i miss the memories SO MUCH! going to any other sims game without memories is so disappointing. however… i think the main reason they stopped using memories is because it caused so much corruption in the game. you couldn’t delete sims, houses with memories, graves, etc. it would corrupt your whole game and as someone who had to restart their game several times because of this, it can become quite frustrating. that being said, it’s 2022 and there’s no reason they couldn’t implement that into future games. the technology has advanced enough to where this shouldn’t be a huge problem.
I miss my sims slow dancing together too. I’d take them to a fancy restaurant and at the end have them slow dance and then have one of them grab the butt lol or have them make out while dancing. But I also loved doing the surprise engagement while at dinner, it was just so cute.
@@MagnumPatrol sims 2 nightlife was years ahead of its time. we got a whole new neighborhood with 20+ lots to choose from. i loved the dating system too! watch the sims team come out with a “date night” game pack, just for the “dates” to be social events not fueled by a sims wants/aspiration at all. i loved having my sims go out on dates and seeing if they got the want to propose!!
The Sims 2 was made with love. Developers realized the possibilities after the success of the first generation and put all their effort and love into this sequel. It's sad but The Sims after EA is only a cash grabber. Quality never was the same.
You mean after Maxis? Yes. I agree. I actually owned stock in EA, and I sold it in DISGUST, because of how they treated customers in their game design, making the CDs only available to load a limited number of times, breaking things, rather than fixing them, promising to fix them, and then not fixing them, and just general jackassery. Sims 4 - I bought it, with much excitement, and sometimes I play, but... It does not hold even a CANDLE to Sims 2, and holds barely a small, tiny, toy oil lamp to Sims 3.
@@AuntLoopy123sims was actually always made by Maxis and published by EA. Literally nothing about the structure changed, what changed was the people, the marketing strategies, the deadlines, etc.
The sims 2 has so many details. I have been playing this game since it came out and I recently discovered that sims get out of the shower screaming if another sim flushes the toilet in the same bathroom. This game is just ⭐chefs kiss⭐
That depends. If you spring for the GOOD plumbing, you can flush away, without annoying anyone. But, yeah, cheap plumbing makes a DIFFERENCE. And after you've repaired it a number of times, you get a permanent "drip drip drip" sound that never goes away until you actually replace it, with better plumbing. As an avid "Apocalypse challenge" player, I am very familiar with that drip, and I can tell you, it REALLY adds to the creepy atmosphere. Sometimes, if I want to play a "Halloween" game with lots of ghosts and stuff, I'll purposely break and repair some cheap plumbing, over and over, until I get the drip, and just hide it in a tiny room, JUST for the sound effect. It's great in a "dungeon" or something like that. "Ummmm, is my jailer performing the Chinese water torture on another captive, while he's not busy with me? I wish I could SEE!" Hehehe. Psychological pixel torture. MOOOOOHAHAHAHAHA! Now, if only I could turn those cockroaches into rats, and ensure they infest the cells, and not some random spot out on the yard... Anyone know any good medieval dungeon mods?
I miss being able to adopt a kid that was taken away. I would usually have another sim family that the kid knew adopt them. In the Sims 4, they just disappear.
@@Suppitschele21 they shouldn't disappear. They should show up as the next available child to adopt in queue when you call from a different family. The family who lost the child can't adopt them. I have an orphanage in my game. I adopt them into that house and then throw a party every Sunday for prospective parents. Once they form a friendship, usually over multiple parties, they will adopt the child.
It’s a shame, I remember in the Sims 3 I had a glitch that stopped my sim talking to my cat until they got taken away and they just vanished from existence which was so sad, I wanted them to be adopted by someone else at least.
I miss how close Sims couples stood together when interacting in Sims 2. Their slow dancing was WAY better than Sims 4. Overall their interactions seem more intimate. I also miss more realistic emotions... Sims held grudges and knew they were still upset. It flowed better for storytelling.
I will forever be upset that Sims 3 and 4 got rid of the clothes and grocery shopping system from Sims 2, it was so fun and realistic 😭 Thanks for the new video 💜 Snack Report: peach yogurt!
Specially when they brought those back in TS4, but, like, they're useless. You can just "Change Sim" for clothes (for free!) and the ingredients are paid when making the food. Like, playing in a store in TS4 is only fun if you're managing it, otherwise it's kinda a moot point
yeah like, it was tedious!!!! but just like in real life !!!!! ya know ?!! like when I had downloaded a cool outfit for my Sim, it didn't just appear in their wardrobe, I had to actually get in the game, take my Sims to the nearest mall, get in the car, choose if I wanted to take one sim or make it practical and take everyone for a mall weekend, cause it was a big deal!!!! the loading screens and everything like it was a big deal to leave the house, or when someone grew up into a different stage and didn't have older siblings or relatives to borrow clothes, it was tedious but I felt like a mom having to take his growing kid to Walmart for some clothes !!!!!!! I had to !!!!! now all magically appears in the wardrobes, it's just not funny
Ts3 sometimes can get way too much clothes to choose( depending on the packs) would be much better/ faster loading to have to buy them at a store and have only those ones
@@ReginaTrans_ I am probably amongst the few who hated clothes shopping in Sims 2. Downloading that new great outfit I think would fit my Sims and then having to actually leave the lot, meaning going through those long (and they used to be really long in Sims 2 back in the days on slow HDDs) load screens only to get one outfit and then going back and finally change my Sim to the wanted outfit... I mean, it may be realism, but for me this always was too much realism. I much prefer the way it is in Sims 4 where cloths shopping is optional for those who likes it, or want it, but not mandatory.
In Sims 2, you can watch them play a game of chess and see who actually won. They actually follow the rules and there's a clear winner. That's one of my favorite details from TS2.
Also when they play pool at the pool table they play and entire game until the last cue ball is in the hole. And they get social and fun. For some reason in Sims 4 when they play juice pong they only get fun, but not social. They never just spontaneously communicate. It is exhausting. In Sims 2, you just sit them in the same room, and they start a conversation on their own.
A teeny tiny thing that I loved in TS2: setting your sims' alarm clock. Some sims would do it on their own, others would forget it and keep getting late to work.
I miss the cute cuddle animation that lovers/married sims had that-when they both slept to full before getting out of bed one sim would rest their head on the others shoulder while the other would put their arm around them...I also miss how kid sims had a different animation for dancing, washing hands etc. It now seems that all sim ages act the same which is boring to observe.
No kidding! Watching my little sim kids try so hard to make a difference in their hygiene, washing their little hands, and then WIPING THEM ON THEIR CLOTHES, which just made that hygiene bump slide down a bit. HAHAHAH! A bit frustrating, but 100% funny as heck!
To me sims 2 feels like a true labour of love. Every expansions pack feels unique and adds something special to the gameplay and I remember feeling so excited every time a new pack was out. Now every time sims 4 has a new whatever pack, I just kinda roll my eyes... can't believe we have more than 50 DLCs for sims 4 with so many fancy-looking things but no substance at all 🙄
I was REALLY excited about the camping, but yeah. That expansion, the jungle exploration and the tropical swimming/diving/scuba/boats expansion was good. But it's nothing like Sims 3 scuba diving, is it? You don't get to SEE anything new there. You just get to see them disappear on the water, instead of a building rabbithole. Nothing else seems to really add anything NEW and really satisfying CONTENT to the game. But, yeah, you can pay lots of money for more decorating options. Oh, and pets. The pets expansion added animals. BUT WHERE ARE THE HORSES?!
These features made you FEEL something with the Sims. The Sims 2 really captures the heart and soul of the game. This is a broken record but... The Sims 4 could never!
I would have loved the sims 4 to be a mixture of the best features from sims 2 and sims 3. Gameplay and humour from the sims 2, open world from the sims 3 plus multitasking would have been so good. Instead, EA took went many steps back with the sims 4 :( it feels so empty and “vanilla”, it’s no fun
@@gdust6579 I love TS2 for the actual gameplay. TS3 was nice with the bells and whistles of how it looked and build tools, but the gameplay compared to 2 was lacking until seasons came out. And it still doesn't quite have what TS2 did. TS2 showed you what was happening through animation. TS3 made you read about it.
Totally agree with the cooking and shopping stuff here. Cooking animations in 4 are always over the top and cartoonish. I dunno, I just prefer the more realistic and detailed cooking animations of 2 (and the food looking good, especially the pizza, that freaking bends and doesn't look like cupboard). I also like to go shopping for groceries and clothes in 2. It adds to to the immersion and gives a good excuse to send your Sims to a public lot and have them converse with your fellow neighbours, who always use up the freaking chess table. Another detail? Public venues actually working. In The SIms 2 I can go to a restaurant for a meal, no problems. Or go to the bar, have a talk with fellow drunks. Or go to a nightclub. In 4... restaurants barely work, bartenders spend most of their time standing around or just leaving the bar. Most of the venues won't work and it's frustrating as hell! Sims 2 didn't have any problems with that. You can easily create a bowling alley with a bar and it works fine. Then there are all the small details when it comes to interactions. Be it autonomous actions based on personality or flavour (like how shy sims act more, well, shy in some actions). Or how wants and fears are afected by things happening in their lives (had a burglar? Suddenly your sim may want a burglar alarm). Sims 4 has some pretty neat ideas, but always lacks in execution, whereas 2 set the groundwork for most of those ideas and executed them very well and with loving care, that leads to the tons of detail videos, we see nowadays. And rightfully so.
Wrt the cooking animations, i think it fits with the styles of sims 4 since the sims are cartoony and over the top. But i do miss the more realistic animations
I MISS THE CUT SCENES SOOOO MUCH! They felt so special! I hope they bring them back. All I want is the sims 2 with better graphics and an open world like sims 3. I just want The sims 2+3 to equal Sims 5.
Agreed. I LOVE the Downtown Time Warp, but then again, I also love Sims 3 open world. The pause button is your friend. Click on a sim, look at their surroundings, line up the queue, and then do the same with all your other household sims, and you can make everyone productive (or not), at the same time. But Sims 4... OH, you want to follow one of your sims to work? That's great. Everyone else will do whatever the heck they darn well please, and you have NO control over them. Honestly, in Sims 4, I either play a singleton, all the time, or I play sims with careers where they just "rabbithole" it, and come back at a certain time, and then I take THE ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD to community lots, or not at all, because I HATE only being able to control SOME of the sims, while the others are doing who-knows-what? Or doing nothing at all. Why couldn't they AT LEAST let us pause and swap between one community lot and the home lot? At least that much? I don't mind losing the Downtown Time Warp, like we did with Sims 3, but I DO MIND, SO VERY, VERY MUCH the way Sims 4 changed their "open world," to, "You can handle just one little place at a time, and THAT IS IT. So, you take your whole family to the neighborhood with the library, gym, museum, on it. But, you can ALL visit ONE BUILDING AT A TIME, and that's that. You can stand at the gate for the gym, but since you have one sim studying, that's just too damn bad. Nobody can work out, while someone else is studying. And you HAVE to watch them study, because they KEEP RANDOMLY QUITTING! So you have to keep commanding them again and again. It doesn't even work to queue it up, like yoga in Sims 2. Nope. You have to manually click again and again and again. Sure, the rest of the family can enjoy the outdoors nearby, but nobody can visit the museum, to do THEIR quest to view ten paintings. Nope. If someone needs to study at the library, ONLY THE LIBRARY CAN BE ACCESSED! I hate it. I mean, I can accept that the "open world," is divided into neighborhoods with loading screens. But what the heck is it with the divided lots? You have five lots in this neighborhood, but we can only do ONE AT A TIME?! It's like, they looked at Sims 3, said, "That's great! Time moving at home, while it's moving in the neighborhood is great! Let's get rid of the Downtown Time Warp. Oh, but let's not let them actually USE that time for any but the active sim(s). It's an open world, but at the same time, it's completely closed! I mean, at least give us THE NEIGHBORHOOD! This little area of five lots together, where one sim can be fishing, one can be playing on the playground, one can be doing their studies at the library, one can be working out at the gym, and one can be inspired at the museum!
Thankfully the biggest issue with The Sims 2, the time warping between lots can be fixed with one of two mods. Either the community time project mod, or LazyDutchess’s Story Progression mod. It literally makes TS2 the perfect Sims game.
Sims 1 had that too, most easily seen with the mud bath tub, the cucumbers on their eyes. Sims 2 really feels like the Sims 1 team said "oooooo look what we can do and make now!" The cutscenes! They actually change to show your Sims right down to their clothes! And when my romance Sim was having a hot tub fling and his other girlfriend showed upjust as he made his move, she was in the cutscene too! Jumping up and looking mad and punching her fist in her palm! How much coding did that take? Sims 2 was made with so much love!
It's really cute when a toddler is playing with the dollhouse and has the doll in their mouth, their little floating head when you interact with something will also have the doll in their mouth.
I always loved the personalities the Sims have in TS2 For example I just create a random sim and just let the personality points decide how the character would react to things and then just play it like that.
I wish we could somehow do personality points and traits. Like base the personality based off the zodiac sign, but then 1-2 extra traits like "outdoors lover" or "snob" or "childish"
so i just started replaying the sims 2 and it is SO insane how much more in love the sims look compared to the sims 4. how they wake up when they're in bed together just to cuddle, and just lay in bed and hold each other before they get out of bed. or the slow dancing interactions and the romance interactions when they're at the table. UGH! literally makes the sims feel so alive!
I remember watching some Sims 2 the other day and it was amazing how detailed some of it was, I noticed with cars specifically, the sim gets into his cheap car and awkwardly shifts around in the seat trying to get comfy, then tries to shut the door but has to slam it shut again after it bounces open because the car is really cheap, and before they pull away you can hear the sound of the engine turning over as it struggles to start. In the Sims 3 by comparison they just get in and drive off, or just spawn the car out of their pocket and transition into it.
the toddlers can also fight for a bottle 😂 i rmmb one of dina's twins crawled over to his brother and they had a little battle of tug before he won, started drinking from the bottle, and left his twin brother crying. i felt so sorry but i also couldnt stop laughing 😂 toddlers are so wholesome in ts2 :(
omg hahaha yes! if I remember correctly, you can also see two toddlers fighting for a bottle in one of the scenes that play right at the start/intro of the game!
The funny thing about that is my older brother kept stealing my bottle as a baby so I weened off formula way too soon. Sims 2 getting real with that toddlers fighting over bottles haha
They could snuggle each other too, it's the cutest thing. I think it was called huggle or something. I would just repeatedly do it and yell awww at a screen. They also cuddle pets if you have like a dog. It is the cutest thing.
I am in love with the nursery rhyme. Also, if you're playing a Sims 2 Apocalypse challenge, you can teach the toddlers the nursery rhyme early, and they may not even have a crib and have to pass out on the floor, with no baths and no toys, but they'll still be reasonably happy, and grow up with some charisma skill. And they're SO CUTE when they sing. I remember, still, when it first came out, and I was playing in the computer room (we had a separate room in those days), and my Mom was doing some word processing stuff on hers, while I played on mine, and she asked me, "What IS that cute song? It's adorable!" She never cared for the sims, because she said, "I raised children. Why would I want to play a game with people who don't do what I tell them to do?" (She's an online puzzle fiend, though), but even she would always come to watch, every time my toddlers sang that adorable nursery rhyme.
Honestly I only had the base game and night life because my parents didn't like wasting money on video games but it was the most fun I ever had. From going shopping, to placing lots freely and creating your own town. Also teens being able to drop off their younger siblings on their way to school. The different types of transportation depending on your sims job/rank. I actually enjoyed playing with kids, once for some odd reason my sims kids while playing outside they ran away. It was so fun going through your sims memories and sims having the option to run from one place to another, making it faster to get somewhere. I could literally spend the whole day playing as to sims4 after a couple of hours i feel bored.
Still my fav. My fav part of the Sims 2 were how interactive the babies were. Also playing a pre made family and piecing together their secrets by reading their past memories.
for the ts3 i found a mod that requires the sims to actually visit the grocery store to get food and they can no longer get food from the fridge magically!! it made my game feel more lived in, i believe it’s called “no fridge shopping”
In all my time playing the Sims 2, I never noticed that younger siblings could wear the clothes of older ones! I'm mind-blown! This game was made with so much care for its players. The things that seemed normal at that time are not available no more in TS4... It makes me think that you should never take anything for granted, especially with companies such as EA...
The Sims 2 was so amazing. I wish The Sims 4 weren't so focused on making money from every little aspect of the game, but rather on making money from well-crafted and fun expansions like before in The Sims 2 and 3.
I love how they used to transition from walking to social interaction they would begin the social interaction while taking the last few steps this make it look so much smother and alive than walking, stopping, and then starting the interaction.
You said about only few things that make me stay with the Sims. Even if my game breaks constantly with pink glitch, I love to unleash my creativity and just create stories
Sims 4 should have just been 2 with upgraded graphics and build tools, fixing the time warp, and allowing multitasking. It would have been perfection. 😞
i would love that. but there’s no reason that the sims team shouldn’t be able to evolve and make better games from scratch. you would think that a whole new game would only add onto the previous games but instead they took so much away. i’d love to see a new installment of the game that has effort and thought into it. i’m always excited for something new, but i’ve learned to expect the worst from EA.
@@crab2195 They SHOULD make great new games from scratch, yes. But, if you're buying the next game in a series, you want the SERIES, the stuff you LOVED from the earlier versions. If you want a game built from scratch, then CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE. Sims 4 should have been, "Plastic Pixel People" or something like that. I mean, have you SEEN how plastic they look? The hair always looks like a solid mass. And they took away the ability to actually choose any color, and forced you to pick from the color options they give you. I just can't. Don't get me started on the way they took so much away from Create-A-Sim, and Create-A-Style. It makes me angry.
I think the Sims 2 had so much love put into it that when you compare it to Sims 4, it feels like a completely different game. I only play Sims 2 these days i don’t care if it’s nearly 20 years old lol it’s a great game and with a few mods brings it into the modern era. i love it!
The entry ticket from open for business in sims 2 was SO useful. Doing retail was nice, but having the liberty of making a VIP dance club or a Cinema if you wanted to is even better. I also sometimes placed it on normal retail lots just to take more money from people tho lmao
The Sims 3 memories can actually get too full meaning you have to delete some. Very silly. Sims 2 memory system was way better. It would have been cool if Sims 4 had been the best features of 2 and 3 combined.... but we got something much different. I haven't even bothered with 4 if I'm being honest. I haven't heard any good reasons to stop playing 3.
Have you ever played Lords of the Realm? I LOVED it. Back in the 90's, it was a REALLY fun game. Then, Lords of the Realm II came out, and I LOVED it. My sister prefers the first one, but I prefer the second one. Basically, IMO, they took the best parts of the original, cleaned them up, and added better graphics and user interface, and more control. My brother and father also loved LOTR and LOTR II. Then, they released Lords of the Realm III. We were all SO EXCITED! I bought it on the first day. I played for about 15 minutes, and gave up, because IT SUCKED SO MUCH! One of the things I LOVED about LOTR was the turn-based strategy game, that gave you full and complete control of all your subjects, and their assignments. LOTR III decided that turn-based is nonsense, and made it all real-time. And if you paused? They made it impossible to ACTUALLY LOOK AT ANYTHING. You want to check out what's happening on the castle project? NOPE. Not while paused. Stuff is still happening, whenever you're trying to look at the various areas at your command, and figure out what commands you need to command. But don't worry. You won't be ISSUING any commands, because you now HAVE NO DIRECT CONTROL! What CAN you control? What CAN you decide? You can decide which manager, out of the ones that HAPPEN to be available AT THAT TIME, you will hire, and where you will place them. THEY all have their own personalities and their own priorities, and THEY will decide what you're going to do with what, in their little area of control. And you don't KNOW that those priorities are, because YOU HAVE NO TIME TO READ THE DESCRIPTIONS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHILE PAUSED! So, you wind up randomly hiring a manager for here, and randomly hiring a manager for there, and HOPE that they actually prioritize the things YOU ACTUALLY WANT, but you won't KNOW until some time has passed, and then, you have to decide whether to spend your resources on another batch of RANDOM MANAGERS, THAT MAY OR MAY NOT ACTUALLY AGREE WITH YOU AND YOUR PRIORITIES or suck it up, and just let them keep going as they will, while YOU CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE PLAYSTYLE AND STRATEGY TO MATCH THE RANDOM MANAGERS YOU HIRED, JUST TO GET YOUR SUBJECTS TO DO ANY WORK, AT ALL! "Oh, well, I GUESS my country will just focus on mining all the stone out of the earth. Who cares about wood or iron ore, right? No need for balanced resources. It's not as if we're going to be using them BUILDING anything, or creating weapons, or ACTUALLY FIGHTING OUR NEIGHBORS, because ALL of my managers are cowards and pacifists, who think we can conquer the world by mining all the stone. Of course, if we have more stone than anyone, all the neighbors will just randomly surrender to us, right?" Can you tell that I HATE Lords of the Realm III? I even went back and tried it again. TWICE. Each time hoping that I had just imagined the atrocity. I had not. My Dad gave it 30 whole minutes in one go before he broke the disk. My sister and brother listened to our screams of frustration, and never bought it for themselves. Now, here's the thing: IF this had been a game designed from scratch, with NO ESTABLISHED FAN BASE, I'm sure there would be MANY people who enjoy playing it. I am well aware that there is a good market for real-time strategy games. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT MADE LOTR AND LOTR THE GAMES THEY ARE! It's like saying, "We have a lot of people who love lemons. Let's sell them limes, and call it an upgrade. I mean, it's all citrus, anyway, right?" Instead of making Lords of the Realm III, they should have made, "Medieval Real-Time Conquering Game," and marketed it as such, with a better title. They would have made NEW fans, while the other fans of LOTR and LOTR II kept buying replacement disks, or more disks to share with their friends.
The sims 2 story progression mod is a game changer, it syncs up time and does a plethora of other things, basically sims 3 story progression brought to sims 2
Toddlers are my favorite life stage and Sims 2 is why. When I heard TS4 didn't have toddlers when it first came out I turned away and didn't look back for six years. I was not going back to The Sims' infant in a crib turning into a full blown child . . . not unless I was actually playing The Sims anyway. Seven toddler challenge? Yeah, I call that regular game play. Although admittedly, I prefer two adults to six toddlers, but I love toddlers. I can just imagine me playing 100 Baby challenge (haven't yet, but plan to eventually . . . I have letting my sims die) and keeping the toddlers toddlers until the last second, but aging up the children and teens ASAP. I love so much the way my sims households would collect clothing from various members of the family and if I wanted something specific I could go shopping for it. TS4 give me reasons to leave my sims house. I want to go shopping . . . something I will pretty much never say about real life, because I don't like shopping in real life . . . but only if it really matters. Things I miss . . . honeymoons. After Bon Voyage came out if you got married, you went on a honeymoon. Well, you already went on a honeymoon, but after Bon Voyage, you could choose to make that a full blown vacation with just the two of you. Yeah, you can kind of do that in TS4, but it's not the same. There are no activities to collect. There are no vacation buffs to get after returning. Give me back the huggle . . . unless TS4 has the huggle and I just haven't seen it . . . I need to look into that, because two toddlers having a huggle is the cutest thing in the game. And on the lines of cars. I want the fix it car back. I love having two sims work on fixing the car together and seeing it come together. You mentioned toddlers in cribs. Yeah, even just toddlers in cribs would be wonderful. I think it would be great if we had both the crib option and the bed option. It would let us, if we so chose, show our toddlers getting older. Let them have a crib for a couple of days and then move into a toddler bed. It's funny. In TS2 I downloaded a toddler bed, because I wanted that functionality. In TS4 I have to download a crib (pandasama) to have that functionality. Changing tables. Please and thank you. There is a reason we want all these little realism details in our life simulator. And speaking of realism . . . give me my nursery rhymes back. That was right up there on the cuteness scale. And I want my bunny cult back. For anyone who is not my sister, since she's the only one who would instantly understand that, the bunny cult is what my sister and I called the charisma toddler toy that was a bunny head. Forget TS4 and taking selfies with people. The really easiest way to gain friends is to plop a toddler down in front of the bunny and direct everyone on the lot to join. If I remember correctly, the toddler might have been able to invite people to join, so even people outside the household could be instructed to join, but that thing is potent. Even without being directed, the sims would just line up cross legged around the toddler playing with the bunny toy and while they did they would chat. The reason this is more potent than selfies is instead of getting two people's friendship level up, you can get a dozen people's friendship levels up or more. It's insane. It's the bunny cult.
Ha, the bunny cult sounds amazing. I've had a sim sit down with a toddler before when they've been playing with the rabbit head but I haven't actually worked at it. I must check it out. Changing tables are great. And if your sim doesn't have a changing table they just throw the diaper on the floor, it doesn't just disappear into thin air. Huggles are the best. Never played Sims 4, never wanted to. No pools, no cars and no toddlers was a deal breaker for me. Even after they put toddlers in, they're cute, yes, but they seem way to independent. Sims 2 all the way!
There is a mod for syncing time between comm lots and residential lots called community time project. It makes it so that the Sims that went to a comm lot will stay off lot until the correct time they left is synced on the residential lot. Then you also get to play the Sims you left behind so no one is forgotten. I wish TS4 was like this instead of the way it actually works.
I loved that detail when 2 sims which are in a relationship, sleep in a double bed. When one wakes up he/she doesnt get up from the bed but waits for the partner to finish sleeping. He/she hugs the partner and gives a gentle kiss on his/her forehand. This is so adorable
My only experience with the Sims 2 was with the console edition for Pets. So, a lot of these details were things I never knew about. Also, the sibling clothes becoming hand-me-downs brought back memories of being given my older brother's jeans to wear. They never fit exactly considering they were made for boys and I'm a girl, but let's be honest, we didn't care about that stuff as kids.
A detail I recently discovered and never saw before in this game was when my toddler's diaper needed desperate changing and the parents were asleep. They woke up at the same time and instantly started pointing back and forth at each other, both with the thought bubble of the toddler, as if to say 'it's your turn to do it!' I was seriously stunned. This game's details are NO JOKE.
I was a Sims 3 kid, but all these videos I keep watching on the Sims 2 make me wanna play it! I think tracking down a copy along with all the expansions will be my gift to myself after I graduate nursing school. Also my Snack Report is goldfish crackers.
Finding a copy online of the Ultimate Collection is the better route to go, there are some work arounds you need to do to get TS2 running on a modern PC and Windows 10 or 11, and most of the guides out there to help with that are tailored to the UC. It can be a bit more difficult to get things going with the discs!
I miss how much I enjoyed playing Elders in sims 2. The next games don't capture the silver years being either a down hill shuffle or a cozy time for enjoying skills and hobbies.
ive been replaying sims 2 a lot lately since i SOMEHOW got it to finally work with no crashes/bugs and im just shocked how good it is. i played it a lot as a kid so i thought it would be a fun/nostalgic romp but "not as good as i remembered" but. its literally better than i remember it, specially now that i understand the game more as an adult. also relearning and exploring the game just feels so amazing. i honestly dont know if i'll be going back to 3 or 4 for a long time. Sims 2 is just amazing.
I still end up discovering new secret things. Once I went to some coffee shop as a college student and I was kidnapped and taken to some secret society hangout. It took a long time for me to figure out what happened. Also each skill had its own secret lot where you go to do hobbies and upgrade skills. And the Sims 2 University for me is the only University worth playing and realistic. There is cafeteria, they actually move there and have a normal number of semesters and exams. They study yet also have fun. In Sims 4 they pass out of exhaustion studying, live at home, or at some non customizable dorm, and they cannot properly have the college experience. Maybe if you only have like 1-2 classes, but then it takes forever to graduate (12 classes)
You are literally my favorite sims youtuber. Not only do you have a gameplay channel where you do let’s plays, you do deep dives in the lore and looking back on previous sims games just like this! Not to mention your voice is very relaxing and nice ❤
I love going to the clothing stores with mirrors because my sim will check out the tried on outfit and based off their reaction on whether or not they like it (like clapping or puke face) I’ll have them buy it. Just like when you give them a little makeover and they react to it in the mirror.. plenty of times I thought I did such a great job on their makeover but to them .. not so much lol and have to retry. It’s crazy how much unique personalities sims 2 sims have. I haven’t had 2 sims ever be the same when it comes to the in-depth gameplay mechanics. Sims 2 memories is the best. Sims 2 you could create a new neighborhood but also a new downtown/night life area, apartments, trailer parks, condos, hotels, new vacation spots, new university locations and more.. the amount of freedom the game gives when it comes to creativity is amazing.
clothes shopping is one of my favorite sims 2 features! i always make my sims go shopping and find their own style (and meet new people!) when they age up :) snack report: instant ramen and energy drink
One feature I love in the Sims 2 FreeTime is the ability to create custom radio stations. You can place your custom music in custom stations in order to organize everything. It can be useful if you want a specific album in the game, or a specific singer/composer. There is another feature not all people know about is that you can set camera positions in the game. If you press "Ctrl+ a number from the number row from 4 to 9" you can fix a camera position. Pressing this number will automatically place the camera on that position. It can be a very useful tool for story telling and recording the gameplay. Also, pre-made households in the game already have some camera positions set. For example, in the Pleasant family when you press one of the numbers you will focus on the pool, the master bedroom or the mailbox. It probably hints about the drama, when Daniel is with the maid in the bedroom and Mary-Sue comes from work. And there are so much little details to find that amazes me. Yesterday I found out that the sheet music printed on the toy xylophone is actually the first notes of "twinkle twinkle little star"
Going to the grocery store was great. Dad getting groceries, mom keeping an eye on the kids, teens going off to get themselves an mp3 player or a phone and doing their own thing. Good times.
I miss so much vacation homes! I loved being able to buy a lot for sims in another city that they can visit on weekends or vacations! I always bought lots near the sea, and imagined that when my sims came there, they took a break from the city routine. It reminds me of my childhood when I went to the village to my great-grandmother, rested and gained strength for the new year! So sweet and nostalgic 🥺💚
Aww 🥰 I miss when your Sims got engaged and you would take them to the restaurant and you can propose right at the table and pull the ring out and all the pomp and circumstance it was so beautiful the Lore was so deep 🌸🌺✨
Sims 2 feels so ahead of its time! I miss the cut scenes so much it really made it feel alive also Idk why but I miss making beds I get so annoyed that my sims just jump out and the bed is made. Sims 4 definitely needs to figure out a way to incorporate memories they gave the sims sooo much more storylines
I’ve been playing sims 2 lately, and I do love the little details, and even the creepy way they stare at you, lol I do miss cars in the sims 2, and kids playing with each other, and robbers, and cops, but I don’t miss cas, or building in the sims 2, or not being able to multitask, or not being able to punish teenagers, or tell toddlers not to do something bad, plus their needs go so fast, but yes lots of great stuff in sims 2.
I do it to!) Make my own world like the lost island. Like in 'Lost' series. After a crash some people survived and they have to figure out how to live in the nature. It is so fun 😁
I really miss the grocery shopping in the Sims 2. I tried downloading some mods for the Sims 4, but the grocery store was just so lifeless inside, there were no other sims around buying food when I went to the cc grocery store lot. Also there’s no easy way to just buy food and put it in the fridge - you have to manually place each item into the fridge from your sim’s inventory.
I was the other way around and remembered hating having to buy my groceries and clothes all the time. I remember when the sims 3 came out and I played it finding out the clothes were all there and didn't need to be bought I was so happy. I never cared much for realism in my sims games. It added to much time away when my sims could be doing anything else at all that was actually fun to me. Just felt like a chore I had to do really.
Fantastic editing!!! I still play Sims 2 on a Windows 7 PC!!! I sometimes just need a fix! I have completely stopped playing Sims4!!! I love the family dynamics in Sims 2 & 3!
My first experience that made me realize The Sims 2 was really special was, funny enough, the way they took bowls and such out of the cabinets. It blew my MIND because I'd only played TS3 and a little TS4 at that point so watching my Sims pull things from cabinets in this funny little 2004 game blew my mind. Ever since then I've been finding more little details (furiousness my ABSOLUTE beloved) and loving every second.
I miss the sims 2 scenes, I really wish it made a comeback in the sims 4. I also miss how the toddlers looked like real toddlers, I miss the thief, he was annoying but it made it more realistic to me. I miss the sims 2 in general, I would do anything to play it again :)
Every time I play the sims 4 I think about the memories from the sims 2. I used to look back at them all of the time with my households. It’s such a shame. The sims just hasn’t been the same since 2.
I dont miss anything... because im still playing the Sims 2. With mods and cc you can give it a good refresh and the world of conversions of sims 4 items to sims 2 is amazing. As far as i am concerned, the Sims 4 exists to give me more stuff for TS2
I've been playing the sims 2 since it came out, and I never stopped. I play on my days off and lose track of time. It never gets boring even after twenty years. I think now that I'm middle aged, I play it a bit differently, but I've figured out what CC I like and don't like, and a lot of details I that took me a whole generation of time to uncover! But you can literally do anything. The sky is the limit with your creativity. I had to do a few hacks to get it to work on win10, but it works. I've had to reinstall a few times over the last 15 years when I got new computers. But I'm still going. I tried sims3 and sims4 when they were new. I had high hopes and was so excited. But then when I tried them, I was like wtf. I ran back to sims2 each time and I just love it too much to move on to something that isn't as good, gameplay wise. It IS very detailed. I don't care if the graphics are polygon whatever. I love them! If I live to be in my 50s and 60s and beyond, I will still be spending some time with my beloved sims2 as long as I have the tech to do it.
The Sims 2 is definitely the best one of the series. Also a good thing was beeing able to do your own city in SimCity4 and exporting it to The Sims 2 so you could play on your very own neighbourhood. Loved it 💕
7:54 - how have i never noticed the details with the cold air and condensation on the fridge door when a sim opens a fridge in the grocery store. Come on this is NEXT LEVEL game detail jfc
I’m a bit too young to have played Sims 2 (I was born in 2000), Sims 3 was my first main game. But I played a ton of the Sims 2 console offshoots, and these were my introduction to The Sims as a whole. I always love seeing Sims 2 gameplay- I wish I could play it, but there’s stuff that stops me (the graphics, how households don’t progress if you don’t play them, etc).
The cutscenes are definitely something I miss a lot. It had a lot of charm as is the case with the Sims 2 overall. This game was genuinely the peak when it comes to the amount of love put into it.
I really thought it was funny to to run it from their house. Come home with the kid after school? Pay a fee. Parents coming to hang out? Pay a fee. You could click on it and waive it, but they didn't seem to have an issue paying usually.
I loved the fact that time has not gone by on the other lot. I looove it. I hate that now every time I switch household, if the summer is gone in one, the other household now has fall, and I have to manually change it every time. It's like they are living their secret lives without me, I don't like it. Also when one sim leaves the lot, the others would just stop in time in Sims 2 and you could pick up where you left off. In Sims 4 I come back, and everything is all red, they are half dead and watching TV instead of eating, sleeping or going to the bathroom, all the while on the setting "care for self".
I agree with pretty much everything you said. The grocery is really a big thing with me. I LOVE being able to order delivery but I love being able tossed them there to shop.
I still play the Sims 2; it is legend. The Sims 4 could never give us so much entertainment and joy. The Sims are just so much more dynamic and they interact even with the player. When you ask a sloppy Sim to clean up they look at the camera and sigh as if to say - really? You actually want me to clean up?? It’s hilarious. 😂 So many details like the couch indents when they sit down; they sit and talk at the dinner table when more than one sim is present; their thought bubbles represent what the conversation is about; they are so dramatic when they catch a partner or loved one cheating; they lose their minds over aspiration failure… The list is endless and this game gives me so much joy.. I play the Sims 3 too, but the Sims 2 is my first love ❤
I’ve never played the sims 2, my first sims experience was sims 3, but a lot of these features sound so wonderful and I genuinely feel so sad that they haven’t been reintroduced in the sims 4. These almost feel like no brainers :(
I miss the memory system so much it's not even funny, it just added so much spice to your sims lives and it's so much fun going through them. I'll never understand why they got rid of the memory system it's such a cute feature
Yes! Memories showed: You had an impact on the life of your Sim and you could see that. In the Sims 4 your Sim could literally survive hell and they will act like nothing happened after they lose the negative moodlets.. and puff the world will never know the sim has done anything...
Good video! I also miss the shopping. Both groceries and clothes. With the need to purchase groceries, it makes more sense to grow your own food. With the clothes, it was easy to change their style, I didn't have to go through all the clothes in the game every time. Just that one shopping round. I would have themes for households and just purchase every clothe (different ages and genders) that I thought went well with that theme and then it was easy to change outfit for my sims when I wanted. I really wish for that feature in The Sims 4!
I can't believe I never had the "make your own castaway stories is the Sims 2" idea! I tried to get the actual Sims 2 Castaway Stories to work on my computer at the time but it never did! (I was a kid back then that didn't know what I was doing lol), and I loved the Sims 2 Castaways for PS2, so I'm honestly disappointed with younger!me for never having that idea. Thank you! I love discovering the little things with the Sims 2. When I discovered all those table date interactions including the proposal I was so excited! I remember the first time I did it. I miss the memories, the stories with pre-made sims, the youtube AMVs, when I first discovered CC and tried to figure out how to make them work until I finally succeeded (and my mods folder because a hellish mess... *cough*not much has changed*cough*). I think it was my first computer game, the nostalgia is very real.
The OFB ticket machine is addictive. Two poker tables and a bubble blower, plus my normal living room furniture (couch, computer, radio, etc.), in a room separate from the rest of my house, plus a bathroom with stalls and a sink, is all you need in order to make enough money that your Sims can spend all their time leveling skills. :P
I liked the detail of the tip of the pizza slices flopping when the Sims 2 Sims would carry them around. I also liked the bad suspension on the cheap, old banger car when it started, and that they had to slam the door twice to properly close it. It's details like those that really make the thing believable.
Thank you, never knew about the ticket box. And YES toddlers were so realistic, as well as other features you mention. Run away teens, and all the other realistic things they did. So glad (insert eye roll) in the Sims in 4 are so much smarter...
The exaggerated expressions from TS2 era were so helpful for me as an autistic kid. I felt like I could finally understand what emotions they were expressing, which has always been difficult for me (for reference, the exaggeration of early 2000's anime was a baseline for me). It feels like it's all been filed down ever since TS2. There may be new features, CC, and things to do, but TS4 feels afraid to challenge me or shake up my game. The chaos happens in a way that isn't of any consequence to me as a player. The CAS is amazing (I can finally make black people!) but at the cost of neutered expressions and sterile gameplay. I just miss feeling the primal fear of a cat burglar creeping onto my lot.
even the outfits in sims 2 that came with your expansion/stuff packs were too good!! I could play the game with 0 cc and still have so much fun, that’s another reason out of many why I love it so much :(
I miss when my sims would reach over the table to hold hands when they were on a date. Also, I DEFINITELY miss the memories!
i miss the memories SO MUCH! going to any other sims game without memories is so disappointing. however… i think the main reason they stopped using memories is because it caused so much corruption in the game. you couldn’t delete sims, houses with memories, graves, etc. it would corrupt your whole game and as someone who had to restart their game several times because of this, it can become quite frustrating. that being said, it’s 2022 and there’s no reason they couldn’t implement that into future games. the technology has advanced enough to where this shouldn’t be a huge problem.
I miss memories too. It makes the game feel less passive. Like there's consequences, you know?
I miss my sims slow dancing together too. I’d take them to a fancy restaurant and at the end have them slow dance and then have one of them grab the butt lol or have them make out while dancing.
But I also loved doing the surprise engagement while at dinner, it was just so cute.
@@MagnumPatrol sims 2 nightlife was years ahead of its time. we got a whole new neighborhood with 20+ lots to choose from. i loved the dating system too! watch the sims team come out with a “date night” game pack, just for the “dates” to be social events not fueled by a sims wants/aspiration at all. i loved having my sims go out on dates and seeing if they got the want to propose!!
Omg I loved that
The Sims 2 was made with love. Developers realized the possibilities after the success of the first generation and put all their effort and love into this sequel. It's sad but The Sims after EA is only a cash grabber. Quality never was the same.
The sims2 was the best. I loved it. The sims4 is such a disappointment.
You mean after Maxis? Yes. I agree.
I actually owned stock in EA, and I sold it in DISGUST, because of how they treated customers in their game design, making the CDs only available to load a limited number of times, breaking things, rather than fixing them, promising to fix them, and then not fixing them, and just general jackassery.
Sims 4 - I bought it, with much excitement, and sometimes I play, but... It does not hold even a CANDLE to Sims 2, and holds barely a small, tiny, toy oil lamp to Sims 3.
@@AuntLoopy123sims was actually always made by Maxis and published by EA. Literally nothing about the structure changed, what changed was the people, the marketing strategies, the deadlines, etc.
EA is quiet quitting :(
i always liked the small things from Sims 2 like how the child would come running out of the house to welcome the parent who just came back from work
Omg yess!! That interaction was so adorable, I miss the sims 2 so much 😢
Or when a kid got good grades and raced around to find a parent to show their report card to! 🥹
@@Savvy1718 so cute
The sims 2 has so many details. I have been playing this game since it came out and I recently discovered that sims get out of the shower screaming if another sim flushes the toilet in the same bathroom. This game is just ⭐chefs kiss⭐
Sloppy sims pee in the shower too.
That was always so funny to watch and a fantastic little detail.
if you flush the toilet at my house the water turns 10x hotter
the graphics and CAS sucks though
That depends. If you spring for the GOOD plumbing, you can flush away, without annoying anyone.
But, yeah, cheap plumbing makes a DIFFERENCE.
And after you've repaired it a number of times, you get a permanent "drip drip drip" sound that never goes away until you actually replace it, with better plumbing. As an avid "Apocalypse challenge" player, I am very familiar with that drip, and I can tell you, it REALLY adds to the creepy atmosphere.
Sometimes, if I want to play a "Halloween" game with lots of ghosts and stuff, I'll purposely break and repair some cheap plumbing, over and over, until I get the drip, and just hide it in a tiny room, JUST for the sound effect. It's great in a "dungeon" or something like that.
"Ummmm, is my jailer performing the Chinese water torture on another captive, while he's not busy with me? I wish I could SEE!"
Hehehe. Psychological pixel torture. MOOOOOHAHAHAHAHA!
Now, if only I could turn those cockroaches into rats, and ensure they infest the cells, and not some random spot out on the yard...
Anyone know any good medieval dungeon mods?
I miss being able to adopt a kid that was taken away. I would usually have another sim family that the kid knew adopt them. In the Sims 4, they just disappear.
They always disappeared in my game! I feel robbed
@@Suppitschele21 they shouldn't disappear. They should show up as the next available child to adopt in queue when you call from a different family. The family who lost the child can't adopt them.
I have an orphanage in my game. I adopt them into that house and then throw a party every Sunday for prospective parents. Once they form a friendship, usually over multiple parties, they will adopt the child.
It’s a shame, I remember in the Sims 3 I had a glitch that stopped my sim talking to my cat until they got taken away and they just vanished from existence which was so sad, I wanted them to be adopted by someone else at least.
They still do this in 4 ?
@@BreakingGaia Wow! How were you able to do that? I want to build an orphanage as well!
I miss how close Sims couples stood together when interacting in Sims 2. Their slow dancing was WAY better than Sims 4. Overall their interactions seem more intimate. I also miss more realistic emotions... Sims held grudges and knew they were still upset. It flowed better for storytelling.
Oh yes, a sim being furious with their partner. It could take so long to get them back to liking each other!
The slow dance is just so touching and realistic! I love it
Also when a couple slept in the same bed, they would cuddle. The cutest thing!
Idk my sun couple are super close. They tend to hunt eachother down just for lovins they are equally affectionate with their child
The Sims 2 is literally so good. The Sims 4 could NEVER.
Shame it doesn't work well on modern systems
@@Stettafire Right? It crashes on my PC often. Usually when my Sim travels between places.
@@Stettafire really? It works alright on mine. Do you guys have the 4 gb patch?
The Sims 4 never did let's be real 🤣
@@strawbawrri249 Probably not. 🤣 Is there one?? I would love to have it.
I will forever be upset that Sims 3 and 4 got rid of the clothes and grocery shopping system from Sims 2, it was so fun and realistic 😭
Thanks for the new video 💜
Snack Report: peach yogurt!
Specially when they brought those back in TS4, but, like, they're useless. You can just "Change Sim" for clothes (for free!) and the ingredients are paid when making the food. Like, playing in a store in TS4 is only fun if you're managing it, otherwise it's kinda a moot point
yeah like, it was tedious!!!! but just like in real life !!!!! ya know ?!! like when I had downloaded a cool outfit for my Sim, it didn't just appear in their wardrobe, I had to actually get in the game, take my Sims to the nearest mall, get in the car, choose if I wanted to take one sim or make it practical and take everyone for a mall weekend, cause it was a big deal!!!! the loading screens and everything like it was a big deal to leave the house, or when someone grew up into a different stage and didn't have older siblings or relatives to borrow clothes, it was tedious but I felt like a mom having to take his growing kid to Walmart for some clothes !!!!!!! I had to !!!!! now all magically appears in the wardrobes, it's just not funny
Try the simple living lot trait for TS4 that came with Eco Lifestyle - it made the game so much more interesting for me and fun to play.
Ts3 sometimes can get way too much clothes to choose( depending on the packs) would be much better/ faster loading to have to buy them at a store and have only those ones
@@ReginaTrans_ I am probably amongst the few who hated clothes shopping in Sims 2. Downloading that new great outfit I think would fit my Sims and then having to actually leave the lot, meaning going through those long (and they used to be really long in Sims 2 back in the days on slow HDDs) load screens only to get one outfit and then going back and finally change my Sim to the wanted outfit... I mean, it may be realism, but for me this always was too much realism. I much prefer the way it is in Sims 4 where cloths shopping is optional for those who likes it, or want it, but not mandatory.
The sims 2 is an absolute legend, no sims game could ever come close to it.
Facts
i preferred ts3
@gdust that's also a good one. Sure it breaks my computer but I don't care as long as it works.
I think TS5 should have Sims2 game play with Sims4 graphics..
I'll never forget how a maid caught one of my sims cheating, and somehow word got to my sim's wife when other sims went gossiping with the maid 😭
In Sims 2, you can watch them play a game of chess and see who actually won. They actually follow the rules and there's a clear winner. That's one of my favorite details from TS2.
Also when they play pool at the pool table they play and entire game until the last cue ball is in the hole. And they get social and fun. For some reason in Sims 4 when they play juice pong they only get fun, but not social. They never just spontaneously communicate. It is exhausting. In Sims 2, you just sit them in the same room, and they start a conversation on their own.
A teeny tiny thing that I loved in TS2: setting your sims' alarm clock. Some sims would do it on their own, others would forget it and keep getting late to work.
I miss the cute cuddle animation that lovers/married sims had that-when they both slept to full before getting out of bed one sim would rest their head on the others shoulder while the other would put their arm around them...I also miss how kid sims had a different animation for dancing, washing hands etc. It now seems that all sim ages act the same which is boring to observe.
No kidding! Watching my little sim kids try so hard to make a difference in their hygiene, washing their little hands, and then WIPING THEM ON THEIR CLOTHES, which just made that hygiene bump slide down a bit. HAHAHAH!
A bit frustrating, but 100% funny as heck!
To me sims 2 feels like a true labour of love. Every expansions pack feels unique and adds something special to the gameplay and I remember feeling so excited every time a new pack was out. Now every time sims 4 has a new whatever pack, I just kinda roll my eyes... can't believe we have more than 50 DLCs for sims 4 with so many fancy-looking things but no substance at all 🙄
I was REALLY excited about the camping, but yeah. That expansion, the jungle exploration and the tropical swimming/diving/scuba/boats expansion was good. But it's nothing like Sims 3 scuba diving, is it? You don't get to SEE anything new there. You just get to see them disappear on the water, instead of a building rabbithole.
Nothing else seems to really add anything NEW and really satisfying CONTENT to the game. But, yeah, you can pay lots of money for more decorating options.
Oh, and pets. The pets expansion added animals. BUT WHERE ARE THE HORSES?!
These features made you FEEL something with the Sims. The Sims 2 really captures the heart and soul of the game.
This is a broken record but... The Sims 4 could never!
The Sims 2 has so much personality!!!
I would have loved the sims 4 to be a mixture of the best features from sims 2 and sims 3. Gameplay and humour from the sims 2, open world from the sims 3 plus multitasking would have been so good. Instead, EA took went many steps back with the sims 4 :( it feels so empty and “vanilla”, it’s no fun
TS3 was way better than TS2 or TS4 in my opinion. i
@@gdust6579 I love TS2 for the actual gameplay. TS3 was nice with the bells and whistles of how it looked and build tools, but the gameplay compared to 2 was lacking until seasons came out. And it still doesn't quite have what TS2 did. TS2 showed you what was happening through animation. TS3 made you read about it.
The Sims 2 is perfection and I play for hours and then realise, oh, two or three hours have passed!!
Totally agree with the cooking and shopping stuff here. Cooking animations in 4 are always over the top and cartoonish. I dunno, I just prefer the more realistic and detailed cooking animations of 2 (and the food looking good, especially the pizza, that freaking bends and doesn't look like cupboard). I also like to go shopping for groceries and clothes in 2. It adds to to the immersion and gives a good excuse to send your Sims to a public lot and have them converse with your fellow neighbours, who always use up the freaking chess table.
Another detail? Public venues actually working. In The SIms 2 I can go to a restaurant for a meal, no problems. Or go to the bar, have a talk with fellow drunks. Or go to a nightclub. In 4... restaurants barely work, bartenders spend most of their time standing around or just leaving the bar. Most of the venues won't work and it's frustrating as hell! Sims 2 didn't have any problems with that. You can easily create a bowling alley with a bar and it works fine.
Then there are all the small details when it comes to interactions. Be it autonomous actions based on personality or flavour (like how shy sims act more, well, shy in some actions). Or how wants and fears are afected by things happening in their lives (had a burglar? Suddenly your sim may want a burglar alarm).
Sims 4 has some pretty neat ideas, but always lacks in execution, whereas 2 set the groundwork for most of those ideas and executed them very well and with loving care, that leads to the tons of detail videos, we see nowadays. And rightfully so.
Wrt the cooking animations, i think it fits with the styles of sims 4 since the sims are cartoony and over the top. But i do miss the more realistic animations
oh and when your sim enters a room with other sims from the household and they greet without interrupting their ongoing actions, love that detail!
I think your teen sim should major in psychology after everything she's been through 😂
Hahah oh god yeah she’s been through it!! But that’s such a good major thank you ! ❤️
Agree. Psychology or Art.
Or major in PE. Or bussiness, having the logistic skills to survive on her own on the streets :D
I really liked veronaville in the sims 2. That got me interested in Romeo and juliet which got me into Shakespeare
I looove Veronaville! 🥰
I MISS THE CUT SCENES SOOOO MUCH! They felt so special! I hope they bring them back. All I want is the sims 2 with better graphics and an open world like sims 3. I just want The sims 2+3 to equal Sims 5.
Agreed.
I LOVE the Downtown Time Warp, but then again, I also love Sims 3 open world. The pause button is your friend. Click on a sim, look at their surroundings, line up the queue, and then do the same with all your other household sims, and you can make everyone productive (or not), at the same time. But Sims 4... OH, you want to follow one of your sims to work? That's great. Everyone else will do whatever the heck they darn well please, and you have NO control over them.
Honestly, in Sims 4, I either play a singleton, all the time, or I play sims with careers where they just "rabbithole" it, and come back at a certain time, and then I take THE ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD to community lots, or not at all, because I HATE only being able to control SOME of the sims, while the others are doing who-knows-what? Or doing nothing at all.
Why couldn't they AT LEAST let us pause and swap between one community lot and the home lot? At least that much?
I don't mind losing the Downtown Time Warp, like we did with Sims 3, but I DO MIND, SO VERY, VERY MUCH the way Sims 4 changed their "open world," to, "You can handle just one little place at a time, and THAT IS IT.
So, you take your whole family to the neighborhood with the library, gym, museum, on it. But, you can ALL visit ONE BUILDING AT A TIME, and that's that. You can stand at the gate for the gym, but since you have one sim studying, that's just too damn bad. Nobody can work out, while someone else is studying. And you HAVE to watch them study, because they KEEP RANDOMLY QUITTING! So you have to keep commanding them again and again. It doesn't even work to queue it up, like yoga in Sims 2. Nope. You have to manually click again and again and again. Sure, the rest of the family can enjoy the outdoors nearby, but nobody can visit the museum, to do THEIR quest to view ten paintings. Nope. If someone needs to study at the library, ONLY THE LIBRARY CAN BE ACCESSED!
I hate it.
I mean, I can accept that the "open world," is divided into neighborhoods with loading screens. But what the heck is it with the divided lots? You have five lots in this neighborhood, but we can only do ONE AT A TIME?!
It's like, they looked at Sims 3, said, "That's great! Time moving at home, while it's moving in the neighborhood is great! Let's get rid of the Downtown Time Warp. Oh, but let's not let them actually USE that time for any but the active sim(s). It's an open world, but at the same time, it's completely closed!
I mean, at least give us THE NEIGHBORHOOD! This little area of five lots together, where one sim can be fishing, one can be playing on the playground, one can be doing their studies at the library, one can be working out at the gym, and one can be inspired at the museum!
Thankfully the biggest issue with The Sims 2, the time warping between lots can be fixed with one of two mods. Either the community time project mod, or LazyDutchess’s Story Progression mod. It literally makes TS2 the perfect Sims game.
I loved when you would click something and the menu would have your active sims face up, and if they had a pimple it would pull up to
Gold. 😂😂
@@TheSimsLore ❤️im not active in your discord server but it’s really cool!
Sims 1 had that too, most easily seen with the mud bath tub, the cucumbers on their eyes. Sims 2 really feels like the Sims 1 team said "oooooo look what we can do and make now!" The cutscenes! They actually change to show your Sims right down to their clothes! And when my romance Sim was having a hot tub fling and his other girlfriend showed upjust as he made his move, she was in the cutscene too! Jumping up and looking mad and punching her fist in her palm! How much coding did that take? Sims 2 was made with so much love!
It's really cute when a toddler is playing with the dollhouse and has the doll in their mouth, their little floating head when you interact with something will also have the doll in their mouth.
I always loved the personalities the Sims have in TS2
For example I just create a random sim and just let the personality points decide how the character would react to things and then just play it like that.
I wish we could somehow do personality points and traits. Like base the personality based off the zodiac sign, but then 1-2 extra traits like "outdoors lover" or "snob" or "childish"
so i just started replaying the sims 2 and it is SO insane how much more in love the sims look compared to the sims 4. how they wake up when they're in bed together just to cuddle, and just lay in bed and hold each other before they get out of bed. or the slow dancing interactions and the romance interactions when they're at the table. UGH! literally makes the sims feel so alive!
I remember watching some Sims 2 the other day and it was amazing how detailed some of it was, I noticed with cars specifically, the sim gets into his cheap car and awkwardly shifts around in the seat trying to get comfy, then tries to shut the door but has to slam it shut again after it bounces open because the car is really cheap, and before they pull away you can hear the sound of the engine turning over as it struggles to start. In the Sims 3 by comparison they just get in and drive off, or just spawn the car out of their pocket and transition into it.
the toddlers can also fight for a bottle 😂 i rmmb one of dina's twins crawled over to his brother and they had a little battle of tug before he won, started drinking from the bottle, and left his twin brother crying. i felt so sorry but i also couldnt stop laughing 😂
toddlers are so wholesome in ts2 :(
omg hahaha yes! if I remember correctly, you can also see two toddlers fighting for a bottle in one of the scenes that play right at the start/intro of the game!
The funny thing about that is my older brother kept stealing my bottle as a baby so I weened off formula way too soon. Sims 2 getting real with that toddlers fighting over bottles haha
They could snuggle each other too, it's the cutest thing. I think it was called huggle or something. I would just repeatedly do it and yell awww at a screen. They also cuddle pets if you have like a dog. It is the cutest thing.
I am in love with the nursery rhyme.
Also, if you're playing a Sims 2 Apocalypse challenge, you can teach the toddlers the nursery rhyme early, and they may not even have a crib and have to pass out on the floor, with no baths and no toys, but they'll still be reasonably happy, and grow up with some charisma skill.
And they're SO CUTE when they sing. I remember, still, when it first came out, and I was playing in the computer room (we had a separate room in those days), and my Mom was doing some word processing stuff on hers, while I played on mine, and she asked me, "What IS that cute song? It's adorable!" She never cared for the sims, because she said, "I raised children. Why would I want to play a game with people who don't do what I tell them to do?" (She's an online puzzle fiend, though), but even she would always come to watch, every time my toddlers sang that adorable nursery rhyme.
Honestly I only had the base game and night life because my parents didn't like wasting money on video games but it was the most fun I ever had. From going shopping, to placing lots freely and creating your own town. Also teens being able to drop off their younger siblings on their way to school. The different types of transportation depending on your sims job/rank. I actually enjoyed playing with kids, once for some odd reason my sims kids while playing outside they ran away. It was so fun going through your sims memories and sims having the option to run from one place to another, making it faster to get somewhere. I could literally spend the whole day playing as to sims4 after a couple of hours i feel bored.
Still my fav. My fav part of the Sims 2 were how interactive the babies were. Also playing a pre made family and piecing together their secrets by reading their past memories.
for the ts3 i found a mod that requires the sims to actually visit the grocery store to get food and they can no longer get food from the fridge magically!! it made my game feel more lived in, i believe it’s called “no fridge shopping”
In all my time playing the Sims 2, I never noticed that younger siblings could wear the clothes of older ones! I'm mind-blown!
This game was made with so much care for its players. The things that seemed normal at that time are not available no more in TS4... It makes me think that you should never take anything for granted, especially with companies such as EA...
The Sims 2 was so amazing. I wish The Sims 4 weren't so focused on making money from every little aspect of the game, but rather on making money from well-crafted and fun expansions like before in The Sims 2 and 3.
Fr they have packs that should be in the game for free already! And there mad expensive.
I love how they used to transition from walking to social interaction they would begin the social interaction while taking the last few steps this make it look so much smother and alive than walking, stopping, and then starting the interaction.
You said about only few things that make me stay with the Sims. Even if my game breaks constantly with pink glitch, I love to unleash my creativity and just create stories
Although I don't recommend having the special moments scenes on when you are using acr and go to public lot. First kisses of townies everywhere
I went from the sims 2 to the Sims 4 so you can imagine my absolute shock.
Me too. I played Sims 4 for a bit and it is so boring x
I lasted like 2 hours the first time I played sims 4. Meanwhile I can't have enough of sims 2 for years. That says a lot
Sims 4 should have just been 2 with upgraded graphics and build tools, fixing the time warp, and allowing multitasking. It would have been perfection. 😞
I think it would of been great if they did a mix of the best of the sims 2 and 3 together for the sims 4
i would love that. but there’s no reason that the sims team shouldn’t be able to evolve and make better games from scratch. you would think that a whole new game would only add onto the previous games but instead they took so much away. i’d love to see a new installment of the game that has effort and thought into it. i’m always excited for something new, but i’ve learned to expect the worst from EA.
I love the game so much but it's hard to play a game you know will never be fixed or stuff added to it 😭😭
Actually, I love the time warp. But what would have been AWESOME is the OPTION to play with time warp or without.
@@crab2195 They SHOULD make great new games from scratch, yes. But, if you're buying the next game in a series, you want the SERIES, the stuff you LOVED from the earlier versions. If you want a game built from scratch, then CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE. Sims 4 should have been, "Plastic Pixel People" or something like that. I mean, have you SEEN how plastic they look? The hair always looks like a solid mass. And they took away the ability to actually choose any color, and forced you to pick from the color options they give you. I just can't. Don't get me started on the way they took so much away from Create-A-Sim, and Create-A-Style.
It makes me angry.
I think the Sims 2 had so much love put into it that when you compare it to Sims 4, it feels like a completely different game. I only play Sims 2 these days i don’t care if it’s nearly 20 years old lol it’s a great game and with a few mods brings it into the modern era. i love it!
I love the Sims 2. It was made with so much love and devotion.
The entry ticket from open for business in sims 2 was SO useful. Doing retail was nice, but having the liberty of making a VIP dance club or a Cinema if you wanted to is even better. I also sometimes placed it on normal retail lots just to take more money from people tho lmao
The Sims 3 memories can actually get too full meaning you have to delete some. Very silly. Sims 2 memory system was way better. It would have been cool if Sims 4 had been the best features of 2 and 3 combined.... but we got something much different. I haven't even bothered with 4 if I'm being honest. I haven't heard any good reasons to stop playing 3.
Have you ever played Lords of the Realm? I LOVED it. Back in the 90's, it was a REALLY fun game. Then, Lords of the Realm II came out, and I LOVED it. My sister prefers the first one, but I prefer the second one. Basically, IMO, they took the best parts of the original, cleaned them up, and added better graphics and user interface, and more control. My brother and father also loved LOTR and LOTR II.
Then, they released Lords of the Realm III. We were all SO EXCITED! I bought it on the first day.
I played for about 15 minutes, and gave up, because IT SUCKED SO MUCH!
One of the things I LOVED about LOTR was the turn-based strategy game, that gave you full and complete control of all your subjects, and their assignments. LOTR III decided that turn-based is nonsense, and made it all real-time. And if you paused? They made it impossible to ACTUALLY LOOK AT ANYTHING. You want to check out what's happening on the castle project? NOPE. Not while paused. Stuff is still happening, whenever you're trying to look at the various areas at your command, and figure out what commands you need to command. But don't worry. You won't be ISSUING any commands, because you now HAVE NO DIRECT CONTROL! What CAN you control? What CAN you decide? You can decide which manager, out of the ones that HAPPEN to be available AT THAT TIME, you will hire, and where you will place them. THEY all have their own personalities and their own priorities, and THEY will decide what you're going to do with what, in their little area of control. And you don't KNOW that those priorities are, because YOU HAVE NO TIME TO READ THE DESCRIPTIONS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WHILE PAUSED! So, you wind up randomly hiring a manager for here, and randomly hiring a manager for there, and HOPE that they actually prioritize the things YOU ACTUALLY WANT, but you won't KNOW until some time has passed, and then, you have to decide whether to spend your resources on another batch of RANDOM MANAGERS, THAT MAY OR MAY NOT ACTUALLY AGREE WITH YOU AND YOUR PRIORITIES or suck it up, and just let them keep going as they will, while YOU CHANGE YOUR ENTIRE PLAYSTYLE AND STRATEGY TO MATCH THE RANDOM MANAGERS YOU HIRED, JUST TO GET YOUR SUBJECTS TO DO ANY WORK, AT ALL!
"Oh, well, I GUESS my country will just focus on mining all the stone out of the earth. Who cares about wood or iron ore, right? No need for balanced resources. It's not as if we're going to be using them BUILDING anything, or creating weapons, or ACTUALLY FIGHTING OUR NEIGHBORS, because ALL of my managers are cowards and pacifists, who think we can conquer the world by mining all the stone. Of course, if we have more stone than anyone, all the neighbors will just randomly surrender to us, right?"
Can you tell that I HATE Lords of the Realm III? I even went back and tried it again. TWICE. Each time hoping that I had just imagined the atrocity. I had not.
My Dad gave it 30 whole minutes in one go before he broke the disk.
My sister and brother listened to our screams of frustration, and never bought it for themselves.
Now, here's the thing: IF this had been a game designed from scratch, with NO ESTABLISHED FAN BASE, I'm sure there would be MANY people who enjoy playing it. I am well aware that there is a good market for real-time strategy games.
BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT MADE LOTR AND LOTR THE GAMES THEY ARE!
It's like saying, "We have a lot of people who love lemons. Let's sell them limes, and call it an upgrade. I mean, it's all citrus, anyway, right?"
Instead of making Lords of the Realm III, they should have made, "Medieval Real-Time Conquering Game," and marketed it as such, with a better title. They would have made NEW fans, while the other fans of LOTR and LOTR II kept buying replacement disks, or more disks to share with their friends.
The sims 2 story progression mod is a game changer, it syncs up time and does a plethora of other things, basically sims 3 story progression brought to sims 2
Toddlers are my favorite life stage and Sims 2 is why. When I heard TS4 didn't have toddlers when it first came out I turned away and didn't look back for six years. I was not going back to The Sims' infant in a crib turning into a full blown child . . . not unless I was actually playing The Sims anyway. Seven toddler challenge? Yeah, I call that regular game play. Although admittedly, I prefer two adults to six toddlers, but I love toddlers. I can just imagine me playing 100 Baby challenge (haven't yet, but plan to eventually . . . I have letting my sims die) and keeping the toddlers toddlers until the last second, but aging up the children and teens ASAP.
I love so much the way my sims households would collect clothing from various members of the family and if I wanted something specific I could go shopping for it. TS4 give me reasons to leave my sims house. I want to go shopping . . . something I will pretty much never say about real life, because I don't like shopping in real life . . . but only if it really matters.
Things I miss . . . honeymoons. After Bon Voyage came out if you got married, you went on a honeymoon. Well, you already went on a honeymoon, but after Bon Voyage, you could choose to make that a full blown vacation with just the two of you. Yeah, you can kind of do that in TS4, but it's not the same. There are no activities to collect. There are no vacation buffs to get after returning.
Give me back the huggle . . . unless TS4 has the huggle and I just haven't seen it . . . I need to look into that, because two toddlers having a huggle is the cutest thing in the game.
And on the lines of cars. I want the fix it car back. I love having two sims work on fixing the car together and seeing it come together.
You mentioned toddlers in cribs. Yeah, even just toddlers in cribs would be wonderful. I think it would be great if we had both the crib option and the bed option. It would let us, if we so chose, show our toddlers getting older. Let them have a crib for a couple of days and then move into a toddler bed. It's funny. In TS2 I downloaded a toddler bed, because I wanted that functionality. In TS4 I have to download a crib (pandasama) to have that functionality.
Changing tables. Please and thank you. There is a reason we want all these little realism details in our life simulator. And speaking of realism . . . give me my nursery rhymes back. That was right up there on the cuteness scale.
And I want my bunny cult back. For anyone who is not my sister, since she's the only one who would instantly understand that, the bunny cult is what my sister and I called the charisma toddler toy that was a bunny head. Forget TS4 and taking selfies with people. The really easiest way to gain friends is to plop a toddler down in front of the bunny and direct everyone on the lot to join. If I remember correctly, the toddler might have been able to invite people to join, so even people outside the household could be instructed to join, but that thing is potent. Even without being directed, the sims would just line up cross legged around the toddler playing with the bunny toy and while they did they would chat. The reason this is more potent than selfies is instead of getting two people's friendship level up, you can get a dozen people's friendship levels up or more. It's insane. It's the bunny cult.
I finally got Sims 2 running best as it will on my laptop. I need to try the bunny cult! Thanks for the info!
Ha, the bunny cult sounds amazing. I've had a sim sit down with a toddler before when they've been playing with the rabbit head but I haven't actually worked at it. I must check it out. Changing tables are great. And if your sim doesn't have a changing table they just throw the diaper on the floor, it doesn't just disappear into thin air. Huggles are the best.
Never played Sims 4, never wanted to. No pools, no cars and no toddlers was a deal breaker for me. Even after they put toddlers in, they're cute, yes, but they seem way to independent. Sims 2 all the way!
Bon Voyage was the best! you could even have a vacation home! good times.
I'm literally downloading this right now. It's THE best Sims game.
@Tiff Ann how did you download it I’m bought mine from the App Store on my MacBook it’s good I won’t lie but the graphics is terrible 😭
@@sp00ky90 I think you have to adjust the settings of the graphic card, at least that’s what I heard. Unfortunately I have no idea how :(
There is a mod for syncing time between comm lots and residential lots called community time project. It makes it so that the Sims that went to a comm lot will stay off lot until the correct time they left is synced on the residential lot. Then you also get to play the Sims you left behind so no one is forgotten. I wish TS4 was like this instead of the way it actually works.
I loved that detail when 2 sims which are in a relationship, sleep in a double bed. When one wakes up he/she doesnt get up from the bed but waits for the partner to finish sleeping. He/she hugs the partner and gives a gentle kiss on his/her forehand. This is so adorable
My only experience with the Sims 2 was with the console edition for Pets. So, a lot of these details were things I never knew about. Also, the sibling clothes becoming hand-me-downs brought back memories of being given my older brother's jeans to wear. They never fit exactly considering they were made for boys and I'm a girl, but let's be honest, we didn't care about that stuff as kids.
A detail I recently discovered and never saw before in this game was when my toddler's diaper needed desperate changing and the parents were asleep. They woke up at the same time and instantly started pointing back and forth at each other, both with the thought bubble of the toddler, as if to say 'it's your turn to do it!'
I was seriously stunned. This game's details are NO JOKE.
what 😫 i have never heard about this one!! omg this game!
I was a Sims 3 kid, but all these videos I keep watching on the Sims 2 make me wanna play it! I think tracking down a copy along with all the expansions will be my gift to myself after I graduate nursing school.
Also my Snack Report is goldfish crackers.
You can download all the packs for free
@@Chellofigg where? :0 is that legal?
@@Chellofigg oh! Where?
@@squirrelgadget3498 oldgamesdownload
Finding a copy online of the Ultimate Collection is the better route to go, there are some work arounds you need to do to get TS2 running on a modern PC and Windows 10 or 11, and most of the guides out there to help with that are tailored to the UC. It can be a bit more difficult to get things going with the discs!
I miss how much I enjoyed playing Elders in sims 2.
The next games don't capture the silver years being either a down hill shuffle or a cozy time for enjoying skills and hobbies.
ive been replaying sims 2 a lot lately since i SOMEHOW got it to finally work with no crashes/bugs and im just shocked how good it is. i played it a lot as a kid so i thought it would be a fun/nostalgic romp but "not as good as i remembered" but. its literally better than i remember it, specially now that i understand the game more as an adult. also relearning and exploring the game just feels so amazing. i honestly dont know if i'll be going back to 3 or 4 for a long time. Sims 2 is just amazing.
I still end up discovering new secret things. Once I went to some coffee shop as a college student and I was kidnapped and taken to some secret society hangout. It took a long time for me to figure out what happened. Also each skill had its own secret lot where you go to do hobbies and upgrade skills. And the Sims 2 University for me is the only University worth playing and realistic. There is cafeteria, they actually move there and have a normal number of semesters and exams. They study yet also have fun. In Sims 4 they pass out of exhaustion studying, live at home, or at some non customizable dorm, and they cannot properly have the college experience. Maybe if you only have like 1-2 classes, but then it takes forever to graduate (12 classes)
You are literally my favorite sims youtuber. Not only do you have a gameplay channel where you do let’s plays, you do deep dives in the lore and looking back on previous sims games just like this! Not to mention your voice is very relaxing and nice ❤
I love going to the clothing stores with mirrors because my sim will check out the tried on outfit and based off their reaction on whether or not they like it (like clapping or puke face) I’ll have them buy it. Just like when you give them a little makeover and they react to it in the mirror.. plenty of times I thought I did such a great job on their makeover but to them .. not so much lol and have to retry. It’s crazy how much unique personalities sims 2 sims have. I haven’t had 2 sims ever be the same when it comes to the in-depth gameplay mechanics.
Sims 2 memories is the best.
Sims 2 you could create a new neighborhood but also a new downtown/night life area, apartments, trailer parks, condos, hotels, new vacation spots, new university locations and more.. the amount of freedom the game gives when it comes to creativity is amazing.
clothes shopping is one of my favorite sims 2 features! i always make my sims go shopping and find their own style (and meet new people!) when they age up :)
snack report: instant ramen and energy drink
Sims 2 cars were amazing. I miss the detail of seeing them actually pull out of and into driveways rather than teleport
One feature I love in the Sims 2 FreeTime is the ability to create custom radio stations. You can place your custom music in custom stations in order to organize everything. It can be useful if you want a specific album in the game, or a specific singer/composer.
There is another feature not all people know about is that you can set camera positions in the game.
If you press "Ctrl+ a number from the number row from 4 to 9" you can fix a camera position.
Pressing this number will automatically place the camera on that position.
It can be a very useful tool for story telling and recording the gameplay.
Also, pre-made households in the game already have some camera positions set.
For example, in the Pleasant family when you press one of the numbers you will focus on the pool, the master bedroom or the mailbox.
It probably hints about the drama, when Daniel is with the maid in the bedroom and Mary-Sue comes from work.
And there are so much little details to find that amazes me.
Yesterday I found out that the sheet music printed on the toy xylophone is actually the first notes of "twinkle twinkle little star"
The proposals are amazing! Also all the interactions over the table at restuarants
Going to the grocery store was great. Dad getting groceries, mom keeping an eye on the kids, teens going off to get themselves an mp3 player or a phone and doing their own thing.
Good times.
I miss so much vacation homes! I loved being able to buy a lot for sims in another city that they can visit on weekends or vacations! I always bought lots near the sea, and imagined that when my sims came there, they took a break from the city routine. It reminds me of my childhood when I went to the village to my great-grandmother, rested and gained strength for the new year! So sweet and nostalgic 🥺💚
To this day, Sims 2 is my go-to. It’s simply the most fun.
Aww 🥰 I miss when your Sims got engaged and you would take them to the restaurant and you can propose right at the table and pull the ring out and all the pomp and circumstance it was so beautiful the Lore was so deep 🌸🌺✨
I miss the cut scenes when your sims aged up or they had a baby. It was all so cute ☺️
The scenes are so wholesome :,)
when you have alien baby in strangertown
Sims 2 feels so ahead of its time! I miss the cut scenes so much it really made it feel alive also Idk why but I miss making beds I get so annoyed that my sims just jump out and the bed is made. Sims 4 definitely needs to figure out a way to incorporate memories they gave the sims sooo much more storylines
I’ve been playing sims 2 lately, and I do love the little details, and even the creepy way they stare at you, lol I do miss cars in the sims 2, and kids playing with each other, and robbers, and cops, but I don’t miss cas, or building in the sims 2, or not being able to multitask, or not being able to punish teenagers, or tell toddlers not to do something bad, plus their needs go so fast, but yes lots of great stuff in sims 2.
I do it to!) Make my own world like the lost island. Like in 'Lost' series. After a crash some people survived and they have to figure out how to live in the nature. It is so fun 😁
I really miss the grocery shopping in the Sims 2. I tried downloading some mods for the Sims 4, but the grocery store was just so lifeless inside, there were no other sims around buying food when I went to the cc grocery store lot. Also there’s no easy way to just buy food and put it in the fridge - you have to manually place each item into the fridge from your sim’s inventory.
You making me wanna play sims Sims 2 so bad 😭😭 Sims 2 is the GOAT. I really miss the cut scenes. They should really add those back.
I was the other way around and remembered hating having to buy my groceries and clothes all the time. I remember when the sims 3 came out and I played it finding out the clothes were all there and didn't need to be bought I was so happy. I never cared much for realism in my sims games. It added to much time away when my sims could be doing anything else at all that was actually fun to me. Just felt like a chore I had to do really.
Sims 2 had pretty much everything you could ask for in terms of realistic features and gameplay imo. Truly a masterpiece, especially for its time
Fantastic editing!!! I still play Sims 2 on a Windows 7 PC!!! I sometimes just need a fix! I have completely stopped playing Sims4!!! I love the family dynamics in Sims 2 & 3!
i miss being able to make hotels and apartments in the sims 2. mostly the hotels.
My first experience that made me realize The Sims 2 was really special was, funny enough, the way they took bowls and such out of the cabinets. It blew my MIND because I'd only played TS3 and a little TS4 at that point so watching my Sims pull things from cabinets in this funny little 2004 game blew my mind. Ever since then I've been finding more little details (furiousness my ABSOLUTE beloved) and loving every second.
I miss the sims 2 scenes, I really wish it made a comeback in the sims 4. I also miss how the toddlers looked like real toddlers, I miss the thief, he was annoying but it made it more realistic to me. I miss the sims 2 in general, I would do anything to play it again :)
You can Download the Sims 2, there is a Great Tutorial on RUclips for this :)
@@laurabo7331 ommggg what’s the video called?
Every time I play the sims 4 I think about the memories from the sims 2. I used to look back at them all of the time with my households. It’s such a shame. The sims just hasn’t been the same since 2.
even bigger shame you play sims 4
I dont miss anything... because im still playing the Sims 2.
With mods and cc you can give it a good refresh and the world of conversions of sims 4 items to sims 2 is amazing.
As far as i am concerned, the Sims 4 exists to give me more stuff for TS2
8:24 that was an amazing cameo. Don't know who he is but he's captured my heart 😂💜
The little scenes were my favorite!! The memory system was amazing! Sims 2 is still my favorite! I hope they bring back sims 2 details to 5!
I've been playing the sims 2 since it came out, and I never stopped. I play on my days off and lose track of time. It never gets boring even after twenty years. I think now that I'm middle aged, I play it a bit differently, but I've figured out what CC I like and don't like, and a lot of details I that took me a whole generation of time to uncover! But you can literally do anything. The sky is the limit with your creativity. I had to do a few hacks to get it to work on win10, but it works. I've had to reinstall a few times over the last 15 years when I got new computers. But I'm still going. I tried sims3 and sims4 when they were new. I had high hopes and was so excited. But then when I tried them, I was like wtf. I ran back to sims2 each time and I just love it too much to move on to something that isn't as good, gameplay wise. It IS very detailed. I don't care if the graphics are polygon whatever. I love them! If I live to be in my 50s and 60s and beyond, I will still be spending some time with my beloved sims2 as long as I have the tech to do it.
The Sims 2 is definitely the best one of the series. Also a good thing was beeing able to do your own city in SimCity4 and exporting it to The Sims 2 so you could play on your very own neighbourhood. Loved it 💕
7:54 - how have i never noticed the details with the cold air and condensation on the fridge door when a sim opens a fridge in the grocery store. Come on this is NEXT LEVEL game detail jfc
I’m a bit too young to have played Sims 2 (I was born in 2000), Sims 3 was my first main game. But I played a ton of the Sims 2 console offshoots, and these were my introduction to The Sims as a whole. I always love seeing Sims 2 gameplay- I wish I could play it, but there’s stuff that stops me (the graphics, how households don’t progress if you don’t play them, etc).
The cutscenes are definitely something I miss a lot. It had a lot of charm as is the case with the Sims 2 overall. This game was genuinely the peak when it comes to the amount of love put into it.
I really thought it was funny to to run it from their house. Come home with the kid after school? Pay a fee. Parents coming to hang out? Pay a fee. You could click on it and waive it, but they didn't seem to have an issue paying usually.
I loved the fact that time has not gone by on the other lot. I looove it. I hate that now every time I switch household, if the summer is gone in one, the other household now has fall, and I have to manually change it every time. It's like they are living their secret lives without me, I don't like it. Also when one sim leaves the lot, the others would just stop in time in Sims 2 and you could pick up where you left off. In Sims 4 I come back, and everything is all red, they are half dead and watching TV instead of eating, sleeping or going to the bathroom, all the while on the setting "care for self".
As a person who never played the sims 2, these videos still very much interest me
I agree with pretty much everything you said. The grocery is really a big thing with me. I LOVE being able to order delivery but I love being able tossed them there to shop.
I still play the Sims 2; it is legend. The Sims 4 could never give us so much entertainment and joy. The Sims are just so much more dynamic and they interact even with the player. When you ask a sloppy Sim to clean up they look at the camera and sigh as if to say - really? You actually want me to clean up?? It’s hilarious. 😂 So many details like the couch indents when they sit down; they sit and talk at the dinner table when more than one sim is present; their thought bubbles represent what the conversation is about; they are so dramatic when they catch a partner or loved one cheating; they lose their minds over aspiration failure… The list is endless and this game gives me so much joy.. I play the Sims 3 too, but the Sims 2 is my first love ❤
8:24 had me CRACKING… 😭 I am SO glad I subscribed
I miss all of these details so much!! Also I Love the graphics you use on your channel for videos they’re so cool
The Sims 2 had so much originality. I'm playing it again as of late and the nostalgia has been awesome!
I’ve never played the sims 2, my first sims experience was sims 3, but a lot of these features sound so wonderful and I genuinely feel so sad that they haven’t been reintroduced in the sims 4. These almost feel like no brainers :(
I miss the memory system so much it's not even funny, it just added so much spice to your sims lives and it's so much fun going through them. I'll never understand why they got rid of the memory system it's such a cute feature
Yes! Memories showed: You had an impact on the life of your Sim and you could see that.
In the Sims 4 your Sim could literally survive hell and they will act like nothing happened after they lose the negative moodlets.. and puff the world will never know the sim has done anything...
All ready with a morning coffee!! 💛
Your voice is so 2016-2019 this entire video was nostalgia
Good video!
I also miss the shopping. Both groceries and clothes. With the need to purchase groceries, it makes more sense to grow your own food.
With the clothes, it was easy to change their style, I didn't have to go through all the clothes in the game every time. Just that one shopping round. I would have themes for households and just purchase every clothe (different ages and genders) that I thought went well with that theme and then it was easy to change outfit for my sims when I wanted. I really wish for that feature in The Sims 4!
I can't believe I never had the "make your own castaway stories is the Sims 2" idea! I tried to get the actual Sims 2 Castaway Stories to work on my computer at the time but it never did! (I was a kid back then that didn't know what I was doing lol), and I loved the Sims 2 Castaways for PS2, so I'm honestly disappointed with younger!me for never having that idea. Thank you!
I love discovering the little things with the Sims 2. When I discovered all those table date interactions including the proposal I was so excited! I remember the first time I did it.
I miss the memories, the stories with pre-made sims, the youtube AMVs, when I first discovered CC and tried to figure out how to make them work until I finally succeeded (and my mods folder because a hellish mess... *cough*not much has changed*cough*).
I think it was my first computer game, the nostalgia is very real.
The cooking system I miss is the one from the sims 2 console. Its one of the main reasons I go back to it so often.
The OFB ticket machine is addictive. Two poker tables and a bubble blower, plus my normal living room furniture (couch, computer, radio, etc.), in a room separate from the rest of my house, plus a bathroom with stalls and a sink, is all you need in order to make enough money that your Sims can spend all their time leveling skills. :P
I liked the detail of the tip of the pizza slices flopping when the Sims 2 Sims would carry them around. I also liked the bad suspension on the cheap, old banger car when it started, and that they had to slam the door twice to properly close it. It's details like those that really make the thing believable.
Thank you, never knew about the ticket box. And YES toddlers were so realistic, as well as other features you mention. Run away teens, and all the other realistic things they did. So glad (insert eye roll) in the Sims in 4 are so much smarter...
The exaggerated expressions from TS2 era were so helpful for me as an autistic kid. I felt like I could finally understand what emotions they were expressing, which has always been difficult for me (for reference, the exaggeration of early 2000's anime was a baseline for me).
It feels like it's all been filed down ever since TS2. There may be new features, CC, and things to do, but TS4 feels afraid to challenge me or shake up my game. The chaos happens in a way that isn't of any consequence to me as a player. The CAS is amazing (I can finally make black people!) but at the cost of neutered expressions and sterile gameplay. I just miss feeling the primal fear of a cat burglar creeping onto my lot.
even the outfits in sims 2 that came with your expansion/stuff packs were too good!! I could play the game with 0 cc and still have so much fun, that’s another reason out of many why I love it so much :(
Now I know why do I love the sims 2 the most
It’s all about details ❤