Odds and Ends What would you choose?

I of course will echo some sentiments of some of the posters here, Instruments. I'm a rock band kind of guy, and I would like my Sims to also get to take part in those activities......And if you guys can have an entire stuff pack devoted to knitting then I think we deserve to at least get a nice bass and drumset in the next expansion/game/stuff pack. How the hell are you supposed to have a band with a guitar, a piano and a violin? Even if you DO decide you want to make the "guitar, piano and violin band" work, they still won't actually play together. Just a mishmash of all those instruments being played at various skills AKA sounding like hot garbage.

Also, would it kill them to allow Sims to actually dance with one another? Not this crap we have now where they're all just kind of....dancing in the general vicinity of other Sims while chatting casually, let these Sims form some sort of real connection with these dances.

Pool tables. God, i really need some actually fun activities.

In general, what TS2 & 3 have that 4 doesn't, which is a lot. The two biggest are the household photo album with ample caption space (and last caption not disappearing) and at least the abilily/option to freeze unplayed households for controlled rotational play. Next to those would be for CAS to include sliders and right clicking on faces as in TS2.

i remember when the teens could sneek out of the house...it was hard getting back home and not getting caught...i also remember when the sims could sit in their car and listen to the radio...and i do recall having an album pictures could go to...haven't thought about that for awhile. The houseboats were fun too..i remember the first one i took out on the water..the couple spent the night on the ocean sleeping in their cozy houseboat ..the sound of the Kraken was scary ...i had to laugh at myself!

Atm what i miss more is a tool to write my sim's stories in game, with the ability to add screenshots. It would also be cool if we could write the neighbourhood stories too.

I miss
Sims 2 style memories
The difference dancing types (slow dancing, bar dancing, children dancing on toes)
Pillow fights, catch and other easy games sims could play that were well animated (unlike the Sims 4 water balloon fight)
Nectar making and how insanely complicated/open-end the process was
Ballet skill
Bands
Showtime careers

Wow! This is like a stroll down memory lane...some of you do such a good job recalling what went with which pack...the sims 2 is such a distant memory for me...one of the things with the sims 2 however was how you could place a lot in so many places...you could really get that sense of being off the grid using that lot tool ...in the sims 3 ..i recall things better...i did love the babies ..and i would combine the diaper genie from sims 2 and put that in the sims 3..i would also like to take the sims 4 knitting and take that to the sims 3 because unless you used mods you could not dress your baby ...i liked grocery shopping also...loved that you could get groceries delivered ...i miss that sometimes in winter (sims 3) your kids would get to stay home because of a snow storm..such a cozy feeling having the family at home with the winds blowing and a fire going. I do so miss many of the romantic interactions ..it is very lacking in sims 4. I forgot about kids being able to dance on the feet of an adult...that was sweetness. Definitely the teens that were shorter and skinnier then the adults...you could tell a teen apart from the adult. Sometimes in the sims 4 you see a good looking guy walk by and check him out and discover he is a teen..it is a little bit of a creepy feeling.

1. I miss the destinations in the sims 3 Jungle Adventure...it was so much fun to have your sim travel to destinations that perhaps in your real life you would never get to see. France ...China...and whatever the dessert one was called ...each was so rich in what you could find there. Your sim could definitely have a vacation home. That was so nice.
2. Movotti...your sim could have a right proper band. There was the piano..drums..guitar and was it a chello or a violin?
3. i do recall in the sims 2 how you could go shopping and purchase an outfit that then would appear in your cas ..i did like the store system a lot then as well.
4. it is lovely recalling the things past packs could do and thinking of what would you choose to be in the current version...lol who would not want them all?

The matchmaker was fun, I would love to see her make a return.

Having birds,reptiles,horses and fish as pets(Sims 1 and Sims 3)

Create-a-World(Sims 2 style)

Create-a-Style(Sims 3)

Horoscopes(Sims 1)

Meaningful traits(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Having REAL apartments(like in Sims 2)

The multi-purpose community lots(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Sims with actual personality(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Sims taking only 10 seconds to eat(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Having well-made elders who don't drop dead if they do activities(Sims 2 and Sims 3)

Controlling your pets(Sims 3)

Having well-made neighborhoods that actaully have more than 4-5 tiny lots(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Neighborhoods that don't have pointless decor buildings everywhere(Sims 1-Sims 3)

Having a game that isn't so childish and immature(Sims 1-Sims 3)