Which Sims 4 Packs Improve Gameplay? (All DLC - Expansion, Game and Stuff Packs))
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- I've looked over every Sims 4 Expansion Pack and other DLC to determine what I consider the best features offered by them, in order to help players decide if they might want various packs.
This list is my own opinion, but you are sure to get extra recommendations in the comments. As always, I'd recommend players look into what major features are included before buying an expansion. If you're lukewarm about the main idea, it's probably not a smart purchase. However, if you like the idea or several features, it's not a bad idea to snag them on a sale.
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I have a vampire five star celebrity with pristine reputation. She can just go to a sim say hi. And instantly become good friends with the person.
Fans and paparazzi are used for easy plasma. It's a lot of fun and gives me a lot of good laughs.
Viken emma Same
To that add maxed out charisma skill and the relationship bar is almost full
Heh been there done that 😂🤣
i've got that too; it wound up making the "stan" quirk just free meal delivery lmao
Kaede Akamatsu my first celebrity sim with the stan quirk was an immortal author. I would get so annoyed because the stan would dig in my trash, make a mess, clean it up, and repeat.
I was so happy when my stan died of old age, but she was replaced with a vampire. 😓
Sounds like grooming your fans for blood...Oh wait
Carl: we don’t need new careers ... like lawyers
*Me, a lawyer: but my simself!*
Literally me. So rude carl.
midnitetech.tumblr.com/post/181500574527/lawyer-career-hi-everyone-with-the-kind
you know you want it.
It’s here now!!
That’s me with the education career !
The restaurants in Dine Out.
I know the pack is buggy as heck but having other places than Nightclubs,Bars and Lounges to go to is quite nice.
Some of the decorative things in Dine Out are great, too. I use the paintings and dividers all the time.
PEOPLE KEPT STEALING MY FOOD
I agree. Restaurants are an excellent way to strengthen relationships between Sims.
Hey, Lamb. Tell me a story.
Eating at a restaurant in the Sims takes as long as the average work day. My sims went for breakfast and were home at five.
If Carl thinks his flirty married people club is weird... h-has he heard of Wicked Whims?
Oh dear 😳
69 likes lol
Wicked whims is my fav mod ngl👀
Don't need WW if you have Get A Life and your poly or swingers club. Although I really wish he would seperate the attraction system from WW. There are a few things from WW that you can't disable that i dont want to see in my games.
@@YAUUN I didn't know there was a Get A Life DLC 🤔 are you sure you aren't making it up?
I literally bought Fitness Stuff for the earbuds. However, I think the best feature of that pack is the television workouts. Sims gain fun and fitness at the same time. And they're fun to watch, too. Also! Singing, particularly in the shower, from City Living. The sim gets clean, inspired, and fun at the same time. Karaoke is fun (for me) too. There have been times that I've made my sim sing karaoke for several in game hours because I enjoy the animations so much. Ditto group dances in Get Together.
I LOVE the group dances! The Sims devs really knocked those animations out of the park.
The fist thing I do with a teen is to make them lvl 2 in singing so they can sing in the shower.
At least they can sing and get clean whenever the shower glitch is fixed!!
the television workout was part of the sims 3. i don't get why it was not the base game of the sims 4
In the sims 3 you can do tv exercises, too
With the deal option (1 expansion, 1 game pack, 1 stuff pack) and the whole smorgasbord of packs there are you can create some combos that really flesh out your gameplay in certain areas:
*Overall/Realism:* Seasons, Parenthood, Laundry Day Stuff
*Flex your Virtual Wealth:* Get Famous, Dine Out, Vintage Glamour Stuff
*Netflix & Chill:* Island Living, Spa Day, Movie Hangout Stuff
*Hipster **-Hell-** Wet Dream:* City Living, Dine Out, Laundry Day Stuff
*Livin in the 50s:* Get Famous, Parenthood, Bowling Night Stuff
*Modern Living:* Get Together, Spa Day, Moschino Stuff
*Get Outside:* Seasons, Outdoor Retreat, Fitness Stuff
*Moar Work:* Get to Work, Dine Out, Moschino Stuff
*Supernaturals 1:* Get to Work, Vampires, (some random stuff pack)
*Supernaturals 2:* Island Living, Realm of Magic, (another stuff pack)
*Cozy Pet Life:* Cats & Dogs, Parenthood, My First Pet Stuff
These would make a really cute way of advertising the bundle deal. Great ideas!
I love this! I've been looking at different expansion pack videos the whole day and this comment helped me pick out my choices!
I love your combo ideas! Definitely helped me plan out what I'm aiming for! Thanks! :)
I bought Seasons + StrangerVille + LaundryDay, it's awesome 💜
great ideas! i’m stuck on which game pack to buy. i’m thinking either parenthood, dine out or spa day. i’m trying to make my game realistic. i want my sims to be able to eat out and enjoy themselves! but also my children to grow up how i want them. please could you suggest for me? ty :)
The Sims will be hitting the 20th year anniversary for the franchise next month so hopefully there will be a nice sale/celebration where you can get some of these on the cheap!
EvildoerD 50% oFf JuSt FoR a ExPaNsOn PaCk
Still pretty expensive just for a addon
Just pirate it
Origin have had some good deals on since the new year began for The Sims 4... I bought myself some of the pack deals they had on at the time last week, where you can buy an expansion pack, game pack & stuff pack as a bundle at a reduced price.
I have definitely saved a lot of money doing it that way with the bundles.
That would be nice! I have the Sims 4 and even after the update it still feels so empty I don't even see trash compactors anymore
I got them all for free today. Fuck those EA prices.
A failing of EA is the lack of ability to creatively give Sims personality. They’re basically the same person with different inclinations. I love the values system in parenthood but I think they could go further with it. There needs to be a personality trait bar alongside an Interests bar, Flaws bar and perhaps a biology bar. All things that will affect behaviour, choices and natural inclinations. Let’s see.
Personality: Family Oriented, Confident, Active
Interests: (things they like doing obviously) exercising, hanging out with friends, playing football.
Flaws: (things that make them unattractive to everyday sims) can be overconfident, quick to anger, lacks empathy.
Biology: (things that affect their inherent abilities caused by natural mutations are chance, sometimes they can randomly develop or be a cause of action) has autism, has high metabolism, allergic to nuts.
I'm sure putting autistic people in a game would go down great in 2021
City Living is actually my favorite DLC so far. I’ve also got Seasons, Dine Out, Get Famous, and University, but it’s still the one that I use the most. I like having the big open worlds and San Myushino is pretty much exactly what I want, with those big courtyard spaces with stuff always going on. I’m naturally a builder and I love designing for those cramped apartments. And City Living came with some of my favorite items (I use the rugs and paintings that came with it EVERYWHERE. And that’s to say nothing about the murals). In terms of game play, I like popping into the festivals, and I’ve got a sim I’m trying to turn into a celebrity through protests.
Are you looking forward to the Tiny House thing that's coing out in a week or so? It should be fun using that stuff in an apartment.
Grace Howell I really like City Living myself. It's the pack I use the most apart from parenthood and seasons. I am sooooooo much looking forward to the tiny living pack!
What's your Origin ID...I'm horrible at building
I agree. I love building cyberpunk worlds, so city living is an essential pack for me. I just wish we had the option to build new apartments, or multi-purpose lots
I have city living pets and college but idk which one to get know
Carl the editing and voiceovers just keep getting better and better lol. Also love this video concept..the sims 4 isn't perfect but I love the highlights you've mentioned !!
OshinSims I love your lps theyre so interesting!
@@sweetenerxjim thank you 😀❤
9:50 HOW ABOUT RUNNING A DOG POOP SHOP? I got gtw recently, and since I also have c&d, I made a dog poop shop... Sims bought my $200 dog poop ;-;
Brilliant.
Bahahha lmao 😂
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Best thing from Discover University?
The ICYA trunks that have separate inventories. So you can organize those awful personal and household inventories!
Jenn W I didn’t realise the inventory was separate for this item - thanks heaps!
I found it glitchy. My sims can't get back stuffs because they are not hers anymore. Like books, potions, drones, treasures from Selvorada. And you can't use them, nor sell them. So annoying.
@@zoe0187 Wow really?? I have not had that problem, but while playing Jungle Adventure recently, I did have lots of stuff disappearing from their personal inventories constantly. I'm sorry to hear they are glitchy.
@@bronwynmasterman2738 Not only that -- you can put the whole thing in household inventory, and everything stays inside it!!!
@@jennw6809 I've had items disappear too when playing the scientist career. I'd collect items I need but they'd be gone when I got to work.
I actually liked the military career from Strangerville. I started it with a Sims family outside of Strangerville and collecting metal's, being able to work from home after a certain rank was nice, which I guess wouldn't be possible without the work from home perk offered on careers from City Living so yeah those are my unique picks.
I also like freelancer offered in a free update. Just something about spicing up careers that isn't another wormhole job is refreshing to me.
It also has the the best pay of any career, regardless of which branch you take.
I love StrangerVille and its Military career 💜
Vampires are OP at University, if you take the no hygiene, fun or social decay perks and have sun immunity. You can also work on homework/projects all night, don't have to worry about food, and can feed off your roommates.
Scientist is my favorite career. Seasons holidays are annoying after the first play through for me because you have to stop everything to complete them or risk bad moodlets.
I just take out a few of the requirements. So for love day they just have to give one gift
I just delete all the holidays and maybe have one task to complete if I do decide to have a “summer day off” for a play through.
I know some folks don't like to play with mods, but the No Sad Moodlet from Holiday mod was sooo worth it. I can celebrate or not and don't have to worry about a bad mood after.
I LOVE the survivalist trait.
it's a must have for all my sims. any sims that have that can carry a tent/cot/inflatable bed, and a shower in a tarp, and they can get a happiness boost anywhere.
not only that but sleeping in camping gear will never get them a sore back, and they regain energy faster than an energy 10 bed regardless of the gear. (and that is amazingly helpful)
they might sleep 3 hours or less and replenish all energy.
and if you have island living and have it in conjunction with the "beach life" it's a pretty much happy experience for your sim for the rest of his vampire life... err I mean normal life... yeah
What is the amazingness you speak of? Is this an Outdoor Retreat thing?
@@Amethyist7 I failed to mention that. but yeah. it's the lifetime achievement from outdoor retreat.
you need to have herbalism 10, befriend the hermit from granite falls.
collect all the wild plants in the park (which can get annoying). fish 4 fish in there. cook and eat bugs, eat some plants , finding some collectables... and I forgot what else.
but worth all the hassle. I literally replace my expensive beds for cheap (portable) camping equipment if i can.
I love the teapot because the different teas have mood effects as well. It's an easy way to send sims to Uni focused.
This video reminds me of when I had the cracked, full game, with all the expansions and game bits. Then EA gave away the base game for free, so I switched to a legit game, and I'm slowly buying back my collection (never full-price, tho, it's daylight robbery). It was a genius move by EA, actually, to catch some pirates. But man, it's painful sometimes playing with the game now, remembering all the features I'm now missing, especially the occults :( I got my aliens back, but I miss my vampire playboy :( On the plus side, I get to know each pack better, and use the new features better, so now I'm actually doing some clubbing. Not too bitter a pill to swallow until I buy my next pack.
I have the legit base game but all the DLCs i torrented
Dan H wait but Origin May find out abt it and ban ur account (that is if u have Origin if u don’t then I guess that’s fine)
@@senbebe3320 they literally don't care. they make enough money not to.
I wish flower arranging and archaeology were available in clubs!! Also upgrading items - repairing is in there but not upgrading.
Nobodys mentioned Trees of Emotion. Best if you have one grafted with every type of emotion berry.
I've never planted the seeds themselves, just used them for the large pink rabbit hole tree. Each seed will grow it's own emotion tree?
yeah, cuz I've never heard of it. What is it and where can I get one? 👀
@@svogel6459 from Jungle Adventure. I enjoy that pack and you can make a ton of $$ from archeology even from home once you max the skill.
I have been playing with these recently! I did notice they only grow one type of berry, although I swear, when I left one long enough it developed one of each type of berry. Am I crazy, or does that happen at full maturity?
I only bought the Vampires Game Pack. I love the ability to have my sims hibernate, that way I can play one sim in a large family and have control over everything they do.
It's nice to see Spa Day get a mention. I loved that pack from the start. Stressed from work, take a soak or meditate it away. It's awesome! Thanks for the list, good work.
I literally could not survive now without Spa Day’s aromatherapy baths. Those combined with OR’s cloud gazing are all you need for super skilling or just having happy Sims in general. So good!
I'm so glad you pointed out how useful the club system is. I use it all the time. Right now I've combining it with the roommate system to create a reliable supply of in-house and free-delivery plasma for vampire household. The roomies do cooking and even some of the chores; the vamps take turns feeding on the roomies; and the roomies even bring guests over that the vampires can feed on.
It’s super useful! So much so that it feels cheaty sometimes in how easy it makes the game. For example, in my 100 baby challenge I have a ‘Bachelor club’ with my matriarch and all the eligible bachelors in town, and romantic actions as the club actions. She never has to go out and meet anybody. Any time she needs another baby, I just summon the club over and she romances one of the men until she’s pregnant! It’s a bit too easy... And I usually make a ‘family club’ that is always active with simple things like sleeping, eating, TV and homework as the actions. The club points build up so quickly that eventually their skills are gained REALLY quickly!
Spellcasters are also great companions for vampires, as they can learn the Necrocall and Dedeathify spells to use when somebody gets a bit too much sun. This can be exploited to make witnessing a death at the top tier of the Public Enemy aspiration easier and with less lasting consequences.
And here I was just making the Water my Garden and Repair Plumbing clubs.
@@rawmilk905 Great Tip! I've only just got Realm of Magic and haven't explored any of these excellent tools.
@@BonaparteBardithion I call that club "The Serfs."
You really have the best sims content! Hope you’re having a good day
My list:
Seasons (I find it difficult to be stuck on spring 24/7, and family activities like holidays and skating!)
Discover University (Probably the best CAS we've received so far, and I like an actual challenge in the game sometimes)
Parenthood (While I don't pay enough attention to my sim children to use the Character Values to their fullest advantage, the Build/Buy mode in this is superb and really cute family interactions, especially the more generations you play)
My game would not be the same without these three, honestly.
Roommates is a great feature from University. They pay rent, I don't control them (autonomous) and they are not part of household, they have hidden traits, they open a lot of RPG possibilities.
I like to put the incense from Spa Day on the fireplace which has been upgraded with fireguard. A good fireplace can get you to nicely decorated (Happy +2). If it's cold you can light the fire for another (+1 Happy). If you have Seasons it's also a good place to put the Menorah and Kinara. Having incense lit also improves Yoga, Soaks, and Massages. If you have Get Together you can add Spa Activities to a Fitness club and add a massage table and some Yoga Mats to the Gym as the club members gain more Wellness skill they can give better massages for free and the massages give social need and relationship.
I love the punch bowl that came with Luxury Party stuff. The foods like the chocolate strawberries are great for spas and don't spoil. They're useful for social events and any holiday with party spirit or drinking tradition. They're also great for VIP rooms in clubs for when the bartender is off duty. You can also put them into University dorms if you edit the dorm before you move in or throw one in both of the universities commons. If you have parenthood you can make these even better by getting a strawberry/cheese bread thing and canceling eating it then packing them into sack lunches. They won't spoil and you can carry them around in your inventory.
Pure perfection ice cream from Cool Kitchen Stuff is great for getting roommates, dorm mates, or party guests to clean your house and repair anything broken. I definitely don't recommend getting the Cool Kitchen pack just for this but if you already have it it's good to keep in mind.
The bee box from Seasons is also useful for getting social by bonding with the bees even without a garden you can still harvest/sell the honey or use the bees to fetch collectibles. The Holidays from Seasons are great you only need to do one tradition to prevent the sad moodlet. I add watch Romantic TV and Drinking (Steamy Ginseng Tea to flirt) to the romance holidays so single people have an out. If you're too lazy to even do that much just buy the decoration box and set decorate as a tradition put up decorations boom you're done.
Clothing optional is one of the best lot traits for a gym. It gives you an energized buff for undressing and skinny dipping which makes getting to very energized easier.
If you have Island Living seashells are a good easy source of a portable +1 Inspired aura item.
The Herbalism brews from Outdoor Retreat are useful in Jungle Adventure. The bug repellent especially. Tents from Outdoor Retreat can be used when your neighbors in apartments are being too noisy to sleep. They're also useful for marking which building your classes are in for Discover University by leaving a tent outside it. Tents also save you a trip back through the Jungle in Jungle Adventures when exploring Temples.
Restaurants from Dine Out are great for dates/building friendships, any daily task for a job involving socials, and for doing homework in University. Drinks that should be on every menu are Snagglefluster (Gain Skills Insanely Fast) and Space Energy drink (Shot that raises your energy a lot). They're also great for learning recipes. Don't put restaurants in any district of San MyShuno where festivals occur they break the restaurant. In my experience restaurants work best when you have no more than 2 tables per waiter/chef station. Keep all tables nearby the chef station. (The less distance they have to walk with your food the lower the odds of dropping it). Do not add anything that is not required. All tables should be able to seat eight sims. Put the waiter stations near the bathroom/s the less distance the staff have to walk to use the facilities the less time they waste.
If you have Discover University bikes can be nice. Britechester does very well navigated by bike. If you choose to go Foxbury I recommend using jog here instead to save yourself an infinite number of headaches and missed classes. Honestly you're better off living off campus for getting to classes on time. The chests from Discover University are a godsend. Being able to sort all my crap out of my inventory is the absolute best. I also really love the soccer ball if you're playing a fit sim it's a great way to fill fun, social, and gain fitness to kick the soccer ball with someone. I like to use the research machine to gain Photography skill instead of taking bazillions of pictures/screenshots which I have to sell/delete also two skills in one!
Ted Guyse I just got the game with the current sale and am looking to get one more expansion pack. I saw you mentioned something about chests for Discover University and I am curious what you mean by that. I currently have Seasons and City Living as far as expansions go. Not sure what else I want to get now rather than waiting until a later date on.
@@StoryGirl83, i case you didn't buy the pack - the chests are house placeable and you drag stuff into them. they're like the WA chests from sims 3.
since they do NOT share an inventory (like fridges in sims 3 do), they're useful for sorting stuff out - uncut gems in one chest, cut gems in another, metals, insects, etc.
Last time I played the game, I played a Sim in the Style Influencer career and she would take photos of and with other sims.
BAM!
Instantly good friends after 10 photos with a single sim. Has anyone else encountered this?
Yeah, that’s a feature apparently. People used to cloud gaze with another sim to make friends, but they nerfed that. Now the quickest way is to take photos with them!
I've followed ur guides since sims 3, u always put so much detail and effort in. Thank u! Love ur content.
I really love this kind of videos, it's really helpful! Thanks lgr
Thanks AGAIN Carl!! You're giving me ideas!!
The editing of this video is on a next level
Rrrawwr by Mortimer Goth was hilarious
Hah thanks!
Came to the comments cuz of this. Was that Carl or Mortimer?
We need to come up with a snazzy sign-off for you, Carl!
Very nice vid. And i agree fully with many of the features you mention. Especially the Parenthood ones.
It took me quite a long time to really love Sims 4. But years later, i'm now very attached to some of my favorite goofballs.
I also very much appreciate little immersive things, like how the seasons are different in the different worlds. Very well done.
University also has the best CAS hands down
I like the inspiration swimming in the ocean gives you in island living it’s a good way to boost creativity
You’re getting more and more comfortable on camera and it shows- you’re freaking hilarious Carl! Keep up the awesome work!
As for my favorite feature, I’d have to say the Vampire & Spellcaster rewards systems for sure. I love being able to differentiate my Sims- a guilty drinker vamp with a heart of gold or a full-on evil a**hole vamp who runs around drinking and turning others willynilly.
pretty accurate, though im surprised you didnt include the photography stuff from that one branded pack, the one with the one with the greenscreen.
pretty fun picture moment and has alittle bit of an impact since you can persuade townies and such to do animations without needing mods and if i recall also nets you social gains from the same.
Yeah, that definitely could've fit. I mean, I even praised those improvements as pretty solid when I reviewed the pack. To some extent there are just so many subtopics in Sims I was bound to miss some obvious ones.
@@CarlsSimGuides yeah don't blame you sims 4 is definitely trying hard to become its own identity compared to older packs so it's kind of hard keeping track of all the additions without mistaking them for old features, i mean if it wasn't for several of your vids i wouldn't have realized how the beebox had more functions or how that helmet from get famous was more than just a funny hat, just so much that requires us to figure out :P
I find as long as you place the incense burner on the floor, instead of on something else, you're fairly safe from fires.
I'm glad to hear from someone else that is how it should be done. Every time I use it on a desk I lose thousands in equipment, but the floor hasn't really failed me.
@@CarlsSimGuides Even when I have put the incense on a table all by itself, it would always catch fire! I think I've only had one event of fire with incense on the floor -- as long as I make sure it's clear of other flammables too.
Features I use the most frequent actually include the bee box. Most of my sims have to garden and I recently played a whole black widow challenge just to have a good reason to try out the death by death flower scented flower arrangement 🤣 and the bees helped with the garden beautifully and also gave a good reason to make arrangements all the time until my black widow unlocked the special scent of the death flower.
My most used item from outdoor retreat is the tent, also super useful for challenges like ragsbto riches and baby challenges (mobile woohoo spot AND toddler/kids "beds" in one!)
Toddlers can use tents? Nice!
I do love a good portable woo woo spot but you have to be quick before rude sims use it to take a nap and read magazines.
I used to like going clubbing with it. That how I know about rude sims.
I use tents and portable showers so much in "homeless sim" challenges. And I have also abused the woohoo-spot-in-a-pocket mechanic.
Really surprised to see you put RoM on here after knowing your feelings about that pack haha. Great to see you having more fun with how you edit your videos too!
Hi Carl, are you/ have you been voting on the next Sims pack? How are you swaying so far, what are your thoughts and opinions on our choices?
The topic of it kind of lost my interest, but I plan to go into playing it with an open mind. Even if it's not my cup of tea I'll try to look at it objectively and what it adds to the game.
The video we've all been waiting for!
One day I wish I could have all the packs and dlc
I came up with an interesting idea: you know your play through with with Kobe? The opposite of that. Try to make a sim that's the worst possible! Why not have the mom adopt another kid?
Definitely have plans to explore a "bad" Sim, with all those and several other negative traits. I've never played it, so it should be fun to have a look into what that's like. Take it a step further with the bad reputation :)
That's cool @@CarlsSimGuides I've never seen such a let's play, I think it'd be fun. I don't think I could be able to play as a totally evil character though. I tried it once in fable and was in a bad mood for a week! Looking forward to all of your content always
Lawyers are like health insurance, you hope you won't need them but when you do you're glad you have them.
I like how the Realm of Magic Game Pack basically makes me a god without having to cover my sim in oil and light them on fire so that they can fly.
my butler died because it read a book 24/7, got so hungry she died, I couldn't believe how stupid it was
My husband roommate who I had no control over kept spawning spoiled food to eat then felt uncomfortable then, blamed me, his landlord wife for his poor condition of living.
Every time I was amazed at his stupidity too because he hated the green fuming spoiled food but kept eating anyway. While ignoring my sims 10 level excellent food.
Great video! I love your comedic twist in this one. 🤣
I'm a recent subscriber, and I just wanted to say, I love your voice and your videos! 😁 You sound so friendly and fun to listen to. I don't mean to insult or patronize you when I say this, but you sound like a chipper young person giving a speech about something you're passionate about.
I wouldnt be without my Go Outdoors pack, i use the camp fire every home i make, i love to see my sims actualy seeming to be having fun and the campfire seems to provide that mmm except when it spontainiously combusts and they cant put the fire out and the poor puppy ran indoors with his tail on fire and noone noticed so i had to make one of them run in and extinguish him, shouldnt they save the pets like they do the toddlers? :D also i love the guitar that comes with go out doors, i thinnk the guy that did the singing all the campfire songs had a ball doing so, the facial expressions and the joviality in the singing as the sim increases in ability are so funny i find my self singing along hahaha , not realy any skill bonuses to the camp fire and guitar i know but seeing my sims have fun makes me smile :D oh and i do love that with this pack you can truely play off gird :D
Recently added a bundle that added Seasons, Magic, and Machinima. Overall Seasons had added so much extented gameplay to previous packs. Such as scouting and creating fun holidays. Magic also added a great family value activity for teen thru elders, which is better than Vampires where teen vamps could only duel other vamp teens. Hopefully they fix that issue some day. Machinima also upgraded phography which is a good thing. Overall love your list here, but you missed including cooking and fishing, that also have evolved greatly, much like gardening. Cooking is quite expansive, since includes cooking, gourmet cooking, baking, and have grown so much with each pack added. Good idea for your next video. Spice festivals, Saladoradian meals, restaurant meals, plus more like zombie cakes, Scout cookies, walleye surprise, and much more, such as owning a bakery.👌 Also the voodo doll is an honerable mention item for calling sims to your house after 11PM, and can manipulate other sim's mood, backfire, be baked into cookies, or tossed in a bonfire. ;) Only pro or con on your list is being a doctor, your neighborhoods have ill children sneezing on everyone is town. But agree the career is greatly rewarding.
I enjoy the combinations you provide. :D
I love the retail system in get to work especially with mods that make it more entertaining
Thank you, Carl, for another thoughtful review.
I personally can't imagine playing this game without the Get to Work EP - like you, I'm a big fan of the Scientist career and all the zaniness that it provides. (Now if only the devs would fix the post-Seasons bug that's been preventing plants on the lab lot from growing properly...) I'm also weird and like what aliens bring to the game. True, they aren't too different from Joe Average Sim, but they have enough little perks and quirks to make them interesting to me.
TD Daisho YO i thought it was just my game and i was so mad that i couldnt fix it!!
@@zomerkoninkjes Not just your game, and it's been there since the Seasons release patch. So disheartening to watch my lab's carefully cultivated greenhouse of Sixamian flora wither away. 😥
Hagrid just broke me 😂
This is the video I have been needing for forever.
My favorite Pack Item is the Wind Chimes from Backyard Stuff.
The club skill boosts are pretty good, with the savant perk and great acoustics lot trait your skill with any instrument of your choice can go up so quickly you'll go from 1 to 10 in a day, also the homework boost works with University homework and costs 100 points so I usually get it immediately and have my roommates as club mates with a club gathering constantly going
Good idea. I love clubs, but I never thought of that.
Get together is underrated and my personal favorite. Maybe because it was my 1st pack. I now have them all. University is great fun. My super sims must get all the degrees so it might come in handy for her.
Another great and useful video. Cheers!
Good video i was thinking of buying one, rn i’m going with seasons!! Btw Your voice sounds like tyler the creator.
The first, "you sound like" I got was Chills. As I've become more comfortable with the mic it's changed a bit :)
I saw your email, and i am late. Thank YOU! because your insight is good and today you made me smile again. And i didnt get Realm of Magic because of your review, but now i am thinking about it. EA should pay you some money, i am sure i am not the only one who LISTEN to you :) you sold them another pack today.
What? No ball pit?
The other great thing about cloud gazing and star gazing is that if you do it with a friend, your social, fun, and friendship bar shoot way up!!
if it's just inspiration you're after, you need only cloud gaze until the buff is enabled, then stop, it still lasts that same amount of time...loving your gameplay
I have vampires, get famous and tiny living. I am in love with these packs! Tiny living the items are amazing!
Loading up the sims 4 to try some new stuff thanks to this video😊🤭
off topic, your house builds are awesome
I love the vegetarian trait just as a realism thing even though vego Sims won't always make vego options when doing it autonomously
Love these videos, thanks!
This is going to be a complex one but here goes:
The vending machine from get to work or maybe it is called a cooler or whatever, that thing is one of the best items. Just have a business owner put one on their lot and you can put a ton of stuff into it. Play another sim go to it and you can buy an infinite amount of whatever was put into it. Potion of plentiful needs for non-spell casters at the push of a button? Snaggle fluster whenever you need it? Check. All can be put into a vending machine (cooler) and sometimes it sells the things for free. I know snaggle fluster is free.
Now how do I get snaggle fluster you might ask? Well either you can have a sim make it and give it to your business sim or you can steal it. Using the magic power you can order one at a restaurant if you have that pack and use the magic spell to steal it into your inventory and from there it’ll be considered yours and can be placed into the cooler.
In fact if you have the stealing spell you can use it to grab a lot of things such as the fixer needs serum from a scientist sim and make it yours. No this can’t go into the cooler, but if it was created by someone it can be sold via the retail feature. Or cloned using the cloning machine. In fact the cloning machine is insanely powerful. It being able to clone potions, drinks, and serums.
So yeah those are my particular features I love.
Wow, never thought of it. Thanks, I will try it. I never used it before.
Liked before the video even started because I knew it’d be good
But why don't you want free earbud Carl? 🤣
i love that i can listen to music anywhere without it getting quiter or only hearing it from the right ear, if the stereo is somewhere else
I use it to get a focused moodlet (New Age .. I think that came with Spa Day) or boost fun while doing mundane things.
You can even boost fun while sleeping!
Jungle Adventures is a pretty good pack. You can get from rags to riches pretty quickly being an archeologist/ treasure hunter. You can make bank on treasures found!
The part about celebrities I hate is the paparazzi
myzzio SAME: they’re so annoying. And mine always spawn with each pap having a different pair of purple gloves on?
My 4 star celebrity with pristine reputation was photographed by a paparazzi while he was just befriending a child. So I got enough of it and fought the paparazzi. My reputation dropped from full pristine to great. I know I know, I just beat up a man in the streets but sometimes threatening isn't enough.
I got a servo and upgraded her so she has the Defense program then make her zap all the paparazzi
Fun Fact: The teleportation in wellness skill lets you teleport anywhere unlike the teleportation in spell casting winch requires your sims hands to be free and in vampire powers which allow you to carry items and toddlers with you.
2:00 I love how the ear examination light shines right through the kid's head. There's nothing in there.
cloud gazing is probably the only feature of outdoor living that i occasionally use. i remember when outdoor living came out and i mostly lost interest in the game
Seasons is a MUST have. It single handlely beats every other DLC by a landslide IMO
I NEVER KNEW BEES DID THAT
Anyone else looking for something similar to "Into the Future" and having your own car or motorcycle to get to work?
Wonderful video
Such a good video! 😊
If you make a servo with the dance machine trait, it'll eventually power-down in a nightclub, on the dancefloor. So much for my skynet fantasy....
I have every pack but a few stuff packs and the realm of magic. My favorite one is definitely Get Famous. My least favorite is Vampires. I rarely ever use it, or the items from it.
I’ve been treating them like Pokémon. Gotta catch em all.
I pretty much agree with your ranking
I would have really liked it if they integrated the Holidays with other packs, like how they did with Clubs. Like traditions involving pets if you have C&D, or traditions involving living in an island if you have Island Living. One of the reasons why TS4 lacks gameplay is because unlike the other Sims version, TS4 packs are stand alones. The packs barely have relevance to other packs.
I'm definitely interested in getting discover university after seeing some of the stuff in it, I kinda wish I'd gotten it the other day though because the dlc was on sale but it's not now
Its on sale now xbox one
@@cussangaming420 I play on ps4
What is the size of the sims 4 if you have all the expansions packs? Building my own computer for the first time and need to know how much space I need just for sims alone. Plz and thank you
My favourite packs in game are probably cats n dogs, university, city living, laundry day, and seasons
Wow that’s such a unique opinion
The carreers from City Living, I really like them
I dont care much about these emotional buffs because of how unbalanced they are, and I use a mod called Meaningfull Stories that makes emotions way harder to control. So I avoid these objects so I have to deal with emotions in a more natural way.
I've been thinking about getting the sims but want to know if you have to buy them in order--in other words do they build on the previous expansion? I'm interested in object packs but will the most recent work with the base game?
The base game gets you started, and will work with any combo of packs. So you can have only the base game + get to work, or even a few stuff packs. No packs are required for other packs except i one case - my first pets stuff requires cats and dogs. So you can buy The Sims 4 regular and then any packs that interest you, keeping that one thing in mind.
I’m aiming for Outdoor Retreat, Spa Day and maybe University when they’re on sale.
Tabitha Guss university is amazing and spa day is so much fun for if you like building. I honestly regret getting outdoor retreat haha I never touch it. But everyone likes different stuff!
I like the cooler of outdoor retreat,the reason why I bought the pack. Hihi!
4:52 I'm still fairly new to the Sims 4... how do you get the camera to do this along with simply following your sim around without having to drag the screen yourself?
Hi! Check out Carl's video here explaining the first-person camera mode: czcams.com/video/Ra6pwkQdv3A/video.html
(Or first-sim view? 🤔)
Personally I love camping in the Sims and having my sims paint Granite falls, reasontly I've been wanting to go camping but because of Coronavirus I'm at home playing the Sims and I am glad I can fill that void in my heart
every single pack should be 50% at least
A lot of the things you critisize I adore, and viceversa.
I think this has to do with how each player chooses to play the game. I'm a builder and only use story/interaction to give the house personality.
I'm guessing it's pretty difficult from a developer's point of view to decide between adding aesthetic features vs gameplay.
In the island expansion review you mention there's not much more to do with sims, which is sad, but honestly I don't care, I just want the new objects/clothes.
Any time I play with sims I am astonished with how much you can actually do with them, the Doctor career was exhausting for me and I actually despise those features, but nevertheless, I realize it's exciting for roleplaying focused players.
So my point is, the Sims 4 is actually a pretty well balanced game when you take into account how many different ways of playing it allows.
However, it is way, way too expensive for what it is, it's always been.
Which is the best expansion pack to get i already have discover university but i would like to get another one to male it more fun