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Anyone else hope the Galaxys Edge GP is Maxis testing the waters?
keylimepiesims
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Maybe it’s delusional fanboy giddiness, but I am genuinely hoping this new Star Wars game pack is EA looking to broaden the scope of their Star Wars games while they still have the licence. I don’t know how much of an overlap of Simmers and Star Wars gamers there is, but could this pack be testing the waters for an interest in a Star Wars life simulation game?
It’s nothing that already exists in Star Wars gaming, peeling away from flight sims and shoot-em-ups, to delve into the unique and diverse worlds of the galaxy, explore the many species and cultures from a totally new point of view. And who better to pioneer this new area in gaming than the leading developers of the life sim genre?
Imagine playing as a smuggler travelling the galaxy and building out your starship interior with sims-level precision, a gangster cartel boss operating on some backwater world, a farmer eking out a living on a frontier world, an artist living in a picturesque villa on Naboo and selling your artworks to a wealthy-connoisseur senator on Coruscant—with a high standing in the galactic republic senate offices—and pulling some strings to benefit your home planet. Imagine being able to vote on galactic matters, save planets from catastrophe or oppress them with an orbital blockade.
Ah the stories I could tell. Am I crazy, or is this something that could be a bit refreshing for both the sims and the Star Wars franchises?
It’s nothing that already exists in Star Wars gaming, peeling away from flight sims and shoot-em-ups, to delve into the unique and diverse worlds of the galaxy, explore the many species and cultures from a totally new point of view. And who better to pioneer this new area in gaming than the leading developers of the life sim genre?
Imagine playing as a smuggler travelling the galaxy and building out your starship interior with sims-level precision, a gangster cartel boss operating on some backwater world, a farmer eking out a living on a frontier world, an artist living in a picturesque villa on Naboo and selling your artworks to a wealthy-connoisseur senator on Coruscant—with a high standing in the galactic republic senate offices—and pulling some strings to benefit your home planet. Imagine being able to vote on galactic matters, save planets from catastrophe or oppress them with an orbital blockade.
Ah the stories I could tell. Am I crazy, or is this something that could be a bit refreshing for both the sims and the Star Wars franchises?
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I’m not super into Star Wars, but I have often wished I could take the Sims ‘life sim’ style into other genres.
On the one hand I love a modern realism based game and in some ways understand folks who are like ‘get this scifi/fantasy stuff out of my life sim!’ and on the other hand I’d really love to play a life sim set in other worlds, for the chance to play in those worlds without it necessarily having to be a big violent high stakes adventure.
Like I know I’m not the only one who was disappointed when The Sims Medieval was a story-based RPG instead of just The Sims: But It’s Medieval Now.
If they came out with a full fledged The Sims: But It’s Star Wars Now, especially if the emphasis wasn’t on existing characters, but instead on the regular people (and aliens!) and the world, even though I’m not the biggest Star Wars fan out there, I’d definitely be interested in the change of pace.
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But it’s also an idea that would be so new and unique as far as Star Wars games go, that I don’t think EA/whatever branch of Lucasfilm makes video game related decisions now would be willing to take the risk of trying out something different.
I do, personally, think it would be incredibly refreshing to see Star Wars games take a new route, rather than just sticking to space combat or FPS games, with the occasional RPG.
It’s not yet confirmed, so there’s not a 100% guarantee, but (imo) it’s the only thing that really makes sense with the evidence.
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Totally agree about that, it’d have to be a forge-your-own adventure type sandbox game, which is also quite unique for Star Wars as most of their games are very story driven and strict to canon, but yeah it’s not something that I would want in a life sim.
We don't know. It's just speculation right now.
Speculation but 80% sure xD
Want. NOW.
Either way, it has my interest and my only hope is that the pack doesn't turn out to be something boring or mundane. After environmental politics and knitting, I'm in desperate need for something fun and interesting.
Banality...setting...in...... Send...help...
I think the most star war related it will be is lightsaber fights like two witch sims can spar in Realm Of Magic. There may be some Star War clothing and accessories. I'm hoping the storm trooper outfits make it in. I think the pack will mainly be on sims vacationing or living on another planet and maybe colonizing.
A lot of buy build items could potentially be future shock high tech related. Small Telescopes may return as well.
Not going to lie, Star Wars is huge to me and I would love to be able to live in that universe. Know it is still just speculations but I am keeping my fingers crossed.
A LS where the player has the ability to:
- Create new planets and worlds with a CAW-like tool and colonize them. Not only lots, but also planets could have a trait system based on weather & environmental characteristics, such as quake zone, hot surface, ice cold surface, dust storms etc.: The terms of your sim’s life are dictated by the forces of nature present on that planet.
- Create new creatures and human(oid) sims using spore’s creature creation mechanics, which also includes height slider support.
- Create backstories based on SW lore and give sims a proper memory system that will influence their character needs.
- Create Vehicles/ Transport with a Create a Vehicle Tool. Vehicles could include anything from dune buggies to small spaceships. Large Star- or Spaceships would exist as moving ‘lots’ that one can enter with smaller vehicles.
I’d like a simulator like that if it wasn’t based on SW....dam.mit I would like to work on a game like that....
Love every word. Especially the idea of combining a life sim with elements of spore’s creation tools, building vehicles in spore was my favourite part of that game.
I would play the hell out of this game.
That is why I would prefer a more generic space pack, versatile enough to be useful for different kinds of space stories. Just like realm of magic is not a Harry Potter pack, I would like a space pack to not be just star wars.
I was discussing the new trailer for State of Decay 3 with some people and, aside from zombie wildlife and snow it doesn't reveal much about what might be in the game. So we started talking about what we'd like to see, and my list was basically The Sims: Zombie Apocalypse. Let me design and style my survivors, let me turn any building into my home base, let me spread my survivors out to different bases across the map, let me control interactions between my survivors more. (And, oh, yeah, get around to dealing with zombies eventually.)
I have Sims Medieval on my computer still because I keep thinking I'll actually play it, but I definitely didn't want a story-based thing. I still really want a game that's just the Sims But It's Medieval Now.
And I'm the same way about Star Wars. I wouldn't want a Star Wars Sims game like The Sims Medieval, but a The Sims But It's Star Wars Now would be fine by me. Heck, while we're at it, give me The Sims But It's The Marvel Cinematic Universe Now, where there are established "households" of various MCU characters, both super and not, and you can make your own characters as well. I'd definitely be less interested in a licensed Sims game like that if it didn't have the established characters, but I wouldn't want to only play as them. (And I'd want generational play anyway, so I could play out what the next generations of the setting might be.)