Summary
With Halloween right around the corner, many games have already launched their Halloween events for players to enjoy. Though it isn’t launching this year,The Sims 5has good foundations to do a strong event in whatever year it launches. With the franchise’s iconic creepy gnomes, there are a number of potential events on the table, ranging from competitive to creepy.The Sims 5has plenty of time to start planning out events while the game remains in development, and a Halloween event focused on gnomes would be ideal.
Though it’s entirely possible Maxis creates something new for its Halloween event, leaving the unsettling gnomes to collect dust would be a bad call. The gnomes have been featured in everySimsgame so far and are the perfect candidate for the spookiest time of the year. Even if their original appearances aren’t scary, a re-skin for the Halloween event could change that. However,The Sims 5/Project Renedoesn’t even have to do that - seeing a gnome pop out of nowhere can be just as scary on its own.
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How The Sims 5 Can Use Gnomes in Halloween Events
The Simsgnomes could feature in a “collect ‘em” style event in which players hunt down creepy garden gnomes across the different maps. If the game dropped around Halloween time of its release year, it could give players a chance to explore the brand-new game, and it would be highly rewarding too. Events that focus on collecting are also very free-to-play friendly, since there’s nothing to buy, and instead just tons to collect.The Sims 5wants to be more free-to-play friendlyanyway, and this would be a great start for the game.
There’s also the chance that the festival direction will be taken instead, allowing players to compete in different carnival games. While theSimsfranchise has had festivals in games for a while, it hasn’t really given players the chance to compete before. But as a multiplayer game,The Simsshould embrace players’ competitive naturesand possibly even have event leader boards to further encourage that spirit. Events that allow players to rank up and reward all players regardless of ranking are exciting. Naturally, the lower the rank, the lesser the reward, but that will only further ask players to do their best in events like this.
But even ifThe Sims 5can’t plan a Halloween event in time, there are always going to be fans who take things into their own hands. WithThe Simscreate-a-sim featurebeing what draws many fans in, players could do costume parties or “best costume” competitions where they decide their own prizes. These sorts of things will exist anyway, and it’s one of the waysSimsfans like to have fun. Playing around with spooky Sims, scary Sims, or just cutesy costume Sims is a method to bring the community together and embrace the spooky season with others.
No matter how Electronic Arts decides to go about it,The Sims 5will be an exciting new time for fans new and old. It will allow players to enjoy the same style of game they’re used to, but in a whole new light with various improvements and fresh features. Events are at the core of every long-lasting game, and they aren’t hard for new fans to get used to. AseasonalSimseventthat is easy to understand and simple to play could get every player’s attention. Competition also has its place in players' hearts, so hopefully those fans also have something to look forward to in a potential Halloween event.
