TRAILER REACTION: HIGH SCHOOL PACK FOR THE SIMS 4?!?!
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i love that its american highschool themed because i am german and let me just say... my highschool experience is pretty much like in the sims right now. you go there, you get grades, you come again. nothing interesting happens. so i am very, very excited for this
Italian here, same thing! This trailer made me wish “I were in high school”, then I realised I am already in high school and I hate it. Plus here in Italy you stay in h school until you are 19 so it’s even more draining and boring
Edit: sorry for the vent
Its the same in Poland 😭💔
And Britain lol
same in the UK
same in the netherlands
Hey, I don't mind them breaking down the content among the age groups. If they want to someday give us a Game Pack someday that focuses on elder sims with a retirement community, jigsaw puzzles, bingo, wheelchairs and the ability to send seniors away on a world cruise, I won't complain.
this is actually hilarious and i could see them doing this. I can already see a promotional screenshot of an old sim spinning wildly in a wheelchair with a staff person freaking out and a couple people getting mad about a puzzle in the background. The fake plant, the TV that's always playing in the living space...
I love building retirement homes for my sims worlds so I would love a pack like that!!
Until then I just found a new mod called better elders that I’m excited to try
yes its like sims 3 generations but split up
Old people living in a retirement doing old people things would be 🥹 fyi does anybody know how to bring back a sim that is on a different lot!? Meaning I move my sim out of her daughter house into a different home, stop playing for about a week come back and find she had past from old age. But I can’t locate her..
I feel like most people didn’t have the stereotypical American high school experience, so this is a fun opportunity to live out your high school fantasy.
yeah i definitely didn’t , covid ruined it for me. i didn’t even go to graduation or prom 😢
Not my fantasy
My high school is kind of like this and it's weird but very normalized at the same time
I certainly don't want to revisit *my* High School years, but I'll definitely enjoy my Sim's High School years.
Covid saved me from possibly failing a class senior year so I think that's the best I could've asked for.
I really really hope those little "style icon" "socially awkward romantic" etc. labels will mean that we can give Sims more personality
@CallmeElly yazzzz!
Mhm me too!😊
You and me both.
Definitely just a trailer storytelling thing
They definitely need more traits
My favorite part of the trailer is the: “Principal’s -Daughter- Pain in the a-“
I cackled out loud
Yeah we share a name too!
Yeah everybody loves a nice bit of sexism amirite?
I thought it was trying to say “panic at the disco” but didn’t write it in time LMAO
and the “if you saw me in detention,no you didn’t”💀💀
“I may have hated high school, but my sims don’t have to!”
Seems about right lol
Sims about right
Same, I was just about to comment that
I just wish the had band club or art club where's the goth weirdos ehhhh?
@@SaintShion same I wanna live out my “emo kid” dreams in the sims
lazy comment
paired with the basemental drugs mod, it's literally euphoria
especially with the fair!!
@@andytheegoldfish that's exactly what I was thinking I cannot wait
OMG
@@andytheegoldfish the cheerleader is literally maddy.. the hair.. the makeup.. even the rhinestones on the eyes
why was i literally thinking to myself that im gonna make an alcoholic parent with an emo teen who does drugs and skips school and does all the pranks and falls in love with a goody two shoes and gets her shit together and graduates. thank goodness for basemental drugs
My fears are that the pack might be too much micro managing, and that you can't escape it once you have it. Like yeah, so fun to play, but if I'm playing a whole family I don't have an infinite amount of time for just my teens.
probably gonna be similar to get to work where you don’t have to go to school with the sim and there will be pop ups for you to make decisions during the day
i’m hoping that if you have multiple teenagers they’ll be in school together so you can play with all of them together at school and not miss out too much
Im guessing it’s like the science/doctor/cop career where you don’t /have/ to go with them
good point.
@@katie-kb6qd yea
Lol. “Dan’s not really a non-simmer. At this point, He’s in deep. He is one of us.” Way to make us sound like a cult, Simsie.
Wow. I’ve never had a comment blow up like this. Cool!
One of us, one of us, one of us!!
Were we not a cult??
well… i mean it fits… i’m okay with a sims cult
@@pa-trycja ONE OF USSSS
omg this makes me a parte of 2 cults now 😁
"experience the highs and lows of winning and losing alongside your teammates" gave me riverdale vibes LMAO "you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football"
that’s what i thought too
LMFAO my first thought😭
thats exactly what i was thinking of lmaoo
That show is a trainwreck from start to finish but that line… that line is iconic
I wish we could make our own clubs tbh
Re: It being the US style high school: As a European, I don't mind at all! Like you said, it kind of feels like playing in a movie, which totally fits with the Sims vibe. The University pack was also super American-centric, so it makes sense to me!
I would actually disagree with the university pack being american-centric! When I think of American college I think of greek life, sororities and fraternities etc, and discover university had none of that. I think they were going for a more British-centric experience given the architecture and name Brichester. I'm don't mind at all about this pack being american-centric though.
@@graceparton8407 I can see this. I personally thought it could’ve been really cool for sims to join a Greek org, or even attend sporting & on campus events like the soccer games in the stadium instead of just disappearing when they got there. Lots of rabbit holes.
Just today (yey) I graduated from international high school program from Europe and I do agree. Yes we have our own local traditions but there aren’t as many as in the us
American schools have a lot more going on then UK schools e.g. cheer leading, american footaball, graduation etc but i think it makes the game more interesting and adds more to do. otherwise if it was just UK school you would just be going to school... i would rather have all the extras americans have!
I think them making this a stereotype-movie kind of high school is a great move. Of course, I would love if they had also added a boarding school option too, but to be honest this is the first time I have been excited for an expansion pack since Discover University, I’m not complaining
You could probably pretend to have a boarding school. Move your teens into a household that has some other teens and a like den mother or other adult instead of their parents.
@@ShadoeLandman I do that all the time but it’s not the same because I need to control all the sims and cheat their needs etc etc… Hopefully I can modify the look of the new school from this expansion pack and make it a boarding school 🏫
@@feniasklika125 You shouldn't really need to do that. They may not always be in great moods, but they're unlikely to be so bad at caring for themselves that they die or anything. Put up smoke detectors and that alarm thing that goes with it and it should be fine. Not much different than having sims in a dorm.
eco lifestyle and cottage living were legitimately great packs though! snowy escape however… 😬
One upside of this being American High School ™️ is that I don’t think anyone in the US who plays the sims had this kind of positive, tv show HS experience, so it’ll be new for everyone 😂
hopefully the pack doesn't include guns!
@@saphirefalcon3090 bro-
@@saphirefalcon3090 …
well i mean we still had prom and football games and lockers etc tho, so even tho it’s not romanticized like TV, we still checked those boxes which i still think it pretty cool
@@toastedpop3788 very true very true!
I'm really glad they're adding body hair before a pack that has puberty in it rather than before werewolves. Body hair is natural, not animalistic
i hope it includes female framed sims because i didn't see any have any body hair. they didn't in the sims 3 which is why im nervous. not just men have body hair! ( sorry if my comment sounds weird, i wasn't sure how to word it )
@@yappymcyap No, your comment makes total sense!! I completely agree, I hope feminine framed Sims get body hair too, but I didn't see it in the trailer. I think feminine body hair is viewed as taboo and "gross" when it's something everyone grows. Feminine presenting people are just expected to shave, which is why I can see them leaving it out. I really hope they include it
I hadn't thought about it that way, but that's a great point!
That's very true Kyla. Well said!
@@yappymcyap my guess is that body hair will be like tattoos, so they wont be gender specific.
I saw a tweet “there’s hearts in this screenshot on the Ferris wheel, does that mean you can woohoo” and TheSims4 said YES
sims team: okay, we're giving you a whole high school-
us: DID SHE JUST CLIMB OUT THE WINDOW
No because I can’t wait to let my sims sneak out!!!!! My sims sneak out but ehh 🤷
“Ghosted” was taken literally. My thoughts on this pack are: I need this. I had a bad high school experience so my sims deserve better
yessss heal your inner teen
I couldn’t agree with you more! I just turned 37 on June 25th and growing up from Kindergarten through 12th Grade. My life was a living Hell! I had no friends and I was constantly Bullied, harassed, made fun of, belittled, spit on, verbally, and physically abused, I received Death threats you name it. All through out my school years. Not even the quote on quote loser kids wanted to be friends with me! I'm all grown up now and I still don't fit in at all anywhere! I can't make or keep friends to save my life! I’m a massive colossal huge proud Super Nerd and I still can't even make friends with other Nerds! So my Sims definitely deserve better as well! I cried a bit when I saw this, I’m flipping out and I’m hyperventilating! I’m beyond happy and thrilled for this pack! I can’t wait to pre-order it tomorrow!
But isn't it a more authentic Sim experience if things go hilariously wrong?
@@gentshep both. both is good
👏🏻
My biggest concern about what could go wrong is with sibling sims. Like what if you have twins or just teens close in age that are both at high-school at the same time? It would be weird if you could only follow one of them, like in get to work where if two sims from the same household have the same active career, you only ever see one at work. But on the other hand it would be annoying to HAVE to control all of them if you don't want to. But personally I'd prefer to have access to all of them at school than just one because that would just be SO strange.
i'm wondering if it'll be like when two of your sims visit a lot, where you DO get control over one of them, but not the ones that arent on the lot
Yeah even if you couldn't control them both at school it would be nice to be able to have them interact.
Hm the fact custom highschool lots will be a thing, that might not be a problem. If you can join a lot that is in your world I'm sure you can just click on your sim who's at school and focus on their education and maybe other teens that also go to school can be there while you are like a social event but without restrictions. For instance if school is in session you can just control your teen sims to walk around the halls and interact with other students and teachers. I'm hoping they can start a refresh for get to work, though, to add a live active job for teachers, coaches, and principles. That'd be awesome. Also if they could add a kindergarten that'd be absolutely awesome. I already have a mod that allows for live-in daycare and she gets payed for watching kids.
I’m pretty sure you will be able to go with both of them.
@@blossomedsims9413 that would make sense, but what i think its going to be like is like the acting career, where there's tasks in the corner of the screen you have to do, and i'm not sure how that could work when it comes to two sims attending school at the same time.
Imagine how much longer the 100 baby challenge would take if everyone plays this with all 100 teens in an active highschool 😅
That’s like 100 baby challenge extreme hard level
I would totally watch a let’s play of that scenario!!
10:08 omg now our sims who dropped out of school in the third grade can experience the epic highs and lows of high school football
I wonder how High School Years will interact with Parenthood 👁👄👁 I hope the two packs mesh well.
the sneaking out + curfew 👀
and discover university
and snow escape in a way because the sims who live in mt komerebi change into uniforms for school so with they still continue to do so??
Lol I love how we keep thinking of more packs that will need to work well with this.
That’s would be literally amazing
“I hated high school but my sims don’t have to” thank you for this statement because I really was thinking about not getting the pack because I was like ugh I hate high school lol
I have over 3000 yours in the sims 4 and that’s just me living my dream life vicariously through my sims. I always just create myself and live the life I wish I lived in real life. This pack will be great for me to do that and have a good high school experience unlike in real life.
I graduated high school recently and despised it, but I’m excited to have my sims thrive and fail in this pack lmao
@@semidecent4395 lol I dropped out and got my GED cause I was so burnt out, but my sims don't have to feel that way! :)
I hope you can have another teenage sim enter the house through the window at night to see your sim. That would definitely be another cool thing with the windows!
I'm interested to see how it will interact with the university pack. At least in american tv shows, high schoolers sometimes do their school work stuff with having a certain college in mind they wanna go to and stress out if they are afraid they won't pass some tests or courses and won't be able to get into the college they want
Something tells me that the two won’t connect :/
Haha yeah that is a thing in the US. As for the Sims, I mean, you need more art related skills for Britechester and more science related skills for Foxbury (not sure I got the names right) so maybe chess/computers club for Foxbury and more sketching on the sketch pad/singing for Britechester
The scene with the boba, the girl chokes a lil and I feel like that could potentially be a new death - death from choking on boba
omg - i would love that 💀
I would love that lmao
And maybe a new death with the sports. Would be quite traumatic but still. Lol.
That would be awesome!!!
My first thought! That’d be neat. Wonder if it’s related to the ghost in the photobooth
I love that with Werewolves, Vampires, ROM and HSY now we can tell our own Teenwolf/ Vampire Diaries/Sabrina/Riverdale/True Blood/Twilight stories!!!
Literally my plans
i've literally been binging Vampire Diaries 💀
we can finally experience the highs and lows of high school football~
@@skelemanbrie hahahaha I frickin choked on my water 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm curious about the teachers because in the University Expansion they added the Career of "Teacher" so I wonder if a teen goes to high school and a Adult in the same household works the teacher career, will the adult be there? How hilarious would it be if a teen gets an embarrassed moodlet because their parents work as a teacher 😂😂 Overall super exited for this pack!
omg could you imagine 😭😭
My first reaction was "I am going to have the high school I never got to have." I never had prom, I was the nerdy loner. The only thing I wish this pack offered is drama club. That was the one place where I found other weirdos like me. This world looks so amazing, and I do not understand the people complaining "we should have had this sooner." The trailer alone shows so many venues, so many actions, build and CAS. Maybe they didn't have the technology to do all this until now. I look at the animation on the animals in Cottage Living and am blown away. Yeah, Weddings still has glitches they need to patch, but given all the gameplay that pack offers... High School is going to be outstanding if *knocks wood* it works. I have preordered my copy and cannot wait for 7/28!
There is a drama club in get famous, but it is a little lackluster
i wish they had musical theatre and plays, or even band class.
@@brielletaylor_ yes!
@@MayPhoenix im glad other people think so too
I can’t wait to finally experience the epic highs and lows of high school football!
Alright there Archie Andrews
Moodlet: Angry +2 "Why does the football team get everything? We barely have supplies!" _From After School Club_
@@notrihanna3446 Fr, I just graduated but fine arts teachers hold their whole programs up by funding it out of pocket by themselves and the football teams that haven't one a game since 1997 get all the funding 😔
This looks even better than I could imagine BUT, I sincerely hope that we can actually attend classes, cause I felt like something was missing in University
I’m not sure how attending classes could be good gameplay as you’re just watching a sim watching another sim and writing down notes. Unless you can try to talk to your classmates, do science practicals, cheat your test etc, then there would be some merit to that idea. I feel like most people will just have to fast forward if the teens have more than one active class in a day
we will 100% be able to go into the school. You could tell by how they said decorate ur own lockers. They wouldn't say that if u could go in and see it and stuff.
@@anthonydiaz3466 yes but that could just be like you can see the halls not the classroom. Even though I'm basically sure you can go into class
Omg university is so hard. (I am for all a+ for my sims )😂😂😂
@@muhdiskandar02 and how is rabbit hole good gameplay? 🙄
I'm from Germany and I am actually not mad at all, that this pack is focusing on a very american HIgh School experience. As romanticised versions of an American High School experience were coming a lot in media in my teenage days (all these movies, high school musical etc.) it feels familiar to me and I am actually excited to experience (sort of) this kind of High School Life through my Sims! Also the Trailer literally made me cry. I am very excited!
Hear me out: what if those titles “style icon” “mr popular” are kind of like lifestyles where the more you do stuff that title will be awarded to you?
That’s what I was thinking like superlatives. This person is the jock, future president, etc.
Or teen specific aspirations?
I have never been more excited for a pack than this! 🤩🥳 and omg the carnival? Pillow fighting??!!
It’s just like the movies, and I’m here for it, I can’t wait!!!!!
Seriously!! I'm so prepared for it!
I KNOW! it's the small details for me like the body hair, the sneaking out, the cheerleading.. agh i'm so hyped! they ate with this trailer
i hope that they add more part-time jobs for teenagers so they have the money to buy the "thrifted clothes"
RIGHTTT. i hope they do a homeschooling thing cause im a 16 y/o homescooler lolll
Looks so good! Puts University to shame. People in the future who don’t know what order the packs came out won’t understand why high school has classes and sports, but college only has rabbit holes. I’m ok with a small world if we get a lot of gameplay- we have a lot of worlds now anyways.
id love a refresh for DU..
I prefer it this way around tho because irl university is quite boring and high school is a little less boring
This is a perfect opportunity for them to update DU. Like, give us an actual graduation!
Yeah it definitely does. Personally I had way more fun in Uni than in high school and wanted my sims to really get that experience of being a young adult too. But hopefully they add some crossover features from the high school pack to the Uni pack
@@nannybells YES. EA PLEASE REFRESH DISCOVER UNIVERSITY!!!
The tone Simsie had when she said "Hottie" as well as her facial expression was HILARIOUS!
It was a lame response.
@@nene3857 To you, maybe, but not to me and others. Everyone have their own opinions, you know
I will say, I am intrigued. I was homeschooled, so personally, I find this quite interesting. And I think it's safe to say, pretty much ALL of us are exited about the whole "sneaking out the window" thing.
There’s nothing wrong with a stereotypical American highschool experience. The sims is an American game. (As far as I am aware). Though I do think it would be cool to include other cultural aspects in like alternative schools. Or festivals… boy I would love a festival game pack. Seasonal, American, European, Asian etc. would be so cool.
especially since it’s an expansion pack! I would be disappointed if they didn’t include other perspectives especially after how much they’re including other perspectives today (like with a lot of the CAS items including different religious and cultural items, and a lot of cultural foods)
They kind of already do. There’s a rio themed pack and a pack containing a lot of Indian outfits. Not sure what the packs are called though. More would be fun, but they do already have a few
The Italian Liceo experience™️ is people getting depressed (or stoned lol) due to the huge amount of homework, getting stressed out, absolutely no prom, you stay in the same class for 6/8 hours with only 10 minutes long break to get up and eat something (ONLY before covid, now you get to stay 6 hour sitting and becoming mentally ill). At least we can ask to go go the toilet and get up. Each class has its classroom, the teachers move, not the students. Everyone gets to study the same 11 subjects. I could go on but who cares
So in conclusion I am glad they opted for the American Stereotype type of school. Please, next year I’ll be 19 and I will still be in high school, why does it last so much here? Someone get me out of this
Anime high school sims 4 pack??! Lol
As a former band kid, I’m a little disappointed that there doesn’t seem to be any music-related extracurriculars. I’ve always wanted more instruments in game, and I would’ve loved to have some type of band class or after school activity. But otherwise, this looks super cool! I’m excited!
this! i wish they had marching band to go along side football games and to see how it could add to the storytelling with geeky sims/musical sims/etc
Same! I was really hoping to see the arts represented, particularly band and art club.
Same! It would have been cool to get more instruments to learn how to play as a skill like how the violin or piano is a skill.
same with me but with dance instead lol
Yes same!! I would absolutely LOVE to have my Sims be in band, even if it's not super detailed (like the Sims just being in band, rather than being in band and playing trombone or something)
I'm really excited about this! I kind of wish they would've added a couple more after school activities, like drama or something, just because not everyone is sporty, but honestly there's so much in the pack already that it doesn't surprise me that it's more limited in that area. I can't wait to watch more content you come up with on this pack!
There is an after school activity for drama already. If you have get famous
@@carlispencer2149 Oh cool, thanks!
WOOHOO IN THE FERRIS WHEEL?!?
The hearts above the Ferris wheel at 19:40 seem an awful lot like the woohoo animation!! 😂
Given it's a teen pack I think it'll be more like "fool around in ferris wheel", but I'm sure adult sims will still be able to woo-hoo in it too
That's what I'm saying!!! 🤣
Idea for next one: A senior citizen pack. With retirement homes (fancy one and cheap one), with group activities like bingo.
Absolutely love this pack. Does not matter one bit to me how American it is. Most of the world has seen so many American movies 😂
This is what I was thinking lol
i would actually love that, i want to knit and do puzzles and watch birds with my elders 😭
Love this idea
Yeah but if that pack came out and kayla went to a retirement home in her nightmare legacy old people would be dying left right and centre
I agree, most movies show the typical "American" Highschool Clichés. lol
Build your own schools and there's a spell caster ocult. WE NEED SOMEONE TO MAKE HOGWARTS!! 🤣
This honestly looks like it could be the best expansion pack yet. The amount of depth it brings to the life of your Sims is brilliant. There were times when I'd skip ahead to young adult, just to avoid the dullness of school. The constant homework, and bland rabbit hole interactions were just a chore. I'm looking forward to this! And right on the tail of the Werewolf Pack!? I'm totes making my own version of Teen Wolf. ;)
as someone in high school with a strict parent, i'm finally able to 100% live vicariously through my sims
Lol so true 😂
True my parents were overly strict. Also it was a very different world in the 60s than today. I am so ready for a second teenhood as well as a second childhood.
Literally-
I kind of hope they add teen parties again. Where the the parents go out of town or win an all expense paid trip for the the weekend. And the teens throw a rager and have to clean up before the parents come home. But, I guess we shall see. :) I'm excited for the pack though.
omg i forgot about that!!! YES to that feature!
YES!! like in the sims 3!
and to me this is what the sims is for; live your dreams and fantasies in game. i see people in the comments say that they had a bad highschool experience and that they're just happy that they'll get to create a positive experience for their sims, no matter how cliché, and that's a good thing. the sims, for a lot, is an escape and it seems like this pack will be a great tool to allow that. i hope we're not disappointed. from the trailer i'm sold.
"It wouldn't be a true highschool adventure without prom and graduation"
Me who graduated in 2020:
Welp time to give my sims what I couldnt have 🤧
Same....
this was me but with college.. discover university made up for the last two years of my college experience that I lost lmao
I feel you, I didn't have either.
Hey same here! I ended up buying university on the day my graduation was supposed to be so I could try to live vicariously through my Sims and get excited for college haha
LMAO graduated in 2020 as well, it was a shame tbh
for me personally, as a teen who plays the sims, this pack is right up my alley. I love the idea of actively going to school, skipping out on class and taking the precautions to not get caught(which is very realistic), cheer, football, clubs, detention, crushes, and more. As well as the social media aspect, clothes, amusement park, and thrifting/boba(two things I heavily indulge in). The only things that I’m a little bugged out by are how the sneaking out will work because many windows clearly don’t open, how they’ll coincide with packs like parenthood, snow escape, etc., will the pack be buggy like the wedding pack(???), and the lack of clubs. Idk if the clubs mentioned where just a small amount but things like drama clubs and, just the basic clubs created in general by student body, will they be included? Will the sims be able to develop their own school club and incorporate people??(I mean I guess you could do that with get together but still)
Same, I don't have the packs you mentioned though.
the sneaking out action is locked to that specific window
Isn't already a drama club that came with get famous?
@@julianasimpson3340 ok I had a feeling I wasn’t to sure though
@@limiv5272 yeah I meant more like would that include gameplay and I guess another thought of how that’d affect get famous too
I understand what they're trying to do with the pre-order bonus items, but after so many flops, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a large amount of simmers who would rather wait to see reviews. While still not great, it would make more sense if the items were locked not behind a "pre-order deadline" but a "paid full price to purchase" condition. At least then there's still the possibility of getting them after watching reviews etc.
u literally have more than a month to decide whether to buy or not until the pre-order offer ends
@@m4444x Yep, I realised that after I posted the comment OTL Still, my main point still stands - if they made it "full price" limited, there would be no time limit. I don't really agree with it, but at least it's better than the two month window they give.
@@m4444x But still no reviews.
Yeah
@@m4444x the issue is we don't know if it's going to be a flop or not especially after Wedding Stories
a stuff pack for elders would be a lot of fun, i feel like when sims get to that point you neglect them a bit bc its harder to play with them now. plus i think sims shuffleboard would be very cute
fr!
NO BECAUSE THE TRAILER WAS SO NICE???? THE DIVERSITY WAS AMAZING 🙏🙏🙏
I love how they added pronouns with the characters and how diverse everyone was.
@@yuhhbiscuit same here they are becoming more diverse
I wonder if this pack can integrate with the club system in Get Together where we can make our own after school clubs or something, like a theater kid club or band club. It would be nice instead of having to pick between the basics.
Would be nice but I doubt it
yes! i was so sad to see there was no chess club with discover university so!!! here’s to hoping
Yeah that’s what I’m wondering
I thought of the same thing with Get to Work and the Teacher career. I doubt they’ll integrate the two but that’d be sooo fun
I have previously used the Clubs feature to create "Class of..." groupings for my teens, to help me figure out who's in what social group with who. I wonder how that will go once I've added the high school environment over the top of it.
I am SOOOO excited all the little details like laptops on the bed them being able to sit criss crossed 😭 this sounds so good
I have literally waited my entire life for this!! Started playing Sims when I was like 5 in the early 2000 and a high school pack like this is what I always wanted so badly! I also didn’t have the best school experience so I feel like it’s going to be therapy and soo much fun at the same time!! So excited 😂
I love that people from outside the US are like "I really want the American High School Experience" while the Americans are just like....gods I hope this is better than my actual high school experience
We mean _in a game!_ We don't want that in actual real life either lmao
Not really no
As a French person, I must say I was kinda hopping that would have be more opened and global picture of high school, not just the American one 😅 it is fun, sure, 'cause it looks like what we can watch on tv. But here I feel a bit unattached to this them. It does not look like any European high school experience (except for the part with children being on social media all the time, hoping to get popular and loved, and not for the most confortable reasons...)
@@FabouMinou It would be awesome if they added private school uniforms and boarding to be more relevant with global high school experiences, but to be fair, as an American I also can't connect with this pack lol, American High School is definitely just a TV trope
im british but i hate the idea of highschool...secondary is bad enough
This trailer looks really exciting HOWEVER I keep getting flashbacks from the wedding pack. I hope that this is a “finished” pack because this looks like it could be a really amazing, especially the gameplay.
Yeah, this pack has me as excited as the wedding pack did, so that makes me nervous too lol. I wanted the wedding pack for so long and then it broke my heart. I really really hope my heart won't be broken a second time.
The Wedding pack left us all traumatized
Did they ever fix the wedding pack in the end? I still haven't purchased - too scared haha.
I'm also skeptical of the lack of clubs. Like 5 clubs? Where's art, theater, dance?? I hope you can make your own club but I doubt it. I bummed no art club.
@@SaintShion they already have drama club, but I'd love if it was something you could actually go to instead of a rabbit hole
Ahh I'm fanboying right now!! 🥰🥰
I almost cried with you!!! I just found this channel not that long ago but the sims is such an exciting thing. These new packs are always so exciting!!!!
I wonder of the educator/administrator job will become an active role as well? Like the get to work pack careers. That would be so epic!
okay I was thinking that because maybe I'm reaching but I'm pretty sure the teacher in the trailer has a hairstyle from the university pack??? Maybe that's a sign???
Re: what you were saying Kayla, I usually roll my eyes at how American TS4 is as an European, but with high school, I don't mind. European high schools are boring, we have none of the drama and organizations and structures you see in American high school movies LOL. My personal experience was just going there every day for 5-8 hours and leaving and that's it. We didn't have cheerleaders or sports teams or cliques or even lockers, so that'd be pretty boring to play as.
Haha, yeah right? Actually just like Sims4 school is now. :D Just go to the rabbit hole. XD
Yeah, 'cause it is such a fucking pain to have a drama free high scool life.
@@Scipio0404 they aren't complaining, they're just saying their school system would make boring gameplay.
Yeah that's so true.... in Italy high school is just study for 5 years and nothing happens 😒
@@Scipio0404 🙄
Love the idea of Promposals in the sims. Promposals aren’t a thing where I live, and it must be so fun to actually make that happen in the sims.
i AM really excited for this pack, I really think it should be in the sims. however, I really strongly feel that this should be part of the basegame, that most packs, should be base game. in a life simulator, core parts of life should not be dlcs. this goes for any school pack, parenthood, get to work, get together, most stuff packs, pets, etc. The only parts that should be dlcs should be supernatural stuff. witches, vampires, werewolves, strangerville, mermaids, you name, it should be a dlc. bc really, a lot of the fun parts in the sims 4 are locked behind extra paid content and the base game is kinda just,,, there,,,,,
exactly, but all they care about is making tons of money
@@saltysoo4557 What do you expect? EA is a business, and it's all about money. They aren't your friends, and aren't required to give a shit about you.
The city, the clothes, the hairs, everything is so prettyyyy !!!! Fells like Generetions is coming in parts but its fine, Im loving!!!!!
Agreed! I could easily see them doing more child and elder themed Kits/game packs. I don’t see either as an expansion pack, but I personally don’t mind that. This High School expac really add stuff to a life stage that has to be heavily modded to be fully enjoyed IMO.
I hope they add like sport events you can go to with friends
I want to know if you can unlock some clothes with the thrifting thing. I feel like that would be really fun and not being able to have all the clothes you want in cas seems fun!!!
A game that's supposed to be complete coming in parts, yeah let's all be happy about that
@@louisenewson-smith9519 I understand that the fact the sims was uncompleted when released is annoying but the high school pack is an addition. We would have function led fine without it.
22:32 Hearing Kayla say “my husband” is so surreal!! I’ve been watching since you graduated high school
SAME
I'd prefer if she just says his name. I probably was with her from "My Boyfriend"
put a smile on my face, best part of the vid. so cute!
Ok, I'm going to buy this just to let my sim have the openly gay high school experience that I never got to have. I was in the closet for my own safety. So my sim is going to make out with her girlfriend in front of the lockers, take their girlfriend to prom, and have a prideflag in their bedroom. And there is no homophobia.
You didn’t lose much if you ask me lmao I had an openly gay high school experience and it sucked. I didn’t suffer physical violence, though, but exclusion. And the closest I had to an actual romance was a guy that flirted with me while we were alone but totally ignored my existence among his friends.
@@ashsummermakaio4756 I'm so sorry. Hope your adult life is treating you better than your HS years. Sounds like your HS crush could've been your HS bf if it hadn't been for hompphobia though. He was probably scared to come out.
@@Thegirlwithapinkbag He was probably scared. And yes, fortunately my adult life is a lot better! You know, there’s always a rainbow after the storm.
@@ashsummermakaio4756 stay positive ❤😁
I love that so much!! it sounds awesome and i hope u have a lot of fun :]]
This is going to be amazing! I can already see all the teens from every world going to the same high school and interacting!
I use a ‘learn to read’ mod and Frank’s language mod so this is going to be a whole new avenue for chaos to reign in my game!
I think that this high school pack being so centered on America’s high school stereotypes is actually really good. Like, all of us Latin Americans DREAM of attending a school like in America, we don’t have things like lockers, cheerleaders, school clubs, not even detention; this is the coolest thing ever 😂
True
actual high school here in America is a lot more boring unfortunately, but this pack is looks like a fun romanticization of the experience lol. it’s very reminiscent of the shows I used to watch as a kid
as for the realism, I’d download basemental drugs and boom. that’s a decent representation of the average American high school
Bullies, being ostracized, unable to get a seat on the school bus. Someone sticking female sanitary products to the outside of your locker, dumped in trash cans, being mocked for your hair texture or cheap clothing. Half the guys won't go to prom so you can't get an escort and can't get a chance to even be randomly picked to be prom queen. Lots of fun.
@@ShadoeLandman yeah, exactly the same in the rest of America but without any type of entertainment.
@@ShadoeLandman in latinoamerica is way worse
Imagine using the Winter Resort pack stuff for a more Japanese-style high school style and living your own personal Slice-of-Life anime
Genius
You know what, that might actually be a possibility, especially since they send teens to high school in uniforms in that pack.
If they add like a school lot type, that could be possible and I want it RIGHT NOW
having this pack come out right after heartstopper is PERFECT timing and im so excited to recreate the characters!!!
this with some of the items from the little campers kit will be so much fun. like using the projecter screen and the swings as like a date thing for the teens would be so cutee.
so excited!!!
They seem to be emphasizing the school being customizable, so I am really really hoping that there is some functionality to set a set of uniforms for the school. I want to be able to make mine into a prep school, button downs and plaid skirts and all!
Oo yess and dress codes and things!
I was thinking the same!
Yessssss
as a queer person, i wasn’t able to go to high school prom as my true self; now in college, a “second chance prom” was held so queer students could have a do-over of prom to be comfortable in their true identity. hopefully this pack serves the same for those of us who couldn’t enjoy our high school proms. (to all the queer high school kids: life gets so much better, i promise!!)
this pack could be so therapeutic for a lot of us
OMG this is such a great idea! It should become a thing in Uni for all the queer folk to have a do-over prom
Thanks for the message at the end
If may i ask, How old are you?. I'm 43 and gay. And I took my boyfriend to prom. It was weird but nothing dramatic happened. And that was in a medium to small town in Michigan. In the late 90s.
I went to a catholic private high-school, so I while I did go to prom with a senior boy my sophomore year, I was not able to attend my senior prom with my gf at the time. They would not have let us dance together or show any form of pda had I attended. It made me so jealous of public schools that allowed it 😫
I’m hoping the whole “discovering your sim’s identity” thing could mean LGBTQIA+ identities. Like- you can actually select who your sims are attracted to, or how they identify themselves. It could also mean having actual trans characters instead of headcanons and a flag, you know? It could include the awkward stages of transition and the several emotions that come with discovering yourself.
Or…maybe I’m just getting my hopes up / wishful thinking 😅
And it has to be in the base game update because.. Are they really gonna put identities behind a 40 dollar paywall?
There was a trans flag on the teaser... just sayinnnnnnnnnn
@@kenziescout2343 You're right! I really hope it adds this.
they’d better add something like this!
theres a mod for this if it isnt included :)
I started playing about the same time you started this channel. Youve been a part of sims for me since the start, I watch regularly though its my first comment. I remember being teens playing sims pretending we were adults and now we are adults playing sims pretending we are still kids. I love it
I'm interested to see how smoothly events like prom and graduation go as they aren't rabbit holes, I hope that it won't be like the award show in Get Famous since in my experience it ends up going on for longer than it's supposed to and sims just stand and do nothing. I wonder how prom will play out, in the Sims 3 it was a rabbit hole but it would tell you if your sim got in a fight or kissed someone and that's something I personally enjoy and I just hope prom in the Sims 4 won't just be them standing awkwardly.
Ngl that’s a really great point I didn’t think of that and now I’m v scared
Standing around awkwardly would be realistic though lol
Lilsimsie: High School Years is amazing
Lilsimsie after 1 month: Everything wrong with High School Years
🤣 this is why I love her
lmaooo
This seems soo good because I just graduated high school and I had a lot of problems with friendships throughout but I'm happy it's over but now I can make my Sims have the high school life I wish I had and deserved
I like that it is based around iconic American highschool, since most movies show us exactly this. My Highschool experience was so different, I didn't get to go to prom with my friends, I had surgery the last year of highschool, I couldn't finish that year and had to come back a year later but my friends were already in college.
As a latin american, this pack still excites me a lot. Even though our high schools aren't necessarily like that, watching so many movies/series centered around american high schools when I was young makes me be very excited to try this pack!
Yes!
In Brazil we don't have anything like that, it is so boring...
@@Barbaravieirab nossa, sim! A minha experiência de escola foi decepcionante, pra dizer o mínimo.... Tudo o que eu quero é algo incrível para os meus sims
@@shikiseiren5677 Sim 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@shikiseiren5677 sim!! E eu ainda me formei durante a pandemia, tinha acabado de mudar de estado e ainda por cima voltei pra minha cidade natal 2 semanas antes da formatura ent eu n conheci uma única pessoa da minha escola kkkkkkk pelo menos a faculdade está sendo boa😁😁
Ugh same 🥲
I got to experience the protagonists experience but just the unhappy part not the happy ending
I’m hoping the teacher Career becomes an active career for adults so they can go work in the school!
Oooh there's a thought, the building and mechanics are already there, really hope they go for that
i just remembered how basemental recently added more "teen gameplay" so its gunna be cool to see how it'll adapt with this pack lol
I wonder how the high school gameplay is going to be implemented into the overall gameplay. Do you actively play your teen sim's school day every single day? If so, what about the household members at home? What if you have multiple teen Sims? What if you also actively play a career of your adult Sim, like a doctor or restaurant owner? Also, how long does your school day go? If it is anything like University, it's gonna feel very cramped and stressful if you want to succeed but also tell a story and have fun. What if your Sim is a teen werewolf and rampages at school? So many questions
The base game update might include some LGBTQ+ actions. Such as coming out. That would explain what they mean by more choice and opportunity to discover your sims lives. They might also include some things to help teens like asking parents for help or advice. Or maybe even going to therapy. This is just a theory but I think it would make a lot of sense.
That also came to my mind! Let’s hope you are right 🤞🤞
there was a trans flag in the roadmap/promo pic so probably !!
@@jamespottersgf at 17:07 there's also a progress pride flag in someone's bedroom!
I’m not sure how coming out would work since sims are all bisexual, if they can find a way to put it in that would be cool though
Edit: oh yeah just realized coming out as trans or non-binary would work
@@andrewmcmillan229 maybe gender preferences can become a thing? I think they existed in ts3, tho I could be wrong. Regardless I think it’d be fun, if maybe a little dicey? Idk if I wanna roleplay my sim getting kicked outta the house lol
The Sims Team: you can sit in a window, like an edgy teen
Me: ah yes, another place to eat BESIDES THE TABLE!!
You can eat on the sofa and the toilet lol
I’ve been DESPERATE to get the sims 4 ever since it was released but I don’t have the right kind of computer. Even though I don’t actually have the game, I am so hyped for this! This pack actually looks incredible and so completely game-changing for all you simmers out there. I hope y’all have fun with the pack, and I can’t wait to watch our good ol’ Lilsimsie mess around with it too.
I am so, so jealous 😂
The fact that the pack releases on dans birthday and pre order bonus ends on Kayla’s moms birthday adds to Kayla’s theory that the sims 4 schedule revolves around her. (Example:Cottage living came out when she was preparing for Dan to move)
I know Simsie was nervous about the 7 lots. BUT, it looks like they have made more usable areas, like with Werewolves. I'm guessing the football field and the boardwalk are areas we can't edit much, but I think it'll be fewer loading screens. Also, I'm almost positive the ferris wheels, the tunnel of love, etc are rabbit holes. This pack looks really cool!! I just want us all to keep perspective.
Plus I imagine the content will be useable in other worlds too (like you can put a high school in Sulani if you want), it's not really the type of pack where the world is super important - and I say that as someone who immensely appreciates new big worlds. This particular pack I'm pretty okay with not having a big world since presumably I can do all the stuff in existing worlds anyway. I was way more upset about the small worlds that came with Vampires and Realm of Magic, those heavily themed packs would've really benefitted from fully fledged worlds that went with their aesthetics, especially Vampires imo
my thoughts exactly
I hope we can actually design the school buildings tho
Love how every time there’s a sims trailer drop people in the live comments are always like “Hey Lilsimsie!” knowing that Kayla is recording and waiting like all of us 😭
Simsie, your videos are like a blessing sometimes. I was crying 5 minutes ago and your video really helped me calm down and smile.
Thank you
The only thing I missed in highschool was graduation, I left a few months before to finish my diploma early. I got to enjoy the thrill of sneaking out at night, going to parties, and skipping school so it wasn't all bad.
loving this pack already. it’s so accurate as someone currently in HS. like prom and all. it’s going to be amazing (hopes are not going to be high though *my wedding stories*)
My Buggy stories ruined my hope, but the werewolf pack and this pack have made me believe that they actually care about the pack functioning.
Accurate for some HS. Where I live we dont have many proms, we dont have activities like cheerleading and stuff🥲
@@martemarie that’s true. my schools massive so we have a lot of this stuff. football season is a nightmare at my school lmao
@@ashleyhota1225 Hahah we have big schools here too, but not big Clubs etc. we are «just a school» Soo this packs makes me wanna live out the American highscool movie type life
And i just started a new family, just a couple now but Im playing long life so this fits perfect🤌🏼
I’m going to be a senior this year and I’m already ready to live a better Highschool experience vicariously through my sims.
as someone not from America, I'm actually really excited that its more focused on that side of things! Like the shows and movies I grew up on and always wished I had!
“It wouldn’t be a true high school adventure without prom or graduation” all I know is pain🥹😭😭, class of 2020 rise up!😭🫶🏽
i love the stereotypically american thing- it's like getting to recreate movies in the sims XD the sims is inherently US based bc it's made by a US company, and I think that if they go full send into this sort of thing it will be super fun and purposeful rather than just generically american bc they didnt put thought behind it, u know? this seems super deliberate and im excited!
i wish they had more things like more commom sports. like i have litterally never seen american football before.
@@yesindeed1614 that is literally a VERY common sport lol, at least over here. In other places sometimes soccer is pronounced football
@@yesindeed1614 well, now u will hopefully get to see American football in this pack lol. Like i said, I think this is deliberately an american pack
This trailer is almost like a short movie and I couldn't be more excited for this pack, everything looks SO good! I love all the collaborations and if the gameplay is anything like the Go To School mod this is going to be freaking amazing. I already preordered lol.
Also I absolutely love how every simmer is currently losing it over this trailer, everyone is loving it. Even James was like oooh and aaaah, it's hilarious :D
I love this! Not only am I a high school drop out and live in Australia, but I’ve always tried to have smith like this in the sims. I love the kinda coming of age high school teen movies, and this is everything, it’s gonna be so good when you have like aliens and werewolf’s and vampires all in the same school. Even mermaids altho idk how that will go haha. I’m so excited. Also extremely broke so imma have to start working and saving so I can get this asap
I’ve watched like 5 reactions to this and yours is by far the funniest 😂🤭☺️
I typically don’t care for expansion packs but this one just scratches an itch for me.
My graduating class was the year of 2020, so I’m sure everyone can understand that things like graduation or prom weren’t available. Being able to make a little sim group of me and my friends and give them the highschool experience we didn’t get to have just makes me feel so happy. Really looking forward to hearing more about this pack!
Yesssss!
oh my gosh i’m class of 2020 too and i didn’t even think about that now i’m even more excited
The sims is already so American media vibes so I don’t mind it being American. It would be really hard for them to make it suit every country in one pack.
Yeah me too. The Sims is made in America, they are totally allowed to make it american-centric.
and the sims already has some really cool non American aspects as well. I feel like you can't go too far without it becoming too religious or too far on the spectrum to feel like you can make it your own. They can do more wth their base game as far as culture (like add some things for Africa PLZ) but I feel like it really hits surface level for a lot of the things they do. and that's okay.
Well if there’s no school shootings it’s not really American then is it?