![]() While joining your Sim at their day job was fun at first, the activities took too long and were too monotonous. The acting job was the one I was most unsure about, as I hadn’t especially enjoyed the similar “live careers” from the Get To Work expansion. In order to maintain and gain fame, you have to keep yourself in the public eye by streaming, uploading videos, updating your Simstagram story, and, if you’re an actor, constantly taking on new jobs. Once I got to spend some more time with Get Famous on my own, I found that two of the Sims I made ended up famous by streaming and uploading videos much faster than the actor. An usually really nice Sim that gets in an argument at a bar can have a bad reputation, while a Sim that’s cheating on their spouse in the privacy of their own home can still have a positive one. With the reputation system, you’re free to be as nice or as mean as you want, but if you do negative interactions where other Sims can see it, like at a restaurant or on a stream, your reputation will change. I’m not going to put on a mask and do something mean. “I always go in with the intention of being super mean and evil and I can’t do it,” he said. Like me, Miotke doesn’t usually play mean Sims. ![]() It’s better than just picking whether or not you want to be a “good” or a “bad” Vampire. Similarly, the reputation system in Get Famous is based on how other Sims perceive the Sim you’re playing, rather than the actions you take as a player. Being a Vampire also came with downsides, but those downsides were directly selected by the player, and I always ended up just choosing the same ones over and over. In many ways, this feels like a better version of how Vampires worked in the aptly-named game pack called The Sims 4 Vampires. If you don’t like your perks and quirks you can go on a Celebrity Cleanse to reset everything, but taking away a bit of control from the player makes fame a bit more unpredictable.Īlthough The Sims is all about player control, I like the idea of the game not just allowing me to make narrative choices, but the behaviour of my Sims being reflected by those choices. ![]() “There are hidden triggers in the game, and if you’re at a certain celebrity level and you hit that trigger multiple times in a specified amount of time, you’ll push that quirk on you,” he said. Players can’t choose these quirks themselves, Miotke said. A Sim who checks themselves out in the mirror a lot might gain the quirk Vain Street. A Sim who spends a lot of time on their phone might become a Phone Fanatic who can’t stop using social media. As your Sim gets more famous, though, they’ll also develop quirks. “Now suddenly I’m a hero in her eyes.”Īs your Sims gain notoriety for what they do, they’ll gain points that allow them to buy special skills. “She didn’t care about The Sims until she saw some of her favourite streamers playing The Sims,” Miotke told me at a hands-on demo last week. This element of the expansion was inspired by his 7-year-old daughter’s taste in media. “We felt like that was definitely a modern inroad into fame, something that people can resonate with,” said Miotke. Get Famous introduces a Media Production skill, allowing your Sims to make online videos and stream their lives. You can be a famous painter, a famous writer, a famous gardener, or even a famous gamer. But just like in our modern world, you don’t have to be an actor to get famous in The Sims. Get Famous is a surprisingly modern reflection of how fame works, and that celebrity life is intoxicating.Īrriving on November 16, Get Famous introduces a new Fame system, a new Hollywood-inspired world, and an Acting career. Then, at my suggestion, that Sim made it rain. ![]() They picked up a fat stack and put it to their face, talking on it. He directed a rich Sim he’d made for this demo to a vault of cash. “Every Soundcloud rapper has to talk on the money phone in their first video,” he said. ![]()
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