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Which Island Inspired EP is your favourite?
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I'm curious to know, as each pack has a focus on Islands and Beach activities, but they all focus on very different things!
Bon Voyage's main focus in beachside activities, and the experience of travelling and being on Vacation.
(I know there are two other locations, but most new gameplay comes from Twikkii Island)
Island Paradise kind of flips that and focus' on what it is like living in a tourist destination.
& Island Living focuses more on living on the Islands, Island Culture and the world is inspired by less touristy Tropical life, and more Residential living, by giving us several ways to earn cash as well as whole new systems around Odd Jobs etc.
If you need more time to play Island Living, save your vote!
Bon Voyage's main focus in beachside activities, and the experience of travelling and being on Vacation.
(I know there are two other locations, but most new gameplay comes from Twikkii Island)
Island Paradise kind of flips that and focus' on what it is like living in a tourist destination.
& Island Living focuses more on living on the Islands, Island Culture and the world is inspired by less touristy Tropical life, and more Residential living, by giving us several ways to earn cash as well as whole new systems around Odd Jobs etc.
If you need more time to play Island Living, save your vote!
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Which Island Inspired EP is your favourite? 105 votes
Bon Voyage
11%
12 votes
Island Paradise
27%
29 votes
Island Living
60%
64 votes
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I think overall I prefer Island Living over Island Paradise.....but I still love Bon Voyage over the two. Bon Voyage had so much gameplay..... ocean swimming, hotels, making castles, sunbathing, secret lots with secret NPC's, vacationing, souvenirs, jewellery, buried treasures, big foot, teleportation, tea sets, spa lots, massage tables....etc. And you could make your own vacation destinations and add them to any neighborhood! Considering that it was released back then in 2007 there's no comparison.
Island Paradise was okay and I liked my sims living on houseboats, but it was so glitchy (even with NRASS mods)
I have to wait and see how Island Living plays out, but I love the look of the world and the idea of being more involved in the island care.
Bon Voyage is one of the best build expansions, ever in my opinion. I don’t know how they managed their budget, but that pack brings so much that most other Sims 2 EPs feel like Game Packs in comparison.
And compared to World Adventures & the Sims 4 Vacation Packs, Bon Voyage doesn’t compare (although I do love Granite Falls more than Three Lakes).
I guess one of the things that eats up budget nowadays is making the worlds and world design. The Sims 4 especially. I wonder had EA used a terrain based world tool, how things might have changed (eg like Sims 3 CAW). I think a lot of The Sims 4’s budget is spent creating the worlds from scratch.
I’ve always felt Sims 4 Get To Work seemed to offer so much more gameplay (even if people didn’t really click with it) compared to the rest. The other packs often feel like, the more intricate the world, the less broad the gameplay is.
I don’t know, haha. But whoever managed Bon Voyage’s budget was incredible. So much stuff, it even had more gameplay than the spin off Stories games.
As much as I love BV though, I feel like Island Living may surpass slightly. Because Bon Voyage is a Vacation Pack and by default, the game doesn’t play very well on Vacation after a while. It’s good in small doses but without work/life balance, the game gets dull.
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The static lots in TS4 are a staple, I mean you can't edit the existing worlds or add your own, so I'm not putting that on the EP.
I think that once developers get to update most of the older worlds to allow full swimming in certain beach areas it'll be all good and dandy, and you'll be able to use the Island Living boats and floats there too.
As far as boats and floats goes that is speculation and if it does show up that is good, again having static lots and neighborhood for that reason alone I chose IL as last also for exclusivness which is not an plus for me. Being that the Neighborhoods/Lots are staple does not mean I have to like it.
Bon Voyage
It was a good pack for a holiday but I hardly went on holidays so I didn't often use it. Also I don't remember enjoying the tropical destination all that much my favourite destination was actually Japan (or whatever they called it).
Island Paradise
This was fairly easy for IL to win because all it needs to do is work. IP was the first game I followed up to it's release and really got me into the forums. When I played it I was just bummed out with how poorly it ran. I also got bored very quickly as it's too much of a destination type world that having a sim live thier lives there was kinda difficult and just got annoying after a while. I was also upset about the hotels being mostly a rabbit hole. For me the pack was tied to the world and as I couldn't play the world due to lag and crashing it became mostly just a useless pack.
IL also has great looking content so yeah it wins mostly by default.
IP is probably the most broken pack in existence.
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Island Living seemed to take some ideas and expanded on them. Not as limiting as Sims 2 or laggy as Sims 3. Improved on the mermaids and focuses on a culture and living and being a part of it, not just visiting or acting like a tourist. It brought in some new ideas as well such as active volcanoes, the elemental and how sims impact the environment overall.
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Island Paradise was super broken. That world was a hell, so many routing errors......I'm so amazed at how Island Living works. And here we were all telling ourselves how limited the engine was. Sims can finally ride on jet skis, and swim on open water! It's so cool. And the animations and visuals are off the charts.
Bon Voyage doesn't really compare because the island destination is only 1 of 3 vacation spots, so the focus isn't solely on it. And to be fair, it did pioneer a lot of things like beach swimming and sunbathing
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Bon Voyage is by far the worst. Sorry but all three vacation worlds are just your typical TS2 worlds made out of simple templates. They look absolutely nothing special. Beyond the basic beach activities and a few other things like massages and dances, this pack has very little to offer.
Island living has improved on some of those areas, but I've noticed drawbacks in others.
Example, mermaids can't scuba dive? What the heck. Mermaids need to buy scuba equipment to dive for treasure/shells?
I'm loving this one for Sims 4... and my sims can live here.
For instance i love the thought of conservation and marine biology and all I am reading and seeing in the new pack. I am all about saving the only planet we have - so using it in a game in a good way I am happy about. But each of the other Island Sims games had their pluses and minuses too. If I was all about vacations -well Sims 2 was so enjoyable and featured honeymoons. Loved that. Was so much like going on Vacation.
Sims 3 was resorts but also island living but was to me more business side of vacations. I was not really into running resorts - did not care for the had to have buildings part or fighting roaches or any of that thing - but did love living and diving and having all the water sports, activities, and houseboats.
I do feel this new one will be more fitting for me - as I am not party centrallized kind of person and care deeply for people, animals, the earth - etc. I am not one who is big on destroying our planet so it is really right up my alley and I may be biased as far as resort living goes - but I could see Romantic get a ways for honey mooning and non - resort living. That is me. I also like the fact there appears to be respect for the native inhabitant of this place - I respect that. But as i said I am not into the real 🐸🐸🐸🐸 kind of thing with no regard to the histories and loving our world. This pack will probably reign higher in my like rating because of the thought and respect it brings to me the person and maybe not so much to me the player. LOL. I see both sides of the equation - but this pack so far represents me more than the others. I can understand those who do not think like me though and respect that as well.
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But hey they were cute and had their little fun sides too to be fair. Honeymoon was the best of those for me. But this new one - is me through and through.
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People whining it isn't a vacation world are missing the point and I'm glad devs didn't treat it as pretty scenery to consume and spit back up before going back to "normal" life.
Living full time on an island myself, it feels good.