Not really, because I still have Sims 2 and 3 both still installed on my computer. It's been a while, but whenever I start to feel nostalgic about a past game, I just start it up. The problem you are feeling with Sims 4 and the connection is because Sims 4 is in an alternative universe than Sims 2 and 3. It has some of the same sims but yet they are different. For example, Bob and Betty Newbie from Sims 2 and 3, their counterparts in Sims 4 is Bob and Eliza Pancakes. Bella was never missing, and the Dina and Nina only have the mother, and she is not even the same mother who was in Sims 2 and 3.
I'm not quite sure what made them go this route, but there is for sure one thing that I do love in Sims 4 that was not possible in the previous sims game unless you had used mods to make it possible, and that is the connection between the different towns. In Sims 4 you can easily move your family from one town to another.
I do love the open world of Sims 3, where you could go from point A to point B and no loading screen, but that came at a cost, at least for me it did. The open world was extremely hard on my computer. It actually killed my last computer, and nearly killed the one I'm currently on. The thing I really do miss from Sims 3 was the color wheel in CAS, build and buy mode. One thing I don't miss from Sims 3 was all the rabbit holes. If I sent my sim to a restaurant, I was stuck outside while they were doing whatever inside. I know in Sims 4 I have a very difficult time with babies because I fell in love with the Sims 2 and 3 babies. The babies in Sims 4 are very much like the ones in the first sims, where they were tied to their little cribs.
