Any thoughts on The Sims 2 Stuff Packs?

"Seera1024;c-16206871" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16206334" wrote:

"Seera1024;c-16200622" wrote:

"Cinebar;c-16199746" wrote:

"WarGreymon77;d-931027" wrote:
Many of them seem kind of... useless, especially in terms of the objects. I've got Double Deluxe, so I have Celebration Stuff. I want to buy the Happy Holiday Stuff and Mansion & Garden Stuff next.

I would skip M&G if I were you. It is another stuff pack that changes things like an EP would. So did Family Fun stuff act like a EP. M&G brings several bugs they never did fix. Mainly (my pet peeve) you can no longer place stairs if you have already built a wall, like put stairs next to a wall. This hurts building when just building normally and when using raise/lower land cheats. It's a pain the rear. It throws errors all the time to tell you stairs can't be placed, it's not the only bug it causes but that is the one that got on builders nerves the most after the stuff pack. Especially if they are advanced builders and used the land cheat often. Celebration also has some bugs they never fixed even in TS2UC, I would suggest skipping Kitchen and Bath (bugs) M&G (bugs) Celebration (bugs) Teen Life Stuff (bugs) none of the bugs in those stuff packs were actually patched and Double Deluxe doesn't actually have some of the EP patches either. (Sims can't get out of bed bug).

ETA: How I got around some of the stuff pack and DD bugs was to leave TS2 installed and all my EP patches, even when installing TS2UC, so I don't suffer some of them like the 'can't get out of bed' bug some may see with DD. ETA: Remove the EPs (uninstall) and leave base and all patches installed before installing TS2UC.

You can still place the stairs next to walls. You just turn moveObjects on.

I haven't experienced all that many bugs and I've got all of the EP's and SP's installed via the UC. They didn't fix any bugs in the UC. Just packaged the game and existing patches together.

Edit: Not saying there aren't glitches. Just that they aren't all that common to make it worth skipping an SP over.

Here is just a small example, there are many more.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,13399.0.html

Here is another where they 'forgot' to add Celebration cakes to the food cooler in OFB. This stuff matters.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12532.0.html

I'm fully aware that the Sims 2 is a buggy game and that EA was more than willing to just pretend to be ignorant. Just that to me, none of the bugs that come with the Stuff Packs are bad enough to warrant not getting them. Especially not for free.

The only one that I ever experienced that was game breaking with a stuff pack they patched. The Family Fun Stuff patch where if you used an outfit in CAS that came from the pack, it disappeared from CAS. Like one time use only clothes.

That glitch and the stairs one is really the only ones I've ever registered that I've experienced due to my play style.

It is possible that due to the nature of Stuff Packs that I haven't triggered the glitches or the effect of the glitch didn't really bother me enough for it to permanently register as a glitch. It took well after Sims 2 was released and I stopped playing Sims 1 to learn that the police were supposed to arrest the Tragic Clown and not fine you for prank calling the cops if he showed up. I just avoided getting the clown all together once I figured out how I could (no Tragic Clown painting = no Tragic Clown ever).

Which is what I meant by common - they aren't things that everyone is going to run into or have an issue with. Someone who doesn't like running business in OFB would likely not care about the Celebration Stuff cakes not being able to be in the food cooler.

This disassociation of packs started after Maxis handed to Redwood/The Sims Studio, TS2. And was evident in all the later packs after 2006.

Some of the stuff packs for The Sims 2 can kind of come off as being useless, but when they first came out all I knew is that I had to have every last one of them. I never got around to getting The Sims 2 Happy Holiday Stuff pack because I could never find it anywhere, and I'm kind of glad I couldn't, because that stuff pack in particular sucks in my opinion.

I have all of the SP's for Sims 2. I liked them because most of them I had before I knew how to download any CC and I would get tired of the same old hairs, clothing, etc. I would say my least favorite SP was M&G, it just didn't have much in it that I would use. My favorite SP's would be either Kitchen and Bath or Family Fun. I liked all the kitchen counters, etc and in FF, all the different bed options especially for the kids. I use the underwater themed one alot in my kids rooms.

Happy Holidays is good too because you can get the Sims in the Holiday spirit by having Christmas trees, the kids could wear Holiday PJ's, you could wallpaper in Holiday themes, and you could have "frosty" windows. Or you could set off fireworks. I remember one time I had a Sim light a small pack of firecrackers off and for some reason, it backfired and got my Sim charred. I laughed for awhile after seeing that.

The Fashion Stuff pack is brilliant. It adds clothes that I would actually wear IRL lol

"Cinebar;c-16199746" wrote:

"WarGreymon77;d-931027" wrote:
Many of them seem kind of... useless, especially in terms of the objects. I've got Double Deluxe, so I have Celebration Stuff. I want to buy the Happy Holiday Stuff and Mansion & Garden Stuff next.

I would skip M&G if I were you. It is another stuff pack that changes things like an EP would. So did Family Fun stuff act like a EP. M&G brings several bugs they never did fix. Mainly (my pet peeve) you can no longer place stairs if you have already built a wall, like put stairs next to a wall. This hurts building when just building normally and when using raise/lower land cheats. It's a pain the rear. It throws errors all the time to tell you stairs can't be placed, it's not the only bug it causes but that is the one that got on builders nerves the most after the stuff pack. Especially if they are advanced builders and used the land cheat often. Celebration also has some bugs they never fixed even in TS2UC, I would suggest skipping Kitchen and Bath (bugs) M&G (bugs) Celebration (bugs) Teen Life Stuff (bugs) none of the bugs in those stuff packs were actually patched and Double Deluxe doesn't actually have some of the EP patches either. (Sims can't get out of bed bug).

ETA: How I got around some of the stuff pack and DD bugs was to leave TS2 installed and all my EP patches, even when installing TS2UC, so I don't suffer some of them like the 'can't get out of bed' bug some may see with DD. ETA: Remove the EPs (uninstall) and leave base and all patches installed before installing TS2UC.

I had the "Sims can't get out of bed bug" but it was in version 2 of Double Deluxe and not the 1st version.

I actually really liked H&M stuff because a lot of the clothes were MUCH cuter than other packs such as Glamour Life.

Stuff Packs for the Sims 2 were mostly just that giving you extra items, decorative, in the game. As far as I remember they didn't add much else except for the Family Fun Stuff (for kids). I think that one had a special interaction in it for kids. It's been over 10 years since I played the Sims 2 so it's hard to remember. Of course the Holiday Stuff did bring Santa and a whole lot of fun with themed items and Santa visiting.

"spoopy;c-16328479" wrote:
i basically hid them or replaced them w/ default replacements, especially those h&m, ew

How could you not like the fashion stuff!?

I enjoyed it - I enjoy Sims 2 period. I see some disks on ebay but you can't play them without Origin... and I refuse to reinstall that on my pc.

"MadIris;c-16332434" wrote:
I enjoyed it - I enjoy Sims 2 period. I see some disks on ebay but you can't play them without Origin... and I refuse to reinstall that on my pc.

You don't need Origin if you are using disks. If you download from there, there is a way to go around it, so you don't have to keep it installed after downloading. But we can't talk about that here. :D