12/28/2022 0 Comments Sims 3 into the future gardeningAnd while at first I thought it was perhaps unfair to base my review on an experience stripped down to the base game and only one expansion, given that EA has taken to suggesting that users only keep one expansion active at once (or at least, they did during The Sims 3), it might actually be the most honest way to do a review. The experience isn’t robust enough to need more than that. ![]() However, a few hours of play was sufficient. ![]() Wacky antics and novelty aside, though, I expected I would need more time with the Seasons expansion to get a full sense of everything it offers, especially because I’d yet to play The Sims 4. After that I asked the other dude to move in, because if I’ve learned anything from rom coms, it’s that you always wind up with the guy who was there for you without even asking. While the guy I was dating came over the day after I gave birth to helpfully wash all the dishes and change diapers, Santa has only visited once, playing videogames for 5 hours and leaving a tea cup on the floor. Not only did I succeed, making Santa Claus my Sims’ first kiss and first WooHoo, I found out he’s a bit of a deadbeat. For example, once I realized that the game’s fictionalized take on Santa Claus, dressed in a pseudo-Saint Nicolas style suit, makes house calls on “Winterfest” night, I decided to seduce him and see if I could get pregnant. While the base Seasons experience hasn’t been improved or built upon too much, I did enjoy some of the novelties that are specific to the expansion. In the future I might extend the length of each season, so it doesn’t feel like an entire year happens in a month. ![]() The timing of the holidays makes them also feel almost as though they’re on top of one another. The special holidays, though, without the other expansion content (and especially early in the game) feel lonely, even hollow, as if your Sim is going through the motions. To say it is essential to The Sims is an understatement.Īs for the weather features, it’s definitely nice to have rain or snow or sunny days, in that they give your Sim different obstacles and moods to attend to as they go about their day. It makes sense that I didn’t pay attention to The Sims 4 until Seasons was announced, because frankly, I refuse to play it without the gardening feature. It was especially rewarding in The Sims 3, with my Master Chef aspirations, which allowed me to live out my real world passion of cooking with my own produce. I no longer remember a time when I wasn’t carefully planting crops and making recipes with my own vegetables, or supplementing my Sims’ income by selling what I grew. This is the third time Seasons has made an appearance in The Sims the first, in The Sims 2, added gardening to the game, changing the series forever. But what happens when an expansion stands alone on its own feet? Does it hold up? Are there are actually enough features there to justify the price? It’s a huge part of the appeal-the ability to live out real world fantasies in a virtual setting free of logistic limitations. The overwhelming amount of additional post release and in-store content for The Sims meant there are lots of conflicting features to keep you busy if you get bored. In the past, especially in The Sims 3, expansions transformed the entire game into a new experience. The additional expansions offered for The Sims 4 have not, until this point, been enough to get me to move on from The Sims 3, but with the promise of legacy content in the recent release of the Seasons expansion, I figured now was a good time to jump in. Almost four years after its initial debut, I have finally downloaded The Sims 4.
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