Worst Expansion Pack?

I have a love and hate relationship with city living. I LOVE it, but I hate how the cheap apartments have rats, foul smells, and the power goes out lol. My sim got fried trying to fix the circuit box. It's hilarious, but gets annoying when I'm trying to have my vampire sim get his mood up when he's not parched anymore.

Get Famous: tiny world, buggy career, annoying side effects that interfere with other packs (most notably Dine Out). Not what I expected.

I don’t dislike GTW per say but it’s the expansion I use the least so that’s why I rate it the worst.

Both City Living and Island Living made my game unplayable. I like being able to play multiple neighborhoods at once, but it's causing some issues. These EPs spawn asian/pacific islander names for every townie and NPC, no matter which neighborhood you're in. And Island Living spawned townies who wear beach clothes, again no matter which neighborhood it is. It wouldn't bother me except it's literally every single townie, and all the NPCs. I tried to fix it with a mod but it didn't work, and my laptop can't handle mods anyway. It's a shame bc I thought Sulani was one of the prettiest neighborhoods, and I liked the singing skill and politician career that came with City Living. They might not irritate someone who moves their family to San Myshuno or Sulani either. The families I'm playing live in Willow Creek and Brindleton Bay. Willow Creek is based in Louisiana, Brindleton Bay is somewhere in New England. Last time I checked those places don't have 80% asian/islander demographics.. Having all the residents of a city in Asia/an Island all travel to the same place my sim is in Louisiana, even walking by their house, when they don't have any family or friends there is pretty odd too. To be fair, it also annoys me that sims seem to travel too easily to/from Oasis Springs as well. While playing the Calientes I noticed sims from all neighborhoods walk around that tiny neighborhood, traveling from Louisiana or New England to go walk around in the desert. Not just occasionally, they walk past their house multiple times a day. I wish they would fix this.

All of the packs are good, but compared to the other packs, GTW is pretty lackluster.

The development team missed several opportunities with this expansion pack... the first one being how apartments function. The fact that we cannot create our own apartments was the #1 downfall for me... the next is the fact that we can't even visit the apartment right next door without enduring a loading screen (even 'Sims 2: Apartment Life' allowed us to do this).

I'm also highly disappointed with how they implemented the singing skill. The lack of a singer career is extremely disappointing. This should've been the pack that brought back celebrities... not 'Get Famous'. Or, they should've at least held off on the singing skill until 'Get Famous'.

Also, while this is very minor, the exclusion of elevators (except for in pent houses) doesn't make sense... I mean, why can't we just have access to them on all lots and venues? Sims 2 gave us elevators in 'Open For Business'... and we were even allowed to place them on our home lots! This honestly just seems like laziness on their part.

Another thing that really bothers me is the keyboard... when I first saw the trailers for 'City Living', I was very happy to see the return of an electronic keyboard for our Sims to play music on (the keyboard is my favorite instrument in real life)... however, the lack of it sounding like anything outside of some kind of science fiction movie was disappointing. I didn't like the keyboard in Sims 2 for this same reason. They should at least give us the option for what the keyboard sounds like when you play it.

I'm also disappointed that 'basketball' didn't become its own skill... not even a 5 level one. While this is (again) very trivial and not a huge deal breaker, I would honestly like to see different athletic abilities become their own skills at this point in the Sims franchise, as opposed to them all just contributing to an overall fitness skill. I don't even care if it's a major skill or minor one (like only 5 levels). It would be more interesting.

Also, finally, the political career was quite underwhelming... I think they missed a really big opportunity to make it much more detailed than it actually was... for example, it would've been interesting if you could choose to be part of a specific political party (obviously, they wouldn't use real life ones... but they could've included like 'The Llama Party' and 'Gnome Party'... stuff like that). Also, when you communicate with other Sims while in the political career, they have automatic reactions to your stances that you have no control over... one time I had my Sim speak with his wife about political views... and she completely had a disgusted regard for his. Like, seriously? lol I think this would've been a nice detail to add.

Sorry about the rant... I just really feel like, of all the packs they've released, "City Living" seems to be the one that missed the most opportunities.

"BabySquare;c-17225039" wrote:
The quirks system combined with completely over the top reactions to a celeb from everyone else are the reasons I won't ever buy it.

i regret buying it, i wish i could get a refund

"Wallsisms4ever;c-17225047" wrote:
Absolutely Island Living. By far. There's just no gameplay. Its a good looking world and that's it. So freaking shallow (heh). Take trash from the sand. Be a powerless mermaid. See a useless volcano. Talk to a useless Dolphin. Meh.

I like all the other EP's and Get Together is my favorite. The club system is amazing, Windenburg is definitely the best world we have (It's the biggest and most diverse, it has an old town, a modern town, a countryside area and an Island). The CAS and BB items are killers and there are some great features like Cafe's, Nightclubs, DJ booth, Photography skill. I mean, it's just the most solid pack imho.

Get together is my favorite expansion pack too, i can't understand those who dislike it. The game feels very empty without it, it adds so much gameplay, interactions and beautiful lots.

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17225049" wrote:
Get Together.

What's the point of it, again?

It adds a European inspired world(the biggest one in the whole game), a beautiful castle with a haunted maze, cafes, clubs, darts, bonfires, lots of places to hangout and things for your sims to do outside of their home, that's the point of it.

Get Together. I found it didn't really add too many new features except for clubs, and I find that sims just use the computer if there is on one the lot during a club meeting even when that is not an activity. I don't mind some of the more minor features it added, but it is my least favourite out of all of the packs, my order from best to worst is:

Seasons
Island Living
Cats and Dogs
City Living
Get to Work
Get Famous
Get Together