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What packs do you have and which are your favourite/least favourite?
magic_cat_tree
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I have:
Seasons, Pets, Parenthood, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Island Living and Snowy Escape.
My favourite is Realm of Magic, my least favourite is Snowy Escape. I don't know what I was thinking buying it before I had so many other essential packs, I don't even like winter sports -_- thank God I like Japan though!
What about you?
Seasons, Pets, Parenthood, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Island Living and Snowy Escape.
My favourite is Realm of Magic, my least favourite is Snowy Escape. I don't know what I was thinking buying it before I had so many other essential packs, I don't even like winter sports -_- thank God I like Japan though!
What about you?
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My favorite is Jungle Adventure. No question. I love the world, I love the lore (I may be using that word differently from most Simmers), I love the style, I love exploring the temples no matter how samey it is... I just love it all.
I also really like Realm of Magic. I like the Art Nouveau style of the build Buy, and I love playing Spellcasters just for the practical spells (Delicioso makes half my toddler headaches vanish.)
I love Strangervilles Build Buy. Especially Build. I love making Victorian Painted Lady type houses.
I have no "least favorite" packs, but the packs I use the least would be Luxury Party Stuff, Outdoor retreat, and Vampires. Luxury party Build Buy is just shy of useless, though the CAS items are pretty nice. Outdoor retreat and Vampires build aesthetics just aren't my bag, though for different reasons. And I've never really liked playing vampires, even if I did buy the original Vampire: The Masquerade game.
It's a bit cheating to say Seasons is the best because weather and seasons should honestly be in the base game but I still think it's a must to own it. Holidays are also fun to celebrate, and it gives you hot weather and cold weather outfits which are very neat.
Least favorite by far is Journey to Batuu. It's ridiculously, incredibly self-contained and I hate feeling like I'm being advertised Star Wars when I see it, the prior Star Wars CAS content was already bad enough. You can't even do cool stuff on Batuu too, like making your Wizards and Vampires do all of their cool powers and whatever. The only thing going for it is it has nice build/buy stuff but guess what? So does every pack that has build/buy content.
Eco Lifestyle ranks up there solely because of its extremely disruptive, irritating, and buggy NAPS system.
Might eventually get: Eco Living, Snowy Escape. No others to date interest me.
GPs: Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day, Dine Out, Jungle Adventure, Strangerville, Realm of Magic.
Might eventually get: No others to date interest me.
SPs: Vintage Glamour, Moschino Stuff
Might eventually get: No others to date interest me.
Kits: None. Rather doubtful I'll ever find any of interest enough to me. We'll see.
It's really hard to say which is favorite or least favorite, as most of the ones I have seem pretty much intertwined with each other, at least the way I play. As far as vacation worlds go, I find myself enjoying time in Selvadorada far more than Granite Falls, if that means anything.
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
EPs: Get Together, City Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, Get Famous, Discover University, Eco Lifestyle, Snowy Escape
GP: Parenthood
SP: Laundry Day, Tiny Living
Free stuff: Holiday Pack
Kits: none
I try to tailor my game to stories I want to play out or if I really like the BB items. I actively avoid all pacs with occults, if they have no toggles (= all). I don't want mermaids, aliens and vampires in my real life save. I'd actually be interested in exploring occult gameplay IF I could turn them on only for a specific save, and have them off in my realistic plays. But alas, EA does not deliver... They'd rather do half-way-there occults and force them on everyone, instead of allowing us to tweak our game. It already annoys me, when I go to the library and there is a bunch of robots hanging out that came with DU.
As to which pack is my favorite, I'd say EL. If the question was if I could only keep one pack, which would it be, I'd say GT.
I really want to get GTW and IL, but don't want to put up with Aliens and Mermaids in my main save.
My favorites are Get Together, Parenthood, Spa Day and Moschino Stuff as I feel these packs were done really good with well thought out game play
My least favorites are Jungle Adventure, University, Get to Work and Strangerville its like they did not want these packs to be fun at all
oh I didn't know this, could you explain a bit please?
that really sucks
I tend to prefer content which augments the core gameplay without relying on me having to go to specific location to get something out of it.
Seasons has always been my favorite EP through the series, it affects everything and has such a major part to play in immersion and overall enjoyment. I love listening to the weather effects, especially rain, so playing the game with Seasons enabled has this sort of relaxing effect on me.
Parenthood really augments family play and brings more meaning to it. I fairly often play with families because I like to fool around with genetics plus I appreciate a bit of challenge it can add so this was right up my alley. Those "character value cards" (or whatever those pop-ups are called) can get pretty repetitive especially since I play with long life span but it's still a great pack.
Vampires, I have always had a soft spot for them. In TS4 I really appreciate how much they improved the concept. I love how the weaknesses add some much needed challenge and offer plenty of ways to roleplay. I also love the build and cas mode items. I like how it has those cracks, cobwebs, stains, and such to decorate with. Gives me a chance to have households which don't all look like they are straight out of some Ikea catalogue. (Also I’m in love with the CAS/build mode music that came with this pack.)
Game packs: My favorites are vampires, rom and strangerville. I use the others a lot less.
Stuff packs: My favorite is paranormal. My least favorites are almost all of them up until moschino came out.
EP
- Get Together
- City Living
- Cats & Dogs
- Seasons
- Get Famous
- Island Living
- Discover University
- Eco Lifestyle
- Snowy Escape
GP
- Spa Day
- Dine Out
- Vampires
- Parenthood
- Strangerville
- Realm of Magic
SP + Kits
- Spooky Stuff
- Movie Hangout
- Romantic Garden
- Backyard Stuff
- Laundry Day
- My First Pet Stuff
- Tiny Living
- Nifty Knitting
- Paranormal
- Throwback Fit Kit
Favorites
- Cats & Dogs
- Realm of Magic
- Vampires
- Paranormal
Least Favorite
- Parenthood
- Dine Out
- Backyard Stuff (I'd miss like 2 hairstyles from this pack and the windchimes, but I don't really use much else from it.)
Like: Island, Spa, Vampires, City. I like this ones too, but they aren't my favorite
Least Favorite: Backyard, Patio Stuff. Honestly i almost never use the stuff packs
Neighborhood action plans result from like, people voting on a plan through a mailbox. There are options to tweak around sure, but you don't realize how annoying the actions get until you've been in at least one of the worse ones.
Unfortunately, one of my first autonomous NAPs I've been subjected to was Sharing is Caring. Basically, it lets random townies be kleptomaniacs and they outright steal your objects from your lots. At first, I didn't know it was the NAP causing it, I thought it was the game bugging out and that my sinks and other objects were disappearing until I realized that NAP was in effect and people were in fact swiping my stuff. It severely messed around with my lot.
Another one was the Foodies Unite. It's a good NAP in theory until your Sims start spamming White Cakes and eating nothing but that. So I had to repeal it.
And finally, there was a NAP where every townie wore a bag on their head. Every single one of them. It was stupid.
At the very least, I did not get the Good Ol' Times (that one penalized you for electronics and I'm a radio person so I would have been 🐸🐸🐸🐸) or the Roughhousing Encouraged one (in theory, I should love that one because I LOVE the fight interaction but the problem is, your relationship with townies will STILL decrease so it's not integrated well at all).
My faves are:
EP
Get Together
Seasons
Get Famous
Island Living
Snowy Escape
GP
Outdoor Retreat
Spa Day
Vampires
Jungle Adventure
Realm of Magic
SP
Spooky
Romantic Garden
Vintage Glamour
Fitness
Tiny Living
Paranormal
My Meh are:
Eco Lifestyle
Backyard
Bowling
My First Pet
Moschino
Parenthood
Kids Room
Toddlers
My favourites are Eco Lifestyle, Island Living, Seasons, Realm of Magic, Vampires, Parenthood, Spa Day and Vintage Glamour.
My least favourites are Snowy Escape, Tiny Living, Cool Kitchen and Perfect Patio.
The others fall in the middle.
My favorites are...
- Seasons (Weather! Holidays! CAS, BB, and gameplay is just vital)
- Vampires (Amazing skill system, Great CAS & BB)
- City Living (Apartments give variety, Good variety of CAS & BB, Festivals!)
- Romantic Garden (I use those plants EVERYWHERE)
My least favorites are...
- Discover University (I hate college gameplay but the BB and CAS are lovely)
- Outdoor Retreat (so boring)
- Dine Out (I hate running restaurants and rarely visit them because they're such a hassle, only like one hair and one outfit from this pack)
My favorite packs are Realm of Magic, Paranormal, Tiny Living, and speaking strictly Build/Buy, StrangerVille.
Least favorite would probably be Fitness Stuff, Get Famous, and Get to Work. I never use any of them for anything. Active careers are not interesting to me in the least. Frankly, I have no idea what I bought GTW for.
Notable middle level packs include Snowy Escape and Vampires.
I use things from Snowy Escape constantly, love the world, but I don't really mess with its gameplay. Vampires is also nice, but the world's disappointingly small, and as nice as the BB style is, many of them are kind of niche. I generally don't use them for anything. Vampires themselves are nice enough, I like how the powers tree works, but the whole thirst thing is the #1 most grating gameplay mechanic to work with, is unbelievably repetitive and offers no variety, and without a mod requires an insane amount of packs or fruits to even fill the bar. (This is how my vampires end up slightly mean...)
siempre bruja.
My least favorite pack is Strangerville. It wasn't interesting or fun to play. Although now that I have Bienchen's mod to disable the storyline, I expect to use the world more often.
My most favorite is Get Together. I love the clubs. I love Windenburg. I love the CAS and BB.
Cats and Dogs is my favorite.
Vampires is my least favorite.
My favorites,
EP: Island Living (simply I love that world the most of all)
GP: DO and Vampires (a tie, and thanks to mods, my restaurants are not buggy)
SP: Tiny Living and Paranormal. (a tie again)
My least favorites:
EP: University (simply because I cannot properly play it if playing rotations )
GP: The one I do not have.. but of those what I do have, Spa Day.
SP: My first pet
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Favourites:-
Ep- city living
Gp- jungle adventure
Sp- backyard with tiny living a very close second
Least favourites:-
Ep- eco lifestyle
Gp- vampires
Sp- bowling
Favourites: Paranormal & Seasons. I think they are extremely well made.
Least favourite: Island Living, Get famous. I wish I had informed myself better before purchasing those.
Favorites:
EP: Seasons, Get Together, Island Living, City Living
GP: Vampires, Jungle Adventure, Parenthood
SP: Moschino, Paranormal, Knitting, Laundry, Tiny Living
Least Favorites:
EP: University, Get Famous
GP: Journey to Batuu, Dine Out
SP: Luxury Party, My First Pet
Also made a "game pack" house and JTB was the worst, Jungle Adventure and Parenthood were the best in term of building mode.
And made a expansion pack house. Island living made an amazing master bedroom. I could barely find any use for Get to Work
In terms of CAS, I tend to use Throwback Fitness Kit, City Living, Get Together, Eco Living, and Discover University the most. I never use Vintage Glamour and Luxury Party.
For game play, Paranormal is easily the best stuff pack. Dine Out and Jungle Adventure are my favorite game packs. And Eco Lifestyle, City Living, Get Together, Get to Work are the best for expansions.
Overall, the best pack/kit for its rank is: Paranormal, Jungle Adventures, Eco Lifestyle.
Worst are: Toddler Stuff, Journey to Batuu, and Get Famous.
My least favourite is get Famous. I don't like the world, I have the fame system disabled. This is the only one I regret buying. I could easily miss cats and dogs, city living, vampires (after we got RoM) , spa day, and at least half of the stuff packs. I just use some cas and BB of these packs but the gameplay isn't essential to my game.