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"City Living" and "Cats and Dogs" tie for me in terms of the worst packs I own. I only bought C&D for the compatibility with "Realm of Magic," and it's only that compatibility and the ability to paint up wacky-looking pets that saves this pack at all. CL on the other hand...just makes me sad.
You can't build your own apartment buildings, a festival going on in your neighborhood disables super speed fast forward mode, and neighbors are noisy at night way too often. The things from CL I use most are some of the clothes and karaoke, and I barely ever have my sims go to the festivals (mainly because they never pop up at a moment when my sims can even go because of work or school...or being vampires...). Even the world isn't that great. Windenburg is a more fun city setting than San Myshuno. S.M. just doesn't feel...dense enough to emulate that big city feel to me (and this is coming from a girl who grew up in the city in New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area), while Windenburg at least feels like an old European city that's been evolving and changing over the centuries. S.M. feels like what people who've lived in the suburbs or the country for most of their lives think the big city looks and feels like, not like what the city actually is like. It's even sadder since my family moved out to the deep 'burbs in the Midwest a few years back, since everything is so spaced-out here and this so-called "town" that we moved to is an unwalkable collection of cul-de-sacs loosely connected with desolate stretches of strip mall infested highway. It's so dead and artifical out here, but San Myshuno doesn't have that organic city feel I miss so much.
You can't build your own apartment buildings, a festival going on in your neighborhood disables super speed fast forward mode, and neighbors are noisy at night way too often. The things from CL I use most are some of the clothes and karaoke, and I barely ever have my sims go to the festivals (mainly because they never pop up at a moment when my sims can even go because of work or school...or being vampires...). Even the world isn't that great. Windenburg is a more fun city setting than San Myshuno. S.M. just doesn't feel...dense enough to emulate that big city feel to me (and this is coming from a girl who grew up in the city in New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area), while Windenburg at least feels like an old European city that's been evolving and changing over the centuries. S.M. feels like what people who've lived in the suburbs or the country for most of their lives think the big city looks and feels like, not like what the city actually is like. It's even sadder since my family moved out to the deep 'burbs in the Midwest a few years back, since everything is so spaced-out here and this so-called "town" that we moved to is an unwalkable collection of cul-de-sacs loosely connected with desolate stretches of strip mall infested highway. It's so dead and artifical out here, but San Myshuno doesn't have that organic city feel I miss so much.
