"HalloMolli;15242216" wrote:
If you google for "best expansions pack + sims 3" you'll find out that Late Night was by far the most popular ep among simmers (I think LGR has it ranked also very high on his list).
source: http://www.thetoptens.com/best-sims-3-expansion-packs/
And this says it all.
Let's give it a try: Late Night's best feature was Bridgeport (in fact, it was my second favorite world, so they did a pretty good job with it). The problem: If you don't use a fan-made patch the map suffers of significant routing errors that eventually can corrupt your save file if you don't use mods such as errortrap etc.
Then we had apartements (camera-movement of doom, rabbithole neighbors, NO (!) new gameplay at all etc.) and with them came elevators --> always leading to a traffic jam inside the building + more routing errors + sims getting stuck).
In addition we got pubs, night-clubs and vip-lounges - everything neat in theory, but since they were almost always empty it almost seemed like a useless (because dysfunctional) addition.
Also a very poorly designed celebrity system that made everybody become famous only because they talked several times to a VIP sim (resulting in a town full of VIPs), paparazzis that always leave as soon as you get to know them better (which is so dumb) etc.
And - of course - vampires, however, they got reworked later anyway. Nuff said.
The only addition I truly enjoyed were butlers. They were alcoholics (drinking at the bar all day long) and it was great (but in reality: the AI was not that great xD)!
And those were the *Special* fetures of Late Night. I am sorry, I just don't see any more depth or better gameplay features in those eps in comparison to TS4. On the contrary.
Almost everything in TS3 was half-baked at best.
Conclusion: If you love the numbers game (meaning: quantitiy over quality) stick with TS3.
I played Late Night for years when it came out without mods just fine honey.
All hotspots in town were always full of celebrities and norms, and only once I had my sim get stuck on an elevator due to a ton of sims having to go home because the club closed. You seem to be also forgetting that the Late Night patch introduced breast augmentation, moving pictures etc on walls, half walls, platforms and zodiacs. We also got bands and group outings on that same pack along with mixology, bartenders, and extra traits and lifetime wishes. A new semi active career as well, dancing on tables and extra dancing animations, skinny dipping, bouncers and more than 4 skills some hidden. Drums, piano, bass, elevators, bubble blower, hot tubs, darts, full bars, shuffleboard, arcade machines, electric gates and fx machines were also included.
And vampires didn't get reworked, they only patched a few features extra on them they didn't remove or directly alter anything.
But just because people say it's best doesn't mean it is, how biased of you.
But if TS3 is soooo half baked then where are these in TS4?
http://i.imgur.com/UvoMOgk.jpg
Nuff said.
And btw honey, if you care so much for those metacritic scores, be sure to know that the glorified trash that you call TS4 Base Game has a 3.9. user score--> http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-sims-4
