I’m blown away by how much I’ve enjoyed My Wedding Stuff. I love the world. This is the only collection I’ve ever finished. And the wedding venues are pretty. Cas isn’t bad either. As long as the venue only has 1 arch, I have no problems with the wedding. I aged up the two youngest premade kids. Kept the grandma, and killed off everyone else in a “tsunami.” Ok, I cheated and killed off everybody using mc command center. But I used the rain machine!The younger kids fell in love, and despite the mean grandma, ended up engaged. I made it so he’s a spellcaster with an ancient bloodline and she’s a mermaid. Just curious, which packs pleasantly surprised you? And feel free to share your pack stories

"JustinB113;c-18208547" wrote:I’m working through the packs and haven’t tried all of them yet but probably bowling night stuff. Spent a couple of weeks building a bowling alley and then decorating it for Halloween and having a party there too. Love the NPCs you can download off the gallery from the trailer, used the CAS stuff and pretty much all the build items and just think it’s kinda fun. I got like game pack level content from it.Also see how it would be unremarkable to a lot of people too. I think a lot of these packs depends on how you use them, what sims you have, how you feel at that particular time, what you like in real life etc ?I love the clothes in that pack!

Eco Lifestyle. I had a bad experience in the beginning with it with Neighborhood Action Plans, and the bugs related to them. And the pack also has some strange items like the meat wall and the insect farm and the traits are giving you more trouble than benefits.But other than that, fabricating and making your own items, actually pretty fun. Building container homes, also fun. The new community lots, also well done and work pretty well, going around in different worlds and trying to improve their footprints, also fun and interesting, some worlds looked great with a green eco footprint. And we also got some apartments. Both CAS and the Build/Buy items look great and I used a lot of those items when I was renovating houses and apartments with Dream Home Decorator.The pack also has some of my favorite NPC sims with Knox Greenburg and Tina Tinker who can show up on other lots and help you out.

Eco Lifestyle. I think it was a pretty solid pack. Great world, apartments, gameplay, career, etc. It was finally one of the few non favorite packs (Seasons, Pets, University, Night themed) we got in a while and it was enjoyable (minus the annoying voting thing) but glad they did something different.

Get Together.When I first saw the trailers I thought 'Is that it?' and was not expecting much, but it turned out to be a solid expansion pack. Great world, the totally awesome club system, Don't Wake The Llama, darts, foosball, dancing etc.

Funnily enough, laundry day. I generally don't like packs. Just personal preference. But this one works really well, the items for it are all really nice and it works as it's own thing.

Which pack pleasantly surprised you?

BissenNess
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
I generally do my homework and don't buy things if I expect them to underwhelm me. In hindsight, I'm not sure what possessed me (pun intended) to buy Strangerville, but the world just blew me away. I love living in and visiting Strangerville. I also really enjoy playing as a covert operative.
mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
Get Famous. It's more fun than I expected it to be.
Grevillia
2 years ago
I'm probably in the minority but I really enjoy Jungle Adventures. I send a lot of my Sims away for holidays there & enjoy going through the temples with them. I'm currently doing the Millionaire scenario for the second time. My first Sim made her million via flower arranging but this time my Sim will make his million via authenticating artefacts. He has a long way to go as he currently only has about $27k but once he starts getting artefacts sent for him to authenticate, I expect his bank balance to improve more quickly.
Kimmer_one
Rising Traveler
2 years ago
Journey to Batuu. I wasn't interested of it at first and I only bought it because I was still a completionist when it was released. I ended up spending a lot of time playing the pack. I still do and I have a lot of fun with it, even if I'm not the biggest fan of Star Wars, especially the newer movies that I haven't even seen.
The other one I was pleasantly surprised is Werewolves. I've never liked Werewolves in movies or TV series and they just simply bore me, but Sims 4 did them so well that I ended up loving the game pack more than I ever expected.
ck213
Seasoned Scout
2 years ago
Paranormal Stuff.
It's a stuff pack with a lot of game play for 10 dollars. It felt like a game pack.
It goes nicely with Realm of Magic, Vampires for game play. It also goes well with HSY, Vintage Glamour, and Decor to the Max for build/buy.
mariefoxprice83
Seasoned Hotshot
2 years ago
"grevilliablue;c-18209450" wrote:
I'm probably in the minority but I really enjoy Jungle Adventures. I send a lot of my Sims away for holidays there & enjoy going through the temples with them. I'm currently doing the Millionaire scenario for the second time. My first Sim made her million via flower arranging but this time my Sim will make his million via authenticating artefacts. He has a long way to go as he currently only has about $27k but once he starts getting artefacts sent for him to authenticate, I expect his bank balance to improve more quickly.

I love Jungle Adventures. I was just playing an archaeologist sim recently, and had a lot of fun with her. I often edit the world so sims can do other things on their holidays as well, if they aren't going to be explorers.
Behappy1st
New Spectator
2 years ago
If I had to pick just one pack to play it would be Vampires. I've put in more hours with the vampire pack than all the others combined and I have all the packs except Bust the Dust. I LOVE the vampire pack.
rachaeliscool
2 years ago
Spa Day! The Wellness skill is great, and it's cool that it has some mini-Aspirations, too.

I also really liked Strangerville. I wouldn't want to play through it again, but it felt good to solve the "mystery" and it was kind of fun to fight the Mother Plant. Plus, those Possessed Sims are so delightfully creepy!
LiELF
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
Hmm. Pleasantly surprised, you say? Well, if we're talking about a pack that we didn't expect to enjoy so much, I think I'm going to have to say Island Living. The theme just wasn't something I thought I wanted and Mermaids weren't on my list of Occults because I thought they were too floofy for me and I've never been much of a Mermaid person.

But it did pique my interest when I saw the live stream so I got it, and once I played it, I actually fell in love with it. I made some evil Sirens and a Mer kingdom (because holy shamoly the Mermaid customization is awesome!) and put some pirates in as well as a voodoo mambo by the volcano and then I found an amazing ship restaurant build in the gallery and added that and just had a blast with it all. I found myself wanting to hang out there all the time with my Sims (just recently had an informal hippie beach wedding with my young Witch.) I love that there's a variety of hidden surprises connected to the ocean like shark attacks and getting swept out by the tide. Lol, it's little sneaky details like those that keep me interested.

I know that there's areas where the pack really fell short (like no underwater swimming and rabbit holes) and I would have rather had something much more interesting instead of the conservation career, but I think it's one of my favorite expansions anyway. I just really enjoy it. In my own way, of course. ?
i_love_frogs_11
Seasoned Adventurer
2 years ago
"CK213;c-18209572" wrote:
Paranormal Stuff.
It's a stuff pack with a lot of game play for 10 dollars. It felt like a game pack.
It goes nicely with Realm of Magic, Vampires for game play. It also goes well with HSY, Vintage Glamour, and Decor to the Max for build/buy.

Agree! They went all out for that pack. The only pack i’d say that is worth their full retail price.