I'm going to buy a new sims pack which?

They’re doing 2 game packs on-sale 50% Off per like week or so ... dine out has been in it so I’d hold off on strangerville and ROM as they might go half price very soon and you can get both for the price of 1

Realm of Magic has very fun (if underdeveloped) gameplay, and there's a few ways of playing around with it. I've incorporated into my everyday gameplay and stories. Out of all the options here, I feel like it has the most to offer.Dine Out's also good, but some people find it glitchy. It's also kind of meh in terms of gameplay, since all you're doing is building a restaurant and telling other sims to do the exciting stuff while you harass customers. But it still be fun, and having various restaurants to visit adds a lot of realism. Plus it gives me another reason to get my sims out of the house.

I personally prefer the Realm of Magic out of those choices, but it really depends on what you are wanting to do with your gameplay (and whether you love to build more than you play like me). I own all 4. The vintage glamour is probably one of the packs I rarely use anything from. Dining out- is very limited. If you are looking to run a restaurant, it can be frustrating because you are forced to hire people, as opposed to say making it a truly small family-owned business. You cannot have members of your sim family be the chef, the waiter, greeter, etc. You yourself cannot have the sim you are controlling complete any of these tasks, even if you don't have anyone hired for the position. Eating out at a restaurant is a cool gameplay feature, but you will always be stuck with the full tab regardless if an NPC invites you out. You will pay for said NPC's food. The bottom line, it was a cool idea poorly executed. I do however use a lot of the build objects that came out of this pack.Strangerville- I love the build objects that came with this pack, especially the windows and doors! but that was, unfortunately, the only thing I really liked about it. The storyline had a lot of potential, but really fell short and felt rushed. It did add the new Military career, but it has about the same effects on gameplay as most of the other generic careers. You also get another world with quite a few buildable lots. Realm of Magic- Has a ton of cool new build objects if you like sort of a whimsical/Magical/Medivally type of feel in your builds. I don't use the gameplay of this too much at the moment. Adds 5 new buildable lots and an off the map location you can travel to. For me, it was about the equivalent to the vampires' pack gameplay-wise overall.

Dine Out is my favourite out of the ones you listed. I love being able to take my families out for dinner and I find it has added great game play value (at least for how I play).There are some bugs with dining out (just a heads up). It worked great at first but as other packs have come out I've experienced some bugs.

Vintage glamour is meh. Dine out is HEAVILY broken. Strangerville, you play the storyline once, and then you never touch it again. Realm of Magic adds the most to your gameplay.

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Rapunzelblonde
6 years ago
I say Realm of Magic because I think the gameplay is fun, but I LOOOOOVE the build items. Stained glass windows and doors that are just lovely. And Glimmerbrook is a pretty neighborhood that has a handful of good-sized lots. Exploring the magical realm was so fun the first time-it really is designed beautifully. I will say that although I don't really care about Strangerville that much, the build mode and CAS items collaborate really well with the stuff in ROM.

Dine Out is probably my second choice behind ROM, because I enjoy creating different restaurants for my sims to enjoy. I create custom menus with City Living recipes to help my sims learn the food stall recipes faster. (So they're not always having to wait for the Spice Festival to learn how to make curry, for instance.) Going to a restaurant is a much more fun date for your romantic sims than heading to a bar, too. They enjoy it more. As far as bugs go, I have found that if you don't over-complicate your restaurant builds, you should be ok. I had some bugs in the beginning, but I think they have cleared up most of them with patches.

Vintage Glamour has some really great buymode items that I use to decorate all the time, and I agree that having a butler for your rich sims to order around is cool.
DarMill
New Hotshot
6 years ago
i picked Dine Out i like getting dressed up taking my sims out to eat

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