An Honest Review of The Sims 4: High School Years 

Simsie rocks

First love ur vids 🤍

Ma’am you are late to your own stream😂

are you streaming today??

their live was so good

Maxis you reading this right 👁👄👁????? Get To Work Refresh When

i thought that we already had a teacher career with univercity?

@@leonesmith7073 There is a teacher career, but you can’t follow your sim to the school

I was hoping we would be able to follow our sim to the teacher career

Get to work refresh when??

Yes I love that so much

fr.. im socially awkward irl but i find it easy to be friends with people online. when it comes to actually talking to other people i cripple 😭

ikr!? like i still get anxious talking to random people online but it's soooo much better than in person 🥴

Especially after last 20 packs of bugs never being fixed.

The drawing tablet and highchair still dont work in my game lol🤣

*thinks about the 2472932 year old bugs from dining out pack* hmmmmm XD

Lol sadly it’s not 😭

lol yeah, my sim got invited to like 5 graduations and none of them worked, my own sim didn't have a cap or gown and didn't receive her diploma... ever

Bingo, shuffleboard, old fashioned dancing, storytelling to anyone who will listen and pull my finger interactions, lol

That's such a cute idea

Chair exercises, imparting your knowledge (skills) to younger Sims, wheelchairs, end of life celebrations

I would so love this! 😍

I use my elders as garden/painting slaves

MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!

Elders don't even live for very long, by the time they are old I kinda don't care about them anymore 🥲

We need to petition EA to make this reality. I love the idea of golf! And I'd hope they also put a disco ball, this just seems such a cool idea!

I need a senior center lot type 🙂

Also would be super cool to have more elderly centric walk styles, and canes and walkers

I feel like there’s not much they could of done with active classes and I probably would of gotten bored of it really fast. But I think all the like out of class stuff they added makes for really good story telling and I’ll be able to do that stuff with like every teen sims I have and still have fun.

Yes, I agree. Since I mostly play with bigger families I feared that I had to micro-manage my teenagers through school and would neglect my other family members.

@@rachelcookie321 you can actually do a lot if you are creative enough. There is so much science and chemistry experiments they could do. Literally could have mini games and projects similar to Get To Work that actually teach stuff to kids playing the game (like for example teaching people how and why we know Earth is not flat). Have music classes that you actually improve the quality of the team, clubs. Social, philosophy and discussion classes and clubs where you have options to choose certain takes. This was great opportunity to make puzzle like games similar to Selvadorada as well. Not to mention all the sports and art that could have been done. Theatrics club, school events and festivities. We already have festivals - give us cultural festivals where we can have simple cafes and scary houses. Parades with music club, actual cheering and matches in sports. Even a written word rabbit hole adventures about history of the Sims and lore would add dozen levels of depth to this boring pack. Mentality of sitting in class and looking at the blackboard and tests is so last century.

@@mjm3091 yea but doing those classes would get bored after doing it once. It would be the same every time and there’s not much story telling opportunities. I would rather they put effort into features that I can keep playing every single time without getting bored instead of ones I’ll get bored of first time.

How do you go so slow? I get bored doing the same things over and over again and maxing everything out 😭 I wish I could play with families longer without being bored and fucking them up lol

I am the same! My world has been going since Vampires launched, it's a miracle it all still works. Families and relationships that have been going for longer than a lot of real ones haha. Wondered if more played that way. Each new pack is just new experiences for them, and I usually make and add a new family themed around it as well. Maybe I will finally age up all the kiddos now. :)

I literally don’t know how you do it😭😭😭 I make a new game file every time I open it up lmaaao Even when I try committing to a family I end up closing the game after 3 days of playing for months at a time and when I go back to it I forget everything I had done and literally lose any connection I had to them 😭 Most of my sims rarely age up out of young adult because I get bored of them so easily lmao it’s a problem

I’ve been playing with the same sims family since 2016 (city living just came out) and my first two sims still have teen kids 😅

And here I am playing on short lifespan and still feeling like some of the life stages take too long lol

Omg you just unlocked a memory for me I completely forgot you could do that, I loved it

Completely agree

You can still do it with “get together”

hey, i know my answer comes months later but u can sneak out with the high school pack :D

The additions they’ve been making to their content team + enlisting creators help with building has clearly helped them SO much. They’re actually getting a fan base back ever since cottage living. Smart marketing, smart way to rebuild the reputation ea has. Solid work

@@Danny-be1ex perfectly said

here im just thinking the packs are all overpriced and this should just be an update to make a really boring game more fun. like go play sims 3 or sims 2 created by another group of ppl, ignore the graphics since the games are old and then when u have tried everything ur not gonna like sims 4 anymore

The High School experience is limited and gets repetitive easily and it focuses too much on 2000s pathological schools from American teen movies. No teaching career, small world, one school for all worlds. Aside the amount of build and buy and partly the CAS - this is a Game Pack. Kinda expected after the other disaster that was supposed to have University in it. Instead we got unrelated trifting and third or fifth influencer career. They could easily replace this and use existing features and spend those resources for after school activities and proper and fun lessons with active projects Get To Work style - just full depth teaching career would improve it immensely. We have bullying, but we don't have normal classes or options for student interactions in classes.

right! the only other one i think really does the same way of expanding as this one is seasons

That’s one of the many reasons I use the preteen mod, so there can be a difference between them. But I’m super excited I’ll be able to take my sims to school in person now!!

@@yuhhbiscuit bully

Yes I'm really excited

@@maddy2860 jajaja

The comment above me is obviously a scam/bot, please don't engage with it. Just report it

Idk if they'll make any more kids oriented packs considering there's a few already for kid/ toddler items, and there's a good amount of kids only interactions/activities (there can always be more though). This is the first thing for teen only stuff. If anything they need to make a pack focusing all on babies since that's the 1 life state completely lacking in all aspects still. Bring back baby baths, changing tables, carrying them around, strollers, more baby interactions and actual baby toys etc. I hate having to age the babies up in 1 day cause they're too boring.

I'd say a base game update for babies and then a game pack for babies would be enough. There's enough game play for toddlers imo to make that life stage interesting but I would really like changing tables and strollers to come back

yeah, like in the Sims 3 they had a bunch of things for kids, and more outdoor activities. i think it’d be nice to see that again

there is that toddlers stuff pack and that other childrens pack.

@@lajjjjjjjjjjsorr stuff packs aren't gameplay though

Thank you! I love the idea of having a secret club room but I wouldn't have thought of it myself, really looking forward to building with this pack!!

Annnnnd now I wanna watch Halloweentown again

It’s probably a good idea to put all of the essential rooms right next to each other and then surround those rooms with all of these ideas. That way it doesn’t take forever to get from class to class.

Music program funding already got cut before the pack even comes out.

i love halloween town

Yess. I don't know why people are mad the little kids don't have anything in this pack. But they got so much stuff. Also teens have lots of freedom unlike how kids can't do alot of things.

They should do a babies pack too 😅

Which is extra sad when you consider how boring kids and toddlers are in comparison to something like young adults.

adults are spoillleddddd they need a break and focus on other age groups, please. their lacking real bad. when my sim becomes an elder I just get ready for them to die cause there's nothing to do with them without mods

@@sakariqueen482 lolll

were curved walls confirmed?

@@ChelseaKay46 yup, they appeared in the last like 5 minutes of the stream? Basically when you place an empty room (in the walls section) there are few new options with curved walls.

@@ChelseaKay46 Yes, you can watch Vixella's review of the pack too

@@ChelseaKay46 James Turner confirmed them too.

Maybe she's just not that into building! :-D

High school football games aren’t complete without the marching band!!! And I feel you on that, I do Colorguard so I can’t even have my sim self pretend to do band

I mean do they really have football though? There is unusable pitch. That's it, some rabbit hole.

Honestly we should start a riot a petition. Cause I totally agree. How is there cheer and football but no marching band? Having new instruments for sims would be so cool too

hey what about choir don't forget about choir class

We didn’t even have a band at our school, I don’t think that’s a common thing in the UK. They’ve probably tried to stick to activities with more global appeal, even though the (American) football and cheerleading are very US-centric themes

Let's hope we'll get a mod

i’d want my elders to just abandon the family because they like the retirement home more LMAOO

finally id stop having my sims watch their parents die ahahahaha

Your comment had me rolling. Thanks for the laugh. 🤣

I mean you could probably have some funny/cute things like bingo, more interactions and activities to do between grandchildren and grandparents, scrapbooking, and maybe like a 'rival' relationship between Sims that makes them do different things to annoy you every so often like knock over your trash can ala Sims 1, maybe play ding dong ditch if the neighborhood teens are annoying you and you can chase them off with a cane

I would also like to see things like funerals and graveyards kind of be part of that too

I find that when things in the Sims “don’t make sense” on a surface level, it is usually just a good opportunity for creative storytelling on your part :) Like maybe Molly has a horrible memory. Like clinically if she doesn’t write something down she’ll forget it. Then you can incorporate and use that to guide later gameplay:)

@@evalong6205 same i thought maybe molly was so embarrassed she didn’t want to say yes in public and then was hurt because tina didn’t do another attempt at asking

Oblivious lesbians trope

that sounds pretty realistic. teens are inherently awkward.

​@@evalong6205 yeah sims definitely aren't the brightest. my sim's ex gilfriend called him asking if she should go on a date with some random people when they LITERALLY HAVE CHILDREN TOGETHER...

hi yt!

not even yt- 😭

@@alviceno4747 it is LMAOOO 💀

Why did I never know RU-vid has a RU-vid

AHHHH

if you have get together you can gather a bunch of the artsy kids from school in a club and have them go out into like an empty lot with only art easels and have them paint

There’s no theater because that comes with get famous.

@@karinawatermelon332 It's really not the same 😂 Having a drama club and the chance to audition for the school play/marching band is not anywhere near the same type of gameplay that get famous has.

@@harlomints7727 This is a hilarious idea LOL

I'm sure modders will find a way to do this!

Fun fact: I rejected someone asking me to prom but it took me around 3 days to realize that's what they were asking. Like, we were both socially awkward enough that his asking sounded like a hangout but I was too exhausted by school and people in general and so said I didn't feel up to hanging out. Extra fun fact (just as awkward): I had a great friend who was willing to deal with my awkward and introvert I'm-exhausted-by-people way of life. Like, he would come over to hang out and I'd always end up taking a nap in front of the fireplace before he went home. There was a day I came to school and opened my locker, moved aside a huge sheet of paper, and put my stuff away. I was on autopilot and planning on sleeping through my first class. Turned around and said friend was standing there. He asked for my answer and I realized only then that it was weird that I had a huge poster in my locker so I reopened it. It said "prom?" in Japanese katakana. I said yes and we went as friends (he had no interest in dating women). Once my brain caught up, we made it a good memory. I wore a kimono bought for the day specifically that I later put on display along with the fan, some pictures of getting ready and my friend picking me up, and the poster itself. But sometimes I lay awake at night thinking how much it must have hurt him that I was so passive I didn't even notice his promposal.

Real life toxicity 😃

@@catelynh1020 this is equal parts sad and adorable

Easy. That can happen in real life.

And it came with generations, meanwhile it took the sims 4 two separate packs…and it still doesn’t have a lot of gameplay

Yes, I for sure thought we were going to get bands with this, and a school band would have been great at a minimum.

The shade. 🤣🤣

same but with the wedding pack 🥲

Too relatable 🥲

LOOOOL

@@ginasndergaard2709 me too omg i wish i could get a refund its so broken

Omg yes! 😲

Ah I didn't even think of that

BAHAHA im doing the same thing in my game

@@lexirodriguez8112 Just imagine all the drama

ready to make teen wolf and secret underground werewolf/vampire/spellcaster schools

I'm thinking that to simulate it, you might be able to make get together clubs for the members as well - give the popular club the popular trait, have some clubs be mischievous to others and so on. It would be ideal to be able to do it within the confines of this pack, but also it's always good when pack cross compatibility comes up I think.

@@ronniemokeev3322 thank you for this! Yes, flexibility in packs is great too, and the ability to get creative cannot be overlooked.

Then you can yell at your friends to stick to it in song and dance form 😂

@@emmatfink a youtube comment has never made me more happy 😂😂

I agree. I went to an arts technical school and the idea of having sport prioritised above choir, orchestra, drama, art exhibitions, fashion shows for student-made clothes etc. seems very... generic

Yes! I screamed when I saw it.

no bc u have a point

It's also bugged rn anyways. I tried making sack lunches to bring with my sim to their vet job but they couldn't put the bags in their inventory and I couldn't drag them in. Instead, they were just floating in the air around the sim.

@@zaeliouss so glad it’s happening to someone else! It’s driving me insane🤦🏻‍♀️

@@zaeliouss yeah that's been a glitch, they used to work better. I gave my sim a sack lunch for their non-active career and they left work early after they ate it

I was thinking about this!

I'm gonna use Get Together to (hopefully) make extra clubs (acting, band, etc) and have it be activities that build related skills

Was so surprised by the amount of hate there. This pack ate but a lot of people were still toxic not satisfied🫤

@@chinemejessica3137 why was the livestream getting hate?

@@phantomcakes4546 and periods…. not everyone wants to deal with periods in game

@@phantomcakes4546 IKR!? So many people in the live chat were demanding pregnant teens its so weird..

@@chinemejessica3137 They were demanding and complaining sooooo much

Yessss I love that

I could make Teen wolf 😂

You could make a sims Twilight lol

tvd

I hope someone makes the Teen Wolf cast and shares it in the gallery.

that sucks because i wouldn’t want to play in copperdale all the time. Like i wanted to have a boarding school or play a school full of vampires or something

@@slasherflicks976 That's what I wanted too because it offers the most replayability and makes the expansion impact the entire game as opposed to being a sectioned off feature in a single world.

@@slasherflicks976 I mean.. couldn't you make a bunch of vampire families and have most of them attend that school? it'd be like that anime on Netfli: Vampire Knight Where there's mortals & vampires attending. Except in the anime mortals attend in the daytime & the vamps at night but i think.. I think the vamps are also there at daytime but they're in the basement. Idk I read the plot a while ago. This idea seems fun lol ^w^

@@Flexie17 yeah but i think vampires would get drained during the day. plus it would be better in the vampire world

Some people will always complain. Can't please everyone. These last couple of packs were pretty great!

I didn't watch the livestream, what were people complaining about?

She didn't complain, just saying it would have been nice to be able to interact in class, so it's not something you just fast forward lol

@@danitho true. They're asking for things that they can download as a mod and it's for free

A lot of the people in chat during that live stream were HORRIBLE. So many people whining and complaining that there is no teen pregnancy, people spamming puke emoji's when the live stream was talking about the new lgbtq+ stuff.

I'm not sure if the traits are removed on age up or will remain throughout their life

I think the traits are for everyone and the aspirations are for teens

It's a focused on teens and teenagers love to go thrifting, it fits quite well imo

Nah thrifting is way better than more school stuff

I like the thrifting idea

Thrifting should have been in an eco living refresh/update imo

@@cassielewis4779 Yessss that would've made WAY more sense imo

Yeah, that's why I wasn't thrilled about active school days.

I’m glad they limited it to two classes a day and massive lunchtimes. If we switched between classes every hour I don’t think my computer could keep up HAHA

This is wisdom.

@@danitho active school days are optional I think

@@theekatspajamas Yeah, I think you can send them alone. I'll probably go once or twice a week or something. But this seems like a great pack. There's a LOT that comes with it.

i never thought i’d want a retirement pack but now i definitely do, i want my elder sims to live their best life at a resort

They have high school, university, get to work, now all we're missing is retirement.

Maybe they could do like Bali or something because I know a lot of people retire there too and I just really don’t want to see another pack with an American based world. We already have so many. And I understand they would have more American worlds because it’s an American game but now they have like 10 and that should be plenty. They should start branching out and showcasing more cultures.

I was also thinking Florida would be perfect for that 😂

@@erink47 sulani would be PERFECT for a retirement community in sims lol

If this were the last expansion pack we ever got I wouldn’t be mad 😂

@@yuhhbiscuit yes, it seems like it’s made really nicely and it’s detailed

@@malami4891 it’s probably the closest thing we’re ever going to get to generations.

@@yuhhbiscuit and I think it’s even better honestly, like I rather having separate packs for each of the occults and having it be the same for age groups

I think that especially once modders have access to it and can not only make their old mods more compatible, but also create completely new ones, this will be one of my favorite packs to play with

And they could make them like kits or an update so it’s bonus content, and free for all players so they don’t have to pay for something that should be free.

@@yuhhbiscuit they could make an addition to the base game for each life state and make an extension of it in a pack

Full fledged babies should definitely comr to the game as a free update, much like toddlers

Loans? Y’all asking for too much now! Sims is for escaping reality

Yea maybe like even pre-teen pack an age an more “teen” like outfits for the pre-teens in the pack

Yeah, I agree. I don't know what people were thinking it would be.

I mean, it iiiis a game. Farming might not be very fun but that doesn't mean a farming simulator needs to be boring, as an example.

this is such a dumb take. stop sucking up to EA and recognise it’s faults - GAMEPLAY being boring is never not a bad thing omg

why would you ever want a game that you play for entertainment to be boring?

No, doing different lessons, having to do the work and having to ask questions in class is more realistic then doing nothing. It also adds game play so not sure why you would want nothing to happen in class in a pack about going to school. If the modders did this with Zebu school pack (which I have) then EA could have.

I'm sure the modders will be on that asap! I'm so excited to see what they're going to create!

i think you get pop ups from other students in class talking to you! i saw it on someones stream i forgot who tho but that's probably the fun thing in class.

@@NurseD98 oh thank the heavens for modders 🥹

hell i remember back when there was a mod about active HS when GTW came out

​@@NurseD98 Hate to say it, but this is one of the most unlikely aspects for modders to be asap on unless there's preexisting stuff or they have one of those cool motion cap suits. TS4's modding community has loads of cosmetic cc and script mods, but the animation modder department is mostly for nonfunctioning, storytelling purposes. There sadly just aren't a lot of modders out there who work on making animations for more sim interactions. So, the quickest thing you'll get (if anything) is a script mod that lets you click on a speech bubble that says "pass notes" without any actual interaction.

Same. I'm hoping for fun chaos rather than life-treatening. Totally plan to put a bunch of werewolves and vampires in high school to see what happens.

well classes are inside so hopefully they won’t die, that would be a bit sad

@@Zandalorscat FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

@@Zandalorscat [Twilight and TVD has entered the chat]

That's why I have the daywalkers mod lol my vamp sims show up on public lots during the daytime and it makes me scream. So, now none of them can burn.

I’m sure there will be lots of people rebuilding the high school and posting it on the gallery as soon as the pack comes out.there’s no way people won’t take the opportunity to build an actual school.

Yeahh cant wait for them to rebuild the lott

There are limits on how many assets can be in the lot so that it doesn't lag. This means big buildings end up empty.

@@notnormalyet i wish the sims would optimize their game and add to the base game instead of shooting new packs all the time but hey, ig empty buildings it is

i’m actually gonna rebuild the highschool into my real life highschool

On stream she showed the one she built and said she will upload when the pack comes out

Lol this is also how I play.

Yeah I was hoping for more after school activities, but I can imagine more coming with updates or else hopefully our trusty modders will be on it 🫡

I think I’m going to use Get Together to create clubs specifically for that reason.

I was in 6 after school activities my senior year. None of them are options, so far. I’d love to see a theatre group’s after party!!! Or a choir class (I can understand not doing show choir at least lmao). What about book club??? Or debate? Swim team? Hopefully we can at least get a few more options via mods.

this must’ve been public school because at private you could just use the bathroom whenever. obvs you’d have to ask but once you got to junior/senior year you could just motion to the teacher that you were using the bathroom and they’d understand!!!

this goes for walking through the halls too, but no one left class unless it was to pee lol

@@maddiehansen5661 I go to public school and we just have sign out sheets. sometimes paper, sometimes QR codes.

Sounds like you went to a bad school

I would love that. No wonder I keep thinking somethings missing in CAS.

big deal, it’s so easy to become gf/bf. it’s harder to be engaged and married that’s why

@@vintagebabyy1524 it’s annoying for players who are big on story telling tho, it’s an extra step to do. i personally don’t care bc i just cheat it, but i do think it’s silly they didn’t add that along with fiancé

It won't in the stream wedding stories the pack was already glitched but in this stream for hs everything seems to work very well even for a early version

I don't think you need to worry, after how good werewolves was I sort of just brushed off my wedding stories as whole mess up. I belive (not confrimed) that the file for the pack got corrupted and ea didn't give them enough time to fix it.

@@phantomcakes4546 TRUE

I would love mobility aids! Lots of different ones (wheelchairs, rollators, crutches, canes, etc). And ramps. If we had ramps I would literally never put stairs in my houses ever again. Heck stairs lol

I’m not an elderly person but I wear hearing aids. I wish they had a base game update for disabilities :(

id love to see wheelchairs and ramps added to the game. my moms in a wheelchair and she plays sims but often times she feels excluded because she cant make herself in the sims.

I’m a wheelchair user and I would love to see them in the Sims, but I def get why they haven’t been added yet. There’s difficulties with interaction animations between sims, needing to develop ramps in build mode, remaking builds to be accessible for wheelchair users, etc. I do hope they eventually get added tho. I’d finally be able to use a chair without having to deal with static electricity buildup 😂

You will get one wooden leg and few moodlets. It's EA.

Honestly. If each class was only an hour there wouldn’t be any time to actually learn anything hahaha

When I was watching the livestream and first saw that when they arrive at school they have 2 hours before classes start I thought that was way too long and unrealistic. But then I remembered how long it takes sims to do anything and you kinda need 2 hours if you want to actually do anything before class. Like in real life it takes me 5 minutes to eat a sandwich but sims take like 45 minutes. So while 2 classes seems weird and seems like very little classes in one day, I agree that it would of been way too chaotic and stressful if they added more.

I think the problem is that some of those clubs you mentioned are already part of another pack. Debate clubs - University, drama-club - get famous, music and art ones you can kind of make with 'get together'. So they cannot really take that stuff and put it in another expansion as it's already part of another one.

@@Hiekkalinna I wasn't saying for them to add it to this pack, I was saying it would be easy to make a club for teens with the code thats already provided instead of starting from scratch

Where do I find your mods?

@@Junitunes I haven't made any yet, but I'm looking into how to make them!

I feel like the clubs we had in school when I was younger was math, science, art, drama, sports, dance, and Future Business Leaders (which was like an honor society and you could earn credit for college). I feel like Future Business Leaders would tie in well with the career day. I also think the career day should feature primarily part time jobs and you could get a job offer from the different booths (like real career day).

Dine Out and Eco Lifestyle to this day: 👀 Island Living animations and textures: 👀

I never thought I could be so attached to a sentence 😔 😂

@@yuhhbiscuit stop stalking and harassing Mala

@@maddy2860 what??

It’s giving ted lasso

@@victoriafrazier8892 yes especially bc britechester was inspired by the UK

i feel like it’s bc most of the sports are limited to certain packs and if they integrate those sports into other packs ppl will complain how they paid for a certain pack for that feature and that they’re just reusing stuff lol

@@TheMonicaAlison And yet in the he Britechester dorms you can't cook. UK dorms have got kitchens. IDK why students aren't allowed to cook, that's so american