Worst Expansion Pack

None of them are that great, to be honest. They're all kind of "egh." But, for the sake of voting, I'd say City Living is the worst. It's basically just a reskin of the base game with a couple new activities. It's stinks that you can't build your own apartment buildings, and you can't change the lot traits of the apartments either. In addition, you can't add the apartment traits to non-apartment buildings, which I think is ridiculous. The careers are fun, and I like karaoke, and the festivals are ok. But there was no substantial gameplay added to this pack.

As far as my ranking from best to worst, it would go like this:
1. Get Together- Clubs are fun to use, and the city of Windenburg is lovely. However, content feels very scattered.
2. Cats & Dogs- The Pets CAS is excellent, and the fears and personalities of the pets is fun to see. I like being able to not play as a pet, it adds challenge. Not so fond of the lack of pet family trees, pet UI, or other pets like birds, reptiles and hamsters.
3. Get to Work- Scientist career is fun, and I also enjoy the aliens as well. However, Doctor and Police Career are very repetitive and don't have interesting rewards. Also, hospitals, science facilities and police stations are not in world, and you can't build them yourself, which is very restricting.
4. City Living- For reasons as stated above....

GTW could be the best pack, but unfortunately it is the buggiest EP in the whole franchise.

city living. i love the pack. i love apartments, food vendors, and festivals. but the lag in the city is unbearable. my sims can stand for hours waiting for their actions to start. i have to frequently pause and unpause the game to give the animations time to load. it's unplayable, and i'm disappointed.

GTW because I hate that I can't have a shop at my home.. I rarely do anything that requires a loading screen, so GTW does not have to offer me too much. I t was a tough call with CL though, because that did not really add much to the game in general. But I like starting my families in San Myushino and then moving them to the suburbs or countryside.
The only things I liked about C&D and GT were the worlds they added.
I am really picky with what I like for my Sims. I am however really looking forward to Seasons, I believe it's going to add a lot for my style of gameplay.

City living without a doubt. The world does not have enough lots to truly emulate a city. I would expect a City expansion pack to have a few more places to place community lots.

"Amiutza;c-16501784" wrote:
I don’t enjoy any of the eps to be completely honest. Normally I would have voted for GTW but I’m playing the detective career atm and actually having a ton of fun with it. C&D has no play value for me, the pets look amazing, the world is pretty, but beyond that, no game play. I hate that there are so many strays, breaks my heart. I moved to a country where I haven’t seen on stray animal in 7 years and when my sims live in BB I find myself constantly shift clicking every stray to fill up their needs.

Close second is definitely City Living, glorified world pack indeed. I was so excited about it, then we couldn’t build our own apartments and there went every bit of enjoyment.

I agree. I don't really enjoy any of the expansion packs either LOL. For the strays, there is a mod that will get rid of them. I had to download it. This game already generates too many random townies and I didn't want to compound that with all the strays. These strays are always sick or needs are low. It is really terrible.

"Mikeyt;c-16513412" wrote:
City living without a doubt. The world does not have enough lots to truly emulate a city. I would expect a City expansion pack to have a few more places to place community lots.

City Living is my favorite, simply because it's the only city that we have. However, what you said is the honest truth. A city should have room for scads of community lots. It's pretty sad how many we got. ::smh::

"LiELF;c-16513105" wrote:
I really can't vote this way. Putting Seasons on this list is kind of silly when no one has seen any gameplay in action, even on a live stream. It's very premature to already call it "worst ever!" and just makes me think that some people want to hate it just to prove some subjective point.

For the rest, I could say that there are things I dislike about each of them, but there are also things that I have found regular use for in each as well. As far as an overall cohesive pack, Get Together always felt to me like it was a mish-mash of things that were intended for the base game and thrown together with a new world and a random theme stamped onto it. But that doesn't mean I hate it or don't use it, because the club system and Windenburg are very valuable to me.

I used to feel that Get To Work was my least favorite, but then I realized how much I love the Aliens this time around and I really enjoy the Scientist career. I also do feel like we got a lot of interesting stuff with the pack, like jail walls and new rewards and build/buy, so now I feel like I've underrated this pack.

Cats and Dogs is, to me, one of the best so far, aside from the lack of actual pet objects, which is where I think they dropped the ball. But I'm very happy with the behavior of the pets and the way they interact.

So I guess that leaves City Living as my least favorite. There are probably more things in that pack that I don't care about or use, even though I like having a city with apartments and a new type of environment for my sims. I really only like the Spice District with the Brownstone buildings and also the bubble blower. The other locations have a weird aesthetic for gameplay, the festivals get old too fast and have no exceptional features, and the talking toilet is so ridiculous that I can't believe they didn't include an additional mesh of it as a regular chair that turned up at the Geek festival. I don't care much about karaoke or basketball either, so I guess if I had to live without one EP, it would be City Living.

As of now there’s only one vote for Seasons, so I don’t think anyone here is saying that. I agree it’s premature to add it pre-release, but it was announced and will be available in a few weeks and not including it would mean a whole new poll would have to be created following it’s release.

Agree with your points on CL though.

get to work because how repetitive the tasks can be.
i also avoid using the active careers because i don't like to stare at loading screens, and the only thing i use the pack for is to see my sims have their babies at the hospital.

I chose Get to Work because I don't use most of the features, but just like all content for TS4 I like everything that is offered and will continue to buy everything that is released. Every little feature helps, and I also like supporting the Sims team and TS4.