How would you rank the Sims 3 expansions?

1.) World Adventures - Still my favorite pack. I love sending my sims on vacation, the items, the fact that it's easy to get rich without cheating, and the skills. Especially Nectar making. I took it way too seriously for a while.

2.) Supernatural - I bought this pack when it was on sale just because I wanted the plant potters and I thought alchemy sounded kinda interesting. I used to think I wanted my game to be more realistic but I really started having a lot more fun when I let it go crazy where anything could happen. Moonlight Falls is a good town for that type of play and have spent a lot of time there in my recent games. Synergizes well with some of the more fantastical items from WA. I got more than I expected with this pack and it turned into one of my favorites.

3.) Ambitions - I've had this pack installed for a long time. It was the first expansion I bought (I bought a combo pack on Steam with the base game, so not counting those). I prefer self employment for my sims and Twinbrook is one of my favorite towns.

4.) University Life - Okay...so I still have never sent a Sim to Uni but I love the science skill, I use the traits, items, and lots all the time. Though, I do hate how playing video games all day means my sim berates other sims for their ignorance a little too frequently. I feel like I got my money's worth with this pack and I know there's a whole bunch of content here I haven't even gotten into.

5.) Generations - I've been enjoying playing families lately and this pack fleshes that aspect of the game out. Seems necessary.

6.) Showtime - I was absent for the whole Katy Perry tie in controversy when this first released so by the time I got a hold of it, I got a pack with great clothing, okay hair, awesome night life decor, and a really cool town. I also had a lot of fun with the magician career. This pack seems like a mix of Ambitions and Late Night.

7.) Late Night - This one isn't higher on the list because some of its features don't work well on my machine. Bridgeport and any city I've downloaded just can't run up to my standards. I do get plenty of use out of the items, skills, and lots though. I always have it installed.

8.) Seasons - I love the snow and all the festivals. It's just a good pack which is why it's number 8 without even being installed on my machine. That effect that happens where the camera lags, and items appear white while taking a bunch of time to load when zooming in or moving around on the map is caused by seasons on my machine. Even if I have it completely suppressed in every way, my game still runs like garbage. It's smooth without it installed so I decided I'd rather have the performance.

9.) Pets - Appaloosa Plains has a special place in my heart because it was the first town I played in. Having a pet can be fun but not into it at the moment. This pack doesn't cause too many problems but it does cause some annoying routing issues so I decided I can live without it. I miss all the country western themed items though and I'd love to move pack to AP. thinking of re-installing it.

10.) Into the Future - Low on the list because I don't know much about it. I've had it for a long time, bought it on sale. I just haven't had it installed. I recently installed it as I want to use it for my current game. So far, I like the items.

11.) Island Paradise - Broken. I like some of the items though.

I'm going to be a bit harsh on some expansions I think.

1. Late Night. I love this one, Bridgeport might be laggy but it has all the Sims I know and love (or hate, I'm still looking at you Wayne...) but the sheer fun it is to finally have Sims in the City... And not Urbz, is just a nice experience on its own, plus vampires are easily my most played lifestate.

2. Frankly, it's gotta be University Life. It's not something I always use, but Plantsims are one of my favourite lifestates as well. When I do actually play the University side to the expansion I also like the sheer mayhem thats going on. Streakers everywhere. Illegally tagging. Fun.

3. Island Paridise. Lags a big issue even with fixes, but mermaids make it all worth it. Admittedly though it starts to feel a bit lacking when you've explored all there is to explore. But thats why I also like to kickstart a resort and just spend time treating it like TS2:OFB.

4. Supernatural. I'm often an occult player over all, witches are probably my main reason to like this pack, even if I almost never have any other lifestate roaming around, plus I just like the clothes.

5. Seasons. I didn't even know what to put here otherwise, but seasons just adds what should've been there from the start. I never did things like the holiday parties, but its good to see rain at least. Not good to have your male Sims getting sucked into the sky though!

6. Ambitions. Not going to lie, I almost forget I have this expansion pack sometimes, I seldom do some of the careers since they become completely impossible to manage if you have a household bigger than two people. Some features are cool and sometimes I just like blowing things up. Random strangers car? It's GONE. The cat bed? It's GONE. Your exes urn? Yup. That's a GONE.

7. Generations. I'm not a family player, most features go overlooked, and there's just the case of having to remind myself to try the features. But if there's one thing I do use. It's the ability to record and play videos on the TV. I'd like to admit I've used that for some rather evil reasons like recording a certain hated Sim of mine burning to death. But that's the best part of generations for me! My inner-evil can get a quick laugh.

8. World Adventures. Oh loadscreens. How I dread them. Some cool features, but I prefer the vacation experience of the Sims 1/2's respective expansions over the Tomb Raider Sims experience. And the loading screens are what tips the scale.

8. Into the Future. Loadscreens alone make this a rarely used expansion pack, I also don't like the straight up future experience, but it does have a Futurama reference. I also don't like Plumbots, they're just there for me, I don't think they've got much going for them.

10. Showtime. Oh if this expansion is one I've only used once. It's not my type of thing, I like having the diva trait, but thats about it. It's that expansion where if you don't do the careers much its added it feels like deadweight.

11. Pets. I used to use pets in my neighbourhood, but now they're just... There. They cause lag, horses shouldn't even be in Bridgeport, they need to stop spawning in fountains! Also they're just lacking once you train them, it's nothing like the Sims One where there was a petshow to enter them into and using them to protect your garden. It's content I only haven't uninstalled because of the clothing.

I don't even know HOW to rank these. There's too much in Sims 3 and I will probably die never having done everything. Also I play with everything installed because I never want to miss out.

1. Seasons (I put WA, but I realized it's Seasons.) SEASONS. There should be seasons in base game (optional of course)

2. World Adventures I just love puzzles, tombs, mummies, all the cool decorative items.


3. Pets I love raising these beasties. They are so cute and weird in game (other than the odd sounds they make).

4. Island Paradise For scuba and houseboats. I love anything that adds weird explorations and rp stuff. I usually end up running and then abandoning a resort at some point.

5. Supernatural Witches, alchemy, and a lot of little extra stuff I enjoy even though I don't play with most occults.

6. Ambitions Sculpting, ghost hunting, inventing, all of which I love.

7. Generations I don't play a lot with families, but there's a lot in this pack that I end up using anyway.

8. Late Night I'm not big into the gameplay, but I love cities and high rises.

9. University Life I love the idea of it more than the actual university experience. I love what it adds though.

10. Into the Future However many years later and I admit I have barely played this. I like the idea though and I promise I will take a Sim into the future soon.

11. Showtime Meh. I don't play any of the careers but it adds some fun bits of stuff. I have it installed, but it's kind of a silly pack.

this is it for me right now based on my personal experience w them

1) showtime
2) university
3) world adventures
4) supernatural
5) into the future
6) pets
7) late night
8) seasons
9) generations
10) ambitions (im sure this sounds like a good pack but i havent played around with the core features and when i wanted to use it more, it didnt appear on the launcher so... yikes)
11) island paradise (i dont have it so i cant judge)

The Sims 3: Showtime
The Sims 3: World Adventures
The Sims 3: Generations
The Sims 3: Seasons
The Sims 3: Pets
The Sims 3: Supernatural
The Sims 3: Ambitions
The Sims 3: Late Night
The Sims 3: Island Paradise
The Sims 3: Into the Future
The Sims 3: University Life

I guess :sweat_smile:

I haven't played it in a while but I feel like I played showtime most and maybe its also cause we don't really have that stuff in ts4 so its more like oh i wish i had that

and i had like 0 use for university when i added it last time playing mr glitch mustache like i was so meh about it already cause i just remember it being stressful to play but i guess thats just playstyle thing (also i think i remember build buy of that pack being sparse or repetitive as heck for me not quite sure tho)

Island Paradise, meh. it just wasn't really paradise to me and like sure you could dive and summon kraken but that was like the only things that made it interesting to me tho and it was bugged to ends of the world

into the future... just disappointing as whole tbh like i was so mad the descendants never shared anyting with my sims and i just let them perish

tho meteors were kinda cool

late night... probably has some cool things but also like its very hard to remember what parts is late night and what is supernatural+showtime like idk i kinda feel like i can't tell it apart

ambitions i didn't really play much with so tbh i find it hard to place here cause it interests me some but also i do recall doing some of the careers and being bored

supernatural tbh i was mega disappointed and emo when it came out and it wasn't the occult perfection for me but also like id still probably buy it if ts3 is all i knew cause well, occults. you can't play without occults man. thats just theme override right there tbh.

and pets climbs above cause i was actually very much into making my sims own horses all the freaking time and other games pet expansions never did that to me so yeah. points for being most liked pets by me so far. also i loved spotting wild animals which i assume are related

generations... is bit of a theme override too yeah but what adds to families adds to my game and theres no way over it

seasons... yeah theme override. i just can't play without seasons and i remember the beautiful rain, snowy walks, fog and so forth

World Adventures for i love travels in the sims and i miss it often in ts4

My top 3 are still

1) Island Paradise (because I need my mermaids, island, hotels, swimming and exploring underwater, and the rest of the content; I use a fixed world sometimes when playing it, and mods)

2) Seasons (for obvious reason: I need seasonal gameplay!)

3) Supernatural (because I love fairies and supernatural stuff in general within my sim families)

4) Generations would be tied with any of the above, but I couldn’t choose which to switch with, since I love all of the top ones, lol. ?

As for the rest of the packs, I don’t really have a particular ranking, and I don’t really play with the rest of the packs that much, even though I do have them.

In summary: I’m an occult family player who loves seasons, and that’s my reasoning for my ranking. (Mermaids and fairies are my top two supernatural beings.)