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Expansion packs titles: GET and LIVING
leo3487
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Somebody find a relation or a meta-theme at those 2?
Me yes and it is:
GET: Expansion Packs where main themes involve activities and those activities are developed in deep.
LIVING: EP where their themes are around a life-style, for the 2 for now, we get the busi city and the relaxing islands
Me yes and it is:
GET: Expansion Packs where main themes involve activities and those activities are developed in deep.
LIVING: EP where their themes are around a life-style, for the 2 for now, we get the busi city and the relaxing islands
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On a serious note, this makes a lot of sense. I wish they could find a nice balance because the "Get" packs (aside from Get Together) have worlds that are less fleshed out and the "Living" packs have beautiful worlds, but most of the gameplay is restricted to it.
I still look at the statements like this and think "What the f are they on about".
Eh. It's the second worst expansion pack after Get To Work.
couldnt agree more, that is true to cats and dogs too I assume.
How so, thn both add only 1 aspiration, both at location category.
That category (as the aspirations here) mean play in the world of that pack
this is seious
It’s probabally because the cinebar and a lot of people me included feel like there isn’t that much substantial gameplay with these types of packa and a LOT is left out for example
City living the world looks nice but the gameplay i extremely limited
Apartments are nice but you can’t build your own,place them in other worlds or customise the walls of existing ones
Festivals can’t be edited so it gets repetitive
Plus most objects are base game ones that players barely used like the game thing and rockets
And other than that you get a singing skill
A couple of nice jobs i will say that
But the gameplay itself feels shallow you run out of new things to do quickly and seems incredibly lazy compared to older apartment packs wich had a lot more gameplay there is no denying that
The same goes for island living wich is even worse in my opinion
The world is amazing i agree but i pay for more than esthetics here
The gameplay is swimming in the ocean but only in sulani we got this for free in ts3 but that’s besides the point
Two types of boats wich can only be used by one sim at a time
Festivals wich add nothing new really
One new semi playable career wich was fun imo for a little while
3 rabbit hole jobs wich should have been proffesion and playable
Diving wich is just a rabit hole nothing really special there
Mermaids are cool but don’t have a lot to them
And dolphins wich are nice
But they all have the same problem of they are nice things but get old really quick there is no depth there all just small things you play with a couple times and your done island living has this problem especially since there isn’t really a big game changer some would say it’s swimming in the ocean wich is great to finally have and im happy with it but on the other hand it’s not worth the price tag
The direction they went with was cool living on the island i just wish we could learn more of the history of the island like learn a new dance and those elementals are just another way to change emotions wich we already have 1000 Wats to do this it’s just the same stuff we already have with a new coat of paint on it but none of it actually changes the game
You could say that it is better than island paradise bc it lags less but imo that’s not a fair comparison a game can run great but if it isn’t fun it’s not good
And even island paradise was lacking depth
But island living just feels like they ran out of time or they only care about how the game looks
I am happy for those who do love it it just wasn’t worth the price tag to me both of those expansions feel incomplete and this seems to be an ongoing trend with the sims 4 from the very beginning now im not here to hate on the game im saying this because i love the sims we all do and we want this game to be the best it can be it just isn’t this game is almost 5 years old and still isn’t as exciting and fun as ts2 a game that game out 15 years ago i really really miss the vision of will wright he just knew how to make the game great
I think I should take a break from The sims.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Conclusion?
SimGurus should no make more LIVING packs
EDIT: thinking better, simmers want a farming pack, and it can fit at a LIVING EP
Farm Living
as would be a rural world. I dunno than farms can fit at Willow Creek or Oasis Springs
The "Get" EPs are about gameplay. Now with Get together for instance there are both a nice world and gameplay aspect. Whereas in Island Living there's a beautiful world but the gameplay is mostly tied to that world.
... Okay, I'm getting carried away. But yeah, I noticed this too.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Outdoor Retreat isn't an EP.
And TS3 already has a SP called Outdoor Living.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
With this statment, new players will be fine buying all EP except the LIVING ones
Aso I agree than living ones are restricted to the world. Its is true for Island Living, but also for City Living, as most of its "new" gameplay mechanics are restricted to San Myshuno