I recently returned to The Sims 2 after primarily playing The Sims 4 during the last ten years, and I found that it has several qualities that I prefer to those in The Sims 4. Considering it’d been so long since I returned to play a main game in the series other than The Sims 4, I suspected that it was the nostalgia of The Sims 2 that had me remembering it as being more fun, and perhaps a result of playing the game during a time in my life with fewer responsibilities. In the end, it wasn’t just nostalgia influencing my opinion.