Comments on: The Sims 4 Island Living: First Impressions by Giuletta Sims

By: JTree21

JTree21 — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:46:00 +0000

What now idiot! See someone else’s comment of pros and cons on the newest post on simsVIP of Island Living now available on Origin!

By: Dexterity

Dexterity — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:37:00 +0000

Is that supposed to be an insult? I find it pretty pathetic you had to make a ghost rider account to fake a response to your comment specifically. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were Grant or some other Guru.

By: VikkiSims

VikkiSims — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:17:00 +0000

Tbh I can’t see myself using dine out that much. At this point I hate it so badly I don’t think I’ll use it more than one or two times.
I might still download that mod, but I can’t be bothered with dine out anymore.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:00:00 +0000

You can probably buy it on sale in a few months; luckily, there are lots of sales.

When compared to other EPs in TS4 (note I am not comparing it to earlier versions like TS2 or TS3), I do find that it feels about the same as those.

It has very full CAS and Build Buy catalogues, 4 new harvestables, new recipes and drinks, many new fish, a new lifestate (which seems nicely fleshed out with the siren song powers and unique appearance of merfolk), new animal (dolphins), and a pretty new interactive waterfall feature.

Among the activities and features, it now adds building over water, enhanced swimming and fishing abilities, aquazips and island sailboats, a new culture, a new semi-active career with various.activities and impacts, a new aspiration, new traits, new radio station, tanning and sunburning, sandcastles and sculptures, working ceiling fans, new sea life (shoals of fish and sea turtles, crabs hiding in the sand) and just generally a beautiful world with good-sized lots with lovely setting animations and unique environments.

Objectively, in terms of object content, features, etc., that is more than you would ever get from a GP, even a detailed one like JA (with no new careers).

By: DreamaDove

DreamaDove — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:12:00 +0000

Right, nothing wrong with the game packs. What we mean is that it shouldn’t be $40

By: Dan Pahomi

Dan Pahomi — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 08:01:00 +0000

It still sounds like a Game Pack. The local culture is nice from what I saw, the ocean is nice,no surprise here, all the Sims 4 worlds are beautiful, the off the grid trait is a nice addition, but this could have been expanded with solar panels, a water basin which collects rain water to be used in the everyday life, swimming which will be avalible only in one world, I dont know how they enhanced fishing, tanning is nice, a lazy made career with reused animations, tasks and from what I understood from Jamse Turner only one Island changes and they could have added recycling. The traits are usless, because they are a thing only in the new world, the same goes for the aspiration, which once again is one of those aspirations which are limitated to the EP

The scuba diving is rabbit hole which is a shame beacuse I think it could have worked better in Sims 4 because of the loading screen. I am not sad about house boats because I think they work better in Sims 3. The resorts/hotels not that sad, maybe they are better in a game pack, but at least they could have added the reting system, it would have been nice to live in thesame house with the locals and experince this new culture or if you live on the island you could rent your house to tourists.

The real price should be around 20$, maybe 25$.

By: Egengia Tribalbeauty Carter

Egengia Tribalbeauty Carter — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 05:11:00 +0000

I feel like this pack is missing the rumored sea monster from get together.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 02:07:00 +0000

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’ve enjoyed every single gamepack. But I think it is a more immersive and full experience than a GP. To me, from what I’ve seen, it has a wonderful environmental vibe new to the Sims.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 02:01:00 +0000

Why do you think it is similar to JA? Is it the tropical setting? Some things seem very different to me: the local culture, the gorgeous ocean animations, the laidback lifestyle (including living off-the-grid), the enhanced swimming and fishing, even the tanning animations. On top of all that, Sims can be conservationists, a new semi-active career, cleaning up the environment to the extent that it transforms and beautifies the island, allowing sea turtles to lay eggs on the beaches where they will later hatch. I bet that will be a magical sight, and so far unique to the pack.

By: Celyn Coker

Celyn Coker — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:01:00 +0000

I use CoolSpear1’s world sim control series to have decent restaurant trips where my sims are in and out within an hour and a half sim minutes. It’s beautiful. It’s glorious. It’s worth the like 2-3 hours of your life setting up.

The entire series needs you to do a little bit of legwork. But once you’ve done it, it helps a lot. And you could shave off some set up time if you don’t actually care about aesthetics–like what your NPC sims will look like.