The Sims 2

New and exciting ways to remove all the doors from a room and watch your sim piss them self "hi I'm a normal person"

Not much of a improvement on previous game. Also super buggy, but yet it's a classic and nice time killer ofc.

I have never raged more than while playing this game, the sims get so stupid it feels like the game is bugged. They will carry a child in their arms as it dies of starvation, rather than walk to the fridge, meanwhile, you'll have a butler and a nanny and they will both just repeatedly pick up and put down a child or wait for a broken tap to flood the floor so they can mop it up instead of repairing it. The best hotels don't have a cafeteria, so you'll be managing sleep and food for your vacation

I think I was thinking of Sims 3. No, this Sims irons out some kinks from the first one and the additions are really good, specifically aging and aspirations. Though I do think Sims age far too quickly. Still suffers from the expansion problem, but this is peak Sims in my book.

A clear improvement on the first in many ways, including many features that common sense would dictate should've been available in the original.

The Sims 2 is the high point of the series. It fixes all problems from the original and all of the extras are enjoyable, occasionally funny and expansive.

The last Sims entry for which the developers added features and content instead of removing it to sell in expansions.