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Which The Sims game did vacations the best?
Which The Sims game did vacations the best? 137 votes
The Sims 3 World Adventures
The Sims 4 Outdoor Retreat
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The Sims 4 Jungle Adventure
The Sims 4 Journey to Batuu
The Sims 4 Snowy Escape + Related Base Game Patch Allowing Vacations
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That said, World Adventures in TS3 was amazing. Wonder what that says about TS4 ones
As much as I like TS4 I absolutely hate the vacation system in this game, and think it's absolutely the worst.
My Sims never go on vacation. They do have many adventures though…😎
I haven’t played anything vacation/ adventure related before Sims 3 Island Paradise and World Adventures. Island Paradise is great because it let’s you own houseboats and have proper dive adventure quests. I did own a hotel once which I enjoyed at the time but it’s not really my thing.
I find World Adventures to be an excellent EP and it’s one of my favorites of whatever I own from the entire franchise. The sheer amount of available tomb quests is pretty amazeballs and I still haven’t done all of them, plus solving puzzles in this one actually makes me feel rather intelligent! Unfortunately I can’t say the same thing about any of the Sims 4 adventure packs. Way way too easy and sometimes a little too repetitive.
That being said, I do really enjoy the Sims 4 adventure packs for different reasons and this is why I cannot vote here. The “other” option is not available.
I can feel quite immersed in the beautiful Sims 4 destination worlds (Sims 3 cam user) and due to this I find it very easy to come up with new, adventurous narratives for my sims.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I like that we get smaller adventure/ quest packs that focus on different themes and worlds. This includes Journey to Batuu, still one of my favorite Sims 4 packs and also Jungle Adventures, because I love the archeology skill and I find wandering around the jungle in the rain extremely enjoyable. Strangerville weirdness? Yup. Rock climbing in SE? Love it.
My preferred play style is outdoor adventure and mystery / quest focused which I believe is something a majority of (Twitter?) folks does not like in The Sims:
“OMG Literally NOBODY asked for that !!!🤮”
To which I reply:
“That’s okay dear little Snowdrop, just eff off for once. The Sims doesn’t revolve around you.”😘
That’s right, I don’t do ‘Create 350 Baby Objects and Throw 560 Dinner Parties or Die’ - adventures. Sound challenging, but it ain’t my thing.
I can’t wait for all the adventure pack refreshes. And another Star Wars pack. 😇
For the Sims 4, I also own Strangerville, because I want to solve the Strangerville mystery and save the day, and I also want to re-use some of the stuff to make an apocalypse bunker. I also like the American Western-style outfits.
World Adventures is good on its own, but I wouldn't consider it a vacation. It's more like a quest, because there almost no relaxation activities in the destination worlds
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
This being said, I'm not against relaxing vacations, but I find it a very different set up process. If I want to sit around and do nothing I'd cruise or go to a resort or something. Or rent a small scale cabin.
I've pretty well enjoyed every vacation system but 4's. I greatly dislike how the vacation days mangle the actual vacation. I miss putting your money down for the trip and the world more or less freezing while you went away so you could focus on the fun. Or at least me ask for specific time off for planning a vacation, if I have to fight a career system.
The last step is just to make the current "destination worlds" livable, and only make themed worlds (like Batuu) vacation-only.
I really would love to have Sims 2 style vacations back though! Sims 4 went too far into the adventure aspects and as a consequence my Sims have only visited the vacation worlds two or three times since I bought them.
I never owned any expansions for Sims 1, I only had the base game, so I don't know what that one was like.
•Picnic and bear rug + the romantic interactions on them
•fun text stuff
• Accurate log cabin vibe
• Volley Ball!
•igloos
•souvenirs
•special npc
(to note this is ts1 so obviously just having the worlds with themed stuff was considered cool)
Bon Voyage special points:
•cultural interactions like greetings, songs, tales,learning local dances(hula,slap dance and fire dance which all must be learnt separately from sim doing them).. basically more about exploring the culture and interacting wit locals
• secret lots
•bigfoot
• souvenirs return and can yes only be bought at vacation destinations
• new special npc that has more interaction than vacation ones
•hammocks and sauna have arrived (i dont think ts1 had em)
• new activity items such as:
zen garden
tea table
pirate ship
mahjong table
log rolling
axe throwing
+ searching for treasure
+ text adventures
+ specific npc fun
+mementos that are basically vacation memories you gain from doing vacation things
+ i think ts2 hotels are the best
World Adventure special points:
•Tombs have arrived
Traps, Mummies, Treasure Chests, Digging, helpful camping gear
• nectar making
•snake charming
•quests to gain visa points
•some slight cultural stuff (i don't think its to same level with ts2 tbh)
•martial arts
•desert world with pyramids (ts1-2 have beach instead for sand)
Jungle adventure special points
•Skeletons
•Archeology is a skill of its own
• Rumbasim (though sadly its a part of overall culture skill rather than skill of its own to learn)
•speaking of which the culture skill that includes tales and makes exploring easier
• new types of traps
•bug related dangers
•new culture to sims
•is a jungle we didn't have jungle before
Snowy escape special points:
•better snow sports than earlier games (though i do feel snowboarding is a choice because of different approach some may like to have item for it instead like in earlier games)
•rock climbing
•mountain excursion
•hikes
• festivals
•hotpot
•nature dangers
+world can be used as normal non vacation world
- not all locations are in game and they come separately so its way more expensive to have it all
- no hotels yet
- no hammocks yet
Snowy escape:
- missing the tea table and zen garden and martial arts and cultural dance and souvenirs and npcs and...
- basically has no indoor activity beyond eating and looking at pretty furniture
(unless you have more packs like spa day which yes go with it but again,separate pack)
jungle adventure:
- again missing activities you could do without going to dangerous jungle but hey at least theres the culture skill and food
- doesn't have tent cause thats again another pack and theres nowhere to snooze in the jungle unless you have the other pack
- no fun npc here either tho i guess skeletons are kinda fun and probably were made in the spot of that
- does worse at temple adventure aspect than world adventures tbh as the puzzles are not as complex and you only have like couple temples
World adventures
- misses out on activities to do beyond tomb stuff like sure theres martial arts and nectar but what else its just collecting stuff which kinda ties with the tombs anyway so if you're looking for culture travel no errands just relax and fun its bit meh
- worlds have real world names i don't like that :< id rather have made up worlds
- can't recall any fun npc
- cannot live in those worlds its only vacation
- has no beach tho i kinda prefer desert as vacation cause beach theme has its own ep afterwards
Bon Voyage
-worlds are only vacation yeah
- missing the tomb element kinda like theres those treasure hunting places but like its all really similar tho
- beach no longer includes volley ball :< even if i loved swimming in the sea and such which was all brand new vibe with ts2
Vacations
-being first in series it really doesn't have any new fabulous things and its less about adventure and culture and more about just relax and vibe aspect
-sims needs go too quick to really get to do much anyway <:D
-it just feels weird to trash ts1 tbh cause like they didnt know of better so i forgive the faults too easily
sooo after typing all of this down... to sum up
I do think I must go with Bon Voyage cause its just like good mid spot to refer to
though i do think ts3 tombs, egypt and martial arts were super cool its just more adventure less vacation
and I also think ts4 worlds are pretty lit but its just really kinda lacking in activity culture side for me and i need more packs than 1 to really feel vacation in ts4
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionI still would have picked sims 2 due to the lack of hotels in sims 4, but if sims 4 had had hotels I would have picked it due to the variety in destinations and vacation types. You have the camping, Japanese-themed, and then with jungle adventures you also have the more adventure type of travel. Sims 2 has proper vacations, and they are really good.
Sims 3 doesn’t have vacations. It has adventure travels. I’m very surprised at how many people actually like that pack considering people are always saying they like sims 3 so much because of all the family gameplay. How much family gameplay is it to go explore graves in Egypt? Going on a regular vacation _is_ pretty basic family gameplay though.