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

This is really, really hard, but considering all four games and how they have evolved or devolved I would have to say the best thing they ever did for the games was to allow the player to leave a home lot with just one Sim from the household. This was never possible in TS1.

In TS2 this was a big feature but if your Sim had kids you had to hire a nanny. However kids still couldn't leave the lot and go out somewhere (even to a park) on their own with you/the player.

This was expanded even more in TS3 to allow kids to leave a home lot but there was a curfew.

And in TS4 this is expanded even more to allow even little toddlers to leave a home lot (that was a lot of fun >:) ).

I think that has to be the greatest feature of all the games in my humble opinion. Because no longer were players hampered by having to take the whole darn family if you just wanted some space with just one Sim at time, sometimes. I think people don't actually remember you had to call Sims home to leave a lot with all of them and or just not go off a home lot.

Everything and most favorite are the aliens.

@Oldeseadogge Yikes! I hate CAS and try to get in and out ASAP! It’s not that it’s bad quality; I just find dressing sims to be excruciatingly boring! (Can you tell that I never liked Barbies as a kid?)

I actually liked TS3 Stylist option that you could go to other people's houses and make them over as an assignment. That was my ultimate use of all the CAS items <3

In the beginning of TS3 I was so bummed that I could'nt play more families at the same time like in TS2, but now I like playing with one family at a time( just not too long..always having too much ideas)

The scenery and graphics of the Sims 4 is my favourite feature across all iterations. It's so aesthetically pleasing. Everywhere I turn my camera there is something beautiful to look at. And with ultra settings you get leaves blowing in the wind, sparkly snow, magnificent sunsets, beautiful lighting .. I could go on and on :heart:

Next to that - open worlds in The Sims 3. I just miss it so much.

     

I really like the in depth build mode and the amazing architectural features and the scale of the people to the building making it very realistic. I also like the way the sim community and creators listen to each other.

@Cinebar This feature allows my romance sims to meet new partners without their families knowing. >:)

Open worlds from ts3
multitasking from ts4
magical creatures
adventures from ts3
active jobs

Hard to pick just one. My all time favourite might be the pet dragons in sims 1.

Sims 1: pet dragons and different taxis for each destination, especially the balloon to travel to the magic land and the streetcar for old town
Sims 2: memory system, wants and fears and buying clothes instead of a limitless free closet
Sims3: all the futuristic furniture from into the future
Sims 4 : the space rocket and Astronaut career in the base game
Sims medieval : all the themed BB and CAS.