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Unpopular Pack Opinions
Kurotard
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This discussion spans across all games, but I'll start off with mine. Be respectful with your comments and do not seek to defame/intimidate other commentators.
- My favorite stuff pack is the Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack. Is it a cash grab pack? Eh, probably, but I like many of the meshes included in the pack and will enjoy editing said meshes (my favorite being the dress that looks like Jessica Rabbit's from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.)
- I actually really liked The Sims 3 Store, as it had regularly updated content with fashion and build/buy objects from many backgrounds, from 1950s America to Indian, I really liked it all. You were able to pick and choose what you wanted out of the sets rather than be forced to buy a whole Expansion/Stuff pack.
- My least favorite feature in The Sims as a whole are parties. I don't want invitations to your Keg Party, go away, and get off my lawn you whippersnappers!
- Weather effects should always be basegame. Why should we pay for something that was initially going to be released in The Sims 2 before the whole office fire thing happened? I understand at the time, it might have been difficult to implement after that accident, but for The Sims 3/4? Nuh-uh. Ain't gonna cut it.
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That being said; basic rain would be welcome in the base game with seasons expanding with snow and thunderstorms etc
I see a lot of people who like City Living but I think it's one of the worst EPs ever in the history of The Sims cause it features 20% new content, 20% reuse of base game content and 60% set dressing, not to mention that every 'new' feature it has is MUCH more limited than in previous games and there's no new creative feature (can't create apartments or festivals of our own). At least it has nice CAS items...
I actually like Cool Kitchen Stuff despite not having as much Kitchen objects than having CAS stuff.
I think the wishing well from Romantic Garden Stuff is one of the best objects we've got since it can actually cause some mischief.
I really like Spa Day despite seeing other people rating it their least favorite GP. It also came out on my birthday so...
I can't think of other stuff right now... I need to go over previous games to remember what was my unpopular opinions about packs then...
Another unpopular opinion: the "gameplay" features of most expansion packs so far (except C&D) are completely useless or restricted and wasn't it for the new worlds, I wouldn't even have bothered buying them. Game packs are much better imo.
My regular favourite aspect has got to be seasons, whichever instalment we are talking about, and I do not mind paying extra for it as it usually incorporates other things too. I was also a fan of the Sims 3 store - such excitement on the forums when we were waiting for something new to come out! And they brought out a lot of awesome stuff that way.
I've never been particularly fond of apartments/city living style packs, but that's just me. It's not my thing. Same goes for uni/educational stuff.
I was enthralled with the Island Paradise EP and that has got to be my all-time favourite new addition to any series. The water sports, boating, living on a house boat and sailing around in it, all that stuff was amazing.
- I'd like to have a store for Sims 4, as I think it's better to buy a handful items I really want for four euro, than a full SP with stuff I don't really want for ten. I may have bought the individual items slightly more expensive than they would have been in the package deal, but that's six bucks more to go for groceries (or to save up for other games).
- Of the four main sims games Sims 3 is my least favourite, for a variety of reasons, but mainly open world and travel times. They don't mesh well with my playstyle.
- I don't like it when sims have feelings, including most moodlets. I wish Sims 5 would simuate the environment with naturally growing hair, accidents, diseases, allergies, weather and other physical obstacles to overcome and leave it to me to imagine what my characters are thinking about all of this.
it should be but EA quickly realised besides pets it's the most wanted thing in game and they can get people to pay for it each and every sims game.
Spa Day is the pack I'd have willingly paid my right arm to buy (fortunately, Origin only wanted a few fingers and toes for it) - I love the yoga; it's pretty much replaced all the fitness equipment in my game (unless I have an 'active' Sim). The ability to teleport is pretty much essential if you're trying to find plants or collectibles, and the superfood salad is perfect for maintaining healthy Sim weights. I also like the furniture, decorative objects and build-mode items and use stuff from this pack in every house.
My least favorite is probably Get to Work. The careers tend to get old pretty quickly.
I love OR in Sims 4. It's laid back and you just kind of do whatever you want your sim to do. You can follow the aspiration too of course or multiple others.
I really like the Luxury Party Pack in Sims 4 even though it's raked over the coals here. I don't like the clothes much but like the womens shoes, hairstyles overall. I love the buffet tables and the ability to put multiple food plates or other objects on them. That is probably my favorite object that is used often especially the mod looking one in my science labs. I like all the new recipes also. I do have to separate the build buy though to me it's not cohesive but can be used separately in the game well.
I love the bowling pack in Sims 4 also. I can't get enough rockabilly retro in my game. I love the mid century look although there is not enough of it to really fill an apartment it's a good start when paired with other items in build buy. I even like to send my sims bowling
Get To Work for some reason seems to get a lot of hate but I wish we would get another pack just like it with new career options. I've spent a crazy amount of hours playing a mad scientist. I do play and enjoy the other careers but not as much as the scientist. It has baking which warms up the feel in a sim home and although I don't run retail stores I love the ability to plop them down in my worlds and have my sims go shopping .. especially for things that are no longer available or ingredients/collectibles I don't want to hunt for. It's just very useful to feel .. engaged for me when I don't want my sim to do the grunt work.
I love City Living.
I love Bowling Stuff and Movie Hangout Stuff.
I don't want a university pack.
I don't mind that we didn't get horses in C&D.
I want mermaids more than werewolves.
Add Manage Neighbourhood Options - assign your own Sim to NPC jobs!
The Problems with Death in The Sims 4
Distinguish Elder gameplay with Elder-only reward traits
Filter Rugs by Room Size
Add Manage Neighbourhood Options - assign your own Sim to NPC jobs!
The Problems with Death in The Sims 4
Distinguish Elder gameplay with Elder-only reward traits
Filter Rugs by Room Size
Sims 3 Generations was meh when it wasn't annoying. Sims 4 Parenthood is 100 millionty times better.
Sims 4 Luxury Party is awesome! I use the shmancy sparkly clothes all the time, and a lot of the makeup for Aliens in particular.
Sims 4 Get to Work is 100% worth it for the Aliens alone. Best Sims Aliens ever. The rest doesn't matter.
Not interested at all in a University pack given how quickly I was bored with Sims 2 and 3 university packs. I'd way rather have active school for kids and teens than another university pack any day.
I want Sims 4 Farming but wouldn't complain at all if it had no horses, and I'm much happier with Sims 4 Pets without the horses. I want tractors and crop farming and sheep and cows and chickens and goats, and I don't want to sacrifice interesting chickens and sheep and horses and crop farming for horseback riding.
I don't have an issue with the Hamster pack.
I don't mind if ocean swimming is restricted to a seaside/tropical world because just swimming is boring anyway. Unless I can dive, snorkel, and/or surf, I'd rather just go in a pool with a swim-up bar. Or lie under a palm tree until a coconut falls on me. Just swimming wouldn't make a Beach Holiday pack worth it for me.
You can do this in Sims 4 - up to five of them each, and they rotate on their own.
It could’ve paired well with parenthood (missing the parents while they’re away) or get to work ( after uni they choose a job) but the time frame in which I would’ve wanted it had passed for me.
As for the existing packs for Sims 4 I do have my favorites that have been a less than lauded by others and sometimes only for a specific functions a pack brings. For instance the Spa pack. To this date, none of my Sims have ever gone to a spa (not an intentional exclusion) but I did exchange the Willow gym for one of the Maxis gyms that came with that pack that has a sauna and a yoga studio that I really use a lot. The gym in Oasis gave way for the Bowling/Karioke bar. I really love the yoga and meditation feature and some of my Sims have now maxed wellness. I am planning on excanging the city gym for a more versatile gym like the one I put into Willow Creek, that has a lot of the spa day features.
Outdoor Retreat, although it can get repetative (especially for a rotational player) it's still (despite how much funner the Jungle pack is) a great place for my Sims to vacation, as long as I don't have them stay longer than 3 days. My Sims get homesick. The toddler pack is worth the outside playstuff alone to put into community parks and although I have yet to play the careers that came with Get to Work, I do love the aliens. The romantic garden pack gave the Willow Creek park much needed facelift and the newest stuff pack sold me on the hamster illness/death. AWESOME!
The bowling pack did disapoint me greatly, especially as I was really really looking forward to get it but when I found out that the Sims can not even talk to each other while playing or do any socialization its a big let down.
I don't like Vampires at all. I'm not a fan of "supernatual" Sims in general and vampires are especially annoying in how they can attack your sims and just ruin all of their needs. It's annoying to have to lock doors just to keep them away. Thankfully I don't have the pack anymore, because I don't want to have to deal with that ever again.
City Living brought me great joy when I first got it. Nowadays I find I've had my fill of the city though every now and then I'll get an itching to send my sims there.
I want a preteen life stage in TS4 mostly for a height difference between the current teens and children. It'd be cool if preteens could experience things like first crushes too.
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Dine Out is my runner up for least-favorite GP because of the sheer amount of bugs I've had on the business aspect of running a restaurant. I don't think it was worth $20.
I thought Generations was a great expansion. I always install it when I reinstall TS3.
I don't want a new vacation GP/EP for TS4. I get bored of those easily.
I love the plantsims from Seasons (TS2) and University Life (TS3). I wish they'd make a real return in TS4, but I don't think it'll happen.