What’s your favourite Sims game and what is your playstyle?

All of the above. It's my shopping simulator in cc heaven. It's my dress up doll house. It's there for all my crazy building ideas. I love love family play but that would get boring without occults! And easy rotational play and house hold management let's me tell my story like a movie. Swapping out main and side characters.

Only thing I don't do is legacy or challenges.
I'm probably the only simmer who has only had one in game kid since this game came out.??
I just play with the same toddlers/kids and sims over and over. for years....?
Yep. I hate change in life lol

My favorite game is the Sims 2..
I love creating wacky stories that involve the whole neighborhood. This is why I always play rotationally. In order to get the story moving I have to change households often.

The Sims 3 is also awesome but it's more of a "bigger picture". You can see the whole world progress and if you don't really mind sims doing their thing, you can watch them and control some bigger things.
Like population for example. One cool feature is having several ancestor families and leave the on story progression and see how the families and genetics blend with each other a few generations later. It's the best game to do that.

I start out playing, but then get distracted by needing to update the interior of my house (my sims don't work, they use the magic and wonderful cheat of Motherlode) ...... every single time I start a new game.

When I do finally start playing, I am a realistic family player. I create stories in my head and play them out.

I like both 2 & 3, which, as I mentioned before, I play for different reasons. Sims 2 offers the best in family play, I believe. I just love having huge families in TS2. I play 3 from a more "solo" experience, or, a couple.
Also TS3 has the best gardening I reckon :D

For the first year and a half I just played with the same couple, and upgraded them with the packs as I bought them (they moved to Forgotten Hollow and one of them became a vampire, then they moved to Sulani and the other became a mermaid... :D ). Occasionally I played with Caleb as well, as he was always sneaking into my house to play videogames and befriended my sims.

But then I started revamping other worlds with gallery buildings, and did tons of townie makeovers to play with different families. That’s when the real game started for me! Until them, I have been restricted to the towns I was living/vacationing, ignoring most features of the expansions. I didn’t know Brindleton Bay could be so beautiful until I started playing more on it, same as Strangerville or Windenburg! And having more detailed sims with new relationships inside the neighborhood made my game way richer. The downside is that the game takes more to load in my 2012 Mac, but for me it’s worthy :).

For me the game dictates my play style. When I discovered The Sims 2 I wanted to play one family for generations but I hated the frozen world so I settled for rotational play. With time I started to love it too. Then The Sims 3 came out and I was overjoyed with an ability to properly play one family through time. When it comes to The Sims 1 I just constantly play one at most two characters.
I don't think I have a favourite. Everything depends on the plot that I envision. If it is something global I go for The Sims 3 because I want to see the world outside my sims evolve on its own. If it is something local then The Sims 2 allows me to micromanage it better. Love both.

Sims 3
My playstyle: Total Insanity
Why the heck do you think I do THIS to my sims?
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That's why Sims 4 doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't cater to my playstyle at all. I want to tell my own stories instead of being in a "happy happy joy joy..." "fight my sims for every bloody serious looking expression that I can get out of them" situation and have to stop them from implementing their stupid "Monty Python did it much better" Ministry of Silly Walks.

I'm a family player at heart. I play one family per save. When the children start to grow up and to move out, I play their households as well. I don't play by a schedule. The household that I play is determined by what's currently going on with the family as a whole. Different Sims come to the forefront at different times.

In the end, TS3 is still the game that most suits my playstyle the most and it remains my favorite game in the franchise. Each of my Sims feels distinct and has a whole host of aspirations, activities, and careers to choose from that suits their personalities. I love that whenever I get the entire family together, the interplay of their varied personalities is always evident.

It is TS3. Loved TS2 but love TS3 more. The reason is simple and relates to play style. It varies according to mood. At the moment I am on a world building kick which includes building lots. I think once I reach the stage of populating my worlds then I will return to family play to test them properly. I could not do this with TS2 or TS4 or for that matter TS1.

The Sims 3 - Mix of family play that starts with single sim who focused on self achievement first with a little bit of occult added later on, either the patriach or the first generation child become a vampire or werewolf.