Judging and Rating Every EA Build in the Sims 3 Sunset Valley

building in the sims 3 is far more tedious than what we are used to in the sims 4, so I decided instead to rate and judge every house that the EA developers made for Sunset Valley
there are NINETY FOUR houses to do, this video is part 1 where we do the first half of the occupied houses with families living inside.
thanks for watching, please like and subscribe if you enjoyed it

[@davidkonevky7372]

I think my favorite sims 3 sunset valley house has to be Agnes Crumplebottom's house. The detail of the nursery being incomplete is such a good way of telling a story through alternative methods

[@Rekowcski]

i can forgive a haphazard shell for a great story, i agree

[@bernardomenin171]

Also with the Wolff house, since it was made for a couple by having only one bedroom. And it fits the lore of Thorton and Morgana

[@fernandaa7334]

Great video! I need to point this out: Mortimer's nursery stuff in the attic have a old and greyish pattern, because is there forgotten, and this level of attention to the details coming from the sims team is unbelievable tbh.

[@Rekowcski]

Yes! In other episodes i found a few hidden gems, they really can do everything justice when they really go for it! Thanks for watching and commenting x

[@absolutelylivid7250]

I love your subtle and dry sense of humour. “Of course he has commitment issues, he’s a man” 😂😂

[@Rekowcski]

I am very annoying in real life, but I’m glad it’s working for videos haha, thanks for watching. Midnight hollow review should be up in a couple days if you’re interested in seeing some ugly gothic houses x

[@federicao4609]

@@Rekowcski you sound honest not annoying to me.

[@Rekowcski]

Thank you I appreciate that x

[@beauenferae2438]

One of my favorite things to do is give Morgana Wolff or Agnes Crumblebottom the family they deserve.

[@senppuki]

the girls running outside the window in 16:38 while you talk about the wooden microwave im crying

[@Rekowcski]

oh my god I never noticed that haha... i am usually struggling to keep them from walking in front of things/screenshots, but I love me some background antics!

[@konstantina9876]

I never played as a pre-existing household, so looking at the Wolffs broke my heart, the wife literally is family oriented and has as her wish to raise 5 kids and the husband has commitment issues, hates kids, and his lifetime wish is to be a ceo.

[@Rekowcski]

the american reality... but seriously i think its sad but great in depth lore that we don't see these days i never played most of these... i always build or renovate my own houses, that's why i wanted to review all of the occupied ones

[@konstantina9876]

@@Rekowcski True! The lore is actually impressive. I had never dug into it as a kid, but now playing the game again there are so many hidden things, and apparently everyone knew them😅

[@DizzyBusy]

The Wolff Mansion is my favourite lot to play. It has the highest bonus for beautiful vista, and once you're living there, might as well buy the beach right next door and make it your private beach... Edit: I think you misunderstood the house, the entrance is not on the ground floor. Guests have to go up the stairs to enter the living area. It's definitely neither wheelchair nor baby friendly. Thornton can't stand children and Morgana's lifetime wish is to be surrounded by family, so that's their conflict.

[@Rekowcski]

I appreciate their story more now that ive played with them... Morgana wanted to have babies (so did i) and that man was NOT interested :(

[@DizzyBusy]

@@Rekowcski my Thornton had an affair with Nancy Landgraab, so Morgana dumped his cheating ass and had children after all.

[@potatorodka2795]

Those weird chairs in Crumplebottom's entrance are probably suppose to look like a "Tête-à-tête" or a courting/conversation sofa? It's like a love seat where you're sitting next to each other but also facing each other. Weirdly intimate!

[@Rekowcski]

I know what you’re talking about, I thought about that one but I didn’t like how they positioned them I guess haha. It was also first review so take it with a grain of salt haha

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

i actually have some personal peeves for some of the houses in sunset valley.. like for example how the little greenroom the goths have is actually flagged as unfinished so when your sim goes in there to play chess they get the unfinished moodlet.. (i actually played a lepacy in wich my sim ended up stealing Gunther kicking Cornelia and Mortimer out into this shabby small house and giving the estate to one of their kids.. so i've also given the entire house a makeover before..) also for some reason i really dislike those yellows.. like why does almost every house in sunset valley look like a gnome pissed over the floor 😂 it's always the first thing i change usually to a more neutral brown,gray or white

[@Rekowcski]

I think once you do a Lepacy you leave it with a bunch of peeves because you get to see all aspects of a world/pack etc... thank you for those details! I would like to keep track of ALL PROBLEMS that EA has caused. The worst part of Sunset Valley is for sure the colours... I can make more cohesive houses in the Sims 1, and there is NO EXCUSE for that yellow when you have a COLOUR WHEEL! I am a builder at heart, so I always make my own houses or renovate so I never really saw this stuff before, super fun, thank you so much for watching and commenting x

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

@@Rekowcski i also tend to make houses but i wanted to change it up a little and use an existing one. I believe i moved to a new world come gen 3 and did build a house for my family there. Though i do prefer sims 4 building over sims 3 the special update patch that came out does help a bit with the smoothness

[@Rekowcski]

Yes it's super fun to use what we've been graced with haha I am currently playing Strangetown in the sims 2, and I used the funky builds that came with it for awhile...but now I have so many alien babies and affairs I started doing renovations and building new lots. Sims 4 building is superior in most ways... I can build a mansion in the sims 4 in the amount of time I can spend building a starter house in the sims 3

[@litchtheshinigami8936]

@@Rekowcski sims 2 is amazing. did you download it or did you get the complete collection when it was free back in 2014? (i missed it even though i would love to play the sims 2 again.. i have heard there are ways of downloading it but i'm always a bit hesitant when it comes to just downloading stuff from the internet )

[@Rekowcski]

@@litchtheshinigami8936 I own some discs (base game, open for business, late night) but my PC doesn't have a disc drive... so I downloaded the ultimate collection from oldgamesdownload.com they only supply "dead" software that is super old and no longer supported by companies everything seems to work fine, including all mods I've installed as well, if they put it back on origin, free or not, i would get it legit though. there are some tutorials on installing on youtube still i think... if you are computer-literate it should be manageable x

[@nerdgirlperson]

16:14 "ofc the husband has commitment issues he's a man' broooooo😂😂

[@Rekowcski]

I speak the truth XD thank you for watching x

[@bannappleblonde]

Oh my God I’m so glad someone is going through all the lots in the Sims 3. when I played it when I was younger I used to just build and I never looked into the existing builds or even the lore of the game, even though I had every single pack, so it’s awesome that ur going back and documenting it. I really regret never exploring the towns and people in them! And your commentary is great. Can’t wait to watch the rest of these!!

[@Rekowcski]

hi gina, thanks so much! i will be doing EVERY house eventually lol

[@caitlin8274]

This is a brilliant idea for a series! I love how in the Sims 3 it seems like all of the pre built houses are individually made based on the personality of the sims who live there. Like if a sim is a party animal, the house will be covered in leopard print. If they’re a hillbilly, it’ll be covered in camo. The devs didn’t do that at all with the Sims 4

[@Rekowcski]

Yeah there’s nothing to mention in the sims 4, some of them are pretty but the whole game is a bit vapid so it doesn’t get me excited haha. Thanks for watching I’m glad you enjoyed x

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Ah Sims 3 Sunset Valley. My entryway into the art and design of architecture as I was but a mere preteen. And not necessarily in the best way... The builds being based on the American suburbs of the 1950s does not help their case. EA's builds introduced me singlehandedly to the concept and execution of McMansions. Alongside wonderful environmental storytelling! So like 50 50

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I love sunset valley and it’s a lot of fun to use the architecture career to improve the town, but I noticed something funny while I was playing, some houses have custom roofs that can’t be recreated without some kind of cheats, most notably the goth mansion. I accidentally enabled auto roof on that house while renovating and it ruined the roof, removing nearly all of it, and I couldn’t recreate it as the roof would clip together. In the end I had to completely redesign their top floors to have roof terraces, new rooms, and roofs in different places, so that it would look okay still. This did however leave me super over budget.

[@Rekowcski]

The custom roof thing sounds interesting! I’m going to investigate this further, I need to review all the world over again, but the empty houses so I’ll keep an eye on neighbouring roofs

[@coffeepot3123]

Damn i genuinely loved the first house, looks like some early rare 2000's house you'd see in real life.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

I love this so much. The Sims III was my childhood and I wish I could accomplish my dream of buying the game alongside all the content that you can add and create my beautiful worlds again.

[@Elisa-006]

I recommend buying the base game and the extensions you want at the black friday sale on stream, they are wayyyy cheaper then and that’s how I afforded to buy it all for ~25€

[@mr.pillsbury7610]

Mannn! I've play sims 3 religiously! and this brings back so many great memories! Thank you!

[@mrvpnsecure9937]

My favorite is Pondcentric, very nice house, with a few tweaks it's become a house of my dream

[@jheyjuneice]

Judging EA builds is my favourite hobby. Subscribed!

[@Rekowcski]

Mine too haha. Thanks for the support x

[@CadeAid1]

13:04 SHE’S SO DAINTY She’s literally a beach house in the middle of suburbia and her roof extends onto the ground 😭

[@Rekowcski]

Sunset valley is indeed an eclectic mix haha

[@nicholasgerry6931]

"Poor people wouldn't necessarily have a matching set chairs and table" Me looking at my chairs and table set in the room: "Oh... 👁👄👁"

[@Rekowcski]

Same 😭

[@nicholasgerry6931]

@@Rekowcski I LOVE your house review videos! I wish you would review the unoccupied houses though. Like the Pondcentric house, love it.

[@leah5580]

I think the Goth mansion actually also really evokes, on the interior, the floor plan of the Sims 2 version of it...even if it isn't the same house anymore. Like, the Sims 2 version of it you could totally see and say oh, they must have renovated and demolished things like the conservatory as time progressed.

[@mariakim19931]

1:15 Asilomar, owned by Single Moms 2:54 August Moon, owned by Crumplebottom 5:02 Cosmopolitan Lofts, owned by Roomies 5:54 Cottage Cheese, owned by Kennedy 6:55 Flava-ful, owned by Alvi 8:09 Garden Cottage, owned by Steel 9:20 Goth Manor, owned by Goth 11:21 Greener & Greener, owned by Bachelor 12:59 House Plan B, owned by Jolina 14:10 Landgraab Estate, owned by Landgraab 15:48 Lone Wolff Manor, owned by Wolff 18:21 Low Fat Ranch, owned by Keaton 19:51 Metropolitan Lofts, owned by Working Friends

[@stephenspears3206]

Hey friend. Watched the video again. As you know, I love to renovate the Landgraab Estate. I've stopped and built my own mansion for my own family. But when I ever did renovate LE, I always would add a second garage, a second floor with attic floor and dormers in place above still, and close off the backyard. And add an awning over the front door, making it a two story construction. I love it that way personally, think it looks better with an awning over the front entrance.

[@lunaris2194]

WHY THE FUCK WATCHING THESE VIDEOS ARE SO FUCKING ENTERTAINING!?!?!! LOVE THESEEE SOOOO MUCH AND ALSO YOU!😃❤️

[@Rekowcski]

Idk I just tried to be myself and apparently I it worked for once :p thanks so much for watching I’m so glad you enjoyed it

[@gate8475]

I destroyed that public pool in Mirabello and built a “Mirabello apartment building” cuz I liked the location and I wanted some downtown apartments, I also renovated Cosmopolitan building into a giant downtown apartment monstrosity but I love it haha, I also built my own “spa/gym” I called it The Fift Elements Wellness Center😂 also I extended and added a floor on an actual gym I also added a “restaurant” haha. I built a “retirements home” apartment building because after a while there were lot of older people that i just wanted to put away somewhere, I built a beach house on of the empty lots, but it turned out to be a 4 story little beach house, I decided to build a little cabin on the hill above the stadium, turned out 3 floors, i just like when its big i guess idk

[@Rekowcski]

The cosmopolitan at the very least needs to be demolished haha. Great ideas! I'm renovating sunset valley currently, thanks for the ideas

[@gate8475]

@@Rekowcski Haha good luck, hope you upload for us to see the results, i wonder how will your final version of Sunset Valley look like! im currently making “Stratosphere”, basically just a building on one pillar that has those circle stairs all the way to the highest possible floor in the game which I shaped as something like that building in Seattle or that one in Vegas and there i divided it into 4 “luxurious” apartment that im still working on. Thus i wanted them to have the nicest view in town. but with that giant saucer I blocked the view from my new Cosmopolitan haha! now they cant see the lighthouse! daang😅

[@margarette_yt]

Been thinking of the beautiful houses in Sims 3. Thanks for reviewing!

[@sgtjohnson]

I thought Agnes had a mis-carriage. Hence the unfinished nursery. Wait hold up! She’s supposed to be Mrs Havisham from Great Expectations

[@Rekowcski]

From what I understand there is no miscarriage in the game, but there is a mod for it I think. It's possible that's part of the lore though, but I always thought it was that he died before she got pregnant, since it happened so soon after the wedding.

[@crystalmeier6579]

I saw part 2 so of course I had to find part 1. I usually play the crumplebottom house when I play this town because I can easily fix it up nicer. I love house plan B just because it was so different than the others.. I love a little quirkiness.. Loving these reviews. Cheers! ( hope your doing ok).

[@Rekowcski]

Oh goodness these videos are old and rough haha, this is actually my second ever sims 3 video and it lead me on a glorious path so I will always love it

[@pearcrustacean]

I really enjoyed this commentary. Subscribed!

[@Rekowcski]

Thanks so much for tuning in, keep letting me know what you think x

[@greennlover00]

you were so funny and entertaining to watch i ate this up and i’m not even a builder you should do more vids like this but like judging the townies that would be cool you could judge like their outfits story line etc

[@Rekowcski]

you are the first person to recommend that, I never thought about it! yes i'd love that... i have strong feelings about several sims lol thank you bree, glad you enjoyed it!

[@AvGames6]

15:53 that brings back memories, the first time I ever played the Sims games was with Thonrton and Morgana Wolff.

[@fkasailor]

you should remake them, i would love to watch hehe

[@Rekowcski]

I do miss building... I’ve been mostly just building off camera in TS2 since all my households keep having babies, but maybe renovating the ugliest houses in TS3 is a good idea !! Thanks for watching! x

[@JessicaCheyenneTV]

Oh yes!! I would love to watch a remodel of the Sunset Valley houses!!!! :D

[@mairahmanzini2928]

I enjoyed this video your ratings seem insightful and fair to me.

[@Rekowcski]

Thanks you so much for watching I’m glad you enjoyed it x

[@alyson_l27]

I request this for all expansion worlds thanks

[@Rekowcski]

They're my most popular videos, I think you can count on it x

[@alyson_l27]

@@Rekowcski indeed, i saw the others after, you gained a subscriber my friend

[@Rekowcski]

Oh love it, thanks so much you lot are the best x Ps I just filmed lucky palms part 2 so feel free to request which world you want to see next x

[@dafaeriequeene]

Can’t believe you didn’t talk about the pink mansion

[@AlexisTwoLastNames]

15:12 the texture on the back of the fireplace must be a blown up aka lower res version of the front texture to save space in the game. idk much abt textures but because it is so much bigger, this is my guess lol. i had to mention it cuz it caught me off guard

[@danielklimesch2070]

I have to a little correct you. When you judging a Bachelor's house and told Bella's room reminds you Angela Pleasant , it should ne Lilith

[@Rekowcski]

Yes i noticed that after uploading, but my videos used to get like 10 views so I didn’t think it would matter haha. Thank you and you may notice in another episode I accidentally called sunset valley “pleasant view” one time ;) x

[@danielklimesch2070]

@@Rekowcski Pleasantview Is in lore of Sunset Valley So i think Is ok 🤣

[@Rekowcski]

Yes and It doesn’t help I am usually playing a different game than I am making videos for (avoids burn out), and of course right now I am in the sims 2 hoods making one bastard baby after another

[@W.Gaster]

Eh, little correction, Agnes crumblebottom and Mrs cumbrelbottom are not the same person, they are not even related by blood (they only share the last name because of marriage)

[@stephenspears3206]

Hey friend. I wanted to let you know that I've started my own save file with a new Landgraab Estate that is made for the 21st Century, in my own style. But I didn't keep any of my own build styles. This is a ground up gut out of the interior and rebuild of the exterior. With my own version of the Landgraab Family, with identical twin daughters, no son anymore. I originally had the redo of LE look like the original LE. But I decided to make my own version of a modern LE. I uploaded it to the net. Hope it is put out for people to use. Seems that my builds I make don't get put on the net anymore. Don't know why. And just recently redid Villa Alto and made it for the 21st century, by redoing the exterior. And replaced the Altos with my own version of the family too.

[@saraa3418]

I disagree with you on the Wolff house. I was trying to play in it after having my gold digger oust Morganna, but it's literally unplayable.

[@Rekowcski]

I really hated the irrelevant dining furniture haha, but I see what you mean. I think it would be way worse though if it wasn’t lofted. Imagine 20 more rooms ugh

[@Dattmaster2000]

Omg i did the same hahaha

[@lowkeyknowledge1558]

You sound so different back here whaaa

[@Ikinikki14]

the lonewolf manor gave me childhood flashbacks, i remember playing in there SOO much never even realized how bad it was also, i feel ashamed i’m not subscribed because welp gotta stan 😂😂

[@Rekowcski]

Subscribed or not I still trapped you into the horrific world of sims 3 builds :p

[@Ikinikki14]

@@Rekowcski that you definitely did 😂😂

[@stephenspears3206]

Hey friend. I love to renovate Landgraab Estate. But I have made some major changes. But don't change the colors. You do remember me? I add a third floor an awning over the front door a second garage and enlarge the pool. I do make the big garden in back into a maze now and build a wall around the back now.

[@Rekowcski]

i do remember i hope u are doing alright

[@stephenspears3206]

@@Rekowcski I am just fine, thanks for asking. I have done some minor changes, including changing the outside walls all brick walls now. But kept the upper stories with the wood trim which I like. And have enlarged the pool. And now have a real hedge maze where that large garden is in back.

[@alexbenavidez4500]

I have a *very* specific personal style that I simply couldn't get in the base game, and before I got expansion packs I did spend like a year playing base game sunset valley, and I am neutral to a lot of these builds at the best of time That ugly yellow/brown/green colour is the most hideous thing ever and I thought I was the only one who was always like ???? When finding the toilet roll being like a full metre away from the toilet I used to be very, very bad at building houses, with roofs and the exterior being the hardest part, but I do think I have improved a lot The only houses I ever play and renovate in Sunsey Valley is that really cheap, rundown one that has a swamp and a fridge outside and the Goth household I love moody victorian gothic atmosphere, and that's the closest to it you can get in the base game Midnight Hollow, Dragon Valley and Riverview are my favourite towns, but I'm having seriously a lot of fun Modern gothic designs in Bridgeport and the showtime expansion pack town I turn everything into a modern or fusion gothic resort, and it's so far removed from the base game at this point that it's weird to see the vanilla builds

[@Rekowcski]

i love you passion for this game x i think you have great taste and your favourites are objectively great worlds... never done dragon valley yet but im excited for EA castles haha

[@alexbenavidez4500]

@@Rekowcski Dragon Valley is really worth it because its very different and really medieval You can definitely make castle builds with that expansion and the most gorgeous gardens It pairs very well with the Supernatural expansion pack, but modern day or non-technophobe items really don't fit in it at all, so you have to get really creative to furnish houses within your own style and keep it to fitting the aesthetic of the rest of the town I'm just glad I found Sims 3 content because it's like everyone moved to Sims 4 but this is the game I majorly play still

[@togepipi]

How do you not have lag and awesome video

[@Rekowcski]

I’ll do a video on that at some point, but it involves changing one or two things in your game files which can be risky

[@togepipi]

@@Rekowcski thanks how did you get katy perry

[@Rekowcski]

Two options: 1. But the disc from eBay (around 20-30$ like the original price) then install it 2. Research on google, you can get almost any game that is no longer sold in stores

[@togepipi]

@@Rekowcski Thank you, you have an awesome channel your the best sim-tuber

[@yusufoztokatl8415]

02:42 why did they put yellow walpaer on a one wall but not the whole 😭😭😭

[@stephenspears3206]

How do I get into your discord? I'd love to share my pics of my new mansion I've built. And what I've done to Sunset Valley. I've redone the town, a little. Nothing major. Replaced the school, city hall, movie theater, stadium and even the army base. Using existing builds found in build mode. But have moved the movie theater and put the police station in Mirabella Plaza, and even repositioned the supermarket and bookstore. Built my own video game arcade. To name a few things I've done to my Sunset Valley save file. But now that I have rabbit holes, I may do some of my own builds for these. Stay tuned.

[@ESC_Thomas]

How can you give the atrocious Goth mansion 9,5/10 and the Bachelor's amazing house only 6/10 ????????

[@JorgeKrita]

LOVE this video

[@Rekowcski]

It’s the first one... now there are like 20 or 30 episodes hahaha

[@JorgeKrita]

@@Rekowcski gotta see them all then

[@rechelprinsloo1252]

Fix the property

[@sgtjohnson]

You forgot the Alto’s house bud

[@Rekowcski]

The alto is in the next episode, it was too long to do every house in one video... alto was one of my favourites!

[@sgtjohnson]

@@Rekowcski got it! It’s my fav too