Full length trailer for Sims 5?
Or last ditch attempt to make Sims 4 look more appealing?
I don’t see them going back further, and as someone who never moved past Sims 3 (and who generally hates this lazy genre of movie, but especially when it’s based on a game that has such open and individually adaptable play), this has very little appeal to me personally.
Thoughts from fellow simmers?
The Sims has no underlying story, but neither did Barbie. However, Barbie has tons of toy varieties that were incorporated into the movie to make an otherwise generic story clearly “Barbie”. The Sims won’t have that. It will, at best, be a generic movie with plumbbobs.
The mainline Sims games have an overarching plot of sorts with things that happen to some of the recurring settings, Townies, and families. It’s weird though, the games also apparently aren’t in chronological order. Some youtubers get deep into it.
Not to mention explicit plot in many of the spin off handheld games that are more “Sims flavored RPG” than actual Sims games.
There also are recurring brands for items, and jokes in item descriptions that further connect things.
So they could dig deep from the source material if they’re motivated, but I can’t imagine the target audience for Sims “lore” tie-ins/callbacks is that big.
I expect they might pull from the absurd events that can happen in Sims 1 and 2, like the clown that spontaneously invades your home if you’re too depressed, or the humanoid bear that can show up to go through your garbage bins (and I think can use the stuff outside in your yard like a normal townie).
No matter how they do it, I don’t have much faith it’ll be anything good. Most likely just an exec’s coke induced plan to try and capture some of that Barbie money/audience while promoting the series. The last main game came out a decade ago, and the base game part of it went free to play in the last year or two. Probably one last attempt to drive DLC sales before they release the next one.
“if” doing all the heavy lifting there, like you say, the fandom that go that deep in to it isn’t very big, but even if it was, film makers are known for fucking that kind of thing up because they’re not making it for the fans.
I should have read through your whole comment before I started mine lol, I completely agree.
The Sims have well-known townies, like Bella, Vlad, Eliza. etc. I assume they will cover their stories.
I’ve never interacted with townies enough to care though, do other people?
I usually do interact with them, I’m to lazy to make a lot of townies myself :) I saw people quite often discuss townies, even make tier lists.
I don’t make my own either, I’m as much as a loner when I play Sims as I am irl 😂 Either way, if that’s how they’re going to relate it to the game, it’s even less appealing (personally of course)
The handheld and console games had stories though. The PSP/DS one being one I hold dear in nostalgia
Agreed. I’ve not watched Barbie yet, ngl, even with the progressive plot its meant to have, it strikes me as 90% advertising, and the different variety of toy you mention really plays well in to that so it works well enough, but I agree, Sims doesn’t even have that, and I’m really struggling to see what kind of plot they could make up to make it distinctively “Sims”. That leaves us with 100% advertising, which if EA are involved, isn’t surprising really.
The best part about a source with no story is you have the freedom to make one as you see fit. I prefer to not shit on every single thing the moment it’s announced