What is the best expansion pack to purchase?
I already have Get To Work, but I'm a bit stumped on which to get - City Living or Get Together? Which one should I get? If you can, please give an overview on which one is.. hmm... you get more b...
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Get Together is a jumbled mess of different ideas that somewhat involve the club system which is the one big feature of the entire expansion pack.
City Living's main feature is the city, which is mostly decoration and pretty self contained. The biggest additions for CL were apartments and festivals - IMO neither one was a great addition to the game. Apartments cannot be used outside of the city world, and within the city world they cannot be added or removed. You can redecorate the inside of your apartment, but that's it. Festivals are super lame compared to Sims 3 - they are incredibly structured (they happen on a nonstop loop week after week..) and most repurpose content that was already developed for the base game or one of it's other DLC's. Similarly to apartments, festivals cannot be changed whatsoever. If you experience everything at the geekcon festival you will never see anything new traveling there. The same can be said for pretty much any festival in the game. There's also a glitch that results in overlapping festival attractions that renders everything unusable.
So even though I am really not a fan of either EP, I would say go with Get Together. The club system is configurable and allows you to make some pretty diverse groups. Neither pack is loaded with stuff. Whether it be new stuff, or remeshes of existing content there's just not a lot. As I said, CL does not offer the player any flexibility with its new features; which made the pack an automatic no at it's $40 price point. I paid $18 and still felt the pack didn't add enough to justify that price. That's just me however, the limitations may not bother you.
City Living's main feature is the city, which is mostly decoration and pretty self contained. The biggest additions for CL were apartments and festivals - IMO neither one was a great addition to the game. Apartments cannot be used outside of the city world, and within the city world they cannot be added or removed. You can redecorate the inside of your apartment, but that's it. Festivals are super lame compared to Sims 3 - they are incredibly structured (they happen on a nonstop loop week after week..) and most repurpose content that was already developed for the base game or one of it's other DLC's. Similarly to apartments, festivals cannot be changed whatsoever. If you experience everything at the geekcon festival you will never see anything new traveling there. The same can be said for pretty much any festival in the game. There's also a glitch that results in overlapping festival attractions that renders everything unusable.
So even though I am really not a fan of either EP, I would say go with Get Together. The club system is configurable and allows you to make some pretty diverse groups. Neither pack is loaded with stuff. Whether it be new stuff, or remeshes of existing content there's just not a lot. As I said, CL does not offer the player any flexibility with its new features; which made the pack an automatic no at it's $40 price point. I paid $18 and still felt the pack didn't add enough to justify that price. That's just me however, the limitations may not bother you.
