Alongside Bust the Dust and laundry day! Theyāre a kit and a game pack respectively but ITS PART OF MUDANE LIFE! IT SHOULD BE PART OF THE *LIFE* SIMULATION. Thatās just my opinion
If u only have money to buy one expansion pack out of all those packs, I would personally recommend City living over Season. 1. You got a complete new zone compare to no new zone for season 2. There are tons of events plus food stalls 3. You get to experience apartment style living in 3 very different areas 4. Loft style apartment for builders
Snowy escape was one of the first packs I bought cause I adore mountains. One mistake I made was buying it before seasons, snowy escape has holidays and snow weather and it just doesnāt make sense without seasons if I ever recommend a pack I will say to buy seasons and snowy escape together
I LOVE snowy escape because it added more representation and something more unique than what they usually do. My only complaint is that I have a bug that makes it where my Sims won't take care of their toddlers whenever I'm playing Snowy Escape. So I can never have toddlers.
@S The game is American, the developers are mainly from America - what do you expect, they do the things they know about. Yes, of course it would be nice to have a Russian world with all those nice towers or the old wooden church architecture, or an African world, just one example: a kind of North African sukh. But I am pretty sure the developers lack the more intimate knowledge for that, while they all have been to American Highschools, know how American Suburbia looks like etc.
Im asian as well but for stuff like food i can get with mods since i now play on laptop its kinda useless to me, but i like how sims 4 added korean foods especially the ones i grew up eating
Answering your question in 1:09 They have different colors by categories: deep blue is career and lifestyle, green is outdoor and adventure, magenta is family and friends, light blue is everyday activities, purple is supernatural and fantasy, red-orange is architecture and decorative, yellow-orange is fashion and style. I think I cover them all. PS: edited to add time stamp.
@Sarahlegacy edition is really old and is being delated Iām pretty sure so you donāt need to have it. It just not updated at all for the newer packs from like eco lifer style or something
i wanna see some turkish/arabic/balkan packs in Sims. like turkish coffee, kebabs, sims that are addicted to soap operas, more traditional rugs, going to each others home to meet parents, strict dads etc
i would love to see a pack like this! i'm not middle eastern/west asian/eastern european myself but i grew up near the detroit area and i have always loved their culture, i think it would be so cool to see stuff from those cultures in game!
yes! I would love to see a balkan world, with a mediterranean feelingā¦ tartosa is very italian and I would love to see a Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian (basically Yugoslavian) world!
I personally love get famous, I love the actors career, the fans, the gifts they send you and letters... And I also like you can be famous in any career, like a famous baker, a author or football player or whatever... I like the video station to play like a youtuber... there's a lot of opportunities to having fun with this pack, but I do agree the world is terrible haha
This was literaly the first pack I was thinking about to buy! Just recently installed the free base version and downloaded BTS (K-Pop music group) household and it'd be epic to actually live their life hahaha.
I never knew so many people disliked the world! the cul-de-sac neighborhood is so north american suburban that I cant help but love it! it feels like every cartoon/disney movie š
Seasons and City Living are in my necessary ones as well, they make it such a different game. Parenthood, dream home decorator and tiny living are up there for me as well.
I agree! Recently all my packs I had got deleted (not entirely sure why as one I didnāt even know I bought I had for somehow, but I believe itās because the account they were bought with somehow got deleted) and so my amazing brother offered to buy me one (cause they stupidly expensive) and I was struggling between seasons and city living so bad
@epic style they are extremely annoying at times but seeing the random strays, kids playing with them and the cuteness of puppies/kittens is worth it š
It wouldāve been nice if they added some kind of ātraditionalā festival things like in the City Pack to Island Living, would suit that pack a lot
Thereās at least one festival in that pack where they do fire dancing and cook together but for some reason itās not on the calendar so you have to either see it or already know itās going to happen :(
@Sage Ardor Yeah, I love the aesthetic and world for Island Living but it's definitely a better option once you have a few other packs of any type which impacts the game a bit more. Same for Snowy Escape. There are exceptions of course; if you're always playing in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi and it's a really important culture for you, then it's better but for others either one will be a touch too empty (although at least Snowy Escape does have more lifestyle options.) š
I have City Living and Pets and I'm kinda making sure my choice for next pack is the right one, and this video helped me :) I'm getting Snowy escape and Seasons next. And then, after that if I haven't tired of sims yet, Cottage Living.
I know people say Snowy Escape is lacking gameplay and stuff, and I do agree, but the world itself and the Build & Buy items in this pack are my all time favorite. As an Asian who grows up in Eastern Asia, this pack is a must have for me. Also, I don't think they've ever given us other sims4 pack with similar theme afterwards.
@Chele For me I prefer city living because theres more cultures represented! I rarely see representation in media for places other than North/South America(South America being mostly just Mexico), Western Europe and East Asia. City living added so much cultural food, clothes, and build/buy that are a complete necessity, it makes the world feel more real to me. Lifestyles confused me, and the game never labels my sims correctly! And the stuff for kids at the festivals just felt like something I could build at any park tbh, like just add some science tables and id be set š
I donāt get people who say Snowy Escape lacks gameplay but City Living is one of their favorites. I think Snowy Escape is way betterā¦ thereās stuff for kids at the festivals, and you can go hiking/skiing/boarding/mountain climbing. Plus thereās snow to play in (I donāt have Seasons), and I love the CAS & Build/Buy while a lot of City Living CAS is just weird. Plus lifestyles are just a standard part of any game now. And taking your shoes off indoors is a small but really nice touch that I love.
I'm not East Asian, but I spent a long time studying the languages and cultures of Eastern Asia in general and I cried seeing how on point the cultural aspects of Mt. Komorebi came into being. Removing shoes before continuing to walk into the house, the chopsticks being a potential utensil preference, the yukata and kimono, the kites, the onsen even, all of it nearly made me start sobbing. The world itself is absolutely gorgeous. I don't even mind the lack of gameplay simply because of the fidelity to the real world Japanese culture that Snowy Escape as a whole has. Would I like to see more gameplay-affective things with this pack? Yes, I would. Would I like to see more of an in-depth exploration to the culture this pack is showing everyone? Absolutely. But I don't mind if it never comes, since it's already really in depth as it is. (Would recommend doubling up Snowy Escape with Incheon Arrivals Kit, though!)
when i first got the sims i saw so many people doing gameplays and when i first played i was wondering why there's no other weather types in my game then i found out they make us pay $40 for different weather š
I donāt have any packs in the Sims yet, but I am thinking about getting the Cats and Dogs EP. The world looks absolutely beautiful and really cozy. And the best part is that cats and dogs are added. I lost my German Shepard around 5 years ago, so re-creating him in my world would be really heart warming. It also comes with the vet career, which I am in love with. I feel like expansion packs deal with your life experiences. For example on how Snowy Escape relates to lots of asian people, and Get Famous being for people who want to be influencers irl.
The thing I want the most from Sims now is Apartment! And perhaps Hotel. I really want the concept of landlord and renting and strangers live in the same building so bad. I want to build and operate apartments and hotels. Not just living in one like city livingš
One of my biggest issues with "High School Years" is that I have a save that's set to Long Lifespan, but prom is EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. and unlike the regular High School day, there is no "Send Alone" option. If I want my teenage daughter to go to prom, I can't take care of my other 4 kids.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 I found a mod that fixes one of the problems. Thereās a mod that lets you set the number of students in the high school. I donāt remember by who, sorry, but it is just a script file and is pretty light, so it works with most computers. I have the 18 students package because I like small high schools and it works with no issues.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 This is way I always watch a ton of gameplay videos before getting any packs. And not just Simsie, because she tends to gloss over anything that's less than perfect. Watch a bunch of different Simmers for different opinions before shelling out any money. And then I still wait for sales.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 I get you, that really sucks that you wasted your money like that. The only thing I can think of to help with your gameplay is downloading another better high school from the gallery. Lilsimsie has a great one, and so does James Turner. My personal favorite one is Jamesā. Hopefully you can find some more enjoyment out of it that way
THATS your biggest issue? literally EVERY- SINGLE- FEAUTRE in the pack is FULLY bugged. i payed for that with my money i got for my birthday. that money was WASTED. i am so dissapointed in the pack, everything that came with it, and plus the high school was empty and dark, theres like 5 sims in the class, not nearly as fun and exciting as in the ad, i just send my sim teens alone every time because its SO boring.
I get you, I have their lives scaled to ā28 days=4 seasons=1 yearā and itās so annoying doing the āspring formalā and the āwinter ballā and the āHalloween danceā just to diversify the IDENTICAL GAMEPLAY that takes place EVERY Saturday
Having bought all the expansion packs (except High school years, waiting for the next saleš) Iād say I wouldnāt want to not have either of them. I have my preferences too but Iām glad I got them all. Cottage living is my absolute sweetheart, even when Iām not even playing it actively, I just love it so much I keep thinking about how much I love itš I do wish that EA showed a bit more enthusiasm and care through the packs and the builds showed, it is a bit off-putting that they put the high price tag on it but some packs(especially game packs) look like they literally just threw the first version on us knowing that we still gonna buy it.
@G I meant winter!!! Oh no!! Steam winter* sale is a sale that the game engine Steam has every winter (thereās one during the summer too) and lots of games and dlcs are marked down by a lot!! Makes everything cheap for a week or so.
I think my most nostalgic packs are Get Together and Outdoor Retreat. I love those packs for that alone haha. Also I use clubs all the time to just make my kids have friends!!
I think a fun "spin off" of this series of videos would be "which sims game has the best X" where X is a certain genre like "University" "Seasons" or "Supernatural"
Seasons is a great pack, but I wish there was the possibility to adjust the amound of rain days. If you play with seasons, it is raining way to much for my liking
First pack I bought was City Living. Maaaany years ago, they didn't even had Seasons , yet. My second pack. So sad I don't play Sims anymore, I don't have the time and the only thing I do when I turn it on, is build something. I build and then leave. I might be too old 4 Sims... I'm almost 40yo. Then I come here see your content from time to time. Love your energy Kayla. Take care.
@Ariel š enjoy Ariel, I'm happy 4 u. My daughter likes it very much when we play together āŗļø. When Sims 1 first came I was a teen and I also didn't have the money to buy it, so I used to play at a friends house. I went from Sims 1 to 3, that I was able to enjoy more. Then when Sims 4 came I was an adult that could afford the game and some packs here and there. It felt good. I'm glad The Sims connects ppl from different generations and keeps us young š
@approsa sheās going to love it. Iām an older teen now, but I remember watching videos about the sims when I was a bit younger (where I didnāt know how to download the sims on my computer/wasnāt allowed to and didnāt have a job etc) and I bought the sims like a year ago (before it became free smh) and now Iām experiencing all the stuff I wanted to do as a kid when I couldnāt play it, so Iām glad your teaching your daughter how to play!
@Jenna Flora lovely ppl here. Well, it's Kayla s channel, right ? She's the sweetest. I miss The Sims now that you are talking about it... Will have some time to play next weekend. Now I'm showing and teaching my daughter how to play it, too. She's 10.
I only have the base game and i thought that you had to get the packs in order of release, otherwise the expansion won't work. Idk if some packs have requirements before buying them or they are independent updates. Anyway i'll buy the ones i feel i'll like the most
I was looking for this video a few days ago since thereās currently a 50 % off of a lot of the expansion pack ( until the 28th! ) and ended up watching her older ranking videos. From those videos, I decided to get seasons, cats and dogs + pets stuff ( bundle! ). As for outside of the sale, I got pastel pop kit and tiny living stuff pack. So far I'm absolutely loving it! I'm glad I got them but I'm not sure if I would pay the full price for the expansion pack. but the stuff packs and kits are worth it!
Honestly NEVER pay full price for any pack. Alway always bundle if you can. The 1 expansion + 1 game + 1 stuff pack bundle is always the way to go if you are buying outside of a traditional sale.
With their sale I got the cats n dogs w the pet stuff, pastel pop, island living, vampires and the cottage core pack, I bought it at night and havenāt yet gotten to playš
@ILuvAyeAye true true!! trying to work around the limits is a pain. but I remember Kayla and others giving tips in how to "cheat" the system with unattached walls and whatnot; you can check it out!! filter by tiny houses in her channel and you will see plenty!! Idk if anyone has done a roundabout way using platforms, but with Kayla's models, like the triangle tiny houses, you can definitely leave the tiles to be counted on the platform only!
I never understand the dislike among simmers for get famous, it was the first ep i bought and i to this day believe it is the most fully fleshed out pack. it gives you loads of build items, tons of cool cas items and 2 new careers that are not only playable but are super detailed, and a big (yet iāll admit odd) world. to this day four years later i am STILL discovering new things in Get famous.
Eco Lifestyle is a REALLY good pack! it impacts every neighborhood and adds so much gameplay! Definitely great for people who usually play in live mode! :D Oh! and it is hilarious lol.
I hate the voting thing. Half of the game without waterā¦ or npc taking stuff off community lots. No. I use quite a lot from build/buy mode, but gameplay wise - not a fan.
@Jay Bee yeah it's literally the dumbest system there is in the game. I once played with a teenager and I've had the challenge to get all of the good responsibility,manners and so on and so on traits. And then my neighbors put that fight thing in place and I got attacked by everybody so that my teen lost that conflict resolution trait. I was so angry at the game ngl
@philix9285 he charges me every week for āgreen gardeningā which says you should have a garden. I have the biggest garden anyone has ever seen but he still fails me every week š
Season in my opinion is a absolute rip off. The Calendar is now base game (so annoyed the only reason I bought seasons), you get snow with snowy escape, seasons make no difference to any game play except gardening, no world and so much more I canāt think of right now. Sure the cas and bb are really good but that could come with any pack itās not specific to seasons so I doesnāt count as a positive. So youāve paid Ā£35 for rain and holidays.
might be a controversial opinion, but I think packs like Get Together and Get To Work actually hold really well, ik simsie says about them having less content which is true but in terms of actual gameplay I still always use them to this day. I pretty much always use something from Get Together in like every build too, its crazy how old these packs are yet are still better than some of the ones after them. Like the scientist career imo is also one of the best in the whole game, and I think LOT of ppl forget about the re-playability of things like clubs and stores, which you can use in any way you want, compared to re-playability of things like snowy escape (which I really wish was better than it is currently).
I was really quite disappointed with the university pack, the world looks nice but itās annoying that you canāt control whole university households like you could in TS2, the classes are all just rabbitholes, it just felt like a letdown. Most of my sims do go to university, but Iāve only had one actually live on campus.
@QueerLittleCactus well, I know a bunch of people who were dating, making friends and got married at college in the US. Some of them were medical students. That really sucks if studying takes absolutely all of your time at college, it really shouldnāt be like this :(
@Chyrchhella to be fair though, itās like that in real life too. At least in the U.S. College takes a long time, is really difficult, and takes up most of your time between classes, homework, and clubs. Maybe itās just me, but I find that I have little time to hang out with friends unless I have it scheduled or in a club setting and dating is the last thing on my mind because I simply donāt have the time. Plus, depending on your major and future job, college can take a huge chunk of your young adult life (undergrad, masters, phd). My sister is currently going for her phd and she just turned 25. The rabbit hole classes are a bummer, but judging from the active high school classes, I prefer the rabbit holes over buggy classes!
@Nicola Gilroy you also could build the dorms in the sims 3, I also loved that sims visited the rabbit hole classes only twice a week, other days they had lectures which you could follow (kinda like classes in the sims 4 high school pack), and they also had practice classes depending on their major. Ah, good times š„² I also really loved the fact that your sims could get extra credits for having high level of skills required for the major, so they could finish university way faster.
@Chyrchhella I never played Sims 3 University, but I loved Sims 2 University! I loved the fact that I could build my own dorms (same with apartments in Apartment Life, so much better than what we have now!), Iād send Sims to university with their friends and have them live in the same dorm or in a house together, it was so much more fun. Britechester is a pretty world, but the actual university gameplay just feels so lacking.
For me discover university is actually kinda horrendous. It doesnāt feel like college at all which sims 2 and 3 managed to do perfectly. The sims 4 universities are completely dead and lifeless in contrast. It lowkey feels like remote learning bc everything is rabbit holes š Another pack Iāve spent like maybe 5 hours total playing, wish I never bought it lmao.
@Elizabeth Jones how can I get Mccc story progresion? I use playstation4, I alwaysss wanted to be more real, like there's no new people, just the one that came with based game and if I have other stories they don't appear in the one that I'm using...
Sims4 university feels like an actual university (i.e. not fun). I don't know if I'm just playing it wrong but all my sims has time to do is go to class, do assignments and tasks and basic necessities. There's nothing fun (or no time for anything fun)!!!
I never use university because if you start with a young adult they have to sell their house to move to university and then that house is probably not available when they finish (I use MCCC story progression so people do move into empty houses). If your young adult is part of a family you cannot play both households because your student will fail if you don't micromanage them and if they live off campus why bother instead of starting any other career?
11:42 they defo could've done like a small cozy island town neighboorhood on one side of the world, and have the other side be like a 'tourist' vacation district with added lore abt the tourists destroying their town and slowly taking more space
@Leah Lasher mhm i defo agree tho. i just think the gameplay is kinda bland you know. if they had added *more* gameplay it could have worked but right now its a very bland ep.
I hear you. But I like the idea that it didnāt include tourism. Islanders are more than their tourist-driven economies and Iām glad it focused on the lifestyle. That being said, Iād love to have another tropical beach world that had some tourism elements.
Seasons is a must have pack! I don't think I could go back to playing without it now. I think it's the only pack worth the $40 price because it really does offer so much to your gameplay.
that and cottage living are the only ones I've ever payed full price for! i actually dont enjoy cottage living as much as i thought i would but definitely love the animals so far
I love to build too (I once spent 3 hours going thru a book to get all the references to a specific house I wanted to recreate) and for me I really love the style of get together and strangerville
For me I loved snow escape. When you actually take the time to play in the world instead of the typically popular ones is quite amazing. Compared to the higher ranked packs, when I play them I always feel rushed in a way and canāt seem to do everything and just ugh. But for some reason itās just so relaxing for me when I play in snowy escape and itās just very fun and absolutely gorgeous there. Itās personally my favorite world to play in.
personally i think island living is also essential. it's a very unique pack and a wonderful new world, there's nothing even slightly similar in the whole game. i love sending my sims to sulani for the weekends whenever i feel like they need a holiday. where else would i send them? over the weekend they can swim around a little, play on the beach, cruise around on ships or jetskis, sunbathe, see some mermaids, collect shells, dive, etc. the way i see it island living and city living are very similar packs, in a way that they both offer a unique world and a different way of life for your sims, and then it's just preference which one people like. i don't have city living because to me there's nothing appealing about city life, and the festivals are repetitive and boring and lifeless, not to mention how restricted the apartments are with the walls and windows. and yet when people talk about island living it's always what it "could have been". and then when it comes to other packs people rate it for what it is, not what it could have been. yes mermaids could have been better, so could apartments. yeah maybe island living could have given us hotels but then city living could have gives us a landlord carreer or retail system thing. anyway, i personally love recommending island living to new/casual players because it will certainly give them and new and fresh experience. and it can very well be integrated in your everyday gameplay, by going there on short holidays and weekends. my sims need a little break from work or family or anything? to sulani we go! and i'm surprised to see snowy escape so low too because the build/buy and cas are so good, the world and builds are gorgeous, and you absolutely dont have to go out of your way to use the 2 districts that arent up on the mountain. ur sims can live there without caring about winter sports, you dont even have to go up there if you dont want to.
What I like most about island living is that itās one of the easiest packs to get outdoors with. I have a tendency to just have my sims live in their house/apartment. But with island living I spend most of the time wandering around the world or going to lots. Because it feels like thatās what youāre supposed to do. Itās very relaxing gameplay :)
To me personally, Eco Lifestyle is the best pack out there. I love the build and buy, CAS is good and the gameplay is SO good. I love the neighborhood action plans and I love petitioning to take bad neighborhood action plans down. The careers are not that good but to me, the core gameplay that involves dealing with the community appeals so damn much for me
I definitely, definitely play with Get To Work *a lot*. Think a lot of people forget about the hospital and police station also being in a separate world, similar to the lab. Completely agree on the fact that this is the one that needs a refresh the most BUT I feel like it is the underdog of all of them, yet a great contestant.
City living is my favourite š I really hope it gets a refresh, there's many little things they could implement to make it better. It's a shame the apartments are so huge/tall but hopefully they add more apartments in other packs like in Eco Lifestyle
Amazing videos and thank you for breaking it down!! Despite the economic downturn, Iām so happy I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $9,000 investment every 21days.
Iād love to see and African or Middle Eastern styled world. The sims is basically European and American and itās cool and all but as a life simulator youād think there would be more cultures that are a part of life. Snowy escape introduced a new culture and Iād love to see more of it.
I just bought Island Living, and its amazing imo. You get 2 new occults, mermaid and elementals. Volcanic eruption lot challenge, and an amazing island world. I live in florida so this is the closest thing i will get to it lol
def, ive seen that a lot in the comments too. a lot of ppl seem to like snowy escape and island living, they dont really feel like the sims their gameplay is so beautiful yet relaxing.
Iāve been going full on strategic with my purchases in the sims lol. I bought it a few months ago when it was 5 dollars, bought Seasons and Pets during a 50% sale, bought HSYs while I could get the extra stuff, waited some more, and bought Snowy Escape and Cottage live during another sale, and then after Christmas, Iām gonna wait for a sale and buy Eco lifestyle and get together.
I just picked up a couple with the sale, but I used Kayla's older videos, so getting Cats and Dogs plus Get Together yesterday are still the same choices that I would have made if I would have waited for this video. I can't imagine ever paying full price!
I honestly regret getting the Discover University pack. The university gameplay is so boring and the only reason I got it was for the CAS. I like the world, but it's really lacking lots. I love the build and buy but the gameplay for this pack is so boring for me. I was so hyped for it and it just lacked a lot for me. edit: I'm also really bitter that they made THREE hairs that came from university basegame. That one hair with the braid on the side is ONE OF THE REASONS I BOUGHT THIS PACK! I'm glad black simmers or people who just want to make black sims have more options, but i'm furious about how they made hairs from packs free now. Same with those hairs from toddlers stuff.
I really like the fame system from Get Famous. I like it when my Sims are artists, writers or social media influencers and their actions actually make them famous. I think it's really cool and I love how my Sims get recognised as their talents grow.
i'm sorry, but since when the infamous piranha pond turned into the shark pond??? i know you can have different fish in there but as far as I remember, simsie always talked about her piranhas...right? RIGHT? it feels like we somehow shifted to another universe lmao even in the bell family, there are sharks now and I didn't notice when the change happened
I'm pretty sure she started doing sharks with her legacy on Twitch, and since she plays more on there she must have gotten used to doing that instead of piranhas
@ILuvAyeAye yes!!! I don't use twitch, so I don't know what's up with Potts family, but I have watched every single Bell family episode and somehow missed it???
YESSSSSSSSS she said "how funny if Blue fell in the shark pond" last episode of her legacy challenge (or maybe the one before) and I was all like "SHARK???"
maybe you're thinking about her other legacy series, the one on twitch? she did make a video about it recently where she buit the not-so-berry challenge house and she talked about how she always put a piranha pond in all the family's houses and she would make them jump in it to see who the heir is
The colored background on the packs on the sims websites is a new way they are categorizing them. For example royal blue backgrounds like on high-school years is Career&Lifetsyle, but then Green backgrounds like on island living are Outdoor Activities. It's their way of letting you know what kind of game play and stuff is in the pack
I love how I watch these recommendation videos knowing that I am not able to buy any of thesešš can't imagine how much fun it is to play with these
Ill have to say this about Eco Living, I thought it was really cool and had plenty of awesome CAS (I love CAS) but when I downloaded it it completely broke my game. I had sims standing on counters unable to move, no matter how many times I reset them. Also the creating/selling gameplay would crash my game. Mind you I have a professional pc. I honestly dont even touch the pack anymore because of how buggy it is. Ive tried to replay sims but the amount of bugs makes it unplayable. So sad because this is my all time favorite franchise:(
We're surprising my mom with a setup which can handle Sims again. So this video came in CLUTCH as I choose what expansions to have in her surprise Origin account to go along with the tech. :)
If I had to choose only 3 EP I would totally go for > Seasons - I agree with Kayla, it's an incredible pack, very useful and fun, I just can't imagine my game without it (TS2 and TS3 too!! I love TS3 version of it) > Snowy Escape - I ADORE THIS PACK, I'm very into Japan and Japanese style, so this world and build/buy objects are like a dream come true. If I remember correctly, thanks to Snowy Escape we can travel to every world for vacation now (if there is a rental house) > Discover University - great CAS and really well done gameplay imo. It is hard but not impossible to finish studies with A or 6 (with 3 sims at the same time!!). And if I could take 2 more > Get together - for cafes, world and clubs > City living - for apartments, festivals (they're awesome!), many food options from different cultures and just the vibe
nah eco lifestyle is a necessity for me just because of the build/buy stuff, it has my favorite beds ever and the colors are GORGEOUS and the modern style windows that don't break your sims' wallets? AMAZING the base game could never š
It's kind of random but island living is one of my favourites! The ocean irl is a really special place (Maybe because I'm Australian) so being there in the sims gives me so much actual joy and peace. I also love the beachwear in that pack, cleaning the island, and the conservationist career.
i really really wish that high school years would include more gameplay surrounding the career days. if they included a singular day of active career work to give students a taste of work life
Get Famous and Island Living are those packs that sound so cool on paper but then in game are kinda just... there? I think I played in Island Living maybe once. Get Famous is fine but I don't play in the world and the paparazzi are bugged as hell and kinda ruin everything when they swarm a location
One thing I really appreciated about the packs released around 2019-2020, they really expanded the range of styles available for CAS and building, to the point where Eco Lifestyle + Tiny Living meant I could uninstall almost all the custom content I was using for builds, which made my game experience so much better. I'll always rate those packs higher just for that.
One of my favourite unexpected features of city living is the food festivals and recipe collecting! Before I would often have my sims cook and use their own ingredients theyād grown, but this opened up a whole new world for me! The amount of new and culturally diverse recipes is so fun to explore, and unlock to add to your simās own cooking! The food festivals themselves are also such a fun event to take friends, family, and partners to go to together! š now that I have it, I canāt imagine being without it. I really love gardening and creative pursuits so Eco Lifestyle ended up as a must have for me! Initially I didnāt know what Iād think of it, but after watching simmers play it, I went for it and it was so perfect for me! If you like your sim doing creative things, non-traditional careers, and having them make things for themselves, this is probably a great pack for you too. I also really enjoyed the convertible community lots, weāve never really had anything like that before and it helped my sims make a lot of connections!
get famous was a pack i didnt expect to like as much as i do, the world is awful but the gameplay and the sims make it super enjoyable. essential packs for me are 100% cats and dogs, cottage living and seasons i cannot play without them
Hey Kayla for the prom thing Iām pretty sure if u travel to the auditorium u can attend prom. I did it once because I wasnāt done getting my sim ready and from what I can remember it worked
Whenever I've travelled to the auditorium when the prom popup didn't work, it was just the default lot. No way to get to prom without the popup. But maybe it's the difference of it glitching vs choosing not to go when the popup comes up and going later. Possible it still works that way, have never tried.
I also love Seasons, Cats and Dogs, and City Living! I feel like the first two should be included in the base game though. Like, weather and pets are crucial parts of life. I get that itās not the EA way thoughā¦š„²
I love both snowy escape, and island living, theyre really beautiful and I love the Asian and Polynesian representation. But cost wise, I think it shouldnāt be a top priority,
Island Living was the first expansion I bought, I was so excited for mermaids! But I got bored really quickly and kind of regret buying it. I agree the world is beautiful but also Eco Lifestyle is so much more fleshed out and probably my favorite expansion pack.
Thanks so much for this video! I recently started playing again (havenāt played since TS2) and was debating between seasons and cats and dogs. Went with cats and dogs, and Iām so in love with all the animals! They so cute and funny! š„° I gotta get the seasons for sure though and then Iāll do city living eventually. Iām looking at some kits to get though if anyone has suggestions! Thanks!
Eco lifestyle is my favorite expansion pack there is just so much game play. I like to leave NPC voting on and let them vote on NPAs in the background. Sometimes the townies can wreak havoc one save I have is a juiced community, has Free love and We wears bags.
My rating personally, but only with the packs that i own. *Necessary:* Seasons -- Cats & dogs *VERY good:* Snowy Escape *Pretty good:* Cottage Living *Just fine:* Get famous -- Spa Day -- Christmas Stuff *Not for me:* High School Years *About all the packs:* *Seasons:* this pack is definitely good and if you dont have it there will only be california weather all year around, comes with a ton of clothes and hairs and furniture, but especially GAMEPLAY (yay!) probably one of the best packs i would recommend to everyone! *Cats & Dogs:* The pets have a great system for customizing them, exceeding my expectations by farā¦. the vet career isnt maybe the MOST fun, but its ok and functional. the world is honestly great (very rainy) and while i could play without it i definitely prefer to have it in my game and honestly i take it for granted these days! *Snowy Escape:* A beautiful pack, lots of gameplay! The houses and built. by youtubers who are not japanese, rightā¦ and some of them seem a little tourist-esque.. like we're looking at the world from a tourists perspectiveā¦ but generally very good. the town is cosy, something i did notice was that it made all (99%) of my townies have japanese names (for some reason?) which isnt a bad thing of course, i however think its a case of tuning (the pack adds japanese names, but instead of adding them to some people, it almost adds it to ALL people) it might be because im playing in an old save from 2019 which sometimes gets a bit buggy.. but i do love the pack! *Cottage Living:* The world is great! The gameplay is great! The cas items are great. The farming lifestyle was a little (very) repetitive and having lots of chickens, cows, lamas means A LOT of death notifications. CON.STAN.TLY: i honestly wish you could turn them off. i like the build items and i was very pleased with the pack, but maybe it was just not really my play style! *Get Famous:* I honestly love the world for get famous, but mostly the small lots, one of the lots are on this street with these broken/crooked details and it captures the feels of town in a way most other worlds DO NOT. the view is amazing from the luxury houses but i do wish you could maybe interact with the city more and definitely wish there would be more than 2 bars/clubs (only 1 is accessible for non-celebrities). the fame system is okay but its also kind of broken, if your sims mom or aunt or even sibling gets famous, your sim will be nervous and faint around them which doesnt make sense. i do have to say i play with the pack often and it is overall useful, just feel like it would have been better if it came out TODAY because of how the game has improved. *Spa Day:* Not a lot to say, its okay and there isnt anything distinctly bad about it. just not the best pack out there, not necessary at ALL but a fun little addition to your game. *Christmas Stuff:* A free pack with some christmas decor. The decor is not functional and adds nothing to your gameplay except decoration, id recommend it as an addition to seasons, or if you do not own seasons but want to pretend that ur sims have to celebrate christmas. *High School Years:* Warning: Do not buy! Social Bunny app? Completely glitched. the prom? glitched. the new "crush" sentiments? GLITCHED. GLITCHED GLITCHED GLITCHED!!!! this whole pack was a nightmare to explore when i first got it, i was disappointed in everything but the cas/build items. the gameplay is so insanely badly done that i was wondering: HOW DIDNT THEY NOTICE THIS BUG BEFORE LAUNCH??!! my calender was glitched, it made everyones (EVEN PEOPLE THAT HAD NOT *PURCHASED* THE PACK????) game FULLY BUGGED to the point where we COULD NOT. OPEN. OUR. GAMES: WHAT? HOW? THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLDā¦. and yet THIS is the bestt they could deliver. i feel bad. i feel bad for everyone who worked on this pack. (apparently like 8 people? sorry what?) because its a DISASTER: i regret buying it. thats all i can say. do not buy it.
after i bought get famous and city living as a teenager wanting to be a big broadway star, now i buy packs based solely on the build/buy objects i want to use. thatās why jungle adventure, eco lifestyle, and tiny living are my 100% must have packs. i use them in every. single. build.
I just recently got The Sims 4 when it became free and Iām debating getting a couple packs while they are on sale. Currently Iām thinking just Seasons and City Living but this video is very helpful for looking through all my options!
I think what she forgot to mention about city living is that it also actually ties into regular gameplay very well imo. I love going to the festival's whether I'm living in the city world or not, it's just fun. I also love the community lots, many places for a fun night out, a date or a wedding!
The thing about the eclectic nature of build mode in university is that itās true to life, young adults donāt have a lot of money so ikea and fancy hand me downs or thrifted items is what you get so something that isnāt styled is so much more realistic.
i personally love get famous, i have this one celebrity in my world which iām so attached to and i loved getting her up to the top, but i agree the get famous world is so awfulšš thatās why i made her live in a penthouse in the city world once she got famous
Fr š getting famous is so fun thoughh and just sims recognizing you and hosting events, and the acting career. get famous is so fun but the world definitely needs a re-fresh
Get Together is great for making money. When I did the R2R challenge I started out gardening to make money, which on its own is quite lucrative, but over time the garden grew to an unmanageable size. My sim was working from morning to night just to keep up and had very little time to satisfy their needs. Started a gardening club that met daily and basically got free labor to help tend the fields so all I had to do was harvest the crops. Later on I spent some cash on a few easels and added painting to the club activities(or possibly started a new club - can't remember because it was so long ago). I'd walk around and sell the paintings as they were completed. I think the goal of that challenge was to earn $1M and I hit that mark after only a couple of weeks of playing before maxing out my funds a few weeks later.
One of my issues with HSY is that we can't build a high school in a different world. I get why, but it yoinks emersion from me. In my head, Oasis Springs or Mt. Komerebi are nowhere near Copperdale (like you can't drive there and that's how I play). I know that's nitpicky personal play style, but I like having my gens moving being a big deal.
I was really sceptical about eco living because its not my thing. But I got the game when it had 50% discount and I love it! I love the gameplay and the things you can make yourself. I feel like there are a lot of things you can do. Just like cottage living.
I super love Island Living, Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, and somehow City Living because they are rich in cultures, they give us so much taste. They also are very unique with their houses and style. Snowy Escape is still kinda too tourist centric but still pretty inclusive. Seasons, is basic needs.
@CrepeCake10 shut upp thats one of my wish list worlds too! it annoys me sometimes when these games that go "around the world" only go to East Asia, like there's so many more beautiful cultures to explore!!
I agree! I wish we had a Caribbean inspired world, bc I feel so bad when I kinda head canon sulani as Dominican Republic bc I wanna live in my country so bad!! šI hope they make one in the future, it would be an easy way to add resorts!
my first pack was get to work as a gift from my parents (and the only pack i still have on disc lmao), and cat's and dogs was my second. but i really can't agree more that seasons is THE best. especially for a first pack, it's really the best example of specific gameplay enhancements (holidays etc.) and absolute game changing experiences like the seasons. also being able to change the length of seasons, as well as toggling on/off things like thunder storms are really cool to me. there's just so many small details that i couldn't live without, like the roller/ice rinks and having snow ball/water balloon fights. WELL worth the money.
I want to be able to build apartment buildings or row houses so bad! I grew up in Brooklyn, and I played and loved the Sims, but the houses were so foreign to me. I didn't know anyone who lived in a building that didn't touch two buildings on either side, or that had a visibly slanted roof. It was just hard of me to understand how those homes are laid out and roofed.
Apartment Living is fun, but it's so glitchy. I will try to build in the apartment, but it will take the wall paint off the exterior of the building. So I go to fix the exterior paint - no, you're not allowed to change the building's exterior. It's frustrating. I also think my laptop struggles a bit more tracking all the Sims on the street and in the other apartments, but that's my fault for using the Sims on a laptop lol. I don't think it explains the building glitches.
When did the piranha pond turn into a shark pond? Also thanks for ranking these packs. I personally love university build stuff for making teen rooms. I also have fond memories of it because I used it to design my dorm with my mom. Also eco lifestyle is the first pack I bought so I think it holds a special place in my heart. Keep up the good work bro! :) (Also I've been skiing and it isn't that fun. I got stuck in a hole that was around one of the ski lift poles).
Thank you for these kind of videos!!ā¤ļø With Cyber Monday today, I was planning to buy some just didnāt know which ones were worth it. Cause $40 just aināt worth it for some of these š
Seasons is for sure a necessity, but I still canāt stop thinking about the fact that EA charged us for weather š
@julia they did think of it.... They just removed it and added it back as a dlc bcs EA
i just bought the sims 4 and i was so sad when i found out you have to pay for weather š
Alongside Bust the Dust and laundry day! Theyāre a kit and a game pack respectively but ITS PART OF MUDANE LIFE! IT SHOULD BE PART OF THE *LIFE* SIMULATION. Thatās just my opinion
@Isifluff yeah
@Nicole? you can opt out of weather you know
You should do a tier list video for every death in the game
@DiamondStar23šāļø Yeah it was Wasn't her
such a good idea
She did
Or was that vixxela
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This ^
If u only have money to buy one expansion pack out of all those packs, I would personally recommend City living over Season.
1. You got a complete new zone compare to no new zone for season
2. There are tons of events plus food stalls
3. You get to experience apartment style living in 3 very different areas
4. Loft style apartment for builders
I found a copy of City Living for $5 at Walmart, which seemed like a good deal to me. It's still the only pack I own.
theres also new traits, new careers and new lot traits (highly recommend for those who cant have mods)
I only own those two packs, but as much as I love Seasons for the weather and holidays, City Living is my favorite for those reasons.
Dang itās honestly my fav
I actually find seasons annoying, I understand why people love it but itās not necessary for everyone
I personally love Snowy Escape as an Asian, it makes me so happy to see non European or American things in the sims
Snowy escape was one of the first packs I bought cause I adore mountains. One mistake I made was buying it before seasons, snowy escape has holidays and snow weather and it just doesnāt make sense without seasons if I ever recommend a pack I will say to buy seasons and snowy escape together
yesyesyes i'm also asian and i absolutely love it, one of my favourites i love seeing representation and traditional items in games!
I LOVE snowy escape because it added more representation and something more unique than what they usually do. My only complaint is that I have a bug that makes it where my Sims won't take care of their toddlers whenever I'm playing Snowy Escape. So I can never have toddlers.
@S The game is American, the developers are mainly from America - what do you expect, they do the things they know about. Yes, of course it would be nice to have a Russian world with all those nice towers or the old wooden church architecture, or an African world, just one example: a kind of North African sukh. But I am pretty sure the developers lack the more intimate knowledge for that, while they all have been to American Highschools, know how American Suburbia looks like etc.
Im asian as well but for stuff like food i can get with mods since i now play on laptop its kinda useless to me, but i like how sims 4 added korean foods especially the ones i grew up eating
Answering your question in 1:09
They have different colors by categories: deep blue is career and lifestyle, green is outdoor and adventure, magenta is family and friends, light blue is everyday activities, purple is supernatural and fantasy, red-orange is architecture and decorative, yellow-orange is fashion and style. I think I cover them all.
PS: edited to add time stamp.
@Sarah The newer, more up-to-date, non-legacy edition of the Sims 4 (which can be found on Steam) is free, if that helps any.
@rainbcwdream yes, sadly they're getting rid of it soon :/
@Panda Person1245 isn't legacy edition the one that works on older computers?
@Sarahlegacy edition is really old and is being delated Iām pretty sure so you donāt need to have it. It just not updated at all for the newer packs from like eco lifer style or something
@Sarah yes, the base game is free
i wanna see some turkish/arabic/balkan packs in Sims.
like turkish coffee, kebabs, sims that are addicted to soap operas, more traditional rugs, going to each others home to meet parents, strict dads etc
YES
i would love to see a pack like this! i'm not middle eastern/west asian/eastern european myself but i grew up near the detroit area and i have always loved their culture, i think it would be so cool to see stuff from those cultures in game!
@Živa tartosa is such a let down, I feel like is so half-baked
yes! I would love to see a balkan world, with a mediterranean feelingā¦ tartosa is very italian and I would love to see a Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian (basically Yugoslavian) world!
I would die for soap operas in the sims!!!
I personally love get famous, I love the actors career, the fans, the gifts they send you and letters... And I also like you can be famous in any career, like a famous baker, a author or football player or whatever... I like the video station to play like a youtuber... there's a lot of opportunities to having fun with this pack, but I do agree the world is terrible haha
This was literaly the first pack I was thinking about to buy! Just recently installed the free base version and downloaded BTS (K-Pop music group) household and it'd be epic to actually live their life hahaha.
I never knew so many people disliked the world! the cul-de-sac neighborhood is so north american suburban that I cant help but love it! it feels like every cartoon/disney movie š
Seasons and City Living are in my necessary ones as well, they make it such a different game. Parenthood, dream home decorator and tiny living are up there for me as well.
@lilymwa which one did you get?
I agree! Recently all my packs I had got deleted (not entirely sure why as one I didnāt even know I bought I had for somehow, but I believe itās because the account they were bought with somehow got deleted) and so my amazing brother offered to buy me one (cause they stupidly expensive) and I was struggling between seasons and city living so bad
@epic style they are extremely annoying at times but seeing the random strays, kids playing with them and the cuteness of puppies/kittens is worth it š
I loooove Tiny Living just for the furniture options. I use the stuff from that pack absolutely constantly.
I got dem both
It wouldāve been nice if they added some kind of ātraditionalā festival things like in the City Pack to Island Living, would suit that pack a lot
Thereās at least one festival in that pack where they do fire dancing and cook together but for some reason itās not on the calendar so you have to either see it or already know itās going to happen :(
Other than the necessities like pets and seasons, Snowy Escape and (unexpectedly) Cottage Living are my favorite.
I love these types of āwhat packs should you buyā videos, I wish someone made these when I first started getting into the sims.
Thereās literally 800 āranking Sims packsā videos on Clip-Share
@Sage Ardor Yeah, I love the aesthetic and world for Island Living but it's definitely a better option once you have a few other packs of any type which impacts the game a bit more. Same for Snowy Escape. There are exceptions of course; if you're always playing in Sulani or Mt. Komorebi and it's a really important culture for you, then it's better but for others either one will be a touch too empty (although at least Snowy Escape does have more lifestyle options.) š
@Sage Ardor I almost got my first pet stuff when I first got sims
FOR REAL. My first expansion pack was Island Living, and in retrospect I think that was a bad choice.
YES omg, and like actual detailed overviews of the packs would help soooo much
I have City Living and Pets and I'm kinda making sure my choice for next pack is the right one, and this video helped me :) I'm getting Snowy escape and Seasons next. And then, after that if I haven't tired of sims yet, Cottage Living.
Same! I have city living and cats and dogs
I know people say Snowy Escape is lacking gameplay and stuff, and I do agree, but the world itself and the Build & Buy items in this pack are my all time favorite.
As an Asian who grows up in Eastern Asia, this pack is a must have for me. Also, I don't think they've ever given us other sims4 pack with similar theme afterwards.
@Chele For me I prefer city living because theres more cultures represented! I rarely see representation in media for places other than North/South America(South America being mostly just Mexico), Western Europe and East Asia. City living added so much cultural food, clothes, and build/buy that are a complete necessity, it makes the world feel more real to me. Lifestyles confused me, and the game never labels my sims correctly! And the stuff for kids at the festivals just felt like something I could build at any park tbh, like just add some science tables and id be set š
I AGREE!
I donāt get people who say Snowy Escape lacks gameplay but City Living is one of their favorites. I think Snowy Escape is way betterā¦ thereās stuff for kids at the festivals, and you can go hiking/skiing/boarding/mountain climbing. Plus thereās snow to play in (I donāt have Seasons), and I love the CAS & Build/Buy while a lot of City Living CAS is just weird. Plus lifestyles are just a standard part of any game now. And taking your shoes off indoors is a small but really nice touch that I love.
I'm not East Asian, but I spent a long time studying the languages and cultures of Eastern Asia in general and I cried seeing how on point the cultural aspects of Mt. Komorebi came into being. Removing shoes before continuing to walk into the house, the chopsticks being a potential utensil preference, the yukata and kimono, the kites, the onsen even, all of it nearly made me start sobbing. The world itself is absolutely gorgeous. I don't even mind the lack of gameplay simply because of the fidelity to the real world Japanese culture that Snowy Escape as a whole has. Would I like to see more gameplay-affective things with this pack? Yes, I would. Would I like to see more of an in-depth exploration to the culture this pack is showing everyone? Absolutely. But I don't mind if it never comes, since it's already really in depth as it is. (Would recommend doubling up Snowy Escape with Incheon Arrivals Kit, though!)
Still cant get over the fact that seasons pack should be in base game instead
i think it should or they should all be chepper cuz of kids if they want it and there mom or dad or who they live with wont buy it
when i first got the sims i saw so many people doing gameplays and when i first played i was wondering why there's no other weather types in my game then i found out they make us pay $40 for different weather š
@Nanny Kiki never played sims 3
Are you forgetting sims 3 had seasons
@Chloe sarie then in Sims 5 if it's free then in settings have an on and off toggle
I donāt have any packs in the Sims yet, but I am thinking about getting the Cats and Dogs EP. The world looks absolutely beautiful and really cozy. And the best part is that cats and dogs are added. I lost my German Shepard around 5 years ago, so re-creating him in my world would be really heart warming. It also comes with the vet career, which I am in love with.
I feel like expansion packs deal with your life experiences. For example on how Snowy Escape relates to lots of asian people, and Get Famous being for people who want to be influencers irl.
The pets are, at least to me, amazing. The cats are quirky and have so much personality (I don't play the dogs as much). So I'd say, go for it.
@Google Sucksjust curious, what makes you not like seasons?
I agree. It's 100% what you're personally into and playing style. - I personally HATE seasons and turn it off.
The thing I want the most from Sims now is Apartment! And perhaps Hotel. I really want the concept of landlord and renting and strangers live in the same building so bad. I want to build and operate apartments and hotels. Not just living in one like city livingš
One of my biggest issues with "High School Years" is that I have a save that's set to Long Lifespan, but prom is EVERY. SINGLE. SATURDAY. and unlike the regular High School day, there is no "Send Alone" option. If I want my teenage daughter to go to prom, I can't take care of my other 4 kids.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 I found a mod that fixes one of the problems. Thereās a mod that lets you set the number of students in the high school. I donāt remember by who, sorry, but it is just a script file and is pretty light, so it works with most computers. I have the 18 students package because I like small high schools and it works with no issues.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 This is way I always watch a ton of gameplay videos before getting any packs. And not just Simsie, because she tends to gloss over anything that's less than perfect. Watch a bunch of different Simmers for different opinions before shelling out any money. And then I still wait for sales.
@Cool Pumpkins 45 I get you, that really sucks that you wasted your money like that. The only thing I can think of to help with your gameplay is downloading another better high school from the gallery. Lilsimsie has a great one, and so does James Turner. My personal favorite one is Jamesā. Hopefully you can find some more enjoyment out of it that way
THATS your biggest issue? literally EVERY- SINGLE- FEAUTRE in the pack is FULLY bugged. i payed for that with my money i got for my birthday. that money was WASTED. i am so dissapointed in the pack, everything that came with it, and plus the high school was empty and dark, theres like 5 sims in the class, not nearly as fun and exciting as in the ad, i just send my sim teens alone every time because its SO boring.
I get you, I have their lives scaled to ā28 days=4 seasons=1 yearā and itās so annoying doing the āspring formalā and the āwinter ballā and the āHalloween danceā just to diversify the IDENTICAL GAMEPLAY that takes place EVERY Saturday
This video came at the PERFECT TIME, I was literally just googling this the other day!
Having bought all the expansion packs (except High school years, waiting for the next saleš) Iād say I wouldnāt want to not have either of them. I have my preferences too but Iām glad I got them all. Cottage living is my absolute sweetheart, even when Iām not even playing it actively, I just love it so much I keep thinking about how much I love itš I do wish that EA showed a bit more enthusiasm and care through the packs and the builds showed, it is a bit off-putting that they put the high price tag on it but some packs(especially game packs) look like they literally just threw the first version on us knowing that we still gonna buy it.
@Raffie ohh, is it over?
@G I meant winter!!! Oh no!! Steam winter* sale is a sale that the game engine Steam has every winter (thereās one during the summer too) and lots of games and dlcs are marked down by a lot!! Makes everything cheap for a week or so.
@Chloe what's that
@Chloe haha same! ashamed to admit that now i have high school years too :( ahahah
Steam summer sale just started now!! Lol thats why I'm watching these videos.
I think my most nostalgic packs are Get Together and Outdoor Retreat. I love those packs for that alone haha. Also I use clubs all the time to just make my kids have friends!!
I think a fun "spin off" of this series of videos would be "which sims game has the best X" where X is a certain genre like "University" "Seasons" or "Supernatural"
Agree. That would be great, being TS3 at least in the best University pack.
Plumbella has an entire history of series where she kind of does this!
probably makes more sense to change the genres to best cas, build-buy; or even best teens or kids gameplay ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Seasons is a great pack, but I wish there was the possibility to adjust the amound of rain days. If you play with seasons, it is raining way to much for my liking
you could always use the weather machine
First pack I bought was City Living. Maaaany years ago, they didn't even had Seasons , yet. My second pack.
So sad I don't play Sims anymore, I don't have the time and the only thing I do when I turn it on, is build something. I build and then leave. I might be too old 4 Sims... I'm almost 40yo. Then I come here see your content from time to time. Love your energy Kayla. Take care.
@Ariel š enjoy Ariel, I'm happy 4 u. My daughter likes it very much when we play together āŗļø.
When Sims 1 first came I was a teen and I also didn't have the money to buy it, so I used to play at a friends house. I went from Sims 1 to 3, that I was able to enjoy more. Then when Sims 4 came I was an adult that could afford the game and some packs here and there. It felt good. I'm glad The Sims connects ppl from different generations and keeps us young š
@approsa sheās going to love it. Iām an older teen now, but I remember watching videos about the sims when I was a bit younger (where I didnāt know how to download the sims on my computer/wasnāt allowed to and didnāt have a job etc) and I bought the sims like a year ago (before it became free smh) and now Iām experiencing all the stuff I wanted to do as a kid when I couldnāt play it, so Iām glad your teaching your daughter how to play!
@Jenna Flora lovely ppl here. Well, it's Kayla s channel, right ? She's the sweetest. I miss The Sims now that you are talking about it... Will have some time to play next weekend. Now I'm showing and teaching my daughter how to play it, too. She's 10.
Im 48... I tend to only play in the Winter though... not sure why but my brain is like... well its cold out... time to play the sims
@cats š
I only have the base game and i thought that you had to get the packs in order of release, otherwise the expansion won't work. Idk if some packs have requirements before buying them or they are independent updates. Anyway i'll buy the ones i feel i'll like the most
I was looking for this video a few days ago since thereās currently a 50 % off of a lot of the expansion pack ( until the 28th! ) and ended up watching her older ranking videos. From those videos, I decided to get seasons, cats and dogs + pets stuff ( bundle! ). As for outside of the sale, I got pastel pop kit and tiny living stuff pack. So far I'm absolutely loving it! I'm glad I got them but I'm not sure if I would pay the full price for the expansion pack. but the stuff packs and kits are worth it!
Honestly NEVER pay full price for any pack. Alway always bundle if you can. The 1 expansion + 1 game + 1 stuff pack bundle is always the way to go if you are buying outside of a traditional sale.
the black friday sale ends on december 7th
@yiczelasanchez8414 thatāll keep you busy for ages š
With their sale I got the cats n dogs w the pet stuff, pastel pop, island living, vampires and the cottage core pack, I bought it at night and havenāt yet gotten to playš
@ILuvAyeAye true true!! trying to work around the limits is a pain. but I remember Kayla and others giving tips in how to "cheat" the system with unattached walls and whatnot; you can check it out!!
filter by tiny houses in her channel and you will see plenty!! Idk if anyone has done a roundabout way using platforms, but with Kayla's models, like the triangle tiny houses, you can definitely leave the tiles to be counted on the platform only!
I never understand the dislike among simmers for get famous, it was the first ep i bought and i to this day believe it is the most fully fleshed out pack. it gives you loads of build items, tons of cool cas items and 2 new careers that are not only playable but are super detailed, and a big (yet iāll admit odd) world. to this day four years later i am STILL discovering new things in Get famous.
Yes, I feel the exact same way. The EP is one of the top one's due to it being fully fleshed out.
Yes! I love get famous!
Eco Lifestyle is a REALLY good pack! it impacts every neighborhood and adds so much gameplay! Definitely great for people who usually play in live mode! :D Oh! and it is hilarious lol.
it's very cool when you actually wanna play with it but it's so annoying if you don't plan out your gameplay around it
@moonbyeol you can turn the neighbourhood voting in options:) so you can enjoy the pack without the faff
I hate the voting thing. Half of the game without waterā¦ or npc taking stuff off community lots. No.
I use quite a lot from build/buy mode, but gameplay wise - not a fan.
@Jay Bee yeah it's literally the dumbest system there is in the game. I once played with a teenager and I've had the challenge to get all of the good responsibility,manners and so on and so on traits. And then my neighbors put that fight thing in place and I got attacked by everybody so that my teen lost that conflict resolution trait. I was so angry at the game ngl
@philix9285 he charges me every week for āgreen gardeningā which says you should have a garden. I have the biggest garden anyone has ever seen but he still fails me every week š
I love seasons because of the snow:)
Seasons in sim3 and 4 will always be elite
Season in my opinion is a absolute rip off. The Calendar is now base game (so annoyed the only reason I bought seasons), you get snow with snowy escape, seasons make no difference to any game play except gardening, no world and so much more I canāt think of right now. Sure the cas and bb are really good but that could come with any pack itās not specific to seasons so I doesnāt count as a positive. So youāve paid Ā£35 for rain and holidays.
might be a controversial opinion, but I think packs like Get Together and Get To Work actually hold really well, ik simsie says about them having less content which is true but in terms of actual gameplay I still always use them to this day. I pretty much always use something from Get Together in like every build too, its crazy how old these packs are yet are still better than some of the ones after them. Like the scientist career imo is also one of the best in the whole game, and I think LOT of ppl forget about the re-playability of things like clubs and stores, which you can use in any way you want, compared to re-playability of things like snowy escape (which I really wish was better than it is currently).
Crap builds aside, I still like Del Sol Valley. I might be the only one who does š
Snowy escape is their best pack seriously
I was really quite disappointed with the university pack, the world looks nice but itās annoying that you canāt control whole university households like you could in TS2, the classes are all just rabbitholes, it just felt like a letdown. Most of my sims do go to university, but Iāve only had one actually live on campus.
i bought university not knowing this and finding out about after the fact sucked.
@QueerLittleCactus well, I know a bunch of people who were dating, making friends and got married at college in the US. Some of them were medical students.
That really sucks if studying takes absolutely all of your time at college, it really shouldnāt be like this :(
@Chyrchhella to be fair though, itās like that in real life too. At least in the U.S. College takes a long time, is really difficult, and takes up most of your time between classes, homework, and clubs.
Maybe itās just me, but I find that I have little time to hang out with friends unless I have it scheduled or in a club setting and dating is the last thing on my mind because I simply donāt have the time. Plus, depending on your major and future job, college can take a huge chunk of your young adult life (undergrad, masters, phd). My sister is currently going for her phd and she just turned 25. The rabbit hole classes are a bummer, but judging from the active high school classes, I prefer the rabbit holes over buggy classes!
@Nicola Gilroy you also could build the dorms in the sims 3, I also loved that sims visited the rabbit hole classes only twice a week, other days they had lectures which you could follow (kinda like classes in the sims 4 high school pack), and they also had practice classes depending on their major. Ah, good times š„²
I also really loved the fact that your sims could get extra credits for having high level of skills required for the major, so they could finish university way faster.
@Chyrchhella I never played Sims 3 University, but I loved Sims 2 University! I loved the fact that I could build my own dorms (same with apartments in Apartment Life, so much better than what we have now!), Iād send Sims to university with their friends and have them live in the same dorm or in a house together, it was so much more fun. Britechester is a pretty world, but the actual university gameplay just feels so lacking.
For me discover university is actually kinda horrendous. It doesnāt feel like college at all which sims 2 and 3 managed to do perfectly. The sims 4 universities are completely dead and lifeless in contrast. It lowkey feels like remote learning bc everything is rabbit holes š
Another pack Iāve spent like maybe 5 hours total playing, wish I never bought it lmao.
@carolyn acra mods are only available on PC unfortunately.
@Elizabeth Jones how can I get Mccc story progresion? I use playstation4, I alwaysss wanted to be more real, like there's no new people, just the one that came with based game and if I have other stories they don't appear in the one that I'm using...
Sims4 university feels like an actual university (i.e. not fun). I don't know if I'm just playing it wrong but all my sims has time to do is go to class, do assignments and tasks and basic necessities. There's nothing fun (or no time for anything fun)!!!
I never use university because if you start with a young adult they have to sell their house to move to university and then that house is probably not available when they finish (I use MCCC story progression so people do move into empty houses). If your young adult is part of a family you cannot play both households because your student will fail if you don't micromanage them and if they live off campus why bother instead of starting any other career?
@Patrick Adonis Silva same! I love the pack lol I send all my Sims to uni
11:42 they defo could've done like a small cozy island town neighboorhood on one side of the world, and have the other side be like a 'tourist' vacation district with added lore abt the tourists destroying their town and slowly taking more space
@Leah Lasher im dying for Dominican Republic rep so if they do that for a resort expansion I would actually cry!!
@Leah Lasher mhm i defo agree tho. i just think the gameplay is kinda bland you know. if they had added *more* gameplay it could have worked but right now its a very bland ep.
I hear you. But I like the idea that it didnāt include tourism. Islanders are more than their tourist-driven economies and Iām glad it focused on the lifestyle. That being said, Iād love to have another tropical beach world that had some tourism elements.
@lainey šš
that would require ea to think
Seasons is a must have pack! I don't think I could go back to playing without it now. I think it's the only pack worth the $40 price because it really does offer so much to your gameplay.
that and cottage living are the only ones I've ever payed full price for! i actually dont enjoy cottage living as much as i thought i would but definitely love the animals so far
As a build-ish player I love new and diverse worlds. Snowy Escape and Island Living are my two favorites, and now Tartosa has joined them.
Island Living is a bit underrated, like who would not want to become a mermaid!!
@Ariana k totally agree! The Get Together world is amazing. I love building on the island. :)
I love to build too (I once spent 3 hours going thru a book to get all the references to a specific house I wanted to recreate) and for me I really love the style of get together and strangerville
For me I loved snow escape. When you actually take the time to play in the world instead of the typically popular ones is quite amazing. Compared to the higher ranked packs, when I play them I always feel rushed in a way and canāt seem to do everything and just ugh. But for some reason itās just so relaxing for me when I play in snowy escape and itās just very fun and absolutely gorgeous there. Itās personally my favorite world to play in.
I love both island living and snowy escape. both top tier for me! it almost doesn't feel like the sims
I use get famous all the time just for the CAS and build mode stuff lol
personally i think island living is also essential. it's a very unique pack and a wonderful new world, there's nothing even slightly similar in the whole game. i love sending my sims to sulani for the weekends whenever i feel like they need a holiday. where else would i send them? over the weekend they can swim around a little, play on the beach, cruise around on ships or jetskis, sunbathe, see some mermaids, collect shells, dive, etc.
the way i see it island living and city living are very similar packs, in a way that they both offer a unique world and a different way of life for your sims, and then it's just preference which one people like. i don't have city living because to me there's nothing appealing about city life, and the festivals are repetitive and boring and lifeless, not to mention how restricted the apartments are with the walls and windows.
and yet when people talk about island living it's always what it "could have been". and then when it comes to other packs people rate it for what it is, not what it could have been. yes mermaids could have been better, so could apartments. yeah maybe island living could have given us hotels but then city living could have gives us a landlord carreer or retail system thing.
anyway, i personally love recommending island living to new/casual players because it will certainly give them and new and fresh experience. and it can very well be integrated in your everyday gameplay, by going there on short holidays and weekends. my sims need a little break from work or family or anything? to sulani we go!
and i'm surprised to see snowy escape so low too because the build/buy and cas are so good, the world and builds are gorgeous, and you absolutely dont have to go out of your way to use the 2 districts that arent up on the mountain. ur sims can live there without caring about winter sports, you dont even have to go up there if you dont want to.
I agree Island Living is the pack i play most with bc the world is so beautiful and tbh, i'm very glad there is no resort or big hotel complex š¶
What I like most about island living is that itās one of the easiest packs to get outdoors with. I have a tendency to just have my sims live in their house/apartment. But with island living I spend most of the time wandering around the world or going to lots. Because it feels like thatās what youāre supposed to do. Itās very relaxing gameplay :)
who else NEEDS either a futuristic sims pack. i know it wouldn't fit in but the idea of into the future in the sims sounds kind of exciting.
i would love that oml
To me personally, Eco Lifestyle is the best pack out there. I love the build and buy, CAS is good and the gameplay is SO good. I love the neighborhood action plans and I love petitioning to take bad neighborhood action plans down. The careers are not that good but to me, the core gameplay that involves dealing with the community appeals so damn much for me
I definitely, definitely play with Get To Work *a lot*. Think a lot of people forget about the hospital and police station also being in a separate world, similar to the lab. Completely agree on the fact that this is the one that needs a refresh the most BUT I feel like it is the underdog of all of them, yet a great contestant.
you should do a build using youāre recommended bundle!! perfect for all the new simmers and with the sale :))
City living is my favourite š I really hope it gets a refresh, there's many little things they could implement to make it better. It's a shame the apartments are so huge/tall but hopefully they add more apartments in other packs like in Eco Lifestyle
Amazing videos and thank you for breaking it down!! Despite the economic downturn, Iām so happy I have been earning $ 60,000 returns from my $9,000 investment every 21days.
I can sincerely say he's one of the best Traders I have ever seen in the state in the past few years, now cutting losses and ensuring profits..
@Smith Roseanne Great got it thanks alot, I have contacted him and he just responded told him you referred me.
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For sure. He's on What's apkšš
Oh please, how can someone get to speak with Mr James Werden. Anyone with his contact info š
Iād love to see and African or Middle Eastern styled world. The sims is basically European and American and itās cool and all but as a life simulator youād think there would be more cultures that are a part of life. Snowy escape introduced a new culture and Iād love to see more of it.
I just bought Island Living, and its amazing imo. You get 2 new occults, mermaid and elementals. Volcanic eruption lot challenge, and an amazing island world. I live in florida so this is the closest thing i will get to it lol
def, ive seen that a lot in the comments too. a lot of ppl seem to like snowy escape and island living, they dont really feel like the sims their gameplay is so beautiful yet relaxing.
Iāve been going full on strategic with my purchases in the sims lol. I bought it a few months ago when it was 5 dollars, bought Seasons and Pets during a 50% sale, bought HSYs while I could get the extra stuff, waited some more, and bought Snowy Escape and Cottage live during another sale, and then after Christmas, Iām gonna wait for a sale and buy Eco lifestyle and get together.
I just picked up a couple with the sale, but I used Kayla's older videos, so getting Cats and Dogs plus Get Together yesterday are still the same choices that I would have made if I would have waited for this video. I can't imagine ever paying full price!
I honestly regret getting the Discover University pack. The university gameplay is so boring and the only reason I got it was for the CAS. I like the world, but it's really lacking lots. I love the build and buy but the gameplay for this pack is so boring for me. I was so hyped for it and it just lacked a lot for me.
edit: I'm also really bitter that they made THREE hairs that came from university basegame. That one hair with the braid on the side is ONE OF THE REASONS I BOUGHT THIS PACK! I'm glad black simmers or people who just want to make black sims have more options, but i'm furious about how they made hairs from packs free now. Same with those hairs from toddlers stuff.
Del Sol Valley really just looks sooo unpleasant. The colors and everything just...ew. no. I get the hate. :D
I really like the fame system from Get Famous. I like it when my Sims are artists, writers or social media influencers and their actions actually make them famous. I think it's really cool and I love how my Sims get recognised as their talents grow.
i'm sorry, but since when the infamous piranha pond turned into the shark pond???
i know you can have different fish in there but as far as I remember, simsie always talked about her piranhas...right? RIGHT?
it feels like we somehow shifted to another universe lmao
even in the bell family, there are sharks now and I didn't notice when the change happened
I'm pretty sure she started doing sharks with her legacy on Twitch, and since she plays more on there she must have gotten used to doing that instead of piranhas
@ILuvAyeAye yes!!! I don't use twitch, so I don't know what's up with Potts family, but I have watched every single Bell family episode and somehow missed it???
YESSSSSSSSS she said "how funny if Blue fell in the shark pond" last episode of her legacy challenge (or maybe the one before) and I was all like "SHARK???"
maybe you're thinking about her other legacy series, the one on twitch? she did make a video about it recently where she buit the not-so-berry challenge house and she talked about how she always put a piranha pond in all the family's houses and she would make them jump in it to see who the heir is
@antyss it's only been in the last month or two, her sims could just afford sharks now so she gets those ones
The colored background on the packs on the sims websites is a new way they are categorizing them. For example royal blue backgrounds like on high-school years is Career&Lifetsyle, but then Green backgrounds like on island living are Outdoor Activities. It's their way of letting you know what kind of game play and stuff is in the pack
I came to the comments to write this description lol. I noticed this a few weeks ago. I love the new categorization of the packs on their site.
WAIT OMG RLY THT MAKES SO MUCH SENSEE
@Baebee_Peach ok
Before anyone else asks, orange is Architecture&Decor and purple is Supernatural&Fantasy and yellow is Fashion&Style
@Zankor2 Everyday Activities
I love how I watch these recommendation videos knowing that I am not able to buy any of thesešš can't imagine how much fun it is to play with these
I like these videos because even though I have most of the packs it's interesting to see how different our opinions are on all the sims packs!
I'm holding out hope for a 'Be our Guest' gamepack where you can run a bnb or hotel. Just imagine.
Ill have to say this about Eco Living, I thought it was really cool and had plenty of awesome CAS (I love CAS) but when I downloaded it it completely broke my game. I had sims standing on counters unable to move, no matter how many times I reset them. Also the creating/selling gameplay would crash my game. Mind you I have a professional pc. I honestly dont even touch the pack anymore because of how buggy it is. Ive tried to replay sims but the amount of bugs makes it unplayable. So sad because this is my all time favorite franchise:(
Have you tried disabling the pack? Maybe youāll be able to play the Sims again
We're surprising my mom with a setup which can handle Sims again. So this video came in CLUTCH as I choose what expansions to have in her surprise Origin account to go along with the tech. :)
you should get her city living or cats and dogs, the worlds are stunning and the build/buy and the cas is so good!
since i live in a different country, each pack cost between 90 and 200 bucks
have u tried ea dlc unlocker? if you have the free legit game you can get those dlcs for free
If I had to choose only 3 EP I would totally go for
> Seasons - I agree with Kayla, it's an incredible pack, very useful and fun, I just can't imagine my game without it (TS2 and TS3 too!! I love TS3 version of it)
> Snowy Escape - I ADORE THIS PACK, I'm very into Japan and Japanese style, so this world and build/buy objects are like a dream come true. If I remember correctly, thanks to Snowy Escape we can travel to every world for vacation now (if there is a rental house)
> Discover University - great CAS and really well done gameplay imo. It is hard but not impossible to finish studies with A or 6 (with 3 sims at the same time!!).
And if I could take 2 more
> Get together - for cafes, world and clubs
> City living - for apartments, festivals (they're awesome!), many food options from different cultures and just the vibe
nah eco lifestyle is a necessity for me just because of the build/buy stuff, it has my favorite beds ever and the colors are GORGEOUS and the modern style windows that don't break your sims' wallets? AMAZING the base game could never š
It seems so strange hearing the village in cottage living being described as āa downtown areaā š
It's kind of random but island living is one of my favourites! The ocean irl is a really special place (Maybe because I'm Australian) so being there in the sims gives me so much actual joy and peace. I also love the beachwear in that pack, cleaning the island, and the conservationist career.
Honestly I bought every one of them this last summer when I got wifi. I'm only missing 3 kits. You inspired me to spend my bonus on something I love.
I love that for you ā¤š weāll be broke together
i really really wish that high school years would include more gameplay surrounding the career days. if they included a singular day of active career work to give students a taste of work life
Get Famous and Island Living are those packs that sound so cool on paper but then in game are kinda just... there? I think I played in Island Living maybe once. Get Famous is fine but I don't play in the world and the paparazzi are bugged as hell and kinda ruin everything when they swarm a location
One thing I really appreciated about the packs released around 2019-2020, they really expanded the range of styles available for CAS and building, to the point where Eco Lifestyle + Tiny Living meant I could uninstall almost all the custom content I was using for builds, which made my game experience so much better. I'll always rate those packs higher just for that.
I always forget werewolves, vampires and tiny living are different tiers of expansion because they impact so much as far as gameplay, worlds, etc
One of my favourite unexpected features of city living is the food festivals and recipe collecting! Before I would often have my sims cook and use their own ingredients theyād grown, but this opened up a whole new world for me! The amount of new and culturally diverse recipes is so fun to explore, and unlock to add to your simās own cooking! The food festivals themselves are also such a fun event to take friends, family, and partners to go to together! š now that I have it, I canāt imagine being without it.
I really love gardening and creative pursuits so Eco Lifestyle ended up as a must have for me! Initially I didnāt know what Iād think of it, but after watching simmers play it, I went for it and it was so perfect for me! If you like your sim doing creative things, non-traditional careers, and having them make things for themselves, this is probably a great pack for you too. I also really enjoyed the convertible community lots, weāve never really had anything like that before and it helped my sims make a lot of connections!
get famous was a pack i didnt expect to like as much as i do, the world is awful but the gameplay and the sims make it super enjoyable. essential packs for me are 100% cats and dogs, cottage living and seasons i cannot play without them
Hey Kayla for the prom thing Iām pretty sure if u travel to the auditorium u can attend prom. I did it once because I wasnāt done getting my sim ready and from what I can remember it worked
Whenever I've travelled to the auditorium when the prom popup didn't work, it was just the default lot. No way to get to prom without the popup. But maybe it's the difference of it glitching vs choosing not to go when the popup comes up and going later. Possible it still works that way, have never tried.
I also love Seasons, Cats and Dogs, and City Living! I feel like the first two should be included in the base game though. Like, weather and pets are crucial parts of life. I get that itās not the EA way thoughā¦š„²
Rip my wallet. The way she describes these packs makes me want to buy almost all of them
Same šš but 40 dollars is way too muchh
I love both snowy escape, and island living, theyre really beautiful and I love the Asian and Polynesian representation. But cost wise, I think it shouldnāt be a top priority,
Island Living was the first expansion I bought, I was so excited for mermaids! But I got bored really quickly and kind of regret buying it. I agree the world is beautiful but also Eco Lifestyle is so much more fleshed out and probably my favorite expansion pack.
simsieās videos are genuinely so relaxing. i could listen to her talk about this stuff for hourrrrssss
Thanks so much for this video! I recently started playing again (havenāt played since TS2) and was debating between seasons and cats and dogs. Went with cats and dogs, and Iām so in love with all the animals! They so cute and funny! š„° I gotta get the seasons for sure though and then Iāll do city living eventually. Iām looking at some kits to get though if anyone has suggestions! Thanks!
Eco lifestyle is my favorite expansion pack there is just so much game play. I like to leave NPC voting on and let them vote on NPAs in the background. Sometimes the townies can wreak havoc one save I have is a juiced community, has Free love and We wears bags.
I adore the house you built in Snowy Escape! I've used it a lot āŗļøš
My rating personally, but only with the packs that i own.
*Necessary:* Seasons -- Cats & dogs
*VERY good:* Snowy Escape
*Pretty good:* Cottage Living
*Just fine:* Get famous -- Spa Day -- Christmas Stuff
*Not for me:* High School Years
*About all the packs:*
*Seasons:* this pack is definitely good and if you dont have it there will only be california weather all year around, comes with a ton of clothes and hairs and furniture, but especially GAMEPLAY (yay!) probably one of the best packs i would recommend to everyone!
*Cats & Dogs:* The pets have a great system for customizing them, exceeding my expectations by farā¦. the vet career isnt maybe the MOST fun, but its ok and functional. the world is honestly great (very rainy) and while i could play without it i definitely prefer to have it in my game and honestly i take it for granted these days!
*Snowy Escape:* A beautiful pack, lots of gameplay! The houses and built. by youtubers who are not japanese, rightā¦ and some of them seem a little tourist-esque.. like we're looking at the world from a tourists perspectiveā¦ but generally very good. the town is cosy, something i did notice was that it made all (99%) of my townies have japanese names (for some reason?) which isnt a bad thing of course, i however think its a case of tuning (the pack adds japanese names, but instead of adding them to some people, it almost adds it to ALL people) it might be because im playing in an old save from 2019 which sometimes gets a bit buggy.. but i do love the pack!
*Cottage Living:* The world is great! The gameplay is great! The cas items are great. The farming lifestyle was a little (very) repetitive and having lots of chickens, cows, lamas means A LOT of death notifications. CON.STAN.TLY: i honestly wish you could turn them off. i like the build items and i was very pleased with the pack, but maybe it was just not really my play style!
*Get Famous:* I honestly love the world for get famous, but mostly the small lots, one of the lots are on this street with these broken/crooked details and it captures the feels of town in a way most other worlds DO NOT. the view is amazing from the luxury houses but i do wish you could maybe interact with the city more and definitely wish there would be more than 2 bars/clubs (only 1 is accessible for non-celebrities). the fame system is okay but its also kind of broken, if your sims mom or aunt or even sibling gets famous, your sim will be nervous and faint around them which doesnt make sense. i do have to say i play with the pack often and it is overall useful, just feel like it would have been better if it came out TODAY because of how the game has improved.
*Spa Day:* Not a lot to say, its okay and there isnt anything distinctly bad about it. just not the best pack out there, not necessary at ALL but a fun little addition to your game.
*Christmas Stuff:* A free pack with some christmas decor. The decor is not functional and adds nothing to your gameplay except decoration, id recommend it as an addition to seasons, or if you do not own seasons but want to pretend that ur sims have to celebrate christmas.
*High School Years:* Warning: Do not buy! Social Bunny app? Completely glitched. the prom? glitched. the new "crush" sentiments? GLITCHED. GLITCHED GLITCHED GLITCHED!!!! this whole pack was a nightmare to explore when i first got it, i was disappointed in everything but the cas/build items. the gameplay is so insanely badly done that i was wondering: HOW DIDNT THEY NOTICE THIS BUG BEFORE LAUNCH??!! my calender was glitched, it made everyones (EVEN PEOPLE THAT HAD NOT *PURCHASED* THE PACK????) game FULLY BUGGED to the point where we COULD NOT. OPEN. OUR. GAMES: WHAT? HOW? THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLDā¦. and yet THIS is the bestt they could deliver. i feel bad. i feel bad for everyone who worked on this pack. (apparently like 8 people? sorry what?) because its a DISASTER: i regret buying it. thats all i can say. do not buy it.
after i bought get famous and city living as a teenager wanting to be a big broadway star, now i buy packs based solely on the build/buy objects i want to use. thatās why jungle adventure, eco lifestyle, and tiny living are my 100% must have packs. i use them in every. single. build.
I just recently got The Sims 4 when it became free and Iām debating getting a couple packs while they are on sale. Currently Iām thinking just Seasons and City Living but this video is very helpful for looking through all my options!
Iād recommend starting with Seasons and Cottage Living OR Seasons and Cats and Dogs.
I'd highly recommend tiny living it's such a good, useful pack and paranormal if you like the idea of it, the gameplay is insanely fun
I think what she forgot to mention about city living is that it also actually ties into regular gameplay very well imo. I love going to the festival's whether I'm living in the city world or not, it's just fun. I also love the community lots, many places for a fun night out, a date or a wedding!
Lilsimsie is actually amazing at these videos!! I donāt have all the packs, but when Iām looking to get one I always turn to Kayla :)
I'm torn between buying City Living and Cottage Living, both sound so great :')
ea gave me the get to work pack for free
The thing about the eclectic nature of build mode in university is that itās true to life, young adults donāt have a lot of money so ikea and fancy hand me downs or thrifted items is what you get so something that isnāt styled is so much more realistic.
i personally love get famous, i have this one celebrity in my world which iām so attached to and i loved getting her up to the top, but i agree the get famous world is so awfulšš thatās why i made her live in a penthouse in the city world once she got famous
Fr š getting famous is so fun thoughh and just sims recognizing you and hosting events, and the acting career. get famous is so fun but the world definitely needs a re-fresh
Get Together is great for making money. When I did the R2R challenge I started out gardening to make money, which on its own is quite lucrative, but over time the garden grew to an unmanageable size. My sim was working from morning to night just to keep up and had very little time to satisfy their needs. Started a gardening club that met daily and basically got free labor to help tend the fields so all I had to do was harvest the crops. Later on I spent some cash on a few easels and added painting to the club activities(or possibly started a new club - can't remember because it was so long ago). I'd walk around and sell the paintings as they were completed. I think the goal of that challenge was to earn $1M and I hit that mark after only a couple of weeks of playing before maxing out my funds a few weeks later.
One of my issues with HSY is that we can't build a high school in a different world. I get why, but it yoinks emersion from me. In my head, Oasis Springs or Mt. Komerebi are nowhere near Copperdale (like you can't drive there and that's how I play). I know that's nitpicky personal play style, but I like having my gens moving being a big deal.
I was really sceptical about eco living because its not my thing. But I got the game when it had 50% discount and I love it! I love the gameplay and the things you can make yourself. I feel like there are a lot of things you can do. Just like cottage living.
This really helped me, I was having a hard time deciding what expansion pack I am going to buy next. š
I super love Island Living, Cottage Living, Snowy Escape, and somehow City Living because they are rich in cultures, they give us so much taste. They also are very unique with their houses and style. Snowy Escape is still kinda too tourist centric but still pretty inclusive. Seasons, is basic needs.
@IlyEm rigghhtttš letās wish for more sims 4 expansion, and better, more inclusive sims 5 š«¶š»
@CrepeCake10 shut upp thats one of my wish list worlds too! it annoys me sometimes when these games that go "around the world" only go to East Asia, like there's so many more beautiful cultures to explore!!
@IlyEm righttt!! I am from South East Asia and I hope Sims would make something based on Asia, other than East Asia. Caribbean sounds fun too!
I agree! I wish we had a Caribbean inspired world, bc I feel so bad when I kinda head canon sulani as Dominican Republic bc I wanna live in my country so bad!! šI hope they make one in the future, it would be an easy way to add resorts!
my first pack was get to work as a gift from my parents (and the only pack i still have on disc lmao), and cat's and dogs was my second. but i really can't agree more that seasons is THE best. especially for a first pack, it's really the best example of specific gameplay enhancements (holidays etc.) and absolute game changing experiences like the seasons. also being able to change the length of seasons, as well as toggling on/off things like thunder storms are really cool to me. there's just so many small details that i couldn't live without, like the roller/ice rinks and having snow ball/water balloon fights. WELL worth the money.
I want to be able to build apartment buildings or row houses so bad! I grew up in Brooklyn, and I played and loved the Sims, but the houses were so foreign to me. I didn't know anyone who lived in a building that didn't touch two buildings on either side, or that had a visibly slanted roof. It was just hard of me to understand how those homes are laid out and roofed.
Apartment Living is fun, but it's so glitchy. I will try to build in the apartment, but it will take the wall paint off the exterior of the building. So I go to fix the exterior paint - no, you're not allowed to change the building's exterior. It's frustrating.
I also think my laptop struggles a bit more tracking all the Sims on the street and in the other apartments, but that's my fault for using the Sims on a laptop lol. I don't think it explains the building glitches.
When did the piranha pond turn into a shark pond? Also thanks for ranking these packs. I personally love university build stuff for making teen rooms. I also have fond memories of it because I used it to design my dorm with my mom. Also eco lifestyle is the first pack I bought so I think it holds a special place in my heart. Keep up the good work bro! :)
(Also I've been skiing and it isn't that fun. I got stuck in a hole that was around one of the ski lift poles).
really cool and I love how my Sims get recognised as their talents grow.
Thank you for these kind of videos!!ā¤ļø With Cyber Monday today, I was planning to buy some just didnāt know which ones were worth it. Cause $40 just aināt worth it for some of these š
The first canon gay couple in the sims franchise were the lesbians in the Sims 3 world Roaring Heights, not the Heckings. Just saying.