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 assume you don’t want to get the TS2 UC for free from Origin which includes everything. I found that all of the stuff packs added SOMETHING I liked. Even if small.

"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.

"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.

I really liked the stuff packs in TS2. When I tried to reinstall from the disks, my computer couldn't read some of them and I really missed them. So glad I have them back with the ultimate collection. I like them a lot more then the stuff packs in sims 3 and sims 4. My favorites are family fun stuff, celebration and M&G.

"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.htmlHere 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

Any thoughts on The Sims 2 Stuff Packs?

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8rm2
8 years ago
I've always been indifferent to them.
One thing I can say is that H&M Stuff has not aged well. :lol:
Rflong7
Legend
8 years ago
"@2tcn;c-16348813" wrote:
I've always been indifferent to them.
One thing I can say is that H&M Stuff has not aged well. :lol:

It didn't even age well at the time- imo. There wasn't much that I liked in that pack- or the clothes in general. XD
Sad but true. :(
CLJane
8 years ago
I bought most of them at the time, mostly just because I was curious. The only one that I think I got any real use out of was Glamour Life simply because I like to decorate many of my sims houses in completely over the top opulent ways. If someone doesn't have UC and is looking to get into The Sims 2, I'd advise they just save their money in most cases.

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