Which city-related expansion pack do you prefer the most?

I just remembered something.

The neighborhood that comes with Eco Lifestyle has apartments and can be considered a "city". It does look like an urban district.
Windenburg (Get Together) has a German urban district.

Dang it, I should have included Get Together and Eco Lifestyle.

Absolutely Apartment Life. Apartments in Sims 2 were so customizable. I was able to use it to play gigantic families. Plus I love the witches, and the witch sisters included are some of my favorite premades over the years. I liked Nightlife, too. Solid additions all around, but if I had to pick Apartment Life had more for me.

The rest weren't bad, but 3's Nightlife had to have vampires buffed by Supernatural. 3's infectious fame system was also more well rounded with the addition of Showtime's careers and activities. Bridgeport was definitely unique for a world in 3 and it was fun to play, but it was an easily overshadowed EP for me.

I didn't get to play with Hot Dates that much. I begged for it as a kid, through the embarrassment, and was still rejected. I played it with the complete collection later in life and it has some really nice additions, but I like 2's better.

As for CL (and Eco's urban part, quite frankly), it has a nice take on living in apartments with the neighbor events and traits (which are largely absent from the Eco apartments). However, they feel the least customizable, meaning they are awful for any sort of a builder. You cannot even save/share the apartment lots like you could with a house, so I don't even bother with in depth customization a lot of times. You cannot make your own; changing walls is a hassle; there are irremoveable (and also unusable) lot traits; no sharing/saving. So while CL has some really nice parts to it, it is definitely lower tier for city Sims packs and even in 4's EP tier list for me. I like Eco for its gameplay instead of its urban themes, but I like it more than CL generally.

Only played 3 and 4 and they're mostly tied, but for cities as worlds I prefer 4. I think cities work better in a closed world like 4 as things can be spread up and split up more, in Sims 3 I just find city worlds overwhelming and hard to use as everything's just too crammed together.

Hands down TS2 for the customization of the apartments, it's what I was always hoping TS4's apartments would be like. TS4 is my absolutely least favorite for the apartments, while I agree with @Onverser regarding TS3 city being much more overwhelming with it's open world. If TS4 had implemented apartments with the same ease of customization that TS2 did, then my vote would have been for TS4.

I impulsively voted Nightlife before seeing that Apartment Life was an option.

AL is the only EP so far with customizable apartments. I've downloaded duplexes and added amenities to apartments (although sadly, the neighbor AI doesn't take advantage of some common facilities.) It also has a ton of content as a parting gift since it was the last EP: spiral stairs, butlers, witches, etc.

Nightlife is still fantastic though. I love sending my sims downtown. Restaurants and clubs were great. Not really a fan of vampires, but they're cool

Late Night was a hit or miss, because it was laggy on my 2010 computer so my sim would stand outside for hours, and the club would close by the time they go in. On a side note, why do the places there have closing times anyway? The fame system also got annoying after a while because every time a negative rumor spreads, my sim's relationships with everyone goes down a bit. God forbid your spouse is an occult, because it'll just be negative rumors about woohooing with your spouse every week

Sims 2 Apartment Life is my favourite for the apartments, but I don’t think it was an exclusively city based pack was it?

"ddd994;c-17962395" wrote:
Sims 2 Apartment Life is my favourite for the apartments, but I don’t think it was an exclusively city based pack was it?

If you look at the Apartment Life trailer, then you would notice that EA did suggest that Apartment Life EP would be about moving out of the suburbs and into the big city with apartments and stuff.

"waterywatermelon;c-17962423" wrote:

"ddd994;c-17962395" wrote:
Sims 2 Apartment Life is my favourite for the apartments, but I don’t think it was an exclusively city based pack was it?

If you look at the Apartment Life trailer, then you would notice that EA did suggest that Apartment Life EP would be about moving out of the suburbs and into the big city with apartments and stuff.

Apartments would definitely not look out of place in the Downtown area

I've never played Sims 1 & 2. I've always loved Bridgeport the best. It was big, dark, fun & cool. City Living is so lacking in that.

San Myshuno is so essential to my Sims 4 experience that it had to get my vote. I love the way they executed the different urban looks in the various neighborhoods.