You know there is a lot of things in the expansion pack when the reaction to the trailer is 34 minutes and 10 seconds... 🙃

I guarantee there is a “mess around on Ferris wheel” interaction. Those were not just any fireworks, they were woohoo fireworks.

You can combine both in your LP. Your werewolf will create a family and those teens will need to go to school. So now you have the awkward teenage werewolf navigating high school.

I wonder how strict they are going to be about the lots being populated with actual teens. What are the chances my teen heir goes to run laps at the school field and Bella, Bjorn, and Salim are milling around doing push-ups and distracting the football players with information on where to find trout?

Looks like a solid pack! Though honestly I forgot how similar teens and adults look in this game so I was a bit thrown off at the beginning 💀

Bring on the Teen Wolf LP, lol - would totally fit the 30 year olds pretending to be teens aesthetic.

I do really worry about that attend class in person thing. TS4 is TERRIBLE about the non-playing sims just not doing what they need to do. If I'm following my teen sim around school all day, are my parent sims still going to work? What if I have more than one teen sim? Who am I following? If I do afterschool activities with my teen, is my child sim at home just not going to do homework or feed themselves? Because right now if your active sim is on another lot, the home sims do absolutely FA for their needs. And there's a loading screen to switch between sims, so you can't even pop home real quick to make sure everyone is eating.

Maybe Angus could adopt a child, because he's aspiring to be more like Christopher, and then you age the child up into a teenager. I feel like there's still a lot to explore with the werewolves pack, so I don't want to end that too soon. Maybe when Nina ages up she might start flirting with some of the other werewolves and see if she has a fated mate, and have a baby with them. Then we could see the contrast between a normal sim and a werewolf sim going to high school. Being a werewolf probably makes the puberty emotions even more chaotic. Teacher gives you detention for eating the furniture? Bite him!

I would love this pack even more if they could make the teens look a tiny bit more like actual teens, maybe make them a lot shorter. Because even in the game they barely get any taller, and are basically just tiny slightly shrunken adults. I really loved how short the teens were in sims 3, and how much they actually looked like teens, I really wish they would add that to sims 4.

If there is a new bar in this pack I will be pretty surprised.

I’m so ready for this pack no more waiting for them to age up for university

I wonder how the sneaking out would work with the parenthood curfew system, because currently if your sims tries to do ANYTHING off lot (even if they're still loaded into the lot but walked a bit away, from my own experience) they lose responsibility because the game detects that they're breaking curfew

I hope they update the rabbit hole teacher job for this

Can’t wait for James to be a CAS style influencer- peak fashion! I really wonder how this will mesh with Parenthood. A little worried that this looks really ambitious - get to work really suffered from trying to do too many different things, and Island Living just really lacked focus, so I hope they handle this right gameplay wise - on the plus side it looks like they borrowed from and built on existing things from past packs (so not entirely new but still a unique twist) so hopefully that means they had the time/budget to build out all these features to an appropriate depth. (By past pack, I mean the discover university cafeteria was probably the basis of the high school cafeteria, the slow dancing looks like the work done for the wedding pack animations formed the base even if it’s slightly different, etc)

Remember when Angus got a call from his mom about them trying for a baby? Maybe use that kid if they have it eventually?

I really don't want there to be a hair growth system. Given how fast time passes in the Sims, it will be a tedious thing FAST to constantly manage our Sims' hair. Especially if your intention is to keep a certain appearance. If it does exist, I hope it's a toggleble option.

I’ve had a mod in my game for ages that allows sims to ask you out autonomously, and also break up autonomously if your relationship is too low! But I am glad they’re adding it to the game too, because that shouldn’t be something that needs a mod😋

Which ever Sim is chose for this pack, I truly hope the Rages to Riches isn't rushed in order to move on to this one. It looks interesting, fun, more player-wants-influenced than usual, and has tons of potential. Really want both to have their time to Shine Bright 😉

James shaking while saying “shake things up” made me think of the earthquakes we had in the Eco Living LP lol

Maybe turn aging off and Nina can go to high school? Maybe Angus decides the werewolf life is for him, but Nina decides it not. Or perhaps just create a new Sim all together and that Sim can get with Angus or Nina later on (similar to Hazel’s storyline). Either way - I’m very excited to see your Let’s Play! ☺️

When i first heard there was a high school pack i was confused why when we already have the university pack....but this actually looks pretty cool. Maybe nina will find her fated mate and have a teenager by the time the pack is out 😉

"Live your highschool dream" I am, by not needing to go any more. I was over joyed when I left high school for the last time.

I will definitely have to wait for gameplay reviews for this pack because it seems like alot of things going on i just hope it works better than just ok.

I want a Semaj and Gluon High School buddies playthrough!

I'd definitely like Nina or Angus's child to be the main one we follow. I'm dying to see the werewolf toddler stuff and we could also cure them so they'd be a regular sim when they get to teen, like how we de-blued Angus and Nina. That way we can continue the werewolf story and keep following the Bigwallet line. It's a month until the release so I feel like that's a good amount of time to spend in Werewolves. I'd be happy if Reginald has a kid and they go as well (cousins take on HS as friends or rivals?) but I'd rather follow characters we've been invested in from the beginning as the main one.

I'm a bit annoyed that there's seemingly no "ugly" phases included. I want my Sims to have blunder years material! I want them to give themselves haircuts and have patchy hair dye and bedazzled/tie dye t shirts they made at a sleepover. I want the makeup to look like when you first begin to put on makeup and you have no idea what you're doing. Everything in the trailer (and the game so far) just seems really perfect. Like, there's the perfect teens with their perfect lives based around instagram/twitter/tiktok teen lives. Everyone looks like they're an actor in a teen film, they're all too old and it's nothing like real life. I certainly didn't have a great teenagehood and I want to replicate that onto my Sims. I feel like Sims 2 did it well when you could get acne just randomly and get arrested for being out after curfew; also the clothes were just really good teenage clothes for that "it's not a phase" look. This just feels really...sanitised. Like it's the version of your teenage years that you'd put on social media, but not the one that you'd regret. A lot of this just looks like young adult stuff, and I feel like that would've been a good way to differentiate them more. Maybe there is more to it and they're just showing the "good" teenage life in the trailer - I certainly hope so because I've been wanting blunder years style teen stuff for *ages*.

It looks cool but after wedding stories I'm worried that certain things like prom won't work well. Also a lot of the stuff sounds like parenthood, acne, teens getting in trouble for being outpast curfew. Plus we already have the style Influencer and social media carriers plus the UKposts station thing from other packs. I think if I didn't have those packs already this would be more appealing

I would have liked them to do schools in general and include kids going to elementary school since it is an expansion pack. High School just seems more narrow than what it could have been. Just my own thoughts. University is the expansion pack I use the least.

This is so Gen Z. Packs like this will be really fun to watch 10 years from now and to see what was considered stylish and cool

19:30 that's a real periodic table over the stairs, which is different from the sims periodic table when you're doing element collection in basegame.

I’m guessing the two high schools will work like in the University pack, two rival schools of which you can attend, one that’s a little more modern; the first one shown that has a nicely kept front garden and an older one that keeps its historic look; the white and blue building that doesn’t have a very fresh look and is pretty traditional-looking.

LET'S GOOOOOO (in James' voice of course 😆)

18:30 I'm wondering if maybe there's some kind of student council, a bit like the NAPs that change the world appearance in Eco Lifestyle, and you can vote to change things about your school.

Maybe the guitars are a hint to a future band pack? Werewolves trailer had lots of backpacks randomly in the background.

i wonder how the transition to university is gonna be like and if they will add things like extra curricular if you want to go from high school to uni

I hope high schools are lot types. I created an elementary school and uploaded it to the gallery. I could have used these objects! I want to build my own high school and have schools in various worlds!

Oh no James PLEASE take your time with the rags to riches Werewolves LP it's so entertaining 🙌🏼

I can't wait to play this. My first thought when you were talking about awkward classrooms is a sim werewolf standing up to pee on the floor during class. 😆

I'm actually super excited and already preordered it lmao. Also I CAN'T wait for one of doofus Angus' or Nina's children to go to highschool. Image the chaos that would ensue when dormant werewolves go to prom :D And you oohing and aahing was actually my exact reaction to the trailer, I was like oooh look a pier... oooh prom...OOOH bubble tea shop! oooh cheerleading! omg promposal and depop and and and... :D "That's a teacher there... that's a NEEERD..." lmfao

I love how everyone is so hyped up for this. This is a really cool expansion. I think every simmer has expressed the same thing about the preorder bonuses being time locked and the fact that you can never get them outside of that time window. Imagine being the one that wants it for Christmas and not being able to get the preorder bonuses. :(.

Maybe you can do a “Scenario” mini let’s play with Reginald where he has a kid and you can age them up for high school?

Does that mean that the neighborhood stories will also be updated so that other people can ask eachother out now if other teens can ask you out? That would be soo amazing🔥🤩

I think there’s two high schools! Like University! Notice how the cheerleaders had different colored cheer uniforms!?

if graduation becomes a core part of the pack, there should be the option for sims who flunked out and aged up to get their GED so they have a better opportunity to start at a higher job level (but lbr, there's no way the devs thought of this)

It looks cool. But as a non-American person, a lot of the gameplay isn't relatable at all. Prom, graduation and cheerleading isn't a thing here. I'm excited for the boba though!

I'm just worried that the gameplay will resemble university too much, to the point that if you've done high school with your sim you wouldn't want to do college as well, because it'd feel like a repeat. ALSO i wish teens looked more kid like, because to me they just look like adult sims, which again makes me feel like university

I wonder if you can go with your Sim if they are in the Education job option and they're a teacher? That would be awesome.

I hope there are at least two schools like how we have in University. High school rivalry is real!

I’m interested to learn more. I’m just sad that it doesn’t seem like there are height sliders. For the Let’s Play, it’d be nice to see Reginald’s family; maybe have Nina and/or Angus have kids that would attend school with his kids, but actually focus on Reginald and his family?

I gotta comment, maybe they have two high schools like they have two Universities. I also saw shear curtains for a double window, and that neon full length mirror is something else. I hope YA sims can use this too. And I also hope they can turn off acne. High Schools was horrible for me because of it. And yes, body hair is back because if they need to shave they will have body hair--I hope. I also hope they will bring back cars with this pack. And I hope I am not getting my hopes up, but with the Farris wheel and the fun house, that someone can do the ending of Grease with those features. There is so much that is going on with this pack, I really really hope that there won't be that much glitches.

This pack and the upcoming update along side it adding openable windows, body hair, better social media and FRICKIN' BOBA (and so many more things).... I am SO excited for this!!

WOOHOO IN THE FERRIS WHEEL?!? The hearts above the Ferris wheel at 24:26 seem an awful lot like the woohoo animation!! 😂

Yes I would love to see Reginald and that side of the family grow ! I love seeing the bigwallet family tree spread out! What ever you decide to do will be fun to watch!

What if you get to vote on the prom theme, and that’s why there are so many different ones!

i'd love to see more of reginald so i'm all up for him having kids and watching them live out high school!

There's already the ability to create trends with the stylist career. I hope they didn't just use that same functionality for the Trendi thing. I don't use it very often because I create a masculine or feminine trend and then EVERY townie starts wearing it. 🤣

I would love to see a Let's Play where you follow one character as a teen in high school, then you have them dorm at college, then get married and have a family of their own! Maybe they end up marrying their high school sweet heart, or when they're off at college they cheat on their girlfriend/boyfriend back home and experiment and party it up! But I think it would be great to see a Let's Play that follows one character from childhood through adulthood using all the school functions.

A lot of schools have their proms elsewhere, at actual event venues. I wonder if the graduation/prom is in a new lot type that's specific purposed for events.

✋️question: Knowing the struggles that the game has running on even the better end PC models for players, do you think this pack might make it more of a struggle to run without lag and delays? I imagine a few PCs will just say 'nope' and catch fire 🤣

Do you think they created a High School for each World? That would be cool to have rival schools.

New drinking game. take a drink every time James says "let's go." Also love this and cannot wait for this to come out!

I don’t know why people glamorize high school so much, it was the worst time of my life. The pack looks fun, I’ll definitely buy it, but I wish Discover University was more like this, hopefully we’ll see some pack integration.

30:40 NO BUT THIS RIGHT HERE. It's literally the only issues I have with this pack, teenagers still look almost the exact same shape as young adults and adults. I hope the acne will comes and goes randomly like in the sims 2, so that at least my sims will feel a bit more teenage-y and less polished.

I’m more excited to see what you do with this EP than I am to play it myself. Always love to hear your outlook, James!

For once I caught a trailer (still kind of by accident) on time. It's fun watching all the simmers reaction drop in the hour after, hehe. Edit, edit, edit. Go go go!

If hazel and Trenton had that 3rd kid they called and asked about them I think they should be the next let’s play. So the older siblings went off and left home and hazel and Trenton move out of their brothers house and focus on their new kid so they don’t end up like their older siblings!!

I now have such high expectations that I know they won't be able to meet, because it would just be unrealistic. But wow, this actually looks AMAZING

This looks so fun!! And you should use Reginald's kids for the next Let's Play

Excited to see the functional HSM builds as soon as the pack comes out 😆

James you made my day, I literally was waiting for this and you didn’t let me down, your reaction was amazing, I’m super excited!…

Doing the whole highschool experience with your sims and then doing university right after calls for a whole lot of gameplay. I'm very happy with what sims is doing.

Id be excited about how this pack ties in with University Life! Hopefully they'll work well together. I also LOVE how the characters shown were different genders, sexualities and how it wasn't shyed away from!!!

I think it looks good, but they still look like young adults, rather than teens. It looks like it may seem more like university students than 12 - 18 year olds. If there's ever a pack they could introduce a tweens / young teens stage, it would be a high school years expansion pack :/

9:30 "Be asked out by other teens, that's cool 'cause not much happens TO you in The Sims 4" says James who rejects every single invitation and phonecall from every sim throughout the LP's ... 🤣

I am so excited! Especially for your let’s play! There are so many new items and styles, that I am so excited to explore!

James! Can I just say that of all the trailer reactions, yours was the most insightful? Especially the prom and school buildings possibly changing like community lots, everything! That makes so much sense.

I was guessing the same thing about prom decorations being dynamic and sims can vote on the prom theme

The fashion coordinator/seller "career" is SO EXCITING to me! I'm hyped for being a teen icon!

i would be interested if they would incorporate peer pressure or how the interactions in sports would be like and wether you not you’d get athletic injuries or not. i would love to see that as an injured high school athlete rn LOLL

Wasn't it TS2 your teen can sneak out, but you can't follow them. And the parents can wait for the teen to come home and ground them. I LOVE THAT feature. Glad they brought that back 😍

I’m hoping they have different high schools depending on what world you live in. Probably not one for each world, since that would be a lot. But it’d be cool if there was a school per every 3-4 worlds. Like imagine a high school for the realm of magic, vampires, and werewolves worlds combined

Thanks for the trailer break down James. I'm liking this pack even more. You definitely have to play this with a teen, maybe a supernatural one in a let's play.

omg i love so many things about this!!! the final screenshot looks amazing, the wallpaper the posters the colors O.O def buying this

22:30 Are we not seeing the love hearts coming out of the ferris wheel? No one tell Dr Gluon there's a new woohoo location. Greg will be up there with Agnes in no time. 👀

I think this EP has sooo much stuff to do in it, that I'm genuinely surprised!

hey James! you could turn aging off in your lets play and have Nina be your test subject for the new pack. also, that means she could bite random people at her school and turn everyone into werewolves lol

Thanks for being so quick with your reaction!

I hope the next world the Sims 4 creates is another city type like San Myshuno

Wowie that’s what I was looking for when I had the physical abilities to play video games without getting body pain (overstimulated bean I become), I might gonna have fun watching how others enjoy it, might get that one if I find a way to play without getting my body all ouchy. I would’ve loved it if the had an expansion for toddler education and elementary, bringing back the daycare career and bringing more functional stuff to them apart of trashing up places. Sim Toddler and Children could really use some more depth as well, cam just imagine how fun that would be.

Maybe you could create a new sim that eventually marry’s into the Bigwallet’s, like you did with Hazel. That was fun and worked out well!

i'm really glad that james brought up the fact it's kind of dubious that you get special items only when you buy the game in the first two months. i think it's no problem when the items aren't that special but let's say in the case of cottage living one of those items was a bicycle. and because i don't have university and i couldn't buy cottage living in the first two months since it came out i don't have bicycles in my game. which is just insane

Wow and amazing! Good shots James! Thank you!

The prom definitly gives off wedding story vibes. Hopefully it's not as buggy

I think you could still do this with the werewolf lp, having Angus or Nina's kids go to high school, since it doesn't sound like a rags to riches as its own lp :)

I'm very excited but also I really hope there is more than one school, or at least two. They didn't show anything about school rivalry or sport competition between schools (like university for example).

I LOVE your content! Thanks for being so dedicated to your fans :)

Curious if or how this will pair with Discover University

Congrats to the people in charge of the trailers to make me want to buy these, even though I know there's a big chance they're half-baked cash-grabs.

I literally already pre-ordered this, because The Sims owns me.

There is so much to this pack! I love it! I have so many questions!! Can’t wait to learn more