"Zeldaboy180;c-16976407" wrote:
"Goldmoldar;c-16976400" wrote:
"Zeldaboy180;c-16976377" wrote:
"Naus;c-16976030" wrote:
"3KNPen;c-16976018" wrote:
Strangerville is a Game Pack. The focus of it was the new gameplay elements added and most importantly, and which I noticed you left out of your post completely, the uniqueness of the added storyline element. THAT was their main focus of this pack and what they put the most time and effort into creating and designing. Not the world. Even so the world is well designed and larger then what we’ve gotten in previous Game Packs.
The 2-hour LINEAR point-and-click story has been heavily criticized already. Not many people are satisfied with it (and some say they like it for what is). It also has little to no replayability. A lot people are claiming that the world makes this pack worth it, so I just wanted to compare the quality of a world/lots from the previous game with the quality of this world/lots.
I think it's a fair comparison because that's what you're getting for $20-25 in each game.
Lucky Palms: 1 gameplay item, large world with 96 items.
StrangerVille: 3 gameplay items, tiny world with 11 items, 2-hour linear story with no replayability, 1 new career with 3 new interactions.
And if you compare stuff packs, sims 4 stuff packs almost always have the same, and sometimes double the amount of stuff as sims 3 packs, as well as 1-4 gameplay items for half the price.
What's the point of this?
All you got with the store pack was the world itself. It's incredibly unfair that you didn't even take into account all the gameplay the pack comes with like the Military career, new trait, and the story. Yes the story is linear, and I'm not a big fan of this type of pack, but it's unfair to discount it just because you don't like it. Not to mention you didn't even count all the CAS and build/buy items that each store set comes with. Only the new gameplay objects were counted, in which you forgot Laptops, as well as a couple items I can't mention because of spoilers.
You're comparing apples to oranges and coming off biased. A world pack on the store is obviously going to be more fleshed out than a game pack that focuses on the story.
Why don't we compare Dine out to the restaurant lot in sims 3? I bet you could easily tell which is worth the $20 (I think it might have even been 25 for sims 3, don't remember)
The thing for me here is I did not have to buy that particular (Lucky Palms) world, I could make my own world that was at my disposal and did not have to wait for EA/Maxis to provide me one.and that is the whole thing if you want to compare. One can be intrigued about something and do not like the value that is set and still not dislike the pack. It all comes down to precedence here for if Sims 3 or even Sims 2 never existed you think we would be having this debate. Most people remember what could be done in the older version even in Sims 2, that is never going away and this discussion will always come up. Most of us are all biased here not just him for he knows what was available and he is giving feedback just like you are giving feedback and Sorry but for me that neighborhood is nothing more than an prop. However, it is what it is and if you feel you want to defend what you like and he has that right as well as well as I have that right anybody on this forum.
I'm not defending what I like, I'm saying the comparison isn't fair. I clarified it more in a later post. A store set compared to a game pack just isn't the same thing.
Comparing sims 3 seasons to sims 3 seasons is valid and fair, comparing sims 3 pets to sims 4 cats and dogs is valid and fair. Comparing The vampires in late night to sims 4 vampires is valid and fair.
For example, I'll compare Sims 3 Plant sims to Sims 4 Plant sims. Sims 4 plant sims are basically just green sims that temporarily need water and sunshine. that's it. Meanwhile sims 3 plant sims can turn into plants to sleep, have unique interactions like poison kiss etc. Don't want to go too off topic, but in that scenario, sims 3 wins hands down.
But world sets and game packs are two wildly different concepts. It's not fair to compare the two.
On that part we can agree about However, I do not care about the mystery as it being very limited in value and my thing is Sims 4 neighborhood VS an version World and Sims 4 wins that hands down as well. But one do not even have to compare an store world when one can just use an player customized world but it is more on paid world vs an paid neighborhood, however I see your point now. The point of this is controversy that will creep in.
