An excellent question. Personally, I do feel cemeteries should have been a lot type in the basegame. I mean if there's going to be death with urns and gravestones, it seems the respectful thing to have an official home (ie cemetery) for the deceased from the beginning. So, I am beyond thrilled to have them now 🥰
@ChrissaTodd With 17 expansion packs (including Life and Death), 12 Game Packs, 20 Stuff Packs, and 33 Kits, EA isn't going broke. A new lot type isn't a big deal, especially compared to everything else in the pack. Funerals are game play, but Cemeteries are just a different flavor of Park. Also, Cemeteries were Base Game in Sims 3.
Forgot to include this in the outro but I kinda said this feedback throughout the video, I wish so much of this pack didn't hinge on moodlets. It felt like a lot of the ghost powers, grief and the extra unlocks with Lady Ravendancer's tarot all kind of just changed emotions and that all obviously feels like it doesn't matter much because the emotion system isn't strong and just fights against each other
like i say in the video, even if it was only on emotions, i expected stronger ones that actually make bits of gameplay hard to do. like when sims are too tense or sad to do stuff. even better than that, i would expect it to impact their lives/gameplay, such as a bored sim not really wanting to do many activities bc they’re just not interested or for example avoiding work/school, or sad sims just cry an awful lot and it’s hard to get them to do other things/turn down invites/don’t really wanna leave their lot
not from what i played. the emotions weren't strong enough, were knocked down pretty much by everything else so they were barely ever the dominant one and even when it was the dominant one, it didn't stop me from doing any tasks or playing on that sim. I feel like grief should be a challenge to overcome but it passed in a couple of days without me barely even noticing it
I wasn't impressed with the bucket list from the trailers - it really just looks like the wants written in a journal. I really want the cemetery lot, heirlooms, and wills but I'm definitely not paying full price for this. I'm also disappointed the ghost needs are just regular needs with new silly labels. It would have been nice if ghost had different needs. Like if they needed to drain energy from people instead of just eating or something like that.
One thing I can agree with Molly on is that everyone plays a different game. 2 of my favorites are Cottage Living and For Rent and they are very different from each other but I can't think of any other EPs I would miss more other than Seasons. This pack would be a solid C tier for me. On par with Eco Lifestyle or Get Famous. Just my gameplay
If you are playing the reaper career definitely always stick your hand in the rifts. I got one of the treasures from jungle adventure last night and it was worth 9000 simoleons.
The life's journey part was one of the most compelling parts I was looking forward to. I'm slowly drifting towards a no purchase :( - even though it looks pretty cool.
I'm hoping they can maybe nerf/balance it a little bit but I'll be watching it closely on full release to see if it continues to feel as easy as it was
Soul's Journey being too easy is why I like to play with whims/wants lol Because if I exclusively do what my Sims want to do, there is an excellent chance that (like many people in life) they won't accomplish everything they needed to for career or their aspirations, or now this souls journey thing. I hope they refresh those again so they are even more useful cause they're still missing a lot of things. Like it would be nice if my spellcaster got the want to practice magic or if my ghost got the want to progress in their ghost tree. Or if wellness sims got the want to rebirth or escape rebirth.
I haven't yet much of an opinion on the Souls Journey yet but I do like the tarot. I am not the greatest fan of the new whim system as I often seem to get stuff I don't want to do and then it hangs around for ages or until you buy a potion to resolve it, while the third one is usualy very predictably needs related. The tarot is a cute mix in this as it gives the third whim some purpose, it's something your superstitious sim really wants to do because fate said so. Perfect reason for some hairbrained scheme. "Sweetheart, why did you start painting at 2 in the morning you don't even like art!" "The cards told me to."
I think it would be great if you could choose easy, medium, or hard for the various goals like bucket lists -aspirations- etc. So, players who dont really want it tto be super hard- fine. But many simmers who have played through before or are more into challenges may want to try harder goals that are challenging, but not tutorials. Luckily, like you said the bucket list is somewhat like this where you can choose harder options. However, various things like wants, aspirations, goals etc could bbe set to easy, medium, or hard to be more functional for everyone fitting how they would like to play things out.
I’m so excited about this pack. I hadn’t played sims in like 2 years and yet, I pre-ordered this one. My fave sims family I’ve ever played currently has my main character as an elder so it’s to perfect too bc I don’t typically like to have kids so when my sims die it’s game over, but now it’s not game over anymore. I’m also excited to see what mods come from this game, I know some people feel like they shouldn’t needs mods to play and that’s fair, but for me mods are just a part of games that I enjoy and I pretty much will always get them on any game I can
So it seems the sims team MADE the SAME kinda system for powers as they DID for vampires game pack as well as the Spell casters from the Realm of Magic game pack. Interesting. 👍✌⭐
I TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT THE SOULs JOURNEY BEING TOO EASY! I was soooo annoyed that I finished it and it didn't let me write anymore bucket list itens, I didnt know that was gonna happen. I didnt even get to write a peefect goal because when I realized I has already finished! I wish it was wayyy harder, or at least that it would let me choose to be more difficult (and leave the easy mode for those who like it)
Wait you can't add more bucket list items once they're done? That sucks 😓 irl, bucketlists are always changing and evolving so I expected that once one item is done, you can add new ones. And now I'm kinda stuck with one that is out of character for my sim since I don't want to scrap all her goals for one item
I never play with death but made a sim just for the whole Grim event and upcoming pack. Like 2h after I started playing with the pack, my Sim's partner (not in same household) died suddenly, I don't even know how 😱 I planned on testing the funeral stuff, but not this early! He's fine, I had ambrosia already made and the funeral was mostly for fun storytelling 😊 ETA: I did really struggle to finish the goals since I didn't have the urn/headstone and no matter what I did, the "mourn the deceased" task never registered as completed. So even though I did everything, I still only got below silver for the event
Thanks for reviewing gameplay as that’s my interest. 💯 agree about grief, (as someone experiencing it now) it’s strange that sad or the gloomy trait really makes ur sim behave depressed but grief isnt that effective. I’d be interested in how this expansion measures up against lovestruck as the two newest. I wasn’t at all interested in it but now I wonder if my family gameplay style would fit it, also the European world appeals. Do think graveyards should be basegame tho
I was going to buy this today but now I’m in 2 minds they really did drop the ball again on a lot of the gameplay which is disappointing then I’ve also seen there is no seasons in the world which again is a major let down n also a few of the swatches aren’t matching again. Super let down maybe I’ll just wait for a sale now
@ they have already come out and said it was a design decision to go with the ethereal theme of the life and death. Which I feel is just an excuse for why they didn’t put any seasons in as it’s based on Romania which snows it’s abit lame really
Thank you very much for this video! Everytime a pack nears release I get all excited and this grounded me haha, I can definitely wait until this one goes on sale - it looks gorgeous and sounds very well done, however, for my personal gameplay, the Soul's Journey sounded most interesting, and now it seems like a cool feature but not like the must have I thought... Maybe, if the devs don't scale it a bit better eventually, it could be done with mods?
I really love the bucket list and the idea of it, I found it really fun. But I didn’t realise it went away once you met them as it went way too quick, I think it took one sim week!!
I haven't had a chance to play enough with the souls journey to know if it goes to quickly. It is one of the features I am most interested in. I have seen a mod on modthesims that is addressing this issue and is intended to make the bar fill more slowly.
I'm waiting for the pack to go on sale to get it (Cause I do that with all of them, I have serious fomo tho), but I'd say that this is the first pack in the sims 4's lifetime that actually feels big enough to be an expansion pack to me
Just bought the pack. I was so excited for it to come out! Can’t wait to play with it and will let you know how I feel about it more when I’ve played with it.
As a family legacy player, I'm sure I would enjoy and use the funeral aspect of the pack the funeral event, wills and heirlooms, but I have no interest in the rest of it or even the cas assets. So, I cannot justify spending £35 for a pack that I know I'm not going to use to it's fullest extent. I have already built a graveyard in my game and I can live with it staying as a generic lot type.
This is my thought too. I’m going to wait a while to see if it goes on sale because I’d like the funerals but that’s really the only feature that appeals to me m
i'm also disappointed in grief (helpp when u said bg sadness after death is actually more impactful) and wish ghosts were spookier. not just in powers but also appearance, wheres my demons and angles :( im probably gonna get this due to the realism of graveyards and funerals tho
Guys there's a new update today, I didn't see this coming, I thought the patch update would be the only one... Does this mean we need to update our mods all over again? 😅
Some modders aren't even releasing new versions of their mods for a week anyway. It's going to take a bit for everything to settle down. Also the sims team has released multiple patches after expansions too.
@@mwahha6965 I just open a new save and play without cc. It can also be a good opportunity to make sims or lots to have for later. I'll install a few quality of life things like mc command center and ui cheats because they usually are updated day of.
Still NOT crazy about the high price but saw there was a great deal of content in the pack too. Like OVER 100 things from the build and buy menu. I wonder IF that is WHY this exspansion is priced so high? Infact I wonder IF EA bases price by HOW much or less stuff they have in build N' buy ?? 🤔🤔🤔 just a thought.
I still have YET to get this pack. It does look good. Who in comments has gotten this new exspansion pack? IF so how IS it?? Is it WORTH the price?? Is the game play good or NOT good? Please let ME know here in comments because I am thinking of getting it at some point. Also is it buggy or glitchy?? Would also like to know that as well in comments. Ty. 🤩👍🖕
An excellent question. Personally, I do feel cemeteries should have been a lot type in the basegame. I mean if there's going to be death with urns and gravestones, it seems the respectful thing to have an official home (ie cemetery) for the deceased from the beginning. So, I am beyond thrilled to have them now 🥰
i feel like we’ve had workarounds for years which has been okay but like you, happy we now officially have them
Agree this should be base game thing
no they can't make everything free
The still have to make money :)
Saying something shoukd be basegame free is redundant
@ChrissaTodd With 17 expansion packs (including Life and Death), 12 Game Packs, 20 Stuff Packs, and 33 Kits, EA isn't going broke. A new lot type isn't a big deal, especially compared to everything else in the pack. Funerals are game play, but Cemeteries are just a different flavor of Park. Also, Cemeteries were Base Game in Sims 3.
Forgot to include this in the outro but I kinda said this feedback throughout the video, I wish so much of this pack didn't hinge on moodlets. It felt like a lot of the ghost powers, grief and the extra unlocks with Lady Ravendancer's tarot all kind of just changed emotions and that all obviously feels like it doesn't matter much because the emotion system isn't strong and just fights against each other
How did you expect grief to work?
like i say in the video, even if it was only on emotions, i expected stronger ones that actually make bits of gameplay hard to do. like when sims are too tense or sad to do stuff. even better than that, i would expect it to impact their lives/gameplay, such as a bored sim not really wanting to do many activities bc they’re just not interested or for example avoiding work/school, or sad sims just cry an awful lot and it’s hard to get them to do other things/turn down invites/don’t really wanna leave their lot
@EnglishSimmer isn't it how it works?
not from what i played. the emotions weren't strong enough, were knocked down pretty much by everything else so they were barely ever the dominant one and even when it was the dominant one, it didn't stop me from doing any tasks or playing on that sim. I feel like grief should be a challenge to overcome but it passed in a couple of days without me barely even noticing it
I wish we could change moods to being more like sims 3.
I wasn't impressed with the bucket list from the trailers - it really just looks like the wants written in a journal. I really want the cemetery lot, heirlooms, and wills but I'm definitely not paying full price for this. I'm also disappointed the ghost needs are just regular needs with new silly labels. It would have been nice if ghost had different needs. Like if they needed to drain energy from people instead of just eating or something like that.
One thing I can agree with Molly on is that everyone plays a different game. 2 of my favorites are Cottage Living and For Rent and they are very different from each other but I can't think of any other EPs I would miss more other than Seasons. This pack would be a solid C tier for me. On par with Eco Lifestyle or Get Famous. Just my gameplay
If you are playing the reaper career definitely always stick your hand in the rifts. I got one of the treasures from jungle adventure last night and it was worth 9000 simoleons.
The life's journey part was one of the most compelling parts I was looking forward to. I'm slowly drifting towards a no purchase :( - even though it looks pretty cool.
I'm hoping they can maybe nerf/balance it a little bit but I'll be watching it closely on full release to see if it continues to feel as easy as it was
Soul's Journey being too easy is why I like to play with whims/wants lol Because if I exclusively do what my Sims want to do, there is an excellent chance that (like many people in life) they won't accomplish everything they needed to for career or their aspirations, or now this souls journey thing. I hope they refresh those again so they are even more useful cause they're still missing a lot of things. Like it would be nice if my spellcaster got the want to practice magic or if my ghost got the want to progress in their ghost tree. Or if wellness sims got the want to rebirth or escape rebirth.
I haven't yet much of an opinion on the Souls Journey yet but I do like the tarot. I am not the greatest fan of the new whim system as I often seem to get stuff I don't want to do and then it hangs around for ages or until you buy a potion to resolve it, while the third one is usualy very predictably needs related. The tarot is a cute mix in this as it gives the third whim some purpose, it's something your superstitious sim really wants to do because fate said so. Perfect reason for some hairbrained scheme. "Sweetheart, why did you start painting at 2 in the morning you don't even like art!" "The cards told me to."
Tarotkarten got over 100 new specific wants
I think it would be great if you could choose easy, medium, or hard for the various goals like bucket lists -aspirations- etc. So, players who dont really want it tto be super hard- fine. But many simmers who have played through before or are more into challenges may want to try harder goals that are challenging, but not tutorials. Luckily, like you said the bucket list is somewhat like this where you can choose harder options. However, various things like wants, aspirations, goals etc could bbe set to easy, medium, or hard to be more functional for everyone fitting how they would like to play things out.
I’m so excited about this pack. I hadn’t played sims in like 2 years and yet, I pre-ordered this one. My fave sims family I’ve ever played currently has my main character as an elder so it’s to perfect too bc I don’t typically like to have kids so when my sims die it’s game over, but now it’s not game over anymore. I’m also excited to see what mods come from this game, I know some people feel like they shouldn’t needs mods to play and that’s fair, but for me mods are just a part of games that I enjoy and I pretty much will always get them on any game I can
So it seems the sims team MADE the SAME kinda system for powers as they DID for vampires game pack as well as the Spell casters from the Realm of Magic game pack. Interesting. 👍✌⭐
I TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT THE SOULs JOURNEY BEING TOO EASY!
I was soooo annoyed that I finished it and it didn't let me write anymore bucket list itens, I didnt know that was gonna happen. I didnt even get to write a peefect goal because when I realized I has already finished! I wish it was wayyy harder, or at least that it would let me choose to be more difficult (and leave the easy mode for those who like it)
Wait you can't add more bucket list items once they're done? That sucks 😓 irl, bucketlists are always changing and evolving so I expected that once one item is done, you can add new ones. And now I'm kinda stuck with one that is out of character for my sim since I don't want to scrap all her goals for one item
I never play with death but made a sim just for the whole Grim event and upcoming pack. Like 2h after I started playing with the pack, my Sim's partner (not in same household) died suddenly, I don't even know how 😱 I planned on testing the funeral stuff, but not this early!
He's fine, I had ambrosia already made and the funeral was mostly for fun storytelling 😊
ETA: I did really struggle to finish the goals since I didn't have the urn/headstone and no matter what I did, the "mourn the deceased" task never registered as completed. So even though I did everything, I still only got below silver for the event
Thanks for reviewing gameplay as that’s my interest. 💯 agree about grief, (as someone experiencing it now) it’s strange that sad or the gloomy trait really makes ur sim behave depressed but grief isnt that effective. I’d be interested in how this expansion measures up against lovestruck as the two newest. I wasn’t at all interested in it but now I wonder if my family gameplay style would fit it, also the European world appeals. Do think graveyards should be basegame tho
oh i much prefer this to lovestruck personally
@@EnglishSimmer thanks for sharing
Also I think this pack WOULD work good with the paranormal pack. Just a thought. 🤔👍✌
My funeral stories
Just got the game today... as a builder all I have to say is this game had me playing the game
I think moodlets should effect needs for example while a sim is grieving a sim death their energy go faster and hard to keep up
You can hire caterer via clicking on stoves
yeah i just meant bit odd to not have it as an option in the event throwing this time around
I was going to buy this today but now I’m in 2 minds they really did drop the ball again on a lot of the gameplay which is disappointing then I’ve also seen there is no seasons in the world which again is a major let down n also a few of the swatches aren’t matching again. Super let down maybe I’ll just wait for a sale now
Are there really no seasons?! Wth that’s such a slip up hope they fix that
@ they have already come out and said it was a design decision to go with the ethereal theme of the life and death. Which I feel is just an excuse for why they didn’t put any seasons in as it’s based on Romania which snows it’s abit lame really
@@mizdaniiella yes definitely, I was thinking Eastern Europe in the snow would be a vibe, not a good call for an expansion world :( ig EA just cba
Thank you very much for this video! Everytime a pack nears release I get all excited and this grounded me haha, I can definitely wait until this one goes on sale - it looks gorgeous and sounds very well done, however, for my personal gameplay, the Soul's Journey sounded most interesting, and now it seems like a cool feature but not like the must have I thought... Maybe, if the devs don't scale it a bit better eventually, it could be done with mods?
How do you feel it’s the news there won’t be snow?
I really love the bucket list and the idea of it, I found it really fun. But I didn’t realise it went away once you met them as it went way too quick, I think it took one sim week!!
I haven't had a chance to play enough with the souls journey to know if it goes to quickly. It is one of the features I am most interested in. I have seen a mod on modthesims that is addressing this issue and is intended to make the bar fill more slowly.
Working for Grim as a job seems like it would be good. Thankfully I HAVE the get to work exspansion pack as well as others. 🤩👍✌
I'm waiting for the pack to go on sale to get it (Cause I do that with all of them, I have serious fomo tho), but I'd say that this is the first pack in the sims 4's lifetime that actually feels big enough to be an expansion pack to me
Just bought the pack. I was so excited for it to come out! Can’t wait to play with it and will let you know how I feel about it more when I’ve played with it.
As a family legacy player, I'm sure I would enjoy and use the funeral aspect of the pack the funeral event, wills and heirlooms, but I have no interest in the rest of it or even the cas assets. So, I cannot justify spending £35 for a pack that I know I'm not going to use to it's fullest extent. I have already built a graveyard in my game and I can live with it staying as a generic lot type.
This is my thought too. I’m going to wait a while to see if it goes on sale because I’d like the funerals but that’s really the only feature that appeals to me m
I’m still waiting for it to release… can’t wait to try it out
It’s not out as yet… ? Well, hopefully by the time I’m off from work it should be 😅
All Sims no matter ambition traits upbringing all want to get married and have kids it's what Sims want to do
Thanks for your review 😁 are you going to do any kind let's play to explore the gameplay in detail?? Also I miss your storyline LP.
Love you videos 💕
i’ll more likely be doing life and death focused videos and then focusing on it in a generation of my short lifespan legacy
I am not interesses in this pack, But i enjoy watching you TH-cam simmers play with it :)
I definitely agree on the soul journey thing, it is way too easy
i'm also disappointed in grief (helpp when u said bg sadness after death is actually more impactful) and wish ghosts were spookier. not just in powers but also appearance, wheres my demons and angles :( im probably gonna get this due to the realism of graveyards and funerals tho
Guys there's a new update today, I didn't see this coming, I thought the patch update would be the only one... Does this mean we need to update our mods all over again? 😅
Some modders aren't even releasing new versions of their mods for a week anyway.
It's going to take a bit for everything to settle down. Also the sims team has released multiple patches after expansions too.
@AdamantGremlin good point, thank you!
I think some said mods aren’t disabled for this update, and there probably will be a patch in a few days. Idw play without mods 😢
@@mwahha6965 I just open a new save and play without cc. It can also be a good opportunity to make sims or lots to have for later.
I'll install a few quality of life things like mc command center and ui cheats because they usually are updated day of.
Still NOT crazy about the high price but saw there was a great deal of content in the pack too. Like OVER 100 things from the build and buy menu. I wonder IF that is WHY this exspansion is priced so high? Infact I wonder IF EA bases price by HOW much or less stuff they have in build N' buy ?? 🤔🤔🤔 just a thought.
Is there a way to ask someone to be put in their will? Or does the money go to spouse/children by default?
I still have YET to get this pack. It does look good. Who in comments has gotten this new exspansion pack? IF so how IS it?? Is it WORTH the price?? Is the game play good or NOT good? Please let ME know here in comments because I am thinking of getting it at some point.
Also is it buggy or glitchy?? Would also like to know that as well in comments. Ty. 🤩👍🖕
I downloaded it, played for 30 minutes, got bored, turned it off