The Sims 4 Castle Estate Kit left me wanting more (review)
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- The Sims 4 Castle Estate Kit review! My honest thoughts and opinions about the latest Sims 4 Castle kit.
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This is nicer than I expected, but it should've been just one part of an entire royalty pack tbh. Why does EA have some kind of a kink with underachieving?
Money is the answer.
@@toofacedsugar1764 Yup, instead of a one time profit from a big pack they chop it up into minipacks, selling the same amount of content for a bigger price.
Is the royalty pack confirmed? Because if they are doing a royalty pack they'll probably just clone what's in this pack and include it in build mode.
Tbh I feel like a medieval/royalty might be coming alongside with fairies. Remember how they released the country kitchen kit right before cottage living?
@@nash3689 I was just coming to comment that! Fingers crossed 🤞
Knowing EA, they'll come out with 'castle interior kit' next
Nah, they’ll split the furniture for a castle interior and clutter for a castle interior into two seperate kits. Then, they’ll give us 1970’s stuff, 1980’s stuff and 1990’s stuff into three seperate kits…COUGH COUGH BASEMENT TREASURES COUGH AHEM COUGH 🤣🙄
If we’re lucky enough, they’ll have one kit be required somehow for the other kits to work. 🤣🤣🤣
lmao dont give them any ideas please lol
It’s gonna be a 3 parter, interior next and then decor 💀
@@CorridorOfMirrorsRemixesMy First Castle Stuff
My first (empty) Castle Kit 😍😍😍😍
My First Castle Shell Kit
Girl, i wheezed😂😂
Facts 😂😂
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lol. I love it. well said!
How lovely would it have been to have this, vampires, romantic garden, and courtyard oasis be one thing? Then you could at least have your castle have a chair in it
Vampires is more Victorian than, medieval castle attempt that this kit seems to be. But I agree it would have been better to have a "whole" ack than just a kit.
i dont really think courtyard oasis matches, wasnt that more Morocco themed
@@MoonbiscuitSims I love the stuff in Courtyard Oasis. Shame there isn't anyplace to use it where it doesn't look out-of-place. Maybe I'll make a public pool in Tomarang once For Rent is on sale?
@@greyscaleanon7551 I think they really needed to make courtyard oasis part of a full, culture-focused game pack or expansion pack. then at least we would have had matching items for a cohesive home style.
@sageshroom I would love that. I usually use the Courtyard Oasis kit in oasis springs and build a large court yard house.
this really should've been a medieval fair game pack with a small world with activities like archery or hobby horsing
Medieval themes just wouldn’t work in Sims 4 unless it was its own world and not accessible to the premade townies which would mean it’d probably be like the empty alien worlds
@@Yvanehtnioj2000 The could have made it like a vacation world.and locked some townies to the world like they did in starwars.
Or a time travel pack with medieval and future items 🙈
@@anomalytenacious Even people in the comments know how to do it, while EA pretends they can't, because they need to spend some efforts to make it 😅 EA being EA 🤬
Knowing EA they might do it anyway. See what happen with the country kitchen kit.
This kit paves the way for The Sims 4 My First Medieval Castle Hustle Stuff Pack 😍😍😍😍
Omg, we live in this timeline...
My First Get Medieval Castle Living Together Stuff Pack Kit
That’s facts! I saw someone say “Medieval Interiors” and that’s exactly what EA is about to do smh I wish Maxis was still running the game and not greedy EA
@@artblank7342 lmao
The one thing I can imagine building with this is a museum lot? Like, we in germany do have many old castles and most of them are museums these days, so my sims could get that same experience with this kit. Those museums are mostly kinda empty most of the time anyway, so one can just put the expensive basegame furniture in there and it seems pretty realistic
Great idea!
ive been just thinking the same thing!
I thought about a church loll
You can make hogwarts with this, the windows and doors a very fitting
Like a medival musem, showing all the medival events
You said exactly what I thought. There are no cool beautiful stained glass windows. It's such a shame. I do feel like the structure of the windows is nice, but not the glass. Such a pity. And no spiral staircases.
I want spiral staircases SO BADLY and this would have been a perfect pack to slip them in 😢
@@dylnpickl846 sims 4 aint ambitious enough to work on smth like that cmon
A rose window would have been amazing!
I remember there's one in the magic wizard game pack. But ofc it costs more money
It's such a shame because a rose window is actually gothic so it'd fit very well to this pack.
Theres one in the wedding stories but it looks too modern
Oh I really wish the slit windows had the option for no glass! That was the whole point of them so that archers could shoot arrows out of them! Glass just gets in the way! 😂 I wish there could have been more things from sims medieval in this - they have a whole game to get inspiration from! But the build does look good! Nice job Satch!
Oh fgs so annoying 😂
I love how Satch is just casually roasting this Kit pack and then casually building a Castle along with it, then boom! An actually decent looking Castle is built.
I have studied some art history and these windows look like gothic style windows but very simple. Gothic style windows are so intricate. The castle trim looks like Romanesque style and the door is baroque style , so I kinda wish they would have just chosen one style given that we only have very few items anyway. And I do like the items but it's not enough! A game pack would make more sense!
Those doors look quite gothic to me, where is the baroque coming from?
@@mrmr4622 oh, it's so hard to tell because the door in the kit are so simplistic, they could be romaneque ones too, I just felt the one's with the pillars look quite baroque to me.
@@silvervixen007 idk, everything seems pretty gothic, but a) I dont think the sims graphics would allow for a more intricate stuff anyways b) gothic comes in different forms, this to me is heavily based on English castles, which often arent that intricate and over-detailed as french cathedrals would be for example
Gems in this video: "How Americans who have never been to Europe imagine castles to look like" &
"Building a castle on this Epstein looking island just doesn't work"
I lol’d 🤣🤣🤣
Europeans can’t go a day without mentioning Americans
@@rollitupmars Yeah it's funny every time 😂
Because americans (small 'a' is intentional) lend themselves to ridicule so well.@@rollitupmars
@@Psyche0delic were literally just existing what
Love how you can't really furnish this without vampires/maybe spellcasters😭
Eeee, you can with Cordelia's set or Goth's set
If they were thinking ahead the sims 4 team could have made medieval tack for horses for more roleplay options instead of always doing american-themed everything
This is classic EA. Giving us a build kit without any buy objects to put in the build. Giving us a fence without a matching gate. Just "use your imagination" guys.
😂😂
As someone who never really moved on from the Sims 2, I'm very sorry to hear that they still haven't learned how to make gates to match their fences. ;;;>____
yeah they could’ve easily made this into a stuff pack
I really would’ve preferred this as a stuff pack. It’s just kinda pointless if we only get build mode objects. I want to be fully immersed in my medieval fantasies 😂
In order to make those castles fit into the sims universe they could have made a pack similar to Batu where you somehow travel back in time and have a story line in a medieval world, also with the opportunity to live there. That would have been something I would have liked... Another missed chance...
lol, the sims 4 team could not be arsed
Honestly, that's probably the best way to do it with the Sims 4. The story-line would probably just consist of talking to the right NPCs but I think the right team with enough time could make something decent
$40 game pack coming up!
Mixing this kit with the vampire, wolves, get together, romantic garden, my wedding stories, I’m sure with all the creativity simmers have we’ll still see some incredible builds with decor
I hate how we have to buy more than one pack to make it feel complete. They might as well call it a half assed medieval kit, buy like two more packs for it to stick to the label
@@Tiffany-ov2jf Yeah same, that's why i cracked the whole game!
@@Tiffany-ov2jf that's kinda the point of kits - niche stuff for specific purposes
As an American who experienced castles in Ireland… yes I agree. This is giving “Medieval Times” vibes
Idk this is pretty much typical english castle to me
i’m from Ireland and most of the castles that aren’t like super touristy i wouldn’t say are exactly like this? maybe carrickfergus or scrabo tower tho
Waiting on the expansion and stuff pack to go with this.
What I would have loved would be like a "Romeo and Juliet" gamepack with gameplay the style of Strangerville with a storyline and a Sims 4 version of Veronaville so you could choose the Caps or the Montys and explore different gameplay paths and even try to like prevent a tragedy or something. That way you could get the castle stuff, the outfits, a small world, and the gameplay. Just imagine The Sims 4 "Tragic Romance" game pack
Brings back memories of the sims2
I wouldn't expect this to resemble The Sims Medieval at all, but I would expect it to give us a way to create and decorate a full castle accordingly
Satch: guys, I'm gonna be brutally honest with you
Me: when aren't you? At this point it should go without saying 😂
Satch: You thought I was building a castle here 😂😂
Honestly, I kinda like it since it is possible to build a fairly realistic-looking country house without trouble, and I think the items are well made. I just wish we had a few more doors, arches and windows. Also, a period-appropriate fireplace would be welcome as we currently don't have any decent fireplaces suitable for English country houses, but I understand it's supposed to be a build kit.
I really wanted them to run wild with the voted for goth theme and make a stuff/game pack with a Grim career, etc. I also hoped they would see how popular the medieval castle theme was and make more of that, even going as far as an expansion pack with a historic world. But no... The minimum
you should have made yourself a king in the thumbnail to match the theme like the goth kit 😂
In Get Together there are also a lot of medieval themed objects and buildmode, like English, Scottish, Irish
Thank you for reviewing the different packs and especially doing it in an honest way. Your laugh is amazing btw!! I always look forward to hearing it in your videos 😅🎉
Not me watching this while booting up my royalty mod save lol
Royalty mod?😮
Yep there's been a royalty mod for some time now. @@Bitha_
So we have Landgrab family, so no surprise there's another family called Cashgrab. EA simply use micro 1% of Simmers idea then directly packed into Cashgrab kit. Please create Cashgrab Family.
I've built a castle on Brindleton Bay, and I think it fits alright (biggest lot) - the world reminds me of Scotland, though I suppose it's been inspired by New England
Another good option would be Henford on Bagley
def agree with you we need medieval gameplay like in a game pack and the whole shebang for the experience
As for inside, now you have to challenge yourself and pick everything from all packs to match this theme
also Romantic Garden fits great for the yard area
you can show us the results - how did you manage to set it all up inside using objects from previous DLC
Vampires pack, Magic Pack, something in Get Famous pack (decorations for making medieval movie)
Your quick little castle is actually really nice - can’t wait to DL and glitz it up ❤
Your little cackle sends me every single time. Never change!
Midnight here in Australia. Never been so early on a Satch video 😅
Great review, its nice to have someone speaking what they think & not just spruiking it like its the most impressive thing EA have ever done
technically its only 11:50 still
Gotta appreciate SnatchOnSims’s honesty
Can we talk abt how cute the satch build castle actually looks 😍😍
I agree, this would have been real nice if it was a game pack.
The Sims Medieval is amazing, but it's a quest-based game and it is very limited if you wanna do like a legacy gameplay, where you have generations of royal families, a crown prince/princess, an heir/heiress, and much more. So once you finished all the quests, there's really nothing else to do, and the build/buy is also fairly limited with the doll house view from the player, and the sims only has 3 lifestages: baby, child, adult. And your child doesn't even age, unless you die. Plus it's pretty odd to have your child seems to be the same age as the other living parent, and their other siblings could never age.
But then I guess it would have been too ambitious for sims 4 to make a medieval looking world, with one existing main castle (and maybe other smaller castles for nobles) and a village. It could either be an old school kingdom from the 13th century, or a modern one like today's royals. There could even be a premade royal family who are famous and are constantly followed by paparazzi (if you have the get famous pack, of course).
dear satchie, please never stop youtubing. thank you
Omg I apsoutley adore you. So real and hilarious. Best personality. Keep posting!! 😂❤🤗
Your Castle is cute. I wish I had to take 'boring' school trips to castles!
I would love this kit .. if there were a game pack to go with it. But look at what they've done to my thinking. Shut up and take my money please!
I got church vibes from it too! But anyway, you did a great job making a quick little castle to show off the kit! 🤙
oof i love the battlements fence on the circular though ooof looks good
You did a great job building the non build, I like the stones with the grass sticking through as well.
I wish they made a royal pack. Where the sims could be royalties and where we get spiral staircases.
Ahh, that's so lucky your field trips were to castles! Here we didn't have any cool field trips really. The only one was in the 5th grade as a skiing trip. You could skii or snowboard and of course I chose to snowboard. 10 mins away next to SnowBasin which was used for the 2002 SLC winter Olympics (I live 20 mins away from that ski resort). It's amazing living in the Rockies but I'd still wanna see castles!
can't wait for castle bedroom, dining room, bathroom, kitchen, and living room kits (each sold separately)
Im new in the channel, and i just wanted to say that i love those laughs 0:10 LMAO JKHNFDGKSAD the comedy timing is so good 💀
“Where can you actually build a bloody castle in this entire game?”
In silly places, obviously. Satch has inspired me to change Bob and Eliza Pancakes’ house into a fabulous fortress. They won the lottery in one of my saves, so it’s the only logical thing to do 😌
I think sometimes British people forget the US was once a European colony and we do have castles here that were built by Europeans. We also have Spanish, French and British forts. Southern states were once Spanish colonies and those forts are still there. French ones in some northern states. Castles aren’t just in Europe lol.
I have to add as well, considering you're not a builder, Satch, this was a really nice build.
Im gonna use this with realm of Magic so its a fantasy castle world type of thing. Also we just got romantic garden for free that will pair nicely too. I’m having a lot of fun with it but im a big fantasy person so.
You did a great job with your Castel
We can finally build big cathedral and stuff too. Great because I’ve always wanted to do like a church museum
This is why I voted for the future kit. Because I knew the castle would be underwhelming. Plus, I was hoping for a larger pack than just a kit.
I mean it probably would've been just as underwhelming. At least we have some furniture that matches medieval stuff but futrue styled furniture very lacking
@@zoommiesbay yeah. I guess I don’t really care about the future style but I really like medieval. I’d be less disappointed because I would be less invested. That’s an entirely self centered reason, I know.
If anything you’ve convinced me to buy it for the grassy swatches off stuff 😂❤
I want a medival game pack with
- small France/ Germany inspired world
- opera balls as game play where your sims can dance waltz together
- ball gowns
- lot type castle that can be used to explore but also as wedding venues and as a place for the opera ball
- traits : history enthusiast and opera ball lover
- career: tour guide
I know what you are going to say THE SIMS 4 COULD NEVER
Can’t wait for my first Royalty pack to go with this 😬, yes it was definitely hard to furnish with just base game.
Britchester is about to have a glow up🥳🤩.
Love your sims videos you’re awesome
the stone staircase can be stretched to be huge and very grand! ❤
I love this kit. I’ve been able to go back to my castle I made years ago and could fix it lol but I get what you’re saying
Honestly this would really nice for a wedding venue.
I love your laugh!
This does seem pretty barebones for the concept. What's there looks decent enough but you're right. The lack of interior + clothing means you can't really live out the fantasy. Not until they make a new DLC to charge more money to complete said concept... which will probably be buggy as hell somehow...
I could maybe visualise a castle in the Cottage Living world, atop the hill where most inland castles would be for the high ground but I'm not sure there's a big enough lot up there and I'm too lazy to go and look. If there is, it would make some sense with the town down the hill and farmland around. But other than that, it's not really fitting in to most of the TS4 worlds...
Your fort would make a cute little market place with all the gypsy sale tables.
love your fort and castle wallways! upload to gallery! this kit was made for me, if i didn't know it was coming out... wouldn't have ever downloaded ts4 content.. from the free base game to th 54.99 for rent pack duh
you are hilarious and love your content
We do have a cool Knight costume that could be fun with this though. I might finally use that costume now with this. Lol.
It fits beautifully in the Cottage Living world and it would make a great place for an old university. However I agree with you. There is some basegame stuff you can filter on (victorian for example I believe) but still... I rather have it fleshed out as well
Back when thr vote was out someone argued we didnt need the future pack because we already had future stuff but i thought its better to have more from one theme than barely anything from another... i think this pack is only good if you use mods cc and have packs like vampires and get together and even then they arent the same style lol
i hope we get more kits and maybe a pack related to this. Id especially love it if they gave us a rococo pack where our sim explores a new worl but it feels like another time.with rococo clothes powdered wigs and new jobs suchs as duke/dutchess lord/ lady, king/queen with a choice of living in your own chateau cottage or live with other richy rich people in the sims version of Versailles
Finally I can make an accurate home for Mr Wemmick and the Aged Parent!
You know, Cult of the Lamb, an indie title maintained by a smaller team than EA, literally just had a huge FREE update adding so much gameplay and features. Meanwhile, EA is still charging us premium for bite-sized content packs that feel like they should be an SDX drop...
The stuff in it doesn't look bad, but I've seen what is on the gallery without CC and people have made what was already in game work to make fantastic castle builds (including a few VERY realistic looking Hogwarts castles). So it looks like it will make some builds easier, but it doesn't feel like it really provided anything new. Also, STILL NO SPIRAL STAIRS??? This feels like it would have been the perfect pack to add them.
My first castle room incoming
Snatch, just to let u know, some of the base game furniture would be pretty good for a castle. A lot of the furniture in the goth house (in different swatches
of course) can fit for a castle
Omg I want a Vladdy Daddy castle makeover in Forgotten Hollow 😂 I definitely look forward to this than the goth kit 😂
Exactly. I'm a bit of a completionist, which is frustrating because I don't want to buy all of the packs/kits when they're inevitably not as good as the price suggests, but this could have been amazing. The outsides will look brilliant, but you need multiple other packs to fill the entire interior with a castle vibe. It shouldn't be that most people need to buy other packs/kits to enjoy this one (or any other); they should be full and replayable on their own. This with even just a few furniture pieces for a lounge/dining room could have been enough to at least start someone off with just this and base game.
Castles suit henford on begley beautifully. I’ve just been pretending my sims restored old abandoned castles like on the restoration shows lol
"I've seen many castles in very boring school trips" lmaoo, while in my city we only go to the local theater, the only one in the area.
i think the freezes are meant to resemble freezes in real life castles... i know that sounds dumb but hear me out.. okay so when attacking armies would battle, they would need to get past castle walls, usually by climbing them or breaking down the main gate. at the top of their ascent, they must "freeze" and work their way in a almost upside down manner to get over that portion of the wall, allowing the home army to kill them/fight them at the freeze, slowing the opposition. if irc i mean. so i hope that clears things up
I haven't read all the comments, sorry in advance. But I think it suits Henford very well. There are large lots without an actual driveway. And with this kit in combination with the ruins from Cottage Living you can build very nice public spaces. In general, I pretty like it! :) Thank you for your work Satch, you are awesome! :) Love from Czech republic (PS: Marlenka is our invention :D )
Could be used for a castle themed bowling alley or wedding venue
Would love to see you make a fort / castle with free pack range, cause I feel like vampires and other packs would make this complete
It's victorian medieval (France, watch bbc Merlin for an example or loire valley, chauteu)
But it gives vibes of this is what should be an expansion pack. Journey to the past. (Romans would actually also be cool)
Oh vampire church is being updated.
Im Sorry im french and this isnt victorian AT ALL
Maybe gothic but victorian hell no
And we dont see this style of castel in france with flat roof and all, maybe british but absolutly not french
Victorian? 🤨
This kinda just makes me want a medical sims more and more XD but i do love this pack personally because i play my sims in medival times with all the supernatural packs DX but thats obviously just my play style
Castle Living EP coming soon! 😍
Your fort reminds me of the entrance court to Hampton court palace 😂😂
1. Yes. 2. Can you please build Downton Abbey next if you feel comfortable.
Okay, this video convinced me to buy the pack, lol. I enjoy this channel, but I'm the opposite kind of player, who really likes the whole 'create your own adventure' or virtual dollhouse aspect of the Sims 4. To me, the windows read as less American and more as simplified heraldic stained glass. Going to start a save where I bulldoze the entire island in Windenburg and make a castle complex using all the lots. EA could throw us a few grand fireplaces and beds, though.
Yeah, this would’ve been really nice as part of a royalty, game pack or expansion pack. They did the country kitchen followed shortly after with the cottage living EP. So maybe…
For the interior I'd use realm of magic vampires paranormal get to work a couple things from werewolves and maybe some stuff from cottage living that's what popped into my head while watching this oh and ofc some debug items
One part of me likes this kit. But it feels too empty. And you need like 5 packs to "fill the void" It would have been better if it was apart of a game pack? Instead.
I love this kit, there are a few things I miss, but nevertheless it's pretty great!
My first Church kit
My first get growing medieval castle oasis glamour expansion pack - coming soon guys 😍🤪
I love the castle you built! Sorry it left you disappointed. I mean, I have my Sims including one werewolf living in a castle and it feels weird. I'm pretending they moved in in the modern age and a lot of the stuff is old or medieval themed, but it feels off. Like using the iron stove and the chillbox with draped canopy beds. And a modern butler as a "servant"
Feels very off. We have the nursery down in the dungeons along with a swimming pool