I still can't believe there wasn't more of a scandal with them ripping objects from spooky stuff and just throwing it in seasons.

Literally traumatising! I love the idea of you reviewing the older packs, more please 👁👄👁

In an open world it would be so cute to be able to go trick or treating

I really wanted more costumes, especially for the kids.

this was one of my favorite stuff packs but i honestly had no idea so many items were ripped from seasons and now i feel robbed.

Your reviews fill the hole lgr left behind, love you ❤

The treat bowl! Ok, so when you (as a sim) just get a treat, they are not "expecting" to be scared by the hand so they get scared, but when you go for a "trick" and are tricked then they are happy because they got what they wanted, to be tricked. It seems weird until you look at it from the expectation pov.

I love the Spooky Stuff Pack, and this is why. The costumes may not be "Spooky" because they are for adult costume parties at Halloween, not for going out and scaring people. Plus, they are great for making a time period ghost, like Nearly Headless Nick and Moaning Myrtle for my Harry Potter save. I added the candy bowl with the hand popping out to my Addams Family household to be Thing. I love the ability to carve pumpkins. The cloth covered furniture is great for filling out an attic along with a few holiday decorations that are being stored until that holiday rolls around. Spooky Stuff Pack was dropped on Sept. 29, 2015, almost three years before Seasons on June 22, 2018. If memory serves, they explained the doubling of some items was due to the fact that not everyone bought SSP and it was thought that those items would be welcomed, even twice for some. I think that if you have a closet on your lot, you can change anyone's costume (it's been a while since I have played creating a party in SSP).

We didn't get an actual pumpkins until cottage living, that you could actually grow and cook with.

I didn't even know about Halloween in Seasons! I don't think I ever have had trick-or-treaters come to my sims' house

I love spooky stuff build/buy especially the wood floors and walls and decor. I didn't realize most of it came with seasons though lol I'm also biased because I think I got it for $5 and that seemed fair for what I got. Edit- your point at the end was fair

can the sims actually wear pumpkins on their heads like it's being advertised in the trailer? I feel like that these scenes are the coolest part of the whole trailer 😅

I think that’s the problem, they don’t go all out in the theme of the pack. Comes across as a muddle of ideas. A general dress up party pack would be great 🎉

I think it could've been cool if they went more of a haunted house vibe. With the jumping out scary decorations, or mabey a pillar or tarp sims could hide behind to scare other sims

Among all the other problems, this pack also should've had some cross pack compatibility with cottage living, cos it's weird you can grow pumpkins in cottage living but you can't use those same pumpkins to carve with

I thought about getting this pack because I love Halloween. Thanks for changing my mind 😅

When this pack first released i was obsessed with it and kept having spooky parties for halloween... then they released seasons and it felt like i wasted $15 🙃

Love this review! My gripe with this stuff pack is really not up to par and it is pretty limiting. It is pretty cute for Spooky season, but beyond the holidays the assets are not versatile enough for anything else.

I wouldn't mind if they made spooky stuff free/merged into seasons(really seasons is where it belongs but it might be easier to go bg) and gifted buyers a kit voucher, like when sims 4 became free. I personally hate how SP and Seasons don't meld well. Throw a spooky party on your seasons spooky holiday and only bg costumes appear in the menu to quick change. Throw it on any day that's not a holiday, you get the menu for the spooky pack costumes.

I'm not even playing the sims 4, but I can't stop myself from watching your videos.

Hey stach i love your videos 💕 and should i get vampires for xmas?

"omg, why am I doing this with my hand " :D:D:D:D I'm dying :D:D

i have spooky stuff and seasons and ngl i wish i didnt even bother buying spooky stuff. I didnt even notice that they just ripped off the same items from spooky stuff thats just wild.

Funnily enough, since Seasons has some of the same stuff as Spooky stuff pack, it's not even needed to but the stuff pack, it only gives some more swatches to those items in Seasons. With Sims 4 studio, more swatches can be added, so the spooky pack is even worse because of this. If someone just wants a new swatch of those specific items, it can be easily edited.

Please do Laundry Day! The is my most traumatizing pack!

spooky stuff was one of the first packs i got, i was sad when there wasnt much gameplay with it,

I like the carpets in this pack for build- buy mode in spooky. The rest of the design is too cartoony looking for my taste I would wish for more spooky but more realistic spooky. Since they added nails to the base game I wouldn't mind some spooky themed nails.

I hope that soon one day we get a refresh for the spooky stuff pack

I literally love your videos, satch can we be besties?!?

wish i had watched this before getting spooky stuff :( the spooky party is kinda fun but that's it

Spooky Stuff (2015) came out YEARS before Seasons (2018). Back then, I suppose it was fine to drop as is, but Seasons made it irrelevant. Only reason to buy it after Seasons dropped is for extra costumes.

Thank you for convincing me to not waste my money EA's greed never ceases to shock me. They really ripped assets from this pack for seasons and thought that was okay

glad i watched this, i have seasons and wanted to be able to celebrate halloween but if theyre just gonna give me the same items then id rather not get it. the fact that you need to use the handiness skill too carve pumkins makes me hate it even more. also completly forgot seasons already had halloween only just released when you showed it.

I completely agree, with literally everything you said! There's a common theme for sims 4 packs - disappointment

Caterers in TS4 (my experience) don't cook as well, i don't have this pack btw

please honest review paranormal stuff and starengerville, is it still worth it?

I have had this game for a long time so I’ve bought everything as it came out but when I went back at added up Al the money I spent WOOOOOOO so much if I were starting now … I would be so confused on where to even start

I love this pack tbh

I remember thinking we really didn't get much with this pack. Can't remember why I got it

It's strange you can't change the costume. It should work by clicking on your Sim and even without Seasons pack

Wasn't Spooky Stuff free at one point? I have that one but I don't remember actually buying it

Gonna be real i dont remember when i bought this pack maybe on sale, either way besides that 1 wallpaper that looks like old boards or siding. I dont think I've ever used any of the rest of it ever. Not cas or build buy.

Had I not bought spooky stuff when I was looking to add more to do with my sims in game until I was able to get seasons I probably wouldn’t have ever bothered with buying it because it feels like a major waste of money and I don’t even really use spooky stuff anymore since I bought seasons.

Hey satch, do you think that the Sims 4 base game is worth downloading when it’s going to be free? Because I’ve heard that it gets boring without mods

Can we have another episode of let’s play they’re so funny😢(only requesting not demanding❤️)

I don't think the party performance issues are actually related directly to this pack. I've had instances where regular base game house parties have issues like bartenders not showing up or just not doing anything. I think that since the spooky party is still a party, it's unfortunately susceptible to party base game glitches too even if the pack itself should be working fine. I haven't used the spooky party feature myself, though generally the performance is pretty much fine as far as the pack goes. Alas, base game parties are glitched for me so this pack would theoretically be too in that regard.

I honestly just can’t wait for sims 4 stuff to be converted to sims 3

Does it come with realm of magic

I don't even think the overlap between seasons and spooky stuff is meant to be capitalistic, at this point I just think it's bad planning. Since they've decided to release every tiny bit of content in a separate stuff/kit/pack, they can't do something a bit bigger like seasons without stepping on previous packs, and none of the different packs' features integrate with each other.

Honestly, I bought this pack to get the costumes to my Roman, Historical and Fantasy game play. It was before I found out there's CC. And for the pumpkins. It's so useless otherwise

Why… don’t they simply add the new stuff here to seasons? If the point of seasons is weather and holidays, it would make sens for it to have all of this in the expansion pack MADE FOR events like this

I never even noticed that there were identical items in the Seasons and Spooky packs. That actually irks me. That’s lazy.

i think it’s worth more than two kits, but not by much tbh

they literally could have put all the stuff from this pack in the seasons pack 😒

I know 8 years old guys shooting zombie plants on PlayStation. What is EA thinking? Who are they wanting to impress? These are serious questions...xD

it's never too late!! period ah peroid uh

Don't mind my goth self stopping by to see if spooky stuff is worth is or if I'll just stick to custom content Edit: damn I don't think I'd get this even if I was a console player. Maybe the build / buy items would be good for kid sims, but... I'm not a legacy player

Its not that buggy because there’s not that much to be buggy😂

Im not qualified whatsoever but i know i could do better than the current sims creative directors

all of these things should have just been in Seasons as apart of Halloween and not it's... own separate price point. So wack.

Sims4 was a cash grab starting with the $60 base game. This pack is no huge shock.

EA is so lazy 😭

This stuff pack is extremely bad and underwhelming. I’m just asking myself how this pack came out this bad when there are so many ideas they could have added. I would never ever buy this tbh, it definitely needs an update. The fact that they had 3 items that you could also get on the Seasons pack is just insane. Think about any other gaming company and their audiences, they would be fuming but not the Sims community 🤡

Ok, I understand this is your review NOW, but at the time it came out, Spooky Stuff worked correctly. It goes back to how they don't make packs work together and so now it doesn't with all the other systems in play. The thing to remember is that Maxis adopted the words "Spooky Day" instead of Halloween. So they weren't actually trying to be SPOOKY in the literal sense of the word. It was like you said more for a party. Also you have to keep in mind that apparently they are trying to make the game more kid friendly so haven't REALLY done anything scarey or spooky in TS4, it was never meant to be that. Personally, when I build a rundown or "haunted" house, this pack is a go to along with the Vampire pack. The drapped rundown furniture, the wood floors, the hand wallscones in the white or black, it all works for me. Being as my nieces are really into the occult sims and love ghosts and such, I make a lot of houses like that. So the Spooky Stuff pack was worth it to me because I really do use it. Also the CAS has costumes that are not in any other pack, though some of them are reused, yes, some are also nowhere else to be found. And my girls USE them, like a whole lot. So again, worth it to me. Especially when at that time we did NOT have Seasons so it filled a need for us. If we were starting now, would we get the Spooky Stuff? We likely would get Seasons first, but yeah, we would because its part of the niche play that we do. For example, I did a redo of the Webbington Cobb house put out by EA/Maxis in the gallery, making the lot actually playable. Its a hot item for people like us. And I used a LOT of the Spooky Day stuff in it. Recently, I made a "vampire" house for one of my nieces, and again used a lot of the Spooky Stuff pack in it. Because she has a young mentality and needs it to be a little fun not just spooky. Oh, back to CAS (I know I'm rambling a litte, I just got up) as spellcasters, again my girls use the Spooky Stuff pack for their "witches" almost every time. So, yes, we would still buy it, just, you know, on sale... like all the others. But as soon as it came on sale? Yeah, we would totally buy it. Keep in mind, we don't usually play parties anyway so we didn't even realize the parties didn't work. It's not that I don't agree with most of your video, but it works for us in how we play. Or played, I personally haven't actually played TS4 this year, I've been playing Sims 3 and Sims Medieval mostly, with some Sims 2 thrown in. When I am asked nicely by one of my nieces I will go in and build something they have requested but I don't count that as playing because its not for my own entertainment or enjoyment really, its pure love for one of my girls, and once done I go back to what I want to do for myself. And I say "they", but lately it just been the one, as the others are playing the same games I do.

1 out of 10 for me, this pack is a disgusting cash grab.