The Sims 3 Seasons: Announcement Thread

[TheTripWasInfraGreen]

I really hope that the cold weather does not messing up gardening or fishing. How will sims fish if the ponds ice over?

Ice fishing? That would actually be a rather cool interaction.

[Esther1981]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I'm a little surprised at this. Normally EP's are about 6 months apart but Supernatural is only coming out in September, so now it's 2 months??

[xFezIsAFreakx]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I'm a little surprised at this. Normally EP's are about 6 months apart but Supernatural is only coming out in September, so now it's 2 months??

You'll have noticed that the previous stuff packs were released rather strangely as well. I read somewhere that it was because Diesel was pushed back for some reason, and all the dates got messed up so Seasons was pushed forward. I honestly can't for the life of me find where I read it.

[MomOfMany]

I am extremely excited for this to come out! I really don't want to have to wait till November though. On the plus side it's good because with a new baby coming in the next week I will not have too much time to play and when I get Seasons I will want to play play play. LOL but by November I should be on somewhat of a schedule and have more time. Yippee!

What I am wondering is what the seasons will really be like. For instance will it snow everyday in winter and will there instantly be snow on the ground the first day or will it be more gradual like it is in real life?

[Esther1981]

You'll have noticed that the previous stuff packs were released rather strangely as well. I read somewhere that it was because Diesel was pushed back for some reason, and all the dates got messed up so Seasons was pushed forward. I honestly can't for the life of me find where I read it.

True, I still don't have Diesel  but it was more important for me to get KPST lol. This month I'm getting a new motherboard/processor and next month is Supernatural so I guess I'll get Diesel in October and Seasons in November! 

I never played 1 or 2 so I have no idea about how the game will be played with it. I've not been cheating lately and it takes me several sim weeks to get a house built than I also have my garden to worry about, I'm not sure if I will like it snowing, rain I guess I can deal with although I like it sunny! Hopefully I can turn the precipitation off.

[Ricalynn]

The Live Broadcast for today is currently on the Supernatural Q&A but they will be doing the Seasons Demo very soon if anyone has been waiting for it.

[Ricalynn]

So according to the Q&A - you choose which lot will host the new festivals and they will automatically change with each season.

Some of the things demo'd were slow dance, the new ice lounge, new LTR that controls the weather, kissing booth, egg hunt and food booths. 

[esthersleepswithsirens]

Slow dancing. Wow, I'm impressed.

[Turoskel]

Slow Dance! I will be so pleased to have that back, I remember how dissapointed I was when that wasn't in the base game, and then not in Late Night, I always made my sims 2 couples do a slow dance at their weddings, now I have the cake and arches back but still no slow dance, until this comes out anyway, probably be the first thing I try 

I'm assuming the kissing booth wont make any romantic interests or it could get very complicated.

[Ricalynn]

There is also an arcade like game that measures a couple's love.   Apparently getting a high score allows for faster romantic advances.

[loveSims]

Seasons fact sheet! http://simsvip.com/?p=13821

O my goodness! This look so awesome, November is to long to wait!

They will add more info.

[jeanamariex3]

I'm so excited to finally see swimming in the beaches again! If any glitches come, like Sunny one day, Snow the next, I'm going to take it as trying to make Seasons more realistic from a Michigan perspective.

Seasons was my favorite after Pets in TS2, and it's coming 10 days after my 23rd birthday. As much as I'm extremely excited, I'm going to wait out and go get my fix with TS2, until I can get a good upgrade for my PC. I'm sure I'm just over worried because I went through so much trouble and disappointment just to play Pets properly.

[RaiaDraconis]

THIS is worth getting excited about!

Guess I'm going to gave to upgrade my RAM sometime soon. This is one EP that I'm not going to miss!

[Ricalynn]

SimsVIP has links to 47 screenshots from the Live Chat that happened earlier today at this link. 

[Deckayder]

This is SO awesome! I thought we would have to wait quite a bit longer for the Season EP, but it's coming out so quickly I don't know if I'll have enough time to explore everything in Supernatural before Season comes out. Has anyone heard about this new "Room BluePrint" function in Build/Buy mode? It sounds really neat for doing faster building. And ALIENS! That is rad. Haha I miss in the Sims 2 when the nerdy star-gazing guys could be abducted and then come back pregnant!