the proud parent scenario actually has a lot more tasks than you think… it may be “easy” but it’s time consuming. I’d be interested in seeing her play it
I had more issues trying to play this scenario- than I would regularly when playing the game. I was very displeased. I somehow ended up having triplets and one of my sims kept setting things on fire.
@@sybrenkruijf8570 I was playing in normal and i realized that when the kids are 4 days before reaching teenage years, so i switched to long life span but as soon as the kids got the grades to A+ and finishes part of the tasks, the game ages everyone automatically.
Kayla looking at proud parent: ‘doesn’t really seem like a challenge’ Kayla in the legacy challenge: ‘this is the child that got taken away and this is the one that I pleaded with the grim reaper to save…’
@@ketameanii Both taking photos of other Sims and photos with them increase the friendship. WITHOUT tiny home nor any helping trait, it's possible to go from just met to being able to become best friend with just three photo shots, four at most.
What I would love to see happen with scenarios, is each time you complete a "basic" one, it offers you a harder variant, so like Too Many Toddlers, once you complete the 3 toddlers version, it offers you, say 5 toddlers, and you have to do (or prevent) something else from happening too, you do that, then it's 7 toddlers and now you are up to the level of the community challenges! I'd also love to see a couple of multi generational ones too, live have a dynasty last 4 generations, or something like that, so it builds towards a legacy challenge. Maybe it would make me actually play with families for once, anything is possible (if unlikely!)
Normal life span. My Sims just had babies with the «Ancient lineage» trait. There where two generations before the first spell caster in the family. So, I'm currently on the sixth generation. As Kayla, I do have a grave yard, but, it's in my backyard. The latest born's father is the Grim Reaper himself💀 Yes, it's possible to have baby from him. It's far from easy, but, it's possible. His fertility level is very low. Needed to get him be a roommate and try for baby a few times a day for three generations.
We would love a video on the Unlucky Chef scenario! When I tried it my sim died the first time they wanted to cook something because they wouldn't put themselves out. R.I.C.
I made my sim into a spellcaster at the beginning of the scenario, bought a familiar and activated it every time I had to cook so it would protect her from death 😅
i’ve been using the scenarios as “jumping off” points like you mentioned toward the end. i did the “extraterrestrial researcher” one the other day, and decided in the middle of it that i wanted to have my sim get alien pregnant, now i’m playing through high school with a teen alien who wants to be popular 😅 not my normal gameplay but i’m loving it!
Hear me out, Y’all remember Simsie’s old sim Gertrude from the sims 3? I think she Simsie should remake her in the sims 4 and have her and Stanley have this beef between each other and compete to see who could get rich the quickest.
i played through the frog scenario and and it was the most fun i’ve had playing the sims in a WHILE, i ended up creating a sim i fell in love with and still play with today, i wish they made more scenarios that focused on small parts of the game like frogs bc i’d never really utilized them before then.
On the money tree thing: if you do the dumpster challenge with a sim who loves dumpster diving, you can find money tree plants. My sim found multiple and went rags to riches pretty quickly.
Plant them around some lemon trees and harvest all. See the money fruits in your Sim's inventory. Plant the money fruits. Take some cuttings from the money trees. Graft them on some other plants for fun. Build a Money Tree Orchard. Harvest a few §1000000 each day. Go around and plant some extra money fruits if the yards of your Sim's friends and around your neighbourhood. Plant some more in the various parks.
I think she should take baby’s child and go back to 0 simoleons and an empty lot. Like kinda restart it but with the same sims? Idk I think that would be fun! I love the family too much to say good bye
I use scenarios for the time when I start a new game and play it "vanilla" after a new patch comes out. One of my favorites is the PlantSim one. I generally don't play occults but I do enjoy that scenario. I really enjoyed the one about the frogs. I hope they bring it back. The scenarios also give me an opportunity to use some of the houses that I download from the gallery. (And sometimes I fall in love with the house that way. I ended up playing in the "Black and White Challenge" house by LilSimsie, as well as one she "remodeled" that was a mid-century modern when the B&W challenge house got too small.) I used her diagonal micro home for the chef challenge, as well as the frog scenario.
I’ve been waiting for this today. Thank you, Kayla, for all your incredible videos. You’ve got me through a hell of a lot, and i appreciate you so much. You’re amazing. Keep up the incredible work ❤
I wanted to do the Plant-a-sim just because I hadn’t really played much with plant sims in sims 4. But I also thought “nah it seems kind of easy” so I tried it with an elder sim, just to really set a deadline (haha😜) Let me tell you I had to do FOUR elder sims before I beat the challenge 🤣 (one sim just because he continually insisted on going running while there was a freaking heat wave, like “you are an elderly plant, just stay put!”) It really increases the difficulty with elder sims😅
As someone who only played the sims 1 from 2000 to 2010 (intermitent), jumping to sims 4 last year was a shock, so much information and iterarions, it took me days to get adjusted, and still can't grasp the whole actual gameplay. I mean, I love not to do the bed every day or water decorarive plants, or not having the burglar at the same time each game (like day 4 o 5), but there's so much stuff that I have to pause the game to see all the talk options, computar, music, 'cuz normal time ain't enough for me x'D Going slow but steady
The last time I played a scenario was when the “Aliens stole my parents” was brand new. I played it and the mom had a job and we got paid for it every day so it wasn’t as hard as it should have been 😂
I actually love the idea of scenarios I just wish they’d give us more silly or challenging ones. Like the frogs, the plant sim, and aliens stole my parents is my absolute favorite. I’m sorry but the unlucky chef is easy is you just make salads 😂
I wish that you could make scenarios for the gallery - I've made a few lots and households partly for when I start to buy the expansions, and I think a few of them would function as decent scenarios when combined. For example, I made a couple who couldn't have kids (made it so neither got pregnant or got other sims pregnant in CAS), and a shell of mansion, and the idea is that they have dedicated their lives to adopting children to give them a good start in life. Once I've got a few of the family gameplay packs, and things like the backyard furniture packs, by the time the couple die, I want them to see how many children they can raise to young adult, and have them move out on their first day of (young) adulthood with at least 30k simoleons, whilst building an amazing foster home. I've made a hedonistic sim who has had a baby of theirs dropped on their doorstep, so they are trying to raise the kid in a house that just isn't well designed for a toddler, with minimal child furniture initially, though I haven't figured out what the endpoint of it should be My most recent play has been with my "Squatters Barn" build, and a family of 3 teens and 5 children, living in a barn that is off the grid. I moved them in and then set the household money to 100 simoleons, so they have very basic funiture and have to make do. Once I have some of the expansions I think I'll do a restart with 1 teen and 7 children (with random traits and aspirations), just to see how many child aspirations etc I can get in total across the kids while still having the teen successfully graduate high school. I keep meaning to try the scenarios in the game, I've only started playing the Sims 4 fairly recently so have mostly been playing with normal families learning some of the tricks and routines first. I definitely dig the idea of the game doing something that feels more narrative
A little tip for doing the daily tasks early in the culinary career, if you get water from the sink, that counts as 25% of your daily task. So getting water 4 times will complete it and it takes barely any time at all
I’m casually working on unlucky chef right now. I make my chef take a selfie every time he starts a fire. He is now level 8 of his career, has 47 selfies, is best friends with the firefighter, and is trying to get a promotion while raising toddler triplets because his wife died a few fires ago. His life is crazy haha.
I tried the chef one, and it was honestly really easy to do. I just took the cooker away. They still can do all their tasks, build their skill, and advance their career by just making garden salad and others that do not require a cooker. When they are at their job, it doesn't seem to apply either. No fires.
Truth be told 💀 I actually loved the Perfectly Well-rounded scenario which was like the superior version of the one we have now. Max 3 skills to level 10, complete an entire aspiration and make 5 friends? I loved it and I especially loved using it with the Renaissance Sim aspiration which made it harder. Also made my reputation bad just so I could start with negative relationships with other Sims too😭
I wish they would have made the bathroom clutter and simtimates kits into one stuff pack. There are so many kits they could have combined into stuff packs. Then added a few more items to make them worth $10.
This scenario would probably be harder for a newbie than we think. It requires you to learn how to level up the right skills for a job (Where are the items for this skill? What is buy mode?), find other sims and build relationships, work on your aspiration AND keep your sim alive at the same time. It's understandably intermediate, because a beginner that doesn't know how to find a sims hunger bar yet would probably find this daunting.
I really enjoyed the "new in town" one... It could have been done super easily and really quickly but I really took my time and added extra goals , like I had to turn my crappy starter home into a beautiful home before having the final event party so that took some time... I made sure I maxed certain skills before allowing myself to do the requirements etc...
I did the Unlucky Chef scenario through the mixology path. I got around the fires by have my sim be a vegetarian and live off salads and yogurt, as well as reading cooking skill books.
I do enjoy scenarios for the challenges they help with. Before I had no idea how to prep a rags to riches challenge, and every time I tried to set one up I had issues typing out the codes properly. I was so happy I could finally try it out and now it's my preferred way of starting the game.
I figure some of the intermediate ones are intermediate because they take longer in game like the raising the kid through teenagehood. Some of the easy ones are like do one thing😅
I highly recommend the Stuck In Their Shadow scenario for anyone who was into The Sime Stories, it reminds me of it quite a bit with the story-telling aspect
I like scenarios and play them. I like having goals in the game. In Sims 2 and Sims 3 I struggled to complete lifetime goals because of how broad they were and my particular version of ADHD isn’t good at doing one giant goal. But in Sims 4 I can complete aspirations because I can follow the steps. Same with scenarios. I just wish there were more things added to the rewards store like more traits or maybe more fun items like in Sims 2.
I currently have saves for 4 scenarios: Parenting Predicament, Troublemaker, Super Rich Supervillian, and Extraterrestrial Researcher. I have a tendency to start a new save every time I start a different scenario - ER is my favorite so far due to a glitch in that save file.
I did a rags-to-riches with the Unlucky Chef scenario and just didn't let him use a stove after the fifth one went up in flames. The most involved part was getting the career to the required level.
I enjoyed doing unlucky chef! I just stopped cooking things that require the oven or stove. Garden salads, BLTs, and yogurt parfait all the way to the top!
You're right that some of them are very easy and dont feel like challenges, but I feel like those have been prepared there to maybe start a story for someone, to encourage them to make new sim and maybe like it very much, maybe they will want to continue it for long time off of this challenge :)
I miss the “Perfectly Well Rounded” one where you had to complete the aspiration, Max 3 skills and have 5 friends. It wasn’t exactly difficult but it was fun.
Yes, please do the unlucky chef one! I've been hoping you'd do that one forever. It's the only scenario I can see labeled at "hard", and you've discussed wanting harder scenarios, I definitely want to see you do it!
The unlucky chef I just had my sim make salads and fruit salad all the time, which helped a lot. No stove is necessary! Replacing stoves got to be too much money as well so I found that the easiest workaround, without cheating.
Unlucky Chef might be even harder to complete now that we have Fear of Fires from the Wants & Fears update. It took me 7 in-game weeks to do it before we had it.
I played the unlucky chef scenario, it felt like cheating a bit but it's legit method: make salads that don't use the fireplace and it becomes super easy.
I've tried a few scenarios - I think my favorite was the power couple. The plant sim one took forever for me for some reason - I can't recall why... I probably blocked it out! I do a lot of challenges on my own (the one's that are floating around in the community), but I have also tried to design some as well. It's fun!
I don’t really use scenarios but I do get ideas from watching your videos as well as other simmers videos for gameplay ideas, your generations let’s play spark in me to play my own 10 generations even though it’s been an achievement in the game for a long time
I've never played with scenarios even though some of them sounds fun. I think I'm gonna try the aliens stole my parents one, it sounds the sort of whacky thing I usually do.
