What is your favorite kind of apartment?

This was a tough one. The Sims 3 apartments had skyscrapers and penthouses, so you could create a Sim, get that Sim into the Film career, become rich and famous and work up into a penthouse in the city of Bridgeport. The Sims 4 had a similar take, minus the Fame and the Film career. However, The Sims 4 added Lot Traits, which made different lots behave differently during gameplay.

However, in terms of flexibility and customization, I'll pick The Sims 2 apartments. The Sims 2 apartments have the ability to customize the lots however you want, and they are extremely flexible. As long as the room is properly recognized as a room, you can convert anything into an Apartment Lot. Plus, you can play multiple characters in those apartments and live their lives. The Sims 2 also comes with Family Albums (Story Mode), and you can take pictures and write little captions about your Sims' everyday life.

I never played Sims 2, I only play Sims 3 & 4. And I've always loved Sims 3 Bridgeport & their apartments over the Sims 4.

Sims 2 build your own apartment blocks were amazing, you could also visit other tenants without a loading screen. I’m still holding out for a sims 4 lot type like this.. And working elevators lol

You just couldn't beat the flexibility of building your own and having a number of different families you could switch between simultaneously.

I like penthouses and what not, but the apartments feel so limited otherwise with building restraints. Plus I cannot save them when I go through all the remodeling trouble. And the neighbors ended up pretty annoying in 4, but I won't bash it too much.

I consider lot traits an addendum system separate from apartments, though I do enjoy them. Just going off of my experiences I had more fun with 2's because of the creativity.

They work better in my opinion in 4 as you actually have real neighbours rather than fake neighbours in your building, and the elevators are quick, but for me I prefer 3 as you can just place them wherever. I don't want to have to live in a certain world if I want an apartment, so I like the freedom.

"Onverser;c-17923507" wrote:
They work better in my opinion in 4 as you actually have real neighbours rather than fake neighbours in your building, and the elevators are quick, but for me I prefer 3 as you can just place them wherever. I don't want to have to live in a certain world if I want an apartment, so I like the freedom.

If you had played The Sims 2, then you would find that The Sims 2 apartments would have real neighbors instead of random NPCs in the extra rooms. You can have up to 4 playable households per apartment lot. Once you get pass 4, and there are more apartments on the lot, those extra apartments will be filled in by random NPCs. Furthermore, the NPCs that live in the apartments may be classed as Upper Class, Upper Middle Class, Middle Class, Lower Middle Class, and Lower Class. The exact names for those social classes are Socialite, Jock, Bohemian, Gearhead, and Tech. Sims can build relationship and reputation, as well as decrease relationship and reputation, in romantic and non-romantic ways, while reputation in The Sims 3 is closely associated with fame reputation or romantic reputation. The Sims 4 also takes on the Sims 3 approach.
You can build your own apartments from an empty lot and install elevators. But in case the elevators break down (and yes, they can and will kill your Sims!), you may want a real staircase on the side for safety purposes. You can place apartment lots in the Sims 2 anywhere you want like a residential lot; however, unlike the Sims 3, they must be placed alongside the road.
One last thing, because everything is on one apartment lot, you can easily visit your playable households that also live in the apartment building. This is all without a loading screen (unlike The Sims 4).

In sims 2 you could build whatever you wanted as an apartment building as long as you used the apartment entrance doors. So we basically built the entire lot the way we want it, not just one apartment but also the entrance. I had row houses/terraced houses and even a castle with different houses which functioned as apartments. It was a very good tool have multiple families live on the same lot but only control one of them.

The Sims 2 Al building tools were the best. From tenements filled with dozens of households, to duplexes, condos, trailer parks, even just a one apartment building, where the landlord did all the work outside and your Sim paid rent etc. great for saving money. As many or as few separate units as you wanted. Closed breezeways, open breezeways, no breezeways, enclosed common areas or open fenced off common areas. Playgrounds, park areas, whatever you wanted to do. Pools in common areas, or just a place to read and socialize with others in a common area. Whatever you could imagine could be done. It's hard to top that. If you can imagine it, you can probably build it with TS2's tools.

TS2s ones were the best. Four playable households. (Potentially) One roof. I always played in BDC, and having four of my favourite households walking past each-other going to walk, and being able to visit each-other was a huge bonus. With the bonus of being able to knock on your neighbours door to have them babysit without calling a Nanny.

Plus your Landlord could steal money from your money tree in TS2 then randomly insult you. Talk about realism!

I didn't like how TS3s limited you to just one building, one actual household area, and a door that spawns townies, it tends to lag a little more too or cause Sims to get stuck waiting for elevators for a long time. And it's just not as fun to live in as an actual apartment set.

To be fair I like what they did in TS2. TS3 worked differently so apartments could not be pulled off the same way although were doable