Most of the pack seems devoted to that, but it's not something that has ever interested me.I am interested in the fame aspect, but I've always liked it for live performance careers like magic, bands, and even acrobatics/stunts. I like that you can get famous through regular jobs, but it's not the focus of the pack so it's not particularly developed.I also want the reputation system, but it's just a small part of this pack and I wish there was more to it... for it to be deeper like in ts3.I don't know. I really want to get it because I'm desperate for new gameplay since ts4 is just boring to me right now, but since acting is the focus of the pack and not something I care for, I don't know if I'll be wasting my money by only using 30% of the pack.Not to mention... most of CAS and BB are props and costumes for the acting career... I don't have a use for it and I'll just bloat my game. What do you think? Is there enough OTHER elements than acting in this expansion to be worth buying it?

I'm in the same boat as you, but I actually LOVE the CAS and BB. It isn't all costumes and props, there are some very nice clothing and hairstyles and beautiful BB. I'm just waiting for a sale. It's $26.99 right now on the cdkeys website.And you never know, we might actually enjoy the acting career. :blush:

"KJB;c-16850582" wrote:I'm in the same boat as you, but I actually LOVE the CAS and BB. It isn't all costumes and props, there are some very nice clothing and hairstyles and beautiful BB. I'm just waiting for a sale. It's $26.99 right now on the cdkeys website.And you never know, we might actually enjoy the acting career. :blush: psst.... it's $20 right now on best buy... that's why I'm trying to decide....I don't like the extravagant BB.. the golden stuff isn't even nice, it's tacky. And so much of the rest is props?? What am I going to do with that? CAS is skimpy, I think. Only costumes or over-the-top items. I don't even have a sim I'd like to be an actor. None of my sims are interested--though they would be interested in the liver performance things I talked about before. I have ~40 sims--most of them teens-- and it's just not something that matters to them. I honestly don't know that many people that are into acting, anyway. Maybe if it was theatrical acting, like for musicals and plays. but TV??? ugh.

One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant. I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.

"DreamaDove;c-16850628" wrote:"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant. I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in. If you do get it, make sure you turn off Fame under Game Options, I read if you don't your towns will be overrun with celebs interrupting everything because other Sims stop doing what they should be doing like in your stores, restaurants etc.

Is getting GF worth it if you don't care about acting?

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beyonceismymom
7 years ago
I'm in the same boat as you, but I actually LOVE the CAS and BB. It isn't all costumes and props, there are some very nice clothing and hairstyles and beautiful BB. I'm just waiting for a sale. It's $26.99 right now on the cdkeys website.
And you never know, we might actually enjoy the acting career. :blush:
DreamaDove
7 years ago
"KJB;c-16850582" wrote:
I'm in the same boat as you, but I actually LOVE the CAS and BB. It isn't all costumes and props, there are some very nice clothing and hairstyles and beautiful BB. I'm just waiting for a sale. It's $26.99 right now on the cdkeys website.
And you never know, we might actually enjoy the acting career. :blush:

psst.... it's $20 right now on best buy... that's why I'm trying to decide....

I don't like the extravagant BB.. the golden stuff isn't even nice, it's tacky. And so much of the rest is props?? What am I going to do with that? CAS is skimpy, I think. Only costumes or over-the-top items. I don't even have a sim I'd like to be an actor. None of my sims are interested--though they would be interested in the liver performance things I talked about before. I have ~40 sims--most of them teens-- and it's just not something that matters to them. I honestly don't know that many people that are into acting, anyway. Maybe if it was theatrical acting, like for musicals and plays. but TV??? ugh.
LaBlue0314
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.
DreamaDove
7 years ago
"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant.

I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.
Cinebar
7 years ago
"DreamaDove;c-16850628" wrote:
"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant.

I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.

If you do get it, make sure you turn off Fame under Game Options, I read if you don't your towns will be overrun with celebs interrupting everything because other Sims stop doing what they should be doing like in your stores, restaurants etc.
DreamaDove
7 years ago
"Cinebar;c-16850657" wrote:
"DreamaDove;c-16850628" wrote:
"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant.

I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.

If you do get it, make sure you turn off Fame under Game Options, I read if you don't your towns will be overrun with celebs interrupting everything because other Sims stop doing what they should be doing like in your stores, restaurants etc.

what?

but like... isn't that the whole point of GF? Won't that also turn off fame for your sims, too? Isn't fame the whole point of the pack? If I have to turn off the main feature, then it's not worth it at all.
LaBlue0314
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@DreamaDove
I don't know, hadn't thought to check that part. There is this device that comes with GF that opens it up. They also came out with a new style microphone. Both of these come in 3 different colors.

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Perthelia
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"DreamaDove;c-16850666" wrote:
"Cinebar;c-16850657" wrote:
"DreamaDove;c-16850628" wrote:
"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant.

I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.

If you do get it, make sure you turn off Fame under Game Options, I read if you don't your towns will be overrun with celebs interrupting everything because other Sims stop doing what they should be doing like in your stores, restaurants etc.

what?

but like... isn't that the whole point of GF? Won't that also turn off fame for your sims, too? Isn't fame the whole point of the pack? If I have to turn off the main feature, then it's not worth it at all.

You can toggle it off so that new sims don't spawn with fame, but it doesn't take away fame from sims that already have it. You can turn on fame for any individual sim of your choice.
simwolf79
New Ace
7 years ago
"DreamaDove;c-16850666" wrote:

but like... isn't that the whole point of GF? Won't that also turn off fame for your sims, too? Isn't fame the whole point of the pack? If I have to turn off the main feature, then it's not worth it at all.

If you disable fame globally to prevent random celebrities, then you can manually enable for individual sims in their simology panel. Gives you total control then, but the game ships with several premade celebs also.
angsea
7 years ago
"DreamaDove;c-16850666" wrote:
"Cinebar;c-16850657" wrote:
"DreamaDove;c-16850628" wrote:
"LaBlue0314;c-16850610" wrote:
One thing I was pleasantly surprised was, it actually opens up the music and singing (if you have this skill) part of the game. Your sim can create, produce, sell records, and actually hear/listen to them play on the radio and stereos on the game. The costumes are pretty much locked up until you either use a mod to unlock them or unlock them through career game played.

can you play the tracks you make with the DJ station from Get Together? If so, that might be significant.

I dunno... again, it's the live performance aspect of fame that I like. I want concerts. Just 'uploading' things into imaginary web for make believe (like the livestream videos) seems silly to me. I feel like it should be more concrete. I do like the swordfighting interaction, but apparently that's just for acting? I wish it was a skill. That'd be something I'd be interested in.

If you do get it, make sure you turn off Fame under Game Options, I read if you don't your towns will be overrun with celebs interrupting everything because other Sims stop doing what they should be doing like in your stores, restaurants etc.

what?

but like... isn't that the whole point of GF? Won't that also turn off fame for your sims, too? Isn't fame the whole point of the pack? If I have to turn off the main feature, then it's not worth it at all.

No, your sims can still get famous but ONLY your sims (and sims who were already famous like Judith Ward). Otherwise the game will randomly make townies famous for no apparent reason and you've got sparkling famous people everywhere causing chaos.