Your thoughts on some Packs (please)…

How many and what types of packs does a bundle include?

Out of the list you gave, I love Cottage Living and StrangerVille the most They both have good furniture selection and the worlds are very cool. I use the stuff all the time in all my builds. I tend to create houses or renovate them.

StrangerVille for me is a one play thing. I do the mystery in every new save as sometimes it’s a good way to start a new game with it. I have only played the mystery twice in one save but with a different family but found it was repetitive.

If you build apartments the furniture with Paranormal Stuff is good, very lived in look.

Snowy Escapes is ok.

Cool Kitchen to me is underwhelming as it only came with one kitchen set. The ice cream machine is the best feature.

I prefer to do my own renovations so Dream Home Decorator has never appealed to me.

For building, I really like DHD and Cool Kitchen. I've used the cabinets from both packs a lot. Plus, the fridge and sink from CK, and the stoves and ovens from DHD are in nearly every single one of my builds. I also really like the counters/cabinets in Cottage Living and Jungle Adventure.

For gameplay, I couldn't play without Parenthood and Seasons. Since I don't see them on your list, I assume you have those already.

I did play around a bit with the Paranormal stuff, and the sounds are creepy and it was kind of interesting. The Haunted House lot type is useful for me in Forgotten Hollow (Vampires).

The animals in Cottage Living are a bit overwhelming but I love Henford-on-Bagley. Also some really good B/B stuff in that pack too.

I don't really play a lot with Snowy Escape. I mainly use it as a vacation world. Same with Sulani. No sims live in either in my personal game.

If I were building a bundle, of the ones you've listed, I would go with CoL, DHD, and Paranormal. That's just me though. It depends solely on your playstyle. Paranormal is probably the best stuff pack in the series because it feels like there's more to it than just stuff.

"Elliandre;c-18074489" wrote:
How many and what types of packs does a bundle include?

An Origin Sims bundle is an Expansion, a Game pack and a Stuff pack

@ncisGibbs02 ( <3 that show BTW). Helpful comments. I adore a good starter, lived in look so that does appeal.

@SweetieWright_84 Indeed I have Seasons, Parenthood and many of the other packs. I never thought of combining Paranormal with vamps but can see how that would work well. Thanks,

My favorite packs out of those was Dream Home Decorator, Paranormal and Cool Kitchen, but if a bundle is an EP, GP and SP, then I would probably recommend the following:

Cottage Living, Dream Home Decorator, Cool Kitchen. Because they offer a lot of variety and customization. You can have farms in all worlds, you will get gigs all over the world and I remember using Cool Kitchen a lot back in the day and also while playing Dream Home Decorator.

or:

Snowy Escape, Strangerville, Paranormal. In my opinion these offer more of a "one-time" experience, depends how much you like playing them ofc. But for me, I only played through strangerville and paranormal once. And in Snowy Escape all the activities are limited to it's world. I played Paranormal in Strangerville as well and I thought they worked pretty well together.

So far Cottage Living over Snowy Escape -good to know and I likely agree.
Tempting to maybe get Strangerville, Paranormal and just get Cool Kitchen on sale on the side…. Mmm
Will wait for some more comments.

It sounds to me that you just started playing Sims 4. Congrads to waiting over 7 years with plenty of themes, CAS, build modes, build tools, worlds, etc, etc.
So, my recommendation for best packs would be:

Get Together for CAS, builds, Windenburg, outdoor parties & historical fun <3 <3
Cottage Living for CAS, builds, Henford, festivals, farm animals & historical fun <3 <3

Strangerville for the world that should've been in Get to Work, Careers, CAS, builds, alien Motherplant & alien conspiracy fun
Vampires/Realm of Magic/Paranormal for Spellcasters, Vampires, CAS, builds, Forgotten Hollow, Glimmerbrook & all the occult fun :D B) :p

Island Living for Mermaids, Dolphins, Sulani, Careers, CAS, builds, festival & ocean fun
Snowy Escape for CAS, builds, Mt. K, festivals & wintery fun
Seasons for CAS, builds & seasonal holiday fun :p B) ;)

Oh & have fun.

For just one Bundle, based on what you said, I recommend Cottage Living, Strangerville and Paranormal Stuff. I've thought really hard about this, with my bundle package :wink: you will get two new worlds, some farm animals like new pets, nice new decoration items including cute kitchen stuff for when you are furnishing a home, fun CAS clothes that have a lot of character, and some interactive occult gameplay.

Cottage Living: Because you mentioned you like pets and dogs, but not sure about farming. I personally treat the little chickens like my Sim’s pets and you can just feed and care for and play with the farm animals and enter them in competition. I also think this pack has really cute kitchen furniture, deco objects and CAS items, and you mentioned you are looking for those things. You didn’t mention if you like to build houses, just refurnish. I also don’t build from scratch and I think this game has the best and super cute houses built really nicely that I enjoy redecorating and I use it's BB stuff a lot. Snowy Escape has a beautiful world too, but you didn’t mention if you like to keep your Sim outdoors a lot or have them do sports.

Strangerville: Because to be honest I never play the Decorator career much, even though I love decorating, and there is no new world with that pack. I tend to decorate with items from Cottage Living more. I find the Strangerville game play really fun and I personally have played it many times. I also really like this world, so once you complete the game, you technically don’t have to restart the infection if you don’t want to, and can just play on the lots. And I really like the CAS items in this pack too, with some interesting and cute clothes.

Paranormal Stuff: Because you mentioned you play with occults often and I found this new career where you visit other lots and rid them of haunted things to be really fun. I also love the CAS clothing from this pack too. I love the kitchen stuff ice cream maker, but you didn't mention it and I only use it once in a while. There are also really cute kitchen decoration stuff in Cottage Living so hopefully you won't miss it.

If you like simple building and furnishing apartments, you might prefer the build & buy from Snowy Escape over Cottage Living. The furniture is sleeker and there’s a nice wood selection in stairs, columns and things. If you’re not really into the idea of farming, you might vibe with SE’s Mt. Komorebi better.

I’m waiting for DHD to go half price before I buy it, but you’ll basically get that in your bundle. I mainly bought Strangerville for the doors, windows and spandrels (I love Victorians) so unless you’re really into the story I think it’s an easy one to pass up.

I like the ice cream machine in Cool Kitchen Stuff but I rarely keep it around because sims are always using it autonomously. I guess the counters are nice and simple but there are things that bother me about them, like the upper cabinets don’t have all the same swatches as the lower ones, and that big tall one has a weird shadow in the white swatch, IIRC. Paranormal Stuff doesn’t appeal to me but if you like occults it’s probably fun for a bit, I do like some of the furniture in it, I’ll give it that.