What's the worst expansion pack and game pack and why?

EP: Island Living-barely any content
GP: Strangerville-forced RPG story

The GP that annoys me the most is Parenthood. I get tired of the messes and the phases, and you can't discipline the children for their misbehavior during their phases. Discipline overall annoys me because the choice of discipline style doesn't seem to affect anything but some text in the relationship panel. While I like the character values, it's irritating that the cumulative affect of behavior and discipline over time affects the sims as young adults, but child and teen behavior does not reflect where the sim is on any given value at that time. And it's much harder to get a sim's character values in the red than it should be. But I do like a lot of the new interactions, and the character value system overall gives me more goals during the child and teen stages. So I wouldn't get rid of it but it does drive me crazy sometimes.

For EP, probably Cats and Dogs. I know it's more realistic, but not being able to train cats like you can dogs means that there's a lot less to do with a cat. I feel like so many resources were spent on the veterinarian career that the experience of just being a pet owner feels a bit lacking. I miss pet jobs, and I miss being able to encourage your pets to be bad as well as good. Pet CAS is great and I'll be trying out the vet career soon, but the basic reason I bought the pack was just to own pets, and they aren't as much fun as I wish they were.

I don't have DU or RoM yet, so they weren't in consideration for my votes.

They kind of fell short with Island living. It's great we have mermaids. However, I would have liked to have abilities for mermaids like singing that have effects on other sims. A flirty song, a sad song, a happy song, an energizing song etc. that would give other non-mermaid sims those buffs. I would have liked to have had an underwater world for the mermaids. I would have liked the beaches added to all worlds.

Seasons broke the game for me where there were too many bugs. When a new pack comes out I play vanilla and slowly add back in my mods. However, instead of it taking a few days, it took a few months.

I like spa day but it was lacking. It was more like a game pack than an expansion pack.

University I guess is the ones I like best followed by City Living.

I would pick Cats and Dogs and Dine Out. I really liked these packs from the beginning, but playing these packs now feels more like a chore. Every time I load a household with pets they are all sick, every time I visit a restaurant the waiters do not pick up the plates and my sims does not eat the food. Island Living, Outdoor Retreat or Strangerville are not perfect but at least I do not have to clean the plates or cure my pet for the 1000th time with them.

"VampireSapphire;c-17369436" wrote:

"MelFox;c-17369422" wrote:

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"Stutum;c-17369404" wrote:
I'd say the spa game pack and the island expansion. I don't think they're bad in themselves, but I find them the least interesting ones compared to the others.

I wanted to get island expansion for the mermaids, but doesnt seem worth it for the price, maybe one day I'll get it when it's on sale again

I got the Island pack in the sale.. its a pretty world for sure, and I like the objects you can build and furnish with, but I'm so "meh" about the mermaids, I can't even tall you.

I've been given some money for my birthday, enough for two stuff packs or one expansion or game pack, and I can't choose, so I am interested in this kind of discussion. I have Outdoor (not tried it yet, just downloaded), Island, Laundry, Cats & Dogs, and Get To Work. I do like that last one, and the Laundry Day stuff is nice.

Let me know how outdoor is, I missed the sims sale :( was saving so didnt get any then got extra money but the sale had ended the day before :( I was tempted to get outdoor as I never use my simd work vacation days and then my sims get stressed out so it would be nice to have an actual vacation .
Why are the mermaids so meh? I hear others saying the same. I loved fairies and mermaids of sims 3

Mermaids may be better than their sims 3 counter parts, but what is the point if you can only swim on the oceans surface and not drive down below?

Island Living and Realm of Magic. Zero gameplay in IL and very boring "gameplay" in RoM. The fact that they came out one after the other made me quit the game (still haven't gone back to it yet)

For me it's Cats & Dogs. I don't like the focus of the pack over all (veterinary career, sick pets, expanded pet CAS), but there are some issues that really bother me:

In rotational play pets are often sick when you get back to the household. This feels like an undeserved punishment and also takes away from the time when pets actually get sick. Pets should not get sick while I'm not playing them.

Walking a dog takes incredibly long time in some neighbourhoods, even just a short walk. All the walk lengths should be re-estimated.

When pets are bred the puppies/kittens end up being completely copies of either of their parent. There should be variation in the colour at least.

EP: Get Together - I just feel like it's a random mesh of content. So many activities, but none with actual depth, DJ Mixing is fun but Dancing is so lackluster. The world is the best part in my opinion, it's lovely, but I find everything else in the pack kind of boring.

GP: Outdoor Retreat - I just expected more from a camping based pack. No Scouts, no swimming, no kayaking, mountain areas, interactable animals, flying foxes, climbing etc. The world is one of my favorites though, but I just wish there was more to do.

"ListentoToppDogg;c-17369976" wrote:
EP: Island Living-barely any content
GP: Strangerville-forced RPG story

this.

worst EP- Get to work- I don't really like the three careers and owning a business doesn't interest me at all.
worst GP- Strangerville- I love how they tried something new with it but boy did the miss. The world is ugly and the storyline is very repetitive. The only good thing that came with it is the military career.