Now I'm going to have to go play the crazy cat lady! Why did you show her!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

OooOoooo, it looks so pretty!

aha a fellow Fall Out New Vegas player...oooh I'm going to make a sim Boone!! :o)

I'm running on onboard graphics HD4250...not some fancy graphic cards, don't worry, Appaloosa doesn't lag on my rig much when I'm running it on high and it's very smooth when settings is low. I hope you can play it too, I think Pet's the best EP so far and playing it with cute kitten on my lap is even better.

Installing now...


looking at those pictures again I now need to re-design some of my plans for my custom 'hood. I had planned an Urban-Suburban-Euro-Americana style 'hood but I now want to add a Rural area into that mix

Some of the run down buildings will look amazing in my East Freehaven area, where I plan to have an urban run-down/being renovated area and a factory district.

And the clinic will go great with my Malibu Beach area, looks just right as a private clinic for my affluent Sims

Persuading parents now, can't wait. Telling parents if I download from origin I get Limited Edition AND a stuff pack .

After looking at this thread and exploring a bit more myself, I might have to take back what I said earlier. It's actually kinda pretty.


Although a lot of the terrain paint still looks really weird/unnatural to me ingame. Maybe it's just my graphics card?

It is a beautiful place, I love the scenes and the gameplay is so funny. Very impressed with the new rabbitholes and somebody at EA must have study how simmers like their lots to look. Really nice looking ranches. Especially the ice cream truck. I like the animations of how they look inside trying to decide what to get. Major decision, LOL! The colorful pop has bad animations, but it is all good. Can anyone remember a "brain freeze".





The sims are decent too. I think the game is channeling Samuel L. Jackson for a bartender.

The animation of being stuck into the face is the same for all kind of ice-creams...I think they didn't bother to fix it because this kind of graphic bug is so obvious, some testers must have reported it.
But I love that the truck stops in front of my house very often so I don't have to run around looking for it. It's kinda funny my sim drops her ice-creams a lot, y'know it's 25 simoleon a piece, don't be so clumsy .
Then I'm questioning whether the Freezer Bunny is a reward for the cool treat's loyal customer?

oh... i just love that freezer bunny gnome. with his little fake beard and gnome-hat balancing on top of one of his ears. like he is in disguise or something

Parents wouldn't be persuaded. Parent asked me if I wanted to go to Asda, going, hoping to buy game Post pics later.

haha, I have seen you are dying to get the game, will their heart be soften if you do chores around house like those teenagers in game?

If at first you don't succeed, whine and whine and whine again!

I hope none of them buffaloes attack my pets. xD

I have cleaned the bathrooms, hovered my room, tidied my brother's room and mine, whined, and I still can't have it

I just bought the game today, and I am quite pleasantly surprised. This world is even better than Bridgeport and Twinbrook...

And to know that for once EA actually didn't have a hand in making this world.... WesHowe said he spoke to someone who worked on the Pets expansion, and apparently EA completely outsourced the development of Pets. So they hired an outside company to do the design, who hired temp artists to make everything. Maybe that explains why FOR ONCE it doesn't actually suck. :D
They need to have that company make everything!

Now I'm expecting some of our excellent builders to come out and confess they actually worked on this amazing plains.

Tomorrow it'll be discovered Appaloosa Plains is actually a massive piece of CC. :D

I know I'm late to the party, but I just toured Appaloosa Plains, and I am so impressed and surprised. Honestly, I didn't expect to like it much since "I'm just a city [girl], I'm really not the country kind." But, wow! I love it. EA, or rather the company EA outsourced this to, did a really good job. One thing that I was gobsmacked by was the fact that they created new Ambitions lots and a Late Night lot. I never thought they would do that; I was expecting to have to 'doze those terrible auto-placed lots. It really feels like a complete town—just have to add a few bars and clubs, maybe add some Gen stuff to the parks. And as has been said, the new rabbit holes are also cool—they're new designs, not just recolors and the combinations actually make sense. Also, their descriptions in the community objects section are actually long and detailed, unlike the RHs from earlier expansions that just say stuff like, "This is the criminal warehouse for your town." In fact, all of the descriptions are pretty detailed.

Pets feels like a full expansion, especially in contrast to Generations where we got one community lot and no new town (I do like the gameplay that came with Gen, but still.) I'm wondering, did they include any World Adventures lots (don't have it installed at the moment)? Also, if you don't have Ambitions and/or Late Night installed, do the EP-specific lots like the consignment store still show up but with default replacements or are they not there at all?

No, but those lots aren't intended to show up in the base game anyway. Apparently, WA worlds do get minor pet spawners (lizards etc), and you can use Edit Town to add pets to families in those locations, but to travel with your own pets you'll need Twallan's Traveler mod.

Sounds cool, Srikandi. I wonder if the residents will get horses if a Equestrian Center or something like that is placed in the WA worlds. I think seeing residents riding horses in China and Egypt would be cool.

I am not trying to think realistically, just think it will look great in the game. I just think it would have a more historic look to those lands.

I haven't traveled enough to see if Story Progression kicks in and immigrate new family with pets to the WA world or let them adopt pets, I think the quickest way is to have some pets in your library and add them to the existing families yourself. But animals are already roaming other worlds as Twallan has enabled many kind of Pets spawner.

I think one of the cool things about this expansion is the ability to get on a horse and just go for a ride, and enjoy the scenery. What a beautiful town!

i love this new town and the rabit holes my only probkem is the sheard rabit holes like when your sim goes in the grocery store an not the diner it just gets abit anoying don't understand why they joined thoes two anyway they could have just placed them next to each other with move objects on same with the restraunt and buisness centre, i don't mind the school and staduim, hospital and science lab or the civil service building.