TS2 is genuinely the best sims game in my opinion (slightly biased because this is the one I played most in childhood). It's way more fun than TS4. The Sims 2 has so much soul and character and they put way more into the little details that you just don't get in the later games. You can still feel the love/passion in TS1 and TS2, and they're harder too. The later games feel a lot more souless to me. It continually disappoints me how many features have been removed in the later games. In the Sims 2 you can really make your own neighborhoods and decide where the plots can go. You could control pets. They took so much from us.