I really like Pleasantview. It was the first hood I played, way back in 2004 and I played with it for quite some time before I started playing Strangetown and Veronaville. I added a few custom families but I mostly stuck to the Maxian ones. Now, with my combined hood, I play everybody but they're all Maxis or Maxis offspring.
They're not my favourite family by any means but I think of the Goths first when I think of Pleasantview. I suppose because they were the major link to TS1 and were the first family I noticed (not the first family I played - I chose Brandi and her boys for that and boy is that a bad idea for a novice player!).
I don't think there was a damn thing in the storyline that I played out the way Maxis intended. Daniel and Mary-Sue stayed together, Lilith and Angela are BFFs, Don and Cassandra didn't get married, nor did Dina and Mortimer (in HP's combined hood, Mortimer is still married to Bella, though she doesn't live with them when you play for the first time, so I moved her in).
I am not that fond of most of the Pleasantview townies. I gave them all plastic surgery and turned it genetic. But they don't do much in my game anyway. I try to have playables breed with other playables so townies are really just fodder for dates, friends and woohoo partners.
Right now, my favourite family is Dustin and Angela. I took an unholy amount of photos of them doing that new classic dance interaction at their wedding and that was when it clicked how much I liked them. I like the whole Broke clan in general though (Brandi married Darren Dreamer in my hood).
I generally leave the families in their original houses but this is only because I'm lazy with decorating and building. I move them out only out of necessity or a desire to downsize. I do redecorate the houses though, using mostly custom stuff, or at least custom recolours.
The community lots are not bad but after 8 expansions, they need some revamping so I'll have to get in and do that one of these days. There's so many new options for activities and things to buy that the Maxis lots seem a little bare.
They're not my favourite family by any means but I think of the Goths first when I think of Pleasantview. I suppose because they were the major link to TS1 and were the first family I noticed (not the first family I played - I chose Brandi and her boys for that and boy is that a bad idea for a novice player!).
I don't think there was a damn thing in the storyline that I played out the way Maxis intended. Daniel and Mary-Sue stayed together, Lilith and Angela are BFFs, Don and Cassandra didn't get married, nor did Dina and Mortimer (in HP's combined hood, Mortimer is still married to Bella, though she doesn't live with them when you play for the first time, so I moved her in).
I am not that fond of most of the Pleasantview townies. I gave them all plastic surgery and turned it genetic. But they don't do much in my game anyway. I try to have playables breed with other playables so townies are really just fodder for dates, friends and woohoo partners.
Right now, my favourite family is Dustin and Angela. I took an unholy amount of photos of them doing that new classic dance interaction at their wedding and that was when it clicked how much I liked them. I like the whole Broke clan in general though (Brandi married Darren Dreamer in my hood).
I generally leave the families in their original houses but this is only because I'm lazy with decorating and building. I move them out only out of necessity or a desire to downsize. I do redecorate the houses though, using mostly custom stuff, or at least custom recolours.
The community lots are not bad but after 8 expansions, they need some revamping so I'll have to get in and do that one of these days. There's so many new options for activities and things to buy that the Maxis lots seem a little bare.
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