Which Sims 3 Expansions Do You Play?

[PlatnumDymnd]

I chucke everytime I come to this thread and see the pole. Do you guys know I just recently found out what 'vanilla' sims was? I was looking for it to buy like it was an EP I  missed. 

Anyway I am very excited about Supernatural. I don't know what I would do with it but my addiction to Sims alone makes me excited to add to my collection. There are quite a bit of packs coming out right? Or is already out. I'm saving my pennies so I can get the pre-order in.

I also try to get all the game guides too. I'm behind in that though. I've been spoiled by the guide here I don't even know the last time I bought one. 

[BizzyBee]

I only have Sims 3 and Ambitions so far. As for buying Supernatural. But, since I don't have all of the expansions yet, Supernatural is on my list of "expansion to buy next." And, every day, I change my mind about which one that will be. 

[Joria]

What to buy next would be a hard choice, but it depends a little on where your head is at in game play.  If you are a person who really likes animals and thinks the things they do are cute and would like to interact with them, obviously Pets would be a good choice.  Besides being able to create pets and interact with them, you have animals that will help you find items to increase your wealth etc.

If you are a big city girl who loves vampires, Late Night would be your choice.

If you are planning on dynasty type play, then I suggest World Adventures because it will open up so many different ways to play, beautiful scenery to see, treasures to find, and a few spots where your Sims can just skill up without using their own life days!  That's the part of WA I really like.  When my Sim needs to skill up in something, say guitar playing, I just send them to a foreign country for 3 days, don't even do the adventures and just play all 3 days till they reach level 10!  Sometimes you can do your LTW really fast that way.  Solving the mysteries of the tombs is really great too.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I have all of the expansions and stuff packs (sans Outdoor Stuff and that Katy Perry abomination) and I plan to obtain Supernatural.

[Esther1981]

If you are planning on dynasty type play, then I suggest World Adventures because it will open up so many different ways to play, beautiful scenery to see, treasures to find, and a few spots where your Sims can just skill up without using their own life days!  That's the part of WA I really like.  When my Sim needs to skill up in something, say guitar playing, I just send them to a foreign country for 3 days, don't even do the adventures and just play all 3 days till they reach level 10!  Sometimes you can do your LTW really fast that way.  Solving the mysteries of the tombs is really great too.

But there is always the dreaded travel bug in which you could lose that file. I have WA but I hardly ever travel because of that. If you don't mind cheating, all the items from the 3 places can be found in buydebug, which I use so I don't have to travel. But I really miss seeing the different things and doing the tombs, but that's a price I pay to keep everyone together and safe. 

[xFezIsAFreakx]

The travel bug isn't all that common any more, I thought? I've never had it since the patch before Generations, and I go travelling all the time.

[loveSims]

At the moment I don't play World Adventures and Late night.
But that I won't ever get rid of the disks lol!
I will install Late night again when I get Supernatural.

[Esther1981]

The travel bug isn't all that common any more, I thought? I've never had it since the patch before Generations, and I go travelling all the time.

Really? I don't really know ever since I lost my 4th attempt at a dynasty to the bug I've been terrified to travel. But if it's fixed that is awesome news!!

[ilovebakedgoods]

I'm really looking forward to Supernatural! I love fairies and I've been wanting to play some sort of fairy creature since TS1. I created my own here and there, but I loved the look of the fairy wing selection in the Supernatural preview video. Hidden Springs is one of my favorite locations, too. It has that storybook feel that I love and I think Supernatural will contribute to that feeling for me.

I think my favorite TS3 expansion, so far, is Generations. I really love the added interactions that came with it and I'm sure there are other things that I can't remember now. I bought it with 2 other expansions so I get them all mixed up. The one expansion I cannot play, sadly, is Pets. My computer just does not like it and it caused my game to freeze or crash too much so I uninstalled it (no crashes since).

I'd love to see a University and/or Seasons type of expansion for TS3 sometime.

Edit: Apparently, there is going to be a TS3 Seasons, yay!

[freddymondale]

Well this may sound strange but I have two different combinations of expansions installed on two different computers.

On my mac I've got the base game + World Adventures + Ambitions (the most played combination)
On my pc I've got the base game + Ambitions + Late Night (the combination I play just occasionally)

Why this distinction? Well, when I bought World Adventures and Ambitions they seemed to fit very well with the base game, adding new depth and enhancing the gameplay, but at the same time leaving its structure unchanged. I mean, I hated vacation themed expansions in the previous Sims games, but World Adventures was such a big improvement overall (and so was Ambitions) that I instantly loved it.
Now, I like Late Night so much, but it just seems not to fit the game as well as the two previous expansions. I mean, celebrity system and vampires are cool, but I don't like the idea to have them mixed with my game when I don't want to. In my eyes Late Night is more like a standalone episode than an expansion I actually want to see added to families I usually play with... it brings no significant improvements to the base game, and the new professions, the traits, the lifetime rewards, they seem to be made for Bridgeport and Bridgeport only. So when I play Late Night, I play it only to explore the features the game has to offer (I've never started a game in a town other than Bridgeport, and every single file I've started, it always featured actors, directors, mixologists, vampires, bands etc. in a way or another), but when I want to simply "play the Sims", I go back to my "regular" Vanilla+WA+Ambitions combination.

Oh, on a side note, I don't like Pets and Showtime at all, though I'm really looking forward to Supernatural... I'll definitely buy it!

[lilemz]

I play the base game with Ambitions, Late Night and Generations installed I want to get Diesel Stuff and Seasons though

[sims4ever]

I have all the expansions and stuff packs and will definitely get Supernatural.

[Swanwhite]

I own World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, and Generations. However I recently uninstalled Late Night and Generation and am just playing with the first two. I uninstalled Late Night because I didn't like the whole vampire, celebrity, paparazzi business (I do miss getting huge discounts for being a celeb though..) and I was having a lot of fun with Generations but twice now I got a bug that made my sims stop aging and I'm tring to pinpoint where that glitch came from so I'm being minimalist with my expensions.

Supernatural sounds so crazy I will have to try it eventually

[Shadow]

I own all the base packs except for showtime, which just have never really appealed to me. By far my most favourite one is ambitions - I don't know how I managed to survive the vanilla version with all those rabbit holes. And yes like everyone else I'm so excitedabout supernatural, finally I will be able to sing "there's a zombie in my front lawn" in sims 

[YZJay]

I have all expansions except Generations and will only buy it only when I visit a game store without anything else to buy. Why isn't Seasons in the poll?