Which EP Pleasantly Suppried You?

For me it was Get Together, Get Famous, Seasons, and Toddlers.

Get Together: When this was announced I thought the clubs were the dumbest thing since the Katy Perry pack in TS3. Boy was I wrong. This quickly became my absolute favorite pack that I can't do without. The club system helps me create neighborhood groups, childhood friends, and everything else. It lets me have groups of Fae that meet in the ruins, groups of friends that follow my sims through life (even annoying older siblings), groups that are at war with each other, and so much more. I don't think I could play the game without the club system.

Get Famous: I was dreading this pack. I'm not typically into famous sims or the celebrity lifestyle. After TS3 I was not that into this pack at all. Then I messed with it and wow. It's better than Superstar from TS1, it's fleshed out - you have options to pick perks and how fame effects your sims, and you don't necessarily have to go into movies. It's really, really good. When I first got it it was because I need things to be complete and I kinda wanted the sharks and the scrooge McDuck vault.

Seasons: I love seasons, I've always loved seasons. The thing that surprised me here was the holiday system. I thought it would be kind of dumb but helpful for declaring holidays to be a thing. It revolutionized game play and made it so that holidays matter, that there are points of the year I look forward too more than my sims, and so that I can create a full culture for my sims to exist in. This was an amazing addition.

Toddlers: In TS2 and TS3 this life stage was one I found mostly annoying. I sought out content that made it where I could ignore them after quickly getting through what they needed to grow up well. I was about as fond of this life stage as I was Mr. Humble. When they were added this time they were...cute. Like *REALLY* cute and not annoying. They actually act like little sims instead of balls of annoyance you need to put up with.

Get Together pleasantly surprised me.

The world: I found Windenburg pleasantly diverse.
You have the city, the country side, and the island. And it's big, compared to some of the latest worlds.

I found the club system to be very useful.
I play a lot of sims in rotation. I like giving them social groups and places that they love to hangout.
I like seeing them out and about living lives more inline with what I expect them to be when I am playing other sims.

Island Living. I wasn't that interested in the theme because I'm not into tropical stuff normally, I don't like hot weather haha! I thought I'd pass on the pack but it ended up being my all-time fav pack ever.

Strangerville is another that I thought would have no interest to me as I don't like to play supernatural stuff, only realistically but I really love the storymode type thing with it.

I'm quite pleasantly optimistic about packs in general because I find something good in everything ? so im not usually too surprised in that way. But the big shocker was eco living. I was horrified when it was announced and even more horrified at the trailer, triple horrified at the eco theme. And it seemed useless. In my mind I knew it was going to be at the bottom of my list.

Then I saw the live stream and was sold!! Even more when I I actually played it! It fit my apocalyptic playstyle so well even though it had nothing to do with it lol

The expanded off the grid feature was just what I needed to the poor families. The dumpster diving, flies, roaches, bug farms, recycling, candle making, pollution etc are all part of my sims daily life now. ?Atleast some of them because I play rotational so I can experience everything. And even more pleasant is that the big majority of that stuff in the pack are things simmers were asking for!!! I know for a fact. It's like they compiled it all into one.
And then everyone got amnesia ?
They DO listen! They have proven time and time again. They do what they can for as many as they can. This is one of my top packs now.
And kudos again to @simgurugeorge for that amazing livestream ending with the fire fighters!! ???? it was so epic ???

I was definitely surprised with how well toddlers were done.

I know they split things up into more packs like vampires. BUT when they do they are well done and better than ever sometimes. (My opinion) I was pretty surprised about mermaids now that I think about it.
I had no idea they were even coming. First I was thrilled about the island because it was my dream to have a beach and boy did they out do themselves on the beauty of sulani. ???Then I saw we had mermaids and I'm like ?????

Mermaids are so lovely and amazing compared to ts3 mermaids. And you can make them in CAS!! It's the underwater lot they missed out on. And some more water interactions I would have liked them to have. But they are my most used occult along with vampires. ?????

Nice thread. All the good aspects of ts4 deserve attention too!

To nicely let them know what's missing. Apart from the usual stuff everyone mentiones about personality and emotions. For me it's the interactions and animations! Minor things like being able to picnic on floor. Sit on floor at will. Sit on counter, dance together (actually together)
Sit toddler on lap and rock it to sleep in rocking chair,mermaids having more water interactions, piggy back rides, pillow fights, spin the bottle, food fights, tag, hide and seek, for building, etc etc I can go on and on. But my point is those little details can make any pack better to me.
The hiking with sims walking side by side is what sold the last EP for me. It's still one of the biggest highlights of the pack?????????

There were a few that were a pleasant surprise to how good they were, but I think I was more impressed with Get Famous.

Never been into the celebrity thing from the first sims game(which was such a grind) or Sims 3 which just made me find celebrities annoying and sims catching it like they did the flu, but I really found it pretty interesting and fun for sims to work themselves up to being a celebrity and not feeling like a tedious grind.

The world? Definitely not big or anything close to the size of Widenburg (wish it was though), but everything else in the pack I really enjoyed with some things I didn't even know I wanted. CAS was perfect from fancy clothes to more trendy ones for sims, especially males I really liked. Plus, I had like one fancy pants rich sim family that just fit it so well along with all the over priced furniture that really got the bills going higher which started getting them struggling.

Definitely had sims spending more time at home with the new activities (especially in being a influencer of sorts) if they weren't a part of the acting career or going to a venue where a celebrity was showing up or they were going tot a venue for a meet and greet if they were famous. Also sims getting hounded by fans, while also getting negative quips from having a 'juice' problem, obsessed with your phone, vanity in looking in mirrors, and getting stans just makes things so hectic I love it.

Enjoyed this pack a lot more than I thought I would for sure.

get together: I bought this pack mainly to complete my collection. The trailer is awful with so much emphasis on partying. Now I have fallen in love with the world. Windenburg is large, with variation between the neighbourhoods, and a neighbourhood without background buildings! For me this is one of the best worlds. The only thing missing is an option to swim in the ocean.
I am also really happy with the club feature. I mainly use it as an easy way to get relatives or groups of friends together.

Island living : the biggest pleasant surprise from a EP ever was island paradise in sims 3. I only got it because it was super cheap in a sale. The tropical place to live gave my game a very different vibe which I liked more than I thought I would. For sims 4, I had read that this pack was empty, only a glorified game pack. I didn't think I would get much out of it. But when I got it, I remembered how much I enjoyed having a sim actually live in a tropical world rather than just taking a vacation. And mermaids are a nice extra supernatural to have, even if they are not as detailed as vampires and spellcasters. I just wish we could follow our sims underwater or have a secret lot behind the cave on the vulcano island. Then this pack would have been complete.

I wasn't interested of it at first. I had just bought Sims 4 and I didn't even think of buying Get To Work, I was more interested of Outdoor Retreat. I got Outdoor Retreat and I thought I was going to skip Get To Work, it didn't sound interesting to me. Why would I want to go to work with my Sims when I wanted to play Sims to relax and get away from the real life work stress?
Then I was watching some let's play from YouTube and I saw the gameplay. It looked really fun and I loved aliens. I gave up and bought it and I had so much fun with it. I played a scientist career with my favorite Sim and it's been my favorite save ever.
I've never gotten bored with the active careers, I can play them over and over again. Alien pregnancies are a surprise element in the game that can change everything and I love it.
After being so pleasantly surprised of GTW I've purchased every pack and the only pack I've regretted buying has been Eco Lifestyle.

I do a pretty thorough search of the packs before I buy and the other packs have pretty much met my expectations. I also find something useful in all packs. Get Famous surprised me because I really wasn't into the theme, but the fame system proved much better done than I anticipated. The pack gives me so much to do, I still haven't gotten a five star celebrity in my main rotational save. I like how almost anything can make you famous, but some routes are easier and you can also opt out of fame (I don't want all my sims to be famous). I like the vibe of the world, especially the boulevard where you can place your star plaque. Starlight accolades are also a really nice touch!

With EPs probably cats and dogs, the world is one of my favorites and I like the vet career a lot. And I use the rug from it in basically every build I do. :D

Game packs pleasantly surprised me much more than EPs imo. Outdoor Retreat, I only bought it because of the tents but I enjoyed playing with the world and trying to achieve the aspiration that came with it. Spa Day I wasn't even planning on buying but now I use spas all the time and I always have yoga mats in my sims homes. And Dine Out I only bought on a whim when it was 50% off, I wasn't planning on buying it and I ended up playing with it solidly and running restaurants for weeks

I haven't yet truly played with most of the packs even though I own them, but I started with Sulani a few weeks ago and it really pleasantly surprised me. Especially in TS3 even though I had Isla paradiso, I never even build anything or played there, it was so laggy and just didn't appeal to me at all. But I played vanilla game in Sulani while waiting for my mods to be updated and it was actually so much fun and different than I usually play. I love the cc and build items, the style of the world and generally I felt like I went for vacation there myself XD Even after having all my mods back I kinda grew attached to the family and decided to keep them as playable household in my normal save game. I generally find something I like in every pack, so after I play more with the rest I might change my mind, but so far it is Island living and from GP definitely vampires. I didn't expect them to turn out so well done <3