Lucky Palms vs StrangerVille (World Comparison)

I believe Lucky Palms was a world you could buy from the Sims 3 store. So, it is not unlike a GP.

I think it's silly to keep trying to compare S3 to S4. I dont constantly compare Sims 1 to Sims 3,saying " Old Town has more beautiful colors than Lucky Palms". I wouldn't go on to a Terraria forum and say " Minecraft has cooler-looking graphics than Terriaria." It's time for some Sims 3 fans to stop comparing S3 to S4-it's not only annoying as heck,but it makes one look like a rabid Sims 3 fan. And to be honest,I've had my fill of rabid fans on Deviant Art and Roblox....

"Katlyn2525;c-16975922" wrote:
I believe Lucky Palms was a world you could buy from the Sims 3 store. So, it is not unlike a GP.

Yes, GP are pretty much the new version of The Sims 3 Store Worlds OR The Sims 3 Premium Venues. I still believe The Sims 3 Store is overpriced for what you get, but it's kinda sad that for such a small world in StrangerVille they didn't put more effort building lots.

"Naus;c-16975912" wrote:


It's a world comparison. A lot of people are saying they think StrangerVille is a good deal just for the world. I'm trying to show the decline of quality of worlds from TS3 to TS4.

For a 'gamepack' it's a first for it to have more than just a few select lots as I assume that's what some may be mentioning. You're not even getting just the world anyway, but if someone thinks it is for the world alone? Well, that's them and that's fine.

Sims 3 is still an entirely completely different game with open world concept where as the Sims 4 is not. You could probably take any sims 3 world and compare it to whatever world within 4. The only thing these two have in common is being desert related. The sims 3 worlds are always going to be bigger. Not like it matters as it's comparing apples and oranges here. Same with comparing community made worlds in 3 that some were better compared to most other offical worlds. It's basically up to you to decide if a pack is worth it with its content or not.

Where I don't think paying 3 up to 8 dollars alone for a gameplay item in the sims 3 in the store ($10 already a stuff pack for the Sims 4) some other people will because they see the value in it and will get their use out of it.

"Naus;c-16975931" wrote:

"Katlyn2525;c-16975922" wrote:
I believe Lucky Palms was a world you could buy from the Sims 3 store. So, it is not unlike a GP.

Yes, GP are pretty much the new version of The Sims 3 Store Worlds OR The Sims 3 Premium Venues. I still believe The Sims 3 Store is overpriced for what you get, but it's kinda sad that for such a small world in StrangerVille they didn't put more effort building lots.

I see the point you are trying to make, and it has nothing to do with "rabid fans".

"Lady_Ballora;c-16975929" wrote:
I think it's silly to keep trying to compare S3 to S4. I dont constantly compare Sims 1 to Sims 3,saying " Old Town has more beautiful colors than Lucky Palms". I wouldn't go on to a Terraria forum and say " Minecraft has cooler-looking graphics than Terriaria." It's time for some Sims 3 fans to stop comparing S3 to S4-it's not only annoying as heck,but it makes one look like a rabid Sims 3 fan. And to be honest,I've had my fill of rabid fans on Deviant Art and Roblox....

Why aren't we suppose to compare The Sims 3 and 4? Isn't The Sims 4 A SEQUEL to The Sims 3?

Your analogy of Terraria and Minecraft is awful. They're two completely different games. They aren't even the same genre. It's actually a case of FALSE ANALOGY, a logical fallacy.

And yes, I'm a RABID The Sims fan. I love almost all Sims games: Sims 1, Bustin' Out, Urbz, Sims 2 for PC and console, Medieval, Sims 3, Sims Stories. I'm very critical of The Sims 4 because I think it's a massive step backwards in many ways. The only way TS4 is going to improve and The Sims 5 is going to be a good game from the get go is by being very critical of it.

"Naus;c-16975931" wrote:

"Katlyn2525;c-16975922" wrote:
I believe Lucky Palms was a world you could buy from the Sims 3 store. So, it is not unlike a GP.

Yes, GP are pretty much the new version of The Sims 3 Store Worlds OR The Sims 3 Premium Venues. I still believe The Sims 3 Store is overpriced for what you get, but it's kinda sad that for such a small world in StrangerVille they didn't put more effort building lots.

Not really. The world is not the main idea of a game pack. Game packs are focused around a single new game mechanic, that sometimes has a world, but only when it needs one. Store worlds are focused around the world, with few additional gameplay objects. Despite the similar price, they aren't really the same.

Lucky Palms is much more complete with less build/buy items, practically no CAS, and a wishing well that did not try to change the game from a sandbox to a rpg.

I don’t really get this comparison.

Lucky Palms is a Store World. The emphasis in that is the word “World”. You are buying and paying for the world. The main focus of the design of Lucky Palms was the world so yes they spent the most time on designing it and it has a ton of lots and space to place more lots. That’s it’s main purpose of existing. Yes it comes with some gameplay elements but you have to pay extra to get the majority of those because they were designed to be add ons to the world they were not the sole focus.

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.

You just can’t go around comparing a Store World to a Game Pack they are two completely different beasts. That’s fine if you like the Store World better but at the end of the day you have to take into consideration they had vastly different goals when being designed and built.

If you want to make a truly fair comparison you have to compare Lucky Palms (or any store world) to Newcrest. Which was designed to be an added world. It’s completely empty, has far less lots and no gameplay elements but was free.

"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.