Sims Complete Collection

A simblr dedicated to every generation of The Sims.

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Sims 4 Expansion Pack Ratings

Ordered highest to lowest based on Critic Ratings on Metacritic

Life & Death: 86

Island Living: 84

Eco Lifestyle: 82

Growing Together: 82

Seasons: 81

Discover University: 81

Cats & Dogs: 80

Snowy Escape: 80

Cottage Living: 80

Adventure Awaits: 80

City Living: 78

Get Famous: 77

High School Years: 74

Enchanted by Nature: 74

Get to Work: 73

Get Together: 72

Lovestruck: 71

Businesses & Hobbies: 70

Horse Ranch: 68

For Rent: 67

Ordered Highest to Lowest Based on User Scores on Meteoritic

Get Together: 71

Cottage Living: 66

Seasons: 63

Growing Together: 63

Businesses & Hobbies: 60

Get to Work: 58

City Living: 58

Life & Death: 56

Get Famous: 55

Snowy Escape: 55

Cats & Dogs: 52

Discover University: 52

Island Living: 45

Horse Ranch: 44

Lovestruck: 39

For Rent: 36

Eco Lifestyle: 35

High School Years: 34

Enchanted by Nature: 16

Adventure Awaits does not have enough user ratings yet*

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The funniest part of the Animal Crossing movie.

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Which color is your favorite based on the expansions for each color?

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Got tired of my sims always having rich, awesome lives. It was becoming stale and boring and repetitive. So I’m finally not cheating and starting with a really poor sim whose traits are lazy, slob, and paranoid.

I also created a group for him called the Burnouts. Their activities are playing video games, drinking, using the bubble blower, watching tv, and eating. Disallowed activities are bathing, cleaning, and exercising. 

I’m having so much fun.

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We’ve been duped into paying the expansion pack price for what they designed as a game pack. It was obviously a last minute decision to sell it as an expansion pack because the cover was already designed, which is one of the last things they do, and they didn’t think to change it to match the others.

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When they first showed off Island Living I felt this way, and now that I have it, it solidifies my feelings...

Before I get into, let me start off by saying I love Sims 4 and Island Living is really cool, but... It honestly feels like a game pack. 

Not only when looking at it in terms of Sims 4 packs, but especially when comparing it to Island Paradise in Sims 3.

In Island Paradise we got:

Houseboats, which were awesome. And they’re not in Island Living.

Scuba diving, which was really cool, and it’s not in Island Living aside from being a rabbit hole.

Resorts, which you could either stay at or run as a business, and they’re not in Island Living in either aspect.

More boats than we get in Island Living.

An active Lifeguard career versus the rabbit hole part time job in Island Living.

Hidden islands that we had to discover on our own.

Swimming in open bodies of water in any world.

New big things in Island Living to make up for everything not included from Island Paradise:

The part work from home/part rabbithole conversationist career, which is pretty cool.

The ability to take on odd jobs around the island instead of getting a regular job, which is sweet.

The Kava festival and island spirits aspect that I haven’t explored yet.

It just feels more like a Jungle Adventures/Outdoor Retreat game pack versus an expansion pack like Seasons or City Living.There's just nothing grand about it to make it stand out. Not even including the whole swimming in the water aspect, Island Paradise had 3 big game changers being the houseboats, scuba diving lots, and resorts. In comparison Island Living doesn't even have 1 big game changer.

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“Sorry ladies, he’s mine.”

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This Pride Month I’m Thanking Maxis For The Sims

I’m so thankful for Maxis never shying away from queer gameplay, even almost 20 years ago when it all began. It was so important for me while growing up to be able to live vicariously through my gay sims. It was very dark, lonely, and depressing being in the closet from fourth grade until I graduated and The Sims really helped me through the darkest times. Representation is very important, even in video games. 

So thank you, Maxis.

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Totally not Sims related, but I’m writing and illustrating a children’s book if anyone is interested. Hopefully once I finish it some of you lovely simmers will take a peak at it. 

This is the first and last page, so it doesn’t really make sense if you don’t know the story. Also, Tumblr makes the illustrations blurry, but don’t worry, they’re not. (If you click on them they’re clear.)

It’s a feel-good story about cancer and loving yourself no matter how you look, which is very near and dear to my heart because I too was diagnosed last April.

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Is there a way to remove the glowing effect around certain items? For example, the vet check-in thing, the Get Famous hair and makeup chair, costume stand thing, etc. I have a mod that removes the glowing effect on items as you hover over them, but it doesn’t affect these items.

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I can’t wait until we get a beach themed world so I can build a hotel/spa and pretend it’s a rehab facility for my celebs addicted to juice. 😂

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It’s been such a rollercoaster, but I’m so proud to see how far Sims 4 has come and can’t wait to see it get better and better still.

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Love what the new reputation meter adds to the game.

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Is it really too much to ask for a run down, trailer park build? All of them that I’ve downloaded from the gallery were super expensive, cozy, quaint little trailers. No, I want disgusting, cheap, filthy, cramped trailers for my sims trying to make it big in Del Sol Valley.

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Which setting should I change in order for my sim to not look like he has really awful tan lines?

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Unless it’s just his skin tone because my other sim doesn’t have that problem.

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Which setting should I change in order for my sim to not look like he has really awful tan lines?