Why is this pack needed when dead sims already contact you, asking that you go to the flea market with them?

Before anyone gets excited, can I suggest re-watching one of your previous videos titled "Sims 4's Trailers Aren't Very Realistic Sometimes, Are They?"

They are adding a new emotion to base game for this pack: Scared

I also wish this was a game pack - and am so disappointed that graveyards aren’t being added 😭 I’m very intrigued but I won’t buy it until I’ve seen your review Carl! This video was super helpful!

Interesting pack but I really wish that the ghosts we're actually scarier these ghosts are too cutesy and look like they belong in Luigi's mansion.

Ghosts look like familiars from the magic pack one

i feel like the opportunity for a sim take on tarot cards was missed here, not gonna lie

>kid can do seance okay guys lets start salem witch trials roleplay

Vampires ghost where wolves witches fairy’s and zombies were all in one pack for the sims 3. Just a reminder no reasoning.

Why do I keep picturing Judith Ward showing up as a psychic medium? She’ll just show up uninvited just to make her usual appearance in another place that isn’t Del Sol Valley.

agreed. A huge missed opportunity not making it a game pack. They could’ve added tarot card readings/psychic career, graveyards, and a ouija board as a new game to summon spirits.

It just feels like every single pack they release for 4 is half assed. 3 felt like every expansion added so much to the game. Pets added cats, dogs and horses. I actually really enjoyed Supernatural. I liked all the new life states, although they really needed to be expanded upon. I feel like mermaids and aliens in The Sims 4 should’ve been more robust like spell casters or vampires. I’d love to see more playable occult lifestates be introduced. But make them more interesting than they can talk to dolphins and make it rain. I’m also a little bummed that they went the cute route instead of the more scary route. Sure, I know kids play this but I grew up on Poltergeist and even in Ghostbusters the ghosts were often times scary. Like the bitch in the library.

i want graveyards soooooo bad, but on a free patch

It doesn't matter when was the last time you uploaded. Your contents are always good so don't worry. We're not going anywhere. Hope you are ok.

The cute white thing reminds me with Boo from Mario / Luigi mansion. I don't get it why they went for spooky cute theme instead of scary dark theme.

I saw Paranormal and was expecting a game pack with a large update to the existing ghost "life stage" and got hyped for all of two seconds. Then saw stuff pack and then the little wee ghost void critters. What a shame. Ah well, maybe the next one will be interesting to me.

This is the kind of stuff I would have loved to get back when Spooky Stuff was released an eternity ago.

I know not to get my hopes up when it comes to Sims 4 traits, but some of the ones I can think of at the top of my head for this pack: - phasmaphobic (scared of ghosts) - ghost seeker (loves ghosts) - ghost magnet (ghosts just love to be around the sim, but the sim hates it?) And since it's a stuff pack, I won't expect any of these to be included.

Watch some of the more positive fans get their hopes up for this pack, then be disappointed after a few hours of playing it. Ah, EA...

In my opinion, it was supposed to be a gamepack, but they turned it into a stuff pack so the fans doesn’t complain about the eventual lack of gameplay.

Is it just me or do the spectres look like a potential voidcritter?

This is why I don't like the idea of The Sims 4 graphic and aesthetic as part of 'perfect sims game formula'. Its makes everything look cute and silly, to the point that pointy looking and jagged edge of Sauron or any stereotipical bad guys would look like a pokemon. A ghost is always interesting because they're mysterious or even dreadful, who know what they gonna do to us if we encounter them in a haunted place. This is a powerful experience, something that The Sims 2 nailed it, while The Sims 3 kinda missed it even with ghost buster career in Ambition. I wish there's more serious tone in The Sims 4 gameplay aspect, something that allow us to play with the darker side of the game, its edgy and bad without left us with a feeling of cringe.

In my reaction I said... "This looks like a Gamepack that was repackaged into a Stuff pack"

I wish it was a game pack too. I was hoping for a Grim Reaper career.

Yours and LGR's sense of humor is all I'm waiting for now with this pack. Even if I disagree with opinions, you two still make me laugh. 😅

Also there’s a new emotion for the pack added to base game called scared

I also wanted them to expand Happy Haunts into a game pack with more of the offered features. But, I think after the fit that was thrown by some of the community about Eco being taken from a stuff pack concept to an Expansion... we won't be getting any more expanded concepts that we vote for. Which bites, this would have been a great game pack.

Starting to think these videos are a chance for Carl to flex on his VFX stuff, makes me laugh seeing it all. Some really good effects

The ghosts remind me of the spirits of the secret society in the university pack

Can't wait to see how they screw this one up.

I'm happy that we will get a fear/scared emotion added with the base game as well, but i have to wonder why they did not add it sooner. Have Maxis recruited more people that are more skilled?

Carl, of course we are hanging around. If it wasn’t for you, I would have left this game back with Sims 2. You taught me how to enjoy this game.

I agree, this idea had a loot potential, why waste it on a stuff pack?

As always, Carl, thank you for the reality-check style of review. I hope your break has gone well and that you are learning things that interest you and improve your daily musings. All the best! My biggest disappointment is that it is a January release. I really like the fact that I am able to more or less successfully avoid spooky/ghostly/creepy things except for September to October. Am hoping it is the only occult and (less hopefully hoping) only niche pack of 2021. It is nice to see that the Sims community can be pleasantly buzzing though.

Might be wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that this is a kind of stepping stone that they'll build more on later. Seems like it could be a decent foundation for some future pack/expansion, lord knows people have been wanting more supernatural gameplay from the beginning. Not keeping my hopes _too_ high for anything on the same level as Sims 3 Supernatural, but maybe they'll add more onto the pile in the future? Maybe??? I'd also love to see more blending of packs and features, like unique ways for sorcerers and/or vampires to interact with the little Casper dudes or do special kinds of seances, maybe even depending on what level you're on. That'd be super fun to explore!

Carl it’s ok to take a break! You’ve been my go to source since the sims 3. When I found your UKposts channel i was so shocked because there was a voice to Carl’s sims guide 😂😝

Thank you for all your hard work, Carl. I appreciate you!

Well... that 'cute little ghost' sure looks a lot like the 'cute little ghost' in Animal Crossing... really a lot like it. Are they cousins? Not sure about this pack... but then I'm not sure about a lot of the packs for this game. It will be interesting to see what this one's really all about and how disappointed people are once they have it.

Yeah, I hear you. I'd have liked a full gamepack with graveyards and maybe a spooky world in addition to what's in this pack as well. I'm optimistic since they're adding fear as an emotion to the base game before this pack launches - a bunch of tense moodlets are getting overhauled. This pack might end up terrifying Sims to death even 😁

I'm pretty meh about the game play, and Bonehilda, although I'm VERY happy for all the simmers who wanted her back (cough Plumbella cough), but I'm looking forward to having the buy mode objects in my game. That couch! That plant! That sconce! Etc. I enjoyed your "fun with physics" animations throughout the video. They made me smile. :)

I always love your content and thank you for all your hard work its wholeheartedly appreciated

Glad to hear you have been taking a break! Looking forward to your review

I think I getting tired of the Sims 4, specially after installing Skyrim. While both games gameplay could get repetitive I found Skyrim a little more entertain because it feels more like playing, and less like doing a mechanical order of things like in the Sims 4. Sometimes building and playing your sims feels more like a chore, a work. I know is a weird thing to compare an action/roleplaying game with Sims 4, but hey, they have a lot in common... like the insane amount of load screens every damn time you need to go back to a house inside a town (a total of 4 damn loading screens to get inside and outside).

Dang a stuff pack I might actually buy, thanks Carl 👍

Glad to see you back!

I knew with a new pack coming out you’d post a video. I was looking forward to it and am now happy

0:42 - that object looks almost identical to a similar object from the Sims 3 store...

I would have taken this as an expansion over snowy escape, which could very well have been a game pack

Hey Carl, i wish you a happy new year :) You are an animation wizard now, i like it

I hope that its going to be good but I have my share of... concerns. I love cute-creepy mix things, so I like the little ghost dudes! they're neat and they shake up the visuals a little, which is something I feel the game desperately needs sometimes. Hopefully the skill and career are interesting... but beyond that I have some concerns. The build items that they showed look far from haunting to me. If they fit with the cute-creepy mix that'd be one thing, but they feel more like a My Little Pony play set that attempted to have some vaguely Victorian looking toy furniture. I really hope that gameplay wise this has at least something. a huge shame this wasnt an actual game pack, and I'm definitely worried that the median skill is going to basically just be "ooo spooky chair floated for 5 seconds" or that it will just unlock a bunch of ultimately useless interactions with ghost sims or something.

Cancelled? Dude, I just been rewatching all of your older videos till you came back lmao. Welcome back!

As an occult player, Im just happy we FINALLY got an SP geared toward occult play. (spooky sp doesnt count! Its just costumes!) I was really hoping for grim reaping career, but I'll get some fun out of this.

again it looks like a heavy crutch on the emotion system. i can bet this also doesn't intertwine with the newly added memory system either. fully agreed this should have been a game pack with more work put in but with how disappointing game packs have been for the last few times now i think a stuff pack will perform better. i honestly dont understand the devs fear of not pumping in work into the base game, beefing up the basegame to make the game better would make more sales not less, warcraft shadowlands and no mans sky proved this by turning their current bland content into amazing content with a big rework

I'm quite excited for this!!

Don't even play the game anymore but i watch and like all your vids keep up the good work.

You’re back finally!!

Your videos are visually pleasing. There are times I'd wish EA and the Guru's would reach out more to certain individuals for added ideas in some of the content for these packs.

Looks like a more promising Stuff pack than usual... I look forward to seeing your review on it once it's out!

We missed you ❤

I didn't even think of the graveyard thing until you mentioned it. I've made my own, but not the same thing. One thing that gets me is BitLife has haunted houses with varied ghosties/specters etc but the Sims doesn't?! Again, I didn't think of this until you mentioned it. I think it'd be funny to have a random encounter where your Sim wakes up to the walls dripping blood. But I guess that would push the rating beyond teen or something. But we get Guidry who looks like ghost Johnny Depp, so that's cool. And there's a creepy doll, so there's that.

I'm excited for the new career I love the interactive careers like doctor and actor, and paranormal investigator looks like it is one I'm guessing you get called to other Sims homes to clean up the supernatural messes.

I for one am interested, but yes, bearing in mind it's a stuff pack. It's actually a stuff pack on steroids considering the other stuff packs they've released.. LOL! I also am glad you took a bit of a break, I haven't watched much since the Snowy Escape review. I am now ready to watch the missed episodes, and totally look forward to you next offerings. Good job on this review, I was super into it. You have that old enthusiasm in your voice and less frustration. Thank you for all you do! I couldn't play TS3 or TS4 without your page and this channel! (by the way, no one liked my comment, but I meant it as an attempt to help in some way. You might not have even read it, but you did realize there was a problem of overload, good for you!)

Those ghost look like a plushie I would buy my little one. They are indeed cute. That doll is more spooky than the ghost. I really like the new hairs though. 😍

You've a good point re. the amount of quality that might be in this cheap pack (positively) - could this hint at the Sims ramping up the quality of the packs? Like, does that mean this is the cheapest pack but higher quality than before, then game packs and expansions might offer so much more too! There're defo been expansion packs before that felt cool but empty too! hmmm

I feel like it's going to be good for a stuff pack, but could be *so much better* if it was a game pack.

hope you're doing okay, carl. take all the time you need, your wellbeing is what's most important!

I always love our reviews they are honest and to be honest if I wasn't a star wars fan i would have chucked that pack.

Woo! Nice video man. 💜🖤💟❣️💝💛💚💗💖💕 I love it

The specter idea is weird to me because ghosts are people so...these are like...animals? Or something? I dunno. It looks like it might be a nice add-on to Realm of Magic but yeah, I'd be disappointed if it didn't add randomness to the game. Honestly, random events was what made the other Sims games fun. They presented new challenges to solve or just lots of comedy. Sims 4 is boring because nothing fucking happens unless the user makes it happen, not even with NPC's. There's still no game in the game. Until they fix that, I don't see how any of these expansions or stuff packs will be more than a day or two of fun. I'll wait for actual play-through reviews before I decide if I want to buy. I've kind of given up on the game in general, but I'll reconsider if they actually release something good.

magic and vampire pack required for this one

I want more Carl's sims videos! Can you do another challenge play through?

A friendly reminder............ The Sims4 does not include, Burglars Ownable cars open world sandbox map Werewolves Genies Horses Interactive Elevators Vending machines Pool table Apartment lot type Spiral staircase Birdcage it's been 7 years and they are still pumping out garbage and the kids eat it up.

I'm eagerly awaiting your review - hopefully featuring Judith, Mila Munch, Nancy and "Mom" 🤣 .. I probably won't buy this any time soon, I'm not feeling particularly bored with the game atm, so don't need more stuff, but I don't see myself going for the séance and haunted stuff anyways and would probably just use the CAS and build & buy items. Those look okay, but not so great I'll throw my money at EA right away.

Possession would be an excellent mechanic. I've wanted it for a long time ever since The Sims 2 Playstation port allowed you to temporarily possess other Sims to have them do the chicken dance. Permanently possessing another Sim could be another means to come back to life. Possessing someone to come back to life is quite common in fiction, so I'm not sure how EA hasn't toyed with the idea yet given they have _so many_ ridiculous ways of resurrecting Sims. This would be one of the more interesting/fun ones. You could possess your arch-nemesis, your love interest, your best friend, a pet, some kind of supernatural monster, and I bet the Grim Reaper would demolish you if he finds you cheating death like that, given their years of soul-reaping experience. Heck, try possessing the Grim Reaper as a last-ditch effort when they come for you only to have your butt handed to you and get sent directly to the netherworld, no questions asked. It could result in many entertaining situations. What if a ghost tries to possess another ghost? Would they fuse together to become a new ghost Sim that has the combined qualities of both ghosts? It could horribly backfire. What if you possess a computer and spread through the ethernet cable to the web, like some kind of Shin Megami Tensei knock-off, only to realise you have to duke it out with anti-virus software to avoid getting deleted since you're now data? Desperately attempt to bring your Sim back to life, only to realise the only option to reunite your them with their family is by having them take over a stray animal? Just imagine the possibilities.

ok this is the first trailer ive been excited for in a WHILE also the selling point is bonehilda obviously

Don't worry, Carl! All the things you're lamenting about not being in this stuff pack will 100% be part of some cash grab game or expansion pack somewhere down the line.

Yasssssss!!!!!!! Perfect for my occult simmers!!!!!!!!

Those little ghost things really make me think of those chao creatures from the game sonic adventure 2.

Not even my love of bonehilda will make me get this pack. It will be 110% shallow, like all sims 4 things

Lmao! We're having fun with the graphics

For a moment I thought that we will had the ghost hunter profession back, it was my favourite! It looks like another objects pack, at least it will improve the immersion of my vampire Sims.

Ngl im a sucker for spooky stuff so they got me with this one 😆

Awesome. Now my Patrick Starr and Frederick the Great sims can be ghostbusters

I don’t think anybody would cancel you just for putting out less content. Your videos are really good and they’re worth wait.

I just like the CAS and build/buy items.

Is your page up to date on S4 illnesses. I failed twice following the brief stuff the is. Might be the game, but weird. I though I be alright diagnosis a kid with Llama flu when seeing the blotches. Marcus Flex had star after the test to decide among too, but was not starry eyes.

"You can give them gifts to appease them" Hm. Like the gnomes?

someone is reallyyyy enjoying their adobe after effects

someone will use this start up and make a hella awesome mod

Missed opportunity seems to be a common theme among, well, all of the sims 4 packs. It’s actually really confusing since previous sims games have had the same/similar packs but with 5 times the content

Didn't we have the Ghastly Nightmare, from Magic Realm. Why is it not included as Ghost type? Also do we still able to use cute sprite to fuse them into proper ghost sim? BTW this is how I'm going to play. A 👻 sim who is a spellcaster, it's occupation... paranormal investigator.

Didn’t EA advertise their magic pack thing the same way and something was a little...off at release? You know, in the same way Bethesda advertised their Nuka Rum bottle. Or their ‘canvas’ bag.

did you do those 3d simulation renders?? they’re mesmerising

I haven't watched the whole vid yet, so sorry if it's already covered but lile.... is there anyway to stop too much supernatural stuff from happening? I had problems with packs before with things you can't change easily without cheats like N.A.Ps

Not much cleaning... Carl have you ever tried to clean a house after a Kava party? I did the dishes once. Now I turn the cheats on to delete the kava disaster afterwards.

I want this only for bonehilda. But only if she's better than butlers.

Hopefully they will be mods to make this really crazy.

Next stuff pack. Creepy Graveyards! Followed by My first pet ghost pack 😂

The Haunted House Lot Type sounds like fun! I hope it's better than the Haunted lot trait because that does almost nothing!

Hi Carl!