The latest update for The Sims 4 is now live. Click
here to read the latest notes.
Its time for the final screenshot thread! Show us what ya got
here!
Forum Announcement,
Click Here to Read More From EA_Cade.
Does the American theme bother you for EP12 High School Years ?
Return to top
Comments
Even as a teenager I was never interested in proms or graduation.
Nor would I have expected them to create the British University experience, they are not familiar with the culture at all, nor do we have a genre of media that displays it like Americans do. But it just makes it all the more jarring that they decided to make it a British town - it's just so superficial.
What they seem to have done is strip out everything from the Sims 2 and 3 versions of university which they thought was overtly American (Greek houses, toga parties, counter culture) and replaced it with nothing, so to compensate, they made the academic side more tedious, not by making it more in depth, but by making the stuff we had to do before (classes, study, homework, coursework) more frequent and take longer.
They stripped the identity, the fun out of the previous university packs and instead focused on the weakest element, all to make it more "universal".
That is what I feel a lot of the comments complaining about the Americanness of the High School Pack want: strip back everything that is overtly American, and turn it into a bland, generic, tedious mess focused purely on the classes, because that is the only part of the secondary education system that is universal.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/956513/netz-a-porter-outfits-ready-to-wear-for-your-sims-no-cc-required
Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
Prime example, school uniforms. Neat little detail in Mt. Komorebi. I hope I can choose to make uniforms required. However, school uniforms are illegal in America. (Genuinely, they were used to deny access to students that could not afford them and were thusly banned in at least public schools.) I hope in my fantasy high school, because it is still a game, I can decide things like this.
I'm impressed by the amount of stuff in it, so I'll gladly take it as it is.
Lets make this a reality!
I think an American experience was a good choice for the sake it being a more fleshed out (disney :P) experience and people grow/grew up watching Nickelodeon and stuff.
The universal tang (possibly)? There's the funfair?
I would have personally much preferred a pack with three different options, where you have to choose whether your teen goes to the typical American style high-school (with a focus on the typical shenanigans of teen movies), a posh, British-type boarding school (with a focus on excellence, discipline, tradition), and a third option which could be something similar to the Swiss vocational training system (i.e. you learn an actual job), with a focus on acquiring skills, making things, and beginning a career. It would have been super fun to have different options, but I guess It would have been too complex to implement.
I'll still buy this pack, though. I always welcome new way to add new elements to my gameplay.
I’m mostly focusing on gameplay and if this pack adds a lot of new activities that are not only restricted to teenagers (pillow fights or shaving, fun fair) I will be happy.
Tales From The Myst
The Blue Moon Jukebox
If I anywhay wanted this theme, then totally I want American stereotypical style, seen enough movies and series , plus high school here is super boring
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
While I can understand why they didn't include it, I do wish they had bands. Or at least some expanded content for music. And other non-athletic activities.
Hopefully for future packs we can get some more non-American worlds (at the very least). Ill have to see more to fully judge it but it does look very typical to the usual US-y kind of worlds we often get (and have enough of).
Oh gosh thank you for this it's so accurate👁👄👁
Look at world, the fake carnival (lol) still pretty! The cool looking clothes, the pillow fighting, hope the kids can do it to.
The new drinks and new way to purchase clothes. Etc... I'm just happy we received 3 new worlds in a roll.
Exie hay, cavero, mabza meeah vendarzo.
Yevsas mairzeemo!
Female Simmer from Australia (she/her)
I had one of my Sims marry the Grim Reaper & now they have a lot of kids.