Which expansion pack?

@yoyogi1, I have all of the packs and I enjoy all of them! ❤️  But it is hard for someone who doesnt' know you to know what you will like. The best anyone can do is to give some suggestions, or reasons why they like a particular pack or maybe tell you which packs have had the most postiive things said about them. 😉

According to Origin, the following packs are on sale now:

Island Living 

Get Famous

Seasons

Cats & Dogs

City Living

Get Together

Get to Work

Vampires 

Spooky Stuff

All of these are Expansion Packs (EPs) except for Vampires which is a Game Pack (GP) and Spooky Stuff which is a Stuff Pack (SP)  

I would focus on either EPs or GPs as they are lager and have more gameplay.  SP are inexpensive, even without them being on sale, but they usually only have one gameplay element. 

The best pack for you also depends on how you like to play... Do you like to build houses and public lots? The Island Living, Cats & Dogs, Vampires, and Get Toghether are good choices (Island Living has beautiful Hawaiian inspired items, Vampire has dramatic Gothic inspried items, Cats & Dogs has a lot of Cape Cod style architecture and homey items, and Get Together has a lot of Tudor architecture and community lots/activities. Get Famous can also be a good building pack, as well. 

Perhaps you prefer realistic gameplay? The Seasons abd Cats & Dogs are the best out of these.

For Fantasy Gameplay Vampires is the best choice (although some might argue being extremely famous would be a fantasy, in which case Get Famous woud be a good fit.

Get to Work, despite its name, has a strong fantasy element with the introductions of Aliens, but the rest of the pack is realistic. 

If you really want a new world with a lot of lots for your Sims , then Get Together has the most , by far!  It also has a powerful Club system.  Vampires has a wonderful system of perks and weaknesses that can make each Vampire different from another Vampire, forcing you to play those Vampries in different ways.  City Living has some terrific ethnic outfits, furniture, foods, drawing from cultures from all over the world! It also has 5 different festival events. I love the colors in this pack ... everthying is so vibrant!  Season allows you to either participate in existing holidays, or create your own!  

If I had to pick one pack I would pick Cats & Dogs, personally, becasue I need pets in my Sim life as well as my real one! ❤️  But when asked what is the best pack for most players, I would have to say Seasons! 🙌  With Seasons, every age is affected from toddler to elder! I love the new CAS items that I can dress all my Sims in .  I love the activities that Sims can engage in , such as stomping in rain or mud puddles, waterballon fights, lounging in the kiddie pool or letting toddlers play in the kiddie pool, raking leaves, playing in leaf piles, making snow pals and snow angels, and all the holiday activites  and house decorations!  I think more people are satisfied wtith Seasons. It is one of those packs that you don't have to do anything special to enjoy, like going on vacation , but is a pack that works its way into multiple aspects of your Sims lives! 🥳

If you turn on your game while online, on the Main Menu screen you can get a preview of the tiems in each pack.  Just click on the button with the icon for the pack you want to look at and it will show you a picture of each item.  CAS items on one tab and Build/Buy items on the other tab.  The pictures will not show you all the color variations for each item, but you can get a general idea of what you will get in the pack, as far as items go!  🙂

Please update us on which pack or packs you decide on!  Happy Simming! 🥳 

Well with EP's (Expansion Packs) Some of them add a lot of things into the game and other don't

In my opinion i think the Seasons EP ads the most to the game i wouldn't say its my favorite but definitely top 3 because 1. It adds the four seasons into the game which makes the game feel more realistic, 2. It adds a calendar which makes you feel like your sim is actually aging, 3. More events! which means you can have holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving.

For more information on season: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/seasons/

The second EP i would recommend is Sims 4 Get Famous, Because i think its cool that you can get make your sims a celebrity in the game which 1. Allows you to make more money 2. Build an army of fans, Win awards (Starlight Alocade) for numerous things, 4. Gives normal jobs more of an interesting feel to it.

For more Information on Get Famous: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/getfamous/

And the third EP i would recommend is Sims4 City Living because 1. It adds a brand new city!! (San Myshuno) to the sims 4, 2. It adds three amazing new jobs Politician, Social Media and critic which all have to do with city life, 3. Apartments it means your sims can live in apartments that range from cheap old not nice apartments to luxury Penthouses,

For more information: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/cityliving/

Last point is that i would strongly recommend against buying Get Together and i think the whole community would agree with me on that one.

Hope this Helped 🙂

Thank for your answers!!! 

what I really like the most about the sims is building houses, the simulation living part and playing with my sims body/hair/clothes.

im tempted to buy dogs&cats expansion because I love puppies 😁 but I don’t want to be disappointed

im also tempted by the season expansion pack.

this is an Hamletic doubt 🤣

The cats and dogs expansion is great you can buy a vet clinic and make money being a vet which i think is a great feauture 🙂

@yoyogi1, sounds like you enjoy a lot of different aspects to the Sims 4! ❤️  

For the building houses part, most Builders love Get Together!  Probably Cats & Dogs after that , followed by Vampires and Island Paradise.  Those all have great architectural elements in those packs!  They are good for interior designing as well, but other packs to consider for interior design are Seasons and City Living. 

For gameplay I love Seasons and Cats & Dogs the best, followed by Vampires and City Living. But a lot of people love the Club system in Get Together... it is wonderful, but I play more family play so I don't join as many clubs as I should. 😉  But i've know others to have used thes clubs in very creative ways! 🙌  One of my favorite uses for the clubs is the Gardening club called "The Garden Gnomes" .  Instead of meeting at the default lot to hang out, I have them come to my Sims's garden and I will harvest all the produce and they will do all the other gardening activites for free!  And you get club points while this happens... the points let you purchase either clothing or secret handshakes, or more powerful interactions.  

For Create a Sim, my favorite is (again) Seasons and Cats & Dogs) .  There are a lot of new Winter outfits, raincoats, and Summer attire in Seasons as well as hats and jewlery!  In Cats & Dogs there are a lot of dog and cat themed items that are cute!  But I also love the clothing in City Living and  Island living since both packs have such colorful items! 🙂

As for Cats & Dogs, it is a bit tricky to get them to breed in the game.  I dont know if this bug was fixed yet or not, but it used to be that you couldn't have your dog or cat breed with strays.  But I was able to get them to breed if I owned both of the parents and they were on good terms with each other. ❤️

Have you had a chance to look at what each pack offers in terms of CAS and Build/Buy Mode objects? 🤔

Hi everyone!

I've bought Seasons and City Living expansions...

At the beginning I was a little disappointed but now I'm very happy with them

Thanks for your support :D

@yoyogi1, thanks so much for updating us!  We love hearing what people end up getting!  ❤️

I love City Living because I love different cultures in real life and found the festivals fun (I'm obsessed with having my Sims eat and learn as many recipes as they can at the festivals! )  I also love the colorful clothing and objects in this pack!

Season will always be one of my favorite packs (just slightly below Cats & Dogs)!  I love the changing weather, the passing seasons, dressing my Sims for hot or cold weather!   And I love the customizable holidays!  This pack is also one of my favorites since I usually have most of my households do some gardening! The additional plant types and the bee box are really fantastic! 😇

I'm very happy you ended up really liking the packs you got! 🙌

Happy Simming! 🥳

@yoyogi1  I remember asking myself that very question many times...lol. What I realized, for me, missing one addition to my sims experience would be an injustice to the true simmer within (smile) I currently own every sims game ( game packs, expansion packs and stuff packs) including thesimsonline (which I wish was still up and running). If it helps you, what I love most about the Sims games is that I not only enrich and enhance my imagination and creativity, I also use it to play out different situations and ideas that I can use in my real-life situations and adventures. Each game/expansion/stuff pack brings new adventures and gameplay to the sims...each one has its attributes to make a new direction to take your sims in. 

I hope you get the enjoyment you deserve from whatever choices you make!! Good Simming to you!! 🙂

i first wanted dogs and cats, but i saw many reviews of different expansions packs. now i am debating against city living, dogs and cats, or seasons. i am definately getting vampires and realm of magic in the future. back to the point, i decided to get seasons and city living. i already have parenthood and feel that i'm more towards caring for children/teens than pets. but that's just my opinion. city living if you want to experience festivals, apartments with poverty, and explore a new world. cats and dogs if you're a pet person and want to care for them. seasons if you want to celebrate christmas with snow instead of sunlight. 🙂

@WRHere, seasons is the best for almost anyone because it incorporates into your Sims' daily lives so seamlessly! ❤️🥳   And for the people who don't want to mess with holidays in the game, you can always cancel or edit any holidays to your liking.  For example, I you have an unflirty single Sim, who you want to remain single, then Love Day isn't the best fit for them,  So, you can delete the holiday or do what I do in those cases and just change the way you celebrate it by having them just decorate the house and watch the Romance Channel on TV -- that way you get the aspiration points with out disrupting their lives! 🙌
So, If you are unsure, Seasons is the best pack to get for most people! 😇  While I love Cats & Dogs slightly better, I would recommend Seasons over Cats & Dogs to almost anybody unless they are as crazy for pets as I am! 😃