I never intended to buy this expansion pack. I promised myself faithfully that The Sims 3 Seasons would be my last one because, A) I'd spent enough money on The Sims 3 expansion packs and stores that things were becoming a little bit ridiculous (hey, we all have our addictions) and B) my laptop probably wouldn't be able to handle any more expansion packs (Seasons was my fifth at the time, after Late Night, Generations, Pets, and Showtime).
Since most of my decision to buy no more expansion packs ever hinged on B more than A, my whole deal with myself balanced precariously on the belief that the next lot of expansion packs would not appeal to me. I was wrong. The world somehow had it in for me and University Life was announced in January. My heart stopped in my chest. Did I hear right? The rumour was true and I was sucked in immediately by the swanky trailer.
I continued to tell myself I wouldn't buy it, even though I desperately wanted. I continued to tell myself that my poor laptop wouldn't be able to handle it, that gameplay would slow right down like it had previously with The Sims 2 and the expansion packs I'd bought for that. Except, The Sims 3 has been doing really well with managing expansion packs and their glitches, fixing everything up with a simple patch. In fact, my five expansion packs ran the same as the base game (mostly). The biggest hurdle was always the first few plays after updating my game, but then things were dandy.
Still, I told myself no. Anyway, it wasn't realised until March and that was ages away. It was, but then I got busy and months flew by and I suddenly realised it had been released without my noticing. In America, anyway. So like the fool I am, I watched LPs on YouTube and fell more and more in love with it.
I cracked and bought it yesterday. I regret nothing. My laptop is handling it all fine and, well, just look at these screenshots from my gameplay.
How can you not see how awesome it is?
Yeah, EA owns my soul.
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