I've never noticed how much green stuff the sims 3 had until I started watching your videos and now everytime I play and see a green room I sigh so hard
What I always like about Twinbrook is that the world is build for every active careers that come with Ambitions. A lot of family lore hint at something dark for Dectective to solve, a lot of ugly fashion sense for Stylist to fix it, the house are all weird for Architecture career to reconstruct, etc.
whoooahhh this would make sense as to why in this video there was a regular car in a basement but in my game it was a cop car, and why there were actually some really nice homes on my file that I swear were the ones he reviewed but looked nothing like what was shown here.. I have high autonomy for all and I sure didnt change anything myself..
I think the world designers intentionally made the interiors ugly for the purpose of the architectural design career. It’s not as satisfying to renovate an already good looking room.
That awkward moment when you realize your IRL house could be an EA build... we have 39 windows, lol. Loved watching this, thank you for delving into the Sims 3 like this!
You may be right... Many midnight hollow builds had strong similarities (but they weren’t always ugly). So maybe it is a single person working on each world.
@@Rekowcski On Reddit, the designer who made the sims in Sunset Valley did an AMA and said there was one person who worked on all the houses in Sunset Valley, and that most of the employees weren't fans of/didn't play the game
The only thing I really liked was that one basement with the harvest gold washing machines... The warmth of that basement made me feel at home! What's so weird is this neighborhood has so many windows, and yet the inside colors are so dark that natural light does nothing to help them. I wonder if all that empty space is so that when the houses catch fire for the firefighter career there's a big empty spot for the fire to generate and be put out without too much damage to the functionality of the house.
I liked that basement too, you can tell by my voice tone that I wasn’t upset. I like your theory but every world has massive empty rooms from what I’ve seen. Except maybe roaring heights, ea loves making tiny homes in that world for some reason lol
@@Rekowcski even in sims 4, the houses usually have a huge empty space. I guess its part of their rules for building official homes, so that the routing doesn't make sims stuck a lot.
"certified habitable" and "marsh mansion" are my favourites. They both feel so authentic to the community. "certified habitable" feels like it's been there from the beginning. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sweet heart, there are so many ugly ea builds I don’t think you have to worry about the series ending. I plan to eventually get to every house in every game hehe
I could never understand the excessive use of more than 3 patterns in one room. Just why their bathroom uses the shades of green that look like either barf or mold? Utterly disgusting lol
Twinbrook reminds me of Georgia a little bit, you have the marsh like the ones that are in the coastal plains, then you have the bigger rich houses that are in the suburbs surrounding Atlanta.
Yay twinbrook! I am currently on my 7th generation there, more specifically that house at 25:00. It might not be the most aesthetically pleasing one but it is small, compact and had THREE bedroom! It is a house built for legacy players. Love this series as always!!
That sounds cool, I’m trying to start my 100 baby challenge in roaring heights BUT there are no appropriate houses to even start! I guess I’ll build my own as usual haha
I remember playing the interior design career when I first got Ambitions years ago, so I knew that the houses were bad. I'm just not a fan of Twinbrook because I don't like the landscape and it's nearly always cloudy/rainy and I get enough of that IRL
I play the interior designer career in sunset valley (which I thought was the ugliest world until I saw this), usually for TB I play a stylist plus something else. I’ve seen these houses on fire before but that’s about it haha
What particularly pains be about EA builds in ts3, beside the colours, are the textures... Why do they use so many of them and in such nonsensical way. Cracked paint on a bed?? A wicker bookcase?? Also I don't know, maybe it's a culture thing, but where I'm from I have never seen a tile countertop.. And EA uses it so often. Looks so impractical, shouldn't a countertop be smooth? Well anyway, thanks for a great video as always! I wonder, have you thought about taking this series to the Sims 2? I'd love to see you react to all the iconic Strangetown houses!
I must add to what you said... a DARK PURPLE wicker book case. Goodness, this isn’t Movie Hangout Stuff. I’ve seen a couple tile counter tops in my life (Canada and UK) but you’re right, most are just wood or a plastic fake marble. Sims 2 occupied houses will be season 2 xo
I wanna know if ea still has an obsession with green and yellow in sims 4 too, because green toilets is a thing in this games since sims 2 and this can't be just abandoned.
Twinbrook is one of my favorite towns for sure. I love the exterior architecture of most of the builds but the “mansions” are kinda lackluster overall to me. I always build my sims their own house in this world.
We literally have the same experience in twinbrook haha. I guess I should be playing the interior designer career more but I’m usually exhausted from having to constantly build my own houses for my sims haha
i was so excited for this world bc architecture is always the most important facet for me and. i didn’t expect the furnishing to be so bad. but hey! the part i care about is so beautiful in a lot of these! twinbrook is very pretty if you never go inside :)
Twinbrook is my least favorite but ambitions is my favorite pack 🙃 I guess it’s because the world is inspired by the South, specifically Louisiana, so the builds/world (the swamp lol) is meh for me
I always viewed the Bayless’ kitchen as like “used to be a garage, converted to kitchen when they needed more bedrooms” Totally missed that Dolphin Digs was like the Evil and Good brothers thus the over the top bedrooms. Great video, Rekowski!
Really enjoyed this one! Saw some houses I never explored and I agree with every critique. Can't wait til the next one and I think you'll find something interesting. I love to play in Twinbrook so it must have something!
the garage door is being used as a open floor plan set up, these are not common irl in residential lots but a lot of restaurants use them to allow for an outside feel during the warmer months
Yeah these were definitely the worst houses so far in this series. The color palettes for almost everything was disgusting and they just had to mix green in with everything like ew. And once again like 99% of the houses were yellow. Y yellow when there’s literally any other color 😂
Eco house toilets are colored with idea - one to pee in and on - one to vomit in and on - one to rule them all ☺ Btw... While building ea workers are not allowed to use bb moveobjects, so... Technically those front doors could be centered)
EA has made wallpaper mistakes since the Sims1 Unleashed! I bet that’s one of the reasons you rated that pack so low 😂 but you’re killing it love watching your channel and brand grow!
I've allways wondered WHY places like these houses are sooo fugly on the out side but sorta nice and Spacey on the inside in the sims 3 games. EA could have Done better with the colors at least. On the good side you CAN OWN the lot or lots and DO whatever you WANT to them. Thank goodness. I am working on a house I got in a lot rite now. It's a good house on the out side so I probably just do some work on the inside like decor stuff. That's MORE MY think than building cuz I'm NOT to good at building unfortunately but at least much of the work is done for me on the out side. It's definitely good enough for a house that's in Sunset Valley. Plus Sims don't seem to really mind much about color on houses much. They DO seem to Care about Space though . Lol. Silly Sims . I love playing Sims 3 and Sims 4 . BUT like HOW other places you CAN get too in Sims 3. Some of the builds other than the color of places are NOT to bad either in builds at least. ✌️👍
My channel is a safe space for everyone except EA, glad you find my insults relaxing :p I’ve done many of the sims 3 worlds but if there’s one you want to see that I haven’t done, you can vote next week for which one you want
I want to see that one world that came with a daycare update. I don’t remember what it was called but it gave off strong ikea vibes. It was sky something, I’m not sure.
I have to give a little push back, most of the builds are purposely made hideous to fit the the careers (especially, the design and architecture careers). I know I have said it before, and will say it again, most homes from the 1950's through to the early 1970's have lots of the greens that you so hate (and it definitely fits the timeline). Also, so many plumbing fixtures, as well as fridges and stoves are yellows, greens, powder pinks/blues (white was found mostly in modern apartments and hotels/motels). While anyone can find many things to throw shade at EA, when they do baby poo all over the place, at least in older builds, it is historically accurate. I have lived in NJ, NY, TX, LV, FL, CO, VA and have family/friends scattered throughout the US, green/yellow is extremely common. The houses I lived in had green/yellow/pink/blue toilets and sinks, while mist of the apartments had white or off-white/beige. I have never lived in modern houses, but stayed with friends part of my time in TX, they had a cabin with a chrome toilet (black cushion seating and lid), with a badet and chrome bathroom sink in the main house, and the tree house (where I stayed, has all wood fixtures), which I would say really tied into the whole aesthetic. As for the exterior of the homes where I first grew up, most of them were shingled, then later plastic siding, painted mostly greens, yellows, browns and blues (with a few pale pink and black houses mixed in). You would hate the interiors too, nearly all that renovated the pale green, pale blue or beige walls, would paint piss yellow to mustard yellow or panel (the nicer ones shades of brown), mostly using greens and blues. Most of the kitchen floors were cheap linoleum (in the rich homes, you might find big block tiles), all with hideous patterns. Bathroom floors so often had those itty bitty tiles almist always using the colors you absolutely hate (and they were a b-i-t-c-h to clean), and the same tiles were usually replicated over the tub, above block tiles (which made cleaning harder to reach the smaller tiles), on three sides (most tubs were placed in corners, with a wall bumped out, until enclosed tubs became popular with sliding glass/plastic doors). At least the tubs did have shower fixers (hence the need for the bumped out wall). So, where EA got this all wrong, they do not add a side wall to place a shower head (which is not even offered in the base game). So, the most realism is when the do place the tub-shower combos from wall to wall. Even if they place just a tub, I think one can add in modded functional fixures for the shower head and curtains. Understandably, not everything will be realistic, as well as functional, but at least we all get to utiluze our own visions to make each world to our pleasing❣ And where EA falls short, midders are there to rescue us❣👍
I like that all the marsh houses have random stuff, it really makes me think, they are using whatever they can find, it’s not poor taste it’s just them being poor.
Okay if you drink every time you hear "green" in this video you might actually get into ER, and I'd fully blame EA for that. Sorry you had to go through this for our pleasure 😁
The big deck joke 😭😭😭 the versatile joke 😵😵😵☠🤟🙌🙌 Also damn i rarely play in twinbrook but now i have more reason not to 😅 i like playing with premade families but those houses,,,,,,,,,
I also have the ambitions pack . It's pretty cool. Good amount of activities to DO definitely. 👍 Some of the builds of that pack aren't to bad but NOT that Great either. Like I said B4 EA could HAV done a better on some of those places. 👎 But the pack is good at least.👍
It’s still my favourite EP regardless of how twinbrook looks. It suits my game play (I usually only play sims 2 premades) so I can live my best ambitious life while everyone else in twinbrook can live in ugly houses. I
weeeird... I only played this town to dump and view cc abandoned mansions and hospitals, and after watching many of your videos decided to tour the town with tab. then I immediately searched to see if you reviewed this town.. you did! and I'm laughing a lot (thank you) is it possible that patterns and colors change for each playthrough? you looked at a house with a secret basement and in my file, the car was a COP car not a sporty looking car.. and some patterns and colors in other houses I swear were different. (I was just there!) have you experienced this? or dis I somehow download a whole re-painted town?
I can't with ea and like what's with the columns Not connected to the fences? the car in the basement? marsh mansion, um I think part of the house has been surgically removed.
You should also judge the pre-made houses in your library. I used to use them before I knew how to build and now looking a them I feel ashamed that my sims ever lived in them
Hey friend. Just wanted to let you know that I have now got Sims 3 up and running on a new laptop that I'd bought when I was still in Florida and still working. So now I have all the EPs and SPs on my laptop. So now I am playing in other worlds other than Sunset Valley. But sadly :( I have to redo my save file for Sunset Valley all over again. I am currently trying to download Sims 4 right now too.
That sounds harder than when I made a house in alphabetical order haha maybe I’ll give it a shot. It won’t be big, maybe just a starter. I can’t imagine making more than one green bedroom or bathroom lol
Ah, Twinbrook... When I first saw this world, I really loved it but then I saw the houses and ewww... Sunset Valley 2.0 I never played in this world again. That is until a few days ago. I actually started a new file in Twinbrook because it fits the vibe of my vision. Twinbrook is actually a pretty nice world when you look at it from the map. It really is just the houses. They are so awful, I can't look at them. I deleted the entire population of this world because I am putting in my own cast one by one but the first thing I do before I love someone into a matching lot for them is renovating it. It really is tiring me out this point. The uglyness knows no limits here so I try to change as little as possible for the most parts. It means, it doesn't has to become pretty but at least take away the bwarf. 😖 I mean... it is kinda realistic. Most homes I see aren't really pretty anyway. Not everyone has good sense or mones for matching interior but at least they have no green toilets 😅 And I say that liking green. In fact my bedroom wall is pastell green with white fake wood on the lower 3rd of it. Matched with white farmhouse styled furniture and one candy pink dresser, a chandellier, white lace curtains etc... kinda old dollhouse style. Also... we have a 3 story tall house with a basement and 14 windows in total. 4 of them being small ground windows for the basement. That's not even half of the ridiculous amount of windows from that one house. 😬 -Reminds me of my 13-year-old-me building disasters where I would build gigantic blocks with windows everwhere, sometimes even inside the house 🤣
Can you comment on more than color? Talk more about layout, functionality, suitability for the sims that live there, etc. Like I get that you hate green but there’s so much more you can say than that…
yes, sorry there wasn't much diversity this time, honestly the layouts are decent, nothing ridiculously broken or inconvenient that I saw, but if the second half all look like this i will just skip over the horrible colours.. some of the larger houses are yet to come and those often have problems with floor plans
The whole Twinbrook vibe is like ugly but I like it because it feels real. It's swampy and poor looking and I imagine that nothing has been updated since the late 70s or early80s.
The so-called redneck house is a horrible stereotype got to remember the people that made this game didn't do very much research I mean I'm from the south Louisiana and I was grew up around rednecks cuz I moved to Texas and nobody's house look like this most of them lived in like normal houses nice places with fireplaces and the only time I ever saw camo furniture was at Bass pro shop and nobody ever bought it now they might have camo sheets and clothing
You're right, it seemed like a californian trying to make American country style. My family is rural Canadian, but here the "redneck" culture is in the north, not the south... so most of our country houses have piles and piles of wood to keep warm in the winter. A garage door into the kitchen would be fatal at -30 lol
I've never noticed how much green stuff the sims 3 had until I started watching your videos and now everytime I play and see a green room I sigh so hard
Everything is green and orange. I’ve always noticed and I’ve always been appalled
I agree. I'd like to go back over his videos and keep a count of how many green bathrooms EA makes.
haha i played a premade sim in bridgeport and when i came to his flat i immediately got rid of the green bathroom and renovated it 😂
What I always like about Twinbrook is that the world is build for every active careers that come with Ambitions. A lot of family lore hint at something dark for Dectective to solve, a lot of ugly fashion sense for Stylist to fix it, the house are all weird for Architecture career to reconstruct, etc.
Oooh and the fire fighter career to watch it all burn haha
Actually now that you mention it, I always make my secondary sim and stylist in this world, and I do always enjoy it.
i never thought about this! that's really smart, i've always loved twinbrook because i love the swampy atmosphere and how everything is so kitsch!
Everytime i was the interior designer career, the clients HATED what I did to their house lol
whoooahhh this would make sense as to why in this video there was a regular car in a basement but in my game it was a cop car, and why there were actually some really nice homes on my file that I swear were the ones he reviewed but looked nothing like what was shown here.. I have high autonomy for all and I sure didnt change anything myself..
I think the world designers intentionally made the interiors ugly for the purpose of the architectural design career. It’s not as satisfying to renovate an already good looking room.
It is the only explanation haha but what if you never chose this career hahah... I guess you could be a bad firefighter and let it all burn
The chances of EA not giving you a green bathroom are low but NEVER zero
I could already tell that there's gonna be green bathrooms 😔
make a game of it! guess how many and keep count, bring your abacus
That awkward moment when you realize your IRL house could be an EA build... we have 39 windows, lol. Loved watching this, thank you for delving into the Sims 3 like this!
If you live in a big house it’s probably not too bad? Haha, idk this house is too small for that many for sure.
I'm gonna assume that only one person at EA worked on these builds and that their favorite color is green 🤷🏾♀️
You may be right... Many midnight hollow builds had strong similarities (but they weren’t always ugly). So maybe it is a single person working on each world.
@@Rekowcski On Reddit, the designer who made the sims in Sunset Valley did an AMA and said there was one person who worked on all the houses in Sunset Valley, and that most of the employees weren't fans of/didn't play the game
The only thing I really liked was that one basement with the harvest gold washing machines... The warmth of that basement made me feel at home!
What's so weird is this neighborhood has so many windows, and yet the inside colors are so dark that natural light does nothing to help them.
I wonder if all that empty space is so that when the houses catch fire for the firefighter career there's a big empty spot for the fire to generate and be put out without too much damage to the functionality of the house.
I liked that basement too, you can tell by my voice tone that I wasn’t upset. I like your theory but every world has massive empty rooms from what I’ve seen. Except maybe roaring heights, ea loves making tiny homes in that world for some reason lol
@@Rekowcski even in sims 4, the houses usually have a huge empty space. I guess its part of their rules for building official homes, so that the routing doesn't make sims stuck a lot.
The houses in twinbrook are particularly tragic. But if you’re the type to rebuild everything, the setting is pretty dope
There are 26 occupied houses and maybe 20-30 unoccupied so you have your work cut out for you.
"certified habitable" and "marsh mansion" are my favourites. They both feel so authentic to the community. "certified habitable" feels like it's been there from the beginning. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I watch these every night before bed and let the playlist play through while I sleep! I'm gonna be so sad when this series is over :(
Sweet heart, there are so many ugly ea builds I don’t think you have to worry about the series ending. I plan to eventually get to every house in every game hehe
@@Rekowcski You're so right, this made me feel better! Thank you 😅
I could never understand the excessive use of more than 3 patterns in one room.
Just why their bathroom uses the shades of green that look like either barf or mold? Utterly disgusting lol
If I ever release a sims 3 world, everyone will notice something strange about it, but it will just be the absence of green.
@@Rekowcski Lol the only things that are green are vegetation
Green is my favorite color 😭😂💚
Twinbrook reminds me of Georgia a little bit, you have the marsh like the ones that are in the coastal plains, then you have the bigger rich houses that are in the suburbs surrounding Atlanta.
Yay twinbrook! I am currently on my 7th generation there, more specifically that house at 25:00. It might not be the most aesthetically pleasing one but it is small, compact and had THREE bedroom! It is a house built for legacy players. Love this series as always!!
That sounds cool, I’m trying to start my 100 baby challenge in roaring heights BUT there are no appropriate houses to even start! I guess I’ll build my own as usual haha
I remember playing the interior design career when I first got Ambitions years ago, so I knew that the houses were bad. I'm just not a fan of Twinbrook because I don't like the landscape and it's nearly always cloudy/rainy and I get enough of that IRL
I play the interior designer career in sunset valley (which I thought was the ugliest world until I saw this), usually for TB I play a stylist plus something else. I’ve seen these houses on fire before but that’s about it haha
What particularly pains be about EA builds in ts3, beside the colours, are the textures... Why do they use so many of them and in such nonsensical way. Cracked paint on a bed?? A wicker bookcase?? Also I don't know, maybe it's a culture thing, but where I'm from I have never seen a tile countertop.. And EA uses it so often. Looks so impractical, shouldn't a countertop be smooth? Well anyway, thanks for a great video as always! I wonder, have you thought about taking this series to the Sims 2? I'd love to see you react to all the iconic Strangetown houses!
I must add to what you said... a DARK PURPLE wicker book case. Goodness, this isn’t Movie Hangout Stuff. I’ve seen a couple tile counter tops in my life (Canada and UK) but you’re right, most are just wood or a plastic fake marble.
Sims 2 occupied houses will be season 2 xo
@@Rekowcski yess can't wait!
I wanna know if ea still has an obsession with green and yellow in sims 4 too, because green toilets is a thing in this games since sims 2 and this can't be just abandoned.
I recall a few basegame houses in Sims 4 having a green toilet, but I don't think there are too many other green items in the game
Twinbrook is one of my favorite towns for sure. I love the exterior architecture of most of the builds but the “mansions” are kinda lackluster overall to me. I always build my sims their own house in this world.
We literally have the same experience in twinbrook haha. I guess I should be playing the interior designer career more but I’m usually exhausted from having to constantly build my own houses for my sims haha
omggg i've been waiting for twinbrook! can't wait to count the green bathrooms lol
it might be hard to spot them all since they are surrounded by green walls, furniture, appliances and windows
i was so excited for this world bc architecture is always the most important facet for me and. i didn’t expect the furnishing to be so bad. but hey! the part i care about is so beautiful in a lot of these! twinbrook is very pretty if you never go inside :)
40 WINDOWS???? The house might as well be half glass half concrete/wood
Twinbrook is my least favorite but ambitions is my favorite pack 🙃 I guess it’s because the world is inspired by the South, specifically Louisiana, so the builds/world (the swamp lol) is meh for me
I always viewed the Bayless’ kitchen as like “used to be a garage, converted to kitchen when they needed more bedrooms”
Totally missed that Dolphin Digs was like the Evil and Good brothers thus the over the top bedrooms.
Great video, Rekowski!
I love Twinbrook lore but unfortunately this world suffers from Sunset Valley disease because it was the second EP released 😔
"sunset valley disease" that is an iconic quote ahahaha
symptoms: blue combined with green, baby poop walls/floor and A LOT of green bathrooms HAHAHAHAH
In sunset valley you have the extra fun of getting a green bathroom but mixed with some other horrible colour
Really enjoyed this one! Saw some houses I never explored and I agree with every critique. Can't wait til the next one and I think you'll find something interesting. I love to play in Twinbrook so it must have something!
Imagine next episode we get a bunch of beautiful houses haha
the garage door is being used as a open floor plan set up, these are not common irl in residential lots but a lot of restaurants use them to allow for an outside feel during the warmer months
I must be super weird, because I LOVE Bygone Charm's outside look. I really like this combination of green and yellow with this architecture style. :(
The inside is weird though, lol.
Yeah these were definitely the worst houses so far in this series. The color palettes for almost everything was disgusting and they just had to mix green in with everything like ew. And once again like 99% of the houses were yellow. Y yellow when there’s literally any other color 😂
I used to like yellow houses, now I will never need to build one again n
please do the university world some day! it was my favorite back in the day
monte vista would be a fun one to take a look at. maybe roaring heights too
I love both those worlds. Very distinct styles that I enjoy, but who knows what horrors we will find inside haha
Eco house toilets are colored with idea
- one to pee in and on
- one to vomit in and on
- one to rule them all
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Btw... While building ea workers are not allowed to use bb moveobjects, so... Technically those front doors could be centered)
There is nothing better than a versatile with a big deck.
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EA has made wallpaper mistakes since the Sims1 Unleashed! I bet that’s one of the reasons you rated that pack so low 😂 but you’re killing it love watching your channel and brand grow!
you are an OG! ugh you're right unleashed has the worst build buy of any sims 1 EP by far
There was another wallpaper mistake in Bygone Charm (at 5:50) 😂
Oh wow, second house too haha. There was so many ugly things to see I couldn’t possibly catch everything.
Check out Goth Sr Mansion in Sims 1 Unleashed - it’s hard to find but there’s a random white wall where it shouldn’t be 🫣
when the twins are named brook
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I've allways wondered WHY places like these houses are sooo fugly on the out side but sorta nice and Spacey on the inside in the sims 3 games. EA could have Done better with the colors at least. On the good side you CAN OWN the lot or lots and DO whatever you WANT to them. Thank goodness. I am working on a house I got in a lot rite now. It's a good house on the out side so I probably just do some work on the inside like decor stuff. That's MORE MY think than building cuz I'm NOT to good at building unfortunately but at least much of the work is done for me on the out side. It's definitely good enough for a house that's in Sunset Valley. Plus Sims don't seem to really mind much about color on houses much. They DO seem to Care about Space though . Lol. Silly Sims . I love playing Sims 3 and Sims 4 . BUT like HOW other places you CAN get too in Sims 3. Some of the builds other than the color of places are NOT to bad either in builds at least. ✌️👍
Ohhh just got this in my recommended & subscribed after 3 minutes, such a fun and comforting vibe!
My channel is a safe space for everyone except EA, glad you find my insults relaxing :p
I’ve done many of the sims 3 worlds but if there’s one you want to see that I haven’t done, you can vote next week for which one you want
I want to see that one world that came with a daycare update. I don’t remember what it was called but it gave off strong ikea vibes. It was sky something, I’m not sure.
Aurora Skies?
Yes it’s authors skies.. the day care only comes with the gold/expensive version, so save your pennies heh
@@SolisIlanga they don’t mean the daycare career, they mean the playpen and the walker and that set
That playpen is OP, idk if I want to use it for my 100 baby challenge haha
these are awesome! i chose my house without the hassle of waiting for loading screens. thank you for your effort :)
Good im glad! Sometimes I watch these back to see which house I should play next haha
I have to give a little push back, most of the builds are purposely made hideous to fit the the careers (especially, the design and architecture careers). I know I have said it before, and will say it again, most homes from the 1950's through to the early 1970's have lots of the greens that you so hate (and it definitely fits the timeline). Also, so many plumbing fixtures, as well as fridges and stoves are yellows, greens, powder pinks/blues (white was found mostly in modern apartments and hotels/motels). While anyone can find many things to throw shade at EA, when they do baby poo all over the place, at least in older builds, it is historically accurate. I have lived in NJ, NY, TX, LV, FL, CO, VA and have family/friends scattered throughout the US, green/yellow is extremely common. The houses I lived in had green/yellow/pink/blue toilets and sinks, while mist of the apartments had white or off-white/beige. I have never lived in modern houses, but stayed with friends part of my time in TX, they had a cabin with a chrome toilet (black cushion seating and lid), with a badet and chrome bathroom sink in the main house, and the tree house (where I stayed, has all wood fixtures), which I would say really tied into the whole aesthetic.
As for the exterior of the homes where I first grew up, most of them were shingled, then later plastic siding, painted mostly greens, yellows, browns and blues (with a few pale pink and black houses mixed in). You would hate the interiors too, nearly all that renovated the pale green, pale blue or beige walls, would paint piss yellow to mustard yellow or panel (the nicer ones shades of brown), mostly using greens and blues. Most of the kitchen floors were cheap linoleum (in the rich homes, you might find big block tiles), all with hideous patterns. Bathroom floors so often had those itty bitty tiles almist always using the colors you absolutely hate (and they were a b-i-t-c-h to clean), and the same tiles were usually replicated over the tub, above block tiles (which made cleaning harder to reach the smaller tiles), on three sides (most tubs were placed in corners, with a wall bumped out, until enclosed tubs became popular with sliding glass/plastic doors). At least the tubs did have shower fixers (hence the need for the bumped out wall). So, where EA got this all wrong, they do not add a side wall to place a shower head (which is not even offered in the base game). So, the most realism is when the do place the tub-shower combos from wall to wall. Even if they place just a tub, I think one can add in modded functional fixures for the shower head and curtains.
Understandably, not everything will be realistic, as well as functional, but at least we all get to utiluze our own visions to make each world to our pleasing❣ And where EA falls short, midders are there to rescue us❣👍
After watching your review of moonlight falls, I fell in love with that world and am currently building for my household
I’m glad, it’s got some great houses and some people even play in it without occult’s bc it’s that good haha
oooh Recowski wait until you see the puzzle wooden floor 💀
please dont scare me
I'm consistently bad at guessing your scores 😂 This is a fantastic video - really enjoyed the ride! 👌🏾
I struggled with this one bc I had to give points for ANYTHING I liked haha ... some ugly things are going to get more points this time
27:06 Lush Living; gut interior entirely, walls and all, then redesign.
I'm starting to think the green un everything is because the Sims logo :|
Classy Columns looks like I used Create A Style and went NUTS!! 😂
It reminds me of the style I had when I was 19 but is also the style I will have when I’m 79
@@Rekowcski LoL 🤣🤣🤣
I like that all the marsh houses have random stuff, it really makes me think, they are using whatever they can find, it’s not poor taste it’s just them being poor.
Okay if you drink every time you hear "green" in this video you might actually get into ER, and I'd fully blame EA for that. Sorry you had to go through this for our pleasure 😁
This is only HALF of what twinbrook has to offer. Might take me a week or two to stomach it.
The big deck joke 😭😭😭 the versatile joke 😵😵😵☠🤟🙌🙌
Also damn i rarely play in twinbrook but now i have more reason not to 😅 i like playing with premade families but those houses,,,,,,,,,
im glad someone appreciated those... maybe u could play an architect first before u jump into premades
I also have the ambitions pack . It's pretty cool. Good amount of activities to DO definitely. 👍 Some of the builds of that pack aren't to bad but NOT that Great either. Like I said B4 EA could HAV done a better on some of those places. 👎 But the pack is good at least.👍
It’s still my favourite EP regardless of how twinbrook looks. It suits my game play (I usually only play sims 2 premades) so I can live my best ambitious life while everyone else in twinbrook can live in ugly houses. I
weeeird... I only played this town to dump and view cc abandoned mansions and hospitals, and after watching many of your videos decided to tour the town with tab.
then I immediately searched to see if you reviewed this town.. you did! and I'm laughing a lot (thank you)
is it possible that patterns and colors change for each playthrough? you looked at a house with a secret basement and in my file, the car was a COP car not a sporty looking car.. and some patterns and colors in other houses I swear were different. (I was just there!)
have you experienced this? or dis I somehow download a whole re-painted town?
I can't with ea and like what's with the columns Not connected to the fences? the car in the basement? marsh mansion, um I think part of the house has been surgically removed.
It's a hot mess 😭 and let's not forget "classy columns" haha
That camo truck is exactly what you find in north western Ontario… aka my neighbour
I’m guessing your area code is 807 or 705 in this case LOL
I cant stop binging on this series… im obbessed
im uploading one right now xo
i would love to see sims 2 houses rated actually!
I plan on doing that x
@@Rekowcski super excited for those videos then! been loving the whole series, keep up the great work! 🤗 thank you for replying!
You should also judge the pre-made houses in your library. I used to use them before I knew how to build and now looking a them I feel ashamed that my sims ever lived in them
That's actually where i go digging if im looking for something particularly hideous ;)
Hey friend. Just wanted to let you know that I have now got Sims 3 up and running on a new laptop that I'd bought when I was still in Florida and still working. So now I have all the EPs and SPs on my laptop. So now I am playing in other worlds other than Sunset Valley. But sadly :( I have to redo my save file for Sunset Valley all over again. I am currently trying to download Sims 4 right now too.
i really would love for you to make a beautiful green house (if its possible hahaha)
That sounds harder than when I made a house in alphabetical order haha maybe I’ll give it a shot. It won’t be big, maybe just a starter. I can’t imagine making more than one green bedroom or bathroom lol
“Last and probably least” 😭😭😭😭
Ugh better luck next episode I guess haha
Can you rate the buildings from Isla Paradiso? I believe that it has some potential actually :)
I always loved decorating homes this will be my favorite expansion even though I do t have it
Ah, Twinbrook...
When I first saw this world, I really loved it but then I saw the houses and ewww... Sunset Valley 2.0
I never played in this world again. That is until a few days ago.
I actually started a new file in Twinbrook because it fits the vibe of my vision.
Twinbrook is actually a pretty nice world when you look at it from the map. It really is just the houses.
They are so awful, I can't look at them. I deleted the entire population of this world because I am putting in my own cast one by one but the first thing I do before I love someone into a matching lot for them is renovating it.
It really is tiring me out this point. The uglyness knows no limits here so I try to change as little as possible for the most parts. It means, it doesn't has to become pretty but at least take away the bwarf. 😖
I mean... it is kinda realistic. Most homes I see aren't really pretty anyway. Not everyone has good sense or mones for matching interior but at least they have no green toilets 😅
And I say that liking green. In fact my bedroom wall is pastell green with white fake wood on the lower 3rd of it. Matched with white farmhouse styled furniture and one candy pink dresser, a chandellier, white lace curtains etc... kinda old dollhouse style.
Also... we have a 3 story tall house with a basement and 14 windows in total. 4 of them being small ground windows for the basement. That's not even half of the ridiculous amount of windows from that one house. 😬
-Reminds me of my 13-year-old-me building disasters where I would build gigantic blocks with windows everwhere, sometimes even inside the house 🤣
I must do a mea culpa, because when I build I use as many (if not more) windows as ea
I looooove Twinbrook city and always play there. But the houses are… what you said hahaha. Great for renovating though!
Bygone Charm is cute come on now… the house really makes sense for an old eccentric mystery writer
i'm OBSESSED with classy columns, it's so tacky & awful.. 10/10
Twinbrook is hands down my favourite world in TS3, and 99% of my gameplay was in this world.
Can you comment on more than color? Talk more about layout, functionality, suitability for the sims that live there, etc. Like I get that you hate green but there’s so much more you can say than that…
yes, sorry there wasn't much diversity this time, honestly the layouts are decent, nothing ridiculously broken or inconvenient that I saw, but if the second half all look like this i will just skip over the horrible colours.. some of the larger houses are yet to come and those often have problems with floor plans
10:32 You say it with such warm 😭
Being a ho isn't necessarily a bad thing 😭
What's with EA and green color? Why? Green is a nice color but why EA use it so awful? Is there a joke or message i am not getting?
I genuinely think EA makes the insides of these houses extra ugly so the player will be incentivized to remodel/recolor.
I think that is true, for the empty/starter homes, but why would they make the occupied houses look like this?? 😭
Firefighter career is nothing like that LOL, which stinks. XD
These are the ugliest houses I've ever seen.
No wonder I never build in Twinbrook.
i agree... but that's the reason i ALWAYS build in twinbrook haha
if your sims end up here, id suggest the architect career :p
@@Rekowcski ♥️♥️ the architect profession; but makes my computer glitchy so much faster.
Ugh the puke yellow and green aesthetics of sims 3 proper upsets me 😂
Twinbrook is one of my least favourite worlds😬. It is a bit ugly especially the world or landscape in itself😬
I love the bridges and and the road map so I play in it a lot... but yes. Ugly surprised everywhere.
Y’all think Twinbrook is bad? Then what about Barnacle Bay?
yikes... i haven't even bought that yet, it looks so ugly
Could you share somewhere your graphics settings? My sims 3 looks so bad 😩
For general sims 3 fixes, optimization and help from friendly people, you can pop by my discord if you want discord.gg/uJp6gtDH
i've been waiting for this one!
Trust me it’s worth the wait lol
From one Alberta gay to another, love the videos! Hope you're keeping safe out there lately
Screw that, I moved to Montreal with the UA-cam cheque 😭😭😭😭
But seriously, I'm happy there is another one out there 😂
I used to love playing in the swamp side of twinbrook dont know why 😂
even flowers grow out of mud sometimes hehe
The whole Twinbrook vibe is like ugly but I like it because it feels real. It's swampy and poor looking and I imagine that nothing has been updated since the late 70s or early80s.
How would you rate Pheasant Hollow and River Retreat?
Whoever designs these houses needs to get out more and discover that there are other colors for exteriors other than shades of yellow 😅
I love that I found your content you are hilarious
Greek Revival looks like a frat house.
I just found these videos. Very entertaining!
Glad you like them x
Unfortunately I have seen camo living room furniture in real life they sell it at Bass pro shop
Ewwww I've been there before 😭 but it was only to get directions on how to get away from there
Is there an elixir shop in this world ? I don't see one
I don’t think so, but there’s lots of room in the swamp area to put one down. I think that area is creepy and perfect for an elixir shop
I honestly feel like they made it ugly on purpose to support the interior design career
it is very possible... I don't know what to think anymore
Pleaseee judge the Isla Paradiso houses
it will be on the poll next poll for sure (: ... and I recently downloaded some fixes specifically for the world so It should be a smooth experience
what about pidgin roost?
please do oasis landing
Bygone Charm was ugly, but it definitely felt like a little old lady lived there. Maybe it was ugly on purpose? Hopefully?
i forget, but if it's in twinbrook it's probably gross regardless
Please do Isla paradisio
Monte Vista!!
To me it's the worst neighborhood in The Sims 3 LOL. It looks slumy and has ugly people. 😂😂😂
it's definitely the ugliest, in my opinion ): but i do like the sims and a couple of the build are relentless and fun
I love green tbh
Then you’ll adore every bathroom in sunset valley
The so-called redneck house is a horrible stereotype got to remember the people that made this game didn't do very much research I mean I'm from the south Louisiana and I was grew up around rednecks cuz I moved to Texas and nobody's house look like this most of them lived in like normal houses nice places with fireplaces and the only time I ever saw camo furniture was at Bass pro shop and nobody ever bought it now they might have camo sheets and clothing
You're right, it seemed like a californian trying to make American country style. My family is rural Canadian, but here the "redneck" culture is in the north, not the south... so most of our country houses have piles and piles of wood to keep warm in the winter. A garage door into the kitchen would be fatal at -30 lol
I haaate Twinbrook, it's swampy and just not cute😔
honestly... i have a feeling barnacle bay will be worse
Ok no offense the people who make these have a circle wheel and patterns why is the color choices and patterns this...
I actually love Twinbrook but it's unplayable for me because Isla Paradiso makes the boat stuck in the swamp 🥲