Here’s what the community thinks about Fitness Stuff

If I should rate this stuff pack, i’ll give it a fair 6,5/10. The modern build mode is not what i prefer but that’s a personnal taste and i’m sure a lot of people will be happy with that. What i don’t like about this pack is why give us the same equipements (apart from the climbing wall) but with new design ? we already have 3 or 4 and for me it’s just a waste. they should have skipped this part and do a new thing ; like someone said earlier apartment bike. i think this stuff pack could have been greater if they’ll include what’s the most important with sport : TEAM. climbing a wall is a solo experience and for me sport is about being together. why they didn’t include something like tennis or baseball (which could have been a great things to go with the vintage stuff pack and the bowling one). for me they just went in a wrong direction but that doesn’t mean i don’t like what we actually have. it’s just not what i was expecting. plus, i bought the pack because i thought kids could use the climbinb wall too. and i don’t think so… also, they didn’t give us any sport clutters and it’s such a bummer. they tried to do something unusual with the climbing wall, but… it wasn’t the right time for this kind of special item. it should have been include in a sport game pack or do a more engaging gameplay with the wall. i don’t know. it’s still fresh and i haven’t play with it a lot so… i need time. 🙂

In all honesty, the furniture is nothing special. It looks pretty much the same as all the other ultra-modern furniture we already had, none of it stands out at all. The CAS items are nice, particularly the new hair, which I’m sure I will use a lot. The clothes are nice, too, but I’m not sure how much I’ll use them on Sims that aren’t fitness freaks. I must say I’m a little sad no one seems to care for the rock wall. I really like it. It’s a nice addition to my gyms and watching Sims try to climb it is way more entertaining than watching them punch a glorified bean bag or run on a treadmill. It spits FIRE! That could kill Sims! Come on! That’s so cool! Lol, it’s just so extreme, I love it. I enjoy having my Sims work out to the TV as well, the movements are fun and wow, do they ever jump high! I’m pretty lukewarm about the earbuds. They’re fine, I suppose, but I feel like I’m going to forget they’re in my Sim’s inventory and they’ll just end up popping them in themselves whenever they feel like it. I also think they’re a bit glitched. My teen wouldn’t use the treadmill because he had the earbuds in, but then I cancelled the earbud action, sent him to the treadmill and when I checked on him again, he had the earbuds in while he was running. I guess he put them on himself while I wasn’t looking so maybe you need to have them already doing something and then instruct them to listen to the earbuds, which is silly. The order shouldn’t matter.

I did my overview of this pack on my YT channel. Overall it’s an okay pack but it’s not something you would rush to buy on release day. In terms of CAS, I am a fan of the new clothing and the new hairstyles. Also I love the addition of earbuds. Gameplay wise, it’s very meh. I think because it lacked so much in the actual fitness items. It kind of reminds me of Cool Kitchen where there was less focus on the kitchen and more focus on the CAS. But even then, the ice cream machine was decent gameplay. The Build and Buy are okay but I could see where it would’ve been better for Spa Day. In fact, I have this feeling as though whatever wasn’t put in SD was put in this pack.

This stuff pack was actually a first for me. I usually buy a new pack at launch. The only time I ever don’t, is when I’ve already decided that I don’t want to buy it at all. But with this pack? I’ll probably get it eventually. But launch day came and went, and I just never got around to actually purchasing the pack. I just don’t see the point. And I was one of the supporters for it, back when the pack was nothing but a 9-second clip during the teaser trailer. But none of the CAS items jump out at me as anything special, the build items are just more of the ultra-modern objects that this game loves, and the headphones are useless if the comment section is to be believed. (And I absolutely hate how a game that prides itself in the ability to multitask doesn’t allow sims to listen to music while they do anything, like, come on! As much as this game loves making everything about emotions, and they don’t touch the possibilities of a basic thing that is everywhere and yet has the ability to completely control human emotion at a primal level. We should have dance stations that make us energized, NPR-types that make us focused, comedy talk shows that make us playful, classical stations that make us inspired, etc.) They had the chance to include any gym equipment possible — we could have had the first ever sims elliptical machine, or a stationary bike, or a stair climber, or a weight bench, or a different kind of strength machine instead of cardio like a leg press — but instead they went with something that probably a fraction of gyms in the country have and a lot of people (including myself) probably didn’t even know existed before we had it in the Sims, and proceeded to make it as large and impractical as possible. The pack’s only redeeming feature is the workout tapes, which I actually really miss from Sims 3.

In all honesty, the furniture is nothing special. It looks pretty much the same as all the other ultra-modern furniture we already had, none of it stands out at all. The CAS items are nice, particularly the new hair, which I’m sure I will use a lot. The clothes are nice, too, but I’m not sure how much I’ll use them on Sims that aren’t fitness freaks. I must say I’m a little sad no one seems to care for the rock wall. I really like it. It’s a nice addition to my gyms and watching Sims try to climb it is way more entertaining than watching them punch a glorified bean bag or run on a treadmill. It spits FIRE! That could kill Sims! Come on! That’s so cool! Lol, it’s just so extreme, I love it. I enjoy having my Sims work out to the TV as well, the movements are fun and wow, do they ever jump high! I’m pretty lukewarm about the earbuds. They’re fine, I suppose, but I feel like I’m going to forget they’re in my Sim’s inventory and they’ll just end up popping them in themselves whenever they feel like it. I also think they’re a bit glitched. My teen wouldn’t use the treadmill because he had the earbuds in, but then I cancelled the earbud action, sent him to the treadmill and when I checked on him again, he had the earbuds in while he was running. I guess he put them on himself while I wasn’t looking so maybe you need to have them already doing something and then instruct them to listen to the earbuds, which is silly. The order shouldn’t matter.

Lol, this is why I don’t understand why everyone was so hyped for something so small as a Stuff Pack. The announcement that it would be playable at EA Play, SimGuruGraham talking about the ‘brand new gameplay’, a whole Q&A about it? I really don’t get the big deal that was made out of this. Yes it gave us a climbing wall and earphones, but you can put speakers pretty much anywhere in the game and I’m assuming the climbing wall is just something that increases fitness/motor skill? Something which there are loads of other ways to do so. There wasn’t a new skill added or another fitness aspiration, just a few new hairstyles (two of which are pretty much the same and only one was added for males) and some clothes which are almost all for the athletic category. Stuff Packs are Stuff Packs. They’ll have a few highlights to them which most people will probably only use once, and then after that you’ll most likely only use the CAS items, unless it’s something that actually relates to your play style/your sim’s way of life.

I love it. But then, I really like fitness stuff, and most of my gameplay is spent building and sharing — so I’m always starved for CAS items.

I did my overview of this pack on my YT channel. Overall it’s an okay pack but it’s not something you would rush to buy on release day. In terms of CAS, I am a fan of the new clothing and the new hairstyles. Also I love the addition of earbuds. Gameplay wise, it’s very meh. I think because it lacked so much in the actual fitness items. It kind of reminds me of Cool Kitchen where there was less focus on the kitchen and more focus on the CAS. But even then, the ice cream machine was decent gameplay. The Build and Buy are okay but I could see where it would’ve been better for Spa Day. In fact, I have this feeling as though whatever wasn’t put in SD was put in this pack.

It’s not so much the choice of items, as much as they are just sloppily done and are basically useless. New items have to actually be well done, or they could have just given us a couple of more deco objects instead.