What's your least favorite expansion pack?

For me it's Horse Ranch and it's the only Expansion Pack that I don't own. I don't really like horses so the idea of paying full price for a pack where they make up the major component doesn't really appeal to me. I may buy it at some point in the future if the price is right but not until I've had my computer upgraded.

I just hope they will finally give us an interesting expansion pack but it seems less and less likely considering snowy escape was the last interesting expansion they released. They always just seem to find the most boring themes, in some cases about stuff nobody ever asked for like eco life.

The sims has lost it's edge and imagination, let's bring that back please. Maybe then they can make previous sims games properly available again with performance upgrades and releasing Sims 1 complete edition in the EA store without worrying that their own previous games will be too much competition for the current Sims game.

"rhalius;c-18333503" wrote:

"Horrorgirl6;c-18333321" wrote:

"rhalius;c-18332541" wrote:
Horse Ranch and Cottage living should have been a single expansion pack.

That would been imposdible.

Imposdible maybe, but not impossible. Sims 3 had packs that size. Horses and pets where one pack there so that gives a pretty good idea that it would have been possible.

They could not been a signal expansion pack.

Get To Work is rarely used in my game - not a fan of active jobs, haven't even tried to own a business and aliens are just depressing. Not a fan of Snowy Escape either though, honestly.

I don't have Eco Lifestyle, Snowy Escape, Island Living, Horse Ranch, For Rent, Discover University.
From the ones I do own I definitely have most issues with HSY yet I still feel like it’s fulfilling the purpose I got it for: gives teenagers more identity. Really, my teens could basically go their whole life state without ever interacting with other teens. With HSY they actually seem to have gotten into that "teenage bubble" instead of just being some watered down YA's who have to go to school.

That being said, I'd only recommend HSY with some big fat ifs. If it's on hefty sale, if you don't have many expectations, if you really want more stuff for teenagers, if you don't mind having werewolf transformation animations broken. Ok, that last one actually really bothers me. It's a glitch for active family occult transformation animations (most notable with werewolves since it's so lengthy) and seems to only fix itself when HSY is disabled. My kneejerk reaction was to almost do that but then surmised that it's not worth it for such a specific issue that is not game breaking.

Anyhow, the pack's gameplay is shallow and I wouldn't recommend it for most people (who care about gameplay). Yet for me it was still worth it (on sale) because I feel like it IS fixing something that has been missing in my gameplay.

I think Get to Work and High School Years are my least favourite, because I don't own them or want to own them. From the EPs I do own I think it would be Eco Lifestyle, because I still haven't tried NAPs and I have tried recycling things, windpower and stuff like that, but haven't really enjoyed them.

Both of these packs do not feel like expansion packs, more like game packs for the price of EPs.

Eco Lifestyle. Almost never go there, nothing of note in either BB or CAS, the naps are a pain in the... At least have learned ways to control those nasty things. Have no idea why even bothered to get it, even if it was on a steep sale.

I honestly would not even get eco lifestyle for free since I heard it turns all sims into kleptomaniacs who steal stuff from all lots.

I hate Get Famous. With. A. Passion.