The sim that falls victim to the prank is disgusted by the sound, and temporarily suffers from a negative moodlet. Your cackling kid may sneak up to his parents' laptop and set it up to scare the next sim that uses it or plant a whoopee cushion on the sofa. They can also pull pranks, at home or elsewhere. Children don't just get living plushies: They can play on seesaws and in tree houses or use any of the other playground equipment added to the Buy mode. You can craft other potions at the table too, such as mood enhancers and the like, though potions aren't exactly new the Makin' Magic expansion for the original game included a similar mechanic.Īs you move through the years, you also unlock new features. You make potions here, one of which will make your virtual Pinocchio a real boy. Heck, you can even turn him into a controllable sim if you mess around at the chemistry table often enough. Want help with making the beds and cleaning the toilet? Ask your invisible friend to help with your chores. Want a snack? Send your pal to grab you one. Watching your child's purple Martian mutant saunter about with an exaggerated bounce is as charming and silly a sight as any in the series, and you only see him when you are directly controlling your child. This semicreepy stuffed wonder morphs from plush toy into a combination of best friend and personal assistant. It begins in childhood, with one of the expansion's most charming and surreal additions: the imaginary friend. It's nice to have new playthings, but at almost the cost of a whole new game, even the most dedicated devotees can probably do without these toys.Īs you can guess from its title, Generations deepens and broadens your sims' various stages of life by adding mechanics suited to their age. And that's this expansion's real problem: lack of impact.
These enhancements are subtly integrated into the main game, but they don't have the overall impact of previous expansions. Children get tree houses and playground equipment teens learn to drive and go to prom adults have midlife crises and grumpy oldsters shoo away annoying kids with their canes.
This addition is a pleasant extension of what The Sims 3 already does-not a game changer-and series addicts will undoubtedly enjoy how well Generations captures the essence of life's individual milestones. The Sims 3: Generations is an awkward middle child, granting you more than just hairstyles and new chairs but none of the inventiveness found in previous expansions like World Adventures and Ambitions.
The Sims games have traditionally received two types of add-ons: 'stuff' packs that give fans new items like decor and apparel, and full expansions that add brand new gameplay elements. The Sims 3: Generations offers fun new features and objects to play with, but on the whole, it doesn't make much of an impression. Hopefully reinstalling origin can fix this, because I tried everything else with no success.The Sims 3 Generations is the fourth expansion pack for the hit single-player simulation game The Sims 3. There is no possible way any of my could have been purchased illegitimately. The others were bought digitally off of origin. But if those followed by a reboot still do not work, then it's most likely an account issue of some kind that only EA Customer Support can assist with. If that doesn't help, yes uninstall and reinstall Origin (only, not your games) as said. If the packs are really missing on the Launcher side and not just in need of being checked off again at startup, try an Origin Repair Game on TS3. What is the source of the others that are not discs? Is this what you are experiencing or is it something else? You said that 'most of' your game and packs are discs, I assume that means sealed retail original purchase discs at the time.
In those cases they do not need re-installation, but they will not show on the 1.69 version of the Launcher to be checked off on the Packs and Stuff chooser tab even though they are indeed installed. They cannot 'uninstall themselves.' Although Origin can lose track of what you do have installed and you can also be blocked without warning from the EA end from running what someone or something thinks are illegitimately obtained packs. I think they were trying to describe to us here in Tech here what Origin is (this wasn't really - EPs are program files. The OP did not say they bought anything by way of Steam. They look like this: – The Sims 3 Into The Future Each Expansion Pack for The Sims 3 has the same name.If you want to uninstall the base game, delete The Sims 3 folder, too.Right-click on the folders of the packs you want to uninstall and select Delete.For 64-bit systems, expand Wow6432Node.