I have been thinking about this for years and always thought I was the only one that would enjoy this, but I decided to ask you guys how you feel about this idea. What does atavism means? "a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral". It basically means throwback, which I decided not to use so no one would confuse with the "throwback fit kit".
Without further ado, those kits would contain CAS or Build and Buy assets that were previously added in Sims 1, 2 and 3. I feel like its such a shame that EA has a HUUUUGE catalog of 3D models, art designs and assets ready to be used, but are left in the past, when it could only improve our content quantity and cut corners without lefting us with our hands empty.
As an example, I'll use Simsi45 convertion from Sims 2 Family Fun to Sims 4. It came with two separate sets, one was an underwater/mermaid themed bedroom set, while the other one was a castle/princess set. Here is the image of the B&B assets (they don't convert CAS assets unfortunately):
Ok... and by "packs with atavist assets" I mean as an example... imagine if we had gotten Island Living exactly as it is, but if it was shipped with the whole "underwater themed" set converted from Sims 2? Or maybe some sets from Sims 3 Island Paradise? or assets from Sims 3 Barnacle Bay or SUnlit Tides? Converting assets is always cheaper and quicker than creating something from scratch, and it would cut corners by adding more/extra content to us players and still allowing the devs with the rest of their budget for new thingsgameplay/CAS and B&B.
Attention: I'm not saying I want this to substitute the new assets we got in Sims 4 packs, but rather a whole new "atavist" set with the new assets sets in such packs. And maybe we could even get (as an example) the castle set in a cheaper kit.
Sims 1 would be a little more expensive, as it didn't had 3D assets, but only had 2D images, but at least we could get some throwback/atavist stuff packs with new assets inspired by the ones in Sims 1.
This could be things from extra columns, plants, doors, windows, flooring, wallpaper, roofing, hairstyles, clothing, beards, tattoos, accessories, bedroom sets, living room sets, dining room sets, etc...
Another example I could give is Laundry Day... we could've gotten both the assets we had + the Sims 3 ambition assets related to laundry that had a totally different style and even the laundry machine/dryer had a different feel to them. More modern and posh.
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One cannot simply import models from previous iterations of the game. They would have to re-make each item, and re-create its functionality, in terms understood by the TS4 engine.
This would be a huge undertaking. Simpler to allow them to develop current content for the game we have - just as has been done in prior versions.
Just off the top of my head, I loved the Pillows of Poshness! They were great décor for an elegant bedroom, for a reading nook, or like someone threw them off the bed to sleep in it and didn't bother picking them back up.
Currently, Sims 4 furniture sets always feel incomplete. You can't set up an entire house with a fully matched furniture set, and you can't mix up a house with different styles in colors that match. If updated meshes from previous versions of the Sims could patch up those blank spots without being nothing more than a cash-grab pack of their own, if they really, truly linked current styles as opposed to being more objects that don't match anything outside their own collection, then maybe I could be happy.
TL;DR: Yes, but please don't half-plum it. I'd like it to match what we have.
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@phantasmkiss that would be a fun free patch, adding the objects with matching colors/woods to fill the gaps on those sets we have in-game that are incomplete. Like if they converted the whole SIms 2 base game objects with their original colors and new colors matching those incomplete sets from Sims 4, they could even add houses from Sims 2 base game on the official maxis gallery as a comemorative thing (or even a free world... if I'm not mistaken Pleasantview and the other 2 base game worlds were around the usual 11/12 lots we have in Sims 4.
How about some before and after photos to show examples of your conversions?
However Nostalgia can subjective, I feel like It's better to keep it at an easter egg level. Maybe Something new reflects on one of the older versions, and it's come with improvements. After all that isn't what the Sims 2, Sims 3, and Sims 4 does? Generation after Generation.
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If they do a Sims 3 pack, I'd love for it to be the 70's, 80's and 90's pack!
Sims 1: Hot Date
Sims 2: Seasons
Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff
Sims 3: Seasons
Sims 3: 70's, 80's, & 90's Stuff
Sims 4: Seasons
Sims 4: Paranormal Stuff
Sims 4: Strangerville Game Pack
I would never use that mermaid bed set, tbh.
I wonder if they have done research groups to see which items from past games were most/least popular. Idk if they've actually added items from past games and packs into TS4, but I kinda feel like they have? As long as it looks good, I wouldn't mind.