Not really into expansions that are 98-100% their own separate world that doesn't really have an impact on The Sims 4 itself.
Most of all I'd like to see...probably just The Sims 5, because I'd want improvements to fundamentals like how AI and personalities work, and more outlets and expressions for it.
I feel like personalities are rarely expressed or are too subtle. Feels like I have to force my sim to behave according to the personality I want them to have. I want more personality and drama. More systemic emergentness.
There should be sliding scales for various traits, so you can set the intensity. By maxing out the correlating trait(s) you can for instance make someone just a properly shitty asshole who runs around egging people's houses, rings the doorbell, greets them by farting in his hand and slapping them in the face before running off to defecate in their mailbox. Basically so an evil or mean sim could be anywhere between someone who behaves like a constant gremlin, or someone who occasionally says something a bit rude, which is basically the only option in The Sims 4.
And expand on the traits that more directly affect behavior rather then just how fast a need or skill meter increases or whatever. And you should be able to assign more traits to a sim. Just three is rarely enough to make a character, tends to make them samey. Maybe up to ten?
Also you should be able to put limits on skills. Because eventually every single sim becomes an expert chef, it's inevitable. But sometimes you want your sim to be shitty at cooking and/or there to be a risk of an accidental fire. Or maybe you want your sim to partake in dancing for instance, but to remain bad at it.
It won't happen any time soon, but The Sims 5 please.
This doesn't seem like a good game, but good enough for people who want a Terminator tinged future resistance FPS to be happy.
I'm with the beasters regarding the post-apocalyptic future hellscape being the least interesting part of Terminator. It can work great as interludes or glimpses like in the first movie. But it's not a place worth lingering on, because then it kind of just becomes warfare in battlefields. Especially in game form that just seems highly uninteresting to explore.
But Teyon appears to have done a decent job, and I like how they're depicting T-800's, which is to make them T-800's, creepy and intimidating, at least in the footage I've seen. You avoid them or you die. That's something that people have recently started to surface as something potentially worth expanding on, through the idea of a Terminator Isolation.
And yes, I too got extreme Homefront Revolution vibes from seeing this game. It looks very much like that but with robutts.
I read that for some dumb legal/licensing reason the people who made The Sarah Connor Chronicles weren't allowed to use the word "terminator", so they had to write around it by using dumb names and slang terms. Is the same thing going on here?
It's always so blatantly stupid and artificial when they have characters make up dumb terms when there is already thoroughly established nomenclature. Any creature that resembles a zombie would be called a god damned zombie. But if you're not legally allowed to, whatcha gonna do.
Lena Headey is pretty good casting for Sarah Connor by the way. Apparently it helps to do a good Sarah Connor if your initials are LH.
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