SimGuruGrant Asks: Pick a “Wacky” Expansion Theme! (TS4)

SimGuruGrant has just published a new poll on Twitter, giving players a chance to select a favorite “wacky” theme for a future expansion pack. If given the choice, which would you pick? If you’re on Twitter, be sure to vote on his poll!

RANT ALERT

I don’t have Twitter, or TS4, but if I had to pick I’d choose to Travel Back in Time. Where’s that Medieval expansion at, y’all!? >_<

No, but seriously, that’s the only one that hasn’t been done in the sims yet (TSM/P&N does NOT count; that’s an RPG). Or better yet: do a Dr. Who adventure and let sims go to multiple worlds, a la World Adventures, and travel to ancient Greco-Rome and Norway and Mesopotamia! O_O

Sims aren’t in space yet, per se, but TS3 did have Lunar Lakes and Into the Future. Plus TS4 has whatever’s going on with Sixam. If they expand on it in Sims in Space, and add more types of aliens and technology and such, then awesome. Go full Star Wars/Trek with it and make a high tech sci-fi city like Blade Runner! Less Avatar; more Metropolis!

Similarly, the End of the World was kinda alluded to in the Dystopian version of Oasis Landing in ITF. True, it needed to be way more post-apocalyptic, gritty, Mad Max-y, and such, but still. I’d love to play in an actual wasteland. Possibly with radioactive zombies or sims with mutant powers from X-Men or the Matrix or something; living in underground bunkers being sheltered from sandstorms, acid rain or nuclear winter (y’all brought up Seasons), or hell, even giant sand worms, alien invasions, or – I DON’T KNOW; dazzle me.

What does Hunger Games even mean? First off: will we be allowed to kill sims with bows and arrows and swords and axes and guerilla warfare? O_O If so, YAAAS…but that could go perfectly in a Medieval/Viking EP instead. 😉 Second: Isn’t this dystopian/post-apocalyptic, too? At least make it Steampunk Victorian London! 😦 If they have sims dressed up like the city elite though….

God no. Kill it. Kill it with fire. It sure is t/wacky, that’s for sure…. >_>

See, this is EA’s problem. I understand that The Sims has always had a strong element of the ridiculous about it. But I find a lot of the time that EA uses wackiness as an excuse to cover up laziness or lack of serious inspiration. Like with ITF’s Utopia version of Oasis Landing, for instance. WTF was that? That’s not a future I want to live in, with frikkin Oompa Loompa lookin hippies high on pollen-nectar or whatever opioids were in those giant flowers.

It’s a great idea for wonderland/candyland or whatever, but not a sci-fi expansion, that could have had the default Oasis Landing as the utopia, and started us off in Victorian London, to tine travel to the good or bad future of Oasis Landing instead. The giant flowers (and the crystal flower plants) could have been part of a new career/profession, like a Xenobotanist finding the herbal-based cures for diseases that would run rampant in the dirty plague-ridden dystopian future! Walking around like the frikkin Lotus Eaters from the Odyssey is EA’s best idea for a sci-fi utopian future? Omg.