Worst Expansion Pack?

"alex_alex09;d-965367" wrote:

I like a lot about them all so I can't pick one.

The closest I could get was City Living - and through no fault of it's own - but because I cannot have it's apts in other worlds so at most I resent that fact - because what it does offer is good and I enjoy a lot about it including it's Sims and festivals - but I still resent only having apts in the City as I don't care to play Cities with my own Sims. Still it is not enough reason for me to make it a worse ep as it delivers everything it says it does - technically.

So my answer is none of the above do I consider a worse game - not when I have a lot of fun with all these packs even if I sort of resent something like not being able to build apts in other worlds. I also resent Get Famous world for not offering more lots - still - even though I now have fun playing what it does offer. I guess I look at all the eps more as giving me my cups all half full instead of half empty. They are all fun to play to me in the end and to me that is what matters.

Get to Work by far. Get together is one of the best EP so I don't get some of the hate

It was between Get to Work and Island Living for me. Though I picked Island Living, as Get to Work is at least attempting to add new gameplay, despite the bugs and being repetitive and such, it was trying a brand new thing of active careers. Island Living just has no new gameplay really. Aside from the career, which is just another work from home reskin, and mermaids don't really have anything either, just sims with tails when in the water (not even a new bassinet or urn, the only occult without one - even aliens got them). I've not played with it lots, but aside from the world, idk what it really adds to the game at all. GTW at least tries (and kinda fails in some ways), whereas IL doesn't even try.

The pets are whatever. I find I rarely add them to a family as there are too many issues. Can't go on walks properly, can't scold for poor behaviour properly, the family thinks they need to buy more pet supplies despite the fact the pet has been dead forever, all the pets in the neighbourhood are constantly sick. I could have done without this pack. I love Seasons though. I couldn't imagine playing without the change in weather. It adds so much to the game.

Island living feels more like a game pack than an expansion. There’s not much activities for Sims to do in it in my opinion.

It seems like some of the problems GTW had from the beginning have yet to be fixed. Retail turned out to be more of a time waster than something that made game play enjoyable. Magnolia Promenade has four total lots, and only one is empty. I think I still use a few things from this EP, but I'm not so sure now. The careers that came with it never interested me. This might be the one EP I regret buying.

Not a fan of alien abductions and pregnant Male sims!

Its just so boring. There's diddly squat to do. They did mermaids dirty by not making them interesting or given them their own area. Yeah its pretty, but pretty things to look at doesnt equal gameplay. Im honestly glad I held off on buying on release, as well as got it for free! Its not worth the price tag. Like, they couldve removed one feature from it and it would qualify as a GP. Im hopeful that we get a resort pack, so that I can turn Sulani into a tourist trap.

pains me to say, cause I love mermaids, but IL is the worst for me and that is mainly cause it feels more like a gamepack, it seems rather empty and "looks over content", it doesn't feel like it really expanded my game.
Most of the new things to do are locked to Sulani and Sulani itself, while looking pretty, doesn't offer much, biggest dissapointment is of course the lack of underwater locations, diving and being a mermaid would have been soooo much, much better with an actual underwater location to explore, even if it was more on the small side (like the hidden areas in oasis springs and willow creek), I wouldn't have minded less lots on Sulani in exchange for that.
I find myself hardly ever going to Sulani now....only when I play my evil mermaid and (try to) drown people with her.
Overall I feel like they tried to do too much and ended up doing to little for all the stuff in it which makes it fall flat.
I am satisfied with the mermaids though, as this wasn't a "mermaid pack" therefor they are done pretty well imho.

I say this mostly because of the absolute disappointment of Del Sol Valley. It had sooo much potential, and for me is just unplayable because it feels so empty. I dislike that the time between jobs is sooo long, which then makes it harder to get promoted and earn a lot of money before death, and I find the quirks and rewards super annoying too. I also really hate that my current teen sim has an uncle that's famous and they cant just have a conversation because he's famous! I mean, yes, but he's also a family member - maybe we could all just calm down a bit about the famous thing and just have a chat :s I'd day amazing potential, lovely decoration, but really not a whole lot of substance, and added more frustration to the game than good stuff (ie, we can't continue with our food because a famous person has just walked in... :| )