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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.
So they could dig deep from the source material if they’re motivated
"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.
Most likely just an exec’s coke induced plan to try and capture some of that Barbie money/audience while promoting the series.
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
I'm surprised we haven't seen a comment in this thread yet from esteemed academy awards nominated actress Margot Robbie... 🤔
I know right? It's almost as if she has a day job working on a movie instead of being on social media all the time or something.
Look, you get a pass for being one of the most prolific actress of our time, but unless you get that new James Bond movie starring esteemed academy awards nominated actress Margot Robbie going, don't slack like this again. It's Lemmy after all, we have standards!
Everyone lives an idealistic life full of rich social interaction and lavish mansions for years unaware they are in a simulation, until the player's evil little brother takes over the mouse and keyboard.
Suddenly the movie takes SAW-like horror turn where at a neighbourhood pool party they all jump in, but then broski takes away the ladders. Maybe a bunch of people are chillin in a room but then the door disappears and a bunch of firework launchers pop in? People lured into then trapped in a hedge maze with no solution?
Now that I might watch 😂
I'm not interested in giving EA any more money or in their 2 hour long commercial. However, what I AM interested in is all creative talents who may create their own versions of what the Sims movie should be based on Sims 4 is actually like:
Famous Sims oddly appearing in every scene despite it not making sense for them to be there
Now where have I heard that one before? 🤔
A sim drops trash and now can’t walk around it doing their ‘hey you - help here - hand wave’.
especially gave me a good chuckle Definitely agree about giving money to EA, I would never pay to watch it (or bother downloading it, likely just wait until it pops up on tv one day)
Aww thanks for the comment. I'll share this with my kid as they're the one who came up with that one. :D
I'm so looking forward to once Paralives launches (Early Access to be sometime in 2025). Out of all of the competition, that's the one I'm looking forward to the most. I've been a Patreon supporter for years and love seeing their weekly updates.
I love that your kid plays too!
I've been avoiding looking at the Sims alternatives that I've been hearing about because my pc is old and sad and upgrading just isn't a high priority at the minute and I don't know that I could resist getting them all and crashing it 😂 But I'm glad they're coming along and have solid support, If I'm ever going to pay for a game again, it'd be one/all of these alternatives that are brewing..
Oh my kid doesn't play -- more or less just listens to me vent about EA while occasionally providing advice on how to make my Sims clothing/builds look better. :D
Ha, I love it, passively absorbing Sims knowledge.. xD
Thought she was taking a break, where's her imposter that was around here a couple months ago?
My theory is that she was abducted by aliens like Bella Goth.