City Living or Get Famous?

If you only want GF for build/buy and the video station, then I would say to get CL regardless of what my preference of the two is.

I like GF...but I'd say CL. In addition to the BB stuff you want, the city life is awesome for gameplay too. I had my household move there a few generations back and now I don't want to ever leave (but I will, eventually to mix things up).

Personally, I feel like CL offers more bang for your buck. The festivals are a nice touch, the new food and the addition of apartments are great in my opinion. It also offers a number of new jobs as well.

Get famous and City Living are great in their own ways, and work together well. However they both offer different areas of....enhancement.

City living is more focused on setting. I feel like sometimes I take City Living for granted because it blends in so well into all the other packs. Its a great stage for pretty much any story and any type of game-play you want. Its a place to go, a place to live, and a place to tell stories. But my personal opinion is it doesn't offer much game-changing experiences, it doesn't really effect WHAT you do everyday in the sims. Its a must have pack for me because its very wide reaching but I feel I should still point out the limitation in regards to gameplay.

Get famous on the other hand is very good at enhancing HOW you play for a very specific play style. It absolutely changes the way you and your sims interact with the world around them. What they do, how they socialize, who they socialize with, their jobs are all things that change with this EP. Its very good in my opinion but its also not diverse in experiences. It doesn't mesh as well with other packs like City Living, it also does not expand on a variety of other areas of gameplay. Its fame, fortune and acting what you see is all that is there to get. Its very much a pack that says "hey you couldn't play this way before, now you can, have fun!".

Judging by your original post

"whimreaper;d-953407" wrote:
I think the Youtube career in GF looks amazing and I love a lot of the build/buy items, but the world and fame part of GF aren't all that appealing. Contrarily, I LOVE the world in City Living and would love to build with apartments, but I'm not super crazy for the festivals or new careers.

You say that the world and fame are not appealing to you. You did not give any information (or indication) of what you think about the acting career so I kind of have to tailor my recommendation around that too.

Honestly the world and fame/reputation are probably two of the three factors that make the GF pack worth 40 USD (the third being the acting career). The "youtube" career is just a BB item and works similar painting. You are essentially paying for an expansion pack just the for the items without showing interest in the actual features that make it an EP (EDIT: not that this is a bad thing. But I think if you can't buy all the packs at once and have to buy them piecemeal it seems counter productive).

On the other hand you state that you like the world of City Living but don't like festivals or the careers. I share the same opinion as you on this. However the festivals and careers are honestly the minor features of this EP. Both of those could be absent from the pack and I still think I would buy it at full price. The items and the world are the star of City Living. They are 90% of the value in my opinion.

So my opinion is you should get City Living. However regardless of what you buy, I hope you have fun and enjoy it.

Thanks, everyone! Your feedback was super helpful. I ended up going with City Living in the end. I think the point @phantom121294 made about the major point of buying each pack did it for me. I just got Vintage Glamour, which is glitzy enough, so I think I can wait a bit for the build/buy of Get Famous.

> @whimreaper said:
> I have enough Christmas money for some new Sims packs, but I absolutely can't decide on which EP to get. I think the Youtube career in GF looks amazing and I love a lot of the build/buy items, but the world and fame part of GF isn't all that appealing. Contrarily, I LOVE the world in City Living and would love to build with apartments, but I'm not super crazy about the festivals or new careers. What do you guys think sounds like the way to go? Which do you enjoy more yourselves? Please vote and leave your thoughts below!
I am in the same boat as you. I really like playing and the building isn't my favorite so I'm leaning towards GF and the fame is appealing but in CL I feel that it's just a world.

@Cupid Thanks for your input! I understand why you would say that (and I am leaning more towards City Living), but a majority of what I do on the Sims 4 is building, so the build/buy is quite important for me. However, I have also been getting more into gameplay, so that also factors in.

My personal game play experience, City Living game play is pretty much on hold until I get University.
I do have teens that have CosPlay as a hobby using the City Living's GeekCon festival and a cybercafe for support, but it is leaning heavily on Get Famous for costumes, live streaming drones, and the video station.

So a vote for Get Famous for me.
My uni grads will take advantage of City Living whenever it comes out.

I personally prefer city living because I have got more playtime out of it but this is pretty personal to me.

There is a lot of CAS for the pack and it features some more multi-cultural styled outfits which is nice to see.

The actual world is really pretty and I use it a lot especially because the apartments are so cheap and seem like a better alternative to just buying a starter home.

The pack also comes with three new careers which all have work from home options so I find them quite interesting.

This pack has alot of cool outfits, costumes, Victorian Royalty furniture, SiFi furniture & objects.