It has already has more lots than the other occults, well one extra, vampires is incredibly sad with no community lots, werewolfs the bunker is part of the bar, spellcasters got a whole second world and a unique lot type I think that's pretty cool
@@endersquid1132 but the bar is through the floor here. ROM came with 5 lots, all with like unforgivingly bad builds, and a magic realm no different to the secret worlds in base game. vampires is more fun to play and werewolves came with great buildbuy/cas items and good builds
RoM deserves a refresh SO HARD (and what better time than now!!) Honestly - if all EA did was get Simmers to redo the lots and add a couple more community lots in the magic realm it would be AMAZING and probably the cheapest initiative ever LOL
I rebuilt all the regular lots in the world last month. It was so fun and I love my creations so much better than the ones we get. I didn’t redo the magic realm lot though, so I’d definitely love to see you make a new one!! I’m glad the gameplay has changed your opinion a little bit, because it is really fun! Can’t wait to see what you do next!
LilSimsie's old one is amazing, but I want to shout out a lesser known builder - Chermibear's build is what got me to buy the pack in the first place. It uses a lot of packs, so she had so many more options than LilSimsie for decor, and it's just fun and feels **magical**. 😄 (I promise I'm not Chermibear lol, I couldn't build my way out of a paper bag. I was just looking for her build for a new save, and realized she's not in the "most popular" on the gallery, so I wanted to shine some love on it.)
@@asleep2250 I think LilSimsie knows she doesn't have that kind of power, sadly. I'm curious if sales of Dine Out went up with Carl's Mod. I think a big company like EA will make decisions about refreshes based on money, that's it.
My favorite sim I've ever played was Frederick, the trash wizard. The repair spell+dumpster diving is a great way to play rags to riches, because it can fix burnt stuff and you can learn it pretty early.
That is genius and I had never considered dumpster diving with my spellcaster. As far as rags to riches, it's also fun copypasto things, like when the dustbunnies find gold frogs, those are good money.
I'm actually starting a new generation challenge through the packs. So I'm starting with the base game with the first generation and then every new generation I spin a wheel to add a random pack (I was honestly thinking of adding 1 expansion, 1 game, and 1 stuff pack each generation). Then that generation has to focus on those packs, and it continues through every sims pack. I wasn't sure where to add kits or if they should even be added. I would love to see you do something like this!!
@HollyC James Turner has a way to do it on his website. I haven't used it before so I am not sure how it works though, all I know is I have seen some RUclipsrs use it.
The spell Repario actually completely repairs burned furniture, so its an excellent way to save money if your sims keep setting things on fire from cooking etc. Copypasto is also just super cheaty feeling in terms of ease, because say you save up for a money tree. Copypasto lets you duplicate it, over and over again, and you have infinite money without cheating. Oh, and I meant to say that non-spellcasters can get into the magic realm through the portal :)
@Barbara L. SAME. I never see any of the big Sim players use it. You can legit just not get a job if you get a single money tree because of that copy spell like you said lol. I have an orchard of them behind a monstrosity of a mansion I made to fund it lol
@@razrv3lc exactly!! My current legacy fam is a whole line of spellcasters, and if I could only tell you the amount of times I've saved family members from dying stupid autonomous deaths with the deathdify spell 🤣🤣
I think it's exactly that. Magic makes the game too easy, for content creating purposes that is. People watch these big simmers to see them struggle in game, not see them magic their way out of nearly everything. After I got magic realm, I have it as a crutch ever since, and cannot play again without a maxed out spellcaster.@@razrv3lc
Um actually, the game packs all have 5 lots 😂 I agree it’s small, but I also think it’s more important they focus on gameplay. If they added a bigger world with more depth, they’d probably cut the skill tree stuff in half. It’s a gameplay pack, it’s more important to prioritize gameplay imo.
@@Jellybeansatdusk That's not my point. The point is that EA has the audacity to sell individual game packs of occult sims instead of making an occult focused expansion pack like Sims 3 Supernatural was or where you at least got one special occult type in almost every Sims 2 expansion. Sims 4 witches and werewolves are just a reskin of the vampire talent tree system which is slightly improved to make witches have a spell book and werewolves a good and bad cycle to manage. I understand that it takes time to develop gameplay systems, but EA has all the time and money they need to make fully fleshed out experiences than half-baked packs with small or non-interactive worlds. And don't get me started on how some packs don't even work where gameplay features either get patches many months or years later or mods have to fix them, or there's just no fix for them at all and you just have to deal with it not working. It's embarrassing and a disgrace to the average consumer, but then again the Sims developers have no choice but to please the higher ups at EA. They will keep selling small packs because there is currently no other life sim game like The Sims out there, and on that fact alone, they know they can sell anything they want, even if it's not properly QA tested. It will sell no matter what.
Right??? I haven’t played the sims 3 since the family pc broke like five years ago but I remember little middle schooler me (and earlier than that, years before the sims 4 even came out) making so many fairy sims. It was genuinely my favorite. I didn’t care about anything other than the imaginary friends (which I miss so much) and the fairy sims. I was so excited when I heard about the realm of magic dlc, thinking maybe it would add the fairies I’ve missed so much, but nope. Just spellcasters, which are fun but not as fun as fairies.
In my legacy challenge, one of my heir's got the spellcaster aspiration so they became a spellcaster. (First time playing) and life was so easy and for 2 generations they I had spellcasters but then the generation after that they were just a normal human... and goodness... it was a reality check LOL I actually had to clean and repair things manually XD
The main problem with mermaids and aliens is that they're part of a bigger pack instead of being their own packs like Vampires and Spellcasters and Werewolves, which means the attention that should've gone for the occult sim gameplay was divided to other things
at the same time though at least mermaids made sense for the theme of their pack, aliens not so much but idk if there would have been a way to make an entire game pack out of just aliens, and i would rather have them be part of a larger pack than just them making a game pack for the sake of making another pack when there's not enough content to fill a pack of its own, because a lot of the packs do feel like that. i do wish aliens and mermaids had more interesting abilities though
I always replace the houses AND the magic academy lot INSTANTLY and never realized some of the houses were like...not even finished. Wish this pack could get a small refresh! (Also, Cosmo is my life.)
All I can think of is Stanley when she starts congratulating her sims on making an actual meal 😭. Do we have a magic rags to riches? If not, we need it! 😂
Use and abuse Inferniate and Repairio. Get some of the most expansive items and put them next to one another. Cast Inferniate. Let the fire expand and die out. Collect the insurance money. Cast Repairio on the damaged objects. Repeat as long as your magic energy is not to high. Craft literally anything. Cast Repairio on them to improve their quality to the highest level. Sell them for maximum cash.
Learn to make potions. Make one of each, then use the spell that lets you make duplicates (to save on having to keep collecting ingredients to make them). Lather, rinse, repeat as needed and then open up a potions shop.
realms of magic is my favorite pack! I'm super happy that you gave it another chance, and yes u absolutely check out the old packs again ^^ I hope u and everyone who reads this is having a great day!!
@@bluebosnian OMG THIS REMINDS ME. I was so exited to play it, but it feels kinda awful to play. I regret it so much 😭😭 Tbh I regret a lot of my packs, wish I went with rule of cool, I tent to like the occult packs so much more
@@frameturtle tbh i think the choice of spa day is kinda stupid. Choosing a pack like dine out, that is actually more broken imo and FAR more useful would have been much smarter. Even irl, compare spas to restaurants... Yk?
This actually is my fav pack. I mean, all the spells your wizard can learn are sooo useful in their life at home. Like you can duplicate yourself and make that clon to help you with your children or cooking or whatever, and you can also bring death people to life! I just love it
@Darktion she has almost 2 million more subscribers than you and will probably always be far more successful than you will ever be. are you sure your 3 videos are better than hers? 😬
@@lil3932 it's a bot. ignore it. usually all caps/bold text comments are bots and should just be reported, engaging with them makes them just appear more often
omg I remember Sterling and the whole occults bowling league story!! it was such a fun and silly idea, especially with Cosmo 'turning into a cat' 😁 low-key missed these sims!
i LOVE the build mode items that came with realm of magic, though! the CAS items are really unique and pretty as well. i think the team could have done SO much with the items and ideas in the game to make a gorgeous world like we deserved :’)
It's cool to see Sterling again! I remember the short series you did with them, Wanda, and Cosmo. Still one of my favorite sims you've made! The house was also incredible, I'd love to see you bring the siblings back sometime too :) And yes I'd love to see you revisit the other packs again! I think it'd be cool if you also skimmed through the CAS that comes with each of the older packs, and try building something new with them as you test them too, like you plan to do with the ROM pack soon :)
You can also make a pet such as a cat into a familiar aswell if I remember correctly which is quite neat. That said I really dislike the houses in this pack even more so than in the vampire one, idk in the vampire one the builds actually has more personality than the ones in realms of magic IMO.
I understand it must be hard to make a game with large worlds with a ton of lore or stuff to do, but Realm of magic, vampires and werewolves I feel should have more to it. More potions or spells, more plants or things to discover and do. Also you should be able to edit the magic world. I LOVE using mythical creatures in the sims I just wish there was more side quests or things to do while also having “normal” game play
lowkey think vampires was the most undercooked like these guys never need to sleep (in some cases it's a bad idea to make them sleep) and they sorta just didn't give us anything for the sim to do w all that extra time? like there are clear things for werewolves and spellcaster to actually be able to *do*, but less so for vampires other than "go out and find a sim to feed on"
This video made me realize I’ve never actually looked to hard at the houses in glimmerbrooke and I also never play ts4 with the walls up because I didn’t notice any of this
I often derp around on your channel when I'm in a sim 4 mood. This vid was so fun as I'm currently play a spell caster. the collection was insane to archief. The part where you imediate started a fire was hilarious.
Despite the builds and realm itself this is one of my favorite packs. And yes, you can die from overload but since you had a familiar out constantly the familiar would have died in your place. Kept waiting for you to kill them or get cursed. Also congrats on not having the dueling glitch up, it messes up half the time for me.
Actually, if you have a familiar summoned, it will resurrect you if you die from Overload, not die in your place. Also, what do you mean by duelling glitch? I often have my opponent walk away instead of duelling; is that what you mean?
@@TokkiBunBuns okay so all the transphobic shit she said didn’t happen? Like her saying trans women shouldn’t be able to use the womens bathroom? That’s not transphobic to you? Her saying that trans people are pedophiles, that isn’t transphobic?
Hell Yeah. Honestly EA should get Simmers to refresh the builds for this pack (and maybe add few more Realm community lots? ) and it would be the easiest and most topical pack refresh yet.
@Barbara L. No no no 😂😂 y’all were the antisemitic ones who drew to that conclusion, which is more discriminatory if you ask me. In several fantasy genres goblins have obsessed over gold and had big noses.
@@crazyfrog5552 Nsai was a witch from Zimbabwe. Charms professor was a Middle Eastern man. There's also a transgender woman shopkeeper. They just don't want to see it. Oh.. and Rowling has nothing to do with the adaptation but people will still gladly choose their favorite hogwarts house but disregard the woman behind the entire world and theology.
They really really need to go back and fix mermaids, give them a skill tree, flesh them out a little more, not even to the same degree as werewolves or spellcasters (since they had their own dedicated packs and mermaids don't), but they can't leave them the way they are now, same with aliens tbh, they could also use a little update.
you mentioned only spellcasters can go to the magic realm, but thats not actually true. Going their via the portal in glimmerbrook as a non caster and meeting one of the sages, collecting motes is how you become a caster if your dont start as one default..meaning non casters can deff get there:P side note, get discharge talent asap, it makes it much easier to level your casting when you can burn away excess charge
oh my god youre so right. i honestly never noticed because usually whenever i start a world i rebuild/rework all the buildings right away before i start actually playing (i love building and decorating). honestly im so proud of my realm of magic builds that i forgot they arent part of the game 💀 but youre so right id be miserable on the base game lots
I always have a spellcaster in the family, you can copypasto any potions so I never even needed to get the ingredients, and it's good to have someone who can instantly bring back the dead to life in case of a sudden meteor.
I love some of the build stuff and being a witch that's it lol I'm building literally everything again. I just redid the Headquarters. They took days to get it so detailed and worth it.
I like all the stuff you can do with magic. I once created a Sim who learnt the spell which brings people back from the dead, made her live in a haunted apartment, and as soon as the haunting happened she just re-alived the ghost Sim. Bang! No more haunting. Would love to see someone do this as a challenge. Investigate hauntings? Activate necromancy, and bam! Ghost be gone!
The only occult I was ever interested in was werewolves and I've enjoyed it entirely. This video is giving me a big push into getting realm of magic. Like I have this serious urge to make a pyromaniac witch with a glowfrog familiar. Thank you for this I love when you try occults.
Realm of Magic holds a really special place in my heart. It was one of my first packs and I have an entire legacy of spellcasters, but...they did this pack so dirty. The concept was amazing and there was so much that could have been done with it but it just falls short. I even made a new save to see if it's really that boring (bc my legacy is over a year old now) and this pack is just so mid.
I’m glad you like it! The gameplay makes up for it imo but I am not as into the worlds and builds as much as you. I know you don’t like occults but I love them because it gives you something to do!!! The celebrity thing tried and it just didn’t work out the same as the occults. I also wish werewolves had the same panel that spell casters and vampires have
I’ve had the pack for years and never touched it once. I think I just bought it for the items and CAS. But this kind of convinced me to give it a try 😊
I actually bought that pack like a month or two ago and I love it. I understand why you might not like it as much as I do tho and that’s okay too. Also simsie, can you maybe put Sterling on the Gallery? I really like them!! Oh.. nevermind 😂
I really enjoy watching lilsimsie's videos. She recognizes reality. She's not blinded by the beauty of this game, and she mostly tries to give a fair and realistic view of this game. She's also has these cute methods of enjoyment and frustration, so she's entertaining. I find it really hilarious when lilsimsie wants to reek havoc, and she just comes across as such a nice person. This nice little lady wants to set things on fire. It's hilarious. LOL.
I totally agree with you! I think the builds are unforgivable, but I love the gameplay in the pack. I genuinely play with spellcasters more than normal sims😅
I ended up using this pack a lot when Cottage Living came out, making a little hedge witch family in a cottage lol. Also some of the spells like Scruberoo are super useful around the farm
I'm a player that used to not like to replace builds that were already in the game until just a year or so ago. I suffered through this default lot for about 2 years until I finally pulled the trigger and used Simsie's version. It's so much nicer, AND BRIGHTER! And yes, the gameplay of this pack is so much fun. I find myself always being a Spellcaster for near human-like immortality or Vampire for eternal youth.
When you originally put Sterling up on the gallery with Wanda and Cosmo I downloaded them for my world. Sterling was actually the first partner for my Occult Baby Challenge! They are a very good partner and my main Sim still loves them dearly. Thanks for making such a lovely Sim!
Personally, I find the idea behind this pack really interesting + I got a special love for that world since it was the only residential world where anyone could create cottagecore builds before Cottage Living even was a thing, but I find that the execution of the gameplay, CAS and build mode wasn't the best. The only times I use that pack is when I want to specifically play with occults or when I want to have an easier game by playing with the practical spells.
RoM is actually one of my favorite packs because most of my player characters are spellcasters (since they are characters I recreated from a fantasy series, so I bought this pack specifically to recreate them), but I completely get where you're coming from about the builds. I have never moved any of my spellcasters into an original Glimmerbrook build; even before I had any building skills at all, I just replaced the original homes with ones downloaded from the Gallery. I'm also not happy with how few residential lots are available in this world. While too many might spoil the "remote magical forest" vibe, you'd think the devs could have managed to fit at least two or three more lots in there. Most of my spellcasters commute from Windenburg or Henford-on-Bagley now. What I would love to see is more builds (for this pack but also for others) that are "base game + 1" compatible. What I mean by that is, new players often only own the Base Game and maybe one or two other packs, but most of the nice builds in the Gallery require a player to own many packs in order to download them intact. So it would be nice to see more builds in the Gallery which only require the Base Game plus one additional pack, so newer players can find nice builds that aren't just base game starter homes. Even now that I've been playing for several months and own six or seven packs, I still find that more often than not I still don't have all the packs that I need to download most gallery houses, unless I am prepared to replace a lot of furniture and textures prior to playing in live mode. Yes, the homes that use lots of packs look very impressive, but sometimes a player who doesn't own the entire collection just wants to find something that looks nice, and that they can download quickly and play in immediately.
I really liked the Moschino Stuff, I mean, I get that the collab was weird, but the enhanced photography skill and the photographer freelance career is really nice, and ALMOST what I do in real life. Would be great if there was a freelance modeling career, or at least an active modeling career, because modeling and photo editing is what I really do, and would love to do it in the Sims
I think it is a good idea to revisit the older packs. Maybe you can do a packs legacy challenge, since Babys kids will be the 10th gen of your current one. They could start the new challenge?
Loved this video! I started playing realm of magic not to long ago after not playing it since I bought it 4 years ago, I had to replace EVERY lot, but after that I had so much fun. But I had to replace them all first 🤣
I got this pack ages ago and still haven't used it, apart from some of the build/buy items and a few pieces of clothing. I just feel that it's just a reskin of the scientist career, since most of the potions can be made in that career as "serums".
I personally feel while this pack is really fun there was A LOT of wasted potential. I would’ve loved a variety of animal transformation spells that Spellcasters could cast on themselves or other Sims (I really wanted my first Spellcaster Sim to be able to transform herself into a cat or raven, possibly both at different times). Some other ideas I had were astral projection, telenekis, and spells involving water or other elements besides fire. Magic duels could’ve been way more fun if you got to use spells your Sim has learned. Those kind of features would’ve made the pack much better and much more interesting
I LOOOOOOVE RELM. It was one of my fave game plays. I super enjoy it despite the issues. The magic world is gorge imo. I used very few "cheats" to make it move seemless. It's fun.
I really hope we can get a refresh of realm of magic, dine out, and some updates to Tiny Living, like I hate that if I want to have a green house on my tiny home lot, I have to draw the 4th wall and then drag it into place for the tiles to not count and suffer the weird lighting glitch since it won't recognize it as a room.
Yes revisiting old packs is great !!! In my personal gameplay I have been getting back to basics and revisiting stuff... and have been pleasantly surprised with some things... so it would make fun content to see you do thay
My fav sim I have rn lives in Cottage Living with her cat familiar renting her room out to a sim she can use minionize on, spellcasting can be super fun
Underwhelming yes because there's missed opportunities with it but I don't think it's the worst. It's one of my favourite and makes things easier for me in my playthroughs
My favorite part iwth realm of magic is committing insurance fraud Infeniate something expensive, get money to replace after fire is put out, then cast repairo, repeat till rich
I really loved jungle adventure just because of all the gameplay you had in the exploring that you could do. I know a lot of people weren't crazy about it but I loved that I could learn about the culture and a dance and do the same thing a few times but get different results each time.
Sterling silver is super cool! I'm really always so happy to see when Kayla makes Trans and nonbinary sims and treats them no different then the other sims. It's just kind and I will never get over it ❤️
I 100% agree with you on the lots/world issues, but I’m also glad you had some fun playing with the pack! I am also still disappointed in the realm of magic itself but I do love playing with spell casters. My favourite part: turning my enemies into stuffed animals and other inanimate objects lol. And: yes to the idea for a new series! I’d love to see you play with the older packs and roast them/show us fun things we might have missed
the spellcasters are really powerful. my sim was a spellcaster and she was in university (never again, it takes soooo long and i didn't know it) and i didn't have time for nothing, so i made her do the plentiful needs potion and then used the copypasto spell on it a bunch of times so that i could have her needs filled throughout university. it's not a cheat if it's in the game lol
Im a teenager, so when Realm of magic came out I was very young and didn’t know anything ab the sim’s community (I only even heard of it bc of my friend!) and was sooo excited and honestly, it did not disappoint. It is to this day, my favourite game pack. I love occults, and Spell-casters were my first. Every time I booted up the game for over a year, All I wanted to do was start a new save with beautiful magical witches and build a cute cottage in glimerbrook! The terrible lots in the world just motivates me and makes me excited to remake the entire world! It’s even why I now have the goal to rebuild everything to create my own ‘save file’. It was shocking and frustrating to see how negative everyone thought of realm of magic! Ig the point of this comment was to express a positive review of the pack and that not everyone is looking for the same things and one simmers trash is another’s treasure! And that’s not to say that the sims team didn’t perform poorly, considering it rlly wasn’t that hard to fix the lots for this world. We should definitely hold EA to a higher standard then this. I just wish more people talked about what’s great about realm of magic!
It makes me so mad to this day how little of the actual magic realm you can explore. The fact that almost everything is just an empty shell. Ugh
I wish there were just a few lots so I could build a cool little magic cafe and maybe a wand store or something 😭
Same the lack of lots is insane
It has already has more lots than the other occults, well one extra, vampires is incredibly sad with no community lots, werewolfs the bunker is part of the bar, spellcasters got a whole second world and a unique lot type I think that's pretty cool
@@endersquid1132 but the bar is through the floor here. ROM came with 5 lots, all with like unforgivingly bad builds, and a magic realm no different to the secret worlds in base game. vampires is more fun to play and werewolves came with great buildbuy/cas items and good builds
RoM deserves a refresh SO HARD (and what better time than now!!) Honestly - if all EA did was get Simmers to redo the lots and add a couple more community lots in the magic realm it would be AMAZING and probably the cheapest initiative ever LOL
im sorry but having stairs to nowhere cannot ever be forgiven
@Darktion lollll ok bud
IKR ITS CRIMINAL
@@elliotgibsonroberts6672 girl it’s a bot 😭 report and move on don’t interact
Maybe stairs to nowhere is part of the magicial charm 😅
At least it’s better than no toilet? Lmao
I really wish the sims would do another 'game pack refresh' for dine out, relam of magic, every one really, Including spar day again.
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Exactly because that stair to nowhere mistake is unacceptable
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I rebuilt all the regular lots in the world last month. It was so fun and I love my creations so much better than the ones we get. I didn’t redo the magic realm lot though, so I’d definitely love to see you make a new one!! I’m glad the gameplay has changed your opinion a little bit, because it is really fun! Can’t wait to see what you do next!
LilSimsie's old one is amazing, but I want to shout out a lesser known builder - Chermibear's build is what got me to buy the pack in the first place. It uses a lot of packs, so she had so many more options than LilSimsie for decor, and it's just fun and feels **magical**. 😄
(I promise I'm not Chermibear lol, I couldn't build my way out of a paper bag. I was just looking for her build for a new save, and realized she's not in the "most popular" on the gallery, so I wanted to shine some love on it.)
did you upload to the gallery?
what’s your gallery User?
@@myadoesrandomthings SimmerSkye7
I hope eventually we get a refresh for dine out and island living bc they did those packs so dirty lol
I think that lil simsie, as a game changer, should push a little more hard for pack refreshes
@@asleep2250 I think LilSimsie knows she doesn't have that kind of power, sadly. I'm curious if sales of Dine Out went up with Carl's Mod. I think a big company like EA will make decisions about refreshes based on money, that's it.
Island Living isn't actually bad. The builds in Glimmerbrook is what's horrible.
@@tigerprincess1109 island living has no real gameplay unfortunately
@@a-yam943 most of the packs don't anyway.
My favorite sim I've ever played was Frederick, the trash wizard. The repair spell+dumpster diving is a great way to play rags to riches, because it can fix burnt stuff and you can learn it pretty early.
That sounds awesome. I used Burgliate with my Sim. She was an evil clone of another spellcaster.
I kid you not this comment alone is making me wonder if I want eco lifestyle, just to make my own trash wizard
That is genius and I had never considered dumpster diving with my spellcaster. As far as rags to riches, it's also fun copypasto things, like when the dustbunnies find gold frogs, those are good money.
@hazelalice1860 I find myself using the cas and build items all the time, plus I like the apartments in the world. It was well worth it.
omg how did I never think of this!!!
I'm actually starting a new generation challenge through the packs. So I'm starting with the base game with the first generation and then every new generation I spin a wheel to add a random pack (I was honestly thinking of adding 1 expansion, 1 game, and 1 stuff pack each generation). Then that generation has to focus on those packs, and it continues through every sims pack. I wasn't sure where to add kits or if they should even be added. I would love to see you do something like this!!
Ooooh, fun! Maybe kits are "dealer's choice"? Like based on the result for the first three wheel spins, you can decide which kit to add?
Oh my god that's such a nice idea
ooh what a fun & cool idea! I might try that too
wait this might be a silly question but how do you take out/add in packs to the game??
@HollyC James Turner has a way to do it on his website. I haven't used it before so I am not sure how it works though, all I know is I have seen some RUclipsrs use it.
The spell Repario actually completely repairs burned furniture, so its an excellent way to save money if your sims keep setting things on fire from cooking etc. Copypasto is also just super cheaty feeling in terms of ease, because say you save up for a money tree. Copypasto lets you duplicate it, over and over again, and you have infinite money without cheating.
Oh, and I meant to say that non-spellcasters can get into the magic realm through the portal :)
@Barbara L. SAME. I never see any of the big Sim players use it. You can legit just not get a job if you get a single money tree because of that copy spell like you said lol. I have an orchard of them behind a monstrosity of a mansion I made to fund it lol
@@razrv3lc exactly!! My current legacy fam is a whole line of spellcasters, and if I could only tell you the amount of times I've saved family members from dying stupid autonomous deaths with the deathdify spell 🤣🤣
I think it's exactly that. Magic makes the game too easy, for content creating purposes that is. People watch these big simmers to see them struggle in game, not see them magic their way out of nearly everything. After I got magic realm, I have it as a crutch ever since, and cannot play again without a maxed out spellcaster.@@razrv3lc
I feel like the most disappointing part was no fairies... it was so cute when they would go in the little fairy house in sims 3
don't worry, they'll sell that as a game pack on its own with a world with 4 lots....
yes it was
Um actually, the game packs all have 5 lots 😂
I agree it’s small, but I also think it’s more important they focus on gameplay. If they added a bigger world with more depth, they’d probably cut the skill tree stuff in half. It’s a gameplay pack, it’s more important to prioritize gameplay imo.
@@Jellybeansatdusk That's not my point. The point is that EA has the audacity to sell individual game packs of occult sims instead of making an occult focused expansion pack like Sims 3 Supernatural was or where you at least got one special occult type in almost every Sims 2 expansion. Sims 4 witches and werewolves are just a reskin of the vampire talent tree system which is slightly improved to make witches have a spell book and werewolves a good and bad cycle to manage.
I understand that it takes time to develop gameplay systems, but EA has all the time and money they need to make fully fleshed out experiences than half-baked packs with small or non-interactive worlds. And don't get me started on how some packs don't even work where gameplay features either get patches many months or years later or mods have to fix them, or there's just no fix for them at all and you just have to deal with it not working. It's embarrassing and a disgrace to the average consumer, but then again the Sims developers have no choice but to please the higher ups at EA. They will keep selling small packs because there is currently no other life sim game like The Sims out there, and on that fact alone, they know they can sell anything they want, even if it's not properly QA tested. It will sell no matter what.
Right??? I haven’t played the sims 3 since the family pc broke like five years ago but I remember little middle schooler me (and earlier than that, years before the sims 4 even came out) making so many fairy sims. It was genuinely my favorite. I didn’t care about anything other than the imaginary friends (which I miss so much) and the fairy sims. I was so excited when I heard about the realm of magic dlc, thinking maybe it would add the fairies I’ve missed so much, but nope. Just spellcasters, which are fun but not as fun as fairies.
The real tea is that Cosmo can turn back at any time but realizes life as a well-fed housecat is far superior ;)
In my legacy challenge, one of my heir's got the spellcaster aspiration so they became a spellcaster. (First time playing) and life was so easy and for 2 generations they I had spellcasters but then the generation after that they were just a normal human... and goodness... it was a reality check LOL I actually had to clean and repair things manually XD
The main problem with mermaids and aliens is that they're part of a bigger pack instead of being their own packs like Vampires and Spellcasters and Werewolves, which means the attention that should've gone for the occult sim gameplay was divided to other things
at the same time though at least mermaids made sense for the theme of their pack, aliens not so much but idk if there would have been a way to make an entire game pack out of just aliens, and i would rather have them be part of a larger pack than just them making a game pack for the sake of making another pack when there's not enough content to fill a pack of its own, because a lot of the packs do feel like that. i do wish aliens and mermaids had more interesting abilities though
I always replace the houses AND the magic academy lot INSTANTLY and never realized some of the houses were like...not even finished. Wish this pack could get a small refresh! (Also, Cosmo is my life.)
All I can think of is Stanley when she starts congratulating her sims on making an actual meal 😭. Do we have a magic rags to riches? If not, we need it! 😂
"GOOD JOB, ST...erling!" 😆
Oh Hell Yes!! Hot Dog Spellcaster lets goooo!
Use and abuse Inferniate and Repairio.
Get some of the most expansive items and put them next to one another. Cast Inferniate. Let the fire expand and die out. Collect the insurance money. Cast Repairio on the damaged objects.
Repeat as long as your magic energy is not to high.
Craft literally anything. Cast Repairio on them to improve their quality to the highest level. Sell them for maximum cash.
Love that idea
Learn to make potions. Make one of each, then use the spell that lets you make duplicates (to save on having to keep collecting ingredients to make them). Lather, rinse, repeat as needed and then open up a potions shop.
realms of magic is my favorite pack! I'm super happy that you gave it another chance, and yes u absolutely check out the old packs again ^^ I hope u and everyone who reads this is having a great day!!
vampires and realm of magic are my favorite. i never understood how to play eco lifestyle for example 😅
@@bluebosnian OMG THIS REMINDS ME. I was so exited to play it, but it feels kinda awful to play. I regret it so much 😭😭 Tbh I regret a lot of my packs, wish I went with rule of cool, I tent to like the occult packs so much more
Realm of Magic was my first ever pack and is actually one of my favorite packs shockingly. But the builds are unforgivable.
Remember when EA said they'd do more pack refreshes after Spa Day? All the packs in lilsimsie's intro could use a refresh.
No, but Pepperidge Farm probably remembers.
I think the issue is, the spa day refresh didn't boost sales as much as EA wanted. So they decided to never do it again.
@@frameturtle tbh i think the choice of spa day is kinda stupid. Choosing a pack like dine out, that is actually more broken imo and FAR more useful would have been much smarter. Even irl, compare spas to restaurants... Yk?
@@Irisandstuff I agree completely. its like, you chose spa day??
This actually is my fav pack. I mean, all the spells your wizard can learn are sooo useful in their life at home. Like you can duplicate yourself and make that clon to help you with your children or cooking or whatever, and you can also bring death people to life! I just love it
I know this is a bit far but you should rebuild all the realm of magic lots (after newcrest)
@Darktion she has almost 2 million more subscribers than you and will probably always be far more successful than you will ever be. are you sure your 3 videos are better than hers? 😬
I think she has before, im pretty sure if you go back far enough in her gallery you can see all the replaced builds
@@lil3932 it's a bot. ignore it. usually all caps/bold text comments are bots and should just be reported, engaging with them makes them just appear more often
I think she did already
@Darktion291even I have more subscribers than you and I don’t even post
omg I remember Sterling and the whole occults bowling league story!! it was such a fun and silly idea, especially with Cosmo 'turning into a cat' 😁 low-key missed these sims!
same here. i watched the stream live and it felt way more interactive than usual!
Using the full needs potion with university is a life saver
i LOVE the build mode items that came with realm of magic, though! the CAS items are really unique and pretty as well. i think the team could have done SO much with the items and ideas in the game to make a gorgeous world like we deserved :’)
It's cool to see Sterling again! I remember the short series you did with them, Wanda, and Cosmo. Still one of my favorite sims you've made! The house was also incredible, I'd love to see you bring the siblings back sometime too :)
And yes I'd love to see you revisit the other packs again! I think it'd be cool if you also skimmed through the CAS that comes with each of the older packs, and try building something new with them as you test them too, like you plan to do with the ROM pack soon :)
You can also make a pet such as a cat into a familiar aswell if I remember correctly which is quite neat. That said I really dislike the houses in this pack even more so than in the vampire one, idk in the vampire one the builds actually has more personality than the ones in realms of magic IMO.
I agree, the Vampire houses are much better.
I understand it must be hard to make a game with large worlds with a ton of lore or stuff to do, but Realm of magic, vampires and werewolves I feel should have more to it. More potions or spells, more plants or things to discover and do. Also you should be able to edit the magic world. I LOVE using mythical creatures in the sims I just wish there was more side quests or things to do while also having “normal” game play
lowkey think vampires was the most undercooked
like these guys never need to sleep (in some cases it's a bad idea to make them sleep) and they sorta just didn't give us anything for the sim to do w all that extra time? like there are clear things for werewolves and spellcaster to actually be able to *do*, but less so for vampires other than "go out and find a sim to feed on"
@@crptpyr oh I totally agree! I totally get that!
You can also use pets as familiars if your friendship is high enough! It's such a cute feature of you have pets and dogs
Honestly, I am such a realm of magic stan. I know that it definitely has its problems but I've had so much fun with it in my game
This video made me realize I’ve never actually looked to hard at the houses in glimmerbrooke and I also never play ts4 with the walls up because I didn’t notice any of this
I absolutely love the Spellcasters, especially with Werewolves adding to the lore behind some of the occults! Definitely my favorite occult for ts4
I often derp around on your channel when I'm in a sim 4 mood. This vid was so fun as I'm currently play a spell caster. the collection was insane to archief. The part where you imediate started a fire was hilarious.
I love the idea of replaying all the packs in order. That sounds like so much fun.
I love turning the bar into a magical garden/cafe- since you can't use the one in the magic realm
It’s really nice to use when you just make like a little witch room and learn all your spells and potions on your own :)
Despite the builds and realm itself this is one of my favorite packs. And yes, you can die from overload but since you had a familiar out constantly the familiar would have died in your place. Kept waiting for you to kill them or get cursed. Also congrats on not having the dueling glitch up, it messes up half the time for me.
Actually, if you have a familiar summoned, it will resurrect you if you die from Overload, not die in your place.
Also, what do you mean by duelling glitch? I often have my opponent walk away instead of duelling; is that what you mean?
this is perfect timing especially for those of us who don't want to play a certain ~wizard game~ but do want to get some nostalgic magic vibes :)
JK Rowling is not transphobic. Jesus Christ.
@@TokkiBunBuns okay so all the transphobic shit she said didn’t happen? Like her saying trans women shouldn’t be able to use the womens bathroom? That’s not transphobic to you? Her saying that trans people are pedophiles, that isn’t transphobic?
Hell Yeah. Honestly EA should get Simmers to refresh the builds for this pack (and maybe add few more Realm community lots? ) and it would be the easiest and most topical pack refresh yet.
@Barbara L. No no no 😂😂 y’all were the antisemitic ones who drew to that conclusion, which is more discriminatory if you ask me. In several fantasy genres goblins have obsessed over gold and had big noses.
@@crazyfrog5552 Nsai was a witch from Zimbabwe. Charms professor was a Middle Eastern man. There's also a transgender woman shopkeeper. They just don't want to see it. Oh.. and Rowling has nothing to do with the adaptation but people will still gladly choose their favorite hogwarts house but disregard the woman behind the entire world and theology.
They really really need to go back and fix mermaids, give them a skill tree, flesh them out a little more, not even to the same degree as werewolves or spellcasters (since they had their own dedicated packs and mermaids don't), but they can't leave them the way they are now, same with aliens tbh, they could also use a little update.
Switching to hiring actual simmers to make the builds for packs is genuinely one of the best things theyve done for TS4
you mentioned only spellcasters can go to the magic realm, but thats not actually true. Going their via the portal in glimmerbrook as a non caster and meeting one of the sages, collecting motes is how you become a caster if your dont start as one default..meaning non casters can deff get there:P side note, get discharge talent asap, it makes it much easier to level your casting when you can burn away excess charge
i loved the gameplay of realm of magic ngl. wish there was more stuff to do with the magic but it was the most fun i had in the sims 4 livemode
This comment with your pfp hahahaha but I do agree
@@klitzy LMAO
I’m currently rebuilding all the lots and loving it. Really loving the little witch/wizard cottage vibe. Would love to see you rebuild all of these.
I like the way they tied the Magic Realm into the Werewolves pack and gave a backstory for why the world is broken the way that it is.
Ohhh wait what? What's the backstory?
@@Rose01bloom
I cannot explain it here because it’s wayyy too much but werewolves are basically spellcaster descendants
@@YouKnowImOnMyPeriodYah thanks!
oh my god youre so right. i honestly never noticed because usually whenever i start a world i rebuild/rework all the buildings right away before i start actually playing (i love building and decorating). honestly im so proud of my realm of magic builds that i forgot they arent part of the game 💀 but youre so right id be miserable on the base game lots
I always have a spellcaster in the family, you can copypasto any potions so I never even needed to get the ingredients, and it's good to have someone who can instantly bring back the dead to life in case of a sudden meteor.
I love some of the build stuff and being a witch that's it lol I'm building literally everything again. I just redid the Headquarters. They took days to get it so detailed and worth it.
I just want to say thank you for making Sterling Silver a masc-frame with they/them pronouns. I feel seen when simmers make characters like that.
ur such an L. an npc fr. respect urself
you should watch the livestream where simsie creates sterling and the other sims!
I like all the stuff you can do with magic. I once created a Sim who learnt the spell which brings people back from the dead, made her live in a haunted apartment, and as soon as the haunting happened she just re-alived the ghost Sim. Bang! No more haunting. Would love to see someone do this as a challenge. Investigate hauntings? Activate necromancy, and bam! Ghost be gone!
You always inspire me to get creative in the sims. I love your channel.
Tss, and to think spellcasters are one of the (relatively ofc) WELL developed occults in this game 😂 My poor aliens still have absolutely zero to do.
The only occult I was ever interested in was werewolves and I've enjoyed it entirely. This video is giving me a big push into getting realm of magic. Like I have this serious urge to make a pyromaniac witch with a glowfrog familiar. Thank you for this I love when you try occults.
Totally agree! But I always play Spellcasters… 1. Broomsticks. 2. Repair spell is cute. 3. Copy pasto…
Realm of Magic holds a really special place in my heart. It was one of my first packs and I have an entire legacy of spellcasters, but...they did this pack so dirty. The concept was amazing and there was so much that could have been done with it but it just falls short. I even made a new save to see if it's really that boring (bc my legacy is over a year old now) and this pack is just so mid.
I’m glad you like it! The gameplay makes up for it imo but I am not as into the worlds and builds as much as you. I know you don’t like occults but I love them because it gives you something to do!!! The celebrity thing tried and it just didn’t work out the same as the occults. I also wish werewolves had the same panel that spell casters and vampires have
I’ve had the pack for years and never touched it once. I think I just bought it for the items and CAS. But this kind of convinced me to give it a try 😊
I actually bought that pack like a month or two ago and I love it. I understand why you might not like it as much as I do tho and that’s okay too.
Also simsie, can you maybe put Sterling on the Gallery? I really like them!! Oh.. nevermind 😂
Oh god...can you imagine how chaotic a spellcaster in the bell legacy would be?! Or even if Stanley could spontaneously set people alight?? 🤔 🙈🤣
I really enjoy watching lilsimsie's videos. She recognizes reality. She's not blinded by the beauty of this game, and she mostly tries to give a fair and realistic view of this game. She's also has these cute methods of enjoyment and frustration, so she's entertaining. I find it really hilarious when lilsimsie wants to reek havoc, and she just comes across as such a nice person. This nice little lady wants to set things on fire. It's hilarious. LOL.
I like the idea of replaying all the old packs. I just realised that I might have forgot a lot about the older packs and what they were about.
this video is so refreshing to me. realm of magic is one of my favorite packs and it's great to see it getting some love
I totally agree with you! I think the builds are unforgivable, but I love the gameplay in the pack. I genuinely play with spellcasters more than normal sims😅
I ended up using this pack a lot when Cottage Living came out, making a little hedge witch family in a cottage lol. Also some of the spells like Scruberoo are super useful around the farm
I absolutely love the lighting she has now compared to her townhouse
I'm a player that used to not like to replace builds that were already in the game until just a year or so ago. I suffered through this default lot for about 2 years until I finally pulled the trigger and used Simsie's version. It's so much nicer, AND BRIGHTER!
And yes, the gameplay of this pack is so much fun. I find myself always being a Spellcaster for near human-like immortality or Vampire for eternal youth.
this is my favorite world solely bc of the the little shops, im obsessed with them. otherwise it sucks LMAOO but i love playing as witches
When you originally put Sterling up on the gallery with Wanda and Cosmo I downloaded them for my world. Sterling was actually the first partner for my Occult Baby Challenge! They are a very good partner and my main Sim still loves them dearly. Thanks for making such a lovely Sim!
This popped while i started considering buying this pack omg
Honestly, this is one of the packs I play with most. It will completely depend on your play style whether this pack is worth it or not!
It’s awful lol I regret buying it
I really like the idea of you replaying all the expansion packs again in order! It creates a sense of rediscovery for the Sims!
Personally, I find the idea behind this pack really interesting + I got a special love for that world since it was the only residential world where anyone could create cottagecore builds before Cottage Living even was a thing, but I find that the execution of the gameplay, CAS and build mode wasn't the best. The only times I use that pack is when I want to specifically play with occults or when I want to have an easier game by playing with the practical spells.
RoM is actually one of my favorite packs because most of my player characters are spellcasters (since they are characters I recreated from a fantasy series, so I bought this pack specifically to recreate them), but I completely get where you're coming from about the builds. I have never moved any of my spellcasters into an original Glimmerbrook build; even before I had any building skills at all, I just replaced the original homes with ones downloaded from the Gallery. I'm also not happy with how few residential lots are available in this world. While too many might spoil the "remote magical forest" vibe, you'd think the devs could have managed to fit at least two or three more lots in there. Most of my spellcasters commute from Windenburg or Henford-on-Bagley now.
What I would love to see is more builds (for this pack but also for others) that are "base game + 1" compatible. What I mean by that is, new players often only own the Base Game and maybe one or two other packs, but most of the nice builds in the Gallery require a player to own many packs in order to download them intact. So it would be nice to see more builds in the Gallery which only require the Base Game plus one additional pack, so newer players can find nice builds that aren't just base game starter homes. Even now that I've been playing for several months and own six or seven packs, I still find that more often than not I still don't have all the packs that I need to download most gallery houses, unless I am prepared to replace a lot of furniture and textures prior to playing in live mode. Yes, the homes that use lots of packs look very impressive, but sometimes a player who doesn't own the entire collection just wants to find something that looks nice, and that they can download quickly and play in immediately.
I really liked the Moschino Stuff, I mean, I get that the collab was weird, but the enhanced photography skill and the photographer freelance career is really nice, and ALMOST what I do in real life. Would be great if there was a freelance modeling career, or at least an active modeling career, because modeling and photo editing is what I really do, and would love to do it in the Sims
I love Realm of Magic I make all my sims spell casters except the one you can't lol...definitely love the occult packs
I think it is a good idea to revisit the older packs. Maybe you can do a packs legacy challenge, since Babys kids will be the 10th gen of your current one. They could start the new challenge?
Loved this video! I started playing realm of magic not to long ago after not playing it since I bought it 4 years ago, I had to replace EVERY lot, but after that I had so much fun. But I had to replace them all first 🤣
I'm literally just heading to the magic realm now because I'm doing the super sim challenge and that's one of the only aspirations left 😂😂
I think revisiting all of the packs is great idea! I would totally be down for a series!
Actually, in my humble opinion, this pack isn’t that bad. It has a lot of ups and downs, but overall it’s pretty good
I got this pack ages ago and still haven't used it, apart from some of the build/buy items and a few pieces of clothing. I just feel that it's just a reskin of the scientist career, since most of the potions can be made in that career as "serums".
Sterling is such a cool sim! They're honestly an icon
I personally feel while this pack is really fun there was A LOT of wasted potential. I would’ve loved a variety of animal transformation spells that Spellcasters could cast on themselves or other Sims (I really wanted my first Spellcaster Sim to be able to transform herself into a cat or raven, possibly both at different times). Some other ideas I had were astral projection, telenekis, and spells involving water or other elements besides fire. Magic duels could’ve been way more fun if you got to use spells your Sim has learned. Those kind of features would’ve made the pack much better and much more interesting
I LOOOOOOVE RELM. It was one of my fave game plays. I super enjoy it despite the issues. The magic world is gorge imo. I used very few "cheats" to make it move seemless. It's fun.
13:32 that was how I made my 2 sims in love with each other when they hated each other lol😂
I really hope we can get a refresh of realm of magic, dine out, and some updates to Tiny Living, like I hate that if I want to have a green house on my tiny home lot, I have to draw the 4th wall and then drag it into place for the tiles to not count and suffer the weird lighting glitch since it won't recognize it as a room.
I love your videos! I cheer up my day and give me so much enjoyment. The drama in your sims world is hilarious😂!
Yes revisiting old packs is great !!! In my personal gameplay I have been getting back to basics and revisiting stuff... and have been pleasantly surprised with some things... so it would make fun content to see you do thay
They need to make plushies of some of the familiars. I'd so buy a glow frog plushie
My fav sim I have rn lives in Cottage Living with her cat familiar renting her room out to a sim she can use minionize on, spellcasting can be super fun
Underwhelming yes because there's missed opportunities with it but I don't think it's the worst. It's one of my favourite and makes things easier for me in my playthroughs
They really did miss a huge opportunity to make this pack INSANELY cool with the build options. It’s a shame.
The magic realm is fun to visit every once in awhile because I’m always like who tf approved this 💀
My favorite part iwth realm of magic is committing insurance fraud
Infeniate something expensive, get money to replace after fire is put out, then cast repairo, repeat till rich
Realm of Magic is one of my favourite packs. I can’t imagine not having a spellcaster. And I really enjoy bulldozing the lots and building my own.
I really loved jungle adventure just because of all the gameplay you had in the exploring that you could do. I know a lot of people weren't crazy about it but I loved that I could learn about the culture and a dance and do the same thing a few times but get different results each time.
it’s honestly just the fact that they haven’t gone back and fixed these issues despite the packs being out for a while …
Okay I already love Sterling. Hope you upload them to the Gallery!
Sterling silver is super cool! I'm really always so happy to see when Kayla makes Trans and nonbinary sims and treats them no different then the other sims. It's just kind and I will never get over it ❤️
@Darktion can you not
I 100% agree with you on the lots/world issues, but I’m also glad you had some fun playing with the pack! I am also still disappointed in the realm of magic itself but I do love playing with spell casters. My favourite part: turning my enemies into stuffed animals and other inanimate objects lol.
And: yes to the idea for a new series! I’d love to see you play with the older packs and roast them/show us fun things we might have missed
thank you for letting me shut off my brain for a little bit every day and just listen to you talk
the spellcasters are really powerful. my sim was a spellcaster and she was in university (never again, it takes soooo long and i didn't know it) and i didn't have time for nothing, so i made her do the plentiful needs potion and then used the copypasto spell on it a bunch of times so that i could have her needs filled throughout university. it's not a cheat if it's in the game lol
My sisters going to the hospital she’s screaming in pain😢
Im a teenager, so when Realm of magic came out I was very young and didn’t know anything ab the sim’s community (I only even heard of it bc of my friend!) and was sooo excited and honestly, it did not disappoint. It is to this day, my favourite game pack. I love occults, and Spell-casters were my first. Every time I booted up the game for over a year, All I wanted to do was start a new save with beautiful magical witches and build a cute cottage in glimerbrook!
The terrible lots in the world just motivates me and makes me excited to remake the entire world! It’s even why I now have the goal to rebuild everything to create my own ‘save file’. It was shocking and frustrating to see how negative everyone thought of realm of magic!
Ig the point of this comment was to express a positive review of the pack and that not everyone is looking for the same things and one simmers trash is another’s treasure! And that’s not to say that the sims team didn’t perform poorly, considering it rlly wasn’t that hard to fix the lots for this world. We should definitely hold EA to a higher standard then this. I just wish more people talked about what’s great about realm of magic!
Video Is ✨AMAZING AS ALLWAYS✨❤❤❤