Nightlife Rocks (Gasp!)
Rooby:
I've been playing Sims since the first game, including all expansions, as has my adult daughter.
In our opinion, this is the best X-pack ever. We both quit playing the first game after the HotDate X-pack - it hosed gameplay so badly that it just was too frustrating to play. Also, that god-damned re-appearing fly swarm just got to be OLD.
I had to go through and remove my mods to get my game to work correctly after installing NightLife (using CleanInstaller). As was mentioned by a Maxis person somewhere, some of these mods were redundant for NL since the game engine has changed. Since my daughter didn't have the hacks that I did, she didn't run into any of the initial problems I had.
My downloaded items, including food items, are working fine. I left in two custom careers and haven't had any problems with those. I have nearly 9000 items in my download folder.
I haven't had any hosed Sims. My sorority house (the one that came with the game) is still broken, but no big deal - I have my own frat house that I use for my Sims going to college and it works fine.
I think the gameplay is greatly enhanced by the X-pack. Playing the University area is more interesting now. The needs don't decay as quickly as they used to, so you can actually DO something downtown.
There are some new animations that are pretty funny.
I miss Autoyak a LOT, and hope that is one of the mods that is updated for NL.
My husband is a games software engineer in test, but not for EA. I know how hard those folks work on a game. Do you honestly think these people invest years of their lives (for what is rumored to be crappy compensation) to intentionally release a shit game? When I see some of the childish 'EA GAMES IS THE ANTICHRIST' posts on these boards I just want to take away their computers for a week and send the authors out to mow the grass and take out the garbage. It's a GAME, and a pretty amazing game at that. Threatening class action lawsuits and so forth is incredibly juvenile. If you don't like the game, don't play it. If you have positive suggestions, make them. If you have the skills to mod, goddess bless you. If you have the ability to skin & mesh WELL more power to you, and if I think it is good enough I will GLADLY pay for your work.
I even like the packaging. The box is big enough to hold all of the disks for the game thus far. I removed the product key sheet from the first two jewel cases and the paperwork fits nicely in the left side. Having been through the frustration of trying to find the original game disks for a reinstall after a couple of years, I appreciate a neat & tidy solution to keeping the whole game together. The background on the new box is my favorite shade of purple, AND the X-pack came out the day before my birthday.
There you have it - as uncool as it is, I am pretty darned happy with this X-pack and I think EA did a fantastic job.
Rooby
nothingbutsims:
I think it's pretty awesome too. Some pretty cool new animations and such. It's fun to sit back and watch the background action too. I think one of the funnier animations is how the waiter/waitress serves the meal - "La Bouche!" (spelling on that?)
DuzzyGirl:
I've enjoyed it thus far as well. I thought I'd pee myself when I saw my sim fall asleep in her food for the first time . . . then again and again and again . . . :D
Brynne:
Me too. Had to make it my new avatar!
Howabominable:
I also agree that it owns, definetly the best EP I've ever had (though Unleashed is close). It so much fun! It made boring, monotonous sim life be interesting and eventful.
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