Ranking the Townies in The Sims 4: Cottage Living

[@e_e_d_d2900]

Headcanon: the mayor’s ex-husband and/or father of her son was a comedian and he left them to travel the world and perform and that’s why they hate comedy

[@elunedlewis]

That’s like in coco but with comedy instead of music

[@leonielovemusic]

@@elunedlewis ssssssh. I won't tell if you won't 🤣

[@elizabethepstein3063]

concept: the ex husband/father is Johnny Zest

[@hevwolf0511]

@@elizabethepstein3063 😲

[@benmcgee2694]

@@elizabethepstein3063 WAIT THATS SO GOOD

[@doozledazzle]

the townies having lore is actually making me want to play these families and storylines which is really a great improvement on something that was terribly lacking in the sims 4. maybe i'm being too optimistic, but imagine if they updated the other townies to set them up with actual descriptions, sentiments and relationships...

[@haliee]

i don't really see them updating the other townies but i think they might give more lore in the future packs

[@fadwakassem3399]

I was thinking the same thing!!!!

[@sdd1396]

We can dream. Just imagine the big ass conflict around the Landgraabs and Johnny Zest with sentiments and relationships and everything. I'd love a mess like that.

[@kellidanny87]

That would ve so cool

[@funkyfatandfrocked]

This!!

[@belletidd5927]

Cottage living just took over legacy challenge day…. and I’m not offended surprisingly

[@sydneytripp5649]

I’m slightly offended

[@Mike-di1og]

I’m currently forlornly staring out a rainy window, wondering what’s going on with Gerald

[@emll6143]

I am >:,(

[@aurorarahne]

i am offended

[@aurorarahne]

i need legacy challenge

[@madsahren2208]

Kayla: I LOVE the elderly couple they're so cute Kayla yesterday: kills one of them via chicken attack

[@vstopbiaswreckingme7194]

Shhhhh, we don't talk about that

[@GreySpectro]

and didn't she also kill the other one by rabbit attack? asdfgdhfldjags

[@tabithamaccubbin6988]

I honestly want a whole update dedicated to adding real lore into the game, but I know that will never happen...

[@ChrissyParissi]

Sometimes I get mad there's too little lore but then again, I enjoy making my own lore and stories!

[@BoomBoomSoup]

@@ChrissyParissi I think that’s the reason there’s not much lore. It’s all cause they want you to make it yourself lol

[@ariana7780]

Yes!!!!

[@divaroma6554]

Well at least they can do it is to fix the lore atm. Like making the BFFs household ACTUALLY best friends with each other.

[@owaindavies9457]

@@divaroma6554 I agree, they also need to have the Pancakes household as not getting on. The Landgrabbs aren't even related to Johnny Zest as their bios state!

[@keira9680]

Cottage living is literally going to be my life when it comes out

[@venus-ji2lj]

YES

[@CaitlinSims]

same 😭

[@toothbrush1763]

YESS BESTIE

[@thebestdanjan]

**cries in 11 y/o**

[@shrooms538]

YEES

[@claravalente4034]

Headcanon: Cecilia lived in San Myshuno and had her heart broken by Akira Kibo

[@elladowns4137]

headcanon approved

[@elladowns4137]

WAIT he cheated on her with miko ojo :o

[@mfitzburger5137]

All of the single dudes in that city, and you go with Akira? I see you.

[@elladowns4137]

@@mfitzburger5137 listen, i mean he has the jealousy trait AND the romantic trait… seems likely

[@vincentgeiszler3749]

My money’s more on Raj Rasoya since he has the unflirty trait. Or Salim Benali just based on vibes idk

[@emmatfink]

The Sims team has outdone themselves with this pack! The only thing that I'm mad about is how early they teased it, because I feel like I've been waiting for this pack for my entire life at this point lol

[@eilidhmuir3155]

I was with my granny’s cousin today and told her it felt like soooo long and she said “it’s only 10 days, no very long”!!

[@eilidhmuir3155]

*Not

[@VLady315]

I wish there were a few more lots, even just one empty 64x64 lot, but other than that I totally agree

[@maggiemag3569]

Fr it seems like they did a wonderful job! I can’t wait!

[@mixtapeonmyown]

i cannot WAIT to get with the wife, break up their marriage and then take her back to the city and live the dream with her. I love her and i want to marry her

[@kawaiikat1155]

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@robertak2659]

And I want to get with the husband, break them up, then move her (and maybe her teen daughter) to San Myshuno so I can be step-parent to the two younger kids; I've never been a home-wrecker in the game but knowing they don't get along well makes me feel better about the idea.

[@smji5269]

@@robertak2659 You can date Eliza Pancakes 🙄

[@reybrunke9051]

cannot wait to give the wife the lesbian relationship she deserves 💗

[@mixtapeonmyown]

@@reybrunke9051 HELL YES

[@sleepyjojo_]

I feel sorry for Agnes like her husband died and she wanted a kid, her life just fell apart. No wonder she dosn't like romance

[@nikhilcruz]

It's even worse because they combined her with the other Agnes from Sims 2 so this one had 2 husbands die tragically on her.

[@writinggamer8059]

The Sims "not in world" are like the sages and get replaced if they die or move into the world. They said Agnes and Agatha are basically "immortal" so they will always be, so makes sense they don't have a real household. But, I was just thinking it is so cool the creature keeper has his rabbit hole house, and it would have been neat for the mayor and other not in world rotating Sims to also have houses like that.

[@noelleelizabeth9991]

Agnes and Agatha are secretly witches/aka spellcasters headcanon 🤩

[@jensencaldwell5101]

that's actually kinda supported by lore! the goth family has had ties to magic throughout the various games, but the crumplebottoms also do - in ts3 at least, there's a family of 3 crumplebottom sisters who are witches!

[@MarnieLuna]

I agree it would be good considering they often have house that basically just set design. Which would be good in terms of gameplay if they expanded that, where if your sim goes to the rabbit hole house they could go, 'have a catch up/tea/coffee' disappear for a an hour and either get a negative or a positive relationship with them or sentiments on if it went badly or not.

[@echosbento]

I wonder what will happen if you move the Crumplebottoms into your household, we know they don't die but what happens if they just up and quit

[@writinggamer8059]

@@echosbento I wonder this too and if you have to use a cheat to get them in your household.

[@michelledimic2554]

“Judging people is fun” -Kayla 2021

[@noel090909]

I’m glad I went searching for this comment before I commented it myself. 😂🤣😂

[@dexterlockwood7829]

🤣🤣🤣

[@catalina5682]

I love how new townies actually have relationships with other townies !!! I'm so excited for this

[@noel090909]

Right?!?! I usually don’t play with premade townies, but when this pack comes out, I just might. The 22nd can’t come soon enough.

[@achmadputra2]

yesss i hope maxis updated base game townies too like the landgraab or the goth family

[@catalina5682]

@@achmadputra2 the pancakes!!

[@achmadputra2]

@@catalina5682 oh yesss the pancakes, i forgot about eliza

[@clarechaddon2545]

Personally, I can not see how Agnus could have been involved with her husband's death if she hates it when others flirt with her. The way I see it is that he was the man of her dreams and no one could replace him in her heart, and she still carries the bitterness of his death to this day. She probably she's flirting with others sims as a betrayel to their love.

[@gemasgaming3105]

Mitchel bell has the knitting skill because he makes clothes for the animals

[@Elli-xy8jj]

I love how Kayla said she was going to rate the townies, does so on the first family and then gets so wrapped up in how the sims have lore that she just completely forgets😆

[@jettisoning-into-space5986]

“judging people is fun!” i agree, kayla, i agree.

[@bshutloveqb14]

Not me being really sad because I wanted my sim to be with the grocer.

[@pissywise]

Same... 😂

[@abbeywalker220]

i’m just gonna break them up honestly.

[@VeriCheri]

@@abbeywalker220 same, I had my eye on him and I’m not giving up.

[@jessicap6366]

I’m breaking them up then bully the other girl.

[@abbeywalker220]

@@jessicap6366 as you should

[@ihrtedward]

Kayla, more cool info for you! If you check the Watson family sentiments, you’ll see that Rahmi doesn’t like Lavina BECAUSE THEYRE EXES. She cheated on her husband with the mayor.

[@nataliak-g9184]

WHAT

[@vurpics]

I was surprised she didn't check their sentiments! She is hurt by the mayor and the husband has a sentiment that said she cheated

[@CommanderWiggins]

I'm living for this. Sims 2 style drama but with small town bisexuals.

[@ihrtedward]

@@nataliak-g9184 Yes! Plumbella checked the sentiments in her video, you can see it there!

[@MissAyeshaN]

Love this!! Was hoping there was some rep for the cottagecore wlw of my dreams

[@windenbird]

I’m about to crush the first teenage daughter’s dreams when my sim moves to town, disrespectfully too.

[@kbs3491]

Same Lmfaooooo

[@kaylacomley6911]

Girl same

[@histxria]

keith the fox looked like he was ascending omg-

[@stxrstruck6755]

I’m so glad they didn’t make the townies LOOK like townies. They look like sims us simmers would make

[@BoomBoomSoup]

The cas is awesome I would wear almost everything lol

[@rafitrisaputra5729]

Well, most of townies are actually quite good looking, it's the automatically generated townies that really trash my savefile lol

[@stxrstruck6755]

@@rafitrisaputra5729 true like Nancy, Eliza, Summer, and J Huntington III are good looking. But the randomized ones 😬😬

[@CaitlinSims]

i hope the townies in this pack are as iconic as Eliza Pancakes

[@yuhhbiscuit]

Me too

[@PINKGLITTERDIVA]

Yess 👏

[@saraagago]

normally i have so many doubts about buying packs cuz they’re too expensive but i’m getting this one the moment it comes out

[@xennie9412]

"can you get rich in the sims 4 by just cross stitching"

[@jellyowl2644]

Im still waiting for that

[@maxwellrayside1080]

on stream she said she's filmed that already! along with two other Stanley Humphrey videos with the pack

[@xennie9412]

@@maxwellrayside1080 ty for telling me :D

[@netchix7840]

I stand by the theory that Agnes loved her husband and she was looking forward to many kids with him.

[@Schnort]

Like, why would you kill your husband and then be bitter and sad because he's dead?

[@Qwerty-wk3jy]

The day i have this pack i'll play as ms. Crumplebottom and i'll give her a happy life i sWEAR

[@nikhilcruz]

Poor woman lost 2 husbands.

[@netchix7840]

@@nikhilcruz TWO? That's horrible. Who was the other one?

[@nikhilcruz]

@@netchix7840 Robert Crumplebottom, he died when a chandelier fell on him. It's actually really weird because there are two identical women named Agnes CrumpleBottom, they're distant relatives and the later was in the Sims 2 because the Agnes from Sims 3 and Sims 1 was deceased from old age. Sims 3 Agnes' husband was Erik but the one in Sims 2 was assumed to be married to Robert based off some clues. But for some reason Sims 4 has instead combined both women in one Agnes so she got both the dead husbands but she's still mostly the original because she's still related to the Goth family.

[@hadley269]

Omg the attention to detail on Lavina’s outfits! She wears no stockings and airy shoes in hot weather, and stockings with closed toed shoes in cold weather!

[@awildr5206]

The storyline is so sims 2. I miss the old gold days.

[@r.v1327]

Omg imagine Henford on Bagley during autumn

[@RicanStarz]

They are finally listening to us and making actual stories that make sense and match the sims when you play them unlike all the other sim households they created in previous packs.

[@haliee]

i'm actually really excited for this pack! i'm buying it asap when it releases. i'm so happy that the sims team actually gave us lore and took the time to give likes/dislikes, sentiments and mess with the relationships so it makes sense. it's not just them saying "person A hates person B" but they're friends

[@robertak2659]

Looking at the relationship panel it looks like they've done a decent job setting the lore, like the married couple being friends but having a slightly negative romance bar which could make it easier to split them.

[@TheMothmanCometh]

12:03 as weird as it is, I'm pretty sure the knitting skill is now basegame- just can only access it with the pack. In Discover University, yarn-bombing the statue gives you knitting skill + you can go to a knitting class :P

[@anthonyromanelli1392]

0:39 The eldritch being known only as “Keith”

[@mfitzburger5137]

sounds like a comment you'd find on the Try Guys page, lol

[@Hothrus]

I’m glad that someone goes over the townies. My favorite things to learn about a new pack are always how many lots there are and what the townies are like mainly so I can plan how my current household will interact with them

[@laurenglover919]

I love that Michael bell has his regular clothes in a more festive color for his party outfit, and for his winter clothes he just adds a hat. He is a simple man

[@christineherrmann205]

I feel like Stanley needs to being his hotdog costume into this tranquil village and date Agnes.

[@thearchive_yt]

im getting ripped tonight! rip that- "this game was brought to you by ea game changers. i'm not being paid; they just sent me the pack early."

[@nanagaming9731]

P7uzy ayy

[@SunneyDae]

If you were to play as any of the villagers, would you be able to continue their careers? Like the pub owners, would they own the pub and work there like normal? If yes would it work with/without Get to Work? What about the villagers who run stalls, like Kim and Agnes (if you can even play the Crumplebottoms)? Or the mayor and her son? If you play as them do they lose their role in the village??

[@luizamarangoni8200]

Yes, they get substituted. The only “eternal” ones are Agnes and Agatha

[@sarab8084]

Cecilia's story is basically Stardew Valley and I'm here for it.

[@BeeBeautyChannel]

This pack hasn’t even come out yet and it’s already my favorite. If every pack in the future is like this I will be playing the sims forever. Lol.

[@lolololol7795]

i usually dont care about the townies and even delete them so i can get their houses. but now im already attached

[@kasia83kb]

Still waiting for the Rags To Riches :'D Also like 26 seconds ago-

[@z3r0f00lz]

Same

[@brubafc]

Loving to see how the Sims team is stepping it up with the townies! They finally are starting to feel like actual people. 😄

[@chelseabootsncigarettes9274]

As a representative of the furby council us furbys approve of simsie, snap, and cottage living as a whole

[@Schnort]

Could the representative of the Fuby council please ask my Furby Boom to stop waking up in the middle of the night? At this point, it's really obnoxious.

[@chelseabootsncigarettes9274]

@@Schnort the furby council is trying to send you a message if you listen it will stop. Figure out what boom wants and they will no longer scream at you Good night and god bless.

[@ebonynight]

It only took 6 years and 10 expansion packs to give us lore... wish they'd fix the other "lore"they put in game

[@fannypliers3716]

uuhm I would be mad about the missed LP, seeing who dies and stuff, but I just love to meet the townies 😍

[@Moonkey-YT]

They've already made this kind of lore with sentiments etc. in the snowy escape expansion🙉 I really hoped that they will continue with this and they did😍

[@Awtuch]

I love playing rags to riches with this pack to this day. The quests are so fun.

[@fuongv4894]

The next expansion pack will have lore as long as a novel. I mean they better.

[@MikaelaCher]

Cecilia has a converted barn, and it's part of the lore of the town!!! Watch Clare Siobhan's video, she built it and the devs liked the barn conversion idea so much they added it to the game!!!

[@sense2001]

13:03 I love that! It's a nod to her Sims 3 outfit

[@xxBelieber97xx]

i just realized Agnes Crumplebottom was bestfriends with my sim back in The Sims 3, i would go to her house almost every weekend

[@ivorywashington3473]

All the years that I have been playing sims I have never actually paid attention to the characters...Now I'm gonna pay attention u just made it even more interesting...Thank u😘

[@j.j.holmes]

i love cecelia’s story line. just like those lifetime/hallmark movies about a city girl who moves to the country for a fresh start 🤗

[@katiea41]

Lil Simsie talking about the elderly couple being so adorable like she didn’t brutally murder them in one of her last videos 😩😅

[@tempestcarmichael3390]

Michael Bell having the knitting skill makes sense as he would knit the animal clothing. Which could lead you to think that you may also be able to knit them if you have luv 2 knit.

[@qwop123qwoperty]

i loveeeee the diversity with the townies!!!

[@K0kirik4t]

I love the lore they gave the townies the sims 4 was desperately needing this. Haven't been excited about a pack in so long but this all looks great for the game I might actually get it

[@specificocean4810]

I can just feel this pack will consume my soul as soon as i buy it. I mean it already kind of has, and that says a lot

[@itsjasz4208]

I feel like Cottage Living and Eco LifeStyle would go really good together I mean because you can create your own drinks and make your own furniture. It is so adorable.

[@nomorecloudds]

"Judging people is fun!" - why I'm afraid to leave the house

[@juice_box186]

My Cottage Life to City Life or vice versa story lines are gonna go W I L D

[@adidaf389]

No nightmare legacy let’s play today? ☹️

[@kaiahulme3027]

it might be posted on tuesday idk im obseesed with the belles sooo im just waiting

[@noel090909]

She sometimes posts it on Tuesday. Simmers are all trying to get their content about this pack out ASAP before the embargo lifts and they don’t have early access anymore.

[@OurLadyOfShowers]

the second townies house was built by Claire Shiobahn… should totally check her yt out

[@anska7475]

Fixing the Watson family‘s troubles is my goal in this expansion.

[@ciaomamabella]

When I first moved my 2 lovebirds in here, the guy proposed to my girlfriend sim and we had our reception at our farm. At our reception party, Kim Goldbloom was flirting and kissed my sims husband. I didn’t know Kim was this “happy go lucky, town protective, club leader” type. It makes sense though, she’s DEFINITELY the “I’m so sweet and I’ve seen everything in this town, so I can do whatever I want” and a back stabs other girls. I feel kind of bad for throwing a drink in her face, starting a fits fight and making her my sworn enemy of the town now.😂

[@serenas.6382]

Kayla is about to make some enemies with some sims…

[@mynameisshyra]

Keith the Fox is what my horses looked like in sims 3 and the nostalgia hit me hard.

[@LizMars89]

My sim was on a date with her husband at the bar, and when the two of us kissed, suddenly Agnes appears out of NOWHERE and starts to beat the living crap out of my sim with her purse. To give a better picture of the situation: my sim was hours away from giving birth. WHY AGNES WHY?

[@britt_annie]

Perhaps the creature keeper has knitting skill because he hand knits all of the little animal clothes you can buy from him?

[@daronm7159]

im curious what happens when these townies die. do they get replaced by random townies?

[@robertak2659]

I think if they die the role gets filled by a random game-generated Sim with appropriate skills/traits...or if a player deletes the Sim same thing.

[@poppycartergraphics120]

Someone mentioned something about some of them not being scripted to die or something? Idk what’s that about so it could be wrong. But yes, if that happens they’ll just be filled in with a randomly generated one.

[@Llama_Loca]

@@poppycartergraphics120 i think the only ones that dont die are the crumplebottoms

[@user-bf7wk6jm6e]

WHAT IF THERES A LOVE TRIANGLE BETWEEN CECILIA, KIM AND MICHAEL BELL ( Cecilia like Kim who likes Michael who likes Cecilia )

[@weiirdOzdotFU]

i actually really like that there's a lot of npcs with different functions

[@lucaleone4331]

Interesting the Watson teenager daughter likes the delivery guy who ALSO dreams (and has quests) about getting out of the countryside (idk if Simsie is going to bring this up, i posted this right after the first family)

[@raddragons]

Agnes being a recurring sim made me, someone whos only recently getting back into the sims, realize that the sims might have lore. I went to see if i could find some lore. Boy did i find lore Was anyone going to tell me that the sims has a timeline and that the sims 4 is an alternative version of the sims 2. Was anyone going to tell me about the war. About Bella Goth being abducted, about the two Skip Brokes. About the sloth invasion. About the famine?? Hello?? Am i alone????

[@mariblue72]

You're not alone. I'm personally too afraid to start digging in now. My tiny brain cannot comprehend.

[@TeenyDragon]

I defo recommend watching (if you haven't already) Plumbella's 'history of' video series for some lore lessons!!

[@spacegunspaghetti154]

LOVE THIS!! honestly a sector of the sims was always story, and it seems as though they are really fixating on it this time!!

[@Анастасія-й5к]

Is Moody & McMillan family a reference to tv show "Vicious", where Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi play main characters? 🤔

[@julay629]

When I first saw the Sim Ian I instantly thought of Ian McKellen, I can see similarities in their faces so I think it's definitely on purpose

[@pennylaing8920]

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to be best friends with a sim quite as much as the mayors son. Like I relate to wanting to leave the town and you could tease him about his crush but also he hates comedy so I would absolutely spend days telling horrible dad jokes to annoy him it would be so wholesome

[@sabrinaweinstein8530]

If you’re playing as the grocer or the pub owners, if you order groceries or go to the pub who works there? Do the pub owners actually make money from the pub and go there to work?

[@luizamarangoni8200]

All characters related to the town (mayor, pub owner, delivery man, etc) except Agnes and Agatha get substituted when they die and/or when you play in their household or get them into your :)

[@bluesimmer97]

i love sims lore omg yes petition for more lore in future sims packs!

[@zoeb3562]

omg because agnes’ husband died in the water, she doesn’t swim so that’s why she wears a dress as her swimwear

[@danielleball3072]

This is such a creative video ive always been wanting more players to talk about/rank/review the townies:)

[@carlaviz6605]

I love this, it really shows how great the sentiments and likes and dislikes are for storytelling!

[@candysnowy]

OH MY GOSH THAT KIM GOLDBLOOM SIM LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MY MOTHER IM SCARED

[@klaramihalikova]

Was literally looking for a video of yours to watch and my notification popped up lol

[@moonie7163]

this expansion makes me actually wanna play with the townies, which is new, I'm sooo excited!!

[@DisneyWorldWolfie]

I think it's a little odd that Agnes Crumplebottom, considering the everything about her, doesn't have the unflirty trait.

[@luizamarangoni8200]

Unflirty comes with City Living

[@DisneyWorldWolfie]

@@luizamarangoni8200 Ah I forgot

[@Ardelin_]

I can't believe you missed the best thing about the Watsons, because you didn't, you didn't check the sentiments and didn't learn that the reason Rahmi 'dislikes' Lavinia is that she had an AFFAIR, with the MAYOR and it *ended badly*. o:

[@haylie_salay29]

I am going to play with this pack with almost every family

[@robertak2659]

I've got two families that I'm working on for this pack; one is a family loosely based on a friend of mine who moved here from England several decades ago (he's now 87), so he has a wife and 3 kids but he's a gardener in my game. Second couple is a pair of lesbian girlfriends; they both left their husbands (who I still have in the game) and moved in together with their toddler kids. Thinking about putting that family on hold for the next couple of weeks though because the toddlers are about to age up and I want to wait till I actually can move them to HoB.

[@nell1289]

If any of y’all were wondering, it’s now may 2022 and that fox glitch at 0:35 is still happening lmao

[@tylerf.145]

Omg I'm so excited that there are old gay couples 😭😭😭 as a person who's involved in my towns lgbt community (a very country town btw) it's so cool to see people that I relate to and have basically seen in real life

[@_smolSam]

I love the Scotts so much. My main sim is best friends with Sara and I gave them two little girls.

[@rolandbaldwin]

Come through senior gays!! Oh I can't wait to get this for the rep!

[@Jenny-cb7ti]

Ever since the early access came out I made it my mission to date the creature keeper guy because I already love him so much and now I have to go against lore to get him I LOVE THIS

[@Disnina]

*whispers* this shows that we need more lots in the world o.o

[@lindsey2542]

This pack genuinely seems like one of the best packs to date. The Sims are so in depth and there's quite a lot of diversity, the builds are absolutely adorable and wonderful (as expected of simmers!) and overall the items and gameplay are super nice too. I don't buy packs much because I don't play the Sims very often but this will definitely be my next purchase when it comes out :D

[@stanleyhumphrey8885]

When do I, Stanley Humphrey, get to farm watermelons? 🍉🌭✨

[@markabele8794]

Thanks Kayla for the walk through on all the families in this pack. I don't have any favorites, but I'm glad they brought the Crumplebottoms back.

[@rahmel2009]

I love how she just casually represents the lgbtq like “oh by the way Melody is lesbian”

[@ebonist4684]

wait where

[@ifeedonpeoplesfailure2123]

Mrs.Crumplebottom is my favorite