My Brutally Honest Review Of The Sims 4 Spooky Stuff

[@SashaRicky]

I still can't believe there wasn't more of a scandal with them ripping objects from spooky stuff and just throwing it in seasons.

[@chocolatebutterfly97]

I know, I just realized that too because I almost never play with this pack.

[@corabeani]

They also ripped items from the free holiday stuff

[@kimkardashiansdaddy2744]

@@corabeani but it was free so that doesnt bother me

[@corabeani]

The only reason I commented that Seasons readded in items that were free as well as items people already paid for in 2015 with Spooky Day is that it was sloppy and should have been "more of a scandal." In 2018, Seasons was $40 USD. Holiday pack was free. Spooky Stuff was $10 USD. That made it sloppy on their part because they could have/should have added swatches to the existing items instead of readding the items in a more expensive way. People just really wanted Seasons and ignored they were repaying for items that were already in the game.

[@MarishkaVladimirescu]

It's like they put them in Seasons ep coz they know many people didn't buy the Spooky stuff, just to give a taste of it, i guess.

[@InSuspense1995]

Literally traumatising! I love the idea of you reviewing the older packs, more please 👁👄👁

[@silvervixen007]

I agree!

[@maureen2193]

In an open world it would be so cute to be able to go trick or treating

[@nedrane297]

We really hoped for that but at least we did get trick or treaters coming to the home in Seasons, was a little disappointing but better than nothing. Which we say about most of TS4

[@yeahthatsher]

I really wanted more costumes, especially for the kids.

[@isaacgonzales4787]

I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH YOU❗️✅️❗️I WAS SO LET DOWN❗️I HAD TO GO TO SKIN DETAILS AND LEFT ALL MY SIMS LOOK LIKE CHUCKY. WITH STITCHES ACROSS THEIR FACES. I ALSO CHANGED A SIMS SKIN TONE TO ACTUAL WHITE, LIKE SNOW AND SHE LOOKS CREEPY/DEAD❗️😳❗️2 OF MY CHILD SIMS, I CHANGED THEIR SKIN TONES GREEN & THEY LOOK LIKE THE INCREDIBLE HULK❗️🤣❗️I HAD TO GET REALLY CREATIVE & USE MY IMAGINATION 🤷‍♂️.

[@vee8080]

Among all the other problems, this pack also should've had some cross pack compatibility with cottage living, cos it's weird you can grow pumpkins in cottage living but you can't use those same pumpkins to carve with

[@ChubbyLittleMouse]

this was one of my favorite stuff packs but i honestly had no idea so many items were ripped from seasons and now i feel robbed.

[@nedrane297]

Ripped off BY Seasons, not FROM Seasons, big difference.

[@Zoe-tj4ld]

@@nedrane297 doesnt matter though, either way youre being scammed.

[@maaikespies5997]

Your reviews fill the hole lgr left behind, love you ❤

[@SatchOnSims]

I could never fill LGR's boots!

[@ADAOWO]

I was just thinking that! They’re both iconic and i love them!

[@noka283]

@@SatchOnSims I love you both

[@Gummy_Pop.]

Agreed ^^

[@dannydanbo58]

I love the Spooky Stuff Pack, and this is why. The costumes may not be "Spooky" because they are for adult costume parties at Halloween, not for going out and scaring people. Plus, they are great for making a time period ghost, like Nearly Headless Nick and Moaning Myrtle for my Harry Potter save. I added the candy bowl with the hand popping out to my Addams Family household to be Thing. I love the ability to carve pumpkins. The cloth covered furniture is great for filling out an attic along with a few holiday decorations that are being stored until that holiday rolls around. Spooky Stuff Pack was dropped on Sept. 29, 2015, almost three years before Seasons on June 22, 2018. If memory serves, they explained the doubling of some items was due to the fact that not everyone bought SSP and it was thought that those items would be welcomed, even twice for some. I think that if you have a closet on your lot, you can change anyone's costume (it's been a while since I have played creating a party in SSP).

[@nedrane297]

Yes! Exactly! And I do use the Spooky Stuff pack when it comes to making a more "haunted" or rundown old house. My nieces and I use the CAS items alot actually.

[@nedrane297]

The treat bowl! Ok, so when you (as a sim) just get a treat, they are not "expecting" to be scared by the hand so they get scared, but when you go for a "trick" and are tricked then they are happy because they got what they wanted, to be tricked. It seems weird until you look at it from the expectation pov.

[@GenerallyAnnoying]

I didn't even know about Halloween in Seasons! I don't think I ever have had trick-or-treaters come to my sims' house

[@Lovlyb35]

We didn't get an actual pumpkins until cottage living, that you could actually grow and cook with.

[@Lovlyb35]

@@KaiLucasZachary No you cannot carve the cottage living pumpkins, only those with spooky stuff pack which would have been a nice cross compatibility with spooky stuff if they added that with cottage living pumpkins to be carve. That would been a great.

[@MandalaBunnyhome]

I love spooky stuff build/buy especially the wood floors and walls and decor. I didn't realize most of it came with seasons though lol I'm also biased because I think I got it for $5 and that seemed fair for what I got. Edit- your point at the end was fair

[@complainer406]

I don't think most of the assets came with seasons, I'm pretty sure it was just the two items he showed. The pack is completely overshadowed by seasons though, and it really should've been included with it instead of having its own price tag

[@CaityRaindrop]

I wouldn't mind if they made spooky stuff free/merged into seasons(really seasons is where it belongs but it might be easier to go bg) and gifted buyers a kit voucher, like when sims 4 became free. I personally hate how SP and Seasons don't meld well. Throw a spooky party on your seasons spooky holiday and only bg costumes appear in the menu to quick change. Throw it on any day that's not a holiday, you get the menu for the spooky pack costumes.

[@CaityRaindrop]

I feel the same about luxury party, it's so bare compared to later packs, and both it's premium items are in more packs now. Make it bg and gift those who bought a kit voucher

[@CaityRaindrop]

Another thing with caterers, more of a bg thing but an issue I see with all parties when using them, I wish they let us select the menu for em to cook. The menu I want for my kids birthday is different from what I want for a dinner party or charity event 🤔

[@noka283]

I'm not even playing the sims 4, but I can't stop myself from watching your videos.

[@mikeycjdean707]

I think that’s the problem, they don’t go all out in the theme of the pack. Comes across as a muddle of ideas. A general dress up party pack would be great 🎉

[@nedrane297]

Unfortunately, thats pretty much the way they do all the packs unless the pack is a literal theme and then still does not go all the way.

[@recordtapesbackward]

can the sims actually wear pumpkins on their heads like it's being advertised in the trailer? I feel like that these scenes are the coolest part of the whole trailer 😅

[@jaywhitfield1332]

I think there's a CAS item that looks like a pumpkin, that's probably what was shown in the trailer. They can't wear pumpkins carved at the carving table or whatever you call it though, only ghosts can. Hope that's cleared things up for you.

[@pinkpeppers5580]

I think it could've been cool if they went more of a haunted house vibe. With the jumping out scary decorations, or mabey a pillar or tarp sims could hide behind to scare other sims

[@agnescopperfield9677]

I thought about getting this pack because I love Halloween. Thanks for changing my mind 😅

[@han-marie]

When this pack first released i was obsessed with it and kept having spooky parties for halloween... then they released seasons and it felt like i wasted $15 🙃

[@westanimesims]

Love this review! My gripe with this stuff pack is really not up to par and it is pretty limiting. It is pretty cute for Spooky season, but beyond the holidays the assets are not versatile enough for anything else.

[@corabeani]

Spooky Stuff (2015) came out YEARS before Seasons (2018). Back then, I suppose it was fine to drop as is, but Seasons made it irrelevant. Only reason to buy it after Seasons dropped is for extra costumes.

[@Renikee]

Funnily enough, since Seasons has some of the same stuff as Spooky stuff pack, it's not even needed to but the stuff pack, it only gives some more swatches to those items in Seasons. With Sims 4 studio, more swatches can be added, so the spooky pack is even worse because of this. If someone just wants a new swatch of those specific items, it can be easily edited.

[@milliedragon4418]

I like the carpets in this pack for build- buy mode in spooky. The rest of the design is too cartoony looking for my taste I would wish for more spooky but more realistic spooky. Since they added nails to the base game I wouldn't mind some spooky themed nails.

[@mikaabearr]

i have spooky stuff and seasons and ngl i wish i didnt even bother buying spooky stuff. I didnt even notice that they just ripped off the same items from spooky stuff thats just wild.

[@darksalt4570]

I hope that soon one day we get a refresh for the spooky stuff pack

[@gabiausten8774]

Dream on

[@cailablock7432]

Please do Laundry Day! The is my most traumatizing pack!

[@chocolatebutterfly97]

How?? What happened?

[@jennyxx5942]

@@KaiLucasZachary ironing our clothes would have been a nice feature, but I agree, the important things are in it. There are much worse stuff packs. I think stuff packs in general are strange, most of them should have been features in expansion packs or in base game

[@cailablock7432]

It's traumatizing because it only gave us laundry and doesn't even work! I can't even use because the dryer always breaks and never dries the clothes.

[@NoIdleSims]

Pumpkin carving as a handiness skill feels extremely silly. They should have made it a three tier hidden skill or tied it to painting (a creative skill). Or they could have added a more indepth skill like sculpting that then affects the carving.

[@Lore.n]

So glad I saw this before getting the pack

[@zosoart]

I completely agree, with literally everything you said! There's a common theme for sims 4 packs - disappointment

[@EvaIdk__Romania]

Caterers in TS4 (my experience) don't cook as well, i don't have this pack btw

[@A129WOLFY]

Thank you for convincing me to not waste my money EA's greed never ceases to shock me. They really ripped assets from this pack for seasons and thought that was okay

[@SuperRisa2010]

spooky stuff was one of the first packs i got, i was sad when there wasnt much gameplay with it,

[@Zoe-tj4ld]

glad i watched this, i have seasons and wanted to be able to celebrate halloween but if theyre just gonna give me the same items then id rather not get it. the fact that you need to use the handiness skill too carve pumkins makes me hate it even more. also completly forgot seasons already had halloween only just released when you showed it.

[@blahblahblahEMILY]

wish i had watched this before getting spooky stuff :( the spooky party is kinda fun but that's it

[@Johanna77777-z]

I remember thinking we really didn't get much with this pack. Can't remember why I got it

[@kyndalblackwell2003]

Had I not bought spooky stuff when I was looking to add more to do with my sims in game until I was able to get seasons I probably wouldn’t have ever bothered with buying it because it feels like a major waste of money and I don’t even really use spooky stuff anymore since I bought seasons.

[@MysticEagle4]

Gonna be real i dont remember when i bought this pack maybe on sale, either way besides that 1 wallpaper that looks like old boards or siding. I dont think I've ever used any of the rest of it ever. Not cas or build buy.

[@sandraganadi7896]

"omg, why am I doing this with my hand " :D:D:D:D I'm dying :D:D

[@naluzoniro]

I don't even think the overlap between seasons and spooky stuff is meant to be capitalistic, at this point I just think it's bad planning. Since they've decided to release every tiny bit of content in a separate stuff/kit/pack, they can't do something a bit bigger like seasons without stepping on previous packs, and none of the different packs' features integrate with each other.

[@leaflenster7340]

I don't think the party performance issues are actually related directly to this pack. I've had instances where regular base game house parties have issues like bartenders not showing up or just not doing anything. I think that since the spooky party is still a party, it's unfortunately susceptible to party base game glitches too even if the pack itself should be working fine. I haven't used the spooky party feature myself, though generally the performance is pretty much fine as far as the pack goes. Alas, base game parties are glitched for me so this pack would theoretically be too in that regard.

[@Roanoak]

I have had this game for a long time so I’ve bought everything as it came out but when I went back at added up Al the money I spent WOOOOOOO so much if I were starting now … I would be so confused on where to even start

[@christia9530]

Hey satch, do you think that the Sims 4 base game is worth downloading when it’s going to be free? Because I’ve heard that it gets boring without mods

[@theshadowking3198]

its a lot better now the people who say its boring without mods were their since the beginning when their wasn't much content now the base game is pretty ok

[@christia9530]

@@theshadowking3198 Thanks!

[@gl_sisters4250]

With gameplay you have to make to fun yourself. the game does not really give that much excitement without doing challenges and make weird story lines. but the building is pretty good and fun, the cas is not great without CC/mods. (i just have the base game, and this is how i see it)

[@sarahsgone6077]

I’m not Satch, but I think it is worth it. I’ve had just the base game for a year now and I play it constantly. There is so many mods and cc that you can get for free that is absolutely amazing. Plus they are VERY simple to install. So when it becomes free, if you were ever interested in the sims, I would go ahead and download it.

[@catsncrows]

I've never played with a mod and was stuck in base game after my laptop died before I got my new set up. I got up to all sorts of nonsense and there are some challenges that have been around forever

[@AdamManeYT]

It's strange you can't change the costume. It should work by clicking on your Sim and even without Seasons pack

[@zsuzsitakacs4595]

Hey stach i love your videos 💕 and should i get vampires for xmas?

[@RRSIMMER]

I honestly just can’t wait for sims 4 stuff to be converted to sims 3

[@lucywoomy]

Why… don’t they simply add the new stuff here to seasons? If the point of seasons is weather and holidays, it would make sens for it to have all of this in the expansion pack MADE FOR events like this

[@User-wr5qz]

Honestly, I bought this pack to get the costumes to my Roman, Historical and Fantasy game play. It was before I found out there's CC. And for the pumpkins. It's so useless otherwise

[@darksalt4570]

I love this pack tbh

[@georgiaelise9899]

I literally love your videos, satch can we be besties?!?

[@spatchmo6938]

Wasn't Spooky Stuff free at one point? I have that one but I don't remember actually buying it

[@wrrwrr4033]

please honest review paranormal stuff and starengerville, is it still worth it?

[@papapatti1192]

Can we have another episode of let’s play they’re so funny😢(only requesting not demanding❤️)

[@jip8793]

I know 8 years old guys shooting zombie plants on PlayStation. What is EA thinking? Who are they wanting to impress? These are serious questions...xD

[@asmakodvav7825]

Does it come with realm of magic

[@itsamonsterr]

they literally could have put all the stuff from this pack in the seasons pack 😒

[@rummagingchaos]

i think it’s worth more than two kits, but not by much tbh

[@Zbcapp]

For 10$ I love it 😢

[@frannncoco]

it's never too late!! period ah peroid uh

[@styxthistle497]

Don't mind my goth self stopping by to see if spooky stuff is worth is or if I'll just stick to custom content Edit: damn I don't think I'd get this even if I was a console player. Maybe the build / buy items would be good for kid sims, but... I'm not a legacy player

[@sydneyharp1989]

I don’t use mods and am surprised about the lack of gameplay what do i want 4 costumes just to eat candy out a bowl

[@akselssimkins8124]

Its not that buggy because there’s not that much to be buggy😂

[@SatchOnSims]

lol

[@ghoslt]

all of these things should have just been in Seasons as apart of Halloween and not it's... own separate price point. So wack.

[@RosesTeaAndASD]

Sims4 was a cash grab starting with the $60 base game. This pack is no huge shock.

[@karip4676]

Im not qualified whatsoever but i know i could do better than the current sims creative directors

[@hicranakdeniz]

This stuff pack is extremely bad and underwhelming. I’m just asking myself how this pack came out this bad when there are so many ideas they could have added. I would never ever buy this tbh, it definitely needs an update. The fact that they had 3 items that you could also get on the Seasons pack is just insane. Think about any other gaming company and their audiences, they would be fuming but not the Sims community 🤡

[@nedrane297]

Ok, I understand this is your review NOW, but at the time it came out, Spooky Stuff worked correctly. It goes back to how they don't make packs work together and so now it doesn't with all the other systems in play. The thing to remember is that Maxis adopted the words "Spooky Day" instead of Halloween. So they weren't actually trying to be SPOOKY in the literal sense of the word. It was like you said more for a party. Also you have to keep in mind that apparently they are trying to make the game more kid friendly so haven't REALLY done anything scarey or spooky in TS4, it was never meant to be that. Personally, when I build a rundown or "haunted" house, this pack is a go to along with the Vampire pack. The drapped rundown furniture, the wood floors, the hand wallscones in the white or black, it all works for me. Being as my nieces are really into the occult sims and love ghosts and such, I make a lot of houses like that. So the Spooky Stuff pack was worth it to me because I really do use it. Also the CAS has costumes that are not in any other pack, though some of them are reused, yes, some are also nowhere else to be found. And my girls USE them, like a whole lot. So again, worth it to me. Especially when at that time we did NOT have Seasons so it filled a need for us. If we were starting now, would we get the Spooky Stuff? We likely would get Seasons first, but yeah, we would because its part of the niche play that we do. For example, I did a redo of the Webbington Cobb house put out by EA/Maxis in the gallery, making the lot actually playable. Its a hot item for people like us. And I used a LOT of the Spooky Day stuff in it. Recently, I made a "vampire" house for one of my nieces, and again used a lot of the Spooky Stuff pack in it. Because she has a young mentality and needs it to be a little fun not just spooky. Oh, back to CAS (I know I'm rambling a litte, I just got up) as spellcasters, again my girls use the Spooky Stuff pack for their "witches" almost every time. So, yes, we would still buy it, just, you know, on sale... like all the others. But as soon as it came on sale? Yeah, we would totally buy it. Keep in mind, we don't usually play parties anyway so we didn't even realize the parties didn't work. It's not that I don't agree with most of your video, but it works for us in how we play. Or played, I personally haven't actually played TS4 this year, I've been playing Sims 3 and Sims Medieval mostly, with some Sims 2 thrown in. When I am asked nicely by one of my nieces I will go in and build something they have requested but I don't count that as playing because its not for my own entertainment or enjoyment really, its pure love for one of my girls, and once done I go back to what I want to do for myself. And I say "they", but lately it just been the one, as the others are playing the same games I do.

[@anrijupiter]

EA is so lazy 😭

[@KangaRhrew]

Capitalism is a free market, unfortunately the sims has no competition. I guarantee you they would do a hell of a better job and lower the price if there were other similar, better games in the market. Unfortunately for us, they have dominated this market.

[@傷心的人-y7l]

1 out of 10 for me, this pack is a disgusting cash grab.