Sims 3 Ambitions vs Sims 4 Get to work

I really enjoyed Ambitions and the Twinbrook world with its swamp houses. WC is a beautiful world but I wouldn't mind seeing a version of Twinbrook come back. I thoroughly enjoyed it while I played it. I will say that I moved onto other expansions and then didn't really go back. I like that in TS4, I can play with multiple worlds in one save.

I've stated that GTW is my least favorite EP though I got it bundled with the basegame so I don't regret it. They've apparently fixed some of the bugs though I haven't followed a detective to work in a while to check. I do still like being able to go to work with those sims when I do. I haven't tried the scientist career yet but I do actually like the other two careers sometimes and I do replay them. I think it's realistic to have a few competing coworkers in my town who are rising up the ranks alongside each other.

I just found GTW strange with its mishmash of aliens and the bugs, but I still play it. There are features that I can appreciate from both.

Ambitions, hands down. It's a much more flexible EP.

I have one character who lives in the backwoods of a custom world. Compared to the rest of the world, that area is foggy, damp, and very atmospheric. The eccentrics tend to dwell out there.

I had him ride his motorcycle into town so that he could register as self-employed. Then I he purchased the dive bar down the road from his hovel. He makes his money tending bar and gabbing with the locals or the occasional townie who feels like slumming for the night. If I played with occults, his bar would have made a pretty good version of Merlotte's. When he's not working, he makes moonshine down in his basement to sell to those who prefer the house special.

That was the beauty of the EP. The only limit was my own imagination. I could utilize content from any pack to create the type of business or career that interested me most.

I don't get how anyone can say Ambitions is better than Get to Work. Get to Work is so immersive and fun, and there's many things to do. :)

Ambitions!

It's bigger, better, allows more options and isn't linear and full of repetitive checklists like Get to work. It also gave us self employment which is awesome.

I like GTW, i just wished there were more active careers with it. When ambitions came out i LOVED the stylist and Architecture careers, both of them would have been a great addition to GTW. I also miss being able to register as self-employed, such a simple feature, i'm not sure why to this day they haven't added it in.

Get to Work feels more 'well built' than Ambitions did. Ambitions didn't really let us follow our sims to work, but instead just improved upon several base game jobs, and included various 'from home' jobs (the Interior Designer, Ghost Catcher etc.), whereas Get to Work provided us with 3 new jobs that felt as if we really could follow our sims to work AND also included a retail system, that I don't think is actually that bad!

"the_greenplumbob;c-16333045" wrote:
Get to Work feels more 'well built' than Ambitions did. Ambitions didn't really let us follow our sims to work, but instead just improved upon several base game jobs, and included various 'from home' jobs (the Interior Designer, Ghost Catcher etc.), whereas Get to Work provided us with 3 new jobs that felt as if we really could follow our sims to work AND also included a retail system, that I don't think is actually that bad!

Sculpting was new, inventing was new, firefighter was new (not the firefighter him/herself, but as a job it was), investigator was new, indeed the ghost hunter, the interior designer, the stylist. Firefighter and stylist had their own working area and didn’t work from home (the firefighter does when you’ve reached the highest level). As far as I know only the basegame doctor career was improved upon.

"the_greenplumbob;c-16333045" wrote:
Get to Work feels more 'well built' than Ambitions did. Ambitions didn't really let us follow our sims to work, but instead just improved upon several base game jobs, and included various 'from home' jobs (the Interior Designer, Ghost Catcher etc.), whereas Get to Work provided us with 3 new jobs that felt as if we really could follow our sims to work AND also included a retail system, that I don't think is actually that bad!

Ambitions also has a retail system via consignment shops.

If the GTW Doctor career was more like the Vet career, I might say GTW to a point. But I like Ambitions as it had more careers. Been playing an investigatior so far and having fun.

I haven't played Sims 3 in quite a while. I think the professions were a little more exciting, as there aren't' really a lot of "Fun" things happening in GTW professions. It's more like Grinding in an MMORPG. These are click and wait professions...

I miss the level of humor that was more prevalent in Ambitions, the professions required more hands on work that was actually fun. You waited to find out what exactly was going to happen.

GTW ...My poor vampire was on a science track before he turned, and whenever he has to dig, he scorches in the sun. Work is pure torture for him. I think he needs to be able to play the stock market and invest in other businesses.

Also with GTW, there should be a way to send your sims to profession job without having to follow them. Hired another created sim at the vet clinic, but when I load his lot, he doesn't have a job, which is stupid, then when he takes his pet to the clinic, there is another sim there in his spot.

My sims seem to freeze a lot lately, and get confused with the action queue. I have had to reset them a few times because they stood blankly staring at the wall.