Little Things You Miss and Don’t

Miss:
- The S2 romantic interactions
- Cleaning skill
- More freedom to place lots wherever I like in the neighborhood
- CASt
- Hobbies
- Having more than 3 traits
- The chemistry feature
- S2 babies
- The cutscenes
- University
- Magic
- S2/S3 careers and professions
- Private schools (S2)
- The play interaction
- Champagne and "make a toast" interaction was way easier in S2.
- Having to figure out what to do within a time limit rather than being told what to do to succeed.
- Some S3 traits
- Having more aspirations
- S3 open worlds
- S2 style apartments
- Having to teach toddler how to walk
- Car animations

Don't miss:
- S2 CAS
- Having 25 personality points
- The store
- the rabbit hole restaurants from S3
- Having one family per save and couldn't go travel to the other available world without a mod
- Not being able to switch sims or edit community lots in live mode
- Not being able to fully rotate furniture
- Hats, shoes and accessories not being separate
- Teens automatically running away if relationships with parents were too low and children being taken away if they have bad grades.
- S3 opening/closing hours

I don't have all pack so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Don't miss: Non-stop pillow fights and kicky-bag games :D

Miss:
- Burglars
- Home phones and prank calls
- TS2 style memories
- TS2's special cutscenes for significant moments in a Sim's life
- THE IGNORE BUTTON ON CHANCE CARDS
- Wants and fears
- Turns ons/turn offs
- TS2 romantic interactions
- TS2/TS3 style babies that can be carried around, among other things
- Children who are taken away by social workers being able to be adopted by others
- School buses/carpools
- Private schools/boarding school
- Cars in general
- Teaching teens to drive
- The TS2 alien skintone; I'd love for it to be re-introduced as an option someday
- University
- Magic
- Slow dancing
- More than three traits
- A lot of TS3's traits
- CASt
- More aspirations
- Zodiac signs
- Horses, along with birds and other small pets
- Opportunities
- Story progression
- Physical lifetime rewards that you could actually put in your house
- The newspaper
- More careers to choose from
- Open world
- Normal-sized telescopes and the ability to get abducted by looking through them
- TS2/TS3 style Plant Sims
- Imaginary Friends and being able to bring them to life
- Being able to just buy cakes for birthdays or weddings rather than having to make them yourself

Don't Miss:
- Being forced to work with all 25 personality points and them deciding your Sim's zodiac sign for you
- TS3 style memories, how you could get a memory for every little thing, and how they would actually take up space on your save file
- The "room" meter
- Having to purchase a lifetime reward in order to change aspiration
- TS3 style punishments. Getting grounded keeping kids from even going to school? Seriously?
- Punishment and scolding being a completely autonomous action that you could not cancel
- Creepy ice cream trucks stalking your household; It would've been better if they would just show up while out in parks or something
- TS3 zombies
- The neighborhood being automatically populated by expansion and patch content
- Unplayed Sims autonomously becoming supernaturals beyond your control
- Accessories being attached to hairs and outfits rather than being separate

"worldofdrakan;c-16804604" wrote:
Miss:
- Burglars
- Home phones and prank calls
- TS2 style memories
- TS2's special cutscenes for significant moments in a Sim's life
- THE IGNORE BUTTON ON CHANCE CARDS
- Wants and fears
- Turns ons/turn offs
- TS2 romantic interactions
- TS2/TS3 style babies that can be carried around, among other things
- Children who are taken away by social workers being able to be adopted by others
- School buses/carpools
- Private schools/boarding school
- Cars in general
- Teaching teens to drive
- The TS2 alien skintone; I'd love for it to be re-introduced as an option someday
- University
- Magic
- Slow dancing
- More than three traits
- A lot of TS3's traits
- CASt
- More aspirations
- Zodiac signs
- Horses, along with birds and other small pets
- Opportunities
- Story progression
- Physical lifetime rewards that you could actually put in your house
- The newspaper
- More careers to choose from
- Open world
- Normal-sized telescopes and the ability to get abducted by looking through them
- TS2/TS3 style Plant Sims
- Imaginary Friends and being able to bring them to life
- Being able to just buy cakes for birthdays or weddings rather than having to make them yourself

Don't Miss:
- Being forced to work with all 25 personality points and them deciding your Sim's zodiac sign for you
- TS3 style memories, how you could get a memory for every little thing, and how they would actually take up space on your save file
- The "room" meter
- Having to purchase a lifetime reward in order to change aspiration
- TS3 style punishments. Getting grounded keeping kids from even going to school? Seriously?
- Punishment and scolding being a completely autonomous action that you could not cancel
- Creepy ice cream trucks stalking your household; It would've been better if they would just show up while out in parks or something
- TS3 zombies
- The neighborhood being automatically populated by expansion and patch content
- Unplayed Sims autonomously becoming supernaturals beyond your control
- Accessories being attached to hairs and outfits rather than being separate

omg yesss!

Miss:

The crawling stage for toddlers in Sims 2 and 3
The collectibles map view in Sims 3
The booklover trait in Sims 3 - I'd have to collect books from all the destination worlds to keep my readers happy. In Sims 4, there's no real reason to read non-skilling books.
Making beds
Building ponds for fishing on your home lot in Sims 3

Don't miss:

Cars and carpools (wasted time)
The pudding faces in Sims 3
Being stuck with one lifetime aspiration. I love being able to change them on the fly, especially when my Sim won't be able to accomplish the next step until something else happens.
Not being able to move Sims in and out of households without a mod or several days of relationship-building.
Friend requirements for promotion, and the rapid decay of relationships, even between Sims living in the same house.
Sims 3 toddlers (well, I still loved them, but they weren't as much fun as they were in Sims 2, and not nearly as good as Sims 4) Also, they had pudding faces.

"stilljustme2;c-16804222" wrote:
And I miss kids running inside with a good report card to show their parents.

"worldofdrakan;c-16804604" wrote:

Miss:
- Burglars
- Home phones and prank calls
- TS2 style memories
- THE IGNORE BUTTON ON CHANCE CARDS
- Wants and fears
- Turns ons/turn offs
- Children who are taken away by social workers being able to be adopted by others
- School buses/carpools
- Teaching teens to drive
- Horses, along with birds and other small pets
- Story progression
- The newspaper
- Imaginary Friends and being able to bring them to life
- Being able to just buy cakes for birthdays or weddings rather than having to make them yourself

Don't Miss:
- Being forced to work with all 25 personality points and them deciding your Sim's zodiac sign for you
- TS3 style memories, how you could get a memory for every little thing, and how they would actually take up space on your save file
- The "room" meter
- Having to purchase a lifetime reward in order to change aspiration
- TS3 style punishments. Getting grounded keeping kids from even going to school? Seriously?
- Punishment and scolding being a completely autonomous action that you could not cancel
- Creepy ice cream trucks stalking your household; It would've been better if they would just show up while out in parks or something
- TS3 zombies
- The neighborhood being automatically populated by expansion and patch content
- Unplayed Sims autonomously becoming supernaturals beyond your control

Yes to all of this!
I'll also add to things I miss.
- TS2 style businesses.
- TS2 style grocery/clothing stores. To buy/try on outfits
- Having to buy magazines
- The delivery people and the truck after ordering groceries to fill empty fridges up.
- Online dating
- Kids hugging their parents when they come back from work.
- The aspiration bar and sims worrying when it is too low and the therapist.
- Cribs, changing table and bathing babies in a sink.
- Other supernaturals
- Swimming in the ocean, houseboats and scuba diving skill
- Sunbathing and lounging chairs
- Neighbor kicking your bin and/or stealing the newspaper
- Random accidents and deaths in TS1/TS2
- Volleyball court
- The souvenirs
- Music bands
- Lemonade stands
- Bicycles, motorcycles and scooters
- Children learning cooking skills

Don't miss:
- Aging ONLY 3 other sims with us.
- Having only 5 aspirations to choose from
- Sims automatically knowing their lovers is whoohooing with another no matter where they are.
- TS1/TS2 closed worlds and loading screens.
- TS2 style vampires.
- Pets filling one sims slot.
- Having only 7 skills.
- Toddlers not being able to use the stairs.
- Children not being able to take care of themselves while parents are away.
- Sims taking more time to cook than eating while talking together without a mod.

I played very little of TS2, but I still miss the turn ons and turn offs thing. I also miss the variety of traits that TS3 had. It kinda feels like the personality in TS4 is much more bland, and waaay to based on emotions. The sims don't do stuff based on their traits, they do it based on their moods. I also miss the variety of family interactions that we had, specially with TS3 Generations.

What I don't miss:
- Path issues. Sims move around so much better now.
- Cars
- The toddlers from TS3, TS4 are way cuter.
- Open world. I like the neighborhoods.
- Having to do groceries
- The old graphics. I love the cartoonish look.
- Zombies. I love Supernatural sims, but ugh.
- The Vista meter in TS3 World Adventures. It was very annoying having to do those in every new save.
- Birds and other small animals (though they have included hamsters now).

Miss
- Slow Dancing
- Turn ons/Turn offs
- Unleashed babies
- Cars and all that comes with it
- Teen sized teens
- Swimmable oceans
- Body hair
- CAW
- Editable worlds
- Pool tables
- Diving boards
- In-ground hot tubs
- Landlines
- Option to buy cell phones or not to buy
- Lounge chairs
- Normal sized items like telescope
- Newspapers
- Having to make the bed
- Having to buy groceries
- Wants fears
- Burglars
- Bands
- Personality points
- Retail and clothing stores with cash registers and useable objects like clothing racks
- Ticket machine
- Cuddle in bed
- Snow depth
- Sims actually getting things out of cabinets
- Pond tools
- Police and Firemen
- Mrs. Crumblebottom
- Being able to play as waiter and cook in restaurants
- Military career and obstacle course

Don't miss
- Any Supernatural we're missing
- Path issues
- Zodiac (I do like personality points just not it being stuck to the zodiac)

I miss:
- cleaning skill
- zodiac signs
- memories
- witches
- spiral stairs
- cats being able to learn tricks / interesting cats in general
- education, military, fashion, and paranormal careers
- smaller versions of pianos, telescopes, and other ordinary items
- little animations (opening a drawer or a wardrobe, getting into and out of an elevator, etc.)
- building own apartments
- ability to choose colours of multi-coloured objects independent from each other
- seeing the owners of a public lot work there when you visit as another family, instead of random sims

Do not miss:
- being stuck with only four default eye, hair and skin colours (TS2)
- predictable and horrible genetics
- previous versions of toddlers
- empty worlds that all look the same
- university
- zombies

Things I miss:
- Ghosts from the sims 2
- Getting married and actually getting a ring (didn't have to going into CAS to add a ring to a married sim)
- Actually using the cabinets to take out cooking utensils and pots and pans to cook with
- The attraction system from the sims 2
- pie menu selections from the sims 2 and 3
- CASt
- The pets from the sims 2
- Intimacy with couples in the sims 2/3 (cuddling in bed while sleeping and before waking up, lying in bed together talking etc.)
- Dancing with each other face to face
- Cut scenes from the sims 2
- Babies from 2 and the interactions with them
- Prom, after school programs, boarding schools
- school buses (sidenote: I would laugh out loud at the way the buses would make a u-turns when picking up your child in The sims 3)
- Hobbies and Interests
- how hard it was to make friends in the sims 2/3 because of personality differences (neat sim vs sloppy sim or a sim who had different interest than another sim)
- Optional cellphones (sims 2), optional newspapers (I believe you could call and cancel the service in 3 possibly 2)
- Shopping for Groceries, clothing, fragrances, Jewelry, etc in the sims 2
- Wants and Fears
- Burglars
- Firefighters and Police officers (as a service not like the detective career)
- being able to select more than 3 traits in CAS
- online dating
- unscripted Dating from the sims 2/3 (I don't like the game telling me what to do on my date)
- a Biography area to give a background to individual sims
- Memory system from the sims 2
- family portraits
- careers like education and military
- landlines
- pool tables
- lounging chairs
- Story progression (the sims 3)
- social bunny
- therapist (?)
- midlife crisis
- interactions with other sims depending on age (for example kids playing cops and robbers)
- University

* I will end it there to say I miss a lot of things mainly from the sims 2 but are many things I also miss from 3*


Things I don't miss:
- overpopulation of supernaturals (sims 3)
- babies from the sims 3 (I didn't like the burrito babies)
- The zodiac point system in the sims 2
- CAS in the sims 3 (despite me loving the color wheel it was very annoying for me to go through)
- Friendships to gain career levels
- not being able to use the alt button to move furniture around.
- hats, shoes and some accessories being attached to outfit or hair
- The sims 3 memories (talk about a memory hog)
- disciple in the sims 3