User:WizardJeremy

My Favourite Pages

 * Magic
 * Witch and Wizard
 * Business
 * Voodoo Doll
 * Cowplant
 * Alien
 * Servo, SimBot and Plumbot
 * The Sims 2: Apartment Life
 * The Sims 4: Get to Work
 * Wishing Well

About Me
I am a big lover for the sims, i am friendly and sometimes insane. I love to read wikis about my favourite sim related stuff. I love to play the sims for its amazing range of playing with life. Anything containing Magic, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Supernatural or Extraterrestrial will most likely get my attention.

I am also Witty, Creative, Imaginative and Intelligent.

Sims Games I Own

 * The Sims Complete Collection
 * The Sims 2 Ultimate collection
 * The Sims 3
 * World Adventures
 * Ambitions
 * Late night
 * Generations
 * Pets
 * Showtime
 * Supernatural
 * Seasons
 * University Life
 * Island Paradise
 * Into the Future
 * The Sims 4 (Digital Deluxe)
 * Outdoor Retreat
 * Get to Work
 * Luxury Party Stuff
 * Perfect Patio Stuff
 * Spa Day
 * Cool Kitchen Stuff
 * Spooky Stuff
 * Get Together
 * Movie Hangout Stuff
 * Romantic Garden Stuff

How i like to play The Sims
It's really a rotation play through when i play the sims, sometimes i play it normally and try to gain my sims to the top, then i have sims that are weird and make them go crazy in town, and other times i play it where i just cheat money in and do what ever i want (which is mostly how i play)

Lifestates
One thing about me is that i LOVE Lifestates in The Sims, to be honest i don't think i would even like the sims in the first place if i didn't know i could do magical interactions. I do sometimes play with normal human sims, but i love playing sims with lifestates so much, i find playing as a normal sim boring and when there's a lifestate i'll most likely befriend the sim. My favourite Lifestates are Witches, Aliens and any robot lifestates such as Servo, Simbot and Plumbot.

Witches/Wizards
I love making and playing with Sims that are Witches, or Wizards from The Sims Medieval, i love magic and Witches in the Sims 2 and Sims 3 make me switch between both, Witches in The Sims 2 had teleportation, time freezing spells and 30+ spells which was amazing but the alchemy wasn't great and every spell except teleportation needed reagents which was frustrating to get. The Sims 3 has Magic Bars and amazing Alchemy potions but there weren't many spells which were of much use like the Charms and Curse which mostly were relating to needs.

Wizards are my most favourite heroes in The Sims Medieval and when i play them i always use spells, the leveling and everything was amazing, the special effects and spells were useful and spectacular although The Sims Medieval didn't really get expanded much on so its just basic.

Aliens
Ever since The Sims 1 being abducted by aliens was my most favoured death next to being flamed by a dragon. When i found out The Sims 2 you can play as aliens i was amazed, although it was just a skin tone and eye i found it very cool but then The Sims 3 Season brought aliens back and with superpowers and controllable Space Ships i was completely in heaven as I loved the whole Aliens with superpowers or amazing abilities because it always felt like a slightly more realistic approach to Wizards/Witches and fitting with superheroes. Then came The Sims 4: Get To Work, by its own its easily one of the best expansions ever including so much with actual interactive careers and returning Open For Business, Alien returning made me so happy and i was so hyper when i learnt you could create them in Create A Sim and they had disguises and returned Superpowers which you could manipulate other Sim's Minds.

Robots (Servo, Simbot & Plumbot)
I love robots completely even though i don't play with them as much, i love making them do tasks for my sims or just simply have a fun robotic buddy, Plumbots are my most favourite lifestate for Robots because of the customisation and personality chips. I do wish Plumbot features would return in future Expansion Packs for The Sims 4.

The Sims
I first got into The Sims when i was 4 and my cousin was playing the original Sims on his computer and i got rather excited because he hatched a dragon and i was a big fan of dragon during the time. To which i made my parent buy me The sims collection to which i played it for hours.

The Sims 2
At the age of five i heard about The Sims 2 and that it was coming out and i was so excited and i got it. I completely love it and it was so amazing to play but being me i wasn't very adept at it as i just kept moving my sims. When the expansions rolled in i was excited and i was so enthused. By the time of Apartment Life was which i was completely in love but sad The sims 2 ended. being 8-9 years old i was quite adept at playing the game and managing my sims. Witches were my most absolute favourite lifestate and i just felt like sims who aren't witches/warlocks were boring.

The Sims 3
I saw The Sims 3 and hated how it looked but soon grew to like it, i rather disliked it because it was a system killer as soon as i installed expansion packs and so i spent alot of money on upgrading my computer as well as topping up with the amount of money it was to buy the expansion packs was incredibly expensive. I do love it though, i rarely play it now but its nice to go back and play for like 1 hour before the game just either crashes 20 mins in or just slows down. Live mode was a pain but for some reason Build and buy mode was running perfectly to which i spent loads of hours building houses and clubs and stuff to which thankfully helped my house building skills.

By the time of The Sims 3: Supernatural was when i bought games via origin and oh my it was amazing to play without having to put in the disc or have to worry about the disc getting scratched and it was just so much less of a hassle. The only problem was at the beginning my parents were very skeptic of using their credit cards on computers for fear of getting their money scammed but i ensured them it wouldn't.

The Sims Medieval
I had no interest in sims games outside of the actual sims series but then came along The Sims Medieval, I was in complete joy as i love magic, medieval, rpg games and i just felt right at home. Playing the Sims medieval obviously i was interested in the Wizard hero and i played it so much, sadly the Sims Medieval doesn't have continuation and it only had one 'Adventure Pack' which was very low content. But i had many days sunk into playing the game which was a nice break from the house building, need fulfilling, romancing, job playing ugh sometimes i need to go back to the middle ages and play as an all powerful wizard.

The Sims 4
Alas! The Sims 4, at first i was very hateful about it due to the thing about the series still going on but i just felt like i don't wanna buy more and more expansions and more stuff but as i kept hearing on about the game i fell in love like with the sims 2. Obviously then came the backlash of the removal of Many objects from previous games to which the community made VERY clear what they removed (which annoys me as most people keep talking about the stuff that were added in updates and weren't added in release), The Sims 4 made me angry for a day or two but then i see the potential of the series and after hearing about The Sims 4 being redone completely and no longer reuse anything i begin to sympathise with the developers.

I did some programming before and it was very hard to create things and i can sympathise with the developers as i know how hard it must be to redo EVERYTHING in the game and still people backlash.

By the time the game released i never felt so much love for the game since The Sims 2 and i've already got 500+ hours into it from the base game and the new expansion packs coming out i know ill sink in 300+ more.

My Opinions of Games and Expansion Packs in The Sims
This is the category where i display my emotions and feelings as well as Opinions of the base games for the sims and Expansion packs, stuffpacks will be made in a seperate category because there isn't much to be said.

The Sims 1
The Sims 1 is a charming little game, it basically is the start of everything and was a basic life simulator. There isn't much said since at this point the game wasn't very fleshed out.

Livin Large/House Party
These expansions did add alot of fun and quirky items to the game but were mostly like stuffpacks and included some little unique items like Voodoo Dolls and the Genie.

Hot Date
The first dating expansion was fun having your couple going out to the city and eat together or have a fun date.

Vacation
To me this was the expansion that really added content for the game as sims could go to a woodsy area, a winter wonderland and a tropical like beach in which contained many hotels and cabins which had loads of fun activities.

Unleashed
Isn't much to say about this one but the dogs and cats are so adorable and i always loved having my family adopt one.

Superstar
This was another mix of Hot Date and Livin Large as you could live with alot of fancy objects and you could go out to the city, in this city you could do modeling and acting and have fun being famous.

Makin Magic
This is my most favourite expansion for The Sims as it included alot of fun activities and world. Right of the bat Sims could get their own wands and learn spells and use them on other sims which allowed many fun activities. The Magic town was so amazing and you could meet so many strange sims and you could buy so many strange objects it was so amazing. My favourite other feature was this expansion included Dragons! which were amazing even though most of the time they cause fires.

The Sims 2
This is basically the best Sims game in the entire series as it has so much to offer even from the base game like THREE Neighbourhoods AND the ability to add in custom ones which is soo amazing!, you could make your sims live life with so many lifestages and you could have so much done as a family rather than being adults and children. It was so fun going out grocery shopping and setting parties and that.

University
This is one of the amazing expansions from THe Sims 2 as it adds so many features but also added a college which at there was so fun on campus and you could have a social life and party with collegemates and do so much fun stuff which i kinda doubt it was like in real life. I loved the career rewards offered and most of all the amazing Cowplant as well as the ever so useful, Grim Reaper phone.

Nightlife
This expansion was so much fun as well as you could go out to clubs and venues which you could meet so many sims and have so much fun dancing and using the gyroballs and darts and it was just so amazing and also the fun was it added CARS which allowed a awesome alternate mode of transport and my opinion the best cars in the whole series as you could watch your sims get alarms installed and they would open the doors, get in with the car shaking a little and watch them drive out and drive away which was one of the best little things in the whole game. Another great feature was restaurants in which you could go inside and get seated and eat and pay for the bill and oh my god this was amazing.

Open For Business
Oh my god this expansion, even though i play through a game where i mostly use Motherlode rather than do any careers but creating a business allowed for so much ways to have a shop and its so fun watching customers come in and buy your things, this expansion allowed for you to make Bakeries, gyms, restaurants, bookstore, shopping centres, clothing store and so much more. Also it returned the amazing Servo bot which served as awesome little butler/maids with a man made AI sort of twist.

Pets
Another fun expansion but not alot to say as it add Cats and Dog as cute as ever and they serve as amazing best friends for your sims but are twice as needy as sims.

Seasons
WEATHER! this is so much fun added to The Sims 2 not only adding realistic fun weather but sims could do amazing and fun activities from their homes and could decorate their homes and have so much fun for each seasons.

Bon Voyage
This was a very fun getaway expansion which added three fun vacations and obviously because they're worlds you could also add in custom vacations which add so many possibilities, each world came with unique activities.

Freetime
isn't much said but it added fun little hobbies for your sims and they could also have fun joining little clubs and do activities with other sims.

Apartment Life
My most favourite expansion pack in The Sims 2 as it added in amazing Apartments which served as little houses but you could have walk to neighbours and have fun living in a small home next to four other families with the added feature of roommates.

Obviously my most loved feature for Apartment Life is that Witches are added and these are the best lifestate and type of witches of all the sims series as these witches have all these amazing features, witches have Alignments in which each path has their own unique spells and spells were so useful and so many of them and they could so much they are all spectacular, my most favourite spells being the time freezing spell from neutral witches, teleportation and the spell to create food. Witches also could use brooms which they cackled on and it was a fun way of transport which added so much humour. Another great feature was that Witches has their own magic neighbourhoods, even though its only two lots its so amazing as they're castles of good and bad and in these castles you could meet many other witches and get ingredients and cauldrons and it is a fun hangout.

Overview
The Sims 2 and its expansions are just spectacular, instant best game of the entire series, just so many things it did right and so many things were added in which future sims never made and if they did it mostly wasn't as good as it was in The Sims 2. Although future games did upgrade on parts the sims 2 did, it just didn't do it as well as The Sims 2, its got so many features and fun little things there is just too many to count.

The Sims 3
Ah the Sims 3, when i first heard about it felt like The Sims 2 would never be topped (even though i still think the same till this day), i did hate how the sims looked, it was very weird of how they looked like porcelain dolls and looked very emotionless. But when i got the game i really really loved how the open world you could instantly go from one part of the world to the other, although it was slightly laggy i was seeing my self playing it for quite a bit and realising wow i has less content than the sims 2 but i guess since they had to work on open world and it was very good looking graphics (for the time) i had hope.

Store Content
Let me just get this one out of the way, Store content- i really don't like this addition to The Sims 3 for many reasons, It's expensive (especially the worlds, oh-my-god), it was mostly glitch and it just felt really out of place. I rarely had objects from the store and i never paid for them mainly because my cousin bought her store content and she transferred the files to mine so i could explore them. The Lady Ravendancer spell book is probably the only favourite object i have (other than sunlit tides but i'll get to that) and i used it for a bit but most of the spells just like witches in the sims 3 weren't really useful and there was alot of potential and there wasn't enough spells for me to play with.

The Worlds, OH-MY-GOD the worlds, They're prices are up to expansions and sometimes over expansions which is really weird considering most of the worlds don't really contain THAT many objects, store worlds really felt like 1/3 of a expansion and just like store content objects most of the time they felt glitchy or out of place. The only world i really like and use alot of its objects was the Sunlit Tides, i really like the sauna and the gold edition spa items.

finally Store items just felt really out of place, even though they look sort of like stuffpack or expansion pack items if you saw a store item, you would know if they were a store item, i kind of like store items but most of the time they just felt really out of place for me, when i saw a store item or object in my house or lot i would get this weird feeling that it isn't a real object and it felt like something of a mod.

Overall Store content i just really don't like it, they feel as though some other developer who wasn't working on the sims added his/her work to the game and sold it. The Store items were expensive and considering how MUCH store content there was it was just such a hassle. What i really don't like about store content is they try bringing back stuff from the sims 2 and for me they just feel like they weren't real objects and the items bringing stuff back from the sims 2 like open for business from the bistro or midnight hollow was just not very good as it was in the sims 2 as well as it felt weird. I just really hope store content isn't used in future games because it seems like a really cheap way of giving simmers what they want and a really weird selling scheme.

World Adventures
I liked this expansion, although it wasn't as good a Bon Voyage, i liked how it explored other Vacation themes other than tropical islands and woodsy areas. Even though Bon Voyage has the china theme world it was very good here to. I liked Egypt the most because of meeting the mummies and personally liked the tombs in that world. France was good and so was China but Egypt was a very nice place. I do dislike how there weren't really any hotels or something of the kind because i just sometimes wanted to explore famous lots and go back to the hotel during the night, this expansion really pushed the adventure theme which made it really awkward to be a Vacation expansion.

Ambition
I loved this expansion, it added very fun careers such as Stylist, Fire-fighter, investigator, interior decorator, doctor and Ghost Hunter. I kinda liked the Stylist career as it felt like one big career for that Stylist business from Sims 2, i had fun either giving sims good or bad makeovers, however i got bored of it after a while. Investigator was very interesting, it was fun hiding from sims and interrogating sims but i felt it got boring after a while (see the pattern?). Interior Decorator was kinda fun but i didn't really didn't know how to fulfil the sims wishes in help buying a room for them, also i got bored of this although much quicker than others. Doctor was quite boring, my sim just walked into the hospital and have a few interactions for other sims but there wasn't much to do. Ghost Hunter was the most fun career in my opinion as you go into sims houses and suck up ghosts with your gun and be a ghost buster. Firefighter is another favourite of mine as you got to go to their place like the stylist career, although Firefighting seemed to be alot of... waiting... and when i actually got to do activities around town it was fun the first time but it just felt repetitive for me.

Now i do like this expansion but i just feel i got bored of these careers quite quickly, most of these careers had no progression and when you actually did stuff it was very very repetitive. Half the time you spent waiting for other sims to call you up and when it happened it was getting closer and closer to the end of the day. I feel like this expansion was good but needed some help for me to get interested. I liked the world took, it was very befitting but another peeve of mine was the ANNOYING LAUNDRY, it was such a time consuming and useless thing, it kept getting my rooms dirty and i kept hiring maids to do the work.

Late Night
Before Seasons this was my FAVOURITE expansion in The Sims 3, It had so many features and it was so fun, i loved the city and going to clubs and being a celebrity, it was just so great for the sims 3 at the time. although a few complaints of mine were that Sims were hardly at clubs, i rarely saw like 2 sims and the city was very very empty. However i loved the locations and had so much fun with the Vampires. Butlers were amazing in this expansion and it was very fun having a person on your lot just working for you.

Generations
This was a very adorable expansion, i loved all the objects and interactions from this expansion, especially the treehouse, costume box and spiral stair cases. It didn't have as much as Family interactions as The sims 2 it was ok for the sims. i was quite sad how this didn't have a world with it, a type of world to have family houses at and just a family little quaint town.

Pets
Just like Pets from The Sims 2 i loved this expansion, i loved the World which was amazingly beautiful, i loved the Dogs and Cats and i was very fun having a new adition, Horses! they were very fun to have and it was very fun to ride them across town, it was also funny just seeing random horses in the wild as well as seeing deers.

My most favourite part of this pack other than the world were the Unicorns and they have amazing interactions of Teleporting and cursing/blessing sims. i love how they run with a trail of rainbows and they're the fastest horses. It just so fun playing with them.

Showtime
I was kinda mixed about this expansion, It was very fun being a singer and a Magician, acrobats were kinda boring for me but the others were really interesting. It feels like this expansion was another Late Night just a different approach to it. This expansion does add alot of great stuff i just feel this is one of my least favourite expansions. The only great redeeming quality is the Genies, being that they do act like they were before but you can free them and add them to your family and they have very fun interactions like mind controlling, magicially cleaning and my most favourite SUMMONING ANY FOOD.

Supernatural
This is easily my second favourite expansion, Now SECOND Favourite? i will get to that soon.

Firstly this expansion is especially amazing, i love the dark and magical vibe world Moonlight Falls and its many many supernatural sims. I ESPECIALLY Love that you can create supernatural sims in Create A Sim, although i wish you could also make other life states in create a sim its still a spectacular decision.

I love all of lifestates in this expansion and being able to play them from the get go is so amazing. Vampires although have a few little interactions in this expansion they're still as amazing as ever. But i felt it was really REALLY annoying and Unnecessary for vampires to SPARKLE when they have sunscreen or use the immortal reward. This feature may have been funny for them but its just so annoying and it felt weird having to mod my game to get what i want (which is a common theme for the sims 3).

Zombies were a kinda let down, first off they only temporary unless you use the permanent potion, they only have one interaction are just annoying, it was very lost potential for zombies invading during the full moon, it was advertised as this life threatening thing and it will be scary but playing it they were just annoying as the vampire sparkles.

Werewolves are both a good and bad, i love how they don't just look like sims with fluff everywhere but they can transform any time they want and be like these strong beasts. the bad thing is that these werewolves just like previously are just like sim dogs, they may look and act hard but all they do is scratch and be a nuisance howling (except dogs do it more adorably).

Fairies were very cool, they could have fancy wings and be magical pranksters and it was kinda fun. i love how they're like Witches but a druid form with wings. Fairies do have alot of fun interactions and are great gardeners which was great for witches.

Now Witches, i loved witches in the sims 2 and i like them here, Witches just like werewolves i felt they have a good and bad. The good was that Witches has Magic bars, it was kinda time consuming having to make ingredients for their spells but it was immersive. Magic bars added some portable ness along with the fun array of wands. Wands were very great touch and having different stats. I LOVE the magic hands reward and they look so epic doing spells. I love how they returned spell duels from sims 1 and witches have Fireballs and ice blasts. I also love the brooms for witches and how they can ride them in a area that is totally reminiscent of Harry Potter. I also LOVE the great array of potions and are a big improvement, they all have amazing effects and are a great thing. I feel neutral about the alignments though (haha neutral alignment), its kinda weird how EVERY sim can use all spells and doesn't bring uniqueness to each sims (remember that Uniqueness for later) but i love how it doesn't restrict sims and whenever you use a spell of different alignments it wouldn't switch alignments all the time.

Now The BAD part for witches. Firstly, the spells, they are surprisingly low, and most of their spells were used for needs which seems like a weird way to make the spell list seem 'big' it seems alot fo spells were split up to make space for kinda low spell count. although they added spell duels it just felt Spells were really lacking and i didn't really use them all the time as i did the sims 2. the only good ones i used was resurrection spell and upgrading appliances magically, although upgrading appliances were already done with handiness skill.

Spells just felt really weird in this expansion, i like the toadification curse but again it got old quick like zombies since they're a temporary state and it seemed quite annoying. Now for the Non-uniqueness for witches in this expansion, Witches could have fun with brooms and ride them all over town, Alchemy potions are very fun and kinda make up for lack of spells. but the thing is, both brooms and alchemy aren't witch exclusive and can be used for everyone, just seems useless being a witch most of the time, it seems weird having normal sims use brooms or create potions when they're traditionally for witches and it was just disappointing. also especially when you're a witch you could use spells which every other witch can do and just seemed a bit less unique but it was fun having them at the same time.

My overall review of supernatural is that it is fun and that as well as they did many things great, but i just feel this expansion was rushed and wasn't achieved it's full potential. Every lifestate, except the fairies because they're new, felt like they've been unfocused and feels as though the developers focused on how Gothic every outfit looked and how Gothic all the objects looked as the same focus as they did for Supernaturals if not more focus on the objects and clothes.

The lifestates were so much better in The Sims 2 maybe not for werewolves and vampires, they kinda did a little more, but all the lifestates just seem rushed and weren't made for their full potential, Zombies are these creepy and walking dead sims and they're now just an annoyance, werewolves are these rabid beasts that attack people or just hunt in the woods and not look for... collectables and they're now a toned down hairy sim acting like a childish dog,

and last of all Witches, they are so useful, they have magic, POWERFUL magic which can do loads of things and it can help with your every day life they are the most complex lifestate in the entire series, Every spell usually has a purpose which you'd achieve at some point, they're so unique and above other sims because they are magical beings, And now they're toned down, most of the things in the sims 3 that's witchy and what would make them unique is now used by all sims making witches kinda of useless. The witches have been downgraded alot and i really hope the next expansion like this would actually focus on the lifestates to get more done.

I still do play with all the lifestates in this expansion but it's just i get reminded how these are not as great as they could have been.

Seasons
This is my most favourite expansion of The Sims 3, there was so much added in this expansion and it did make me think of the sims 2 alot. I loved the weather and how realistic it looked, i love how each season has special activities and the Festival park changes to fit the season bringing loads of fun all sim year round.

I love Winter the most because it makes the world so beautiful and it's just so amazing that our sims can have fun with the snow and the ice skating it's just such an amazing season and is so fun to play with. I ESPECIALLY love the aliens in this expansion, Aliens are the only lifestate i think are improved greatly upon The Sims 3. Aliens have their own UFO's which aren't only viewable through cutscene and they can use them as cars and have fun activities. Aliens have amazing superpowers such as mind controlling, boosting or draining sims or Summoning a meteor. Aliens are purely amazing in this expansion.

University
I don't really have much to say about University, it was fun to play in college but i don't think it was as good as The Sims 2, yes we could go to some classes but when my sims got there there was only 3 students and 1 teacher as well as they were quite boring. I very much like the objects this expansion comes with and the Coffeeshop was fun to go to. Apartments returned which i was excited for but i feel like Sims 2 did apartments waaay more better.

Island Paradise
A common theme for the last two expansions for the sims 3 is that they have alot of uniqueness and potential but i feel like you would easily get bored of the activities you were provided, I love the houseboat ideas and i really really hope they get returned in other games because it was fun being in a moveable house with all in one bathrooms and ladders, I really really like the hotel aspect, certainly reminiscent of Open For Business in the sims 2, but it didn't really have that much to do. I love the Mermaids but i feel there isn't much to do with them, all they have is a fancy transformation, better swimming, unlimited oxygen for diving and a special tail, the mermaid tail is obviously a clothing item looking like a tail because the way it moves and never properly moves like an actual fish. I would have liked if mermaids had more Water like abilities or unique interactions but they're a nice touch.

As i said at the start, i feel as though Island paradise got boring really quickly, i played with the features for like 3 hours before i hardly used them again, I only ever use the pool objects from Island Paradise and play around with the Lifestate. I feel as though if they could work on more progressive or more ways of continuing the fun playthrough.

Into The Future
The Last expansion, oh how i was sad The Sims 3 was ending. Just like Island Paradise i felt like this expansion also had alot of uniqueness and potential but you could quickly get bored of the activities provided.

Firstly i love the idea and everything, i love the idea of time traveling and going into a scifi world and living in this wonderful superhigh tech world. The clothes are questionable but i just LOVE the objects and everything, theres alot of great objects which i loved playing with so much and i just love taking my Aliens here as well as getting the Plumbots, the new lifestate creature Plumbots are my most favourite Robot lifestate (i feel like they're making loads of these 'robot' lifestates) and i love how you can customise them with different parts and you can give them unique Personality Chips which you can install them and make Plumbots have many possibilities.

Now for the bad of the expansion, i still do have fun for this expansion with the objects included even in the Present Time, notice how i said present time? well almost all of the objects you can find in the future world can easily be bought in the present time and it feels very weird getting objects from the future in present time, it make going to the future kind of useless as most of the activities can be put in your present world. Another thing i don't like is that when you go to the present after going to the future, anything you do it kept notifying your sims about their descendants have been "Drastically changed" and kept telling me to go to the future to check on them when they hardly change at all unless someone dies or i run low on money or gain more money.

I really like this expansion but same as Island Paradise i felt like i got bored of it really quickly, the three different worlds you can change in the future were just a Neutral, happy (utopia) and dirty (dystopia) worlds and didn't have much to each one other than annoying sims eating bugs or being insanely perky. I felt like this expansion could have had activities which could make you want to explore their features more and i really think it would be better if Into The Future objects and content were only in... the future.

Overview
I love The Sims 3, it has so many objects with all the expansions and its just a really fun game, theres alot of unqiue things that the other sims games didn't do and it was really fun using them, i can easily easily spend hours on this game and play with all the items. I also love how they introduce alot of new lifestates and they added so many lifestates to the series.

Now for the bad, i have had many problems with the sims 3 which is a huge bummer because its a really good and fun game, First of, The create a style and Open world, although added so much fun and customisation, They REALLY lag my game, and that's worrying cause my computer has Nvidia Geforce GTX 860 which runs GTA V and Skyrim at 60 FPS constantly on very high settings. I should run this game like no problem but for some reason this game has many performance issues, even after it ended and The Sims 4 is now the sims game being worked on. When moving my camera the game would slow down alot or have freezing moments, this isn't just me thank god as i seen many other people on youtube play The Sims 3 and have performance issues. On top of that The Sims 3 is a giant CPU hogger, i mean if it's using CPU why doesn't it work like a charm.

Now the coding issues are out of the way, onto the bad bits about the game, I feel like the game didn't do enough interactions and potential it could achieve, alot of the interactions have toned down since The Sims 2, for example = Generations, that expansion adding many family interactions, dating stuff and wedding, To which was about HALF of the family, dating and wedding interations there were in The Sims 2 BASE GAME. It feels like The Sims 3 added things from the sims 2 and added them in expansions which was kind of good but felt weird. Allot of objects returned seemed as if they could have alot more done with them and it felt like the developers could have done so much more if they did more time on other things but still didn't get off track of the main game.

Another thing about the Open world, as amazing as it is, It brought alot, and i do mean ALOT of Rabbitholes(buildings you see sims enter but don't see what they're doingk), and i really don't like rabbit holes, i feel as though they're lazy and a cheap way of skipping out on alot of great features. Rabbitholes like restaurants, groceries and jobs just felt really missed out, considering in the sims 2 you could ACTUALLY go and go to the Grocery store and pick out food and give money to the cashier, restaurants int he sims 2 you could ACTUALLY go inside and be severed at a table and order food from the waiter and eat food and pay the food bill or run out which was amazing.

I really didn't like how they kept going with the Rabbit holes in future expansions and used it for stuff that seem really exciting for gameplay but its just i felt like the developers were being lazy on that.

I really Love The sims 3, i will forever play it and love its features and play with its completely unique activities, but there will always be things i hate about this game which i do see alot of the time which is sad because i really love play this game and using everything it has to offer but then i get reminded on what things they missed out on and how many coding problems there was.

The Sims 4
I was soooo excited to play The Sims 4, it's cartoony look brought back that Sims feeling for me cause when The Sims 3 did the whole "better realistic graphics" gimic like most modern games nowadays and most of the time the games will age very badly. With the Cartoony style it not only looks amazing but it is suitable for lower end computers and won't look that different between low graphics and high graphics.

When i played The Sims 4 base game i played it for so long, for like a few weeks it was the game i was non-stop playing, i was trying out the fun new features and amazing gameplay. It had so much fun with it and i loved everything new like the Multitasking system is a time saver, the pathways routes are even more better and sims can even pass through half squares, i love that we can go to lots and theres more than 3 Sims you see and not only that you can explore further he lot and go onto the public spaces so it is kinda open world. Willow Creek was my most favourite world as it had the amazing New Orleans archtechture and reminded me alot of the Princess and the Frog Disney movie (which is my favourite disney movie) so i was really chuffed.

I loved everything about it, of course i did have some problems like in build mode it was kinda hard to do details with the rooms mechanics but all the problems are minor which is great. With everything in the Sims basegame i KNEW that the developers are focusing more of gameplay which the sims 2 did too and was amazing. The Sims 4 had a very bright future of potential ahead.

Updates/Freepacks
Before i go onto the paid content, i must address the AMAZING thing with The Sims 4 is that nearly every month we get new gameplay features which is spectacular and adds so much more to the game, for instance the first few months added Ghosts, Pools, a New town called Newcrest, Careers etc. which is amazing for the future projects. The updates will not only bring some more extra content along the way but also get more features added in.

Also there are these free packs, theres only one as as i type this and it's the Christmas Celebration Pack which is an amazing little dlc which is free and adds a few items and clothes based on the Winter Holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah. I don't know if they'll do more but they have been adding to the free christmas pack every christmas which is great too.

Outdoor Retreat
Outdoor Retreat is the first paid content for the Sims 4 and it brings in a whole new genre of packs. Game Packs! These game packs are mini expansions in which are the price of Stuff packs so this makes me really excited cause this allows for more content while we wait for expansions.

The actual Outdoor Retreat is amazing, it added a little world called Granite Falls and we can send out sims there to Vacation which is AMAZING cause i love that they did it so early and as you may already know, every pack is built for the future so future vacation packs or hotel packs can use the Rental Lot idea and send our sims to live there which is amazing. I love the general Camping feeling with the firepits, tents, lodges and the big area around the lots which you can fully explore (the other houses you have to go through loading screens) but it serves as a nice vacation which is great for Sims.

Get To Work
When i first saw the announcement trailer. I. Was. Dying. of Happiness. When i was watching it i was really excited about the whole Active careers returning and the gameplay they told featured way more fun. Last time i played with active careers in Ambitions i felt it got old a bit too quick and there was a lot of repetition. But from what i saw i was amazing, i loved the active careers too, the Police force, the Doctors and the Scientists which are amazing.

Now the real excitement came when i saw the frame of building a shop and i was literally jumping up and down on my bed, Business from Open For Business have returned... and it's not that rubbish Store content version from the sims 3, it's actaully apart of the expansion. Even though i played with using the Motherlode i LOVE making businesses and selling stuff and owning my own little shop for my sims and interacting with customers.

I was so gasping for the expansion to come out and when it did i was so amazed and had so much fun. I loved that Aliens returned and so early in the series too unlike the sims 3, I LOVED that they took the "Supernatural Type" Button idea and put it in the sims 4 so that in the sims 4 we can actually create Aliens in Create a Sim! I love the Aliens, i love that they return their superpowers in which they can do alien things like mind reading, mind erasing, anaylise personalities and a new cool feature is that they disquise themselves as normal sims and bring this whole Secrecy to the Alien world and the Aliens will most likely be embarrased to reveal their alienism.

I love the three active careers, the Police, The Doctor and the Scientist all were really fun and were so much better than the Active Careers in Ambitions as every day you go in, you had abjectives and you had special interactions at the workplace as well as rewards and consequences to not doing enough work. I just had so much fun with it and easily was fun.

Now, the Business side of things. Sure it doesn't have EVERYTHING the sims 2 open for business had like the ticket machine or the customers lining up at the cashier and for the cashier to take the money and give change. But it still is a spectacular remake, it also added in the feature of Manniquins and so we can create and sell outfits in which sims can buy the outfits and wear them so you can make the town wear your clothes. Also with the "Future content" theme i can see that future packs can add to the features which is awesome and would make the business just like the sims 2 in no time.

My Overall review is that I LOVE THIS EXPANSION SO MUCH, it added so much stuff and combined two of the best career mods in the sims. Sure it doesn't transfer over everything from the previous expansion but i mean it's still a great and spectacular way to start the Sims 4 expansion line, and as i said before, it can always be improved with updates and other expansions as everything in the sims 4 is built for future packs..

Luxury Party Stuff
The Luxury Party stuff is the first of the long line of Stuff pack for the sims 4, i usually didn't get any stuff packs from the sims 3 and so i was considering not even buying stuff packs for the sims 4 until i saw the price of £8 AND each stuff pack includes a new "Gameplay Feature" which adds to make it more worth while.

For a first pack, the Luxury Party Stuff is Very typical, new modern outfits and modern objects, usual things. But the new gameplay feature was the Fountain in which we could fill with Chocolate, Punch, Cheese fondue or Caramel and it's really great and brings back memories of eating from these, and so i liked the Fountain as a neat feature, another gameplay feature they brought in was the Buffet tables from the sims 3 which is great for parties with lots of guests... or a sim whos hungry at home haha. But yeah it was really neat pack.

I was kinda bummed how low the content was but then i remember the price of £8 and that usual Stuff packs included just 30 remodelled items which most of them did the same thing. So this Luxury Stuff Pack is kinda nice.

Perfect Patio
Perfect Patio brought in to no ones suprise, More Modern Stuff! But the thing is with this pack it also introduced Hot Tubs again so it's really great to see them again and the woohoo animations are very steamy.

However with this stuff pack i really like the build mode items, i use them alot more than the items in Luxury Stuff so thats a big plus. The Gameplay feature was the Hot Tubs which is great for a little hangout spot for sims so they can drink and chat inside the hot tubs. it's also great that Children can use hot tubs so that it's fun for the whole family.

Overall this pack is really neat, sure it had slightly less content that the previous stuff pack, it still is a great stuff pack.

Spa Day
Spa Day, the second Game Pack. I initially was kinda excited for this pack when it was announced.

When i got to play it, it was very fun and amazing. it added back all the yoga items from previous games into one big pack which is great if you're looking for a fun relaxation for the sims. I really love all the items included with it as it's just great and the music is so soothing.

The Massage Tables and Chairs are really a great experience for your sims and actually, weirdly enough, feels like you yourself are actually having a day at the spa. I love that theres multiple options for each object which is really great.

The Yoga Mats are very enjoyable to watch your sims do either alone or poorly synchronised with a group of people (unless it's on the spa lots, they weirdly all synchronise). They're also portable which is great so your sims can just whip em out and start flexing.

The Mud baths are really cool too, not only mud baths you can have little petal floral baths as a clean alternative. It's really relazing to watch your sims interact with the objects in this pack. I love that these baths can be used in any baths instead of just a unique bath which will clutter your bathrooms.

The feature i really like about this pack is Meditation, sadly they can't do it anywhere but only on a stool but its not biggy, i like that your sims slow down and breath calmly and just relax. And the real reason i like Meditation in this is because they can LEVITATE!! which is amazing and is very cool to watch as the sim levitates and freezes their needs while they ponder about their life, a great thing about the freezing needs while levitating is that they can gain new skill points or boost to skills by pondering about their past. One major thing i also really like is five syllables... TEL-E-POR-TA-TION!!!! I love that now the sims can teleport anyone in public spaces or lots as a quick transportation, i know it takes a few seconds but it's still great, even better is that once they learn teleportation they can do it ANYWHERE which is even more great.

This Levitation and Teleportation really makes me miss Witches and want them even more badly to be in The Sims 4 and i know that the Sims 2 route is where the sims 4 is going so i can't wait to see the Witch spells.

Overall this pack is really nice and is a fun pack which can not only relax your sims but also relax yourself.

Cool Kitchen Stuff
When i first heard of it i was kinda weirded out how many stuff pack they have out already, but i was quickly distracted by the ICE CREAM.

When i got the pack it had a lot of great items in it, the cas items are adorable and great as they're nice casual outfits. I feel there wasn't enough Kitchen to be a "cool kitchen" but the feature that i loved is the ICE CREAM MAKER.

The new gameplay feature for this Stuff pack is a Ice Cream Maker in which sims can use and create up to 30 different flavours, some of them including different effects! AND that sims can add little garnishes and toppings adding variety in the ice cream.

I liked that one Ice Cream flavour practically turns your sim into a temporary Plantsim Lookalike. They don't have the features of plantsims but it's nice to see your sims change which is fun.

Overall i like this Stuff Pack, it is one of those like Luxury Party which is that it isn't really like a "MUST HAVE" stuff pack, it depends on who you are and what you like but it's really fun. One pet peeve i dislike about this pack is where you make your sims get a Ice Cream cone and THEY FRIGGEN BITE INTO IT, it makes me cringe some times because i have sensitive teeth so i see them bite into the cold ice cream i cringe at how it feels.

Spooky Stuff
When i heard they were making ANOTHER stuff pack i was rolling my eyes, but they did take like a 2 month hiatus of content before they added in the next expansion. However when they announced Spooky Stuff i was SOOOOO FRIGGEN EXCITED, i love Halloween and the items you get, i love that they referenced the Witches, Fairies, Zombies and other different costumes which were amazing.

When it came out i was so excited, this is the first time i was really excited for a Stuff pack playing it was so fun, I love the outfits and the new Gothic stuff and Halloween stuff which is AMAZING.

The three new Game play features are the Pumpkin Carving Station, Spooky Candy Bowl and the Spooky Party. I love that we can carve pumpkins again and make uniquely carved ones and light them up as well as have the option to preserve them if we don't want them to spoil. I like the Spooky Candy bowl with it's multiple effects after a sim picks out a candy piece, and finally the Spooky Party is really fun, sure it's just a Costume party but it's focused around the Halloween costumes in general and we can give tricks or treats to other sims. I love that they returned the Costume changing from The Sims 3 Seasons so that Sims can just change costumes, i love that they also added some things for the Children FINALLY.

My only pet peeve for this stuff pack is that i felt that the clothes were too sexualised on the Adult Female outfits and most of the outfits weren't available for both genders. Now im not saying i dislike women owning their bodies and im not some freak who is too afraid to see a woman show some skin but i mean for practially all the adult female outfits, the clothes had skirts above their knee height and were revealing cleavage. I would be ok with this but this is for ALL THE CLOTHES for adult females, there are no options for nice looking clothes that didn't focus on the females boobs and legs, when i play as a female Sim i play it as i play as if i am a woman and i really don't like revealing too much skin, and for this pack to not even have a renaissance gown or some kind of not sexualised creepy costume it was disappointing.

I also feel that most of the costumes were gender restricted which is weird, like for instance for both men and women they can have Pirate outfits, but only the men could wear ninja outfits, and only the females can wear the Fairy and Witch costumes. I mean sometimes i wanna see a female ninja (hopefully not sexualised) and see a male Witch or Fairy.

Overall i really like this stuff pack but i felt it was a bit too much like real life gender roles where Women can only wear sexual costumes or men can't be a fairy or witch or somehting. The amazing thing about halloween is that you can be ANYTHING you want no matter the gender.

Get Together
Alright.... First initially, I liked this expansion, i stayed up for the stream that announced this expansion and when it was out i kinda liked it, people were going on about it looking like the base game but i felt like maybe they just only showed a little part of the expansion and that maybe they had alot more, but the thing is the more they told, the more it felt like the trailer showed all the only fun things you can do in the expansion and the content seem alarmingly low like it was a Gamepack. It had some nice gameplay features like a Whole new world based off of european settlements (which makes me feel at home being in the UK), the Closets returning from Apartment Life and the Club system bringing a really unique feature to the series.

However the breaking point for me was that the moment i found out.... This expansion has NO LIFESTATES...... This made me REALLY pissed cause, if you can't tell already I LIVE FOR LIFESTATES TO BE ADDED, I love every lifestate they added and lifestates are not only the reason i got into the sims but also the reason i keep playing, without them the sims feels like a typical life simulation game like IMVU or Second life just with a slightly weirder language. It really made me angry not only due to the fact that The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 EVERY expansion had a lifestate, The Sims 3 has Supernatural which was a expansion DEDICATED to lifestates and yet they kept going. Another thing that made me pissed was that The sims 4 was taglined everyone for "weirder sims and weirder stories", although the taglines changed now but they're still condoning the "quirky and weird sims" playstyle.

They said the sims 4 was going to be the most weirdest sims game yet AND YET THEY REMOVE LIFESTATES, now you must be thinking "life states are just a little feature", but not really, even the smallest life state adds alot of weird things to the sims, Practically Life States are the PERSONIFICATION of everything weird and quirky about the sims, theres many many other people like me who like the occult states for sims and were disappointed it was removed. I know some people don't like Lifestates but the thing is, it doesn't mean they can get removed. They're a big part of the sims whether you like it or not.

NOW. Rant over.

When i got the game, i was still pissed they got rid of life states but i was little bit more excited they were bringing cafes back into the sims. Cafes were one of the many enterable and immersive lots in which sims can go to hangout and eat snacks and drink coffee or espressos. It was really nice see them return. I like that the world looks really nice and reminds me alot of the countryside i live in currently. I love that there are clubs and they can bring in really funny qualities to your games and finally i love the amount of unique lots there are and that they include many different venues, BArs include a fancy new dj place and sims can party and dance battle each other (which the dance animations are really funny).

I love that theres alot of bar objects like dartboards, jenga parody "Wake the Llama" and the giant video game player which up to four sims can play together.

The world has alot of rich European look to it and gives me alot of The Sims Medieval vibes from the medieval ruins. I love that theres a big area called the Von Haunt Estate which includes a multitude of things like a victorian house, a maze, a little patio by a river, a little outdoor seating area and a nice little garden.

Overall i like this Expansion. It's a really nice thing to add to your games, I am still disappointed with the whole no lifestates thing, but i still like this expansion for the things it has. Now, I do however, feel that this expansion was more of a ..... gamepack or a "upgrade" to the base game. Sure it adds alot of unique things to the game like Dance, DJ's and Clubs but most of those didn't really add anything "groundbreaking" as the Get To Work expansion did, it felt like a upgrade pack for the sims 4 base game, sure theres new things but it felt alot like the base game alot of the time and most of the stuff is pretty much what we've seen before.

I do like this expansion and continue using it to this day, but i just feel it's a little under-developed or something. Sure theres alot of great stuff but i feel that it's missing some things to make it a "Expansion pack".

Movie Hangout Stuff
To no shock, another stuff pack was out, when i saw about it had mixed feelings about it, mainly because it did look like fun with the idea of bringing your sims together to have a little movie night but i felt like the stuff pack was confused on what it was going with due to most of the objects are Bohemian styled.

Don't get me wrong, i like the bohemian styled objects and the groovy feeling, i just felt it wasn't really connecting with the Movie Hangout stuff.

When i got it, it was really good, i liked the objects that came with it and was nice they added plain colours instead of it all being wacky colours, i love that they included a Coffeetable with a mirror on top which is really nice. The outfits also are kinda bohemian styled and are very "mellow".

The two new Gameplay features for the stuff pack are the TV's including the new 10 feature Sims films and the Popcorn Maker!

There are two types of TV's in which Sims can watch on, one designed for being on the wall, strangely this one was made out of metal and the other TV was designed to be on the floor was made out of wood. But it isn't that much of a notice depending on the colours you choose for them, with the tv's you can not only watch normal tv but your sims can watch up to 10 different themed Machine movies just like they did in the sims 2, all including like 5 minutes of footage and all of them are pretty funny and are entertaining to watch.

The popcorn maker is really neat too (funnily enough it has the same model design as the Ice Cream Maker which is a nice touch), you can make up to four different popcorns, Buttered, Cheddar, Kettle corn and Caramel Corn. the popcorn making is really nice to watch the popcorn visuals and sounds of them popping and growing in size is really cool, a little pet peeve of mine is that the sims have to go to the maker in order to get a bowl of popcorn rather than pouring all the popcorn into one big portable popcorn bowl in which people can take servings of.

I love watching the sims take their popcorn and go to watch a movie on the new big tvs and watching the movies, watching the sims eat the popcorn by putting it in their mouth or throwing it into their mouth if funny. i really like that the Sims can react to the movies and all the sims have different reactions to the movies for instance a sim could be really scared of a horror movie and like throw their popcorn everywhere when they see a jumpscare or if a sim is watching something they don't like they'll be visually bored and slowly put popcorn in their mouth while sighed here and there.

Overall i really like this Stuff pack, it's a really nice thing that brings the family and friends together and fun to watch them all react and talk together about the movie they're watching.

Romantic Garden Stuff
Another Month, another pack.

First glance i kinda liked it, the stuff in the trailer looked like this pack was going to give us a hefty amount of extravagant flora and nice Victorian items. I was intrigued by the new gameplay items such as the Fountain with new adorable interactions but i was most excited by the Wishing Well as it's bringing some Magic to the sims and if you know me, i love magic.

When i got it i liked the clothes that it featured, alot of stuff for the adult males which is great cause theres never really any new stuff for men in the sims. I felt like alot of the cas items were more tropical like Island Paradise rather than romance and valentines because they all had flora and tropical stuff on them.

The objects i really liked, although there were like 8 plant items there was ALOT of colours which is great and adds variety, i can see making many great gardens or decorations, the victorian items such as the large archways and the little marble benches are great for the outdoors.

This pack included two new gameplay features which each one has alot of interactions which is great. The fountain is fun, featuring a nice little romantic option and a fun option in which sims can play around in the fountain, i love that theres a mischievous option to flood the fountain with bubbles which looks awesome.

I completely LOVE the wishing well, it includes so many features and it really does change your game, choose between 9 wishes: Romance, Simoleans, Skills, Promotion, Child, Grades, Life, Happiness and Youth all of them comes with 6 different outcomes all good, bad and neutral. Whats really fun is the wishes have a death outcome which means it will cause the death of your sim or a ghost will appear.

The face on the wishing well also determines the outcome and it's really cool cause it's like the wishing well is a enchanted object that feels and reacts to the sim who wishes.

Overall i really like this pack, it's got alot of great flora and victorian themed objects, alot of stuff for men in the cas and really nice outfits for the women, some outfits for kids are sweet too. I love the Fountain and the Wishing well, i'd say the whole pack is worthit for the gameplay objects as they include so much gameplay compared to previous gameplay features and really add alot of fun for your sims.

Dine Out
After a few months of no news for content it felt really weird, but from codes of the patches and hints from developers we all knew the next pack was gonna be a Game Pack and it was gonna be focused on restaurants.

When i first saw the announcement trailer i was really excited, i LOVED the restaurant aroma and feel, it looks really amazing and i just couldn't wait.

When i first got the pack i was so in love with what you could do and the customisation on your restaurant, it is definitely the best game pack for me to date. It feels like a expansion of the Retail System from Get To Work and gave it so many cool features.

I just love both going to restaurants and owning them, owning restaurants is so much fun and it's great to see the customers come in and see your works hustle around. I love sending my sims to restaurants and get food, seeing them drawing before they get their meal is adorable especially for kids.

The bad parts about this pack are that it behaves the same as the Retail system in terms of buying a lot... you can't turn your home lot into a business lot so you're forced to buy a whole other lot and to switch around between them two, i'm fine with this but sometimes it'd be fun to live at the retail/restaurant lot. And yes, yes i know you can build like a house at the retail/restaurant lot but it doesn't get rid of the residential lot that takes up space in the game and when your sim leaves their career for the day they go back to their residential lot.

Another bad part about this pack is so unfortunate that you can't become a Chef, Host, or Waiter yourself! it's so weird why they don't allow it since there is SO MUCH customisation to the restaurants, i don't know why it's hard to add in the ability to do something only npc hired sims can do, this is a huge bummer because you can't make your restaurant a family business and have your household fufil the slots of a Chef, Host, or Waiter. And what boggles me even more is that the Retail System allows sims to have it as a family business and sims from the household can fufil the jobs employees usually fill such as Cleaning, Stocking up, Ringing up customers, talking to customers etc.

Other than that,

My Overall opinion of this pack is that i LOVE this game pack and really love everything you can do with it, it's just so awesome and fun to run a restaurant and see the fun cusomisations for the restaurant, even if it has some major flaws, it is a very great game pack and is really a great thing as it suits to all types of players for the sims 4.

Other Games i play
I play many Many other games other than sims.

My Steam ID is WizardJeremy
 * Garry's Mod
 * Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
 * Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
 * Lichdom: Battlemage
 * Besiege
 * Simcity
 * Spore (+ Spore: Galactic Adventures)
 * Scribblenauts Unlimited
 * Scribblenauts Unmasked
 * Left 4 dead (1&2)
 * Saints Row (2,3,4&Gat Out Of Hell)

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