I've been eyeing up Growing Together for a while and I see that it's on sale. I haven't heard much talk about it for a while though so I wondered what the general consensus was. I play families most of the time so it would potentially get a lot of use.
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Is Growing Together a good pack? 52 votes
It's a good pack and worth the full price
It's a good pack to get on sale
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But I'll never pay for a pack not on sale again or recommend it. Until the last few months I hadn't bought anything not on sale, ever. For Christmas I decided to get For Rent as a Christmas present to myself. It has bugs that still aren't fixed, bugs that keep me from playing rentals. Despite this I decided recently to get a bundle for myself for my birthday, and now my game is crashing and freezing on loading screens. I think it's probably related to recent patches, but I'm still immensely aggravated.
I really like it and it is rather useful when playing families but I always struggle with rating packs like this where main parts of pack are more of a side show to me
like do I use it constantly? probably.
is it fun? yup.
but its not like "heck yeah vampires" kind of pack though where I love everything at all times
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I love the compatibility system! I use it all the time. It really changes the experience of meeting new sims and makes it feel (finally) like not all relationships/potential relationships are the same.
Especially combined with the sexual orientation system.
The expanded infant gameplay is really fun too.
The premades are wonderful.
Everything else that came with the pack, San Sequoia, baby showers, kids riding bikes, rec center lot type, etc. is just a bonus.
Anyway, the compatibility system sounds good and I think I might like more in depth infants, though I can also play without them. Kids riding bikes and the treehouse are probably nice. But I'm unsure whether I want my sims to have a midlife crisis. I read you can avoid it though, so it's probably not that bad. I have also heard San Sequoia is a boring world, so I'm not too interested in having it in my game. I have more worlds than I can use already
But it also comes with more obvious gameplay, such as improved infants, activities, a new type of venue...
I personally don't use the community lot that much but I really like the pack overall for the depth it brings to the game.
I voted "not at full price" because the whole game is just too 🐸🐸🐸🐸 expensive with everything bought at full price and I feel like Sims 2 (and Sims 3 to an extent even though I didn't like the game) had way more content for the same price tag (one could argue that 40€ 15 years ago was worth more than 40€ now so TS4 packs are technically cheaper), but I do recommend it a lot