Which Sims game is the best?

The Sims 2.

Sims 2 so much effort and little details went into the game.

Sims 1 and 3 for me! For some reason I don't have a lot of memories from Sims 2... but Sims 1 was my first and I remember it being a big part of my childhood (and the burglar giving me nightmares). Sims 3 had such good gameplay (Open World, I miss you!) so that's a win for me!

The Sims 3 > The Sims 2 > The Sims > The Sims 4

Sims 2 because of the lore.

I like 3 better cause it offers everything i look for in a life simulation game.

Looking at the whole series, Sims 2 is the only one that felt like a 100% upgrade. The jump between Sims 1 and Sims 2 is MASSIVE. The Sims 3 added and improved a lot, but it sacrificed detail and I've never been able to overcome the optimization issues and bugs, even with patches and NRAAS. The content in the Sims 3 is a ton of fun, but the stress I have from knowing my game could turn into a BFBVFS at any moment puts me on edge too much to fully enjoy the game. The Sims 2 has problems due to its easy corruptibility, but these issues seem easier to tame from a user standpoint, especially since the game as been out for over a decade. I'm much more at ease playing the Sims 2. Sims 2 sims are also, in my opinion, some of the most realistic and "organic" sims in the whole series thus far.

It's hard to compare all of them side-by-side, since there's a two-decade gap (or 1.5, however you look at it) between 1 and 4. I think that if I look at them while accounting for their age and place in the series, I'd say 2>3>>4. Sims 1 I don't like to compare too much, because it was the first of the series and innovative across all fronts simply for being the beginner of it all.

I just spent a whole day playing The Sims (and I played it yesterday too :joy: ) and I love it. The animations, graphics and sounds are great and so much fun :relaxed: I don't play it often, but when I do I love it.

I started playing The Sims years ago as a kid with The Sims Deluxe Edition, so the first game is nostalgic to me. I mainly play The Sims 4 nowadays and I like it. I played The Sims 2 a lot years ago and I enjoyed it until I got bored with it, but maybe I'll go back to playing it one day. They are all good games in their own way <3 I have only played The Sims 3 on playstation (my little sister bough it) and not much, so it could be better than I know and I might like it, but I don't like its graphics, so I have never really desired to buy it and try it on PC.

So currently my order is: The Sims 4 > The Sims 1 > The Sims 2 > The Sims 3.

I'm decisive between sims 1 and sims 3. I love the open world, but I miss the mid century shopping music

For me, it's The Sims 1. Even though it's older than me by a few years, I absolutely adore everything about it. The isometric artstyle, color palette, soundtrack, NPCs, mechanics, comfort/room motives, dated sims models, and how it just SCREAMS very late 90's-early 2000's. Ahh. If I hadn't lost a disc to it, I'd be playing it again.