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

Overall, the worst game pack is vampires; in my experience. For other players this has been a faviroute :smile: but for me I really don't like it. The world is small and lacking any special features. The vampire system is cool, but it's soo annoying when they come to your house in i.e. Britechester at 1am... Just saying. Worst EP: Get Together (But it came with the BEST WORLD!!) the CAS items were not my style and the build mode was pretty good but the furniture was also not the best. But the club system is very versitile.

Nothing. o:)

"drakharis;c-17370166" wrote:
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.

Unless I'm really misremembering here, spa day *is* a game pack.

I think Vampires is probably the worst for me.

In my opinion, the gameplay surrounding vampires is half-baked in part due to negligence toward detail, in part due to incompatibility with the overall cartoonish feel, and in part due to the heavy nerfing that came post release in order to accommodate the faint of heart.

For Game Pack, it's Dine Out by some margin. If you want to sell food, do it on a basic retail lot, or in a cafe. Dine Out's restaraunts are so full of bugs, and managing one is a nightmare.

For Expansion, this is harder but I'm gonna have to go with Island Living. I love Sulani, but Island Living feels like a glorified Game Pack. Many of its features (Mermaids, Island Spirits, the tepid lot traits, ocean swimming) are underdeveloped. I understand that it's a more culturally themed back, and so hotels and the like weren't ever going to come, but at least go full force with the cultural aspects. Give me more interesting Island Spirits, make the volcano dangerous, give me Haka.

I didn't buy Get Famous as I knew it would have zero appeal for me thus it won't make the list.

For Worst Expansion I am a bit torn. I think Island Living should have been a game pack given it adds very little to the game and Sulani is not big enough to attempt to fix some of the things it lacks. I didn't try it out as I got it at a busy time for one of my Sim families so it was a surprise there was no way to take a holiday there.

Accepting it as a day trip that there was no place for my Sims to get their hygiene up was irritating plus every single Sims despite not being a neat Sim was not a fan of public toilets.

Overall for what is there as a game pack and at game pack pricing then it would make sense as it doesn't add enough to be an EP.

I'm only torn because if it had said which EP do you never really use the features of that would be Cats and Dogs. Initially I did and I love animals but thankfully I needed a new computer as if a few of your Sims have pets it seemed like there were way too many strays. Still I did get more initial play from it if only that didn't have downsides I had not anticipated.

Get Together would be a candidate for which EP drives you around the bend. It's not that I mind the events so for sure it is better than Sulani it's the constant invitations as if every Sim I am not playing in such an insomniac they may need it looked into in case the lack of sleep kills them. It should follow usual rules of when is it too late to call a friend. Your Sims doesn't even have an option to set quiet hours for their phone thus training their friends about the 3 am circus tickets and other things.

Still while both Get Together and Cats and Dogs had unwanted side effects of having them Island Living was the one where I contemplated returning it other than I do have all the EPs except Get Famous and I suppose a part of me hopes they will make it more fully fleshed ( I know this is a bit on the delusional side but otherwise I'd be more annoyed about it .

I didn't get the Game Packs listed by a lot of people as worst as like Get Famous I suspected I just would not like them.

I actually like Outdoor Retreat which is at least a GP so however seldom I use it ( I currently have less outdoor Sims than usual) I like the items and skills.

I mostly like Parenthood except it's a bit easy to have your Sims be freakishly perfect. I do think it added a lot but I agree that the phases are an issue. I have a Sim who a few days after aging up to a child had that Bear Costume phase. Although it is supposed to help if a parent or caregiver is also a bear he'll be a teenager in 8 days. He is sad a lot as for whatever reason even if he is in bear form he gets the longs to be in bear form debuff.

I agree with the poster who said the traits should impact the child and teen sims as it's a bit odd that if you are not attending to them your well mannered and responsible children are instantly making a mess. What's worse is if they go to a park with their family to work on something everyone gets a debuff for unpleasant environment because good luck finding a playground with under 20 messes to clean up. A sim with maxed parenting should be able to influence a child sim to stop and to clean up or something.

I don't think I have a candidate for worst Game Pack as I have some issues with how they work but I skipped ones I knew would have no appeal for me . I think Parenthood has room for improvement but on the other hand there is a lot of content for something that was released as as Game Pack.

Maybe they will path the whole apparently every child makes a mess in public spaces. That's more realistic than them saying oops we realized Island Living was half thought out and we are sorry we released it as an EP.

Expansion Pack: Get to Work
Game Pack: Probably Realm of Magic? Totally game-breaking, you're basically cheating.
Stuff Pack: Laundry Day. Worst pack they've made by far. Don't bother getting it.

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.

"MelFox;c-17369422" wrote:

"VampireSapphire;c-17369406" wrote:

"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

"fullspiral;c-17369677" wrote:
For me, my least favorite EP is City Living. I don't like that apts are restricted to that one world. I like the noise issue better in s2 because if you built the bedroom away from a common wall, the noise didn't wake your sim up. They only heard it if they were in the room with the common wall. It also would have been nice if it functioned more like S2 as to when you visit your neighbour, it wasn't a loading screen. And the common areas in the complexes could be changed and added to. CL apts just in no way, no how, compare to sims 2 apartment life!

I also absolutely HATE the situational outfit thing that cause sims to dress awfully with something, or many things, from each dang clothing category.

The festivals are boring. The flea market is boring. And they overlay if you don't stay til the end so everything can disappear.

The other "uptown" neighbourhoods and places are very unrealistic. I just don't like it. The only district worth having sims live in is the Spice district.


As to least favorite GP? It was a tossup between Parenthood and Spa Day.

But I really don't like the kids making messes everywhere with parenthood, so for that reason, I choose Parenthood as my least favorite. And I use Spa Day BB all the time even if my sims don't always go to the spa.

I have city living and agree, the festivals are interesting at first and the romance one looks pretty but that's it. I like parenthood but man the kids making messes constantly is so annoying. And also the special traits (manners, empathy etc) interlink and some are easy to get the extremes for (responsibility) and some are pretty hard (for conflict resolution I'm just repeatdly shoving a sim bcoz most interactions affect other stuff)