Island Living; is it lacking?

I love IL because of the new World, the CAS and Build mode items and its general beauty. I am free to tell my own story and as a builder I have got lots of new options.
I must admit that until recently I was disappointed because I thought that there were no special festivals

However I was wrong!
https://youtu.be/3zxxHmYy7aA

Yeah!

Hmm...

Get Famous: Lot and lots of gameplay with a little little world

Island Living: AMAZING world with less gameplay


Personally I love Sulani to bits and pieces and I all my sims live there at some point of their story.

I feel like it's added a lot for my gameplay style. The beaches I've been building in the pack get very busy and it's lovely that the toddlers can actually play in the sand, build sand sculptures and play independently in the water. They couldn't do any of those before so this was a nice touch as far as I'm concerned. I really love the feel of living on the islands and being a part of the community <3 The festivals are lovely and get very busy and the aesthetics are gorgeous and, particularly for the conservation side of the pack, ideal for the location. And I do think the conservation element was a wonderful addition. https://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a040.gif

No complaints on the world, lot sizes, etc, but the gameplay is severely lacking.

I ended up voting "Other" on this one. I like some things about it but I do think it could have more, especially for an expansion.

Yes, I think the world is great and as I explored the pack recently, it's definitely one I'll keep playing with. I agree that compared to earlier packs, it does seem to be lacking a bit.

I really think it should have included hotels or resorts. If anything, I like the livable world but I'd have been really impressed if there was also a smaller vacation world that may have just been a resort area. The pack would have felt bigger.

I actually do like the conservation career, I wouldn't have thought about it but it's different. I like that there is a different culture there; I actually think it is cool and I learned some things about the region that it's based on. The pre-mades? Meh, I'm incorporating some of them but I could take or leave them. I don't buy a pack for pre-mades though.

Gorgeous swimming, I could have my sims do that all day. I also got features that I asked for like the sun loungers. I like being able to park a sim outside and not have to wonder what they are up to.

I like the gorgeous houses and the quirky builds like the shipwreck. The lots all feel different from each other. I definitely think the world is replayable.

I think that the pack could use more gameplay. I don't really play with the mermaids because I'm not a supernatural player but yeah, I think the pack would have been better with more gameplay and if it incorporated vacations. As it is, it feels a little bit like corners were cut. Awesome world that is fun to explore though.

I've said before that I agree that Get Famous's world was way too small. I'm just now getting into the gameplay but the world is so small that it is hard to create an exclusive celebrity culture that just lives there. Sulani is beautiful and sure, I always want more beautiful beach lots, but hats off to the beauty of that world. I just think that IL was missing a "wow factor". I didn't feel like that with City Living or Get Together.

If there had been a beach resort and some kind of adventure, I probably would have been more wowed. I didn't play the TS3 version so I don't miss underwater scuba, but sure, more is more.

Originally I missed out on much of the game because festivals are not advertised.
For those who also had difficulties finding out about the Islands festivals:

Sulani Festivals on the inhabited Island

1. Monday - Town Barbeque started around 5 pm and ended around 12:20 am
2. Tuesday - Flower and Music started around 12 noon and ended around 7:30 pm
3. Wednesday - Town Pot Luck started around 6:40 pm
4. Thursday - Island Celebration started around 5 pm
5. Friday - Beach Bonfire started around 5 pm
6. Saturday - Fishing Competition started in the Morning
7. Sunday - Family Fun Day started in the Morning
8. Turtle hatching - in Spring upon cleansing This one is in Muat Pelam

It's tolerable. The graphics are amazing, and it's also full of brilliant story opportunities for me. I like the cleaning up the islands thing, but it needs also to degrade faster than it does. My sim just picked up and dropped a single thing of trash for a real half an hour and the game claimed I'd cleaned up the entire island, as the picking up trash was marked as cleaning but somehow dropping it didn't make the island worse. Mermaids are no worse than aliens, if a bit buggy.

I think it lacks goal oriented gameplay. Apart from the conservationist career and the mini aspiration there is no other concrete goal to achieve. That being said I dont think we got less in comparison with other packs. The "gameplay" around beach life is very detailed and the world is amazing with an open ended feel...I like it.

I really enjoy this pack. The BB is awesome and I love the world. I spend most of my time there when playing. I like the little events like community bonfire and turtle hatching. The Kava Party is also fun. It could use a few more activities, ability to have more than one Sim on a boat or Aqua-Zip, and multitasking in lounge chairs. ?

I’ve never played with mermaids, so obviously I don’t have an opinion on whether that’s an empty part of the game.

I think it's a beautiful world, I really love the scenery. The one thing I really wanted was special dive lot/lots like we had in sims 3, but I still think it's a nice world.