Reply with a list of your favourite to least favourite packs! Optional: Give a reason to your best and worst packs, this kind of quick feedback might help Sim Gurus in creating future packs. :smile: Expansion packs:1. Cats & Dogs2. Get To Work3. City Living4. Get TogetherI love Cats & Dogs because they add so much gameplay, they're very challenging and interesting to watch. It's been 3 months and I still love playing as a vet, caring for them at home and creating them in CAP. Get Together on the other side just doesn't have enough content, I got bored after literally... 2 days. Windenburg is a great town and the club system is quite useful, but i just wish there was more. Game packs:1. Vampires2. Dine Out3. Parenthood4. Spa Day5. Outdoor RetreatI love love love supernaturals, especially vampires, in books, tv shows and The Sims. I've been playing with vampires only from the day the pack came out until Parenthood. There's so many options and powers, I still have at least one vampire in my family. I hope we'll see witches this year! Outdoor Retreat was a good first piece of DLC, but other gamepacks are a lot better in my opinion. You can travel to the new world, but there's just not enough gameplay that you don't already get at home. I know there's herbalism, but I can't be bothered to do that every single time I go to Granite Falls. Stuff packs:1. Backyard2. Laundry Day3. Kids Room4. Vintage Glamour5. Toddler6. Fitness7. Romantic Garden8. Perfect Patio9. Bowling Night10. Cool Kitchen11. Movie Hangout12. Spooky13. Luxury PartyBackyard stuff adds a lot of new gameplay objects that I use quite a lot, as well as other items (and those ombre hairstyles!). I just like the whole summer vibe and colourful assets. Luxury Party on the other side just doesn't add a lot to the game, I barely use those items.

Great idea! I'm always interested to see what people like about the packs I don't own yet. I'll only give opinions on the packs I have. :) Expansion Packs: 1.Get Together2.City Living3.Cats&Dogs4.Get To WorkWhy is Get Together my favorite? Because the addition of clubs is useful in countless situations. Regular club activities aside, I use the club feature to give bonuses to legacy kids building skills, gather "employees" to tend gardens or bake for a retail shop, and conduct birthday parties and weddings with much more control than the party system.Why is Get To Work my least favorite? I LOVED Open For Business in TS3, but in comparison I find Get To Work has a massive imbalance between investment and payoff. I find it discouraging that I could spend 3 hours talking to a customer to sell an $8 cupcake, or a $3000 painting. It feels pointless to try to run a bakery when it takes the same amount of work and you get much less payoff. Don't get me wrong, I still love it, but running a retail store doesn't fit into every game or life style as much as the other expansions do.Game Packs: 1. Parenthood2. Outdoor Retreat3. Spa DayWhy is Parenthood my favorite? I love playing legacies, and this game pack adds an incredible new level of interaction between siblings and challenge in raising children. It also enhances the leap ahead a sim can gain if they are groomed from a young age instead of created.Why is Spa Day my least favorite? As the most recent pack I've purchased, I haven't been able to explore it fully yet. I'm not a huge spa person myself so I don't think my Sims will visit it enough to make the pack worth it's full price, but I love all the build mode items in this pack and the relaxing feel it brings to the game.Stuff Packs: 1. Toddler Stuff2. Holiday Stuff (free)Why is Toddler Stuff the only stuff pack I actually own?! I find it difficult to justify paying just for "stuff" but as I mentioned above, I'm a huge legacy player and the base game is severely lacking in content for kids. I feel silly for giving EA money purely because they failed to add more variety in the first place, but at the same time I can understand since toddlers were added late. Why is Holiday Stuff a favorite? I wouldn't likely purchase this pack if it had a price, but I do enjoy the additions in order to stage holiday chapters and events in my games. The gift tower alone is useful in so many situations!

@Karilan It's quite similar, but imporved in many ways. There's a lot more staff you can hire, a lot of costumers doing different things, a star rating and you can costumise the menu with any food you want, even food from other packs. You also get special critics coming to your restaurants from time to time.

@Karilan Yes, you can go for a cute family dinner or a romantic date. Fun fact: dates have different goals if you go to a restaurant.

Expansion Packs:1. Get Together2. Get to Work3. City Living4. Cats and DogsI put "Get Together" in the number 1 slot simply because Windenburg is probably my favorite world in the game and the club system and new social interactions add a little more depth to the gameplay. I think "Get to Work" is O.K. because I enjoy the Scientist career and the aliens, but the Detective career is mostly just fun when you play a bad cop and the Doctor career is...repetitive and dull. It's like they fully finished the Scientist career, but weren't quite done with the Detective and Doctor careers when it was time to ship the game."City Living" has karaoke, the S-Pop station, and normal game consoles, and the festivals are alright...when they happen at a time when your sims can actually attend. Half the time, these festivals pop up during hours when my sims have to be at school or work, and the other half of the time they're too tired anyhow because between work, school, and the neighbors never letting up with their constant midnight racket...Yeah, no. And don't even get me started on how whenever a festival is happening in your sim's neighborhood, the 3x super speed on your timer is automatically disabled...even though your sim isn't home and you don't care about the festival out in the street because you have other things to concentrate on with your sims! Oh, and the fact that we can't build our own apartment buildings...at all. It's not a terrible pack...but it's not all that great either.As for , "Cats and Dogs", I don't have that one. For the bump in hardware demands it brings to the game, it doesn't seem to add much in terms of gameplay. We can't check on out pets' needs like we could in TS2, can't control them as playable sims like TS3, the Vet career looks like it's just a rehash of the Doctor career from GTW, the only pets this $40 pack adds are cats and dogs, and its only saving graces seem to be CASt for pets and the addition of another new full world. Not worth the money or the increased hardware demands for me at all. I mean, if a pack is going to bump up the game's hardware requirements, at least put a whole bunch of interesting activities and new functionality into it...

Expansions:1. Get together2. Cats & Dogs3. City living4. Get to workGet together - can be a very handy tool for npc control and fleshing out my own sims. In fact, I wish it was more powerful, with more tiers for required skill levels, more types of prequesites (like "has been abducted", "has been to Sylvan Glades", "can pickpocket", "lives in Newcrest") and an option to continue the prefered behaviour also outside active club outings (for example for rival clubs the Renegades wouldn't stopp being mean to the Paragons when meeting them at the mall while the Paragons would probably consider being mean to the Renegades outside sheduled outings a breach of etiquette.)C&D - I never expected to miss my virtual cats that much when I'm playing other households. The animations are spot-on as are the pet voices... miss real purring, but a human voice actor probably wouldn't be able to do that. Dog training looks interesting, but I haven't played with my dog much to judge. Sadly genetics are shallow, a solid cat bred to a pointed one should be able to produce a pointed one with the solid's color (f.e. chocolade point to solid black should be able to have seal point kittens instead of either black or chocolade point). Also I wouldn't have bought that without the control pets mod.CL - apartments as well as the festivals disappoint. I already made over the lot next to the festival to flesh it out a little more, but I wish we could make them happen wherever we want. As a discount purchase it is okay and without aforementionmed mod CL would rank equally or above C&D.Get to work - has little content I'm interested in, just the aliens and the sciency build/buy stuff, so it ranks lower than it probably could. Missed opportunity to do a retail and a space exploration game pack seperately.Game packs:2. Outdoor retreat3. Vampires4. ParenthoodObjectively I think Spa Day and Vampires are the best made packs, but Spa day isn't something I'm interested in and vampires too situational.Outdoor retreat is as versatile as Get together as long as you do not run out of ideas what to do with Granite Falls. The world and furniture alone are worth the purchase imo. I also love how we can change the lot types and the bar night invites pull sims to Granite Falls for a short trip if we have a bar there.Vampires is well done, allows for customisation of campires and other supernaturals (stretching a little, but possible). But in the end is only useful for saves where the supernatural exist.Parenthood has an interesting concept, but the actual appliccation leaves a lot to be desired. Neutral parents with no traits from character values should be able to praise good and bad behaviour alike, only parents with positive reward traits should be locked from praising bad behaviour. Volunteering should raise empathy only for the sim who started it (in case of a minor dragged along by an adult the minor probbably only does so because they have to). Positive values increase is too quick, in reality scolding is more often met with anger or sadness than instant boosts in the desired quality. Value loss is insignificant in an unmodded game. Closing on a positive note I do love the phonecalls from school and the asking for advice feature (once unlocked via mod for the player to use - allowing that interaction for autonomous only was a uge slap in the face for no free will players).As for Dine out, seems I get more out of Get to work, after all, because with GT installed I never felt the need to buy Dine out, too. SPs: This is based on how frequently I use the contents1. AlwaysBackyard stuff, Cool kitchen2. OftenRomantic gardens, Luxury party, Spooky stuff3. SometimesLaundry Day, Movie hangout, Toddler stuff, Kid's room stuff, Fitness stuff, Perfect patio4. Don't ownVintage Glamour, Bowling nights

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Sigzy_29
Legend
8 years ago
xpansion packs:

1. Get To Work
2. Get Together
3. City Living
5. Cats & Dogs

Game packs:
1. Vampires
2. Parenthood
4. Dine Out
5. Spa Day
6. Outdoor Retreat

Stuff packs:
1. Vintage Glamour
2. Romantic Garden
3. Laundry Day
4. Bowling Night
5. Perfect Patio
6. Movie Hangout
7. Backyard Stuff
8. Cool Kitchen
9. Luxury Party Stuff
10. Kids Room
11. Spooky Stuff
12. Fitness Stuff
13. Toddler Stuff
Writin_Reg
8 years ago
"LeGardePourpre;c-16289450" wrote:
Expansion Pack :
City Living
Get Together
Get To Work
Cats & Dogs

I've got Pet & Business allergies since The Sims 2.
About Active career, I work enough in real life, I don't want to work in a video game.

Game Packs :
Spa Day
Parenthood
Vampires
Dine Out
Outdoor Retreat

Still Business allergy but I like to visit the restaurants.
All the GPs are very good but only Spa Day added several activities and a group activity: Yoga lessons.

Stuff Packs :
Spooky
Kids Room
Fitness
Perfect Patio
Backyard
Laundry Day
Vintage Glamour
Movie Hangout
Cool Kitchen
Luxury Party
Romantic Garden
Bowling Night
Toddler

I dislike Toddler and Garden themes.
And I don't like to play cooking, my sims only eat pizzas or go to the restaurant.

Bowling like The Sims 2 isn't fun, it missed "social" interactions.

Just in case you didn't know the Luxury Party pack supplies banquet tables that provide food and different types of drinking fountains with out your sim having to cook or do anything - comes in handy for parties and group gatherings. My sims use them when they throw Costume and pool parties. Lots better done in Sims 4 than in any other sims game. I also set up a table and a drink fountain at my teen hangouts too. Teens love it.
ChadSims2
Rising Rookie
8 years ago
Expansion packs:
1. Get Together
2. City Living
3. Cats & Dogs
4. Get To Work (worst expansion ever could of been amazing but to much crammed in nothing given the attention it deserved)

Game packs:
1. Parenthood
2. Spa Day
3. Dine Out
4. Outdoor Retreat
5. Vampires

Stuff packs:
1. Kids Room
2. Movie Hangout
3. Backyard
4. Fitness
5. Toddler (would rank it higher but the ball pit and lack of boy clothing)
6. Bowling Night
7. Perfect Patio
8. Romantic Garden
9. Laundry Day
10. Spooky
11. Vintage Glamour
12. Cool Kitchen
13. Luxury Party
bluefairy286
8 years ago
I only own a expansion pack and a game pack. Which is City Living and Parenthood, so I can't really comment.
However if I had to choose it would be;

Expansion packs:
1. City Living
2. Get Together
3. Cats & Dogs
4. Get To Work (great if it worked)

Game packs:
1. Parenthood
2. Spa Day (I loved doing yoga, in earlier games)
3. Outdoor Retreat
4. Dine Out(great if it worked and sims didn't wander off)
5. Vampires (never really played with vampires in any versions of the game)

Stuff packs: I've ordered these by what has the best new object(s).
1. Toddler
2. Fitness
3. Bowling Night
4. Backyard
5. Kids Room Stuff
6. Perfect Patio
7. Laundry
8. Movie Hangout
9. Cool Kitchen
10.Vintage Glamour
11. Romantic Garden
12. Luxury Party
13. Spooky

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