaseeee don't forget the dark side of the force... this are things that, if this comes to be true, are most likelly to be part of the pack.
But then the planets have much more to it... mining and farm elements, even resorts and casinos...
It's impossible that a game pack will have everything, but i believe at least one of this more 'mundane' features will be explored and will be 'usable' in all worlds. Having some feature that can be used by everyone is a way to make people that is not so much into this very niche theme feel that they have to buy it (for example, the military career in strangerville)."
If it's Star Wars, it will probably be based on Batuu from Galaxy's Edge at Disney. It won't be all worlds.
And I think you're applying "has been done" too broadly if just having Star Wars stuff in the game disqualifies it. While I know they've done stuff packs in collaboration with major brands, I don't think they've done anything bigger, and Batuu would be bigger.