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- For me:
1. Island Living - I know it's kind of lacking as a whole but I love all things tropical so I'm biased.
2. Cats and Dogs - I don't really care for pets in the game but the world is one of the best and I love the vet career
3. City Living - nice world but there's not much else there and I don't like most of the apartments, and the penthouses are all way too big.
4. Get to Work - the science career was fun to play through, Sixam is cool and I like how my sims go somewhere to give birth now.
5. Get Famous - I like the acting career.
6. Eco Lifestyle - wasn't expecting to rank this one so high but I enjoy the dumpster and the items that come with it and the port neighborhood is nice.
7. Snowy Escape - ok world and nice furniture but the gameplay is boring and lacklustre and there's basically no substance to the pack. The biggest let down pack for me.
8. Discover University - I enjoyed playing through University but it's very much like Strangerville in that I'll play it once and never touch it again. I never touch the world, or use any of the build buy as it's too heavily themed, the only thing I really use from this pack is the roommate system and the shower.
9. Seasons - good execution and its an essential pack but weather and seasons in a life simulator should be in the base game and I don't agree with how they cut it from the base game and slap a 40 dollar price point on it.
10. Get Together - it's a nice world but other than that everything in this pack should've been in the base game. Clubs aren't a substantial enough thing to center a 40 dollar expansion around, and Windenburg was also designed to be a base game world so it's just another thing stripped out of the base game.
As a whole I don't really care for expansions in this game tbh, they get a 6.5/10 at most for me. They usually feel very lacking and I heavily prefer game packs as I get way more fun from the themes of those. - Serendipity05785 years agoSeasoned Ace1. Get Together for the world & the club system.
2. Seasons for the weather, holidays & gardening.
3. Get to Work for retail & the active careers.
4. City Living for apartment life, festivals, & additional recipes.
5. Discover University for college & the slight challenge of balancing a Sim's school + personal life.
6. Cats & Dogs for pets, the world, & the vet career.
7. Get Famous this one is hard to rank at the moment because I have not played through it yet. But, I like that the pack has a perk system similar to Vampires, & I like the BB. Get Famous could move up in the ranks once I have played through all it has to offer.
The next two are hard to rank b/c I don't own them, but from what I know about them, I would rank them:
8. Eco Lifestyle for the off the grid options, additional skills, community spaces, and BB.
9. Snowy Escape for the world, winter activities & BB. The main negative about this pack for me is that many of its other features appear to be rehashes of things that I can already do in other packs.
10. Island Living is easily my least favorite expansion that I own. It has a beautiful world & nice BB, but IMHO the gameplay is extremely lackluster. IMHO Island Living should have been a game pack rather than an expansion pack, but even then for me, Island Living would be outranked by Jungle Adventure & a few other game packs. - 1. Snowy Escape (great world & activities)
2. Island Living (great world & activities)
3. Get together (handy for making venues immersive, great world)
4. Cats & Dogs (most adorable pets in the series, great world)
5. Eco Lifestyle (nice features, terrible balancing)
6. Discover University (only for the bikes & robotics, otherwise would be rank 9)
7. City living (festivals not customizeable, apartments even less, but great scenery)
8. Get to work (three features rolled in one pack (aliens, retail, active careers) hurt each theme)
9. Get famous (it’s nice that sims can famous for almost everything)
10. Seasons (don’t own, many small gripes adding up) - 1. Seasons - adds a lot of gameplay for all type of games, holidays
2. City living - the world and apartments are my favorite thing
3. Island living - love the world and the CAS/BB
5. Get together - clubs and the world
6. Get to work - ability to have a business and the careers
7. Snowy escape - the world and CAS/BB
8. Cats & dogs - I love the animals and the world
9. Eco lifestyle - Mainly for the CAS/BB
10. Discover university - haven't played much with it yet
11. Get famous - also didn't yet really play with everything - RouenSims5 years agoSeasoned AceI ranked my favorites in order from one to ten, but there were also clear divisions between certain packs, so I put them into four categories as well.
Favorites:
1. City Living
2. Get Together
3. Get to Work
Second Favorites:
5. Cats and Dogs
6. Get Famous
Third Favorites:
8. Snowy Escape
9. Discover University
10. Eco Lifestyle
11. Island Living
Fourth Favorite:
13. Seasons
I feel like they all have their merits, but my play constantly makes use of the first three. I love everything about City Living: the interesting outfits, the great build/buy items, the festivals, the new world, and all the small bits of play like finding posters in San Myshuno. I use Get Together's club system all the time, so I would have a hard time playing without it. I love the active careers, particularly the scientist one, and the aliens and alien play with Get to Work.
I would be sad playing without Cats and Dogs, because I love cats and dogs lol, and I love Get Famous because it gave us another active career. I don't really need the fame system, but it can be fun at times.
All four of the packs listed in my Third Favorites category are fun and add a lot to my game, but I could still play without them. Snowy Escape might have ranked higher if it weren't so... well, snowy.
Seasons is by far my least favorite, except for the fact that it added the calendar, which is very helpful. Really, I'm very glad I don't have to choose and get to play with all of them! - Karamazov1235 years agoSeasoned Ace1. Seasons: I feel like it could have been done better, and I don't have particularly strong feelings for it. But it kind of wins by default since it's the only pack that feels like it's worth the full price tag.
2. Get Together: The sheer versatility of clubs is fun. Windenburg is nice and the BB/CAS is good. It also has more lore behind the characters than any other pack outside of Vampires. Miiiight be worth it at full price, I'm not sure.
3. Get Famous: Fame and reputation is fun, the acting career is great. The gameplay is niche, so I don't use it all the time, but it's still enjoyable. Though the world is way too small, there should have been more fame-based careers, and I feel like progressing through the fame system should have been better. A diamond in the rough, but at least it's a diamond. It's worth it at 30% off, which is how much I got it for.
4. Cats & Dogs: The vet career is super fun, the BB/CAS is fine, and Brindleton Bay is my favorite Sims 4 world. Pets are a downgrade from 2 and 3, and we're missing small pets. Worth it at half price.
5. City Living: I really like living in apartments and
6. Island Living: The world is a solid 7-8/10. The content is a 2/10. The BB/CAS is nice and there's a nice, cultural feel. (Though Jungle Adventures did a better job in the culture department.) Mermaids are decent. Honestly worth it if you buy it half-price, but it feels like a Game Pack.
7. Get to Work: I like the BB, and the jobs are kind of fun. Retail's a massive downgrade from Open for Business and not even worth it, but I like to keep a store or two around for my sims to visit. Aliens are meh, but they're better than nothing. Worth it at half price.
8. Snowy Escape: I like the winter sports, the culture and BB, though it's basically another "____ Living" pack under a different name. You live there and that's it. The festivals are shallow and boring, there's no competitive aspect to the winter sports, the hiking stuff is a mess, and they really skimped on the culture; it's mostly about being zen, playing in snow or looking Japanese. Most of the CAS didn't feel that Japanese, either. Lifestyles were a mistake.
9. Discover University: Going to university is such a waste. It's less of a wild and fun experience than it was in past games, and the overabundance of homework is a drag. (I know I know, realism. But still.) And the cost, schedule and limitations are not worth the reward. The organization activities aren't all that fleshed out, and there's not much to do on campus beyond them.
10. Eco Lifestyle: Nice B/B, bad CAS, terrible mechanics. Managing your footprint was horribly executed, but I like saving money and living off the grid. NAPs are messes and not worth the trouble. If I didn't get this for free, I would have never picked it up, I think. But if I didn't have price in mind, it would probably be up a spot or two.
- kukkahilla5 years agoSeasoned Ace
- Seasons - I like to have seasons and I like my custom holidays :smile: Raking leaves, building snowpals and other outdoor activities are nice!
- Get Famous - The fame gameplay is good and I like to have famous writers and painters. I wish there were more careers than just acting, though.
- Island Living - Swimming in the ocean! <3 I like beach activities, mermaids and Sulani. I do wish there was more to do though.
- Get Together - Windenburg is a great world. I play there a lot. I like the cafés, DJ stuff and pub games. I'd rank it higher if I used the club system more. I should use it more.
- Discover University - Lately I have had so much fun with my uni students that I had to rank DU higher than before. Studying and university life have helped some of my young adults to have more content in their lives.
- City Living - The festivals are quite nice. I like the apartments, but somehow my most actively played sims still haven't lived in San Myshuno. Karaoke and bubbleblower are cool!
- Snowy Escape - I haven't played SE much, yet, but I think it has a lot of potential and I look forward to play it more. I kinda like the lifestyles and would like them more if they worked properly.
- Cats & Dogs - I just think that the cats and dogs are missing something. Kids should be able to walk dogs :( Nevertheless, some of my sims love to have cats and dogs and their lives would be much emptier without their fluffy friends.
- Eco Lifestyle - I still haven't played it much, hence it got the bottom place. I like the neighbourhood and I think all the little things in it have potential. I haven't tried NAPs yet.
I don't know... I struggled to rank the best ones, because I like what I can do with all of them together :D I don't own Get to Work. - Seasons - I like to have seasons and I like my custom holidays :smile: Raking leaves, building snowpals and other outdoor activities are nice!
- RememberJoy5 years agoSeasoned AceThese are in the order I'd buy them again if I didn't have any, but I also ranked the world, gameplay, and CAS & BB for each EP.
1. Seasons- World: None but I love how each world has it’s own unique weather
- Gameplay: 9/10 Love the calendar and holidays
- CAS & BB: 8/10 New swimsuits and iceskate/skating rinks
2. Get Together- World: 10/10 My favorite and most used world, I love the old world feel
- Gameplay: 9/10 Use clubs all the time
- CAS & BB: 7/10 Love the closets and new swimming pool stuff
3. Island Living- World: 10/10 Second favorite world, it’s just so relaxing
- Gameplay: 7/10 Sandcastle making and cleaning up the island are a lot of fun
- CAS & BB: 8/10 Great hot weather clothing and swimsuits and I love the BBQ pit
4. City Living- World: 9/10 Love the energy of this world
- Gameplay: 8/10 Living in the apartments adds new challenges and festivals are fun
- CAS & BB: 7/10 Unique variety and I like the basketball hoop
5. Eco Lifestyle- World: 8/10 I love the harbor neighborhood but don’t care for the other two as much
- Gameplay: 7/10 I don’t really use naps or turning the world green/industrial
- CAS & BB: 9/10 I love the grungy look, dumpsters, and the living off the grid stuff
6. Snowy Escape- World: 8/10 The mountain neighborhood is amazing
- Gameplay: 8/10 Lifestyles are alright and the sports are fun
- CAS & BB: 8/10 The hotspring is nice and there is one outfit I absolutely love
7. Cats and Dogs- World: 9/10 Probably my fourth favorite EP world
- Gameplay: 8/10 Pets are fun, but I’m not interested in the Vet career
- CAS & BB: 7/10 Rustic country look is nice but a little too pet-centric
8. Get To Work- World: 7/10 Small but can be useful
- Gameplay: 9/10 Love the Scientist career and alien abductions
- CAS & BB: 7/10 A little bit simplistic but there are a few things I use a lot
9. Discover University- World: 7/10 Small but fits the theme
- Gameplay: 8/10 A bit grindy but well thought out
- CAS & BB: 8/10 Like the casual look and the ping pong table and bikes
10. Get Famous- World: 7/10 A bit small and just not my favorite
- Gameplay: 8/10 Fame system is well thought out even if I don’t use it much
- CAS & BB: 8/10 Love all the costumes and the fairy pond is fun
- World: None but I love how each world has it’s own unique weather
- CharleyNoel95 years agoSeasoned Traveler1. Seasons - it's the one I definitely couldn't play without.
2. Get Together - fun and adds a lot to the game
3. Get to Work - this one adds a lot for me also. While the business owning part is somewhat disappointing, it still adds enough to make it a good pack
4. City Living - Probably actually tied for 3rd because I enjoy the city and the apartments and the diversity
5. Island Living - I enjoy playing on these lots and the world is really nice
6. Eco Lifestyle - I like this a lot actually and would love it if the NAP system was implemented better
7. Cats & Dogs - owning pets introduces so much extra work that can become a drag when trying to accomplish other things, but I do enjoy some of the pet interactions and watching them run around
8. Get Famous - I just don't do much with this and there are so few lots that it feels just lacking
9. Discover University - I like the roommates part and the degrees but this is the least fun pack of all to play
10. Snowy Escape - this is last because I own it but have not yet played it, so I can't really rate it. - 1. Get Together - Windenburg, the club system, CAS items, and build/buy are pretty great.
2. Seasons - CAS and build/buy are lovely. Sometimes the weather system can be annoying. Imagine taking your Sims to another world, only for that world to have a storm or a blizzard. Or some other unpleasant weather.
3. City Living - The world, CAS, and build/buy are cool. I don't play with the careers much, but one criticism of the political career is that it tends to be a little biased toward certain idealogies.
4. Cats & Dogs - Great world (although it could be a little bigger), CAS, and build/buy. Pets system needs work, and it's missing horses and all the small animals we got in TS3 Pets.
5. Get to Work - Super small world. They could have added another non-business/shopping district. The CAS is somewhat forgettable, but I use it on occassion. Build/buy is alright. The glitches in the detective career haven't been fixed, so there's that.
6. Get Famous - Annoying celebs, buggy acting career, and some gaudy items. Other CAS and build/buy items were good, though.
7. Discover University - I don't play with it much. Got it for the CAS and build/buy items.
8. Island Living - Nice world, CAS, and build/buy items. Gameplay and mermaids are lacking.
9. Eco Lifestyle - NAPs are the worst. Always turned them off each time I start a fresh save. CAS is a little tacky, and I barely use the build/buy items. The hairs are the only good part about the pack.
10. Snowy Escape - Never bought this one, because I was done buying TS4 packs by then.
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