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[TamerVirus]

Guys, I have a problem. I LOVE new expansion packs and am looking forward to hearing what the first one for Sims 4 will be. I am there target demographic, they are going to take ALL of my monies!

YOU ARE THE PROBLEM

ARGHBALAGFRAHHANLAWOREOCEELOGREEN

*Foaming at the mouth*

[BigD145]

You can mod the heck out of 3 to get around the worst of the expansions. If you like tight spiral staircases, get Generations and fill up 6 GB's on your hard drive. That's about all that's good in that expansion.

[gimlet]

Heh I helped too even though I really tried to resist - I bought like 5 expansions and have barely played at all - I think there's 2 I bought in 2012 that I haven't even installed yet :p  I don't think I even fired up Sims 3 for more than 20 or 30 hours at most, unlike the hundreds of hours I did on Sims 1/2.  Lack of time plus something just didn't really grab me, for one thing it was really really hard to create non-fugly faces.   At least they were on sale :p

I'll probably fire it up when the Sims 4 hype starts to get to me and maybe that'll keep me from jumping on that money-grabbing train 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I'm gonna play this in ~4 years or so when they finally put all the features in. I guess I liked the Sim 3 after the 25 expansions were out. But nothing, I mean nothing will top the Sims 2.

[BigD145]

I'm gonna play this in ~4 years or so when they finally put all the features in. I guess I liked the Sim 3 after the 25 expansions were out. But nothing, I mean nothing will top the Sims 2.

My best house creations came out of 2, then it corrupted my save. /raeg

[Mech#4]

You can mod the heck out of 3 to get around the worst of the expansions. If you like tight spiral staircases, get Generations and fill up 6 GB's on your hard drive. That's about all that's good in that expansion.

There's an interesting detail involving spiral staircases (If I'm remember it correctly, it was a while ago); they exist within the base game but have no models to place one, so you can download a mod adding a spiral staircase and it'll work without the "Generations" expansion.

[Neonivek]

I have two of the expansions, "Ambitions" and "World Adventures". "World Adventures" I got for the new roofs and building types, statues and decorations, and "Ambitions" because of things like creating a robot and ghost busting jobs.

There's a few other things I've gotten from free points on my EA games account, chairs and a spell book stand I think. If I want specific styles of furniture I look at mods since there's so many around.


Robbaz had a video of "Into the Future", he used a Sim with kleptomaniac to take a lot of the stuff from the future to populate his house with. You can take pretty much anything with that ability; lights, chairs, tables, cars, appliances. Pretty sure it works the same in an unmodded game.

Yep. You can get rich quick by getting a klepto, going into rich houses and activating the stealing action. If you get lucky, you will steal a sportscar and you're set.

But yeah, as far as 3's EP go, Ambitions and Seasons, and I personally like Late Night for the apartments and bands, though the celebrity system is mildly annoying and LN!Vamps are far too common, at least in Bridgeport, the city world it adds, are all decent picks. And you actually might have LN already, if you got the Humble Origin Bundle a while back, or one of your friends did and has a spare.

DANG!!! I completely forgot about celebritism.

Luckly you can turn it off forever now... but before it was honestly the worst thing that could ever happen to your game.

[scrdest]

Oh yeah, one major Customer Friendliness point to EA - they made a lot of things configurable, at least now with all the patches, not sure how it was at launch.

You can disable each life state (at least those you don't need to go out of your way to get in the first place), life length, season length, disable story progression...

[Neonivek]

Oh yeah, one major Customer Friendliness point to EA - they made a lot of things configurable, at least now with all the patches, not sure how it was at launch.

You can disable each life state (at least those you don't need to go out of your way to get in the first place), life length, season length, disable story progression...

One major minus... It took them FOREVER!

A lot of issues with the game were never fixed by EA even when they are commonly known and Mods are able to fix them.

The issue is EA pretty much NEVER wants to put much time or money into patching. When the games needed extensive patches.

SURE the major reason why The Sims 3 was so bad was because their engine was actually anti-modification that actively resisted expansions (The Sims 4 being VASTLY superior in that respect), but honestly to me it is EA's fault and they shouldn't go "But it would cost money to fix our own dang problems! if the game was easier to patch sure!" They should instead be going "Dang we messed up, well we just got to take it on the chin"

[BigD145]

There is always one patch one month after release which introduces 2 bugs for every 1 fixed that the expansion added. This is just what The Sims franchise does.

[Rakonas]

My biggest plus thus far is that they finally fixed the memory leak from mirrors as in Sims 3. Now, I'm pretty sure they just removed mirrors altogether, but I no longer have to rush through the character creator since they never allowed you to remove the mirror from it.

[Zangi]

I'm gonna play this in ~4 years or so when they finally put all the features in. I guess I liked the Sim 3 after the 25 expansions were out. But nothing, I mean nothing will top the Sims 2.

+1  This is what I'm gonna do.  And I'll get it all on discount.

On that note...  I should look into finally getting all ofthe good parts of 3 for reals.  >.>  Well, eventually.

I even picked up the free Sims 2 when they gave that out.  I'm not sure if I ever actually that in the first place...

[BigD145]

I'm gonna play this in ~4 years or so when they finally put all the features in. I guess I liked the Sim 3 after the 25 expansions were out. But nothing, I mean nothing will top the Sims 2.

+1  This is what I'm gonna do.  And I'll get it all on discount.

On that note...  I should look into finally getting all ofthe good parts of 3 for reals.  >.>  Well, eventually.

It's only several hundred dollars...

[Sergarr]

My biggest plus thus far is that they finally fixed the memory leak from mirrors as in Sims 3. Now, I'm pretty sure they just removed mirrors altogether, but I no longer have to rush through the character creator since they never allowed you to remove the mirror from it.

lolwat

memory leak from mirrors?!

how

how do you make an engine this failtastic

[Rakonas]

My biggest plus thus far is that they finally fixed the memory leak from mirrors as in Sims 3. Now, I'm pretty sure they just removed mirrors altogether, but I no longer have to rush through the character creator since they never allowed you to remove the mirror from it.

lolwat

memory leak from mirrors?!

how

how do you make an engine this failtastic

Yep. More than ~5 minutes in CAS and the game would crash for me. And people were reporting this for like 6 years at least.