Why does everyone hate city living?

"jackjack_k;15608224" wrote:

"drake_mccarty;15604884" wrote:


City Living has since made me a much more skeptical player. I bought the Vamp GP because I like vampires and there's some cool options, but in the grander scheme of things I plan on holding off. City Living was in no way, shape, or form worth $40. I didn't even think it was work $18. If Maxis would allow ala carte purchase of stuff I wouldn't have bought it in the first place. In my opinion, city Living is the weakest EP to date. Not for lack of marketing though, for a lack of substance.

Nah, that title belongs to Generations. The Expansion pack that basically took base game stuff, and polished them, and added new "gameplay" that happened mostly off-screen. Apart from a few gameplay objects, and recycling base game stuff and calling it something else, there was literally nothing to it. It just gets over praised because people like Family Play. But there was nothing in that pack that was actually brand new.
The only thing that was made of any effort was the Imaginary Friend. Most of the stuff in the EP was done better on the Sims 3 store.

City Living may not be for some, but if people were willing to pay over $40 for packs like Roaring Heights, then I think City Living does a good job at delivering content.

However, City Living was released too early. It should have been near last. Apartment Life is the smallest EP in the 2/3/4 era, but it's loved because it has little bits of gameplay, but overall just finishes off 2 nicely. I think had Apartment Life been released instead of Nightlife, people would have been more sceptical.

City Living feels like a pack that would bring existing content with new content. Adding some more types of gameplay, but overall doesn't bring a whole new concept. Fills outs what is left, and basically polishes an existing eco system.

I think after a year gap, we needed a pack with a strong concept (Pets, Uni, Bon Voyage) etc. I think a pack that is designed to fill out the base game with more options, was not a good choice 3 packs in.

That's your opinion, not mine.

We aren't talking about The Sims 3 here. The Sims 3 had it's strengths and it's weaknesses, similar to how The Sims 4 has it's own.

You like CL? Good for you. I think it's the biggest rip off yet, introducing a whole lot of half baked features and too many gimmicks all together while still maintaining to pull almost all of its 'new' content directly from the base game. Thats my opinion, which is corroborated by personal experience, not by dragging some unrelated pack through the dirt.