Wonder how long it'll take for EA to realize all we want is the sims 2 & 3 combined with the few decent features that the sims 4 added.

Sims 2 Wedding: Everyone sitting down good and mannerly to witness the event. Sims 4 Wedding: Everyone on a computer, swaying, grilling hot dogs, broke a toilet, or taking a nap.

The Sims 2 is a holy place of the real Simmers.

I really liked the unsynced relationship system as well. Really realistic

it still amazes me how detailed and ahead of it’s time the sims 2 was and makes me wonder: if all this was possible to code and program back in 2009 or whatever why couldn’t ea just make it like this again for the sims 4 in 2022😭

I want Sims 2's details in the sims 3. I'm finally able to play TS3 at max settings and find myself playing for hours on end. TS2 details like Bathing Babies in sinks, Taking babies to the kitchen to get their 🍼 bottle. Bottles being tossed and left on the floor to be cleaned up, children rushing to their parents when they get an A+ report card. Cutscenes, Storyline, Elder sims actually sounding like elders. Shopping for clothes, seeing sims actually get into their cars and drive along with so much more is everything

While I agree with this list, there is one thing you forgot. Just ONE small thing. Despite its clunkiness and occasional weirdness: The mechanics in Sims 2 work. And they usually work as intended. Let's compare visiting restaurants: In The Sims 2 you go to a restaurant lot, where all the work NPCs will be there and ready to do their jobs. Townies will then arrive after your Sims and get seated and do other restaurant related stuff. You Sims can get a table without a problem, place an order without a problem, get served their food without a problem and can skip pay... err I mean pay the bill without a problem. Depending on how the restaurant is build you can continue to spend time there, meet some neighbors etc. Dating and hangout mechanics also work quite well in the restaurants. In Sims 4 you can consider yourself lucky if you get to the eating part. And may the Sim lord have mercy when you are there for an outing! Half the time my Sims visit a bar the bartender just... leaves. And may come back two hours later. Never had this problem in 2. Never. I love building restaurants in the games and I love having my Sims treat themselves occasionally to just have a nice meal and relax or have a place to meet others. Or perhaps the restaurant is just part of the bowling alley to grab something to eat while you make a fool of yourselves. I love doing this in 2, because it works fine. Worst that happens is the waiter throwing food on your Sim (which is an intended possibility) or taking longer due to many Sims taking up space (which an be avoided if you leave enough space to maneuver and is somewhat intended). In 4? The waiter forgets you exist. The cooks don't do much. Your Sim waits an entire day for... SOMETHING, while in 2 it takes at most an ingame hour to receive the food. That's the thing. Sims 2 mechanics are deep and intricate, often even interwoven with new or old mechanics from EPs and, usually, work without big issues. Most of Sims 2 bugs are funny glitches or have to be actively provoked with cheats. Bugs in 4 are a constant annoyance and while a lot of the mechanics are neat on paper, they fall completely flat in practice. Doesn't help that most of them are tied to the mood system, which... is way too shallow and too easy to manipulate. And on top of that they often just don't work as intended. Restaurants in 4 could be just as cool as in 2. The core ideas and mechanics are there, they just don't work. Sims 4's core problem is the lack of intricate and WORKING mechanics. Sims 2 was a product of love and care and it shows in all the little details and it can be felt while playing. The clunkiness? Eh, it's part of the charm, the game still largely works as intended is well thought out and fun. Sims 2 will remain my favourite. It has introduced me into the series and I spend most of my Sim time on it. I loved building own neighbourhoods, the emphasis on creative storytelling, the Sims that feel alive and have their own personality, the wants and fears (and its excellent dynamics!), the vacation EP that actually has vacations rather than "adventures", the excellent business EP... the comment is too long already, let's just say: I agree with your list. :P Sims 2 has the heart that Sims 4 desperately needed. Oh! And of course. *turns on radio* *Salsa is blasting through the house* This! :D

I started playing Sims 2 when I was like 8 or 9. I'm 23 now and still play it every few months when I have time. That game has a special place in my heart ❤️

i don’t understand how they can fail so bad when they could’ve literally just redone what has pretty much been perfected already… like all the thinking is already done. their only job was to improve it and make it look and run nice. wtf is wrong with this company

Wants/Fears in Sims 4 is still broken. Unless you just let your Sim run free and tell them nothing, they will have a 'fear of missing out on their dream". And there is no easy way to help them achieve this. Even if you fulfill all of their wants, they are still just angry or sad ALL of the time. So broken

What I never see people mention is the Sims 2 story album option, it was my favourite part of the game! I would take photos of all my sims' important steps in life and spend hours writing the family album creating my own story with pictures, I loved it! I felt sad when that didnt make it on the Sims 3.

If you mix Sims 2 system with Sims 3 Open World and add the atmosphere when you visit Lots in Sims 1 to the game, you have the perfect Sims game. I don't care about graphics, to me as long as I can have the 'life simulator' feeling, even 2D is fine.

Great video. Sims 2 remains my favorite game. I love that wants and fears can change depending on what's going on in the game while playing. For instance, in one family I had the father go and fix the microwave that had broken down. While doing that he got zapped and his son happened to be there and saw it happen. Father survived but I noticed that the son had rolled the fear of his father dying! I love a lot of the little details in the game: parents tucking in their children, looking at things out of windows, active children running everywhere. Kids running to meet their parents when they come home. Or the one child I had that started at a -6 daily points with her baby brother! Not only that but she started gossiping about him to her other brother! Sibling rivalry? There are some things I wish were better with the game (it is old, after all) but I just can't stick with Sims 3 for any length of time and I've never played Sims 4 so I'm stuck playing Sims 2 until I just can't anymore !

The Sims 2 is very hard to forget. That's a big step up after the sims 1. The most fun Body Shop mod is the sims 2, but the most fun game is The Sims 3.

As many people said, the perfect sims game would be a game with: • sims 2 gameplay depth • sims 3 customization and maps • sims 4 Build & buy, CaS and emotion system

18 years plus of playing the sims 2 and still amazed of how awesome it was

I like every other Sims game (1,2,3) more than 4. The game is just to bland and childish for my taste. Nothing is believable in any way in 4. 😅

I’d say you potentially forgot one major thing: the best thing about TS2 is the ability to play rotationally - something that’s not possible in the other games without extensive modding. I love playing a whole neighbourhood and seeing the storylines of the families interweave and change. Story progression is actually my least favourite feature of TS3 ( and now 4) and it didn’t work as intended anyway. Playing rotationally in TS2 allows you to leave one family and head over to the next - they’ll be right where you left them and you can carry on micromanaging their lives! I love it so much.

Everything is better than sims 4

There is no denying Sims 2 is my favourite, along with Sims 1 and 3. I would like to add there are many features that started in Sims 2, where Sims 3 and 4 only update (downgraded in Sims 4 sometimes). The colour swatches in buy mode, building tools, detailed CAS, family trees, age groups, 3d camera view etc. It is truly revolutionary to the game series.

I remembered that in the Sims 2 Nightlife that you can create your own downtown neighborhood which means you could add your own community lots.

I gave up on Sims 4 over 2 years ago. I kept buying Expansion and Game packs. I went back to Sims 3 and really having a great time.

I feel like Sims 2 aged better than Sims 3 in many ways,especially graphically.I was never a Sims 3 gal,grew up with 1 and 2,3 was at the time way too demanding for my computer and as it`s working now,it crashes A LOT without Nraas mods or other mods.But Sims 2 is still amazing,without any mods even.I`m big on CC and even with that,it`s still the most enjoyable game to play.It`s the only installment I never got bored of.

i just recently downloaded the sims 2, and it’s my favorite so far. i love how much detail there is and it makes the gameplay a lot more immersive. i grew up on the sims 3 and love it a lot, but the sims 2 is just so much better.

You made some really nice points here. My preferred game is the Sims 3, but videos like this still make me miss the Sims 2 in a way. I guess it's nostalgia since my first ever experience with the Sims was watching my older sister play the Sims 2 when I was a kid. I learned all the Pleasantview characters by heart and always loved hearing about my sister's plans for them lol.

Sims 2 is just amazing. Even to this day, it still remains as my favorite in the series. The game is full on small details, and the memory system is still the best compared to the other games IMO. Even the graphics aren't a problem if you install default replacements.

I'm a Sims 3 kinda gal. I skipped 2, since I had finally perfected all my Sims 1 mods lol I always hear people singing its praises but after the open world of Sims 3, especially with story progression, I feel like it wouldn't hit the same for me as it did for those who grew up with it, and that it would possibly feel like Sims 4 in that something is missing. I still might try it sometime, just because it's so beloved. I do love watching Sims 2 videos and let's plays though, so who knows!

Sims 4 character artstyle with Sims 3 open world + furniture customization with Sims 2 neighborhood customization with Sims 1 soundtracks A person can dream...

Oh man the first reason hit hard! The retail system was one of my favourite things about sims 2 and I miss it so much! And I miss the sims 2 apartments so... I loved building and playing in those. I always thought the open-world-ness of sims 3 would have been perfect for sims 2-ish apartments, so I am sad EA never reached that full potential. You sure made me nostalgic for sims 2 :p Sims 2 felt like a step up from sims 1. Sims 3 felt like a different but fun direction from sims 2, and sims 4 feels like stepping on a pine cone.

I didn't think the Sims 2 was that complex. This is awesome.

3 is definitely my favorite. The open world is what seals the deal all by itself for me. That being said I do miss Sims 2 I switched from 1 late so I didn't get much time with it but I remember enjoying the gameplay, even if I was not a fan of the art style. Don't like the plasticity looking dolls. A style sims 4 unfortunately adopted.

I love the sims 2 so much it’s my favorite game

TS2 is the real best sims game tbh. It still runs beautifully on computers, it had the most love and care put into it, you don’t need to buy a supercomputer to run it on high settings (though you do need Graphics Rules Maker) It has its issues, it’s definitely the most easily broken of the games, but the ability to *easily* create new neighborhoods using SC4 and build whatever you want is something that neither of its successors have managed to recreate. The only bad thing is that the heyday was over a decade ago, many of the mods and CC are disappearing or the meshes are becoming inaccessible. Still, I don’t have issues enjoying the game even with that.

I still like the sims 2 more than the others. I mostly love how time works in it.

Sims 2 was a passion project. Sims 4 was made only to make money. The ideal Sims would be Sims 2 with open world and content from 3 and building from Sims 4 and maybe it's look. I don't mind the cartoonist look, is just that the AI doesn't feel alive

fun fact not long ago you were still able to contact EA support and ask for the sims 2 complete collection and they would add it to your account (if you find a employee who loves sims like i did) and thats how i got it

Honestly if we were to have a sims game with builds and graphic like in sims 4 and sims 2 and 3 system, it would've been a hecking amazing game. Main issue with sims 4 is that you get overwhelmed by expansions and get quickly bored by them, as a child i had sims 2 pets and i would've play it for hours and i always managed to create scenarios and such.

My only experience with the Sims 2 was with the console edition for pets. I remember watching KZfaq videos for Sims 2 on PC and being envious at all the things you could do, haha.

Now i wanna boot up again to make a shop 😫 good list Rek!

My first game in the franchise was Sims 3, I grew up on this game, I just loved it, and until they bought it for me, I watched my cousin play and it was incredibly exciting. At some point I stopped playing sims due to the fact that I had Sims 3 only on the disk, and the disk drive broke. A few years later, I was already thinking about downloading Sims 4, but after playing it on my friend's laptop, I was disappointed. Then I thought about going back to Sims 3 again, but it lagged a lot, and despite the recent memories, I wasn't sure that I would play for a long time. And then I downloaded Sims 2, and got involved from the first days of the game. I built cities, built houses, created characters, and now I still can't wait to go to Sims 2 every time I come back from lessons. Even despite a bunch of positive memories of Sims 3, at a more conscious age I preferred Sims 2 and it's just fucking awesome. And Sims 4 is still not even close to any of its predecessors.

The Sims 2 was amazing I remember it took me years ago to get into the Sims 3 because of that. However I can’t go back to playing the Sims 2 seriously because I now miss the freedom I have when playing Sims 3. It fits my game style, I just wish it had more of the realism of interactions and little animations in the Sims 2

Sims 2 gameplay was the best. I remembered opening a car dealer selling cars. And always look forward to go on a holiday just to stay at the hotel. I also think that sims 5 won’t have the same gem as sims 2 as people are so sensitive over the smallest issue these days.

I agree with you. Sims 2 is still my favorite because of the details and overall cohesion. I have fond memories of my kids running outside to greet their parents when they arrive for work or happily showing their report card when they get an A+ at school. I also remembered how fascinated I was when my first teenager was bothered by something in the mirror, which I later discovered to be acne. So amazing! And the burglar scenes - there were even random phonecall warnings. The jealousy/love reactions were fun too. It was funny when a jealous sim would knock off the trash can. There are so many things to love about Sims 2. And yes, I loved the cut scenes so much! Sims 3 was amazing for the open world. I wish they can combine Sims 2 and Sims 3, with the flexibility of Sims 4's build/buy.

first reason why Sims 4 in the worse in the franchise: I'm not able to play it in Windows 11, even if the game is legit or not. I will never stand for the Sims 4. edit: my brother couldn't play in his Mac either. we're both origin clients. edit2: we're both Sims 3 stans but Sims 2 is an absolutely classic we can't even deny.

100% agreed! 😍😊 I was just wondering why I am being weird for liking-loving Sims 2 better than the Sims 4😅😁 nope, its just the game is so much more detailed and fun to play😁😅

I used to play sims 2 on the ps2 when I was younger. But my older cousin actually had it on his computer and it shocked me as a kid how mods worked in the sims. Honestly the level of depth in the sims 2 was something I didn't actually notice when I was younger. Thanks for pointing out so much of these!

Another fun thing: the complete Sims 4 is £800 on Steam. I bought my complete Sims 2, new (close to day of release) for about £300, adjusted for inflation. It was more like £200 or so in 2000-ish money. So you get a better game for just over a third of the price. And you can make Sims 2 less clunky with good defaults and CC.

I sadly never got to play the sims 2 on pc. I have the console ports, but by the time I could get a computer that would work with the sims series, it was already on to the sims 3. I want them to bring the open world of the sims 3 back combined with what so many people love about the sims 2.

While Sims 2 was the only mainline game that had dynamic cutscenes, the Sims 3 for DS had dynamic cutscenes, too. DS version of Sims 3 was also the one that introduced the drag-to-sculpt character creation later used in Sims 4.

I stopped playing Sims 4 years ago, and went back to my first game, Sims 2. I was given Ultimate Collection by EA (tho I still have the old Discs in a box) and with all modern mods and CC to spruce it a bit while the base is so solid, it works so well

Awesome video. I'm a huge nerd gamer who plays tons of games since always, but The Sims 2 is the one game that takes me back to my childhood. Every now and then I feel the urge to go back to it.

You hit it right on the nail in every aspect of the sims franchise…I honestly think the sims 4 creators just don’t know how to make the sims 2 happen in the sims 4 as the creators of the sims 2 aren’t even involved anymore and that is a TRUE SHAME and EA is a money grabbing company who don’t care as much about quality of their games so that is why the sims 4 is going down hill, they keep releasing this and that cause people keep buying their garbage

Excelente video! Mi preferido de la saga es S3 y aún lo juego mucho, enriquecido con los mods para darle más vida al gameplay. De todas formas extraño muchas cosas de S2

I picked up a box set of The Sims 2 with like 5 or 6 expansions real cheap at a pawn shop many years ago, and I played it very often. I also played a lot of Sims 3 when it came out and enjoyed both games a lot. Sim 4 on the other hand feels awkward to play, it's nowhere near as fun as Sims 2 or Sims 3. It's nice you point out all the great things about Sims 2 that make it so much better then Sim 4. I hope Sims 5 goes back to basics and builds upon what made Sims 2 and 3 so great and not just "make life easier" with too many stripped down gameplay cycles and meaningless content no one wanted.

I love Sims 3 and it is my favourite from the franchise but Sims 2 is the best. The little details, the introduction of the amazing storyline and the overall experience is the best.

there are only a handful of sims 4 features i like. i mean i like the idea, not always how they're handled most notably "fear conquered" buff that a sim gains by confronting their own fear (it's just a temporary buff tho) would be really nice if they work from that and make like a hidden counter for it or something, once they have confronted and conquered that fear for a certain number of times, they could completely overcome that fear

Rekowski, Now I would love to see a video from you on things the Sims 4 actually did right.

You forgot to add - Better visuals and texture work, more fluid, varied and complex animations and much higher attention to detail. Other than that good video, thanks.🙂

Sims 3. But i love and enjoy various aspects of Sims 2 and 4.

I'm still playing sims2 up to this day. :)

sims2 has a uniqueness and an interesting game presentation to be played for a long time, game presentation, game process, storyline and events that are focused on being able to share with other sims, important events that give a pleasant atmosphere, this is the power of content and sims2 gameplay that we will not find in sims1,3,and 4 even though sims4 gives an improvement to another level but there is something that cannot be achieved and cannot provide an atmosphere of feeling like in sims2. The content and experience and message of this sims2 achieves what the player achieves and it is not limited. sims2 gives freedom to players to decide and how the taste of this game is desired by us.

♥ You nailed it! I also miss the ability to write your sims' storylines in great detail - and it saved. If you returned to an old save, it was all right there (if you created it) to spark your memory and put you right back in it. And the aliens are totally lost on me in Sims 4. In Sims 2 they had those personalities.

0:15 i want the random cook baby thing back. It was such a dumb feature but classic to the wacky sims universe 6:32 a lot of these things are fixed in the sims 4 in mods but it still tells how empty the sims 4 was

I miss sims 2, wish it comes back to origin/ea play :( was my favorite game

The memories in Sims 2 was just peak, *chef's kiss* all that jazz! The fact that they included some lore and memories that made sense was great. I hate how in Sims 3 update included memories but it so dumb my Sims gets a memory for every fish they catch and every time they visit a lot. Why does EA think we care about this?

Rekowski, I don’t blame EA for not including Sims 2 style apartments in the Sims 3. If they could be made to work perfectly, or almost perfectly, they would be great and save us world creators a ton of space, but with the Sims 3’s open worlds, it’s hard to imagine how they wouldn’t cause massive lag and even game crashes, if you had basically multiple homes and multiple families on the same lot

What I don't see mentioned enough frankly is the Sims 2's engine is bulletproof. You have to try to corrupt your save files or find unintended behavior. The features in the game largely work completely as intended.

honestly i’d love a game with the personality of 2, the open world of 3, and the build buy and cas of 4. (create a style would be nice too)

I remember when Sims 2 launched it was the pinnacle of gaming in my eyes

I just miss having my families interact. Like if I update a Sim, I want to be able to see those changes when I’m playing a different family. I also miss creating neighborhoods in TS2 and having so many unlimited houses. The gallery is very useful in Ts4 but it sucks only having to fit houses in certain dimensions. I also really miss the dramatic scenes like the first woohoo, labor, weddings and even death

2 was great, 3 was OK. 4 was rubbish. Graphics get better, but the content gets worse. oh! and don't forget the amazing stuff you could do in sims1: make a hotel with WORKING elevators, own a dragon, have magic fights and so much more (could do some of this in others sims games, but again, only graphics improved and content went...down. what you could get in buy mode in sims1 was awesome also). only way sims5 could save the series, is if it had ALL the previous games content and better build options.

I am stuck with The Sims 2 forever but I have never owned or played TS3 and TS4. TS2 is still the best.

Small correction on the apartment bit: you CAN'T build your own Apartments in Sims 2... OFFICIALLY. There are no features in Sims 2 GUI that allow you to build an apartment. To make an apartment you have to plop down a residential lot, build and decorate a structure and then use the changelotzoning command in the developers console (" cheat menu") to make it an apartment. The console is not something we the players are supposed to see (unless we cheat) and therefor I don't consider it an official feature.

YESS again, couldn't said better myself!. My favourite topic of all time, i was kind of hoping myself you would actually be covering this up over!. I'm completely have got to be agreed with you on all of those things points you've made here. For me as long time fan of 2, It's just really feels so right when i played it, like literally everything is there. The wants and fears, buildings and cutscenes are all my time favourites, i could just see it everyday when i'm playing this god tier game, tbh. It's absolutely the best game ever in main games series in the franchise of all time, 3 is close second the best but TS2 however is just did it for me! ❤️❤️ TS4 is just absolutely are plain trash for me, i'd ended up getting bored and feels like i didn't really wanted to play it for some reasons and just left it for a couple of months. 2 is just way more better, you can clearly just tell you can't stop playing it because it was addictive in terms of everything.

Is the first clip you feature on this video from a trailer? If so can someone link me to it?

Lmao, Diana and Camilla. The shade of it all! 🏖️

Awsome video but there're some details I would correct: 1: Until this day the sims 2 is the only game that can memorise your sims genetics's every detail. Your sims had brown hair but it was dryed to black? The game REMEMBERS. Your sims had ugly face but you got ride of it with carieer rewards? The game REMEMBERS. and the kids will look like quasimodo... 2. Yeah, we can make apartment but just with code. I wonder the creators of the sims 2 wanted to players can create apartment - but then why not made an option for this? - or they didn"t but players somehow manage to find the code for this? I don't know, maybe there's a code for it in the sims 3 as well, but nobody found it yet... 3. The sims 2 is an only game where the car come across the driveway to the garage not just teleport to the street.

Hello! Thank you for the video 💗 I love sims 1,2 and 3. I didn't know that the Sims Superstar has copyright, i wouldn't suggest it if i knew that😕, i remember that you coment it has copyright

SIms 2 was the BEST of all. After that it's Sims 4 for me, i never liked Sims 3. I hated all the bugs, i hated the piggy faces (the sims looked horrible?!) etc... Sims 2 had so much details... so much love in animations, so much everything. It was wonderful.

Sims 3 was my fav and still is. I constantly get bored with sims 4 even with all the extensions pack 😭

You just unlocked a memory 😮🤯❤ Thanks for the nostalgia cause 3 is okay I play it daily but I’m going to start playing 2 again thank you 🙏🏽

am I the only one that doesnt mind the sims 2 graphics. I like how the actual sims in sims 2 look better, but every other graphic i like sims 3 , but its not horribly outdated like the sims 1 so I still find it very playable.

I believe in sims 2 supremacy

Please keep these videos up 😭😭

You made my day

7:55 - I saw what was done there … Diana and Camilla 😂

Sims 2 would have been great with the living neighbourhood thing. I know there's a mod for that now.

I'm primarily a Sims 4 player but I would be playing the older games in a heartbeat if it actually worked for me. I grew up on the Sims 3 (and glad I did since the Sims 4 was out when I got into the Sims in 2016 but the BG was abysmal) but I can't play it now since the lag fixes don't do much for me and crashing is frequent, much more than I remember too. I would love to try the Sims 2, your channel has really sold the game to me, but I'm worried about corruption mainly but also it even working. I don't think you can even access it in online stores anymore too. The only good selling point for the Sims 4 is really that the modding community and CC community are incredibly active but you could make the same case for the other games too

See? This is why I've got to find the sims 2 collection! I subscribed to your channel cuz of all your sims 3 content which is what I play but then I see all this! plus, I subscribe to (idk if you are familiar with these creators), Bruised pixels, calipers and tongs, but geez! Sims 2 sounds so amazing! I WILL own it one day! Lol

Sims 2 was a dream for me because it was the first sims I ever played. At a young age and growing up without a dad, I saw this as an opportunity to live a life I wished I had. It felt majestic to play Sims before than today.

I'm going to get the sims 3 base game soon. It's nostalgia for me since it was made a couple years after I was born on my birthday and I loved the music. I do love how the sims interact in the sims 2 but I really want to try out the sims 3 again. The sims 2 is a lovely game if I didn't have nostalgic memories of playing the sims 3. 😊

Hopefully 5 will be a blend of sims 2, sims 3 and something new. Without mods (major gameplay overhauls I might add) ts4 is not fun and playable. I hate the emotions.

I used to play The Sims 2 for HOURS on end as a kid/ teenager. It'll always be my favourite.

I did not know about the cinematic when I first played 2 as they don't pop up if you play on a potato. Sims 2 was full of small details like using cabinets when cooking and actually enter cars. I am a 90s "kid" so I miss things like landlines and cash registers. I would love a Sims 2 remake, as the game is a little clunky, I have had a hard time returning to Sims 2 & 3 after 4, some of the quality of life changes get hard to play without :(

it's crazy how a game that came out almost 20 years ago outdoes nearly every aspect of the sims 4, i wouldn't even be surprised if it was still better than the sims 5 when it comes out considering the direction EA is going

9:58 Now wait a minute! You can build your own apartment in S3. And not just with the shells in buy debug. In fact Floodgate Apartments in Bridgeport is done like that. Now, you can't build a penthouse without a stock building, yeah. But I've built quite a few apartments 4 or 5 stories tall. You can make the unit whatever size you like, from a fleabag studio to a multi-level condo. In fact, since in Bridgeport there's barely anyplace to build new stuff where apartments would make sense, I've done a few on 10-15 and 15x20 lots I could just squeeze in someplace. Anyway it's exactly the same process as building any structure in S3, as well as building in a buy debug shell (except without it). Maybe you should do a build as a tutorial?

The “broke” family caught me off guard 😂

The significant factor of this game being so loved even after so many years, is the nostalgia to the 1990s and the 2000s.

i seriously dont understand why ea decided not to let us build apartment in the later games... like its such a obvious thing to include..?

Sims 2 is my favorite❣👏 You did forget to mention that with FreeTime, you can also have a secondary aspirations, along with aspiration/work/needs perks that can further flesh out personalities. Also, with FreeTime's hobby system, there are secret lots that can be visited, whereby sims can meet other sims with their hobby interests (and you can get invites to multiple hobby lots). Beginning with OFB, sims could earn badges (most expansuons thereafter offer bew ones), which play an even bigger role in FreeTime. Oh, while the occults might not be a favorite for the series (depending on one's subjective opinions), you can have hybrid occults. The combinations make for some interesting and challenging gameplay (try playing with a vampire/plantsim hybrid). One would think that Sims 3 or Sims 4 would have the best gameplay mechanics and graphic design choices, but I disagree. You touched on the one aspect, Sims 2 has the best genetic system, but it also has the most detailed gameplay actions (i.e. sims actually enter/exit cars, pull out of driveway/garage, etc.), game mechanics (sims will go into cabinets and drawers to pull out cooking utensils, are able to step over small objects on the floor, they also play a full game of chess, moving the pieces accordingly, etc.), game physics (hair and fur on pets move, couch cushions actually move accordingly, while sims sit, lounge, jump, etc., pool physics, hot tub water physics, snow physics, etc.), and my favorite detail is the 4th wall breaking, making it seem like the sims are sentient beings, aware that we are trying to manipulate their actions❣While Sims 3 sims can be made to look the most realistic, and Sims 4 have a higher graphic quality (albeit, a bit cartoonish), without the aforementioned aspects (as well as so many more I haven't mentioned), they cannot compare to the Sims 2 expressions and graphics. Since Sims 2 is nearly a twenty year old game, just a few added mods and CC default replacements, the Sims in Sims 2 are the most aesthetically pleasing (because of the gameplay, game mechanics/logical physics), imo. So glad that there is still a very active Sims 2 community, because these pixelated characters are so worthy of investing time in❣