Which Sims game is the best?

The Sims 2 is my favourite and I think the best in the series.

I really enjoyed Sims 2, but I spent most of my time in Photoshop so I could have more color options. (Seriously, you can't match the plumbing in the bathroom???)

So, Sims 3 was a wonderful break-through for me. I could change colors of everthing in game easily. (The drawback might be that there are too many options in CAStyle and CASim. It's a shame we can't delete some of those preloaded styles and clothes that we don't want in our games.)

Sims 4 quit being something to be excited about as soon as I learned there would be no CAS. I looked at the CAS demo and enjoyed being able to do more 3D manipulation, but not at the expensive of losing color options. I tried to make a sim (personality and goal) I would enjoy playing and found only one option that appealed to me at all.

I like customizing my environments. Color is important to me. Mismatched textures and colors on clothes and in homes are just, "NO! Thank you. Not for me."

I also like the lifetime wants and the traits. I can enjoy playing almost all the career options - self-employed or rabbit hole. I love jogging though town and stopping at different places on the way home from work.

Sims 3 and me... a solid match!

Sims 2! It was the first sims game I ever played and I don't think anything can really beat it for me. TS4 is certainly a close second now since I've been playing it more but TS2 just has a certain charm to it that has been hard for me to find in other Sims games.

Sims 2 was the best game for me because it had interesting stories built into the game both for each family and for the whole neighborhood. It came with 3 neighborhoods and each game in one of them could be expanded by an unlimited number of subhoods so we never ran out of space for adding new houses and families to our games. We controlled all the families and there were no culling or other attempts from the game to create events that we didn't want. To me this game only lacked in depth and a little more challenging gameplay because otherwise it was close to perfect.

Compared to Sims 2 all the other games just lack something:
1. Sims 1 had no aging, ugly graphics and too tiresome gameplay.
2. Sims 3 had an open world but for a terrible price. Suddenly we could only play one family, the neighborhood was way too small and couldn't be expanded by adding subhoods anymore. Besides that all the other families was only used to create an illusion of life in the neighborhood (which often had empty nightclubs anyway) and the story progression could destroy everything in those other families at random. World Adventures was a good EP though. But after this I soon stopped playing the game.
3. Sims 4 was an attempt to repair some of the problems in Sims 3. But there no built-in stories and family play is dumped down by simplified babies, omitted toddlers and simplified (too high) teens. The neighborhoods are small so most of the sims are homeless and it has relationships and emotions which are created in no time at all. So it has no depth, is very superficial and is only for people (probably young teens) who only wants to have a liittle fun after using most of their time to create sims and to build houses. It's gameplay is much too superficial for me. So I don't play it anymore.

Sims 3, I think. Even though I've only played it about once, but I think it's best for authenticity and expansion packs from what I've heard and seen of it. Too bad it doesn't want to work on my computer...

Sims 3, loved all the expansions and the cars

It's hard to decide really, but I'll either have to go for Sims 2 or Sims 4. Personally, Sims 3 is great too, but it is unplayable for me due to the lag that I couldn't fix. So it's either Sims 2 or Sims 4, but for now.. I'll have to pick Sims 2.

The best sims game will be the one that combines the heart and soulful sims from TS2 with the open world and creative tools from TS3.

The sims 2.. If I could have the gameplay of the sims 2 with the look of sims4, that would be perfect... :)

The Sims 2 with cc. I love the open world in TS3 but TS2 has much better gameplay.