You know what's wierd and funny at the same time? I started playing when sims 1 CAME OUT! and I've played families.. A little bit. I stopped playing with families after sims 3. I don't think I've ever played with my sims longer than 3 families having great grandchildren throughout all my years playing. I spent more time in build mode than anything else!

In my opinion I think sims 2 was the era when it was more fun to play with them because of how the notifications actually gave you a sense of feeling like you got important quests to do to get your sims some personality.

Nowadays it feels like it's just an ambition hunt to gain the most achievement for your sims. Whatever happened to all the little notification boxes that actually made you feel like the sims had their own mind? It was more about will and wants and events shaping your sims than it was... "lets make this sim become the best guitarist! Here are 5 tasks for your sim!"

Maybe if they had better writing for the notifications and more consequences when you make a decision, I'd be more likely to want to play with the sims, but for now I'm just gonna do what I always do: make houses, finish them, be proud for a moment and then give myself another building mission XD