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Which city-related expansion pack do you prefer the most?
waterywatermelon
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Which city-related expansion pack do you prefer the most? 106 votes
The Sims 1 Hot Date
9%
10 votes
The Sims 2 NightLife
16%
18 votes
The Sims 2 Apartment Life
23%
25 votes
The Sims 3 Late Night
19%
The Sims 4 City Living
30%
32 votes
0
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The neighborhood that comes with Eco Lifestyle has apartments and can be considered a "city". It does look like an urban district.
Windenburg (Get Together) has a German urban district.
Dang it, I should have included Get Together and Eco Lifestyle.
The rest weren't bad, but 3's Nightlife had to have vampires buffed by Supernatural. 3's infectious fame system was also more well rounded with the addition of Showtime's careers and activities. Bridgeport was definitely unique for a world in 3 and it was fun to play, but it was an easily overshadowed EP for me.
I didn't get to play with Hot Dates that much. I begged for it as a kid, through the embarrassment, and was still rejected. I played it with the complete collection later in life and it has some really nice additions, but I like 2's better.
As for CL (and Eco's urban part, quite frankly), it has a nice take on living in apartments with the neighbor events and traits (which are largely absent from the Eco apartments). However, they feel the least customizable, meaning they are awful for any sort of a builder. You cannot even save/share the apartment lots like you could with a house, so I don't even bother with in depth customization a lot of times. You cannot make your own; changing walls is a hassle; there are irremoveable (and also unusable) lot traits; no sharing/saving. So while CL has some really nice parts to it, it is definitely lower tier for city Sims packs and even in 4's EP tier list for me. I like Eco for its gameplay instead of its urban themes, but I like it more than CL generally.
AL is the only EP so far with customizable apartments. I've downloaded duplexes and added amenities to apartments (although sadly, the neighbor AI doesn't take advantage of some common facilities.) It also has a ton of content as a parting gift since it was the last EP: spiral stairs, butlers, witches, etc.
Nightlife is still fantastic though. I love sending my sims downtown. Restaurants and clubs were great. Not really a fan of vampires, but they're cool
Late Night was a hit or miss, because it was laggy on my 2010 computer so my sim would stand outside for hours, and the club would close by the time they go in. On a side note, why do the places there have closing times anyway? The fame system also got annoying after a while because every time a negative rumor spreads, my sim's relationships with everyone goes down a bit. God forbid your spouse is an occult, because it'll just be negative rumors about woohooing with your spouse every week
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
If you look at the Apartment Life trailer, then you would notice that EA did suggest that Apartment Life EP would be about moving out of the suburbs and into the big city with apartments and stuff.
Apartments would definitely not look out of place in the Downtown area
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
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My Mood:
Never had any Eps for TS1 though Hot Date was the one I was really interested in but ehh, didn't happen. Apartment Life, never had that one for I'm very picky and wasn't that interested. And City Living... pfft, couldn't care less after finding out about its' features and scope. Basically the only thing I'd like to have from it are those lot traits/challenges.
EDIT 1/2022: I eventually did end up getting City Living during a sale after a post in another thread made me realize all the storytelling/rp possibilities. I actually do like the EP, yet my opinion on the best one doesn't change. TS4 iteration is beautiful, I like the apartments and especially those lot challenges. There's nice atmosphere and it's fun to be able to sell stuff as street vendor (really made my Homeless challenge more interesting). In some ways I might even enjoy it more than TS3 (more vibrant, more character) but it also falls flat in others, like the city itself is still mostly just set dressing in proper TS4 fashion and I don't see myself using its' features (like festivals) as meticulously as I did TS2 restaurants/bars which had a plethora of activities I enjoyed. TS4's overall scope is also way smaller than in previous tittles.
I found Bridgeport to be a bland and lifeless place and disliked the fame system it came with.
City Living on the other hand always feels alive to me (especially the spice district) and there is always something going on with plenty of people to meet. I'm also fine with how apartments are done, and like the challenge of working with the space given.
I did also enjoy Sims 2 Nightlife. But it wasn't for the living features. It added attraction, chemistry, jealousy, fury, turn ons/turn offs to the game and really fleshed out relationships.