I really loved seeing the cutscenes for the Sims 2 to highlight all the Sims first events like getting married and their first woohoo and their first alien baby. Plus watching each of the memories progress with each of my Sims and building the story and personality for each one with the Sims 2 was really nice. I loved the aspiration failures and when things just go wrong or you forget to add a ladder. It just is so relatable and heart warming to me just to see the Sims fail and fail again and finally succeed at something and then fail again. Seeing Sims truly scared by ghosts or see their emotions on their faces when someone dies and then having the memory of that passed away Sim later on was heart warming too. I loved watching all their dreams as they slept too and having them cuddle with each other and read together in bed. I remember with Sims Vacation watching my Sims families play volleyball together for hours and enjoying playing the Whack-a-Will game together. The goosing between Sims, cuddling and woohooing on the bear rug. The struggle to gain skills to get enough money for scholarships so that they would have enough to pay for food and their apartment or dorm. Watching the Sims play in a band together. Watching Sims grow up, learn to drive, walk with their canes together, taking babies to the beach to watch the sunset. Watching my burglars try to break into the house and have the car alarm go off and scare them, watching the cars pull out of the drive way, and then having my Sims fight with the burglars before the cops got there, calling firefighters to flirt with even if there isn't a fire. Watching Mrs. Crumplebottom whack people with her purse whenever two Sims would makeout. Watching how happy the cage and cake dancers were at parties. Seeing the schoolbuses pick up my Sims kids to go to school and if they miss it, having their parents take them to school. Having Sims train in boot camp and attend private school and daycare. Having occult Sims fall in love in forbidden romances and seeing how beautiful house fires are.
It is just so many things from togetherness between Sims to telling stories to failures to memories to relatable experiences that have made me fall in love with the Sims through the years, inspired me to pursue goals I thought impossible like university, and get me through gallbladder surgery pain where I thought it was going to be the end of the road for my Simming days.
