This is what I want from a $20 DLC: Reasonable priced, new and unique content that we haven't gotten from other previous Sims DLC's, and more world lots I am so confident and hope that this DLC will have an abundance of content (pretty sure its gonna have more content than Island Living) and be one of better DLC's than other DLC's Edit: Unfortunate that we only had 5 new lots (excluding the portal world lots) and it would be really nice to have double the amount of lots in this DLC.
9th Doctor I do not « want » to pay more... But there is a trade off, you obviously have a lot of new gameplay in this pack (compared to Strangerville which had a rather simple linear storyline), so you will have a more standard world size (similar to Vampires or Outdoor retreat).
Well yea, Maxis could add more content if they weren't published by EA. To me, adding more gameplay content but having a fewer world size is kinda lazy if you think about it. You can still add more lots while having an abundance of gameplay.
Island living had a lot. You probably didn't expand on more of it. From Sulani to the new jobs to cleaning the island to make it look better and healthier to island spirits, to mermaids to the new people helping out in a fire to Kava bowls and so much more. I think Island Living was packed with stuff, just not what some people would play with so it seems small. This pack looks like a lot but I bet most people will get their fill in a few hours of playing, you know?
I'm so glad I looked up reviews before deciding to get Island Living. Turns out, not getting it wasn't such a bad idea. I bought this game pack last night, but didn't have time to play because of life and work this week. I'm excited to jump into it on the weekend, though.
Not just blowing smoke, you by far are my go to source for info on the Sims 4. While you do share some of your opinions its not done in a way that drags the game or the developers and I appreciate that. Great overview of the deep dive and I agree it looks like it is the most bang for your buck.
Hey thanks for letting me know. I really enjoy doing the news like I said. It seems to be helpful to a lot of people and it's really helped my channel.
This was super informative! I missed the livestream due to work. I always look for your videos on the streams. Thank you for all of your hard work and editing
Carl you’re the best. Im glad i didn’t sit through the stream while they viewed every item in build/buy. I love your videos! Nice summary and now i know what to look forward to!
honestly this pack sounds great, especially with the curses. i really would like ways for my sims to die more often & make things a little harder without having a household full of sims
@@elainal6847 filch's mom: that is the filch family cauldron thats been passed down for generations! filch, making chili: does it look like i give a damn
Welp, I didn't think I'd want this pack but here we are. Also thanks, man. You are the source of most of my sims knowledge. Kudos to you for doing what you do.
This pack looks so good!! But then Seasons, Pets - Cats & Dogs and Magic are my top three fav packs for the sims, so I've been waiting a looooong time for this! lol. I'm so glad it doesn't seem like it's going to disappoint either. ♥_♥ Tysm for the summary! Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! Best of wishes.
I do like Charmed, but with the exception of the Book of Shadows, is the theming all that distinctive? They don't seem to wear any special clothes, or live in any special environment. It's the same problem for Bewitched. Aside from adding magic (including magical potions), the elements that are already available would probably be fine.
Yeah, there was definitely a Harry Potter vibe but the furniture could def work for Charmed and I thought the CAS objects were very reminiscent of The Magicians
I think it would have been nice if the portal to the magic world was just the ruins/arc/collums and you had to colect at least 3 gems or something like that to activate the portal. I think it would've been a nice feature instead of just having the portal there in plain sight ready to enter
Not a pack I would buy until much later, but it's nice to see the sims team put in a lot of work into a pack and have it turn out so well!! My only complaint would be that it wouldve beeen nice if they could place a single lot in the magic world. Even a small one would be cool.
I love how detailed you are...thanks so much for the reviews and the Website for which I always have open in a tab on my computer.....Love to all...Kim
Thanks for this video. Keep up the good work. I’m so tired of people making clickbait videos; they make them so long and say nothing useful the entire time. Your videos are good. Not a second is wasted. Thank you truly!
The design style in this pack is called "art Nouveau" and yes its a real design between the years 1890 - 1910 and its largely used today in the life style of cosplay/sub-culture called "Steampunk". Just look it up on wikipedia = its a site with historical to modern description on everything that ever existed! Want to know about general military stuff look it up here, you find things like military ranks, why modern soldier wear camouflage in battle or how m&ms were used to help win wars? Just go to wikipedia like i said it has it all.
Awesome!!!!! I’m stoked thanks carl. I usually read your information on the web but I’m happy I found out you do videos as well. This was great I learned s much and I can’t wait
I'm so so so excited with this pack, but I also feel feel the same way you do lol. Definitely looking forward to modders improving it further. For instance, I know some will make it to where you can curse other sims and you can kill them via the spells.
It actually looks worth the money, at least for people who love to play with magic and supernaturals (like me). I'm genuinely super excited for this, it almost looks like it's as much content as in island living, just that it's a game pack! I can't wait to get it!!
I'm actually very glad that the wands aren't boosting powers. It gives more customization to how YOU want to play it, rather than how you have to in order to become stronger.
@@mason3461 Life states not being able to cross with one another. I think it's a bit limiting in a game about customisation and such like. I know there has to be limits to things and making a sim be two life states at once would mean more testing and work....but I think it would be better for players to be able to do that, but I guess EA thinks not. I think they should allow life states to merge, have a sim be up 3 life states at once. And have all the powers and abilities of each (Maybe to add challenge some abilities are weakened because of the shared life state but one or two at random get a boost). The dominant life state can be chosen in CAS, this life state is the state the sim likes to appear as most although you can change the appearance briefly if you want. With multiple life states to make it less messy, they don't change appearance when using abilities, just the set as the main one. If a sim has a new life state added, still, the main life state is the one chosen in CAS. If there isn't a life state chosen in CAS and the sim is vanilla human then if they turn into supernatural, the first thing they become is their main life state now with the two added ones added to a chain in the order they were gotten if they were gotten. I dunno something you know? Only being one life state seems like an arbitrary limitation because they don't want to deal with compatibility...in other words, it feels a bit lazy.
I agree. If I remember correctly you could mix vampire and witches in Sims 2. It would be fun to have a sim who is an alien vampire , or mermaid witch etc
Potion of Immortality!? Finally, I can stop turning my favorites sims in to vampires while everyone else can progress with their age. And I hope the resurrection spell is easier than cooking and gardening specific rewards.
Should be really easy as you can buy deathflowers from those little magic vendors, actually looks like you can buy all the ingredients so won't need to forage at all unless you like the grind.
man, as long as they can suck the money out of you with sims 4, they will never make sims 5, and when you have finally bought all packs, they release sims 5
Love the comments about CAS. I'm glad that Maxis made it important, but also gave Romeo and Ninja the lead to say the game is great even without CAS. And interesting to see a Carl's video. This is my first and it's great! I didn't have time to watch the stream nor watch reviews of it until now.
Man, they really did good on this one! I can only hope the upcoming packs get the Realm of Magic treatment from now on. (I can't wait to do a magic legacy challenge ahhhhh)
I agree with another commenter I saw on pixelhead I wish we had the power to bind/steal power with our wand too especially during duels maybe a modder would grace us with that...
I got a suggestion. They should have like familiar tournament. Like pokemon. And like familier gives off rare material and spells that will definitely improve the game. And they should make each familiar have uniques abilities.
I really thought this was an expansion pack based on all the content and was considering whether or not I should buy it since I like mostly realistic gaming but it’s nice to see that it’s actually a game pack which makes it worth it even for the build-buy items alone 👍🏼
As someone who loves gameplay most of this looks amazing. But am I the only one who wonders about completely unique spells and alchemy recipes? Haven't really seen that yet. You can already manipulate emotions/certain behaviors a million different ways (potions, paintings, lights/objects, clubs, holidays, fruit from Jungle Adventure and so on), instantly repair stuff, clone objects and sims (Get To Work), freeze sims with freeze ray, hire a maid or a butler. Not saying that these "new" ways aren't good, just that I really hope we get a few completely unique witchy ones aswell. :)
Agree, was saying this earlier. I guess that if you have all the packs then this isn't quite so fun as, like you say, you can already do most of these things one way or another. I was hoping that RoM would bring something completely new and unique for the spellcaster to do too. I suppose the fun comes from playing thru the spellcaster progression tree and the new world
I am SO EXCITED for this pack. Magic and everything fantasy was my absolute favourite thing about the Sims 3, and I am SO happy they brought it back, and IMPROVED it. I Just wish I could pre-order the pack on Origin, BUT ITS NOT THERE YET. -_-
It had be good if we can find unspecified familiars and tame it. Not just the 11 familiars that are there by design. It would be like Pokemon all over.
I love it! This pack has such a "Adventures of Sabrina Spellman" vibe, have any of you watched the cartoon as kids? The magical realm they went to looks exactly the same
Thanks for the walk through! Super helpful! I wish they would've included some elf ears or something, then I would've been able to make my dnd character. But I'm excited to try this expansion pack out!
I had no idea this was just a Gamepack- they seem to have a huge amount of variation in what they put in packs and expansions- parenthood was as good as a full expansion and Strangerville was pretty detailed if limited use. The camping one was ok- I'm not planning on getting the Island one bc honestly it doesn't seem like there's as much to do for Sims that don't live there. But this seems very detailed and fun
@@playalot8513 I know it seems like this has about the same amount of content as the last 'expansion'?I wonder what motivates them to make something a pack vs an expansion.
@@merchantfan Well devs tell us expansion are broad in scope whereas game packs very narrow and only focus on one aspect of game play, so that description fits. But there just seems less content in IL for example than RoM, it's that discrepancy that confuses me. I don't have any answers for that either lol I would have thought a more expensive expansion pack would have noticeably more content than a cheaper game pack.
@@playalot8513 That's what it was like in Sims 3- I wonder if they're given the same amount of time for each? It doesn't make much sense to me- this is probably going to be popular, why not add on a few more extra content (like I don't know they could do a quest with the world falling apart thing) and make it a expansion pack which costs more? The amount of content in IL, Pets, and City Living really didn't seem that impressive from the reviews. Pets went from the Sims 3 thing which had horses (and a ton of content with them between riding and racing) and small pets to not even including hamsters.... I bought all the Pets expansions for other Sims games but skipped that one bc it just seemed underwhelming and not very deep
@@merchantfan yeah, I try very hard not to compare TS4 to TS3 all the time. It's difficult not to but when you do, well... it isn't very flattering to TS4!
I hope that the new potion of youth from the alchemy branch will set your age back to young adult, and not just reset your current age. We don't have any legit (without cheats, think about console players) way to make a sim young again.
That would be great if it did that but I'm not hopeful as seeing as this would be new to TS4 I think the devs would have probably mentioned it in detail.
Thank you for summing that up - I appreciate not having to sit through the whole stream and just get the highlights. I'm mostly interested in the build items, and I have to say i'm not as excited by what I see, but maybe that will change once I play around with it. It just didn't have that "witches and wizards" vibe to it, for me.
GlimmerBrook reminds me of Mystic falls with the werewolf mod we can recreate that and theres plenty of houses in the library that has 2 house to put on one lot to help get the most of the 5 lots with the bigger 1 being the Salvador mansion...Im siked for this I think the closes I would get to Harry potter would be pufferhead mod pack...I'm hoping when the bring werewolves they would give a gypsy trait to bounce off the old werewolf movie
i'll definitely wait till its in the newest repack before i go and re-download the whole thing, the art nouveau furniture are really nice, not gonna lie
It's a gamepack and looks better than island living expansion lol.
Comparing Island Living to this is illogical. Better yet to compare this to Vampire Pack.
cybercybex So you say RoM and IL and are incomparable?
@@reznique8615 You're comparing a Fantasy Themed pack to a Lifestyle/Realism pack. Sides Island Living is an Expansion while ROM is a Game Pack.
@@cybercybex That is kind of the point. You pay half the price and it offers way more gameplay. Making IL a worse buy in comparison.
@@joerischreurs i know that. All im just saying it makes sense a bit to compare ROM to VP since they are both GP and almost similar in theme.
”Dedeathify”
Oh boy, Jim Pickens is gonna have fun with this one.
Omg XD I actually found a comment about the dark lord
@@ghostofabetterworld4862 Excuse me it's 'Dear leader' to you, mister.
(I'm jk please don't kill me)
syazana elena
Mister? I’m a LADY!!!
@@ghostofabetterworld4862 And I'm a cloud, just floating with the flow of time.
This is what I want from a $20 DLC: Reasonable priced, new and unique content that we haven't gotten from other previous Sims DLC's, and more world lots
I am so confident and hope that this DLC will have an abundance of content (pretty sure its gonna have more content than Island Living) and be one of better DLC's than other DLC's
Edit: Unfortunate that we only had 5 new lots (excluding the portal world lots) and it would be really nice to have double the amount of lots in this DLC.
Well there's always that open area world that they put for us to build houses.
This is standard world size for Game packs though, bigger worlds are for expansions.
@@romarine5967 Why do you want to pay 20 USD more, I don't really get it. It's a pretty easy thing to add and Starngerville had at least 10 lots
9th Doctor I do not « want » to pay more... But there is a trade off, you obviously have a lot of new gameplay in this pack (compared to Strangerville which had a rather simple linear storyline), so you will have a more standard world size (similar to Vampires or Outdoor retreat).
Well yea, Maxis could add more content if they weren't published by EA. To me, adding more gameplay content but having a fewer world size is kinda lazy if you think about it. You can still add more lots while having an abundance of gameplay.
this pack is just making me realise what little content island living had
Island living had a lot. You probably didn't expand on more of it. From Sulani to the new jobs to cleaning the island to make it look better and healthier to island spirits, to mermaids to the new people helping out in a fire to Kava bowls and so much more. I think Island Living was packed with stuff, just not what some people would play with so it seems small. This pack looks like a lot but I bet most people will get their fill in a few hours of playing, you know?
how can a game pack have more content & gameplay than an expansion pack - Island Living??? Lmao
Exactly
Nguyen Dan it doesn’t make sense. This should’ve been an expansion pack. 😂
I'm so glad I looked up reviews before deciding to get Island Living. Turns out, not getting it wasn't such a bad idea. I bought this game pack last night, but didn't have time to play because of life and work this week. I'm excited to jump into it on the weekend, though.
Island living is good too though! It’s on sale right now
I still find it funny how there's a Fairy-looking familiar simply named "Hey".
xD Listen!. i expect a lot of link sims due to that. (me included)
And she's shown resurrecting the sim...
Not a reference at all, no siree
Hey listen hey listen!
So great to have all this information summarized :)
Am I the only person who is disappointed that you cant kill other sims with spells?
You know sims 4 is family friendly. but don't worry, probably extreme violence gonna allow you that like it did with vampires.
You can kill them it's just not as easy as you'd like it to be.
Nothing that a mod can't fix
The inferniate spell can actually be cast on the ground and if it catches a sim on fire it can kill them. Or so they've said.
I mean being turned into a table for eternity is way scarier than dying from a simple spell
Not just blowing smoke, you by far are my go to source for info on the Sims 4. While you do share some of your opinions its not done in a way that drags the game or the developers and I appreciate that. Great overview of the deep dive and I agree it looks like it is the most bang for your buck.
They actually put the power progression just like Vampire has! Yes!!
Yup. Definitely hyped for this now. Very, very hyped. Tuesday couldn't come sooner.
You are my favorite Sims news person, actually I like all your stuff, not just the news
Hey thanks for letting me know. I really enjoy doing the news like I said. It seems to be helpful to a lot of people and it's really helped my channel.
This pack cannot come fast enough...
This was super informative! I missed the livestream due to work. I always look for your videos on the streams. Thank you for all of your hard work and editing
You're welcome, and I'm glad that you found it useful!
Carl you’re the best. Im glad i didn’t sit through the stream while they viewed every item in build/buy. I love your videos! Nice summary and now i know what to look forward to!
This is coming rather late I know, but thanks Talia!
now that we get summons i kinda expect somebody to make a pokemon mod
no seriously thats bound to happen
mushnoodle Omggggg
i remember having a Pokemon mod for base ts1 when i was a kid, so yeha, definitely in the realm of possibilities
honestly this pack sounds great, especially with the curses. i really would like ways for my sims to die more often & make things a little harder without having a household full of sims
Yes, I like the increased challenge as well. It doesn't look like it will be all that challenging, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
im going to buy a cauldron exclusively for my sims to cook mac and cheese in
Must be about meal time because I feel differently now about that cauldron mac 'n cheese.
@@CarlsSimGuides IT NEVER SPOILS!!!! who wouldn't like that?
That is a complete squib move and I love it
@@elainal6847 filch's mom: that is the filch family cauldron thats been passed down for generations!
filch, making chili: does it look like i give a damn
I don’t typically like the more supernatural themed packs in the sims but I might like this one because I love fantasy.
Yeah - me either but I feel like spellcasting is an exception to that for me because you're mostly "human".
The Sims Makin' Magic was the best expansion pack of all time. I wish they would make a magic pack that has the same scale.
thank god for carl’s summaries
total cost for sims 4 + all dlc = $630 usd...little crazy that EA is milking this game for all it's worth
Welp, I didn't think I'd want this pack but here we are.
Also thanks, man. You are the source of most of my sims knowledge. Kudos to you for doing what you do.
This pack looks so good!! But then Seasons, Pets - Cats & Dogs and Magic are my top three fav packs for the sims, so I've been waiting a looooong time for this! lol. I'm so glad it doesn't seem like it's going to disappoint either. ♥_♥
Tysm for the summary!
Hope you're having a wonderful weekend! Best of wishes.
Everyone is talking about how they’ll recreate Harry Potter characters but am I the only one who's so excited to recreate charmed characters?
I do like Charmed, but with the exception of the Book of Shadows, is the theming all that distinctive? They don't seem to wear any special clothes, or live in any special environment. It's the same problem for Bewitched. Aside from adding magic (including magical potions), the elements that are already available would probably be fine.
Yeah, there was definitely a Harry Potter vibe but the furniture could def work for Charmed and I thought the CAS objects were very reminiscent of The Magicians
I was totally thinking Charmed, glad I'm not alone
I think it would have been nice if the portal to the magic world was just the ruins/arc/collums and you had to colect at least 3 gems or something like that to activate the portal. I think it would've been a nice feature instead of just having the portal there in plain sight ready to enter
Not a pack I would buy until much later, but it's nice to see the sims team put in a lot of work into a pack and have it turn out so well!! My only complaint would be that it wouldve beeen nice if they could place a single lot in the magic world. Even a small one would be cool.
The main hub building is a lot lol
@@unicornbetch7332 yesss but it's not a house lot. For some people it's fine, but I personally don't like to tear down the prebuilt lots :/
You are my favorite Sims 4 TH-camr! Not only are you super informative, but you are hilarious! Thanks so much! Keep up the good work!
I love how detailed you are...thanks so much for the reviews and the Website for which I always have open in a tab on my computer.....Love to all...Kim
Thanks for this video. Keep up the good work. I’m so tired of people making clickbait videos; they make them so long and say nothing useful the entire time. Your videos are good. Not a second is wasted. Thank you truly!
haha this should be an ep and island living should be a gp
In theory yes it should have, but I am not complaining, because even with the sale, it will cost less to buy it win/win 😍
Excellent review, Carl! I can’t wait for it to drop!
The design style in this pack is called "art Nouveau" and yes its a real design between the years 1890 - 1910 and its largely used today in the life style of cosplay/sub-culture called "Steampunk". Just look it up on wikipedia = its a site with historical to modern description on everything that ever existed! Want to know about general military stuff look it up here, you find things like military ranks, why modern soldier wear camouflage in battle or how m&ms were used to help win wars? Just go to wikipedia like i said it has it all.
Awesome!!!!! I’m stoked thanks carl. I usually read your information on the web but I’m happy I found out you do videos as well. This was great I learned s much and I can’t wait
Without playing it yet, I can feel that this is one of the best packs for TS4. 🤩
Thanks again for a wonderful video, I love how you cover so much within a short amount of time. Love watching and listening to you explain all.
Thanks man I appreciate everything you do for us and can't wait to see what you discover, also you did a great job.
Thanks for the great overview! You have the best guides and overviews. I always look forward to your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Make sure to give Carl a thumbs up if you appreciate him turning over 2 hours into 21 minutes!
Yesssss, thank you for summarizing it all! You're the man Carl!
To recap 63 Abilities
24 Spells
24 Perks
15 Potions
I'm not counting the Curses which are randomly given and are debuffs
Like getting beaten up by everyone xd
I love that sims doesn’t care about cheat codes. Why I love the game
To be honest, I'm more excited to see what modders will do with all this new stuff. Defiantly a lot of cool mods will be coming out.
I'm so so so excited with this pack, but I also feel feel the same way you do lol. Definitely looking forward to modders improving it further. For instance, I know some will make it to where you can curse other sims and you can kill them via the spells.
It actually looks worth the money, at least for people who love to play with magic and supernaturals (like me). I'm genuinely super excited for this, it almost looks like it's as much content as in island living, just that it's a game pack! I can't wait to get it!!
I'm actually very glad that the wands aren't boosting powers. It gives more customization to how YOU want to play it, rather than how you have to in order to become stronger.
Good job Carl! Thanks for getting this out so quickly… Much appreciated 💜💜
It would have been quite nice to be a vampire witch/wizard. The reliance on life states has it's drawbacks.
yeah, i miss being able to make black sheep sims :/
Definitely something that should be fixed in Sims 5, if ever.
I don’t understand what you mean, could you elaborate?
@@mason3461 Life states not being able to cross with one another. I think it's a bit limiting in a game about customisation and such like. I know there has to be limits to things and making a sim be two life states at once would mean more testing and work....but I think it would be better for players to be able to do that, but I guess EA thinks not.
I think they should allow life states to merge, have a sim be up 3 life states at once. And have all the powers and abilities of each (Maybe to add challenge some abilities are weakened because of the shared life state but one or two at random get a boost). The dominant life state can be chosen in CAS, this life state is the state the sim likes to appear as most although you can change the appearance briefly if you want. With multiple life states to make it less messy, they don't change appearance when using abilities, just the set as the main one. If a sim has a new life state added, still, the main life state is the one chosen in CAS. If there isn't a life state chosen in CAS and the sim is vanilla human then if they turn into supernatural, the first thing they become is their main life state now with the two added ones added to a chain in the order they were gotten if they were gotten.
I dunno something you know? Only being one life state seems like an arbitrary limitation because they don't want to deal with compatibility...in other words, it feels a bit lazy.
I agree. If I remember correctly you could mix vampire and witches in Sims 2. It would be fun to have a sim who is an alien vampire , or mermaid witch etc
i wish they'd update or improve the island living pack & listen to their fans who spent a lotta money on it 😔
Carl is so cute when he giggles. I love it :D
Thanks for the review! It was well done and concise.
Love your vids. So informative and well done. Thank you!!
Potion of Immortality!? Finally, I can stop turning my favorites sims in to vampires while everyone else can progress with their age. And I hope the resurrection spell is easier than cooking and gardening specific rewards.
Should be really easy as you can buy deathflowers from those little magic vendors, actually looks like you can buy all the ingredients so won't need to forage at all unless you like the grind.
man, as long as they can suck the money out of you with sims 4, they will never make sims 5, and when you have finally bought all packs, they release sims 5
Same thing happened with Sims 3
Love the comments about CAS. I'm glad that Maxis made it important, but also gave Romeo and Ninja the lead to say the game is great even without CAS. And interesting to see a Carl's video. This is my first and it's great! I didn't have time to watch the stream nor watch reviews of it until now.
Thank you for making this video. I’ve been considering buying this pack and this videos been very helpful.
I thought I was excited for this pack BEFORE this video!
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@@minionsofthelordbagali5324 I'm way more excited now is what I mean. ;)
Man, they really did good on this one! I can only hope the upcoming packs get the Realm of Magic treatment from now on.
(I can't wait to do a magic legacy challenge ahhhhh)
Sims has become boringly "safe".
Father Frost's Kid might be a good target to make a new spellcaster from.
@Zachary Khan
Father Winter's Woohoo Byproduct. The "Father Winter's Child" trait is surprisingly lacking. Not even free cold resistance.
Thanks for showing this, hope to see more from you on this pack
Carl's working on text guides already so watch his site for them to be posted :) www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/
thanks for captions!! 😍
Was on the fence about the game, but your review helped me make up my mind. Think I am gonna give it a try.
Wow, I'm impressed! More than I had hoped for at a great price :D
I agree with another commenter I saw on pixelhead I wish we had the power to bind/steal power with our wand too especially during duels maybe a modder would grace us with that...
dude the mods that will come out in relation to this omg....
I always enjoy your work. Thank you.
BLESS you for making this!!
“So start kissing ass” . . . Hahahahaha! Thanks for another great summary!
I got a suggestion. They should have like familiar tournament. Like pokemon. And like familier gives off rare material and spells that will definitely improve the game. And they should make each familiar have uniques abilities.
I really thought this was an expansion pack based on all the content and was considering whether or not I should buy it since I like mostly realistic gaming but it’s nice to see that it’s actually a game pack which makes it worth it even for the build-buy items alone 👍🏼
The Vampire thing is a shame.
Will have to settle for Father Winter's Child Mermaid Spellcasters xD
*Obi-Wan looks at full overcharge meter*
"Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
As someone who loves gameplay most of this looks amazing. But am I the only one who wonders about completely unique spells and alchemy recipes? Haven't really seen that yet. You can already manipulate emotions/certain behaviors a million different ways (potions, paintings, lights/objects, clubs, holidays, fruit from Jungle Adventure and so on), instantly repair stuff, clone objects and sims (Get To Work), freeze sims with freeze ray, hire a maid or a butler. Not saying that these "new" ways aren't good, just that I really hope we get a few completely unique witchy ones aswell. :)
Agree, was saying this earlier. I guess that if you have all the packs then this isn't quite so fun as, like you say, you can already do most of these things one way or another. I was hoping that RoM would bring something completely new and unique for the spellcaster to do too. I suppose the fun comes from playing thru the spellcaster progression tree and the new world
So freaking stoked!!!
I am SO EXCITED for this pack. Magic and everything fantasy was my absolute favourite thing about the Sims 3, and I am SO happy they brought it back, and IMPROVED it. I Just wish I could pre-order the pack on Origin, BUT ITS NOT THERE YET. -_-
It had be good if we can find unspecified familiars and tame it. Not just the 11 familiars that are there by design. It would be like Pokemon all over.
Thank you so much Carl!
I love it! This pack has such a "Adventures of Sabrina Spellman" vibe, have any of you watched the cartoon as kids? The magical realm they went to looks exactly the same
Thanks for the walk through! Super helpful! I wish they would've included some elf ears or something, then I would've been able to make my dnd character. But I'm excited to try this expansion pack out!
This is wonderful! Thanks! It definitely looks better than Island Living.
I had no idea this was just a Gamepack- they seem to have a huge amount of variation in what they put in packs and expansions- parenthood was as good as a full expansion and Strangerville was pretty detailed if limited use. The camping one was ok- I'm not planning on getting the Island one bc honestly it doesn't seem like there's as much to do for Sims that don't live there. But this seems very detailed and fun
I know, I was just discussing this with Carl, the way the content varies between game packs and expansions is crazy. Confuses me if I'm honest.
@@playalot8513 I know it seems like this has about the same amount of content as the last 'expansion'?I wonder what motivates them to make something a pack vs an expansion.
@@merchantfan Well devs tell us expansion are broad in scope whereas game packs very narrow and only focus on one aspect of game play, so that description fits. But there just seems less content in IL for example than RoM, it's that discrepancy that confuses me. I don't have any answers for that either lol I would have thought a more expensive expansion pack would have noticeably more content than a cheaper game pack.
@@playalot8513 That's what it was like in Sims 3- I wonder if they're given the same amount of time for each? It doesn't make much sense to me- this is probably going to be popular, why not add on a few more extra content (like I don't know they could do a quest with the world falling apart thing) and make it a expansion pack which costs more? The amount of content in IL, Pets, and City Living really didn't seem that impressive from the reviews. Pets went from the Sims 3 thing which had horses (and a ton of content with them between riding and racing) and small pets to not even including hamsters.... I bought all the Pets expansions for other Sims games but skipped that one bc it just seemed underwhelming and not very deep
@@merchantfan yeah, I try very hard not to compare TS4 to TS3 all the time. It's difficult not to but when you do, well... it isn't very flattering to TS4!
Omg thank you so much for this
when you talk about the Sims way more fun compared to the dev's in my opinion.
Lysithea, Dorothea, Mercedes, Annette, here I come!
You need 24 total points to buy all the perks, spells and potion are from tomes
I hope that the new potion of youth from the alchemy branch will set your age back to young adult, and not just reset your current age.
We don't have any legit (without cheats, think about console players) way to make a sim young again.
That would be great if it did that but I'm not hopeful as seeing as this would be new to TS4 I think the devs would have probably mentioned it in detail.
@@playalot8513 I think you right.
What a waste...
Thank you for summing that up - I appreciate not having to sit through the whole stream and just get the highlights. I'm mostly interested in the build items, and I have to say i'm not as excited by what I see, but maybe that will change once I play around with it. It just didn't have that "witches and wizards" vibe to it, for me.
is there a spell to change age of a Sim? Like turning a young adult into teen or vice versa.
Love you, Carl! 🤗
I have been waiting since Sims 4 released for a pack like this. :)
Honestly the visual aspects of the magical world remind me so so much of wizard 101.
8:52 "so start kissing ass" ,skdksks that threw me offff
GlimmerBrook reminds me of Mystic falls with the werewolf mod we can recreate that and theres plenty of houses in the library that has 2 house to put on one lot to help get the most of the 5 lots with the bigger 1 being the Salvador mansion...Im siked for this I think the closes I would get to Harry potter would be pufferhead mod pack...I'm hoping when the bring werewolves they would give a gypsy trait to bounce off the old werewolf movie
Looks good! Might actually purchase it
Shared and I like it but could have been harder to get speed caster
you did a great job~ thanks!
i'll definitely wait till its in the newest repack before i go and re-download the whole thing, the art nouveau furniture are really nice, not gonna lie
This is 1000x better than the witches and wizards in Sims 3 and im here for it 😍
Duuuuuude, I'm so excited!
Good coverage of the magic game.
That's very Dalaran-looking colors and style, cool
I got the pack two days ago and I LOVE IT!! I’m still shocked it’s better than the Living Island Expansion Pack and cheaper.