Sulsul, everyone! Thank you for watching my video, honestly the views just kept increasing to numbers more than I expect, thank you also for being nice in the comment section! I do realise my audio is a bit low on quality so I have put in subtitles, do turn it on to better understand it. Thank you again for all the kind words

I loved it when sims would break the fourth wall, stare directly at the player, and either cheered or complained when you told them to do a task they love/hate. The Sims 2 was made with so much love.

Sims 2 traits also heavily influences the compatibility between sims which is something unique. I have a sim which has a very "ugly" personality and had many fights with other sims, but managed to fall in love with another sim who tolerated him and loved him fondly, and a few friend he's not mean with. I usually let my sims do what they want, choose their partner and friends on their own, so it was nice to see him finally have a happy life after all.

A neat thing: Not only are personality points inherited from parent to child, parents can "encourage child to become (personality trait they have)" e.g. serious, playful. And if their relationship with the child is high, and the child performs a related task to practice this behaviour afterwards, the child can actually gain or lose additional personality traits from this encouragement. This is how over generations sims can have more than the base 25 points available, theoretically.

When Sims 3 came out and sims having *~traits~* was a big announcement, I remember being excited. Sims would have traits that would distinguish one sim from another even further! That was great! And then I found out that the traits were REPLACING personalities.... and I was like wtf????? If I could bring anything back from Sims 2 into Sims 4 it would be personality points. Each and every sims is so vibrant and distinct in sim 2. Sims 4 sims are so similar. I don't see why we couldn't have personality points AND traits.

One small detail I love is that of your sim is very neat, they will automatically clean windows with a sponge. You can’t make them do it, they will do it themselves randomly.

The time when sims actually had personality and interactions made sense

It’s so funny to me that the culinary career benefits from both playful and serious sims, like Guy Fieri and Gordon Ramsey

I loved when my sim Just burped out of nowhere and other Sims just laughed or made sounds like "eeeuugh" Always made me laugh hard lol Sims 2 is so fun

Yeah, definitely one of the more underappreciated parts of the sims 2. My personal favorite quirk is how grouchy outgoing sims boastfully react to compliments, like "Hell yeah, you finally noticed my awesomeness!"

i like that it prevents your sims being perfect or mary sues, it needed to be balanced

I had my son write me a little python program to generate random personality points, because I always used to make my sims the same! Some of them are rather... extreme personalities. And I love it!

One of my favorite interactions affected by traits is the "appreciate --> admire" one. Most of the sims have similar reaction to it and then extremely outgoing (I think) sims react in the way that clearly expresses the meaning of "oh yeah I know I am awesome" and shy sims look genuinely surprised by the fact that someone complimented them.

This kind of reminds me of a comment I saw in a Sims 4 video, where someone said that more varied animations wouldn't help the game. But I really think that is one of the main things that's missing - animations are the way the sim expresses themselves, and the Sims 2 had SO MANY. Not even just for sims, but even objects in the house? It's that extra effort to have more "random" occurences to keep you surprised yet invested in your game. In the Sims 2 I could have a character who cheats in games and tends to insult people and I'm like "oh man that's so them", but in the newer games (especially 4) I'm like "Why are you reacting with the exact same animation as my other character with polar-opposite-traits..?" and it takes me out of the experience. Seeing everyone act the same is so jarring, and eventually boring. Also love how the traits were a spectrum? It's something I didn't really take much notice of before but when you pointed it out I was like "oh damn that's smart" - because that technically ups the trait number without the need for more traits. Clever devs back then... I'd love to see a spectrum system in Sims 5 now

The Sims 2 is ahead of it's time and the 10 personality traits are prime example of that. I remember Onlyabidoang did FOUR videos of 50 details of Sims 2 and some of them cover personality traits. There are WAY more little quirks in every personality trait.

And to think this game had only released 1 month before GTA San Andreas in 2004. The Sims 2 was definitely was undisputably perfect in its technology ans graphics. Just look at the Sims facial expressions and animations, they lookso lively. And.. fully animated fingers -- in 2004 it was groundbreaking. Truly a masterpiece.

This system is so much cleaner than the one in later games. Having a ton of specific traits, most of which do approximately nothing, can't come close to simple sliders. I also really like the "no one is perfect" approach, with the points you can put into the Sims' sliders being limited. Going back to this - or using more specific traits in conjunction with it - would be a huge improvement imo.

After this video I don’t believe The Sims 5 won’t be as good as The Sims 2. EA and Maxis are way more worried on the visuals and aesthetics of the game than the core programming of the game, this whole personality system is more advanced than the ones in 3 and 4, and it’s pretty possible they might use the same in the new project!

I remember I got so exited when Sims 3 came out, because at the time I thought that sims in Sims 2 didn't have any personality. Years later Sims 2 Complete Edition came around on Origin for free and it blew my mind how many details I've been missing when I was a kid. It's amazing how this game feels so packed with content compered to, ya know, *other* games in the franchise

Great vid! It always annoys me when people say ”Sims 2 only has 10 traits”. Because it totally disregard the nuances of the personality system. Like the level, how they affect eachother and how it affects gameplay. Not to mention other layers such as aspiration, interests and hobbies!

sims 2's personality system is so nice. it makes it feel like your sims have much more fleshed out personalities compared to how the sims4 makes it so that like your sim with a creative trait just vaguely likes creative hobbies more than others lmao

My favourite thing is how Sims 2 traits interact with other features. Serious Pleasure sims have a harder time maintaining their aspiration as they mostly roll wants to go on dates, whereas playful ones roll a wider variety of wants. And of course, traits interact - I've found that shy grouchy sims will watch a fight, but outgoing nice sims will flee. Also if you have an active neat sim, your house will be clean in a kind of germaphobic way. Non-active neat sims are also pretty clean, but not to the same degree.

The day the Sims 2 is remastered is the day I can die in peace.

What i love it is when the kids get there personality points, there’s a tiny tiny white bar underneath their points and it should match how many points they have BUT if maybe the mother is more neat she can teacher her kid to be more neat or maybe the dad can teach them to be more outgoing and it raises that white little bar underneath adding another point in the category. Sims 2 is so in depth I love this game. Every couple months I learn 1 new thing lmao

10 traits give them more life than 100 modern traits in the sims 4 every could

I think the best system for personality would be a combination of sims 2 and sims 3. Personalities in sims 3 do give more nuances to the wants that are pretty much the same for all aspirations in sims 2 but the behaviour nuances with personality spectrum are so great in sims 2. Perhaps a system that expands on sims 2 system and gives even more traits that you can choose personality points for and then some traits about interests that you can also choose would be a great combination of the twom

Cool video! I gotta look into that guide. It's nice to see many of the trait nuances condensed like that, also in such a fun way 😆 One note though: Consort Capp is more shy than outgoing (4 points) and the telescope slapper is always the same Sim in the hood - the one that was created first, so in Veronaville it's always going to be Consort and then the next Sim after he dies and so on. If the guide said otherwise, that was a lie 😥

The sims 2 can look more simple, but the topic is really in little details, it's magic

And its great bc parents’ personalities affected their kids, both by genetics and in nurture with the ability to ‘encourage’ their kid to be nicer, more serious, etc. If a guardian put effort in it they could really effect it

I had no idea the outgoing Sim could wee against a bush! That is so funny.

This concept was just so ahead of its time. I can forgive a bit Sims 3 because there were A LOT of traits (I think it's 99 with all the EPs) but Sims 4 is just unforgivable. The traits doesn't even affect gameplay 💀💀

I'd argue there are 15 personality 'options' instead of 10 as the middle ground area is optional too: Neither sloppy nor neat, neither shy nor outgoing, neither active nor lazy, etc. Just a well-rounded Sim, nothing extreme.

Sims 2 really was peak when it came to the actual sims specifically. Personality, interactions, attraction... Just all so good. I never got into TS3, but I know people love the open world there, and TS4 is great for stability (the fact that it works on so many machine specs and has been maintained for so long) and graphics, but TS2 just always felt fresh because of this.

I don't remember the exact personality traits the sim had, but only once in many years of playing, I had a situation when a male sim decided to autonomously propose to his girlfriend after making him sing for her. Sometimes, I wonder if it wasn't a fever dream as it never happened again. Thank you for the great video on this topic! ❤️

They put so much detail into the Sims 2's personality system

Ok, the pee in the bush one I didn't know! Damn, I always enter these videos with a dash of "I bet I already know everything that's gonna be said here" and everytime BAM! Random little obscure feature that I never stumbled upon xD

Great video, I found this really interesting. Sims 2 was so ambitious for its time!

I love this type of content. It doesn't matter how much we play this nearly 20 year old game, there is always something interesting to learn about it. Greatest game of all time, in my opinion.

I like the interplay between your energetic editing style with your slightly deadpan delivery, I hope to see more from you!

I only just got into the sims 2 recently, and I'm in the process of making sims for a custom hood. It's fun getting to see what the points I've randomly been assigning are actually doing in terms of character creation. This makes me excited to see what individuals will be living in the neighborhood.

You dissected this game like I did, and I am impressed. You earned a new subscriber. Did you know that the traits are based on the Big 5 test? I did a video a while back on it. If you have taken one of those tests online, you can make your simself exactly like you. The Sims 2 is the GOAT.

I will stand by sims 2 beeing the best sims game! All the small details, Even down to the physics of water in game!!

I always like that kids born in-game have more personality traits. Usually. It's been long enough I don't remember if that's always the case. Might have to do with ease of pregnancy, infancy, & toddlerhood.

I've been playing sims2 for so long but I haven't posted attention to this at all, there's so much to see and do on this game it's amazing

I had a mean sim once that could not ever have a decent conversation with anyone. If he stood idle for 3 seconds he'd start an argument with someone! The only pleasant conversations he had was when I made him chat and watched him so he couldn't start an argument when he finished. Because if I left him to his own devices, he would.

KZfaq suggested this video to me. And I'm here. Great suggestion :) I shared with this video in my social media. I've never seen so detailed sims traits review

What a wonderful video! Thank you for explaining all of that. I knew that the ts2 sims felt very individualized, but I didn't consider how the dual trait point system thing they've got going on is really the core of that success.

I never get enough of seeing proof Sims 2 is the best 😁 thanks 🙂 I want to play again

I've played so much and didn't know any of this. Like it explains so much. some showers would just get so messy and dirty! i just had so many sloppy sims

I so wish we had this in the Sims 4, Sims all feel the same in that game. I really hope they revisit it for the Sims 5

I have loved all your sims 2 videos so far! I think my favourite sim from the sims 2 was my playful and outgoing sim, who would do double finger guns at everyone when he walked into a room. Which I thought was SO COOL so I started to do it too irl 😂

Sims 2 was the best Sims when it came to attention to detail. That’s why it was the best imo. It had so much in so subtle ways, the best doll house game

One of the most interesting social interactions when it comes to how personality changes it is Appreciate.../Admire, because there are two traits that change it. If the receiving Sim is extremely Shy (0-2 Outgoing points), they will be bashfully surprised by the compliment. If the receiving Sim is extremely Grouchy (0-2 Nice points), they will react boastfully, like "heck yeah I'm awesome!" If they are both extremely Shy and extremely Grouchy, the Grouchy response overrides the Shy response.

i love this type of video! taking a look at the attention to detail of the Sims 2 is really interesting. i had read a lot of the guide but had still forgotten a bunch of the things you brought up lol! all of these small things and combinations for the player to discover is one of the reasons i always come back to this game as well.

And this, my friends, is why Sims 2 is and always will be the golden child of the series. It was made with SO much love and detail 💜

Sim3 three is my favorite sims game but the sims 2 is a very good game. The two things that are my favorites in the sims3 are the open world and the traits, I just like how obvious they are and how easy it is to build a personality. I do appreciate the subtlety and nuance of the sims2 traits.

i love the sims 2, it was my first sims game it’s such a little gem 💎💗

I love that there are more sims 2 channels appearing!! such great video

wow i didn't know that the traits were so animated. makes me wanna play the sims 2 again

So cute, omg! I didn’t know about some of this, for example peeing in a bush, lmao! And I also always thought going into the hot tub naked was a glitch for some townies because EA had forgotten to give them a bathing suit.

Sims is such a wild fever dream and the whacky editing makes it way funnier

I really hope some future life simulation game (i dont want to root for sims 5 anymore) adapts the sims 2 and 3 system. The sims 2 point trait system can be the very core of the sims' behavior and sims 3 traits are just additional to make each sim completely unique.

omg!! love informational sims videos, especially about the subtle hidden features in games! Your narration and humor made the video even more enjoyable! I loved the little extra commentary text you put in while editing, and your little comments like talking about the shy sims reactions when they flirt? gurl byee lmao! Anyways loved the video

I really appreciate the subtitles, thank you!!!

This is such a good video and it deserves more views

Man i never knew there was this much depth to the personality of sims. I knew about how sims reacted to certain actions, but i didn't know it helped them gain skillpoint and even impacted their needs

Thank you for the video! You had some interesting observations I wasn't aware of despite playing sims 2 for more than a decade now :D Usually, my sims do not have such extreme traits, there are mostly somewhere in the middle, but your footage made me appreciate the details put into this game even more. It was funny watching some of the animations. This game really had some great mechanics to compensate the lack of an open world.

I was stunned when "lick the plate" came up as an option for my sim lol Thank you so much for this video - I finally understand her!

Thanks for this video, so many people and friends i talk to only know what the sims 4 is like and never believe when i say how good sims 2 is Thanks for this short and well made vid

I loved this video! it was so interesting!! as a kid i would just randomly choose traits but i never even thought they would have an effect....

Sims 2 personalities are really awesome! To be able to mix personality and aspirations can make such interesting sims.

A little unrelated to the topic, but I liked that you introduced the sims as complete opposites but they end up as a happy couple! Was that hard to achieve or do opposites attract in the sims 2? If the topic of compatibility and attraction in the game is something that you find interesting, I would love to hear your opinion about it! Anyways, great video! Super interesting and makes you appreciate more the mechanics of the sims 2!

11:03 when I discovered the meal handhold my heart melted

From what I recall Sims 2 was created with psychology in mind and personality points were meant to imitate sim psyche (along with memory and aspiration systems, that also influence so much in sim behavior). Sims 3 trait system was such a downgrade most of the time (especially because there were so many traits that basically were just part of personality spectrum in Sims 2 and limit of 5 traits (or less for younger sims) couldn't replicate that). Sure, Sims 3 and Sims 4 did some nice things, but it's sad what they give up on in the process. But hey, maybe in Sims 5 there will be some more sim psychology? Especially that Sims 4 recently kinda started to experiment with that aspect of sims, even if those are just relationship buffs/debuffs. Also, I swear that personality points were quite meaningful in Sims 1 as well, not only in terms of social interactions and everyday life (plus I assume skill learning), but alos in terms of housing needs (that weird yet kinda cool feature of Sims 1 that was meant to judge your housebuilding skills)

Hopefully Sims 5 combines personality *and* traits. It's comparable to an RPG's base stats with perks/feats/quirks laid on top.

I'm so glad I found your channel. My very 1st sims game was The Sims 4 and I never played the past sims games before. However recently I discovered about The Sims 2 and I've been hooked ever since. I can honestly say that in The Sims 2 without any mods. Your SIM has so much personality and unique character. I feel like I can't come back to the sims 4 lol

I HAD NO IDEA HOW MUCH THIS AFFECTED GAMEPLAY. I just choose randomly and hoped for the best

Meanwhile in the Sims 4 my socially awkward sim randomly streaks…riiiiiiight

To select personally to your heart’s content just drag the personalities in simology with testing cheats enabled however that can only be done in live mode not CAS.

Just when i thought i knew all about the sims 2..... great video! loved the editing

this video is awesome, all my life playing sims 2 and i still discover new things like this. also i like how the two opposites ended up together at the end

This is amazing. I had no idea TS2 personalities were so complex. TS4 personalities are so lackluster comparatively.

I love that both the traits and the aspirations can really make every Sim unique and the personality traits are passed down from one generation to another, so they can be slightly different than the 25 points I believe? In any case, both the traits and aspirations also influence how compatible the sims are with each other, along with the turn ons and offs. To add to all of that, the modding community also went one step further and added some of the TS3 traits.

This is one of the biggest reasons why sims 2 was so lively. Honestly, sims 2 had action 24/7 and never got dull. I miss the vibe

Somehow Sims 2 personality systems accurately represent my sims more than personality traits system between sims 3 and 4

Just picked it up again. The way sims acted in The Sims 2 was just way more charming. One would lie on its side as the other watched t.v next to it. The way they would still turn down advances of their S.O sim if they were low aspiration meter. I thought of this, like, sure, sims needs are met. But are they truly happy and ready to accept love right now? From the cut scenes to the charm of the world to the deep lore we were given behind every towns back story. It truly made me feel like I was watching a narrative, not created and forced by me, but directed by me. That's where Sims 4 got it wrong. They gave us a control station and said, "Tell them exactly what to do. Force their interactions. They'll do it." I mean, the moods were a great addition, but the implementation needed so much work. To see that built on more. Maybe one sim is embarassed. So a specific sim that doesn't like him in a group setting will mock him further. Maybe pull down his pants to get a few lulz from the group. Or someone who is his close friend will cheer him up. WITHOUT ME HAVING TO FORCE IT TO HAPPEN

9:33 I died Anyway, I love the personality system in this game so much! Great video! 😍

I never knew about this and I've been playing the Sims 2 since I was 8. Awesome video!

yes PLEASE do more videos on the sims 2, there isn't enough content on it imo, especially high-quality and fun to watch 🙏 it would be really helpful to turn up the volume on your voice, just bc the gameplay and effects are quite loud

This game was so detailed. Wow!

sims 2 is simply superior... building in ts4 is unmatched but who cares about graphics when the actual simulation of the game is this stunning?? loved the video

I only over played 3 and 4; i wish they kept these, they seem awesome

I played Sims 2 briefly for a couple days before real life got in the way (just getting back into it). But I remember when I made my first married couple, I made both of them sloppy and they would giggle whenever the other one burped from eating. Such a cute detail!

This reminds me of the personality system in Tomodachi Life!

I think it would've been perfect if TS3 kept the personality system but ADDED particular traits. I dream of a TS3 mod for this, but it's not really possible. 😭

I love seeing videos on old games! It's so nostalgic. You did a great job putting this video together!

I love the Sims 2 so much! My favorite sims since it was so much fun

Im planning on downloading the sims 2 on my PC tonight with all DLC and watching some guides on how to optimize it for 2023. I've never played sims 2 before so your videos have been great guides for me to get familiar with playing.

year later, still relevant. love the details that are caught!!

I love your narrative style and effects style in your videos