The Sims Get Occult With Makin' Magic

Thanks to GamersHell for posting a new press release and screenshots revealing The Sims: Makin' Magic, the 'expansion pack finale' for The Sims. In this 7th and final add-on expansion to the all-time top selling game, "..your Sims can cast magic spells to improve their love life, wreak havoc on visiting neighbors, or put an end to their tedious chores." Oh, and in case you thought all this expansion-pack wizardry was side-effect free, "..every spell has a unique Backfire, including toad plagues, donkey heads, and lightning strikes."

Comments

Maybe

[GallicoTheGreat]

Maxis can cast a spell of their own and make the expansion less than $50

Re:Maybe

[leifm]

I could be wrong, but I believe most if not all of the expansions retailed at about $29.99.
And if this is the last expansion does that mean they are finally going to do some real work and produce a Sims 2, rather than milking the same damn game for years?

Re:Maybe

[dragoncortez]

Yes. They've already started on it. I believe they are trying to introduce aging in The Sims 2. Here's a link to Gamespot's coverage.

Re:Maybe

[Matrix272]

Even at $30 a pop, that's 7 expansions, and the original game, plus The Sims Online, which carries a $10 monthly fee. If you buy the game, all the addons, and The Sims Online, you're up to $380, plus another $10 per month. That's a bit much. $400 for ANY game is too much. For that kind of money, I think they should give you a certificate for The Sims 2 for FREE, provided that you bought The Sims, and at least 5 of the addons.

At least it's the last one...

[Decaffeinated Jedi]

Spell-casting in the Sims, huh?

Personally, I'm holding out for the Sims Online expansion pack that will allow me to spend all day roaming around the local countryside killing rats with my +2 Decorative Lamp of Smiting in an ongoing quest to level-up my mage/accountant.

DecafJedi

Re:At least it's the last one...

[Anonymous Coward]

You obviously haven't been creative enough with your Sims... those features have been built in from day one!

Once I got bored with the day-to-day lives of my Sims, I saw to it that no neighbor returned alive from a visit. Who wants to be a boring stab-wound serial killer when you can force your neighbors to swim forever until they fall asleep and drown, or trap your neighbor in a room and set off fireworks until they burn to death?

And if building individual 1x1 rooms around your wife and kids where they soil themselves and can't even lie down to sleep (and eventually die from starvation if left there) isn't dysfunctional, I don't want to know what is.

Why does this sound like...

[anicklin]

the Sims meets Harry Potter?

IANAP (I am not a player) but I thought the whole point and appeal of the Sims was to be semi-realistic (which basically means that people can be who they really want to be with no tangible consequences). But really. Magic spells? Next we'll be seeing Age of Sims: Post-Industrial War Expansion pack.

This sounds like trouble

[The Evil Couch]

"... wreak havoc on visiting neighbors, or put an end to their tedious chores."

why do I get the mental image of a Sim looking at a neighbor and a sink full of dishes and then yelling, "VAS POR FLAM!"?

Re:This sounds like trouble

[Carrion Creeper]

Hours of gameplay will be added by wandering around failing to figure out that the nightshade is growing in the neighbor's flower garden.
Not that I could ever identify with that problem...

Great...just what people want to see....

[Lord_Dweomer]

I can see it now....

(Wife comes home to find husband cheating with neighbor)

Wife: You cheating bastard!!!
Husband: I can explain!
Wife: Corp Por!
Husband: (sizzle)

I hope to god this never makes Sims Online. They'd have to rename it to

Sims: The Return of Lord British

The title of the next expansion pack:

[Anonymous Coward]

The Sims: We Have Actually Run Out Of Ideas So Here's Some More Furniture

Hmmm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is there a "beating a dead horse" spell?