@@flaviuswestfall1718 Why not? It's been a while but if Stuff Packs can come back, no reason Pack Revamps couldn't come back and breathe some new life into the older occults.
@@codenate02 they make money off of stuff packs, especially since content creators started praising them over kits. they are not, however, making any substantial money off of revamps, which is enough of a reason for them to not come back.
@@RSStarfire Well, the reason for that is that get to work and island living aren't packs completely based around aliens and mermaids, they're just an aspect, unlike vampires, werewolves and realm of magic which are all completely occult packs. It does make sense that when they have other features to focus on less goes into the occults. I'm not saying I don't want a revamp though.
i use 2 mods for plantsims- one that allows you to make a permanent plantsim, and one that adds a bunch of special plantsim-only interactions with sims and objects. combined with the base feature of unique needs, they're no werewolves, but it makes plantsims fun
With how little Aliens actually get power-wise, I've found playing up the whole disguise bit to be the most entertaining aspect. Made an alien who was sent to Earth to spy, she basically started a Gentleman's club for the rich elite (drinking, card tables.) She eventually fell in love with her butler. Planned a big wedding at a local club, only for her to autonomously erase his memory right before they were going to walk down the aisle. I didn't even see it happen, and I tried to have them get married anyway. In the end she ran home in her big wedding dress during a thunderstorm. I went with it, saying that her Alien superiors found out and threatened his life if she continued the relationship. She still had to live with him as her butler though.
o.o damn that is some drama right there. nice to know they might do the memory erasure autonomously; i've been playing with autonomy off so a forewarning is nice lol
that's crazy... my alien sim was married with a kid to another sim (who was then abducted by aliens and had another kid LOL) for around a full sims year, they were deep in love, and then out of nowhere my alien sim autonomously memory erased his husband... i built back up their relationship and thought it was fine and then almost immediately after he memory erases him again lmao
@@AstronomicalJelly true! But I was referring to how important they were to the lore of the game. I was hoping that level of importance would translate to the expanded gameplay that other occults got in ts4.
Just wanted to say I am so proud of Simsie with her channel growth!! Also, as soon as I saw Simsie on the "International Women's Day" banner on the youtube home page, I gasped and smiled. That really is amazing!! Women Unite!!
It's kind of funny how hard they tried to balance certain abilities and items in the early game with all those cooldowns (e.g. these alien powers, the wishing well etc.) then at some point they just gave up and started slamming down OP features like dust bunnies that bring you 10k plates.
i was looking forward to see a tiny vampire home, cuz you mentioned that aliens might've been the last occult tiny home you've made, like the mermaid one and werewolf one, but i couldn't find the vampire one- anyways, would love to see you continue the tiny occult-like homes like vampire, spellcaster, maybe a stanley humphrey themed tiny home too (cuz honestly, stanely is like his own occult sim at this point and we love him for it)
Ikr I was initially so excited for Strangerville bc I thought we would finally be getting more to do with aliens (and maybe there could’ve been like an extraterrestrial investigator job as well? Or something like that) but instead we only got a bland world and a short story with no replayability and I felt so dumb for ever getting my hopes up
Oh, and growing and evolving alien plants, like the gloworb and the Tenticle tree you can get rich from that. Just don't mention the gnomes--unless you want to be fired. Before I forget, I found out the other day that aliens have the power to revive those little aliens in the aquarium tanks, and if they are high enough in the wellness skill, they can teleport and meditate to increase their mental powers to where they don't need sleep.
the way zenon is a common polish (masculine) name 😭 we even have a "celebrity" named zenon martyniuk lmao (edit after further thought it's not that common i don't know a single zenon that is under 50 years old but you get the point)
I sorta get it though, its kinda like how, where i live, the name alberto was all the rage back in my grandfathers generation but nowadays you cant find somone below 40 with that name. Its not common now, but it used to be, so it feels common.
the outfit is like if an alien was introduced to runway fashion before casual clothes, and they combined casual and runway because they thought runway fashion was like an everyday thing
Aliens and mermaids are the most boring occults in the sims. Like the lack of a skill tree really hinders them so much. Mermaids definitely are the better of the two though. At least you get a bar telling you if your low on your occult specific need. And controlling the weather with singing is fun.
i love how kayla complains about the high maintenance trait every time a sim has it, but then gives it to all her sims when she makes videos😭😭 just shows that sims players truly like to suffer when they play
While it’s true that since it was the first occult they made, it wouldn’t be as good as the later ones. However, it’s been 9 years since they released and they definitely could have added more to them by this point. But they are still exactly the same as they were when they released. Mermaids and aliens both need skill trees and charge bars.
Sims occults are like that meme of the parent (EA) holding a child above water (Werewolves & Vampires), while the others are drowning (Aliens and Mermaids) and then the one at the bottom of the pool (Plantsims) 😂😂
Kayla calling Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century old was bad enough, but her literally describing the actual plot twist of Signs unironically without even realizing she had done it hurt my old woman heart.
Tbh, it's an unpopular opinion but I like how non-invasive aliens and mermaids are. Sometimes I'm bored by the normal sims and wanna spice things up, but I don't want to deal with xp and levels and skill trees. Aliens have gotta be my favorite occult type, mostly for this reason. They are unique and have interesting abilities and characteristics that blend into normal interaction and gameplay. It feels more natural than dealing with grinding for xp or going out of my way to do 'occulty things'. These two types might have less content and I would love it if they had a refresh, but I like how simple they are.
I agree, aliens need a lot more. They were short-changed, but with the Crystal Creations pack, their powers can be enhanced. Also, while my sim went to the Geek Con she got the crystal seed after winning a race in the rocket ship. She also got one while fishing at the Desert Bloom park. Just by growing those trees and selling crystals (charged or not) you can get rich from that.
to be honest i wouldn't even mind if they made a gamepack with aliens OR mermaids expanded like other occult types . you could say these two were just 'additions' to the expansion packs so i don't think it'd be that unfair
They won’t do that because it was really difficult to sell MFPS on console because they don’t allow DLC for DLC. But they could do the Sims 3 Vampires route and just include an improved version of the occult in another pack.
@@alison247mitzy2 what i talked about wouldn't be a DLC for DLC, it'd be a gamepack that includes only aliens or only mermaids and gameplay related to them and nothing that's in get to work or island living would be there, so the packs would still be worth it because these two occult types weren't the main selling points anyway
Sadly, unlike the other occults in the Sims 4, there really isn't a working mod for Aliens. There is an incredible one for Mermaids (and even adds loads more) and one that adds witches and fairies. One that changes Unicorns to just... be better. Werewolf mods etc. Nothing that works for Aliens, unfortunately. There's even stuff to make Plantsims more interesting.
aliens were so important to the sims franchise in my childhood and it makes me so sad that theyve been paid dirt in sims 4 era 😭😭😭 let me live on sixam PLEASE
Zenon was one of my favorite movies growing up! I was like 10 yrs old when it came out and would run around the house singing "Zoom Zoom Zoom make my heart go Boom Boom Boom"!
Same! The star of the movie was also on the soap opera Days of Our Lives at the same time, which I was too young to be watching but did, so I thought that was such a cool cross-over at the time.
Negative buffs from Sims who are high maintenance clear way quicker if you practice wellness like meditating or doing yoga! It also gives them a really positive buff when you do!
My personal Occult Sim "Tier List" (snort) goes like this: *Top Tier* Spellcaster - imagine not playing with cheats but still feeling like a cheater. *High Tier* Vampire - you don't age, don't need to sleep and don't need to take bathroom breaks... And then you get super powers. *Mid Tier* Werewolf - they get some fun stuff but no real "advantage". Plus, they look like they're wearing furry costumes. Ghost - the poor simmer's vampire. *Low Tier* Mermaids - the Aquaman experience from the "Batman Fires Aquaman" skit. *Losers' Club* Aliens - the true feeling of an EA customer: we get nothing but it costs us everything.
My problem with aliens is that I had more than one sim wipe out the memory of their partner independently! They would forget their entire relationship, even their marriage 😭😭
I remember aliens in the sims 3, they were waaay more fun than in the sims 4. We could literally summon a meteor with them, that could create a giant hole in the middle of the world you were playing. You could also take your spaceship and cause chaos on a public lot, and everybody would start screaming and running away. OMG I love that!
I do like the disguise aspect in 4, but it leads me to play them very differently. My aliens in 3 are completely over-the-top. I love dressing them in the cosplay outfits from Movie Stuff, the Into the Future clothes, and any Sci-Fi looking things that are too outlandish for my regular sims.
I wouldn't mind if they go back and revamp the mermaids instead of making a whole new expansion pack. Also while I was sending my sims to bed a random alien was in my pool.
it’s funny to see you making alien content i’ve never used them either and I recently made one the other day but I had no idea what they actually do until now 😂
I've found that when I cook on faster speeds, fires tend to happen more often. I'm not sure if there's any actual logic to it, but just something I've noticed happens more often than not. Even when they have max cooking.
When you have the high maintenance trait and do the wellness aspiration you can get a trait to help. But doing yoga and meditation helps too! High maintenance Sims also love wearing the masks from the Spa day pack.
We need a massive update to revamp the lesser occults. Plant Sims, Aliens, Mermaids. Like they keep plant sims so secretive and I dislike that the plant sim thing is only temporary for the player while in the sims 3 they were plant sims their entire lives and you could get plant sim babies from the special seeds you PLANTED IN POT like you GREW YOUR BABYYY !! Aliens need some sort of skill tree!! Really ANYTHING will be an improvement to their current state. They’re basically just a normal sim with a pinch of difference. Mermaid deserved skill trees and I am still so disappointed they didn’t give it to us. They could go a good or evil route and be good sweet mermaid or go full evil siren vibes and drown people.
And I don't know why, but aliens cannot become spellcasters--believe me I tried. They can go to the magic realm, but no where is there an option to become one, no matter how much you are friends with the sages.
Aliens are an occult and the game doesn't support hybrid occults. So you can only be one occult at a time in most cases. I say most cases, because it is possible to get a hybrid Sim but hybrids are glitchy because they're not an intended thing. I think really the only way to get them is through cheating and rarely through pregnancy (so for example if you had an alien and a spellcaster have children you have the potential to end up with an alien spellcaster child that way)
Aliens are an occult, and a sim can only be one type of occult at a time. I agree that they SHOULD be able to be werewolves or spellcasters or vampires but nupe.
Yeah you need mods to be more than one type of occult. Unless glitches happen. I got vampire/mermaid hybrids once. They were mermaids but they had the vampire needs except for hydration instead of hygiene. They burned in the sun but didn't have rhe vampire skill tree to eventually get sun immunity. They were interesting.
I've been obsessed with aliens (in general, and yes, I do mean little green/blue guys) for a while and I'm just... constantly sad about how the aliens are so empty in Sims 4 lmao. They need an upgrade so bad. Like I'd absolutely buy a whole expansion/game pack just for them.
I agree with everything you are saying about Aliens, but what is frustrating is, I don't think they are gonna get that revamp. I think they are as good as they are gonna get. It was so easy to revamp spa day. It's not gonna be that easy to revamp an old occult. So, I don't think it's gonna happen. So we just have to get creative. I did a game play with aliens where they moved in with a nerd sim and learned about the earth from him. Their goal was to build a rocket to go home. The nerd fell in love with the girl alien and got married and had alien kids. I still have that game going. I use all the occults on a regular basis and still come up with new things. So it is possible. The Gallery and Tumblr are a huge help!
When your favourite part of aliens is a replacement for a 500 satisfaction point trait (that can fail, unlike the trait) then the aliens friggin suck lol
I'm finding it really fun and cute that your rescue kitten came in to hang out with you and as I watched this three of my rescue kittens came and laid on top of me. 😺☺️
"It came out in 1999. It's OLD!!" Kayla inadvertently insults half her fanbase. XD I am not just an OG simmer but an OG Maxis fan! I have been playing Maxis games since their inception in 1987! I was 3 in 1987! I guess I am a geezer XD.
Zenon girl of the 21st century came out in '99 9 year old me :"ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM MAKE MY HEART GO BOOM BOOM MY SUPANOVA GURL 🎶" lilsimsie: "Actually older than i am" Me: "Gosh im old" 😭 🤣
I miss when aliens stayed disguised when out on community lots so you would be genuinely surprised by them. And you could save either by their alien form or their human form for the gallery.
I hope they'll consider revamping those, like they do for the base game so that it's compatible for new features, etc. If you have the packs for aliens, you can get stuff upgraded next time you log into the game, and if you don't, it doesn't affect your game until you buy those packs, etc. Aliens SHOULD have skill trees & ability gauges specific to them (& mermaids), just like the other occult folks do!
I want Aliens and Mermaids to get a refresh so they can have skill trees and special powers too! At the very least, if it was possible to make a mod for it I'd be so happy
That tiny house is one of my favorites that you've built with a theme!!! but im partial to alienes because for some reason I would always play as one in sims 2
I love the aliens, mostly for the aesthetic, but it drives me INSANE in gameplay how other sims will just “discover” you’re an alien apropos of nothing. Totally ruins most of the storyline/immersion for me.
Welp. I had to pause it and cry a little to hear her talk about how old that movie is and how it is older than her. I was like 12 when it came out. Lol. Don’t mind me. Just going to get fitted for my cane.
Get to work is the expansion that at least felt expansive, retail, 3 new careers, a bad new world, a secret world, and an occult wish sims was still this ambitious
LMAO "If you want to play with the crystal pack be an alien" Lol i legit just made an alien infant with Sulani Mana & Father Winter's Baby traits for my Mega Challenge which includes Single Sim, Super Sim, Runaway Teen, Human Enough, Homeless, 100 Baby, Black Widow, Gold Digger & Career Legacy
coincidentally, im on day three of an alien legacy where all the heirs are abduction babies. did you know if you mess with the abduction settings in MCCC you can have multiple abductions at once (the setting is called "alien invasion")? i was holding a yard sale (jewelry making go brr) and two people were beamed up at the same time XD then a third person went a minute later. i had to turn it off cuz my founder ended up with three abduction babies (the second abduction was twins why) also coincidentally, my alien sim is evil. i would have to disagree that being evil makes gameplay not fun; in my experience an evil sim is not any more difficult to take care of than a nicer sim. she might be more predisposed to mischief and insulting other sims when left alone, but she doesnt have have any problems being nice and friendly, either. i think your difficulties lie firmly with the high maintenance trait, since that trait makes the chances of being in a bad mood much more random and inconvenient i've been using the scientist career to farm crystals and metals with my alien and completed the crystal, metal, and alien collections that way (for those that dont know, there are two nodes you can find alien collectables in at the lab scientists work at). reviving the dead aliens is a very cheeky way to complete that collection lol i havent bothered with any of the alien powers except for that and the memory erasure because of that stupid cooldown tho, and now i never will. five hours is ridiculous. i've thought before that aliens (and vampires and mermaids) ought to be reworked and given additional gameplay (in the vampires' case, just more stuff to do like we have with werewolves and spellcasters), and this definitely proves it. literally the most you can do with an alien is mess with other sims and give yourself a headache for several hours after using a power :\ so i think if you have a home birth with an alien baby, they're gonna have a regular bassinet. my first alien baby i couldnt send my sim to the hospital cuz she went into labor in the middle of eloping lol the baby came right after. i was very disappointed when i saw the bassinet. she didnt get an alien birth certificate, either, just the handprint picture. the twins i had at the hospital and they both have alien bassinets.
They’ve actually gotten rid of several of the alien interactions. I specifically remember being able to go into a meditative trance instead of sleeping, and there were other psychic-like powers that they scrapped. Really hoping they add a skill tree and update them.
Ive been playing a male astronaut who loves using an observatory for a couple of weeks, hes been abducted 16 times and he will not get pregnant! Im super sad 🤣 i think it might be bugged.
I am really sorry, but I remembered one other thing, did you know they can eat crystals--yes eat them, to gain skills and moodlets as well as mental prowness. And finally--and I really do mean finally--Happy International Women's Day!!
The fun part of playing with aliens is "discovering" them by going to Sixam or being abducted and having an alien baby, once you have an alien in your house the gameplay moves on to a new generation and you just occasionally have a parent with an unusual appearance.
To quote another movie about aliens that came out before Simsie was born: “Edgar your skin’s hanging off your bones” that one might be too scary for Kayla but generally a great movie (for its time)
Aliens and Mermaids deserve such a big revamp
I want skill trees for them- it would be so much fun!
That is so not happening
@@flaviuswestfall1718well yeah but we can hope
@@flaviuswestfall1718 Why not? It's been a while but if Stuff Packs can come back, no reason Pack Revamps couldn't come back and breathe some new life into the older occults.
@@codenate02 they make money off of stuff packs, especially since content creators started praising them over kits. they are not, however, making any substantial money off of revamps, which is enough of a reason for them to not come back.
Revamp 👏 mermaids 👏 aliens 👏 and 👏 plantsims 👏
Compared to the newer occults….. they’re all lacking (especially plantsims are very depressing)
Frfr. The worst occults cost twice as much to add into your game as the good ones! Insane.
@@RSStarfire Well, the reason for that is that get to work and island living aren't packs completely based around aliens and mermaids, they're just an aspect, unlike vampires, werewolves and realm of magic which are all completely occult packs. It does make sense that when they have other features to focus on less goes into the occults. I'm not saying I don't want a revamp though.
I do like plant sims though.. maybe they should update some or all of those occults. It makes for more variaty in the game but that might just be me 😅
Poor, poor plantsims. They basically have nothing..
i use 2 mods for plantsims- one that allows you to make a permanent plantsim, and one that adds a bunch of special plantsim-only interactions with sims and objects. combined with the base feature of unique needs, they're no werewolves, but it makes plantsims fun
“you spend your whole life dreaming about having magic powers but you’re just stuck being an alien” is a perfect description of my autistic childhood
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same lmao
With how little Aliens actually get power-wise, I've found playing up the whole disguise bit to be the most entertaining aspect. Made an alien who was sent to Earth to spy, she basically started a Gentleman's club for the rich elite (drinking, card tables.) She eventually fell in love with her butler. Planned a big wedding at a local club, only for her to autonomously erase his memory right before they were going to walk down the aisle. I didn't even see it happen, and I tried to have them get married anyway. In the end she ran home in her big wedding dress during a thunderstorm. I went with it, saying that her Alien superiors found out and threatened his life if she continued the relationship. She still had to live with him as her butler though.
o.o damn that is some drama right there. nice to know they might do the memory erasure autonomously; i've been playing with autonomy off so a forewarning is nice lol
Damn! I am invested now! They may make it work again! 😂
that's crazy... my alien sim was married with a kid to another sim (who was then abducted by aliens and had another kid LOL) for around a full sims year, they were deep in love, and then out of nowhere my alien sim autonomously memory erased his husband... i built back up their relationship and thought it was fine and then almost immediately after he memory erases him again lmao
Aliens deserve so much more 😭 they were so important and beloved in the sims 2 and they are like, the worst apart from maybe mermaids.
i was obcessed with aliens and plant sims in the sims 2.. now they both suck :/
Those green aliens were iconic, nothing needed to change, they were perfect!
I loved them so much in the sims 2. 😭😭😭
from what ive seen they didn't really have much to them in sims 2, they still played like regular humans for the most part
@@AstronomicalJelly true! But I was referring to how important they were to the lore of the game. I was hoping that level of importance would translate to the expanded gameplay that other occults got in ts4.
I was today years old when I found out Sixam is Maxis backward…how has it been nearly a decade and I’ve never noticed
I feel like its ✨so interesting✨ how aliens and mermaids have literally the same features and they came like 5 years apart....
Honestly, mermaids have less. Aliens at least have a special bassinet and a special urn.
later this year sims will come out with a "alien redo" pack for $30 😂
"Do you remember Zenon?"
Yeah!
"It's older than I am."
... oh...
I said OUCH when she said that. I forgot I am older than LilSimsie. Excuse me while I go take an ibuprofen and get my heating pad.
@@charlottehayes632 i am older then her too i was born in 1992
I was 16 when the Zenon movie came out. And the hits keep coming.
@@zauberkind4827 omg i was 10 lol
I am also old. Lilsimsie always coming for us 😂
Just wanted to say I am so proud of Simsie with her channel growth!! Also, as soon as I saw Simsie on the "International Women's Day" banner on the youtube home page, I gasped and smiled. That really is amazing!! Women Unite!!
I was coming here to comment about it too!! So happy for her!
WAIT THAT'S AWESOME
I took a screenshot of it. So proud! 🥰
@@meredithwemhoff9270I did too! That was the best surprise!!
I took a screenshot too!😂. Great job Simsie!! @@meredithwemhoff9270
1:14 “it’s OLD, older than I am”
Me crying softly “….zoom zoom zoom….make my heart go boom boom…my supernova girl”
Meh 90s isn't old. People call anything from before they were born as old
Make a scientist sim and have them fall in love with the alien you made.
It's kind of funny how hard they tried to balance certain abilities and items in the early game with all those cooldowns (e.g. these alien powers, the wishing well etc.) then at some point they just gave up and started slamming down OP features like dust bunnies that bring you 10k plates.
the caster spells and potions that are two steps removed from just shift clicking sims
i was looking forward to see a tiny vampire home, cuz you mentioned that aliens might've been the last occult tiny home you've made, like the mermaid one and werewolf one, but i couldn't find the vampire one- anyways, would love to see you continue the tiny occult-like homes like vampire, spellcaster, maybe a stanley humphrey themed tiny home too (cuz honestly, stanely is like his own occult sim at this point and we love him for it)
I'd say mermaids are probably worse, but god I wish they did aliens better. They're such a staple of the sims! I just want Strangetown vibes again 😭
Ikr I was initially so excited for Strangerville bc I thought we would finally be getting more to do with aliens (and maybe there could’ve been like an extraterrestrial investigator job as well? Or something like that) but instead we only got a bland world and a short story with no replayability and I felt so dumb for ever getting my hopes up
before the video: "I'm in an alien era!"
after the video: "I'm so over aliens"
It was a very short era, the content of it almost proporcional to the amount of gameplay you get out of the aliens. Almost.
"Does anyone remember Zenon? It's OLD!" Thanks, Kayla 🤣🤣🤣
Cetus lapetus, that hit me hard lol
"It came out in 1999. IT'S OLD! It's older than I am" Yup I felt gut-punched too. 1999 is old now? XD
That made my heart go BOOM BOOM
Right?!? I was 10! @@TheOG-GG
Nope. People just label anything from before they were born as old
“She need her eyeball ring so she can control people’s minds” that had me laughing so hard I was not expecting that ❤️
Oh, and growing and evolving alien plants, like the gloworb and the Tenticle tree you can get rich from that. Just don't mention the gnomes--unless you want to be fired. Before I forget, I found out the other day that aliens have the power to revive those little aliens in the aquarium tanks, and if they are high enough in the wellness skill, they can teleport and meditate to increase their mental powers to where they don't need sleep.
the way zenon is a common polish (masculine) name 😭 we even have a "celebrity" named zenon martyniuk lmao (edit after further thought it's not that common i don't know a single zenon that is under 50 years old but you get the point)
I sorta get it though, its kinda like how, where i live, the name alberto was all the rage back in my grandfathers generation but nowadays you cant find somone below 40 with that name. Its not common now, but it used to be, so it feels common.
the outfit is like if an alien was introduced to runway fashion before casual clothes, and they combined casual and runway because they thought runway fashion was like an everyday thing
Aliens and mermaids are the most boring occults in the sims. Like the lack of a skill tree really hinders them so much.
Mermaids definitely are the better of the two though. At least you get a bar telling you if your low on your occult specific need. And controlling the weather with singing is fun.
i sometimes make my alien sims non-binary because i think aliens probably don’t have our ideas of gender
i love how kayla complains about the high maintenance trait every time a sim has it, but then gives it to all her sims when she makes videos😭😭 just shows that sims players truly like to suffer when they play
While it’s true that since it was the first occult they made, it wouldn’t be as good as the later ones. However, it’s been 9 years since they released and they definitely could have added more to them by this point. But they are still exactly the same as they were when they released. Mermaids and aliens both need skill trees and charge bars.
happy international women’s day!!
Sims occults are like that meme of the parent (EA) holding a child above water (Werewolves & Vampires), while the others are drowning (Aliens and Mermaids) and then the one at the bottom of the pool (Plantsims) 😂😂
Kayla calling Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century old was bad enough, but her literally describing the actual plot twist of Signs unironically without even realizing she had done it hurt my old woman heart.
Aliens are just boring, as are most of the occults. I wish they made the aliens actually have powers like werewolves.
Tbh, it's an unpopular opinion but I like how non-invasive aliens and mermaids are. Sometimes I'm bored by the normal sims and wanna spice things up, but I don't want to deal with xp and levels and skill trees.
Aliens have gotta be my favorite occult type, mostly for this reason. They are unique and have interesting abilities and characteristics that blend into normal interaction and gameplay. It feels more natural than dealing with grinding for xp or going out of my way to do 'occulty things'. These two types might have less content and I would love it if they had a refresh, but I like how simple they are.
Or at least let them become other occult types! I was so disappointed to find out my alien child could not be a spell caster.
@@amystrickland7162I used cheats to make my alien child become a spellcaster anyway lol
I'm begging the Sims team to make an alien pack that gives them so much more
Or LITERALLY UPDATE THEM
I agree, aliens need a lot more. They were short-changed, but with the Crystal Creations pack, their powers can be enhanced. Also, while my sim went to the Geek Con she got the crystal seed after winning a race in the rocket ship. She also got one while fishing at the Desert Bloom park. Just by growing those trees and selling crystals (charged or not) you can get rich from that.
to be honest i wouldn't even mind if they made a gamepack with aliens OR mermaids expanded like other occult types . you could say these two were just 'additions' to the expansion packs so i don't think it'd be that unfair
They won’t do that because it was really difficult to sell MFPS on console because they don’t allow DLC for DLC. But they could do the Sims 3 Vampires route and just include an improved version of the occult in another pack.
@@alison247mitzy2 what i talked about wouldn't be a DLC for DLC, it'd be a gamepack that includes only aliens or only mermaids and gameplay related to them and nothing that's in get to work or island living would be there, so the packs would still be worth it because these two occult types weren't the main selling points anyway
Sadly, unlike the other occults in the Sims 4, there really isn't a working mod for Aliens. There is an incredible one for Mermaids (and even adds loads more) and one that adds witches and fairies. One that changes Unicorns to just... be better. Werewolf mods etc. Nothing that works for Aliens, unfortunately. There's even stuff to make Plantsims more interesting.
aliens were so important to the sims franchise in my childhood and it makes me so sad that theyve been paid dirt in sims 4 era 😭😭😭 let me live on sixam PLEASE
Zenon was one of my favorite movies growing up! I was like 10 yrs old when it came out and would run around the house singing "Zoom Zoom Zoom make my heart go Boom Boom Boom"!
Same! The star of the movie was also on the soap opera Days of Our Lives at the same time, which I was too young to be watching but did, so I thought that was such a cool cross-over at the time.
omg i loved that song as a kid
Negative buffs from Sims who are high maintenance clear way quicker if you practice wellness like meditating or doing yoga! It also gives them a really positive buff when you do!
aliens need a QOL update so bad. why can’t you sync features/clothes in CAS the way you can with every other occult 😩😩😩😩
"it's super old, it's from 1999 so it's even older than I am" me being born in 1992 ☠
My personal Occult Sim "Tier List" (snort) goes like this:
*Top Tier*
Spellcaster - imagine not playing with cheats but still feeling like a cheater.
*High Tier*
Vampire - you don't age, don't need to sleep and don't need to take bathroom breaks... And then you get super powers.
*Mid Tier*
Werewolf - they get some fun stuff but no real "advantage". Plus, they look like they're wearing furry costumes.
Ghost - the poor simmer's vampire.
*Low Tier*
Mermaids - the Aquaman experience from the "Batman Fires Aquaman" skit.
*Losers' Club*
Aliens - the true feeling of an EA customer: we get nothing but it costs us everything.
My problem with aliens is that I had more than one sim wipe out the memory of their partner independently! They would forget their entire relationship, even their marriage 😭😭
God I haven’t heard anyone talk about the movie Zenon in YEARS! That movie was my identity as a kid. I can’t believe it’s so old now (and so are we)
Only as old as you feel
This was a missed opportunity to create Juno Birch, the ultimate alieness
LITERALLY
OH MY GOD THAT'S GENIUS! Next alien sim
I remember aliens in the sims 3, they were waaay more fun than in the sims 4. We could literally summon a meteor with them, that could create a giant hole in the middle of the world you were playing. You could also take your spaceship and cause chaos on a public lot, and everybody would start screaming and running away. OMG I love that!
I do like the disguise aspect in 4, but it leads me to play them very differently. My aliens in 3 are completely over-the-top. I love dressing them in the cosplay outfits from Movie Stuff, the Into the Future clothes, and any Sci-Fi looking things that are too outlandish for my regular sims.
I wouldn't mind if they go back and revamp the mermaids instead of making a whole new expansion pack. Also while I was sending my sims to bed a random alien was in my pool.
it’s funny to see you making alien content i’ve never used them either and I recently made one the other day but I had no idea what they actually do until now 😂
30 minute sims 4 alien video rarity: exotic
I was almost in Highschool when the first Zenon movie aired.
Zenon from the movie; her last name was Carr.
Off topic but lilsimsies baking streams really got me into baking. Im watching this while eating cherry rolls i just made
I've found that when I cook on faster speeds, fires tend to happen more often. I'm not sure if there's any actual logic to it, but just something I've noticed happens more often than not. Even when they have max cooking.
I knew I was older than you but when you said a movie from 1999 was older than you it hit real hard
When you have the high maintenance trait and do the wellness aspiration you can get a trait to help. But doing yoga and meditation helps too! High maintenance Sims also love wearing the masks from the Spa day pack.
a simsie CAS video, with gameplay, with an occult, and WITH AN EYEBALL RING. she hit the pentagon.
We need a massive update to revamp the lesser occults. Plant Sims, Aliens, Mermaids.
Like they keep plant sims so secretive and I dislike that the plant sim thing is only temporary for the player while in the sims 3 they were plant sims their entire lives and you could get plant sim babies from the special seeds you PLANTED IN POT like you GREW YOUR BABYYY !!
Aliens need some sort of skill tree!! Really ANYTHING will be an improvement to their current state. They’re basically just a normal sim with a pinch of difference.
Mermaid deserved skill trees and I am still so disappointed they didn’t give it to us. They could go a good or evil route and be good sweet mermaid or go full evil siren vibes and drown people.
omg. when i first heard you say "eyeball ring" i thought it was a ring for the eyeball....not an actual RING with an eyeball on it! Good grief me! lol
I wish "Get to work" got an update. Gameplay itself is still fun (especially the scientist carreer), but aliens desperately need an update.
this vid is actually amazing like what the- also "im more interested in being my true alien self" why did that make me burst out laughing 😅😅
And I don't know why, but aliens cannot become spellcasters--believe me I tried. They can go to the magic realm, but no where is there an option to become one, no matter how much you are friends with the sages.
it's because you can only be one type of occult
Aliens are an occult and the game doesn't support hybrid occults. So you can only be one occult at a time in most cases.
I say most cases, because it is possible to get a hybrid Sim but hybrids are glitchy because they're not an intended thing. I think really the only way to get them is through cheating and rarely through pregnancy (so for example if you had an alien and a spellcaster have children you have the potential to end up with an alien spellcaster child that way)
Aliens are an occult, and a sim can only be one type of occult at a time. I agree that they SHOULD be able to be werewolves or spellcasters or vampires but nupe.
Yeah you need mods to be more than one type of occult.
Unless glitches happen. I got vampire/mermaid hybrids once. They were mermaids but they had the vampire needs except for hydration instead of hygiene.
They burned in the sun but didn't have rhe vampire skill tree to eventually get sun immunity. They were interesting.
I just tried this and was FURIOUS 😭
I've been obsessed with aliens (in general, and yes, I do mean little green/blue guys) for a while and I'm just... constantly sad about how the aliens are so empty in Sims 4 lmao. They need an upgrade so bad. Like I'd absolutely buy a whole expansion/game pack just for them.
1:12 I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS MOVIE FOR SO LONG, I THOUGHT IT WAS A FEVER DREAM
THANK YOU SIMSIE🙏🏻🙏🏻
I agree with everything you are saying about Aliens, but what is frustrating is, I don't think they are gonna get that revamp. I think they are as good as they are gonna get. It was so easy to revamp spa day. It's not gonna be that easy to revamp an old occult. So, I don't think it's gonna happen. So we just have to get creative. I did a game play with aliens where they moved in with a nerd sim and learned about the earth from him. Their goal was to build a rocket to go home. The nerd fell in love with the girl alien and got married and had alien kids. I still have that game going. I use all the occults on a regular basis and still come up with new things. So it is possible. The Gallery and Tumblr are a huge help!
“it’s OLD, i mean it’s older than i am” simsie about a movie that came out when i was a child making me realize how ancient i feel 😂😂😂
When your favourite part of aliens is a replacement for a 500 satisfaction point trait (that can fail, unlike the trait) then the aliens friggin suck lol
I love the fact she got into the national woman's day thing on UA-cam I'm so happy ❤❤❤❤❤
This was a fun episode, Kayla. Seeing Sunny join the LP was a nice treat.
I really wish they’d add the ability to “sync” the alien appearances. That’s the main gripe I have with them.
Way to make me feel old Kayla 😅 Zennon was all the rage when I was in middle school. I vividly remember playing Sims 1 and watching Zennon 😂😅👵
As someone that was born in 1997, I feel a _liiiiiittle_ called out 😂 I never watched Zenon, but I know my older sister liked it lol
How can aliens be the worst hen mermaids are right there?
I just saw you on the women's month you tube card and I couldn't be happier for you! Thank you for being you.
Aliens need a refresh desperately. And something like the Glimmerstone to get to Sixam.
I’ve found that the best way to get crystals / gems and metals for the jewelry is with the scientist career. You can get a ton in a single work day!
I'm finding it really fun and cute that your rescue kitten came in to hang out with you and as I watched this three of my rescue kittens came and laid on top of me. 😺☺️
Cannot edit my comment on mobile but also yes I do remember Zenon, but I am older than the movie 😂
"It came out in 1999. It's OLD!!" Kayla inadvertently insults half her fanbase. XD I am not just an OG simmer but an OG Maxis fan! I have been playing Maxis games since their inception in 1987! I was 3 in 1987! I guess I am a geezer XD.
Zenon you hit me in the feels I love that movie always watched it when it was on I now feel old. You awesome Simsie
Hands down the best place for gems and metals is the scientist career
Came to watch this after seeing UA-cam feature you for international women's day and it making me smile ❤️
Zenon girl of the 21st century came out in '99
9 year old me :"ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM MAKE MY HEART GO BOOM BOOM MY SUPANOVA GURL 🎶"
lilsimsie: "Actually older than i am"
Me: "Gosh im old" 😭 🤣
I was just telling my 9 yo stepdaughter about Zenon the other day, one of my all-time favorite Disney movies ha!
I miss when aliens stayed disguised when out on community lots so you would be genuinely surprised by them. And you could save either by their alien form or their human form for the gallery.
i think there's a command on mccc that lets you force all aliens into their disguise, but i havent tested it out yet
I hope they'll consider revamping those, like they do for the base game so that it's compatible for new features, etc. If you have the packs for aliens, you can get stuff upgraded next time you log into the game, and if you don't, it doesn't affect your game until you buy those packs, etc. Aliens SHOULD have skill trees & ability gauges specific to them (& mermaids), just like the other occult folks do!
I want Aliens and Mermaids to get a refresh so they can have skill trees and special powers too! At the very least, if it was possible to make a mod for it I'd be so happy
There's a mod called expanded mermaids (possibly aliens) that does this! They do other occults too.
That tiny house is one of my favorites that you've built with a theme!!! but im partial to alienes because for some reason I would always play as one in sims 2
Im still waiting for Aliens to be able to link up their forms (and also human forms fot robots)
I love the aliens, mostly for the aesthetic, but it drives me INSANE in gameplay how other sims will just “discover” you’re an alien apropos of nothing. Totally ruins most of the storyline/immersion for me.
Zenon Galaxy is such a drag name
Zoom Zoom Zoom! Lol. I LOVED Zenon!! I used to rent the movie from the library all the time!
Welp. I had to pause it and cry a little to hear her talk about how old that movie is and how it is older than her. I was like 12 when it came out. Lol. Don’t mind me. Just going to get fitted for my cane.
Get to work is the expansion that at least felt expansive, retail, 3 new careers, a bad new world, a secret world, and an occult wish sims was still this ambitious
Zenon is older than Kayla?? I feel so much older than I did before this information. Zetus lapetus.
LMAO "If you want to play with the crystal pack be an alien"
Lol i legit just made an alien infant with Sulani Mana & Father Winter's Baby traits for my Mega Challenge which includes Single Sim, Super Sim, Runaway Teen, Human Enough, Homeless, 100 Baby, Black Widow, Gold Digger & Career Legacy
Aliens and Mermaids need a refresher like they definitely need a still tree cuz they don’t have much going for themselves
Watching this now, a few days before my 9 year anniversary with my boyfriend is wild, so long ago! I'm glad to share a month with them😂😂
coincidentally, im on day three of an alien legacy where all the heirs are abduction babies. did you know if you mess with the abduction settings in MCCC you can have multiple abductions at once (the setting is called "alien invasion")? i was holding a yard sale (jewelry making go brr) and two people were beamed up at the same time XD then a third person went a minute later. i had to turn it off cuz my founder ended up with three abduction babies (the second abduction was twins why)
also coincidentally, my alien sim is evil. i would have to disagree that being evil makes gameplay not fun; in my experience an evil sim is not any more difficult to take care of than a nicer sim. she might be more predisposed to mischief and insulting other sims when left alone, but she doesnt have have any problems being nice and friendly, either. i think your difficulties lie firmly with the high maintenance trait, since that trait makes the chances of being in a bad mood much more random and inconvenient
i've been using the scientist career to farm crystals and metals with my alien and completed the crystal, metal, and alien collections that way (for those that dont know, there are two nodes you can find alien collectables in at the lab scientists work at). reviving the dead aliens is a very cheeky way to complete that collection lol i havent bothered with any of the alien powers except for that and the memory erasure because of that stupid cooldown tho, and now i never will. five hours is ridiculous. i've thought before that aliens (and vampires and mermaids) ought to be reworked and given additional gameplay (in the vampires' case, just more stuff to do like we have with werewolves and spellcasters), and this definitely proves it. literally the most you can do with an alien is mess with other sims and give yourself a headache for several hours after using a power :\
so i think if you have a home birth with an alien baby, they're gonna have a regular bassinet. my first alien baby i couldnt send my sim to the hospital cuz she went into labor in the middle of eloping lol the baby came right after. i was very disappointed when i saw the bassinet. she didnt get an alien birth certificate, either, just the handprint picture. the twins i had at the hospital and they both have alien bassinets.
Ouch Simsie... I remember when Zenon came out.... I LOVED Zenon
They’ve actually gotten rid of several of the alien interactions. I specifically remember being able to go into a meditative trance instead of sleeping, and there were other psychic-like powers that they scrapped. Really hoping they add a skill tree and update them.
Ive been playing a male astronaut who loves using an observatory for a couple of weeks, hes been abducted 16 times and he will not get pregnant! Im super sad 🤣 i think it might be bugged.
you made spacegirl themed megamind, which I unironically love
I am really sorry, but I remembered one other thing, did you know they can eat crystals--yes eat them, to gain skills and moodlets as well as mental prowness. And finally--and I really do mean finally--Happy International Women's Day!!
The fun part of playing with aliens is "discovering" them by going to Sixam or being abducted and having an alien baby, once you have an alien in your house the gameplay moves on to a new generation and you just occasionally have a parent with an unusual appearance.
To quote another movie about aliens that came out before Simsie was born: “Edgar your skin’s hanging off your bones” that one might be too scary for Kayla but generally a great movie (for its time)
If only you could introduce your high-maintenance sims to wellness items like the yoga mat, then they could truly be free of suffering
I NEED A CATCAM IN EVERY VIDEO. THANK YOU.