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Which expansion should I get, personal recommendations
VampireSapphire
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I have get to work, city living, cats and dogs, parenthood and vampires
I'm a family orientated sim player and dabble a bit with the occult stuff. Sims supernatural and generations were my fave sims 3 ones.
Also I just missed the last sale
should I just wait til the next one or get a decent game back to satiate my want to buy sims stuff as the expansions are a bit expensive.
I'm a family orientated sim player and dabble a bit with the occult stuff. Sims supernatural and generations were my fave sims 3 ones.
Also I just missed the last sale
should I just wait til the next one or get a decent game back to satiate my want to buy sims stuff as the expansions are a bit expensive. 0
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You might consider these packs:
Expansion - Get Together. You might have not gotten it so far because it was advertised like it was all about partying and going to night clubs, but the club system itself can be really useful for family style play. You can set up kids play groups, homework groups, house cleaning and gardening groups, or almost anything else you want multiple sims to do autonomously. You can also briefly switch to other households and set up all kinds of clubs to have sims you don't normally play do things autonomously on community lots. After you switch back to your main household, those other sims will continue to meet in their clubs if you travel with your family to the community lot where they meet. You will see them show up and do the activities you assigned them. It's great for having other families show up, together as a family, at places where your family goes. Also, Windenburg is one of the largest worlds that has shipped with any of the packs, and it's beautiful.
Expansion - Seasons. Being able to make you own holidays is fun, the weather adds variety to the sims' days, and they actually included toddlers in a lot of the seasonal activities.
Game pack - Realm of Magic. If you like the supernatural stuff, having spellcasters is fun. They're fairly well done, like the vampires, and the world and hidden lot that come with the pack (though small) are gorgeous.
Game pack - Dine Out. I enjoy having my sims go out to eat.
Stuff packs - Kids room stuff, Toddler stuff and Backyard stuff all offer something for kids or toddlers to do.
Obviously, there are some issues, bugs and puzzling design choices with any of these packs, as there are in pretty much all the packs, but if you are okay with mods, there are mods to fix almost anything that annoys you.
Personally, I always wait for a sale for expansions (50% off). And I usually wait for a sale for game packs (25% off). Stuff packs don't seem to go on sale much, but the other two go on sale frequent enough to wait for in my opinion.
I can't help but recommend Get Together as well, cause it's my favorite Sims 4 pack and it suits all playstyles.
I caved and bought RoM
Bought RoM and I aim to buy seasons next time it's on sale
Yes.
If you like occult gameplay, I think RoM is a really good pack. I absolutely loved Supernaturals, and I also really love RoM. I've been playing almost exclusively with witches. There's a ton of spells and the different types of spellcasters are nice. The realm isn't the most exciting place it could've been but I almost never go there and still absolutely love playing with this pack.
Of course, as a family player, you might also really enjoy Discover University. It gives you a great reason to have your sims skill up and get good grades in the hopes of getting them a scholarship and maybe even allow them to start a distinguished degree instead of a regular one. I really think Uni is a super fun pack, even if I wish we'd only need to take 10 instead of 12 classes (or 12 for distinguished and 10 for the others). Because it's really hard to have multiple sims get A+ grades if they don't live in the same household and/or have too many electives.
Given your description, that's what I think would interest you most. However, I strongly suggest to anyone to also consider Get Famous because it adds so many layers to jobs as a whole, and I think the acting career is brilliant. I never even wanted this pack, and I ended up loving it so much, it's still in my top 3. Same for Dine Out but then I don't have many issues with it ... you might though so I won't suggest it quite as strongly
Oh I see you've already purchased one haha
Very nice recommendations, not sure what to add... except that I agree with everything
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But... it sounds like you are a lot like me as far as play goes so here are the two options I would have:
1) wait for a sale and get a stuff pack now (which never go sale anyway), or
2) make a bundle
Depending on the gameplay you're yearning for I would do number 1
This comment is so great! I never thought of adding my families as clubs so they visit lots together when I'm playing other families. I'm going to try this!