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Your Growing Together Rating!
SimTrippy
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It is time yet again for my favorite question: how would YOU rate Growing Together?
Please remember, though, as always: this is supposed to be a helpful thread for those who are still on the fence about buying this pack. Preferably ONLY rate this pack if you actually own and have played it for a bit. Also: feel free to voice your opinions, but don't go attacking others for theirs. Everyone feels how they feel, it's not up to you to dictate what those feelings should or should not be.
So, without further ado: on a scale from 1 to 10 - 1 being "I wish I could return this atrocity" and 10 being "Simtastic, best pack ever" - how would YOU rate Growing Together?
Also, since I'll try to follow the same format for these as for the pack-specific Share Your Build posts, feel free to browse how other simmers have rated High School Years, Discover University, Realm of Magic, Island Living and (albeit in a different format) Get Famous
Please remember, though, as always: this is supposed to be a helpful thread for those who are still on the fence about buying this pack. Preferably ONLY rate this pack if you actually own and have played it for a bit. Also: feel free to voice your opinions, but don't go attacking others for theirs. Everyone feels how they feel, it's not up to you to dictate what those feelings should or should not be.
So, without further ado: on a scale from 1 to 10 - 1 being "I wish I could return this atrocity" and 10 being "Simtastic, best pack ever" - how would YOU rate Growing Together?
Also, since I'll try to follow the same format for these as for the pack-specific Share Your Build posts, feel free to browse how other simmers have rated High School Years, Discover University, Realm of Magic, Island Living and (albeit in a different format) Get Famous
Your Growing Together Rating! 169 votes
1
3%
6 votes
2
1%
2 votes
3
2%
5 votes
4
0%
1 vote
5
5%
10 votes
6
4%
7 votes
7
14%
24 votes
8
20%
35 votes
9
26%
44 votes
10
20%
35 votes
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Comments
I gave this a 9 as to 9.5 because the only small issue I got was the stay over event with relatives which was a bit buggy at least in my game (could be an issue with my mods) but nothing major or gamebreaking.
"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilizations as well."
I do like to milestones and the compatibility aspect. Also enjoy the add in of family wanting to stay the night, the tooth fairy, treehouses, and the overall feel of nostalgia and childhood that comes with the pack.
It isn’t my favorite pack but it gets a passing grade for me compared to some of the others!
The gameplay is everything I dreamed it would be and I am not having any bugs yet, even with all my updated mods put back in. I'm happy as a clam with it.
The EA app, now... that gets a -1000.
I haven't done too much aside from building and changing lots. But that's just my way and my play style to make the new world work in my world.
One thing I will say is that I am not too keen on the lots in San Sequoia for building new homesteads. Either I don't like the views, or what "amenities" are nearby.
I'm not sure it's the right city for the family that will be my "generational" family within my rotational game. Going to be going back in tonight and having a look at the lots and what might work.
caution though if you are perfectionist who hates children this pack might be a little exhausting to you I have new found respect for all mothers now my goodness am I glad I am just playing a game and I can escape the baby realm when i want to 😂😂😂
only real disappointment so far is the limited usefulness of the baby carrier
I would have hoped to use some more hobby items and do some more occulting while in it even if we are to count out the more dangerous fun in name of baby safety
As for the world Sequoia, Meh.
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The family interactions are great, too, and something that has also been missing. My sim parents became "close" and earned the romantic trait due to their interactions. The self-discovery traits do come up often, perhaps too often, as I have to keep turning down the clumsy trait every time my athletic sim slips on the treadmill
It is (for me) far less buggy than anything else I've downloaded in Sims 4. The only bug I've had is that sometimes the parents get stuck with the infant, but a quick reset has solved that every time.
The reason I couldn't give this a 10 is because I'm not a fan of the world. Everything is far too spread out and it's hard to work out what is real and what is fake (most is fake). My sim parents keep getting a want to use a bush for woohoo, but I haven't found one close enough to the house to use. I do like the library though, it has something for everyone, and I'm waiting until my kids are old enough before trying out the community centre.
Edit: finally got the chance to put in a good amount of play hours and I'm giving it a 9. It's not perfect but I'd say it's one of the best EPs for my play style and it has brought me back to the game.
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I haven't had a chance to deep dive into the pack yet, so I will come back and rate it at a later stage, however, I can already say with confidence that it is not a 10 for me, although I wouldn't go as low as a 5 either! My gut says "7" for now, which is pretty positive, right?
Let me share some of the pros and cons:
PROS:
CONS:
As I said, I've only just scratched the surface. I'll return a month's time.
I still haven't updated or installed the pack but hopefully I'll get caught up in my game today.
Their allocation of clothing types, formal, party etc., just doesn't go with my own ideas so I've got rid of those settings entirely!
The only reason I gave the game a point off is because we once again get an itsy bitsy world.
I only downloaded it yesterday. But I played for a good 6 hours, myb a bit more. It took awhile to add mods back in, and I realized that I had forgotten to take some out that needed serious updating.
But once I got in, got situated, aged up the babies I populated the town with, and then went to my main family and made sure the relationships were all set; I was finally able to start exploring the pack.
While there was some really cute stuff:
Themed drinks at the baby shower if you hire a mixologist
New sentiments
Obviously all the baby stuff
Infants (Adorbs)
Potential cross pack growth and depth (haven't seen too much yet)
Milestones
There were some things that I'm not as thrilled about when you actually start playing:
1.)Since they didn't update the family tree and the way sims recognize those relatives, this new family dynamics system only makes that even more apparent. And while it's a really nice thing to have, there's issues:
Step-relationships literally DO NOT COUNT for family dynamics. It's as if every step-parent literally went "Eff them kids" Household member only. And the kids feel the same. They don't show up in the family profile at all either.
And we already didn't have In-laws recognized on the family tree reliably, definitely not in the Sims profile. But now it's really highlighted bc they don't even show up in the family profile.
2.) I'm not going into the friendship bracelets thing I already have feelings about it and the bffs system in this game.
3.) Back to family dynamics you can't edit them for people in your family (the ones actually recognized as such) who aren't in your household. Like if you are in the Sims profile there's no drop-down or anything for a sim you know, that you don't have a dynamic with yet. You just have to wait for a pop-up.
4.) Likewise there doesn't seem to be a way to cheat Milestones for infants they you aren't actively playing. I couldn't find the promised Quirk cheats either, but they might be around.
5.) Pie-menu reorganization will just take getting used to and that's fine. I will warn you, that when you pick likes and dislikes, for your sim&another, it limits the things you can talk about. I thought it would just be that the things they liked would have higher success or be highlighted, and things they didn't feel either way about would still be there. And maybe you could see the disliked, idk.
But actually you'll click certain sims and only be able to talk to them about a few topics. My one Sim only had about 4 topics to talk to their father about. Likely the only 4 they had in common. Which was hard because we were at the baby shower and none of those interaction where on the menu, in those categories. So I had to cheat everything, because no one was "Gushing about baby."
All in all it's cute. It definitely adds to the game. And I will probably play until my infant is a child before giving them another baby. I have a half finished treehouse in the backyard, bc I was so busy with family reunion, baby shower, and then she went into labor helping her wife finish building it. I want to see the full infant experience, and new toddler stuff, before trying again with more babies.
But if you haven't gotten it yet, I'd say keep in mind that there are definitely things they could've done better. Things they could've worked on. Old systems that could've been changed or improved that would've made what we just got blend so seamlessly. So you might have moments of "Oh why is this like this, that's not great." But I'm still glad I got it, because I wanted Infants, and having seen the let's plays of people who played with infants without Growing Together, I gotta say, it looks boring.
The reason I only gave it an 8 is that the world is my least favorite thus far. It's far too barren, doesn't have any unique housing that I usually associate with San Francisco, and is just plain boring and a waste of hard drive space. I would much rather they would have not added a world, and instead expanded on something else like elders, or even adding more buildable lots to existing worlds. If the world was better, it would have been a 10/10 pack for me.