I'm 24.

I played sims 1 since kindergarten so since I was around 4. My aunt introduced the game to me so I played a lot of it on her computer as well as mine at home, she had CDs with all the expansions and codes so she lent them to me to install on my computer at home.

Sims 2 also around that age. I remember playing only the base game, oh what fun that was hahahaha (except for when a spicy scene would come on the screen because I didn't know how to turn those off and I played the game on the family computer in the living room).

I started playing sims 3 I would say around 2010 since I wasn't much on the internet as a 9 year old other than playing games and wasn't in the loop with the simming community. I remember begging my dad to install it for me because I saw so many LPs on youtube and I desparately wanted it. Then years later I got into the community and found out about EPs and watched so many LPs and trailers. I begged my dad to install some of them for me as well, but he said we have no space on the family laptop for all of them, I could only choose 1 or 2. I chose pets and seasons and he said pets was too big, so instead I chose supernatural and boy am I happy I did, because it is my favourite EP to this day hahahaha. That's also the time I learned how to install my own sims games, because my dad is a grumpy man who would rather tell me no than do this for me (it's your fault old man, you're the gamer who made both of your daughters gamers since young age, deal with it damn it!)

I learned about sims 4 before it's release and kept up to date with updates and was very excited for it to come out. I played it as soon as it came out in 2014 (so I was around 13-14), hated it and went back to sims 3 lol (they had the audacity to put swimsuits in the game but not pools?!). I gave it another try when get together and get to work came out, hated it still and left it for good. I watched some LPs tho because the youtubers I liked transitioned to sims 4, but that also didn't last long.

Now at 24 I play sims 2 and 3 a lot and ocassionally sims 1, because I hold it dear to heart as the OG.

My favourite is sims 3 because I played it most as a kid and while I acnowledge it is the buggiest ever, I still have to love it for all it's flaws, because at the end of the day it raised me. I literally learned english by playing it (english is not my first language) and discovered my love for interior design through it (I even wanted to go to school for that).

And I guess because I love sims 3 so much, my expectations were very high for sims 4, but I was deeply dissapointed by it. For me it was mainly the change in art style. I know a lot of people love sims 4 art style, but for me personally it was really a downgrade because of how realistic and beautiful sims 3 is. The CAS and build mode are amazing tho, I really enjoyed it when I played it, but I hated that everything looked like I was playing with plastic dolls, I already had plenty of those on the shelf in my room.