Gameplay and overview of the TWELFTH expansion pack to The Sims 4. This time it's all about making teen sims spend years in high school. Classes to attend, social media to influence, proms to eat copious whole chickens at... Is it worth the $40 price tag? Let's see!
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The only Sims reviewer I will ever trust.
yeah, even though his videos depress the F out of me sometimes, not because they are bad... but seriously go back 11 years and watch his sims videos from then. No matter how much things change; The Sims stay eerily 😖the same.
not just the only one i trust he's the only one i watch
@@ryouma1717 That too.
@@anasevi9456 I think I've been watching it for that long.. Ah, the good ol' days. 😢
Ditto. The other ones don’t give that “honest” review like they claim. They mainly just give like a walkthrough of the pack and stuff
"way too clean, and students are way too happy." 5 out of 10 - LGR.
Seems legit.
High School Years: North Korea Edition
That's not fair do you have any idea how hard it is to pick on somebody using simlish? Not to mention every time you try to pass around naked pictures of your ex they're pixelated. You'd be happy in that world too. What a horrible place.
“Basically it doesn’t look enough like a prison to be fully relatable growing up in America” -LGT
@@apathyguy8338 lol
And when the world needed him most, he returned. We need more Sims LGR.
That's how I found his channel... searching for Sims reviews... lol
we're all getting old, let's face it, Clint , us
@@KrazyVideoChick cool more or less the same way I found him
Legend
I thought i hear Katara's voice 😆
“No matter how many times you’re kicked off the sex wheel, truly everyone is equal in the eyes of sketchy food sellers” should really be written somewhere in the promo material.
We need to get the likes on this to 69K!
@@kathryncampbell4432 ooooo
As a janitor, that clean school looks like a dream come true.
Lol! You probably see some things
@@kelb6073 yes, but the only thing that grosses me out now is used band aids.
CHEERS. Where’s the part where I have to crawl on my stomach to unlock the bathroom stall some evil child locked. Keep up the good work, fellow janitor. Someday they’ll appreciate us.
@@angussneef stand on the toilet or stepstool in the other stall if you can, then use a broom handle to try unlocking the other stall.
Thank you for your work. I know that a lot of people don't appreciate the work that you are doing, but please know that you are a valuable part of the school. Thank you once again for the hard work that you are doing. May safety and peace be upon you, my friend.
Dev supervisor: "Don't forget proms. Put proms in there." Dev 1: "Okay. But I never went to prom.. when did those happen again?" Dev 2: "I think they were once a week. Also don't forget food." Dev 1: "What for food?" Dev 2: "Chicken. Just put lots of chicken."
I really hope prom isn't once a week, it just shows how little there is to do in this expansion. They could at least add a variety of events for each week like other packs.
@@aurora6920 A spring fling dance and winter formal if you have Seasons installed would be cool. And activities like field trips and internships would be awesome too. Imagine having the Get to Work pack where your teen sim can visit the police station and hospital to job shadow. There are so many cross content possibilities with other expansion packs that I feel like will be overlooked.
Those chicken dinners were so hilarious 😂
@@hope-cat4894 this is such a great idea. i was even hoping for a spirit week, that would’ve been amazing with seasons. maybe we can work our way around that one with the calendar but it sucks we have to use cheats to have extra fun
I’m. Pretty sure they’re once a week so teen sims in short lifespan can attend
They should’ve let you pick classes that could build skill over time like cooking classes, handiness classes 🤷🏽♀️
atleast electives, they did it in university but you don’t get much done by the time the course ends
are u not satisfied
@@meetdamaka Most people who have bought this pack aren't satisfied with it, which is perfectly acceptable. The Sims team seemed very lazy with certain things in this pack.
in the uk u cant pick ur class so yh this suits me
@@SuperLuigiMiracle I get that, but I just suggested that to have something to do in this pack lol I usually send the teens to school alone now because the gameplay isn’t worth the loading screen to me 😂
Takes me back to 2011-2014 when LGR used to review the Sims 3's expansion packs, those days are such a vibe I can't even describe how good they are
The Sims 3 Clintcore era was the golden age for OG Sims fans.
I still watch them from time to time
Sims 3 itself had a extremely unique vibe. LGR's voice of course made added onto the vibes a lot
@@zethseth3645 Sims 3 is hands down the best Sims game, it's a shame the last expansion pack wasn't a good send off
to me that was LGR in 2009/2011 the one i remember, not that he became bad after that but I just stopped watching KZhead around 2011
Towniecore definitely needs to be a real thing. You're a visionary, Clint
It's definitely the most popular style in the Sims 4 😂
Towniecore is so funny i want that to be a real trend 😂
No eyeball ring 0/10 unrealistic
Eyeball ring on every finger
"Everyone is so happy to talk and mingle with everyone else all the time" - The Sims 4 in a nutshell
I've honestly considered changing every Sim's traits to include Loner because it's such a nightmare. As an introvert, I have enough time with real social situations. I don't need fictional anxiety. 😅
Oh hi Marta! Great taste in KZheadrs :D
I had to put so many mods in my game so all the sims don’t get along.
I’ve never seen a Sims pack that is so relatable yet so detached from reality.
That’s being Delulu for ya haha ❤
I'm so glad you reviewed this. I missed your takes on the sims 4.
Same
He said a while ago that it was only going to do expansions packs. It's just been so long since they've done an actual EP
Literally
Just for the nostalgia otherwise it is not what it use to be
I haven't, it's a terrible game.
it's nostalgic to see clint put all the new chairs in a row in the review it's a great and easy to understand demonstration of the developer's lack of focus on what matters and their focus on what doesn't matter, they either forgot this is a simulation game that at its core should offer extreme Replayability and Unpredictable gameplay, or they're just bad at it.
It already has extreme replayability and unpredictable gameplay though.
only thing they did good is the trailer to lure simmers in and get their money.
What do you mean? *NEW CHAIRS* IS WHAT REALLY MATTERS!
I was hoping for his High School Chairs review
Or both
They really should have had a clique system, anyone that's ever been to highschool knows that all the kids don't just hangout together. They had all the clothes needed for Jocks, Nerds, Preps, and Punks but they didn't make it tangible. It's just so shallow like most Sims packs.
I dunno... I'm twice the age of high schoolers, but I've been hearing they get along better than we used to...? Although, the bullying has switched from in schools to online apparently. Nerds are obviously much cooler than we used to be, but these are just rumors I hear online and they probably would think I'm actually a boomer.
@@NickaLah no some things never change
@@NickaLah I’m one of the oldest gen Zs, in my lifetime it definitely shifted more from physical to psychological bullying. Nerds being cooler is very subjective. The nerd AESTHETIC became cool for sure. But most of those people coopted nerd culture without actually getting into any of it. People would consistently tell me things about D&D that were actively untrue, having never played it themselves but seen that TTRPGs are apparently cool now...
@@NickaLah I am a teenager who literally just left high school (I’m 18) and you’re not exactly wrong. There’s not really a “cool/popular group” anymore. And there aren’t really “cliques” per say but rather groups of genuine friends. So having cliques would technically be less realistic for us gen z kids tbf. Even the “stereotypically cool” football players and cheerleaders hang around “smart/nerdy kids” and some are genuine friends. The closest thing we have to cliques are the quiet/anti-social kids who have 1-2 friends and the louder/outgoing kids who have a bunch of friends.
@@NO-kc4xb im a young millenial. I think the youngest considered millenial now - late 20s? An idk maybe its because im from the uk but i felt like cliques were never really a thing. Are there groups of friends - some that are more pretty/cool - yes. But I had never ever heard of a school when I was young where there were actual "cliques" with like "jocks" and "nerds" etc. in some weird mean girls style clique system. Again idk if its being brainwashed by american culture but I was expecting when i went to high school for it to be like a teen film or disney channel show lmao. Like I thought the pretty/popular girls were gona be bitchy/dumb when in actuality the prettiest most popular girls in my school were really kind nice people who were in top sets in their classes as they were clever. An there were no jocks? maybe people were friends with people who they were in the same sports club as them but I mean, nobody would even know who was on which sports team really. An "Nerds" again. Sure there were people who didn't have a lot of friends. But it definitely didn't have any relation to intelligence? There was no nerdy/intelligent=uncool. Infact like i said most the most liked/most friends people were intelligent? Idk again maybe Americas a whole different world and yall really are living like Mean Girls or something because ive never met a person whos ever said their high school experience was like that. People seem to always think "oh it used to be like that, before my time" but again I have asked older people an they also say it was never like that lmao. Maybe some americans can clear up whether your school was like a disney channel high school?
It's weird how there's no real Sims alternative after all these years.
Paralives in a few years!
There never will be. Maxis' games are truly unique deep to their core! :D
@@JuniperDev_ paralives is a dead end, its been in development for years now and years to go? nah, sims 5 will blow them out the water in popularity by the time they bother finishing it lol
@@IShouldGoToSleep yeah, I don't mean to be impatient but it's been I'm development ever since 2018. I know these are new indie devs that have a large project and high expectations but.... they haven't even showed us whether they've completed the core basic concept of a simulation game yet. We haven't seen gameplay. They've showed us build mode and design mode but that says nothing about taking care of sim needs. However I doubt the sims 5 will be better than them. I mean.... it might be an online game that's even worse than sims 4.
@@JuniperDev_ if Paralives doesn't use Unreal 5, then there is no options to beat the sims 5. (Paralives still use Unity). Better cancel the developer, then start the game like Paralives but in Unreal 5. Wait, what if "I make Paralives, but RTX is ON"?
My daughter showed me a picture of her local thrift, a complete shelf of SIMs PC games. Someone really liked them all.
Until they didn't ;)
I would buy them all if I saw them. I have doubles, triples of them lol
@@LastofAvari Or died loving it.
One of my cousin's used to have the Sims games via Windows xP, and Windows (7) the elevator music used to be so exclusive.
I still have all the Sims 1 CDs for some reason
My two complaints about this pack: 1. No option to have uniforms. Even though I didn’t have uniforms growing up, I still really want to give my students uniforms because I think they look so cute 2. Only one school location. I get that this is probably due to the # of available students in the sims world, but I wish we’d at least get to pick one location to have a school.
I really love the build and buy and CAS for this pack though. As somebody who doesn’t use CC, it added a lot of options that I had been wanting to have in my game. I also really love the world
It's weird cause I think there is a uniform system. All the randomly generated teen sims in my high school were wearing the same polo shirt, khaki pants outfit. It might've been a bug though
by cute you probably mean Asian (except Chinese) and not ugly Australian school uniforms LOL
@@aeroga2383 maybe it was some special day? Like idk how is it called, sports day?
@@aeroga2383 they do it on 'theme' days. I'm sure there will be a uniform mod out soon.
As a Gen Z myself, a lot of this pack feels very "hello fellow kids." I will say that it looks very aesthetically pleasing though, especially the town and the idea of the funfair is very cool. I hate the t-posing. The t-posing makes me want to burn everything EA I've ever bought.
I am from a third world country and grew up playing pirated sims games. Now we have access to genuine games via steam but Sims is still extremely expensive for us. Your videos are the ones I enjoy so much when I want to follow Sims series.
As far as I’m concerned, Myanmar is not a third world country 💀. And don’t worry. Piracy is everywhere even in the US and Europe
Please ☠️ this game. Please
@@sikerslalatm3147 Myanmar absolutely is a third world country.It's the poorest country in the SEA region and they don't even have a strong democracy as of now.
@@jeanvaljean6433 maybe they’ll be 2nd world in a few decades
The Sims 4 is the only game that I refuse to play anyway else than pirating it. I won't pay EA $1000 just to have the expansions that are overpriced as hell.
so sad what a captive audience the Sims games have. 12 $40 packs ends up costing over $500 if you include the original game cost... let alone the cost of other expansions too. it's honestly disgusting how predatory they are with such a beloved series
It's legit over a thousand dollars for every bit of content now. Bleh.
@@LGR your content is fantastic, and it's always nice to enjoy your Friday releases - just make sure you review what you want and don't get burnt out! 😊
@@LGR My condolences to you Clint my boy, I'm just as disappointed in the series as you are and I've never even played The Sims!
i was lucky enough to have a friend w most of the packs who let me try out sims 4 a couple years ago. sometimes i look at sims 4, and its pretty items and style and wish to play... but then i remember i'd have to cough up 280$ for the expansion packs i'd like ALONE and suddenly i'm alright without it.
I actually quit the entire franchise because of The Sims 4 well that and my laptop broke down but when I did get a new one I decided to simply never return. Six years later I still never played The Sims again. I considered making a return with this but as usual there are disappointments and the steam reviews being only 37% positive as of the comment says do not do it.
So happy to see you back reviewing! I totally understand why you would only want to review the expansion packs. Sims 4 has gone crazy with all the money grab releases. Next up, the Lint in Your Belly Button Kit! It comes with 6 colors of lint, plenty of bugs, glitches & chairs so your Sims have the option to sit while they pick out the lint!
🤣🤣🤣
Nah that would be groundbreaking compared to the DLC we get lately
Where do I slide my debt card?!
I could actually see the Lint kit happening lol I mean they did release a "bust the dust" kit that was all about... you guessed it... Dusting. 😂
idk after watch how mobile game work right now. I'm start thinking they are okay... but the bugs is on the other hand
Impressive amount of chairs. They really worked hard on this DLC.
Yes this is sarcasm for those who can’t detect it
@@1rage17 i love chairs. especially different kinds of styles of the same. it adds lots of game play!!
As a high school janitor, I can confirm the look of the school is far too clean looking lol. The desks that look worn out would be just about all of them, the floor tiles would be cracked in various places, and stuff like lockers and walls would be scratched to heck from scrubbing profanity off them so much lol. Kids roaming around the halls and doing whatever after school, though...that is weirdly accurate to some extent. We have to kick them out because a lot of them will go into the bathrooms and vandalize them, which only hurts us custodians.
As a fellow school janitor, I demolished Coppertown High immediately, and built my own HS based on how schools actually look and are setup (in the US anyway). I ended up with basically a prison like building in the end. Lol
@@rebeckylee157 lol Good idea. I'd probably do the same.
I disagree bc my school was built like 5 years ago and it’s rlly clean and there is rolling chairs and we don’t have lockers
@@Maddie-xr9nw good to know that every school on earth is exactly like yours
@@ketaminepoptarts u dumb all schools are getting remodeled soon 😭
Oh my God I wasn't even expecting this! I'm so happy and surprised that you're reviewing The Sims 4!
Hey Quinn love your content ❤️
Saame! Also just subbed to you! I've been wanting to read Octavia Butler for ages but I barely ever read because... "no time'. Sounds pathetic but it's true! Look forward to binging your content lol
U da goat Quinn
he never stopped, he just decreased to reviewing just the expansion packs bc everything else doesn't have enough content to cover
So you're surprised that the guy who is well known for reviewing Sims content, is reviewing new Sims-content? Suuuurreee you are...
When Generations from Sims 3 offers the equivalent of several Sims 4 packs.
same for Pets. subdivide and milk
Ambitions is like 12 Sims 4 packs at this point.
Shhhhh
It's amazing that there isn't really a direct competitor to The Sims that's actually good. Aren't even that many knockoffs, that I'm aware of. The Paralives game looks like it has a lot of potential, though they're taking their time with development (it has been in development for years, and it looks like it'll be some time before it gets released still).
The sims being an absolute monster of a game sucks when there's no competition because not many companies can or want to put in a lot of time and money to make something comparable
@@dd4850 EA hasn't been 'trusted' in years. It's well known in the gaming community at least that they're one of the crappier gaming companies out there. Some people don't care, some of course don't know, but a lot of people buy their stuff because they have some exclusive IPs and such. It's not unreasonable to be dubious of indie/crowdfund games, especially if they haven't proven themselves yet. A lot of projects have burned people (I myself have backed/crowdfunded games that either went nowhere, or released mediocre/unfinished products). That's one of the things established publishers and studios generally do better. Not that big companies haven't abandoned games right after release, leaving them in a buggy state.
Loved the Bully reference with Jimmy Hopkins and Bullworth - at least in that game you do participate in classes (obviously if you choose to).
LGR: "I won't be reviewing more Sims 4 content." EA: "Well folks, we better give him a little break then."
To be fair, he said he wouldn't quit on the Sims, just he would only review major developments like expansion packs, but no more stuff packs etc.
11:55 "It's not long before you realize it's largely a repetitive time waster, with only a few of the same messages ever being sent forth between anyone" I'd call that realism.
Truth.
@@LGR any chance you'll review Werewolves? would like to know what its all about, and whether its any good. i still now next to nothing, do to a lack of review by you.
@@shadowfox3rd He's not doing game packs, only expansion packs. Most people do consider werewolves to be pretty good, but that's just my word and what I've heard. I suggest looking up reviews and gameplay and deciding for yourself
Hasn't sims 4 been out almost 10 years now? Man i miss the new games every few years like when i was growing up, i swear sims 3 had a expansion that was awesome every few months.
Coming up on eight years and still in ‘development’.
For real. People used to make fun of things like assassins creed and cod for having yearly releases when I was a kid, but I miss having fun games actually come out to be excited for. How longs it been since the last elder scrolls? Gta? Sims? Etc etc. All the big franchises just picked one cash cow and stopped.
The sims 4 is the kind of game I’ll come back to once a year, mess around for a week, say “this sucks” then play again the next year. I miss when the series had a bit more gameplay and wasn’t just a dollhouse. It’s too… safe. Nothing bad happens if you don’t want it to. Everything is opt in, you don’t don’t ever have to react to something the game throws at you, outside the odd cooking fire. Maybe sims 5 will be different, but I’d bet it’ll be more of the same. I can only hope they’ll improve mod support so players that are unsatisfied can make the game they want to play.
Yeah I miss the cutscenes from TS2, or at least those big milestones like the huge concert in the sims 3 showtime. The game is so boring at the moment. Need more spontaneity. I want to be able to cheat to stop something from happening, not have to mod the game to get interesting or even just useful gameplay. I’d rather use mccc to disable robberies and other crazy things than to just not have them Idk I’m so bored of this game, I’ve only wanted to play recently because of the new build/buy and cas, and to use more cc of those too.
its actually worse as a dollhouse for me too. sims 3 i could cheat just about everything to get my perfect stories set up. sims 4 requires so much jumping through hoops to get items traits etc unlocked. they really made it for builders + content creators i think. the only good part of sims 4 are the building tools imo
I feel like The Sims 4 is an rpg, not a life sim as they used to be in earlier installations. If I want to play an rpg, I'm not going to choose The Sims. There is no emotional impact involved. I have no interest in The Sims 4 beyond house building. If I want a life sim, I play 3. I've given up hope with EA and The Sims, but maybe possibly someday they will finally release Paralives and this itch will finally be scratched.
Why "gamers" still don't understand how businesses work... They are clearly making money, nothing's is going to change, hoping for change is just stupid, you want change? Don't buy the game, that WILL send a message.
@@LyricsFred Not that I disagree, but when people stop buying, EA will say "people just don't like single-player life sims anymore" and stop making them altogether. And that's their loss.
This isn't traumatizing enough to fully represent the American school experience. I wish they took a more "80s approach" complete with cliques and bullies and latch key kids, and all the trauma that came with that lol
yeah they outsourced all the trauma to online trolls, now you just have to film someone acting "cringe" or whatever and let everyone else do the bullying for you
Yeah, where are all the shootings?
@@Bale4Bond gonna need the extreme violence mod for that !
Reminds me of The Urbz
Sims 4: Trauma and PTSD pack! ($40 USD)
Haha I love how you referenced "Jimmy Hopkins" from the game "Bully" it's the best school game ever, one of my fave games!!!
Your voice gives me so much nostalgia. I use to watch you do reviews ever since I was 13 deciding on which sims 3 pack to get. Now I'm 24 and here I am, still watching sims reviews from you 😭♥
Welcome back LGR. I seen this expansion in the store and being Canadian with tax this comes to over $60.00. The price alone makes this a hard pass for me. I will never pay the price of a full game for a expansion pack.
A deer literally leaped into my car today and its antlers nearly took out my eye. Watching this at the ER made me happy. Thank you.
Yikes! Hope you are doing okay!
i sincerely hope you feel better :)
Oh my, I hope you're doing well!
wtfffff that's crazy!!! hope ur fine!
I hope you didn't lose the eye.
5:55 I don't think T-posing has been popular since like 2016. Having it in the game just makes it seem incredibly dated already
It had a brief resurgence in 2018 or so.
that's exactly what I was thinking too, so out of touch
I thought this was just a tongue in cheek joke to sims bugging out
@@dundee6402 it definitely is I think it's specifically making fun of the hospital
I had never even heard of it before seeing Clint's review. I thought the sims were bugging out.
Rubbing in the lack of cars in Sims 4 just never gets old. Why they just can't Implement them the way they operated in Sims 2 is beyond me...
Oh my god I say this all the time! If you’re not giving us open world just put them in sims 2 style 🫠
@@queenthndurd929 Exactly, it can function like it did in Sims 2. You don't need an open world for cars and other types of transportation to function in the game. Where are the boats to go fishing in? Small tractors for Henford Bagley or dune buggies for Sulani? Motorcycles or even mopeds? Smaller vehicles for toddlers or kids to drive around in besides bicycles. Besides, there's other things to do with vehicles besides driving. The Sims could build, repair, restore or sell cars as an interactive career as a mechanic or salesman with a dealership. Vehicles can also add new aspirations or traits like car collector or vehicle enthusiast. It would also be great to give cars as gifts or repair and/or sell online to make extra money. Plus, with cars, we could FINALLY bring back burglars to the game and have functional garages and carports.
Exactly D: We already have routing for things such as bikes & boats. If an old non-open world game like TS2 could manage it, then I don't see why TS4 can't. Maybe they fear that it'll break the game, but hey the game is already breaking, so 😅
I really liked this feature in sims 2! I would download CC cars and drive my dream cars in the game! I loved sims 2 sooo much! Now I am on to sims 4 watching my sims run halfway home and then a loading screen :D
Honestly really liking those chairs, not gonna lie. The desks were pretty cool, too. Not worth $40, but maybe a sale price.
Apparently, the gamer chair is bonus content so you can only get it if you buy the pack before Sept 9 (?). I really just want the bonus content, the gameplay itself seems really glitchy.
I love your reviews. Sometimes a break is needed. Your sims 3 pack reviews helped me decide what packs to get
The Sims was how I discovered LGR so it's always nice to see him go back to it. Just curious how much it would cost for him to do an Ignorant Review of Journey to Batuu? EDIT: I forget it's "Ignorant" not "Cynical", but you get it, Clint.
The cost would be my mental well-being.
@@LGR not worth it...
We don't talk about B(atu)runo. 🤐
They should update the University Expansion pack that lets you join the classes or watch games.
I'm actually excited to see him review Growing Together. God, I hope this one's good. If LGR gives his seal of approval, I'll reinstall Sims 4.
Haven't been keeping up with TS4 for a while, but that sounds like "everything that should've been in Parenthood" expansion pack.
@@ewe1686 pretty much, or maybe parenthood should have been in growing together instead, but i feel like growing together is like: half the pack should have been in parenthood and half in the basegame. I don't get how the Sims 4 can't get better gameplay? It has the best build mode and CAS of the franchise yet the gameplay is terrible??
@@lourencovieira5424 basically because it was built on the wreckage of a scrapped multiplayer sims game and ea doesn’t have the motivation to properly fight against it because it still sells
@@lourencovieira5424 The core gameplay is so bare bones that I don't think there's any saving it with DLC. It's like adding topping after topping when the base and tomato sauce of your pizza are 8 months overdated.
Never realized just how much I needed to see Clint to line up chairs in a row. I'm glad we finally got another expansion pack just so we could get a new LGR Sims review.
I appreciate that this add-on somehow mixes 2022 with 2002 perfectly.
What do you mean?
@@digimonlover1632 I'm curious too
How…?
@@digimonlover1632 Maybe the fashion trends coming back?
@@britknee3019 a lot of the style gives early 2000s
I am so glad you returned to TS4. You are the first and the best TS reviewer I ever watched. Because your reviews are concise, professional, and well written. Other TS reviewers would have taken 30 - 40 minutes to cover the same points. Back in the days when you still reviewed all TS4 packs, I always waited for your review before I buy a TS4 pack. You are the TS4 reviewer that I trust the most.
Happy you got a well-deserved break from this game! Out of curiosity, will you ever do a ranking video like you did with the Sims 3's packs? Will it just be the ones you reviewed or... somehow all of them?
Possibly! If they ever actually stop making packs and move onto the next thing finally :)
@@LGR I was hoping this would be the last one. Now, to hatch an evil scheme to convince everyone to stop buying, so they'll give up on making more packs...
The first time in history I bought a pack without LGR's approval but it was not the same so happy to see this review was made
just wanted to let you know your pfp reminded me of that spongebob scene, so thank you for the laugh
They should have done a dance every season, Homecoming / Winter Formal / Sadie Hawkins / Prom
You'd probably need Seasons for it though.
@@Cyorg13 Ah drat, true
What on earth is Sadie Hawkins?
@@sims2lovealot that's what i'm wondering
@@sims2lovealot LMAO Standardly boys ask the girls to a dance, A Sadie Hawkins dance is when the girls have to ask the boys.
Also the T posing challenge feels like a slap in the face if they are NEVER going to fix the bug in the get to work hospital where the Drs ALWAYS T Pose when you do anything there involving the surgery table...
IS A FEATURE- EA. Probably
I didn’t realize how much I missed LGR’s videos, but suddenly the world feels at peace.
EA keeps milking the Sims 4. The positive side is that I can watch another review from the best Sims reviewers out there.
And probably the only one who hasn't forgotten the point of the game in the first place!
Prom being every week is probably for those people who play on short life spans, so you can experience everything. You can go to graduation after aging up, it's usually the next Sunday after, at least it let me do it. My sim aged up in the middle of class, but it gave me a prompt saying graduation was in a few days.
See, I thought that too. Except, they changed the length of the Normal lifespan for teens from 13 days to 21 days, but didn't change the length for teens on Short lifespans at all (it's still 7 days). So depending on how you time it, you would still just have one prom on Short lifespan, but now three on Normal (instead of 1-2) and seven on Long 😂 And the lifespan changes were just in the base game update - no HSY required. I don't get it.
They could have just made it so you can edit how often you want prom like any other holiday....
But why don’t they make it different for different lifespans? Like they did with the seasons pack with seasons and holidays.
@@countrye3013 Except you have to have Seasons to make prom a holiday. And you can't make events a general thing for everyone to attend. So I guess this was the best they could do. 🤷♀
@@lunacouer “this is the best we can do” EA , seems accurate tbh
Sims, covid graduates, and LGR share an indescribable bond for their graduation ceremony being them pulling a diploma out of the mailbox
Dude your intro animations just keep getting more and more insane. Whoever is doing them for you is doing an amazing job!!!!
Other companies: "Let's release this game in Early Access and just keep adding stuff until it's complete, even if it takes years." Gamers: "I don't trust early access. They're not getting a dime from me until it's done!" EA: "Let's release this game, unfinished, full price, and just keep adding stuff (for a fee) for years until it's complete." Gamers: "Shut up and take my money!"
Both of these are shit
And that's why I don't like many complaints from gamers. They keep doing it to themselves. Can't even blame EA at this point. Customers, myself included, are stupid.
I never knew how much I missed lgr talking about chairs
you give such full and comprehensive reviews/overviews that it astounds me! ABSOLUTELY love your videos!
2:31 But LGRRRRR, cars would be so hard to implement! I mean, I'm pretty sure the hardest thing would be adding a driveway in this game where you can quite literally move entire houses for the first time in The Sims' entire history to fix things if you need to add a driveway object like in Certain Other Sims Games, but-there's no point! It's not open world! [kicks TS2 under a rug]
YOU UNGRATEUL PEON! WHO NEEDS CARS WHEN THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT STYLE OF CHAIRS!! IT ADDS SO MUCH MORE GAMEPLAY!! HATER!!
I've never felt more out of touch from a Sims pack than I do this particular one; and I'm 19.
Same and I'm 19 too lol
EA has managed to drag sims 4 on for so long that we're not even their primary audience anymore, kinda funny really.
@@toebeexyz they're not even close to done btw
@@toebeexyz They're dumbing it down and making it generic and "safe," hardly fun and appealing as to why the Sims became so beloved and interesting to begin with
@@Robbie-mw5uu That's what I'm saying lol, they've manage to extend the life of the game that it's original audience has outgrown it
I just screamed when this video appear on my home screen!!! I swear less than 10 mins ago I was watching a sims review and I thought to myself, I really miss LGR's sims reviews, I know he will be honest and shows us ALL the chairs!!! Then this video appeared!
I completely understand your reason from ending your reviews. I was so confused when I stopped seeing them but I had eventually figured you grew tired of it. I’m glad you’re willing to review the big ones still. Yours and Plumbella’s reviews are the only ones I enjoy watching.
I have always, and will always play the sims 3. nothing compares to cars, horses, and open worlds. I love the sims 3, and I am so excited for the next chapter of sims 5. hopefully they try to bring more stuff back that was actually good from sims 3 and sims 4 will just be a distant memory
I miss Sims 3. The expansions for 3 actually added so much. Can someone please optimise the game to be perfect :(
a modder named lazy duchess made a patch to make the sims 3 run sooo much better along with NRaas mods.. to me and other simmers the game runs better with these but i wouldn’t know since my pc can run the sims 3 pretty well :,) i did notice a performance boost though but anyone interested should check it out there’s many other options to help optimize and run the game better too :D
I want a Sims game with Sims 3's open (and customizable) world and expansion pack style, but with all the building and CAS features and optimization of Sims 4. Also using Sims 4 artstyle because I genuinely prefer it over 3's
we’ve needed a true sims competitor for so long!
@@winterwatson6811 not done yet but paralives at least looks promising for a sims competitor
@@PatManDX Nah Sims 4 can keep it's art style, I hate how cartoony everything looks. Sims 3 did it better
Me seeing you have a new Sims review: "Oh good! I was wondering how many chairs the new pack had 🤔"
It's great to hear your review voice again. I'm glad for your peace of mind you are accepting that this team is on a course we aren't changing with constructive criticism. You're a legend and I absolutely value your game reviews.
LGR is now emotionally preparing himself for the next Ex Pack review.
I get the impression the pack is going for the kind of high school life seen on shows like Saved by the Bell and the like given how much of the game feels influenced by sitcoms and other tv shows. There's no way to capture the breadth of experiences of high school but the kinds of shows about it we saw as children and teens are familiar to us all
The Sims games are made to imitate American TV on purpose. People from all over the world are familiar with it.
There was a similar idea with the University expansion for TS2 as well; imitating the pop culture perception of colleges more than real life college life. Which admittedly does fit with the "American Television Culture" motif The Sims has.
Yeah I mean when this expansion doesn't come with a depression mechanic it's definitely not realistic (I was in a dark place during high school)
Whenever I see a new LGR video I give it a thumbs-up before I watch it, despite the fact that I don't play The Sims 4 anymore.
prom being a seasonal thing with a seasonal theme would make it seem more special and like an event. once a week sounds too frequent
I respect that he always makes duke nukem
I love you Clint, your writing and wit never cease to make me laugh, glad to see you talking about the sims again, no one can blame you for needing a break from the pack-a-palooza that never ends
I know you've stopped reviewing anything that's not an Expansion Pack, but I'd LOVE an LGR review for Werewolves. I genuinely think it's their best occult pack so far. Granted, I don't own Batuu or StrangerVille so idk if either of them even hold a candle to Werewolves, but I think you might like it. :)
He says he's not fond of occult/supernatural Sims stuff though, every time they have unrealistic/magic additions to the games
I will say from owning Strangerville, the 'occult' isnt playable for everyday gameplay. Possessed sims cant do anything when possessed, and the only special thing is that they have different moods. The Mother is just a boss that has no purpose outside of the storyline. Really its only a pack I would reccomend on sale if u like the world, build mode, and cas. I only bought it for the world and I dont regret it, but it is quite annoying to start a new save and have to deal with possession, solve the mystery, or play in a completely different world.
He probably doesn't want to. At the end of the day his opinion might just be exactly like Vampire's, which is why he isnt doing them, he's tired of repeating himself lol. Like all packs outside of one or 2 DLC Packs the gameplay is very subjective so Werewolves falls in line with "get on sale if you like it cause there's not much reason to pay full price otherwise" even if it's just an upgraded Vampires it doesn't go beyond that. It really means that the old packs need to be updated but...lol.
Naw
@@modkhi It's almost like occult stuff is unrealistic and or magical.
I love that you chose to review this one! Thank you! I always check your channel first for an honest and in depth sims pack review. :)
The weird thing about this pack is that the school doesn't even LOOK like an actual, regular high school. And the high-schoolers don't look like high-schoolers either. It's like they gathered a whole bunch of middle-aged to older men and women in corporate and had them guess what high school may look like and how teenagers may dress and act nowadays. In a fantasy world. A rich, luxurious high-school fantasy world. Nonetheless a happy one, too, because we all know high school isn't living hell. Nice to see you back though, I missed your Sims reviews' sarcastic humor. = - A junior in high school.
@nat2005 I agree. EA completely missed the mark when they designed this addition; the features that you mentioned would have probably made it a little more bearable, if you ask me. And yeah, the pack does look boring, let me be clear that I was *not* by any means giving compliments about the implemented game design. 😊
It would've been more Realistic if they added Smoking Addiction and Extreme Bullying.
I just find it creepy how adult the teens look. Same CAS structure as adults, but a lot of the content (clothes mainly) added is wildly inappropriate for a 14 year old. What is it with the bra-revealing mesh tops and low cut jumpsuits?? When I was 14 most girls wore skinny jeans and a hoodie, at 17 it was mainly mom jeans and jumpers. Seems unrealistic, like they were dressing 20 year olds instead.
See my schools is new and has windows everywhere looks clean asf also
@@spaghettiisyummy.3623 there are mods for that
As soon as they announced the new pack I was just waiting for LGR to post a review. Absolutely love these reviews!
I missed these sims 4 content! Now I can go back to watching these before buying the packs
Omg you came back to us! Im so grateful! I love when you review these.
Thank you for the review! I'm so sad the fair is made of rabbit hole locations, because seeing my Sims on a ferris wheel or carnival ride is something I've been looking forward to forever. I like how you described school as being a hangout spot for teens, it's a good way to manage expectations if I get this pack :)
Super weird you can't just zone a lot to be a school.. I guess it is what it is. Didn't really expect to be able to drive in this game still but you're not wrong there, would have been a perfect time to add it! Oh well I guess.
That sums up the Sims 4 in general: “Oh well I guess” lmao 🥲
Where would you be able to drive tho? Its too late for that. Unless you're talking ab some visuals for "Travel".
I'd rather have other transport options that aren't a car, but you do you.
EA would never. They will add cars in separate pack. And only exclusive to just one world.
@@heyimmagenta7310 Do it Sims 2 style. Technically you could walk anywhere, but driving had a few benefits, and there was stuff you could do with cars such as romantic or conversing interactions, listening to the radio, it getting stolen, etc. Of course the biggest benefit is not having to rely on the carpool, and thus be able to arrive to work late as opposed to not showing up at all if you miss it, and if they added cars, I'd hope they'd also add the carpool.
It was nice to actually have a review of this pack. The other Sim's reviewers were so busy complaining about the bugs that I wasn't able to get a good idea of what the pack actually has. Was not expecting LGR review either. Super refreshing.
Maybe if there were less bugs they could've reviewed the pack 🤷🏾♀️ I mean I'd be upset and more focused on the sims I've spent a lot of times developing stories and personalities if they were randomly aging up to death or getting into romantic relationships with family too, because I had the audacity to spend $40 to add some new gameplay And YMMV of course. I lucked out and it took a few years for Dine Out to bug out, but for some ppl, it was immediate. Same with this pack. So the main issue is... Why? YMMV shouldn't happen on a brand new pack after 8ish years, it's unacceptable. If you wanted an overview, there are plenty of reviews that do just that. LGR also took off a year so there's no time and investment at risk. So while this is useful to me, so are the ones that have more critique, since they are actively playing the game
@@LG_Hakubi the bugs they're complaining about are about the free update. That's the aging up bug and the incest bug. They haven't talked about the expansion pack in depth like LGR has. Also a lot of them are hyperbolic and dramatic so they can get more views on KZhead. I myself have not dealt with many of the bugs they ever complain about, and I'm not interested in holding EA or The Sims team to their standards.
@@zaksilva-sampaio7876 a lot of simmers thought the T-pose was a bug. I play on console and I can’t play my game anymore because the aging glitch happened. And they only fixed it for new save files so my entire save file I’ve had for idk how long is now ruined. Idk why they keep saying it happened after exiting CAS since I never went into CAS, didn’t have to when my sims were already made and I’ve been playing them forever. I don’t think it’s overdramatized for more views, it’s raw and honest rage. The pack itself is just not what it could’ve been and falls flat yet again and I didn’t need LGRs review to figure that out although his review was extremely well and appreciated how in-depth he went into the gameplay. It’s still boring looking compared to the school mod that’s been out for years now which 1 person made and did a much better job (since I can only play on console now I have to miss out on all the greats mods but it was a chore to get them all back into the game since EA releases garbage stuff so often).
Probably focusing on the bugs so they dont have to call out the fact the expansion pack has barely any gameplay
@@MagnumPatrol I get it, that sucks. I had saves that crashed in the past, they were all my fault though. I agree the mod is better than what the pack seems. I'm still at the point where I'm trying to decide if I want to buy it or not. And I was looking for somebody to review it without the drama. I understand the updates come with bugs, that's why I backup my saves, stay away from the game for a couple of weeks while the updates are happening, and just not get to attached to my saves in the first place. It really sucks when that happens, but that's how dealing with computers are. And to expect that we're going to have a bug-free update is fantasy.
5:02 Can I just say I really appreciate LGR doing captions on his videos? "[Fart inspired jubilation]." Lol
I’ve watched all the previous LGR reviews so much that I thought I’d never have more!! I don’t care about buying the packs - I just love putting on these reviews and having a great time listening :)
I love the presence of 2020 fashion in this pack. While the base game is giving early 2010s fashion & building aesthetics. They need to just make a new game pls
I wish they'd make a pack of early to mid 2000's fashion. I liked it.
@@LaDeXi sims 2 is where i get my 2000s era fix. 😂
I'm not really into it personally. It feels gimmicky, has a very specific Look and Vibe that isn't really what I want, and generally feels like the sort of thing that gets dated after only a few years.
@@incognitoburrito6020 I feel like that's just how fashion works. Trends fade out in a few years. I quite like it though, so I'd like to have hope (all these aesthetics are very nice)
@@cryforhelp7270 That's true, but there are styles and trends that move faster than others, and I think a lot of the ones they've included will fall into that category.
I wish you'd also reviewed the Werewolf pack but no biggie. Glad to see your review of HSY. When I heard about all the new chairs, I naturally thought of LGR. :)
thank you for being so brutally honest in your reviews. we need more creators like you
This review is spot on. Thanks for coming back to review it!
LGR must have went to the same high school as I did. Mine definitely looked more like a prison than the school from this pack.
I’ve seen school as prison ever since I was a kid.. I’m an adult now so my second worst nightmare is over.
In the Virginia county where I grew up, the older school buildings were like that, but the newer ones were nice and looked almost exactly like this game.
All Schools look like Prisons. Architects are Honest People.
As much as I've given up on the Sims, I watched this video so fast just in the merit how comfortable and nostalgic your sims videos are haha
I’ve missed your Sims videos so much! Absolutely love your dry humour 😊 love your sandwiches too 🥰
The happy feeling I got from him doing a review for the pack I was eyeing. You are the best
Everyone needs a break at times, glad you're back. I missed your reviews, they were always entertaining and straight-forward. I'd watch them to get a feel for packs that had been released a couple years, since I didn't start playing Sims 4 until 2020. Hang in there and keep on truckin'!
Bro I've missed your Sims content! I just turned 22 and I've watching your videos since I was like 10 or 11 years old. Really glad you decided to review this, I always rewatch your Sims videos when I wanna get a laugh. But I'm glad you've taken the year off. You haven't missed much lol.
I have so missed your Sims Reviews this last year and it was great to see you again 👍👍
I was so saddened seeing your comment on your last Sims video. You're who I go to for a comprehensive look at whether or not I will want things for this game. I'm so happy to see this. Your sacrifices in taking a look at a game you don't care about are not overlooked or unappreciated!!!
I was literally just binge watching all of your old sims reviews, nearly every single one, this past week. And then out of the blue like a superhero you pop up with this review! I missed these and your sarcasm and wit!
I missed your Sims 4 reviews so much! I'm happy to see you back! 🧡
After a while all the Sims in the SIms 4 kind of merge together into unidentifiable samey mush. The same faces, the same poses, and the same emotions. Also the Teens having identical (Young) Adult bodies is still just really weird (and tbh very very lazy on the part of EA). I imagine the frequency of Prom is due to the lifespan of teens, so they have a chance to attend a prom before they grow up.
The teen bodies are actually slightly different from young adults, but not very noticeably.
Thank you for reviewing this! Totally was looking forward to it even after the hiatus
A SIMS 4 REVIEW FROM YOU??? Oh my gosh!!! I’m so happy to hear from you in the community again! When this pack came out, I wished you were around to review it because your reviews are the ones I trust the most. I’m absolutely thrilled! 😫♥️