What is your favorite feature, even tiny one, in the franchise? (Not just the "main" games!)

Well i generally like both Building and Gameplay but the things i enjoyed the most... from TS1 i love that they whistled to the music which you can still get them to do in TS2 with the "Happy Shopping" speaker LOL, in TS2 i love the Chefs seeing them toss and flip food, trying it with their finger and going "Ahh... mmm..." LOL, i love the Waiters how they took your orders on a notebook and brought your food back on a silver tray and went "Wullah!" LOL, then my fave Expansion is definitely Seasons but the most thing i did in that is Gardening i planted quite a lot of vegetables and fruit and i love the Skill Badges.

I love Fishing too that's fun and i like the TS2 Pets Expansion, the dogs are fun to look after and i accidentally adopted a Finicky Adult Dog to a family with a small house that looks like it was built in a forest surrounded by trees with a pond and it was really fun and terrifying trying to figure out what was wrong and basically he was SO Finicky he would only eat out of the most expensive bowl, it had to be fresh food, the bowl had to be near his owners room on the balcony too and he only wanted to sleep on the owners bed, once he almost starved to death and kept eating snow and then got taken away but lucky i saved it soon before that, eventually i just decided to keep an eye on his hunger levels and then when it dropped lower just feed him a few treats and he was good LOL i think the poor guy went through some rough times. I loved making Snowmen too and then waiting for the Penguin to come and talk to it and all the little fun interactions in between like the Toddler dancing to music while sitting on the floor.

I'm definitely going to enjoy Gardening and Fishing in The Sims 4 and i liked sending them to a Hotel on Vacation but i didn't do it as much as i'd like to have but i'm not going to buy any Packs just for the destinations i'm good pretending and just building my own Vacation Home. Finally i liked sending my Sims shopping but it just didn't ever turn out to be as fun as i wanted it to be sadly but i liked getting them some new jewelry and clothes.

TS1: the little pond where you can sail little boats and feed fish
TS2: that screenshots are linked to the households, not a general pot & they display in order taken; the attention to detail - stone wall & floor tiles actually look like stone, wood has texture, sound when sim walked on floor varied with floor type & footwear, sim hair moves, could go on and on with that one; body shop; memory system; depth of sim characterization...
TS3: Horses & unicorns
TS4: CAS - almost a game in its own right, and often more fun than the rest of it.

I never had them, those little olive-green army men instead. Rather says something about the game when getting your sims ready to play is often more fun than the game itself. At least in CAS I can make sims that look like interesting characters (Roman soldiers, pirates, D&D style adventurers, etc. even if they can't be played that way. Could come close in 1 & 2, but not in 4.

Let's see there is quite a few things

Sims 1

• Mrs. Crumplebottom
  
• The winter vacation zone
  
• The Sushi Bar
  
• Candy Shop
  
• Ice Cream Store
  
• The Mechanical Bull
  
• Zydeco music
  

Sims 2

• The Vacation Menu where you picked your hotel or rental. How long you were going to stay, who was going and how much you wanted to spend
  
• Memories
  
• Interests
  
• The Hotel Desk, Concierge and maid service
  
• All the small details
  
• Buying clothing, Jewelry the retail experience in general
  
• Buying Magazines
  
• Grocery stores you can shop in
  
• Marco Polo in the pool
  
• Whistling
  
• Sewing
  
• The Potter's wheel
  
• Garage Door's that raise and lower
  
• Tai Chi
  
• Wolves as wild animals as well as Skunks and Raccoons and they all behave as the animal they are not cat or dog clones
  
• Witch Alignments
  
• Working Grandfather Clocks
  
• If plumbing breaks on second floor there will be dripping on the 1st floor
  
• Baby feeding in arms and burping
  
• Holding the baby and handing them to others
  
• Married and Engaged Sims wearing rings
  
• Microwaved food spins
  
• Kids can jump on the bed and everyone can jump on couches
  
• Up the arm kiss
  
• Goosing
  
• Parents accompanied College going Sims to the School to see them off
  
• Family Kiss
  
• Food en flambé
  
• Trimming bushes, pulling weeds in the lawn, water house plants
  
• Limousine Honeymoons
  
• Introducing one Sim to another
  
• Car Alarms
  
• Burglars & Burglar Alarms
  
• Working Radiators
  
• Romantic version of star gazing and cloud watching
  
• Adult & Teen Sims can take people to school without tediousness
  
• Teaching Cats to use the toilette
  
• Pet Jobs
  
• Gradual improvement in exercises not just good at it immediately
  
• Tuning Pianos
  
• Upright pianos
  
• Preparing cereal not just pulling it out of the fridge.
  
• The juicer
  
• Date Meter
  
• Pest Control
  
• Cars stopping for people in the road and seeing the driver honk
  
• Teaching a Teen to drive
  
• Needing to grow plants, fish and shop at the grocery store
  
• Seeing actual Simoleons given to shop keepers
  
• NPCs that were characters to add flavor to zones
  
• Mahjong
  
• Tea Ceremony
  
• Reggae, Big Band, Surf
  
• Simlish versions of all the traditional Holiday songs
  

Sims 3

• Open World
  
• Create a Style
  
• The Color Wheel
  
• The amazing travel locations but not the hostels
  
• The Adventure aspect of World Adventures
  
• Creating creatures in CAS
  
• Editing the world
  
• Fairies & Werewolves
  
• Houseboats
  
• Unicorns & Horses
  
• Cars, Motorcycles
  
• Beautiful neighborhoods
  
• Turn Offs & Ons
  
• Fears
  
• Holiday Festivals and the Festival grounds
  
• Magicians
  
• Doorbells and changing their sounds
  
• Underwater game play
  
• Open swimming and fishing
  
• Moon Phases
  
• Spiral stairs
  
• Subways
  
• Nectar making
  
• The Horse jumps and Equestrian Center
  
• Barn build pieces, Chicken Coop, Tractor
  
• Fire Fighter, Fire Truck, Firehouse
  
• The Teppanyaki Grill
  
• The Sims 3 Deaths and Ghost animations and various colors
  
• Bonehilda
  
• Growing Herbs & Spices
  
• The Bakery
  
• Martial Arts
  
• The Chinese, French and Egyptian stations
  
• Fog
  
• Hail
  

Sims 4

• How Vampires developed their different powers
  
• How Witches develop their powers
  
• Holidays & Special Events
  
• Improving plumbing, appliances and electronics
  
• Adjusting the mattresses
  
• The choice of colleges to attend
  
• Research & Debate
  
• Separating Baking from Cooking
  
• Mixology
  

What hooked me with The Sims was how hard it was to just earn money to build a house to start a family to just keep them happy. It was actually hard to get the skills and to get that Sim to fall for my Sim or even be friends.

TS2/3/4 - friends and love in half a Sim day. Money to be had right on the ground. I guess if I was a storyteller TS4 would be my jam but I'm not and it's not.

Using the hand tool in The Sims 4...in live mode. I love being able to open the fridge, chunk trash, and shuffle my sim's inventory. :D

I actually really love the music in Build and Buy mode in TS1. They're very soothing for me.

The author/writing option makes me happy as well, considering I am one myself. :)

I think it's awesome how we now have much more lgbtq+ representation with townies c:

The overall gameplay of Sims 2. It would take way too long to list everything about this game that I love.

The interests tab in Sims 1 and 2, I love reading those and seeing what topics my sim is interested in talking about.