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What EPs got you excited?
DeadFishy
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Forget about what let you down, what EPs got you so hyped you impatiently looked forward to release date??
Mine were for sure Snowy Escape, HS and Island Living. I really want to say Season and Dine Out, but they are too far back to remember. Those three definitely had me pre making households and houses and prepping my game for the EP.
Definitely looking forward to growing together with the same fervor!
Mine were for sure Snowy Escape, HS and Island Living. I really want to say Season and Dine Out, but they are too far back to remember. Those three definitely had me pre making households and houses and prepping my game for the EP.
Definitely looking forward to growing together with the same fervor!
Go Raps!
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Most of the EPs haven't made me super hyped, but a lot of the Game Packs have. I love Occults and weird/fantasy/sci-fi/supernatural gameplay so much, and many of the GPs just hit it out of the park for me.
I had just started playing TS4, and when the trailer dropped with that Teagan & Sara song, I realized this was exactly my jam, the colors, the vibes, the urban setting, exiting the bubble of your house to actual life, instead of a void and having to travel to do anything or see anyone.
(Well except for Uptown but it works there)
It's still my favorite town to this day and the one I play the most in, prepped apartments for the infant update just last week. Every time I play elsewhere, I miss San Myshuno.
City Living + the toddler update dropped soon after was what really made me fall for the sims, unsure I'd have played for long otherwise.
Nothing since then came close to hyping me that much.
- Discover university : I had fond memories of sims 2 university and like the way it is handled in sims 4. I enjoy sending my sims there from time to time. The world is also nice
- snowy escape : now my sims can finally do what I like to do in real life : take walks in nature and stand on a mountain top (I only stand on those I can walk to the top, not climb
- Island living : sims 3 Island paradise was a complete surprise for me but I like it so much, that I really wanted that warm island feel again. The pack falls a bit flat on the gameplay side but I still enjoy it. And we got mermaids
- seasons : this pack made the world feel more alive. The calendar (now base game) in combination with the holidays give a feeling of time passing.
But the DLC I looked forward to even more than EP's is the game packs
- realm of magic: magic finally made my game complete. My all time favourite sims DLC was making magic in the sims 1 era and this one has a similar vibe. I am also very happy we have spellcasters and not witches.
- werewolves: the only pack I ever reordered. Werewolves were on the top of every 'what-do-you-want-in-the-game' list for years. I like how werewolves are fleshed out and still enjoy playing them.
I even looked forward to a few of the stuff packs. It is a shame that they apparently have stopped.
- tiny living : I really enjoyed the build challenge
- nifty knitting: a really in depth skill and item creation with great BBC items. I hope we can get another community voted pack because they both turned out great
- paranormal stuff : more gameplay than some of the game packs, need I say more. Also very beautiful CAS and BB.
Add in get together, and jungle adventure and I have all my favourites. I wasn't hyped for these two when I got them. They were pleasant surprises that added more to my game than I thought they would.
I also remember feeling that the wait for the release of Discover University was quite long, I think it was because a lot of content creators that had early access made a lot of videos of it.
As soon as I saw the bunny in the trailer I was so dang happy, I had been waiting for bunnies to come to the game for sooo long. As a real life bunny "parent" I just needed them and I am very happy about how they made them too, not in a cage!
The whole pack is one of my favorite EPs if not THE fav EP but bunnies were what exited me most at first.
I think CoL and Seasons might have been the only packs I positively bought on release day. Other packs were good also, but because the way I play my game, a new pack often comes while I'm busy with something else in-game or I'm expecting lag to get worse with a next install. This way I often get behind with a pack or two, and might discover jewels rather late. One example is Snowy Escape that I like a lot, but got this Winter. I was actually surprised that I did not get it earlier.
I still love Cottage Living but High School Years really let me down. I don’t play it at all any more as going to HS feels redundant and pointless. Same with Get To Work actually. I love Island Living but I don’t spend much time there. For a lot of the EPs I have, I enjoy the features they brought, like a more open world (Snowy Escape) and swimming in open water (Island Escape) that I enjoy more.
If I could uninstall an EP or SP, it would be for sure the camping one, the first SP ever released, it was pointless. I also don’t love Cats and Dogs as much as I did in past versions of The Sims. I never play Evo Living but enjoy the objects — that one was a let down.
-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
I was also really excited for the Moschino pack, but hear me out LOL. I was excited for the improvements it brought to photography. I love photography in the sims so much. My sims walls are covered with photos.
1. Get to Work - Aliens & Scientist Career
2. Get Together with Cottage Living - European Historical Worlds & Outdoor Parties
3. Island Living - Mermaids & Beautiful Sulani
4. Seasons - Fall & Winter
5. Cats & Dogs - Beautiful Autumn World Brindleton Bay
6. Get Famous/Discover University/High School - Cool Objects & Outfits
But Cottage Living was something I really wanted. On the day the reveal trailer was set to release, I had a date. I finished the date early so I could rush home and watch. And tbh it was worth it. And the pack was worth it. If I didn't constantly slow my game down, I'd play every sim family on a giant farm, with tons of animals.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Cats & Dogs - This was the first EP release after I started playing, and I do love me some furbabies!
Seasons - Always one of my favorite EPs in the Sim franchise, weather just makes everything more immersive.
Island Living - I love to play off the grid sims, and this pack just fit in so well with that theme. Plus Sulani is beautiful!
Eco Lifestyle - Again, love off the grid stuff, so I was excited about that.
Snowy Escape - I was only really excited about this one because I'd predicted a mountain/snow pack would be located in a Japanese setting, and I was right! That was fun.
Cottage Living - Probably the EP I got most excited for. This pack was exactly what I was hoping for from a farming themed pack, so I got pretty excited!
I guess the only EPs I wasn't really thrilled about were Get Famous, Discover University, and High School Years.
As for GPs, I got excited for Vampires (it even got me into the game), Jungle Adventures, and Realm of Magic.
Occult, adventure Gamepacks and Paranormal got me most excited and they are still the best in my opinion!
From the EPs these are the ones I looked forward to:
There are also packs that I wasn’t too excited for initially, but are now among my favorite DLC.
Get together
City living
Island living
Cottage living
And now Growing Together
However, as much as I like them, my hype was taken down some notches after playing them.