I did a poll without seasons because it is by far everyone's favorite expansion. This way we can get a better idea of what the community likes in terms of expansions.
The club system is a gamechanger. I can't imagine the game without it. Plus, in my opinion, Windenburg is the best world there is. It actually feels like a real world as it is large, varied and historic.
Seasons definitely isn't my favorite expansion, never gonna be happy about them cutting base game content out and slapping a 40 dollar price point on it.
For me my favorite has always been Island Living, but recently Cats and Dogs is overtaking it as I love the world and the gameplay it adds
I think polls are fun! So I really want to answer, but so many are asking about a favourite, and I don't really think that way; all the expansions, and the other packs, add to the game, and I think i would miss a lot of things about them if they were not there, even if some of them seem more thought through than others.
One way to answer the question would be to say Get Together though, since I would really like it if more of the packs had features that were so useful and flexible and non-intrusive to gameplay as the Club System.
I had to smile at the title. Seasons is a favourite for many simmers. For me seasons ties with get together. The club feature and windenburg, my favourite world, are the selling points of this EP for me.
So right now i only have Cats and Dogs, Seasons, Discover University, and Get To Work. I choose get to work because you can play as a scientist and a doctor- where you can join them at work. now of course it would be pretty great if all the careers had this- but however it works! it is also a tie between Get to work and discover university!
I was torn between Island Living and Get to Work. Island Living surpasses Get to Work a little bit because of the world. Magnolia Promade was a pretty weak world from Get to Work. Sulani was beautiful. Both of the packs give good gameplay though. Island Living wasn't my favorite pack overall, Vampires is but since that isn't on the poll I'm going to go with Island Living. I would say all of the packs on the poll are worth it but that depends on what gameplay you like.
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It is just really great. Game play is awesome, new socials, every little aspect is improved. As for the world, I'm not sure how true, but I've heard it is meant to resemble Germany. Does not look like Germany... ROFL! Very pretty nonetheless.
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On the one hand, I rather enjoy the premades of Get Together. But I really adore living in an apartment, especially as someone not ultra-big into building. And the festivals are still the best in all the expansions.
I was torn between City Living, Island Living and Cats & Dogs but I chose City Living because I enjoy playing in the city sometimes and I love the San Myshuno festivals.
I've voted for get together because of beautiful worls+cool townies but cats and dogs EP is also equally good, i just don't like its townies except Lynx. Both are much better than seasons tbh.
Not an easy choice. I love parts of each one I own and there are parts of all of them I rarely use... I went with Get Together because the clubs tie in well with so many of my other packs. And also I love the Munch and Fyres families.
Get to Work is my favorite, just because I enjoy the activity of following your Sim to their career and hey, I can be a police officer and that is something super cool in my book.
I don't own all of the expansion packs, including Seasons, but even if I did I think City Living would be difficult to beat for me.
San Myshuno is probably my most used world, I love decorating apartments and filling the city with restaurants, cafés, and shops. I also really enjoy the festivals, especially the spice one.
It’s always been city living for me. Personally it’s my favourite expansion pack which I have been so surprised at as usually I don’t like the city packs.
Get to Work and Get together are my two favorite packs sometimes I would pick one, and sometimes the other, Get to Work gives me retail, and 3 fantastic jobs with work places, Get together gives me a wonderful new world, the club system and a lot of fun objects. Season I could actually do without, but I do enjoy the holidays with seasons. Sometimes the weather is quite annoying to me, especially if I go on a vacation, and the weather is bad.
RANTS: There needs to be a way to check the weather in a different place before going there, bad weather can spoil a vacation, or even a days outing. Get to works retail should have been like Dine out where you don’t have to own the business to set objects for sale....... I wish they would change that as many of my sims go to a retail store to buy things, but I really don’t like having to set the retail stores up initially having some one buy them, make the food etc. etc. I also would rather be able to buy each piece in an outfit off of a rack, jewelry case etc, and keep it in my dresser, closet, hat box or jewelry box, instead of an entire outfit off of a mannequin. Retail outfit buying used to be so much more fun when you had to pay for them, even if you bought them from the buy mode. You couldn’t just go into CAS and change everything for free. But that is probably more of a problem of how outfits were set up in the first place in this base game. I can’t remember if it was sims 1 or sims 2 ( or both) where you had to buy outfits, jewelry, etc. before you wore them, just like you do furniture. That made the game so much more fun using retail clothing stores and jewelry stores. And with all the pieces there are to buy now, you could have all types of clothing stores, outfit stores, jewelry stores, hat stores, shoe stores, underwear stores, swimsuit stores, you just clicked on a rack at a store, or a jewelry counter and all items in that category came up for you to buy. The game could still be made in a different mode if you wanted to be a seller where you had to buy certain pieces to sell them, actually in both clothing and furniture. It would be more work for EA, but so much more fun for the player.
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Get Together. There is no question about it.
The club system is a gamechanger. I can't imagine the game without it. Plus, in my opinion, Windenburg is the best world there is. It actually feels like a real world as it is large, varied and historic.
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For me my favorite has always been Island Living, but recently Cats and Dogs is overtaking it as I love the world and the gameplay it adds
One way to answer the question would be to say Get Together though, since I would really like it if more of the packs had features that were so useful and flexible and non-intrusive to gameplay as the Club System.
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"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." - Martin Buber
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
San Myshuno is probably my most used world, I love decorating apartments and filling the city with restaurants, cafés, and shops. I also really enjoy the festivals, especially the spice one.
RANTS: There needs to be a way to check the weather in a different place before going there, bad weather can spoil a vacation, or even a days outing. Get to works retail should have been like Dine out where you don’t have to own the business to set objects for sale....... I wish they would change that as many of my sims go to a retail store to buy things, but I really don’t like having to set the retail stores up initially having some one buy them, make the food etc. etc. I also would rather be able to buy each piece in an outfit off of a rack, jewelry case etc, and keep it in my dresser, closet, hat box or jewelry box, instead of an entire outfit off of a mannequin. Retail outfit buying used to be so much more fun when you had to pay for them, even if you bought them from the buy mode. You couldn’t just go into CAS and change everything for free. But that is probably more of a problem of how outfits were set up in the first place in this base game. I can’t remember if it was sims 1 or sims 2 ( or both) where you had to buy outfits, jewelry, etc. before you wore them, just like you do furniture. That made the game so much more fun using retail clothing stores and jewelry stores. And with all the pieces there are to buy now, you could have all types of clothing stores, outfit stores, jewelry stores, hat stores, shoe stores, underwear stores, swimsuit stores, you just clicked on a rack at a store, or a jewelry counter and all items in that category came up for you to buy. The game could still be made in a different mode if you wanted to be a seller where you had to buy certain pieces to sell them, actually in both clothing and furniture. It would be more work for EA, but so much more fun for the player.