The Sims have well-known townies, like Bella, Vlad, Eliza. etc. I assume they will cover their stories.

Agreed. I’ve not watched Barbie yet, ngl, even with the progressive plot its meant to have, it strikes me as 90% advertising, and the different variety of toy you mention really plays well in to that so it works well enough, but I agree, Sims doesn’t even have that, and I’m really struggling to see what kind of plot they could make up to make it distinctively “Sims”. That leaves us with 100% advertising, which if EA are involved, isn’t surprising really.

The handheld and console games had stories though. The PSP/DS one being one I hold dear in nostalgia

The mainline Sims games have an overarching plot of sorts with things that happen to some of the recurring settings, Townies, and families. It’s weird though, the games also apparently aren’t in chronological order. Some youtubers get deep into it.

Not to mention explicit plot in many of the spin off handheld games that are more “Sims flavored RPG” than actual Sims games.

There also are recurring brands for items, and jokes in item descriptions that further connect things.

So they could dig deep from the source material if they’re motivated, but I can’t imagine the target audience for Sims “lore” tie-ins/callbacks is that big.

I expect they might pull from the absurd events that can happen in Sims 1 and 2, like the clown that spontaneously invades your home if you’re too depressed, or the humanoid bear that can show up to go through your garbage bins (and I think can use the stuff outside in your yard like a normal townie).

No matter how they do it, I don’t have much faith it’ll be anything good. Most likely just an exec’s coke induced plan to try and capture some of that Barbie money/audience while promoting the series. The last main game came out a decade ago, and the base game went free to play in the last year or two. Probably one last attempt to drive DLC sales before they announce the next one.

The best part about a source with no story is you have the freedom to make one as you see fit. I prefer to not shit on every single thing the moment it’s announced

My theory is that she was abducted by aliens like Bella Goth.

Now that I might watch 😂

I know right? It’s almost as if she has a day job working on a movie instead of being on social media all the time or something.

Famous Sims oddly appearing in every scene despite it not making sense for them to be there

Now where have I heard that one before? 🤔

A sim drops trash and now can’t walk around it doing their ‘hey you - help here - hand wave’.

especially gave me a good chuckle Definitely agree about giving money to EA, I would never pay to watch it (or bother downloading it, likely just wait until it pops up on tv one day)