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Favorite Sims 2 EP?
Brindleton
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Hi, what is your favorite Sims 2 EP?
I'm curious to see which of the 8 packs will turn out as the most popular one.
I'm curious to see which of the 8 packs will turn out as the most popular one.
Favorite Sims 2 EP? 177 votes
University
12%
22 votes
Night Life
15%
28 votes
Open 4 Business
20%
36 votes
Pets
3%
6 votes
Seasons
24%
44 votes
Bon Voyage
5%
10 votes
Freetime
6%
12 votes
Apartment Life
10%
19 votes
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Here's my list of why I didn't choose the other ones
-University: It never really felt that ''college-y'' enough for me.. But I obviously still loved it. And the new walking animations for young adults hahaha
-Open 4 Business: Hmm well for one I thought it was a little tedious to have to constantly re-assign the ''set for sale'' ,say, food in a bakery.. Also the glitch of the special uniforms messing up their faces was a bit of a killjoy, but still fantastic pack! I loved the all the new activities! Ts2 packs were just so full of goodies, I miss those packs.. (I especially loved the water object that even dogs could play with, from the toy making station)
-Pets: I guess the interactions with the pets were limited
-Seasons: Loved everything, though it plumed how gardeners would always throw away the leaves piles! Like hello I wanted you to rake them so that then I could play in them hahah.
-Bon Voyage: BV was amazing and so well made. Buying a vacation home really felt realistic, it was awesome how you could get houses on the beach. My biggest bummer is that Tours were just rabbit holes... They could've at least done a cinematic each time they went, but not nothing
-Freetime: AMAZING I loved this one omg, all the new activites and objects and everything! However, I really didn't like basketball and soccer. I wish they could actually play, not just a shootout that would make their needes decay like crazy.
-Apartment Life: Honestly, I felt this one was so close to reaching it's potential.. It was rather boring how your NPC neighbours were always just 1 sim, and the in-game apartments were all so..Un-apartment like and ugly. Nothing like the ones in the trailer. However, the amount of content that went into it (yet again) is bloody astonishing. I loved that interaction where parents would swing their kids around haha.
They all had so so so much content, I miss those good packs
If I hadn’t picked Seasons, would hsve been free time, loved the new hobbies, the new hidden lots, the genie and the new objects. Just really added a lot of character to the sims.
I picked nightlife solely because the addition of personal vehicles was such a massive game changer. That alone made Nightlife stand head and shoulders above the rest of a very competitive group. My second favorite was probably university, then followed by apartment life. Overall they are all great however, and the reason why I still firmly hold that TS2 was the absolute pinnacle of the franchise.
Second place would have to be either Seasons or Bon Voyage.
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Seasons added so much realism and I love the weather changes.
Pets is so much fun with all the furry "kids" around, just like my RL.
Freetime gave some great hobbies and for more than one of my sims, a career.
Bon Voyage makes for great honeymoons.
Apartment life had value. Some of my founding sims chose to get an apartment when they started out with nothing.
University, while not my cup of tea, gave more careers and extra wants/fears.
Nightlife, while I don't play it much, gave us a number of things like CARS.
The lists of benefits for each EP would be pages long. Honestly, I can't imagine not having any of these EPs.
Seasons
Bon Voyage
Freetime
But I enjoy the gameplay enrichment from the other eps and goodies even if I am deceived by Univ.
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In general, I do love all the Sims 2 packs, but I'd say the one I use the most is Apartment Life. The ability to make all sorts of creative lots such a flat, row houses, cul-de-sac with private homes acting as apartments, trailer parks etc, and actually have multiple people live in them is amazing to me. I like cozy, compact lots and small worlds, so this way I can still build small, but have a lot of sims.
Another cool thing I like about Apartment Life is that essentially there is no limit to how many sims can live in one lot. Of course, only 4 families can be played, but someone once did a test with making as many tiny apartments as possible...and they all had a townie live in them. Amazing!
In addition, the CAS and Build/Buy was really cool to me.
The reputation and lower/middle/upper class systems were really sweet additions that look subtle, but have a lot of impact on how the world looks and reacts to your sims.
It bugs me to this day that the Sims 3 and 4 don't let you make your own apartments like in the Sims 2. Of course, the high rise penthouses are really cool, but the apartment system in 2 was just on a league of its own. You could plop down the huge 60x50 lot and essentially make a little open world area just like the neighborhoods in the Sims 4, just smaller and without loading screens.
Overall I'd rank the packs in this order in terms of how much do I really use their content:
1. Apartment Life
2. Open 4 Business - Love having businesses in the game and running them, or even just doing yard sales.
3. Freetime - A lot of new activities for sims.
4. Nightlife - Bowling, restaurants and cars are awesome!
6. Pets - I like having pets in the game but overall it's a pretty small pack.
7. Bon Voyage - THAT PIRATE SHIP OMG.
8. Seasons - The gardening is fun, but all the deaths from the weather made me lose so many sims lol. Still, weather spices up the game.
8. University - It's so small...some of the Sims 2 stuff packs have just as much, if not even more new objects. Sims 3 University Life did the theme much better than this pack in my opinion.
With OFB I was able to make a completely self sustaining world. Each neighborhood had it's own mayor and governing system with tax collection based on parks and museums (using the ticket machine) and when the government collected enough, it would upgrade "features" around town. All businesses were owned by residents. Regular sims couldn't buy anything that wasn't sold in a store and if they wanted it, it created a business opportunity, which expanded the town, until there wasn't space left and a new town was established. And on top of all that, it provided a great way for my towns people to get to know one another. They even have clubs for business owners to sell to one another (like my crafty sims might try to sell furniture/decor to the owner of the furniture store), the elites get together to sell properties to one another, teens and kids craft at the community center and the "fund-raise" by selling their wares. It's an intricate system. I love it!
I like them both for different reasons that cannot be compared!
It was the first... I loved the Music, the YA life stage, pool tables, new neighborhood, Cowplant, .... it just worked so well for me.
I also love Bon Voyage because vacations and mementos were great. OFB still holds its ground after all these years, with all the fun businesses my sims could run. FreeTime hobbies added a lot to my sims' lives. Apartment Life had the best apartments, and it added pretty much everything the game was missing (spiral stairs, butlers, witches). University was fun, even if it did take a long time to finish.
Pets was just alright. The cats and dogs were improved over Unleashed, but they didn't offer much apart from that. I do remember the half and quarter tiles, and custom paintings, but that's it.
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After OfB I would say Apartment Life is my next favourite due to again, the massive creative potential it offered. You could build just about any type of house/apartment you could think of (terraced houses, apartment block, old mansion converted into flats, trailer park etc.) and you could build amazing communal areas into them. I also loved the sheer size of the world we got with it and a staggering number of premade apartments and community lots. The whole system was very well designed and fleshed out. Miles better than City Living IMO.
But yeah, as for the others they're all fantastic and I loved playing all of them.
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Pets hasn't gotten any votes yet :(