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so far i like the new objects most especially the helicopter, aquerium and the playground stuff
i like the idea of apartments but am yet to really want to play it
whats everyone elses opinion

My favorite are the items and the witches.

Mine too the items & the wenches.

Since I am an evil satanist I will say witches

I like the new socials. :D All of the new gestures are a lot of fun, my favourite is the High Five, but they all are great.  

I also like the hidden ones that are autonomous, such as the early morning cuddle in bed.

oh i havent used the the new socials yet and i havent seen the hidden ones ill have to l.ook out for them

i havent meet a witch yet but im really looking forward to it as i loved the makin magic of the sims 1 and i like all the other creatures in the sims 2

Some of the stuff I've heard mentioned, like the reputation, reminds me of the game the Urbz, which was a Sims 2 game for the console. I really enjoyed that one... It was good, for a console game.

I like the object sets. I haven't had much time playing with witches yet, but the concept is cool.

I think I like the new social stuff the most. I saw the cuddling in bed yesterday and thought it was cute. It was with my womanizing sim. The only female sim to not jump out of bed and run off right after woohoo got the cuddle. It was so cute :)

I also like the reputations and that people offer you jobs

i voted other as the features i like the best are some of the small thing i like being able to put my phone to silent, and now you get money dependent on the amount of sims in your household, i like the new socials like stories, gestures and cuddling, and that the self destructive behaviour seems to have stopped now when my sim has low energy and hungier when my sim is eating he doesnt suddenly stop and complain hes tired which i used to have such a big problem with
after that it is prob apartments

At first I didn't believe :p but witches are definitely cool. I like the items and new animations too. It's a great EP. ;)

Has to be the witches :D
Especially after all the recent shananigans :twisted:

I'd say the Witches and the Helicopters!

Well I voted for the Apartments (I had been making apartment style houses for my sims the month before I heard about Apartment Life (and btw it was the ads in the loader that alerted me to the expansion...nice one EA)) but the thing that really blew me away was ceilings. I hadn't heard anything about what new features AL had, I just was building zoomed out the first day I got it and I zoomed in and got a nice suprise! :)
It's the little touches like that or the upskirt cam (er, I mean the 45 degree up angle build cam) that make the game interesting. Plus if this is the last expansion for Sims 2 what better way to cap it off than to literally cap it off! :)

i agree TtheK i love the the new cam to i also find the measuring tool in build mode to be quite useful. i finally saw a witch yesterday which was really cool def gonna enjoy that feature

I like the apartment concept then witch. Can't wait to buy this EP

I voted apartments, but that was before I discovered the new cuddle interaction between the Sims when they wake up in the morning. It's the cutest thing ever, and I'm a complete sucker for it. LOL.

But the apartments are great, as well. :)

I love the neighborhood sfuff  the architectural decorative items
 the condos the magic stuff  and the new interactions

Personally, I just love the fact that there are actually CEILINGS now. I think just that little touch adds a great deal of immersion and believability to the game, whether you are a builder, filmmaker, picture taker, just casual player, or whoever.

Best part on Apt life for me so far...

I love the new socials - having different social groups gives the townies a little more character, especially since they seem to make sense - an artsy bohemian neighbor probably is in a dance career and paints in her spare time! :D   And I love the new interactions for parent/child too - that swinging around is great - my simkids may never play red hands again.  
I love that they can jump rope almost anywhere - builds body & it's fun!  bonus!  

I'm enjoying the witchy aspect - my Atrociously Evil warlock made himself a Throne last night & he might as well just sell off his fridge, potty & bed - he doesn't need anything else any more!

I dont really like apartments. It seems a novel idea and all, but its just too much lagging and annoyance with building disabled.

Lagging: Yeah I get the blacking out of unused apts and that it supposedly frees up memory. But when you visit a neighbour their place becomes playable. Even after you leave it stays there. So say you visit 2-3 neighbours, all their apartments will STAY visible, and lag even more than a regular house. Thats my experience anyway.

Build Mode: Yeah... I get that too...greying out, since you cant really chop and change certain things in real life. But I find it annoying. They should have had an on/off button for it, instead of forcing us to enter buggy cheatcodes that wont work 99% of the time anyway. Because you didnt enter the right one. Because they have a million and one different ones to unlock different parts.

Its just too much of a hassle.
The Witch part however... FINALLY! Witches! The only cult characters I care to play with.
I have some issues with the spells tho but i guess I can live with them, or I hope mods will be created to make them more suitable.

Witches, Objects, New Neighborhoood, New "Socials"

I like the "Wizard of Oz" witches, the new objects, that helicopter is a blast, I am waiting on simt to be updated so I can "inject" the new neighborhood into a superhood I built up off Pleasantview as its base. The technique is laid out over at MTS2 on how to do it.

The NPC Witches seem to get added when the hidden hood "Magic" is added.
I used Paladin's Visual porter to find out who they were as like the Grand Vamps, their names are random.

Apartments look kewl, but I am waiting for the new SimPE to upgrade "low tax" mailbox which I built before Apt Life came out. Current tax sims seem to pay is 104% per annum on all property. ( 1% twice per week. Boston tea party anyone? )

I've rather liked this release. I made sure to get the NoSecurom crack before playin, even though I bought this on DVD. I do not like my ability to burn CD/DVD movies and file archives impared.

I love the apartments. And  Maxis have actually made some good buildings at last! Hooray!
Also the socials... am just finding out how to use the Classes now and this is challenging and fascinating.
Also the kids' playground toys.
I've played a bit with the Witches and like them a lot better than any of the other wierdos in Sims 2 - eg werewolf, zombie (yuck) and vampires. Oh except maybe Plantsims, those look cute!

the slow dance option is so cute especially when my jay-z sim lowered hi hands and he actually touched my beyonce sim bum and she put her finger up and gave him the sim riot act lol

Slow dance has been there a looong time. I remember havin my sims do it when only the base game, Uni, and Nightlife were out. :)

Personally, I was so happy to see ceilings that I actually said out loud, "Ooooh!! Ceilings!" which was even a shock to myself. I never realized how much they improved the immersion of a setting until now! :)

My first post ever.  The witches got my vote. They are fun to play and I also like the apartments.  My building skills (houses and such) suck so these are a welcome new place for me to play in.

My vote went to the witches because of the teleporting spell.

But i really liked some of the new items like the helicopter and the bookcase tht doubles as a secret door when you pull the right book =]

The neighbours apartment furnishings etc. should vanish as soon as you leave the apartment. At least that's what happens on my game. So even with my pensioner computer, you can run an apartment with up to eight/ten sim household no problem most of the time purely because the apartments of the neighbours do vanish when you leave them. Maybe you have a Hack/Mod, CC conflict or something. I'd try moving out the family and moving back in. The apartments are buggy, really buggy, in my game, so far.

Most fav things about AL:  The ability to have more than one family you've been playing on one lot. That way even when you're not playing the other families, you're still using them. And the new social interactions.

Most annoying things: The stupid landlord. It's the landlord who lags up the game. Everytime he/she shows up, the game lags until he/she goes away again. And most of the time the landlord being on the premises is pointless. The pizza thing is ridiculous. And is it just my game, or everytime you walk into somebody else's apartment, are they all standing about near the door like pod people? Very sinister. :)

they do that in my game to stay near the door anyway i vote for witches play them and see them almost all the time in my game but like the new stuff too

LMAO! I haven't played an apartment yet nor discovered all the items so I can't really vote for "fave part" yet. Just had to post my laugh-out-loud. Too funny. Oh! But ceilings were a very pleasant surprise for me. Now all we need is more textures. "Play on playground" is excellent. And I also like "classic dance" because Sims can now slow dance autonomously. At least, I'd never seen them do that before.

I love the helicopter although it's a bummer when you have a lot you like that doesn't have room to put the helicopter on it.  But the helicopter is the main thing that is keeping me from uninstalling it because of other things that annoy me.

I love the new apartments, I love how you can have several playable households on one lot and have them interact with each other.  The ordinary lots seem so lonely now...

I love the new playground equipment and the playgrounds that come with a lot of the lots. Some of the playground equipment builds body skills which I think is a lot more realistic.

I love the ability to walk to school or work. Again it's much more realistic (don't have big yellow school buses where I live).

I didn't buy AL for the witches and one of the things I don't love about is how they behave on OFB lots.  I have had up to five witches at a time on a sim owned lot and the spellcasting really annoying especially the cockroach spell the evil witches cast.  On ordinary community lots your sims aren't there long enough for them to be a problem and they are not there the next your sim visits but on owned lots your sim really has to deal with them otherwise they are still there on the next visit to the lot and you can't call the exterminator to a OFB lot.

I don't think EA really thought through the impact that AL would have on features of other EPs.

But in spite of that I still love the expansion.

Feeling superior to all the people who are having trouble with it because I haven't bought it yet.

Witches :P
And the playground items, and the new interactions and also the cute cuddling in bed :P
Oh yea and the ceilings too of course, took EA a while to figure out that buildings need ceilings...

I voted apartments, because I'm not the most social person, and I guess that influences how I play the game.  Apartments make it sooo much easier to get a few friends; a landlord, your neighbors, your roommate...

I voted other, because I love the new interactions that came with AL, especially the cuddle interaction between adults and also the huggle interaction between toddlers :)

New interactions, the two new kisses (Dance and Suck Face), and witches. Love them witches!
Haven't made an apartment. Don't really want to.

I like the new interactions, but my favorite is the ceilings. I never wanted the custom ones especially with a controller, but using the one in AL is wonderful. My rooms look fantastic and the camera was a real plus.

I love the new interactions like when they spin their children in the air or when they jump rope.
I also love the new playground things that came along with it!:D

mine has to be 45 degree angle cam and the measuring tool as i used to have problems making symetrical buildings and square rooms

Huh thats a hard one cause i like alot of the features, but i have to say the apartments, the clothes, the items, and the witches, i could care less about the hair, cause i don't generally use maxis hair unless its necessary

The interactions!  ;D
I love making my self-sim play Peek-a-boo with her new toddler, it's so adorable.