Packs you don't use at all?

"Horrorgirl6;c-18221179" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-18221144" wrote:
Easily Vampires they left out everything you would want from vampires

I thought they were improvement over 2and 3 personally.

Despite how much flack I give TS4, in my opinion, TS4 Vampires are not only the best form of vampires in the series, but one of the best packs in the entire game in nearly every way. For Maxis, that pack was lightning in a bottle in so many ways.

Vampire weaknesses came during a time when some people were sick of their Sims being so perfect, uninteresting, and feeling like the same. They allowed you to include flaws in your Sim, which gave them depth. As an example, the weaknesses affecting thirst meant your Sim was more blood-thirsty than others and you could decide if they were the kind of Sim that embraced it, or with the Guilty Drinker weakness, hated it. And the occult points menu was considered revolutionary at the time for Sim occults. No previous iteration of Sims had such a stylized menu for their powers nor a means of choosing how you progress those powers.

Even the little details in the gameplay. In TS3, I did not like that feeding on someone was just a quick bite on the neck. TS4 fixed this, your vampire actually feeds with well-done sound effects too. It was all very well-made. My only gripe that I can think of is that some powers feel pointless. Mist Form is Bat Form without the bat. Removing the garlic weakness is very cheap and can easily lead to garlic being ignored entirely, making me wonder why the garlic weakness is even in the pack, but eh.

The marketing was superb as well. We knew exactly what we were getting and it was not done in a way that suggested we had to play the story they wanted. It was just showcasing new content we could play with and do as we wished. No woke crap, no forced story-telling. It was fantastic.

Admittedly, I'm a bit biased as I enjoy occults, but that pack is still, to me, a great example of what Maxis is capable of with TS4.

Back on topic, of the packs I have, probably... Get Together. I hardly touch the club system, though perhaps I should give it another chance. I like Windenburg as a world too, but I hardly make my Sim visit it. Probably because in my head, I like to imagine certain worlds being connected and Windenburg doesn't feel connected to most of them to me.

I rarely use vampires. I tend not to play occults and I don’t use the bb or cas either.

Outdoor Retreat. I don’t remember the last time I used this pack. I never use the cas or bb.

"ChadSims2;c-18221822" wrote:

"Horrorgirl6;c-18221179" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-18221144" wrote:
Easily Vampires they left out everything you would want from vampires

I thought they were improvement over 2and 3 personally.

Improvement over Sims 2 and 3 vampires but still not good I also felt 2 and 3 vampires were also poorly done now a major factor in me enjoying vampires would be a way to hunt them down not just vampires living in the world where every Sims treats them like a normal Sim they are a supernatural and should behave differently.

I agree if they acted differently, but they if are hanging out and acting normal.Why would they be concern .

For me, its the Realm of Magic, Strangerville, Vampires, and Dine Out are the 4 packs I can say that I use the least. I'm not very heavy into the occult and very rarely use that in my storytelling so it is less common for me to create occult sims and play that way. Dine Out is still very buggy and it takes way too long for my Sims to get a meal when going to a restaurant. Strangerville kind of felt like a one and done style because the completion of the story made the replayability low.

I use a bit of every pack I own and have different files for occult-specific and normal play. But, when it comes to a specific game play mechanic a pack offers, I don't use the restaurant feature in Dine Out because the chef would get buggy and waste time standing outside.

I don't think that I own a pack that I don't use at all. If it's something I won't use, I don't buy it. There are quite a few packs that I want to more widely explore though.

bowling stuff and vampires. i've used them in the past but lost interest quickly and haven't returned to them. vampires is well made imo but i'm not into occults so the disinterest was inevitable.

"musteni;c-18221659" wrote:
I use all of the packs I have which is almost all of them (no HSY, no Batuu, not many kits). I play rotationally and different families do different stuff. I enjoy trying to use all of the content and while I may not manage with that attempt I do use all packs for sure.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18221536" wrote:

"Nushka;c-18221103" wrote:
Movie hangout, the Sims kept making and burning the popcorn and letting it sit to rot, the projector screens break down in the rain and, while there's some really nice sofas and pouffs, they're pretty loud and I have hardly ever used them.

And the 'movies' are just the same stuff that's on the TVs, just a bigger screen. Had hoped for something longer. Too bad there isn't a way to plug RL movies into it.

What do you mean they are the same? You can watch the movies that came with the pack on TV too, but the movies themself are really good and they're also longer than base game TV shows. There's Simder, Moonlight Massacre etc. Don't know maybe you just don't like them, personally I like them a lot :)

It is a matter of expectations. Tried the pack when it came out, response to 'movie' was, "Over already? Same as movie on TV?" At a minimum, a movie should be 1.5 sim hours, 2 are better, with the occasional 3 hours. Not done anything with that pack since. I don't do TV in RL, so not in simland, either, other than those in community lots EA made.

Most of them. I use cas and BB from them but that's about it. They make everything so complicated in an effort to make it seem like the gameplay is more interesting than it really is. I don't even load Seasons. I think everything they've done lately is horrible. And players praise them for the most awful garbage. They ask for pointless stuff too. In spite of that I enjoy the more "normal" gameplay. And I love the vampires and werewolves, best stuff ea has ever done in my opinion. They dropped the ball on ROM though, ugh.