this might be a weird question BUT, what lifespan setting did you play this challenge on?? ...🙃

oh also I'm fairly sure the BusinessOutfitFix mod there is of Chris Hatch, and he found out that by quickly changing the sim's skin to sth else (he used zombie skin i think) and then back immediately, the sim would have normal face again. it lags out if too many employees with uniform come at the same time for this reason.

hi, i would like to ask where did u get that cluedo board?

Are you going to show more of Hansen River?

Extremely helpful and pretty easy to follow, thanks so much for this tutorial!

I still remember the first time I found Sims 2!! Cannot remember the year though - it was definitely after all of the packs had been released. I might have been 11 or 12 and it was late night shopping on a Thursday, my mum usually let my sister's and I get one thing. I went into EB Games (fellow Aussie!! In FNQ), in their bargain bin out the front, Sims 2 Double Deluxe disk package immediately caught my eye since I had been playing base game Sims 1 for many years. I couldn't wait to play it when I got home! Loaded it onto the family laptop and loaded into each of the neighbourhoods to check them out - Pleasantview was definitely my favourite but as soon as I discovered you could create your own neighbourhoods, that was my favourite thing to do! I would always make a couple - she was always a SHM and he was usually in law enforcement. I would always play in the pre-made maxis houses - the Tiny House and City House were always my go too. I would spend every weekend we went to different op shops finding the expansion packs and stuff packs. Got the Ultimate Collection when it came out (I got rid of all my physical disks too). I've been playing ever since and have only recently - I was so scared my game would break, adding CC and mods! Only hair since still scared 😂😂 I have still never played with the pre-mades and always start legacy challenges and BACC/Prosperity.

What does ZQC feature from Business Controller: Business Runs You do? I can't find anything on it since the original post is just full of memes about the Soviet union.

I know this video was uploaded years ago but oh my GOD combining the genes of Sandy Bruty and Malcolm IV is an iconic idea. I don't know if it's a stroke of genius or just plain cursed but either way I have to try it lol.

This took me ages to get round to watching - sorry! Must have been a mission to edit! But so cool to have all the lore in one place and that the vods are coming back to RU-vid - I watch a lot of the vods on twitch but there was so much I had missed/forgotten, so great to have the tour :).

A bit late but wanted to say I'm a new subscriber (thanks, algorithm!) and greatly enjoy your gameplay and your sense of humor. Keep being awesome! I'm an avid Sims 2 player so I'm loving the content.

Wow, amazing! So many moods and cc's I didn't even know existed. I have never watched streams at all, so dont know if it would be possible for me to watch yours from Australia, but I would really like to see more of this town. I already feel invested!

can I just pay you to reorganise my downloads folder I think it would be the end of me if I tried 😂🥲

hiiii, kiss brazil, como faço para baixar o seu ros? é perfeito!!

Happy 20th anniversary!

I’m sure you get this question a lot - do you have a mods / cc list somewhere? Your game looks AMAZING

Having to catch up on these :-) -- I don't know why, but RU-vid isn't showing me this series any more :-(

A creator put all the cc they used but yet there’s blue flashing, i don’t think they actually put the texture meshes and there’s no links available or a creator list to look and download them so I’m just not even gonna bother with the lot..

Amazed to see you remember so much about your first time playing🥲 I don’t remember much of my first experiences but I was only about 7-8 years old. I did keep getting all the expansion packs after that though and never really moved onto Sims 3! I agree with so many of your points about what makes this game amazing and how so many of its ingredients would go into the perfect life simulation though. Although, open world or even just open neighbourhoods just don’t appeal to me at all, I think just from playing Sims 2 apartments, Sims 3, and Sims 4, I just always find the non-controlled sims to behave in dumb and unrealistic ways so I feel like it would annoy me that they’re doing stupid things or not doing what they’re supposed to while I’m not playing them even though they are sims I’ll be playing rotationally😂 Thanks for taking us down this trip down memory lane, Happy 20 years to The Sims 2 🎉 👏 ❤

woah, this save is incredible! i get dizzy just thinking about all the cc and default replacements you had to collect to make it so amazing and coherent! I'm currently working on my own sci fi world and it's so hard haha

This was really fun to watch! Love making the sims 2 feel realistic

I've always been very afraid of downloading mods and ending up breaking my game. Once I downloaded some custom furniture and I got an error message every time I tried to enter the lot where they were, as I was a kid and didn't understand anything about errors in the game, I panicked and reinstalled everything 😂😂 Since then I never downloaded custom furniture again 😆 Only hair, clothes and skins. And I happily played like that for over 12 years. Now that I have a better understanding of how the game works and understand English better (all the error messages are in English and it's not my first language) I finally decided to give mods and custom furniture a try, but nothing too crazy 😅 You and some other simmers made me feel more confident about downloading mods 😄 I love the sims 2 community and love your content! 💚

I love this!! I personally could never get my lazy self to hunt down all the cc needed to play a medieval/historical hood but I love seeing others play them

This game came out when I was 17, and I had a childhood that was... Let's just say "rocky." I was living on my own and had bought an old, piece of crap computer to play this game. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that it took HOURS to load the game. I'm not talking about installing, I'm talking about having it installed, starting the game, taking a shower, having breakfast, reading a bit of a book, cleaning the house... Then the game is finally ready to play. Needless to say, I didn't get very into it. If it crashed, that was it for the day. Since I'm an old lady in my late 30s now, I've been able to play it with all the expansions. I love it so much. Sims 3 will probably always be my favorite (I did play the first one when I was 12 at a friend's house every time I went there) just because I was fully grown and able to afford buying it on a decent laptop and all the expansions. I mean, that's true for Sims 4 as well, but come on. Who in the world that's played all of them prefers 4? I gotta say though, if I had a normal experience playing 2 the first time, it could easily be my favorite. It's so well made.

I was only 1 when the sims 2 came out so my first game was actually the sims 3. I didn't get the sims 2 until I was a teen and starting collecting the dics of all the games. First time playing I made a boho sewing sim who lived in the "Haute Habitation" house from the bin with her many many toddlers. Even tho the sims 2 wasn't my first sims game I still find it the most nostalgic, probably cuz of all those warm wood tones and crazy carpets haha.

As if you don’t already have a million other things going on, Content and life, but I would absolutely enjoy a little mini series following this character from your childhood. How nostalgic. We are close in age and I would just a simself and any celebrity crush I had to pair myself with lol so I think it’s fun that everyone would create new characters.

Do to the CCs, I know that this neighborhood isn't okay to share. However is there a way you can make a tutorial on how to start this kind of neighborhood? I'd love to know the basics! Thank you no matter what tho. This was an amazing video!

Wanted to add my sim was always the 3rd default face, with that short-ish cut with the side bang. I would always have her in a tank top and those light pink cargo pants. Her name would be I think Jennifer or I’d just give her my name 😂. Also my sim would ALWAYS end up with Don. I don’t know why, I couldn’t resist him. And yes, I do have a history of dating trash men 😂 but that’s another story all together

This was SO fun!! I love how cheeky 12 year old Beth was, sneaking off to open the Christmas gifts before her parents noticed 😂. The first time I played the Sims 2 was in maybe 2005 or 2006, it was definitely after a few expansion packs came out. My cousin had the og Sims 2 game, the one that came with 4 disc that she let me play on her laptop and I was HOOKED. I begged my mother to take me to Target to get my own version and she eventually got me the Sims 2 double deluxe that came with night life and the original game. I remember how SLOW the game ran on my old beast of the computer and how I never let my sims go to lots because the loading was awful 🤣😂. I didn’t care though, I played it for hours and hours. My parents were divorced and I would just install a new game on my dad’s computer playing with a separate game there. Every birthday I would get an expansion pack or a stuff pack until I ended up with apartment life, seasons, celebrations and family fun. Might have had free time as well but I don’t remember for sure. I never stopped playing but I will say CC has brought the game to new life for me. Especially default replacements, default skin replacements were game changers. I think what I love the most about the game are just the humor this, and sims 1, had. Like I would spend ages just reading the build/buy mode item descriptions because they are totally Will Wrights humor. Even the Sims 3 managed to carry some of that foreword. Humor is solely missing in the franchise nowadays and it’s all about milking the fans for all their money. Thanks for this ride down memory lane ❤❤❤

I'm having a consistent issue with the neighborhood view. The loaded lot looks fine, but the build in hood view is off and clipping with builds next to it. What may be causing this and how do I stop it from happening?

This whole video was a lot of fun, and I loved that little montage at the end.

I first played sims 2 in 2007 or 2008 when I was in my early years of primary school and it was back when we were only allowed 1-2 hours of computer time a day before I'd have to swap with my brother to let him go play something else. I remember for the longest time i kept recreating the same sim by the name of Rose and she always owned a flower shop 🥺🤣 I also have vivid memories of playing ts2 one night when I was 8 listening to the 6 illegally downloaded songs I had on my crappy Nokia phone (one of those was Black and Yellow hy Wiz Khalifa 🤣🥴) while my sim was just fishing in her pond outside her house. Love this game so much

Omigosh Happy 20th Birthday to the Sims 2! 😍 Still a faithful player to this day ❤️ My first two sims were Mary and Henry, with that classic wavy hair that everyone loved and noughties cargo pants... 😄 I'll never forget the disappointment when 12 year old me realised that romance didnt mean *ahem* romance... 🙈 and kept wanting to cheat on his wife 🤣 Thanks for the celebrations and taking a trip down memory lane for us! ❤ 🥰

Currently halfway through, but love this so much!! I’ve been playing a similar challenge in the Sims 3. I’ve been doing it with build a city challenge rules, but I love all of the additional rules you use that can lead to different deaths, etc. Definitely plan on implementing in my own game. Thanks for the content :)

You were a bit of a brat weren't you Beth. 😂Pinching money and opening gifts. I can't remember my early families. I only know I played one at a time and I built rectangle houses.

So happy to see my favourite sims 2 creators upload and celebrate our special game! I’m sorry I missed your live-streams today but appreciate you putting something up on RU-vid. Cheers ❤

tbh I didn't play the sims 2 until the free give away for it on Origin. ^^; Like I played the sims 1 when i was 10 back in 2000 but i kinda skipped the sims 2 and jumped to playing the Sims Bustin out on PS2 and GBA and The Sims 2 on PS2 (altho I sent the most time on the Sims Bustin' Out lol) then I jumped to the sims 3 when it came out. But when I played the sims 2 in 2014-2018 (I didn't play it much when i first got it until 2018) I immediately fell in love with it. I recreated my first ever two room mate sims from the Sims 1, Frank and Hank, 2 brothers who were complete opposites. Frank was shy, nice, and very neat while Hank was mean, outgoing, and lazy.. The two argued a lot but they've never fought often enough for either of them to leave voluntarily. I kinda forgot what kind of story I was trying to do with them but somehow Hank fell for Nina Caliente and Frank just got with Brandy Broke.

Loved this video so much 💓💓💓 Hearing you talk so nostalgically about TS2 was fun to hear. That Christmas present story was iconic. I also unwrapped my Christmas presents and found out my parents got me TS1 makin' magic when I was about 9. I started playing TS2 in 2005. I had a windows 98 pc that would not run TS2. We went and bought it from GameStop and it did not work so I had it for months and could not play it. I don't remember my first time playing it but I do have lots of fond memories playing TS2 Apartment Life when I got that pack. (That's a pack I often don't hear you talk about or play with). I think one of my first memories of TS2 was playing in the trailer park and having my sim have babies with the people who lived in the trailer park. I use to fake sick when I'd get a new pack so I could stay home and play all day. My mom knew I was faking but she allowed it because she knows how much I loved playing The Sims games. I didn't have many TS2 packs. Only base, Nightlife, Pets, Seasons, and Apartment Life. When I got the ultimate collection, I was so excited to play all the other packs. I have two sisters who play the game. We all use to play for an hour each and we would sit and watch each other play all the time. I remember one night I was up until 4am building and playing and my step mom came downstairs and caught me. I was so embarrassed that I got caught but I was having so much fun. I can't run TS2 on my MacBook because the ASPYR version doesn't run with the screen resolution I have my laptop set to. The only way I can play it is when it's connected to my desk monitors. The ASPYR version does not have all the packs and I love Freetime and Apartment Life so much. Thank you for making this video. It was so fun to watch and hear all your stories.

I’m so amazed at your memory lol! I was 12 when TS1 came out and 16 when TS2 came out, and although I played both right from the start, and I know I loved them and played them both a ton, I remember nothing about my early Sims! 😂 all I remember is the good vibes and how much I loved it! Absolutely love this game though, more than ever these days. It’s always new because of our amazing modding community and I’m so thankful to share such a fun hobby and great community of Sims 2 players!

I finally managed to get TS2 working last month! It does seem so far like its the best one for rotational play. P.S.: What you say about your ideal life simulation game having personality with core trait sliders and a chosen selection of minor traits is exactly what I was going to use in a game I was making before I began to doubt I could make a full life simulator on my own.

Happy 20 for TS2 indeed! I was already an adult when TS2 came out so cant relate to the awkwardness of adult themes but I think TS2 still managed to make it safe :D Also kinda can see why few things tho were weird for youngsters and probably if I would have children would trigger me at times BUT depends how my kids would play and what would they download ahahaha :) CC seems more risky rather then the game itself :D

cant believe its been 20 years i was 14 when it came out and i remember the massive hype around it coming out coming from sims 1 and it all being top down 2d to suddenly a full 3d world with life stages it was revolutionary, and i remember me and my friends all begging our parents for it and one if us got it and we shared it between us passing it around, i think new players now who are introduced to sims 4 every ones used to how it looks and used to all the previous expansions so expect that I think unless you was there at the time it had a different feel when it was announced and when expansions came out they were new ideas and i remember loosing sleep because i was just so excited to get the latest expansion

Omg fellow weird religious teenager here. I remember wishing I could play the sims when I was like 15 but thinking it was sinful cause of woohoo and stuff lol. I'm in my twenties now and love playing the game so thankfully a lot has changed hahahaha.

Happy 20th, Sims 2 and all of us who love it so much!! 🥰🥰🥰 Thanks for this celebratory video!

The new kit for the sims 4 has a Pleasantview wallpaper. I think it’s their way of acknowledging the sims anniversary plus rumors that the Specter household will be in the new expansion pack.

MY FAVORITE SIMS GAME IS 20!!!!!!!!

The first time I played TS2 was when I was about 8 years old on my dad‘s laptop at my step-mother‘s place. I created a male sim named Peter and a female sim named Sisi, and I did not know I had to make them husband and wife in CAS. So they were roommates refusing to sleep in a double bed which confused me A LOT. I built them a box shaped house, it was one big room with blue carpet. Toilet in one corner, bed in the other. Peter and Sisi got jobs and eventually got married. My first time playing TS2 ended with Sisi dying from the pregnant sims suddenly drop dead bug while Peter was at work. Shocked me stopped playing at that point. The first time I played with premade sims I played the Pleasant household, Mary-Sue got fired and I killed her and the twins in a fire while Daniel was at work since there is no fire alarm in that house. Again, I stopped there. At some point my dad went on EBay to get me my own copy of TS2. I got a few expansion packs but not all over the years. I played with University, Pets, Seasons, H&M and K&B stuff. I also had the holiday Christmas stuff. And my step-mum had a CD-ROM with CC from a gaming magazine, so I had some CC early on. I played TS2 for most of my late childhood and early teens, unfortunately my first own laptop could not handle the game and I had to sneak into my mum’s office and use her PC to play TS2 when she wasn’t home. Later, my brother and I shared a PC which I could play TS2 on. I think I played the game up to 8th/9th grade and then just stopped. I kept my Sims 2 disks forever but sold them around the time I moved for university because I had not touched the game in years. I knew the UC was released but didn’t get it at the time. I started playing TS2 again during the pandemic.

Aww that was such a cute montage at the end ❤ Happy birthday sims 2 🎉 It's been 20 huh? Crazy! Thank you for sharing this, Beth, it was really cool getting to know about your journey and your thoughts. As for me, I have been playing sims since sims 1 first came out. I didn't have all of the expansion packs, but I had a lot of friends my age growing up who also played, so we used to lend the disks to each other to fill in the blanks. So when sims 2 came out, that arrangement continued. I remember my parents refused buying the base game for me when it first came out because it was really expensive. So at the start the only way for me to play it was when visiting friends. The first physical copy I got was actually the University expansion and I remember being so excited for it. The rest is history 😊

I don't remember any of my first Sims. Mostly because I was only 4 years old when the second game came out. And only 9 when third one came out. Even my first Sims of Sims 4 are gone. My gallery was working that well.

Young Beth was sneaky! I love it

20 years ago I was 15. I was obsessed and I was the big sister never letting my little sister play 😂 I loved reading stories on the exchange. My computer did not love all the CC 😂 I also went through a religious phase where I did not play for awhile. When sims 3 came out I left behind sims 2 for a long time but finally came back to it last year , now it’s all I play! 🎉 Thank you for being a part of this community ❤