Jungle adventure vs outdoor retreat ?

"jimbbq;d-935898" wrote:
Outdoor retreat has a tinty little “world” and there really isn’t much to play with apart from chilling. This pack seems quite amazing and huge !

For those with both packs do you think Jungle Adventure is better ? I haven’t got it yet but I do have Outdoor retreat and I am bored to dead by it !

I actually feel like you could get bored with this one to. I mean its a place to vacation and all but its really confined in my opinion to exploring the jungles.

They both kind of suffer from that whole "It would be boring to do this a second time" thing. I'm honestly not the biggest fan of JA, but I think it blows OR out of the water. I'll get much more use out of the world and the content even if I decide not to do the adventuring thing again.

They are both boring after you have played through them once. Yes Selvadorada is beautiful, but the amount of loading screens is horrendous and honestly Outdoor retreat came with multiple skills, a ton of crafting, bugs to collect, etc....

The new pack blows OR miles away.

"Dannydanbo;c-16352314" wrote:
I like both Outdoor Retreat and Jungle Adventure, but I don't think it's fair to compare the two. They are apples and plastic apples. OR was the very first GP and, for what it is, I think was well done for that time. It is a beautiful world and there are skills to learn and the weird person in a bear suit roaming around. There are lovely log cabins and a campsite where you can pitch a tent with other sims and have a weenie roast while telling ghost stories. Then there's the hermit to seek out, who also teaches you a few things. If you want a nice relaxing vacation for your sim, OR is the better choice as there are no locals to put up with. It's just you and nature.

And wait until Seasons is released. I can only imagine how beautiful those woods will look covered in snow. IMO, OR is a step sister, but I don't think it's the ugly step sister.

I agree. It's obvious that JA edges out OR, but OR was nice for its time. It had a lot to offer back then, and it didn't have a lot of previous content to build on or reuse. I still take my sims camping from time to time because it's fun. Same reason why I reuse EP features in previous Sims games. There's a lot of replay value in Sims games.

I think OR and JA, if compared to each other, JA would win out just bc of how far vacation worlds have gone since the very beginning. However, each has its own perks that make it different to each other in every way. One can find just as much enjoyment in OR as one would in JA. They are mutually separate but all the more equal.

JA has much more content than OR. I am gettig bored of my vacations with OR after a while, but there is so much to do in Selvadorada from culture skill to adventurer archeologists. Herbalism and Camping is the only two special things in OR in my opinion.

would you recommend getting JA if I don't particularly enjoy OR??

I love JA, I've gone a few times and I'm not bored yet. Then again I enjoy packs like this so...
I'm also don't get bored to quickly with anything and prefer to take my time and experience it all. It'll also help to add different venues to the world's with more fun stuff to do.

JA is amazing, whereas OR was a fun vacation destination and relaxing overall, but a bit void of new things to do apart from the horseshoe game. I did however like going there as it's a pretty world and with a restaurant and spa added it did always feel like a "retreat" from modern life (this does however require you to own both DO & SD, so that's definitely a bummer if you don't). JA however is just awesome. The setting is amazing, the villas are cool, there's plenty new gameplay, love the market, the exploring and temples and the little bits of "magic" in there (with the totems you can find). So all in all: JA is miles better than OR to me.