What's fun about The Sims is filling a neighborhood with people you know, making them do naughty things, giving them lots of children, and creating a story out of screenshots to share with their real-life counterparts.
What's fun about The Sims 2 is filling a neighborhood with people you know, making them do naughty things, giving them lots of children, and creating a story out of screenshots to share with their real-life counterparts. And then turning their sim-children into screwed-up wackos, getting them together with the other children, creating extremely dysfunctional extended families, making your now-elderly sim-friends turn senile, seeing them die, and then watching them haunt their children's children's children.
*contented sigh*