Get this not that (Sims 4 packs compared)

still waiting for a preteen life stage. teens in real life are so varied and experience so much change and i just hate that you can’t tell who is 13 and who is 18!

I hate how in sims 4 seasons you can get trick or treaters but your kids can’t trick or treat themselves. And not being able to choose certain costumes. I never play Halloween because it’s dumb af

I mostly agree, except for For rent being better than city living. City living has so much more play value, with the festivals, different cuisines, etc than what I’ve seen from For Rent

I still want an Retirement pack; retirement parties, elder gameplay, and funerals

The Eco apartments would be so much nicer if the balconies were functional.
But it’s another S4 abandoned projects…

Biggest letdown about werewolves is the fact that you cant have your own pack. Maybe the ability to create groups in the sims is a uinqe gameplay feature that is locked behind "the sims 4: get together", but i really wished that once you went though the storyline and completed the pack aspartion, you could make your own pack, where you could bite and infect other sims and make them join you, or you could have people join wilingly+ your werewolevs family members. Have pack mambers challenge you for leadership if you dont meet their demands. You can do those things if you manage to take leadership over one of the exsisting packs, but what if you want to leave those packs as they are for lore sake? What if you want to live in a differnt world and still have the pack aspect of werewolves? You cant do that because the hangout spot of both packs is in the world that comes with werewolves so about every week in-game you need to travel there and donate something to the pack in order to not lose reputation with them, so i wish you could set up your own pack and set any lot you want as their hangout spot

Putting chickens on the balcony in city living is very fun 😊

I love the "this not that" format! This is a great idea for the pack parade of broken up micro features that is Sims 4.

Also family players can come in different flavors. Legacy Players play through heirs through many many many generations - a child born to their primary sim will become 'the next sim they play' when thier current sim is an elder or dies. And this is usually done with aging on. Other family players are ones that play frozen in time. They make a family and turn aging off and unless they decide to grow anyone up, the world they play will stay frozen and unaging. They also might just change families for new features and challenges/changes to the game. A 100 baby challenge for the sake of a 100 baby challenge for example, unrelated to any Sim they've played before. And then there's the family rotation which can be similiar to the Legacy, but you play multiple families instead of one and rotate through them. You are usually playing out a story of many families that know each other and who's kids grow up together, but playing it from different sides of the story. And no one is really your primary Sim. The story of an interconnected neighborhood is usually the gameplay. Usually this is played with aging on as well to see the affects of choice from multiple angles.

There are mixes and matches of this, like the decades challenge which is a Legacy style play with extra flavor/twist/challenges. To give one example a rotation might use the idea of heirs from Legacy style play but may not be as locked to a single heir per family. A rotational family style can also grow out of a legacy where you get attached to all the kids so you rotate through playing them out in different households as they grow up and leave home and instead of having a single heir per household, you pick and choose favorites you stick with as time marches on and Sims die off or get to a point where you feel like thier story is complete.

i agree with everything except the for rent one
for rent is the most ambitionless expansion pack from all of them, there's literally just residential rentals which is a build mode feature and the landlord system, but it really is just a game pack's worth of content so city living is a hundred times better imo

CITY LIVING is the BEST Sims 4 pack! FULL STOP

Whenever i play with pets in my household (which i almost always do), i NEVER put the automatic feeding bowl because its really one of the only interactions with the pets. It forces me to remember their existence. Cows and Llamas in Cottage Living are pretty annoying to me since you have to constantly clean and feed them. I wish there was a hay tray within Cottage Living. I also have the My First Pet Stuff pack and make "my" kids do all the cleaning since it helps with responsibility, etc.
I wish they hadn't given up on refreshing packs honestly, i know its probably not profitable for them but it would be really nice tbh. IThere are many packs that could use a small refresh at the very least...

The fact I got mosquito because I wanted the camera thing is vile💀

3:30 I agree with you so much but I also think it could possibly be because it came out first and so most simmers are accustomed to it while with growing together we went years without it so having it or not doesn’t matter we’re already used to the game without it. I still sit on the fact it SHOULD have been a base game update even the world it came with could have been an update imo

If “For Rent” wasn’t so buggy and broken I’d get the pack. Love your videos Sach! Great content. 😊

I would make all the same choices, honestly. I have both Cats and Dogs and Horse ranch, and never use the gameplay, just B&B. I use the Cottage Living gameplay all the time!! Although, I do use the mini sheep/goats if I don’t have room for a cow and llama.

I love your honesty satch

The main problem with Vampires as a pack is they suffer from being the firat true occult added to the game, which is why in comparison to Spellcasters and Werewolves they feel so under developed. They were a proof of concept type lifestate, that prooved very sucsessful.

As an occult player, I love them and enjoy how indepth they are in comparioson to previous incarnations, but I do think they're in need of a small refresh juat to bring them up to level with Spellcasters and Werewolves.

Still not convinced that Parenthood adds anything beyond popups and extra homework. Growing Together is subtle, yes, but if you use the conversation/sim type likes along with the base game likes, you really do get different personalities and some of your sims will really get along well and others will dislike each other, and it’s the most personality I think any of the packs can add. Plus there is still a “how well did you raise the kids” mechanic with the confidence levels - it’s just more subtle because there’s no pop-ups involved it just happens through actual gameplay. Not that the final confidence level has that much effect - not that it’s hard to get high confidence - but really, do the parenthood values have that much effect on an adult sim or challenge to them? Parenthood adds school projects and bag lunches. Growing together adds a tree house, puzzles, splash pads, and kids’ bikes. And there’s a lunch box in base game, and a picnic basket in Cottage Living.

I hate living in San MyShuno, but the ability to learn new recipes at the festivals is cool, and I almost always have my Sims go to the Spice festival for free ingredients. I haven't bought For Rent, because all I see is people complaining about how broken it is, and I already build apartments that work pretty well. I probably will get it eventually, though. I keep hoping they'll fix it. I would love to be a landlord, but I wanna get paid!

I agree with everything except For Rent. This pack is SO buggy that it has the potential to corrupt everyone's save and I don't think it will be fixed anytime soon lol