As I posted HERE. I don’t play with a lot of the game content that came with the packs that often, so I really wanted to challenge myself to do so, by… well creating a challenge. I don’t think I’ll post this publicly, as it’s just a random and probably extremely messy challenge for my own game. But I’m going to write up some rules anyway.
Basic Goals
- Decorate your homes with things that game with the packs of each generation.
- Try to focus on using any of the gameplay objects that came with the pack. Such as using the don’t wake the llama game for the Get Together generation. Or the blocks table from parenthood.
- Just have fun with it. Challenge yourself in ways you haven’t before. And overall, play how you want. If you don’t like one of the goals listed bellow, skip it. This challenge is to challenge you to do things you haven’t done before, yes, but you also have an obligation to keep your gameplay fun, and to your liking. So feel free to break the rules as much as you want!
If I ever do release this, obviously you will need all the packs to do it. Though I suppose you could just skip the generations for any packs you don’t have?
If you do it I would love to see your game play! Maybe tag it as #ts4gplc or #gameplaylegacychallenge or something? I may not be the best at writing things like this, but I’m sure whatever you do with it will be amazing! And so much better than what I wrote down. Also feel free to change anything here or there to fit how you feel the gameplay should go about.
One last thing, if you have anything that would go better with any of the packs, anything that makes more sense than what I wrote, please let me know and I will change it to reflect what you’ve said, with all credit to you. I just wrote what I felt worked best for the themes.
Generation One : Outdoor Retreat
- Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast
- Traits: Loves Outdoors
- Career: None (Would interfere with staying 24/7 in Granite Falls)
- Goals: Complete the Outdoor Enthusiast Aspiration, Fall in love with the child of your old doctor.
Growing up you were sick all the time, any sort of contact with anything outside of your room would cause you to have allergic reactions. So your parents kept you in a metaphorical bubble.You longed to go outside and play with other children. But you never could. When you reached your teen years, your doctor found a treatment for your condition, and slowly it helped strengthen your immune system. Now as a Young Adult all you want to do is explore that great big world out there.
Travel to Granite Falls and spend all your time there doing every outdoorsy thing there is. Stay in a tent instead of one of the rentable homes. Fish, collect things, have fires. Do everything you can, and finally completely the outdoor enthusiast aspiration. While there meet the child of your old doctor who happens to be the same age as you, and fall for them, eventually marrying them.
Generation Two : Get To Work
- Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
- Traits: Materialistic
- Career: One of the three actives from the pack.Scientist, Doctor, or Detective
- Goals: Finish the Fabulously Wealthy Aspiration, reach the highest level of your career, throw a house party at the end, and fall for one of your guests.
One of your parents was a doctor, as was their parent before them. But they left it all for love. You grew up with them in the outdoors and basically had nothing. It wasn’t a bad childhood, you had everything you really needed, and you had the love of your family of course. But you always wondered what the other side of the financial coin was like. You decided to get a big job like your parent had (doesn’t have to be doctor, but one of the active ones.)
Complete your aspiration while also reaching the top of your career path. If need be you can use cheats, or MCCC to extend your sims life to help complete the two things. When complete throw a house party to celebrate. Invite any coworkers you’ve met. You have such an amazing time with one of them you fall in love and decide to marry.
Generation Three : Luxury Party
- Aspiration: Party Animal
- Traits: Outgoing
- Career: Entertainer (Either path is fine)
- Goals: Complete Aspiration, become good friends with at least 20 different sims. Marry a Mixologist from one of your parties.
You had a wonderful childhood, filled with all the luxurious things you can dream of. But why stop there? You want it all. And you want to show off all the wonderful stuff you’ve got too. You’re a real party goer, it started off with just going to friends parties, or attending any outings they invite you to, but now you’ve gotten into the habit of throwing your own and you can’t stop, it’s so fun, and you’re the life of every one of them.
Complete the party animal aspiration and become friends with a ton of sims that come to your events. You don’t need to finish the entertainer career, but it definitely helps with your popularity when it comes to getting guests to show up. A mixologist you meet at one of your parties is rather flirty and you end up falling for them.
Generation Four : Perfect Patio
- Aspiration: Master Mixologist
- Traits: Creative
- Career: Culinary Career Mixology Branch
- Goals: Finish both the Career and the aspiration. Fall for a friend.
You learned all about your parents partying from a young age. You were even a part of a lot of them. And though the partying did rub off on you a little, you find you enjoy quieter get togethers more. The outdoor loving of your ancestors must have rubbed off as well, because any parties you throw are always in your backyard. You learned how to mix drinks from your parent and have no surpassed them. Everyone who comes to your little backyard parties loves what you make.
Master both your aspiration and career while holding little backyard parties with only a couple guests. Any money you own, besides paying bills, should go to building the perfect patio, complete with a bar to mix your drinks. Every party you throw you always be sure to invite one friend that you’ve known for a long time, they’ve always encouraged you with your drink making and even helped you along the way. Love definitely blossoms between you two.
Generation Five : Spa Day
- Aspiration: Bodybuilder
- Traits: Active, Vegetarian
- Career: None (Keep your parents around to earn enough money, or if you have Get Famous you can register as a Yoga Instructor, or something along those lines)
- Goals: Finish the bodybuilder aspiration, and reach the highest level of the wellness skill. Marry someone who works at the spa.
Your parents, and even your grandparents were all about partying. But you aren’t. You’re all about bettering yourself and staying healthy. Probably the complete opposite? And while you love your parents you never really got along that much due to the difference in views. The however still support you, despite their constant nagging that you should get a job. You promise you will, but you just want to be in the best shape possible both mentally and physically first.
Go to the spa often, on your parents dime. Do Yoga whenever you have free time, which is probably a lot considering you don’t have a job. Reach the highest level in wellness, and your aspiration. Fall for someone at the spa who shares the same values as you.
Generation Six : Cool Kitchen
- Aspiration: Master Chef
- Traits: Glutton
- Career: Culinary, chef branch
- Goals: Make and have every flavor of ice cream possible. Reach the top of your career branch and aspiration, and marry a sim who has the kleptomaniac
trait.
While you parent spent all their time being fit. You had one taste of ice cream when you were younger and were sold. And it wasn’t just ice cream, though that was your favorite. Any food you could get your hands on, which wasn’t easy as your parents seemed to limit the food to be very healthy, and small proportioned. But that didn’t stop you from sneaking different things home every now and then. A friend of yours even gave you their parents ice cream machine that you hide in your bedroom. When you reach adulthood you come clean. Telling your parents your dream of being a chef, and most importantly, making the best Ice Cream in all of (Insert world name here xD)
Make all the ice cream flavours possible while also reaching the top of your career branch. Use any money you make to build yourself the perfect kitchen to better your craft. Have a friend with the
kleptomaniac
trait who is a bit mischievous and helps you defy your parents when you’re younger, marry them when you get older.
Generation Seven : Spooky Stuff
- Aspiration: Deviance (Either One)
- Traits: Evil
- Career: Secret Agent, Villain branch
- Goals: Reach the top of both your career, and aspiration. Marry someone who doesn’t seem to mine your less than good behaviour. Throw at least one spooky party, and use the carving station to make some pumpkins Bonus: If you end up playing this with Seasons in, and hit Autumn during that time, having your heir celebrate halloween will let you use the pumpkin carving station in a more themely manner rather than just using it. And the spooky party would make more sense as well.
Your parents mischievous nature really rubbed off on you. You may end up taking it a little too far due to your evil trait. And honestly you think your parents might be scared of you, but you don’t care. They should be afraid. You are going to be the baddest villain you can be!
Reach the top of your career and aspiration, throw some spooky parties that let you be in disguise while also being your dastardly self. Celebrate Halloween with or with the seasons pack, and find a spouse who is unafraid of your villainous behaviour.
Generation Eight : Get Together
- Aspiration: Leader of the Pack
- Traits: Insider
- Career: Writer, Journalist Branch (Makes sense to me, IDK?)
- Goals: Finish your aspiration, create your own club instead of joining someone else’s as this is an added challenge. Marry one of your club members.
With your families current reputation for Villainary, you’re at a major disadvantage with your current dream. You had so many after school clubs growing up that you just loved attending and doing all the activities, and now you want to run a club of your own. Getting people to join knowing your parent is the most villainous of them all… might be a little bit difficult. But that’s not going to stop you!
Reach the top of your aspiration, be a journalist that’ll help you learn about all the hot trends, and best places to hang out. You don’t need to finish your job, just the aspiration. Build the best club you can manage and eventually marry one of the club goers.
Generation Nine : Movie Hangout Stuff
- Aspiration: Friend of the World
- Traits: Good
- Career: Any
- Goals: Throw 10 parties or invite friends over to watch movies with, watch one of the 10 movies at each. Raise cooking skill to be able to make all the flavours of popcorn and serve it at the parties.
While your parents social life did rub off on you a little bit, you tend to prefer to stay home while also hanging out with your friends. You were always really into movies, and still are as you grow up. So you spend a good chunk of your paycheck on the big theater TV, and a popcorn popper an invite your friends to watch the movies that come out.
Any career is fine, and you don’t have to finish that or your aspiration. So for the completion of this generation you must host 10 parties, or bring your friends over 10 times to watch each other the ten movies. Marrying one of those friends is your best bet to start a family.
Generation Ten : Romantic Garden Stuff
- Aspiration: Love, either Serial Romantic, or Soulmate is fine.
- Traits: Romantic
- Career: Any
- Goals: Go on 3 dates with one or multiple sims. Make it out of them with gold. Use the wishing well and make all 9 wishes in the span of your time as heir. Finish your aspiration and eventually marry one of your dates.
Fairytales have always been a big love of yours. Whether it was ones you saw in the movies your parents watched, or the books they read to you, you always dreamed of having the sort of romance you’ve seen in them. Even if that means you have to play the field a little bit to get what you want. On your search you find a wishing well and decide to try your luck. You ask it for romance in hopes you’ll get exactly the thing you look for the most.
Use the wishing well 9 times, the first being wishing for romance. You don’t need to get good outcomes, you just have to use it to make all 9 wishes. Finish either Love aspiration and go on 3 dates that end in gold. Marry one of the sims you’ve dated.
Generation Eleven : Dine Out
- Aspiration: Mansion Baron
- Traits: Foodie
- Career: Own your own restaurant.
- Goals: Have your restaurant reach 5 stars. Marry either an employee, or a customer. Have only one child but only after you reach 5 stars (You can use aging cheats if you need to).
Romance? Nah, that was your parents thing. The thing you want the most? Food. Well not just any food. You want food crafted to perfection at your very own restaurant. It takes some hard work, but eventually you have the best restaurant in town!
Build your restaurant the way you like, but make sure it reaches five stars. Have only a single child with whomever you marry, but only after your dream is finished.
Generation Twelve : Kids Room Stuff
- Aspiration: Big Happy Family
- Traits: Family Oriented
- Career: Stay-at-home Parent
- Goals: Marry a childhood friend, have a lot of kids with at least one of them being adopted. And finish your aspiration.
** This generation starts when your sim is still a child, to experience the full content of the pack early on.
You are utterly spoiled. Being an only child in a huge house has been a bit lonely though. And though you have a huge decked out room to your advantage, you still feel a bit lonely. You always have a friend over when you can to share the great things your parents have given you. The games, the toys, all of it! As you grow up you aspire to have a big family, one you can share the house with. One of the friends you always had with you has grown into your lover and eventually your spouse and together you build that big family you always wanted. And you even give a little one without a home, the home you were lucky enough to get.
As this generation starts early, and the previous generation hopefully landed you with a mansion, Or at least with a pretty big house now that you made it to generation 12, you should have plenty of room for a big family. And also all the wonderful kids things that came with this pack. Make sure to adopt one child to give them a great life like you had!
Generation Thirteen : Backyard Stuff
- Aspiration: Any
- Traits: Loves Outdoors (Yes again. EA needs to stop making so many outdoor packs…)
- Career: Any
- Goals: Have a beautifully decorated backyard, with a water slide, bird feeder, and wind chimes. Reach the highest level of fitness just by using the waterslide.
Your life was a crowded one, so many siblings everywhere your head turned there was someone else. Which wasn’t entirely a bad thing. You just never seemed to have any time to yourself. Because of this you spent most of your time out of the house, just enjoying nature in any way you could think of, going to parks, swimming, even connecting with the birds. As you get older your connection to the outdoors never really disappeared, so your money you get from working tends to go to decorating the outside of your house rather than inside.
Try and build a backyard using only items from this pack. (Flowers, fences, trees, etc don’t count, you can still use those to decorate.) Max out your fitness skill by only using the water slide. Have at least two kids, as one should remain in the house during generation fourteen for gen Fifthteen to work.
Generation Fourteen : City Living
- Aspiration: City Native
- Traits: Unflirty
- Career: Politician Career, either branch
- Goals: Move out of your parents home and into the city, reaching the top of your career and aspiration, and somehow managing to find love despite your flirty nature.
The suburb life of your ancestors was never really your style. The city life is definitely for you. So move on out of your family home and head to the city to fully experience that life. Festivals, Flea Markets, Food Stalls, you love it all, and attend each as frequently as possible while also balancing your new political career.
Move out and into the city, try to experience as many festivals and flea markets as possible. Reach the top of your career and aspiration as well. And though you are unflirty do your best to find love to continue the legacy.
Generation Fifthteen : Vintage Glamour
- Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy
- Traits: Snob
- Career: None
- Goals: Move back into your grandparents home (If your grandparents have passed hopefully the sibling of your parents you left behind is still alive to make that easier.), hire a butler, finish your aspiration.
Leaving the city and moving back into your grandparents Mansion was the best idea you’ve ever had. You’ve got it made! By now your family has enough money for you to just stay home, kick back and let your newly hired butler do all the work for you. Though while your at it, why not throw a few black and white parties to impress your friends and neighbors? And the best way to get ready for it, of course, is to use the vanity to doll yourself up.
Finish you aspiration while staying at home and letting your butler care for your needs. Have some black and white parties and use the vanity to prepare for them. Just enjoy the wealthy life as much as possible.
Generation Sixteen : Vampires
- Aspiration: Vampire Family, Master Vampire or Good Vampire
- Traits: Any
- Career: Any
- Goals: Become a Grand Master Vampire. Finish your aspiration, and max your vampire lore level. Marry the vampire who turns you.
** Generation begins when your Heir is turned.
During one of your parents black and white parties when you reach young adulthood, it attracts an individual who seems mighty interested in you. You don’t know it then, but they are a vampire, and their plan is to turn you. You are draw in by the idea once you find out, and embrace the change. Welcoming your new life as a creature of the night.
Do everything possible to do with being a vampire. Level your lore, your powers and weaknesses, and of course enjoy sleeping in a rather comfy coffin. The vampire who changed you did so out of love, marry them and create a vampire family.
Generation Seventeen : Bowling Night
- Aspiration, Traits, & Career: Any
- Goals: Go bowling every night until you get the Perfect Llama achievement by bowling a perfect game. Reach the highest level of the bowling skill.
Being a vampire, it’s a bit tough to find activities to do outside. Until you discover bowling! A boy do you love it. The energy, the atmosphere. Even the used bowling shoes draw you in. You set your goal to be the best bowler in all the town. As soon as you get the hang of it of course.
Bowl as much as possible to reach the highest level in the bowling skill, and finally bowl a perfect game to get the Perfect Llama achievement!
Generation Eighteen : Parenthood
- Aspiration: Super Parent
- Traits: Family Oriented
- Career: Stay-at-home Parent
- Goals: Reach the top of the Super Parent aspiration, master the parenting skills, and deal with teenage drama, and childhood phases.
** Generation stars when your heir is married and has their first child.
Family has always been a big part of your life. And while your own parents were more interested in having fun, than raising you. Your own goals are slightly different. You want to be the best parent there ever was, and teach your children the fundamentals of life. Even if that means having to ground them every once in a while.
Get your kids into good place regarding their values before they come of age. Completely the super parent aspiration and the parenting skill and hopefully make it through all the nasty messes your kids will no doubt make.
Generation Nineteen : Fitness Stuff
- Aspiration: Bodybuilder
- Traits: Active
- Career: Athlete, bodybuilder branch
- Goals: Reach the top of your career, go to the gym as much as possible and max your fitness skill.
Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee! That’s really your goal in life. You heard about one of your ancestors skill in wellness, but you want to take it one step further. You want to be the most fit in all your family. So what if that means going to the gym whenever you have time off? At least that means you can practice climbing that damn wall until you finally reach the top!
Go to the gym whenever you have a day off, or time after work. Max your fitness level while using the climbing wall or any of the other exercise equipment the specifically came with this pack. Jamming out to some music on the earbuds while you do it couldn’t hurt! Don’t forget to reach the highest level of your career however!
Generation Twenty : Toddler Stuff
- Aspiration:
Successful Lineage
- Traits: Any
- Career: Any
- Goals: Have twins, triplets or more (Can cheat to make this happen if you need to), Have all your toddler’s max the toddler skill, and hold at least one toddler playdate that make it to gold.
** This generation begins when your heir gets married and gets pregnant.
Boy were you not prepared for multiples! You always knew the moment you/your spouse got pregnant it couldn’t have been just one baby in there, and wow were you right! And though you might have expected more than one little baby. There is definitely room in your heart for more!
Spend most of your time spoiling your toddlers and getting their skills up. And don’t forget to throw them some playdates with the other toddler friends of theirs.
Generation Twenty One : Cats & Dogs
- Aspiration:
Friend of the Animals
- Traits: Dog Lover or Cat Lover
- Career: Veterinary with your own Vet clinic
- Goals: Finish your aspiration, have your vet clinic have the highest star rating, and own a few pets of your own.
Children? Nah, the animals you meet are your children. Sure your sibling(s) may disagree, being one of a multiple birth where all the want is to have the same, all you want are your furry babies! You loved animals, ever since you were a young child. And now you are giving back to them with that love you built up.
Own a vet clinic and max out it’s star rating to show those critters you are definitely their friend. Own at least one cat, and at least one dog. And finally finish your aspiration to boot!
Generation Twenty Two : Laundry Day
- Aspiration: Any
- Traits: Neat
- Career: Any
- Goals: Reach the highest skill level of Handiness and upgrade your washer and dryer as much as possible.
Wow does pet fur surely stick to everything! Look it all this lint on your clothing. As a neat sim, that just doesn’t sit well with you! Your clothing should be pristine, even if you have to do it all yourself by hand in a wash tub!
Start off with only a wash tub and outside clothes hanger. Use that for a while before finally upgrading to a washer and dryer. Build up your handiness skill and get that washer & dryer into perfect upgraded condition!
Generation Twenty Three : Jungle Adventures
- Aspiration: Jungle Explorer or Archaeology Scholar
- Traits: Any
- Career: None, would interfere with spending most of your time in Selvadorada. Make money by archeology.
- Goals: Finish your aspiration, max archeology, and find all 9 relics
Adventure! That is your biggest desire. While your parents stayed how and fret over how dirty your clothing got. You went outside and got them dirtier! Afterall no kid should be stuck inside keeping their clothes in pristine condition when you can go out into that big open world and have some fun! So when you got old enough, that’s exactly what you did. You booked a trip to Selvadorada and decided immediately to try your hand at archeology when you got there. After all, how much more adventure can you get than exploring the jungle and vast tombs?
Spend all your time in Selvadorada exploring, and finding relics. Find all 9 while maxing your archaeology skill and finishing your aspiration.
Generation Twenty Four : My First Pet
- Aspiration: Any
- Traits: Any
- Career: Any
- Goals: Successfully keep a rodent happy and alive until your heir is a young adult.
The animal lover traits definitely skipped a few generations with you. But that’s okay, because you’re not quite sure your ready for a big pet yet. Maybe just a small one? A rodent perhaps? But man do they love to do whatever they want to do. And forget about keeping them happy. This one just bit you!
Somehow keep the rodent alive while raising your children. While also keeping it happy so it doesn’t give you that nasty fever you heard so much about.
Generation Twenty Five : Seasons
- Aspiration: Freelance Botanist
- Traits: Any
- Career: Gardener
- Goals: Play through all four seasons, celebrate all the holidays, reach the highest level of your career, and grow at least one plant of every season type. Bonus: If you manage to make even one of the plants a perfect plant, that’ll really give you an extra challenge.
**Generation begins on the first day of any season.
Cats? Dogs? Rodents!? Nope, definitely not! All you need is your wonderful plants! Besides, they are much easier to keep happy than an animal. All you have to do is water them… well maybe you have to talk to them sometimes too, but that’s not a problem. Though the seasons that keep changing do make it a little bit harder to get your plants fully ready and harvested before the end of it. But you manage. While also celebrating all the holidays there is to offer!
Start at the beginning of any four seasons. Purchase seeds and plant them and keep them going while reaching the top of your career path. Celebrate all the holidays that come up while trying to have the best experience possible for each one. Though it’s not necessary.
Generation Twenty Six : Get Famous
- Aspiration:
Friend of the World
- Traits: Self-Absorbed
- Career: Acting, Or grow your fame through other such means. Like the media production objects.
- Goals: Become a famous, and get your star put up on the walk of fame.
Finally we reached the end! Chaos probably happened through all these generations. Tons and Tons of family. But you survived, and now it’s time for all that hard work to pay off! Lets get your sims famous.
That’s all you’ve ever wanted. You had such a normal rural life growing up, but now you want more! You want Fame, and whether that be through acting, or making your own movies or music, that doesn’t matter. You’re going to get their and you’re going to reach the top.
Now you can take it slow, build your fame and reach the top. Do whatever it takes to get that fame. Even if it means selling out and doing some commercials you… might feel a little embarrassed doing. But it will all be worth it when you see that star of yours on the walk of fame!
Congratulations! You did it! I’m proud of you~