The Sims 2 Has BETTER GRAPHICS Than The Sims 4 

🚨For clarity purpose🚨 : TS4 overall graphics obviously look better than TS2 simply because it is the most recent game. However TS2 uses really detailed & complex technology for its time. They did the best with what they had & it paid off considering how it beats TS4 in many graphic details, as shown in this video. On the contrary it is blatant that TS4 doesn't take full advantages of the technologies availabe for todays games, especially considering it came out in 2014! • Hit the Like & Subscribe buttons for more videos!🔥🙏

not to mention THE HAIR MOVEMENT IN TS2

what really blows me away in the Sims 2 is that the pizzas are divided in 8 slices that can be clicked individually. The sim will take that specific slice and that exact slice will be missing from the box afterwards.

Also, the aims 4 is super quiet compared to all of the older games. The sims rarely make any noise at all and it's a little weird. In the sims 2, you can even hear the neighborhood dogs barking at night. I love it.

TS2 was a labour of love and passion project. TS4 is a soulless, bland, and unloved cash grab.

Also, in The Sims 2 there are hair physics, couch cushion physics and pool physics. Mind blowing!

The way sims in Sims 4 look around and their eyes is very... weird. It's like they're constantly on happy drugs, they don't look alive at all, jesus

Since you mentioned the floor texture: sound of your sim's footsteps changes depending on the floor. That's a really nice touch there

Sims 2 was peak Sims. Will Wright at the helm, a passion project filled with love. Then we got Sims 3 and omg even more awesome and hello? Sims Medieval? 👌 And then it died.

I'm so sorry... but I can't get over the ... st*pid constant smiling of the sims in Sims 4... 😂

the grass texture in ts4 💀💀💀

1:50 - also the animation...TS2: *actually focused on work and looks serious at the screen* TS4: YES, Hello I am A Sim! I am in a Happy moodlet of Doing a Thing! Because I have emotions, see? I'm not sure what emotions are, so I'll smile just in case you will miss the Emotion happening!

Can't relate when people say "want x and y from sims 2 and 3, but graphics like Sims 4". It's so weirdly cartonish, bland and everything has low resolution. Let's not even mention the jumpy animations and ugly, constant smiles. Made me resent my own sims when I played Sims 4. Hell, in Sims 2 you even hear buzzing from electronics during night which makes it feel more alive.

Why is no one talking about the Sim looking back and forth between the keyboard and computer screen? Like I do that so much in real and it's so accurate. The way the Sims in Sims 4 constantly look at the screen is something I never really paid attention to until now. And why is EA obsessed with making the Sims 4 so dark???

One detail i love in TS2 is how vending machines will cast light, and the color will match the color of the machine. It looks so nice at night!

Sims 2 made with heart and soul Sims 4 made with

9:07 fun fact the sims 2 had reflective flooring in the beta but due to performance issues they scrapped it. game was truly beyond its time.

Whenever people say Sims 2 graphics are outdated, please watch this video before you judge. For me Sims 2 still looks good without mods. 20 years later it still holds up!

TS2 on release already was soo ambitious game and ahead of it's time. Imagine how many amazing feature they didn't have a time or resources to implement but already planned. I read that they were supposed to have ambulances, more scripted parties and events etc in a base game. If I remember correctly people were able to found traces of those features in code in SimPE

Please do one when they do interactions on each other. In the sims 4 you can do a mean interaction and then once its finished, they hug each other and laugh with each other smh

Fr every texture in sims 4 looks flat and in low resolution and sims hair look like on a head of Lego human xD Sims 2 somehow managed to keep realistic graphics while not being overly realistic and sims 4 has just plastic and cartoonish style. Also it wasn't shown in here but pool water in sims 2 vaporize when it's cold

1:49 Note that in The Sims 2 the hair of the character who sits at the computer moves 😮

I always hear people say they want sims 5 to have sims 2 gameplay and sims 4 graphics and i'm always confused. How is the low rez clay texture of EVERYTHING in ts4 something to be desired?

Is incredible that a 20 years old videogame is better in almost everything. We just need a remastering of The Sims 2

Why are sims in the sims 4 ALWAYS smiling like mental crazy people. It's super creepy.

I don't even understand why everyone thinks that Sims 4 has the best graphics, it literally looks like a mobile game. Sims 2 had the best furniture models and sims while Sims 3 had the best environment lighting and atmosphere, there is literally nothing that Sims 4 did better in terms of graphics.

Even the smalles tiniest objects in The Sims 2 are incredibly detailed, it blows my mind how much better everything looks compared to 4, the polycount is incredible for 2004

lol and people often say sims 5 needs to have the gameplay of sims 2 and the open world of sims 3 and the graphics of sims 4 while sims 4 suck at everything because that game wasn't even planned to be a sims 4 at the start😂😂

The Sims 4's textures lack so much details that the game looks almost gouraud shaded next to The Sims 2.

FINALLY someone pointing this out!! It always bugs me how ppl say TS4 looks so amazing, when I've been thinking it looks made out of plastic, ever since it came out. Textures are nearly non-existent in that mess of a game.

If anything this made me realise how desaturated the colour pallet is in Sims 4. Everything looks so... grey.

that's why i'll never understand why people say TS4s selling point is the ''high quality graphics'' game has always looked like dogshit to me. even the way sims are stylized look ugly, uncanny clay looking cartoon characters.

sims 4 is like the dollhouse in the sims 2 💀

I audibly laughed when the pizza was shown. How is it that bad 😭

it’s looking like Paralives is following in the footsteps of the Sims 2

you should've played the sims 1 horror music, when you zoomed in on the sims 4 baby's face. 😂

You missed the fact that hairstyles in ts2 are *animated*. Most cc creators don't match that even if cc otherwise is often more detailed.

I remember back in the day you had 4 different CDs just to download the base game of Sims 2. I'm starting to realize why, the game has a lot of details I took for granted as a kid 😔

If you swapped positions, 2 would look like the sequel to 4 lol

The Sim 2 looked this good right from the very beginning. On top of that, it had great gameplay which kept getting better. I don't even know what the money was spent on when they developed TS4 - it clearly wasn't graphics or basic-level game elements.

I have to say the Sims 2 is superior in every way. So much thought and love went into the game and it showed. The Sims 4 could never!!!

from the moment sims 4 launched in 2014, i never felt that attraction i felt from sims 2 or 3. i don’t even play sims 4 because of how soulless it is

TS2 also had much larger object texture sizes. TS4 often maxes objects out at 512x512, TS2's average is double that

I remember when I first played ts4 I was surpised how bland the light was! Adding more windows did not helped, lights were dull, I had a feeling that my house is so dark. Also when you chage the time of the day in building mode it does absolutely...nothing. I was so disappointed :(

You should have shown the texture of the rose bushes in sims 2. They are legit so pretty

I always felt the sims 4 graphics is similar to what my vision looks like before an eye exam 😂.

Idk what people see in TS4’s graphics. Everything looks so bland

Without going into stylistic choices - Sims 2 has a lot of love for details, did run great and provided a solid game play experience. Sims 4 provides a great tool for building. I personally am not the biggest fan of the textures painted on in Sims 2 but I holds itself still while this technic is used in some packs in Sims 4 as well while they are able to do more and show more in other instances.

When talking only about sims art style, sims 2 does it much better, specially female sims, they look so pretty a lot of times. The babies might look a big weird tho. Sims 4 sims art style kinda reminds me to those generic youtube kids videos, or those generic mobile games that try to copy the fortnite style.

I hate everything about the S4, the lazy animations, boring gameplay - no wonder the S4 simers, usually doing challange and youtuble shorts - and the stupid smile on the sims face, it's kill me... The only thing i could dissagree the hair one. The sims3 doesn't have hair physic too, but the other hand, the hair isn"t look like made of clay that one.

4:14 They didn't even bother to add fire under the pot, while The Sims 2 even had it animated to flicker

bought sims 4 base game when it came out. played a couple hours, saw how bad it was and immediately went back to Sims 2. Haven't played Sims 4 since.

Sims 2 is the greatest sims to DATE. Much more fun than sims 4 even with base game only compared to Sims 4’ spam of EPs

I will say I do like the instant light effect in Sims 4's build/buy mode, because it instantly shows you what the room lighting looks like depending where you place it. Everything else in Sims 2 is top tier though

everything in TS4 looks like plastic😭

I totally agree with you. Sims 2-3 best combined, but the 4 is a fucking fool. I bought every packaging since two years ago now I’m not even playing the game anymore when I used to be so addicted when I was younger

If they just added an open world for Sims 2, it will be better than sims 3 and 4

With Sims 4, some things have a higher polygon count and a higher resolution for textures, but other things have a weirdly low resolution and/or poly count (like the food and trash) and the overall style is intentionally minimalist. Sims 2 was exaggerated/cartoony, but generally more detailed. One thing that struck me was that although some of the images you showed have a better poly count/seem smoother in Sims 4, the textures were often far worse, especially on smaller objects. Babies, for instance, seemed to have more polygons/smoother edges in Sims 4 than in Sims 2, but the textures used are terribly low-res. By contrast, the ceiling lights you showed seemed to have smoother edges in Sims 2, which is odd. And despite the Sims 2 plates having less jagged edges, they didn't have any further details. I did think the texture for water in Sims 4 looked better, even if the shaders and reflections weren't as detailed and well-done as in Sims 2. Sims 2 was superior in terms of sheer level of detail. The animations were great, too. Sims had more detailed animations when performing actions such as cooking. Would love to see how some of its items, animations, and lighting effects compare to Sims 3 in a side-by-side, also. I'd guess that part of the low detail on items and lighting in Sims 4 is because the team was for some reason not granted the manpower or budget to put that kind of detail in. That may be partly because the Sims 4 was originally conceived of as a fully online and possibly mobile or mobile hybrid game (which also explains a bit about the UI), and part of it was likely because the team didn't think details on smaller items would matter since they assumed players wouldn't be zooming in on them much. You can really tell that the Sims 2 team deeply cared about the details and how the game would be received. The Sims 1 had been a massive success, but there was no guarantee at that time that the Sims 2 would share that success. Then by the time the Sims 4 was worked on, it was created by a much smaller team mostly because all previous mainline Sims games had been successful. Sims 4 had no competition other than previous entries in the franchise, so it was more or less a guaranteed success no matter what the team did. I actually play and enjoy the Sims 4, and I think now that it has some more content both in base game and expansions than it had on release, there are some things it does better than previous games. But I still find myself going back to Sims 2 and Sims 3 and my reasons tend to involve gameplay and detail more than nostalgia. It concerns me that the developers have made it clear they intend to make the next Sims a mobile crossover. Even with a separate graphical environment on PC, it's still meant to be multiplayer and microtransactional, and will likely have toned-down graphics even on the PC version. Hopefully Paralives and Life By You will be competitive enough to force EA to do more than the bare minimum for their next Sims game and I'll be proven wrong. But as far as loyalty to the Sims? I don't really have any if someone else releases a superior product that does all or most of the same things.

Y'all I was really convinced you just recorded your backyard for that grass.

Sims 2 had will wright and rod humble - my sims daddies😂 I still play sims 2 and will be following rod humbles new project like a hawk

watching this video in the middle of that dumpster fire that the sims 4 team has lit under their butts after the latest update. 10/10 experience, would do it again 💅🏻✨

Sims 4 babies are cursed.

light from windows doesn't even cast on sims in ts4, it does in ts2

I honestly geniunely enjoy the graphics in sims 2 than any other sims game, I don’t really understand when people say they want x sim game with sims 4 graphics, I kinda really hate how sims 4 looks, everything looks like clay and just dull, sims 2 has so much life and such a wonderful aesthetic to it! The sims 2 graphics have so much charm, while sims 4 just look soulless (like the whole game)

Hopefully, Paralives takes inspiration from the first three Sims games. I also hope they use TS4 as a valuable lesson on what not to do.

Sims 2 didn't have better graphics, it had better ATTENTION TO DETAIL. Two very different things.

I can't believe TS2 is 20 years old. I mean.. I'm not even 30 and I was playing it obsessively when it came out. It feels so ahead of its time, even to this day. Sims 4 on the other hand... Great gowns, beautiful gowns.

I lost it at the food lmaaaaooooo

Sims 2 was superior in almost every way. It had heart and every expansion was worth every penny. It was amazing! Sims 4 doesn't have heart or soul, just packs of the same objects over and over that costs tons of money and they aren't even functional.

TS3 had the best graphics overall. Most details trees, shadows, reflections, etc. If only they stopped being so lazy

you have an incredible eye for detail, been playing sims 2 for like 20 years now and i never noticed half of these details!

I swear Sims 2 is just leagues better than Sims 4

Well I think TS2 and TS4 use different game styles hence the lack of texture or depth... The lack of casting or light from objects that naturally emit radiation is just unforgivable.

Water in TS2 has an actual PHYSICS... 2004 game has better PHYSICS ENGINE! 2004 GAME VS 2014 GAME WITH SUPPORT TO THIS DAY, COME ON

The Sims 2 Is BETTER Than The Sims 4

And thats why I prefer a realistic look over a cartoony look in the sims. The realistic look of sims 2 and 3 might have not aged well and cartoony is kind of timeless, but putting effort in a game just creates the better feeling, even when technologie moves on.

The Sims 4 feels like a nightmare where you are trapped for ever in a Discovery Kids bad show hell. Like everything is sugar, and happiness and cartoony af and all feels souless and empty. Now the way of how broken the Sims 4 is that´s another level of hell.

Also impressive considering most of The Sims 2 had to be rebuilt from the ground up after a huge server fire and continues to be the best sims game!

That TS4 baby is giving undead Benjamin Button vibes.

I love both The Sims 2 and 3 but ultimately I end up feeling more for my Sims in Sims 2. I think they just had more subtle touches to the animations, more expressive ones too. I remember playing 3 for the first time and being disappointed because the animations looked comparatively a bit lifeless compared to their Sims 2 counterparts. But I loved it regardless, and it's miles ahead of The Sims 4 in that regard too, those sims look like creepy Stepford Wives.

In TS2 if you used a TV or radio in a room with a sleeping person they would wake up to scream at you for it and throw a fit about it. I think even playing games on the computer might have done so as well but I don't remember now.

Random thing I learned about the Sims 2 a few nights ago. My sim was out late on the town and needed a ride home. They called for a taxi around 2am. Nothing. They called again around 3:30. Nothing. They called 1 more time closer to 4:20 and finally got a ride home. Something like that would have been a problem 2 decades ago! 😂

The sims 2 was really a game they were looking forward to, trying to show the public how far the life sim games could go and how much potential they could have in the future. When they reached sims 3, they even went higher with open worlds, but the sims 4, it is clear that it was a failure from the start, they published an unfinished game thats been 10 years in the making and it still is trash. I have been playing sims 2 exclusivelly lately and havent touched sims 4 in many months, last time i played was with the infant update. The sims 2 and 3 will always be better, and its great that there are still communities that make mods for these trully good games. I enjoy building in the sims 4 but thats not what you play the sims for. In the sims 2 or 3 i can be hours playing without noticing, playing the sims 4 i start a family, create the sims, build a house and then do gameplay for 10mins. So boring.

EA stopped putting their heart in after sims 2

I think what some Sims 4 players, specifically those who are actively afraid of and/or angered by criticism of their game, don't realize is that most people who don't like it aren't just trying to jump on a hate train for the sake of nostalgia. There are definitely people like that, but for the most part, we honestly just want the game to be better. It's frustrating to see a game that was released _ten years_ after The Sims 2 initially dropped still not have the small details or the gameplay depth, because we KNOW they can do it. They HAVE done it with TS2 and (to a slightly lesser extent, or perhaps in a different way) TS3. And yet, no matter how much content they add to TS4, it just ends up feeling hollow. Like, you're allowed to enjoy TS4 or dislike TS2, but just realize that we WANT TS4 to reach its potential. EAxis just continually chooses not to let it. Aspects of the game are actually good or even great, even if they're not perfect, but it feels like the constant pumping out of content is to their detriment. And honestly, it's...kinda obviously a cash grab-why, back in my day (I say, as someone who grew up with The Sims 3 kid and just happens to know too much about The Sims 2), our City Living, Bowling Night, and Dine Out packs all came in one expansion! TL;DR, we want TS4 to be a better game, but EAxis seems to have no interest in it, so at this point we're just frustrated. It's not like we want to hate a Sims game for the sake of hating it. It's just odd how they put so much heart into a game from 2004 that a game from 2014 seemingly can't even match.

I guess TS4 was going for a more cartoony art style? But who the heck would want that in a game ment to be like real life? Not me!

I'm going to play the sims 2 again.

Don’t forget the hair in sims 2 moves at bit too.

i might be living in the sims4 :D the ingredients also disappear when i cancel my cooking and my fridge doesn't produce light hshaha

TS2 is the better Sims game in ALL aspects, if it was open world it was going to be the perfect sims.

The grass kills me anytime I’m in TS4. U left the best for the end. 😆👌 Great job!

The fireplace effect looks cool. It seems like they're sweeping an overlay across the texture of the furniture - really efficient if that's the case

There's absolutely no real excuse for this. I mean, I know why it's crap. Its very foundation from birth was built on some weird obsession with some WOW online multiplayer b.s.... for The SIMS of all things. And you can tell too. If you import WOW stuff into the game and place it side by side with anything in The Sims 4, you can see it. They wanted to be WOW so bad, but failed, and when they realized their other online game tanked, they scrambled to "fix" it, but effed up more. No time to start over either. I never. In a bazillion YEARS would ever want to play my Sims with someone else online in some connected world with a million other randoms or bozos, or on some 2-player, 3+ Mario Party set up. My Sims world is mine, no one else's. If I want to share it, that's up to me. If they wanted The Sims to be that connected, barebones, and limited, it's waaaay too late. The fact that this game got me into modding and reading/manipulating code, and having cheats (a kind of taboo in online world) literally being part of the Sims lore in-game just shot that idea down on arrival. If they wanted to go that route, they needed to make everyone know 100% that this was a reboot, its own Sims 1, not The Sims 4. This is NOT IMVU and the genius on the Sims team who thought that putting The Sims online for Minecraft multiplayer was "the future" needs to be pelted with onions.

1:48 what I am noticing just now is less a graphic thing, but more realism. Who the heck smiles like that all the freaking time? People have mostly a nuetral expression unless they feel stronger emotions. But not like sims 4 did it.

If you know the history behind TS4 development then it all makes sense. It wasn’t even originally going to be the next game in the series. They were making some sort of weird online Sims game, but EA had another series that BOMBED and launched so horribly that they got scared about releasing another online game so soon that they changed some stuff and released the horrible OG base game Sims 4. That’s why so much stuff was missing, the graphics were wonky and less detailed. Very limited feeling to the last two games in the series. I will say it’s 100 times better now than at release, especially if you have the game packs, but I do agree it doesn’t come close to The Sims 2. I do enjoy the current Sims 4 better than Sims 3 though, I never liked it much. The way the Sims looked bothered me so much, and it would constantly crash and sometimes just be unplayable. I do hope the next game in the series is better at launch, like I wish they would take the relationship/emotion/storytelling/family dynamics of The Sims 2, the open world of The Sims 3, and then the graphics of The Sims 2 and 4 and put them all together. Yes, I enjoy the base look of The Sims 4 even though I know people that don’t. I like the cartoony, smooth feel. It just fits the vibe of that world. If anything the graphics just remind me of a way more polished and updated version of the Sims 2, with worse animations and less small details of course. That would be the perfect Sims game to me.

Another fabulous video! I love that you do these. All the details the original Maxis team put in are freakin fabulous! Sims 2 definitely best game! :D I hope this new Maxis team watches and studies your videos!!

Errh, I mean. TS2 they used photos to create some stuff. TS4 was specifically made to be able to be run on laptops 😅

One of the biggest things I miss from sims 2 is house phones and getting those long paragraph scam messages. Those were amazing, sometimes they were really funny and obscure and other times they actually managed to creep little me out and I miss it so much. I wish we could have house phones in newer sims games even though they've fallen into obscurity I still think it would be neat since a lot of homes do still have them. And I wish they would have actually put effort into the scam calls in sims 4 because they're all so obvious and lame compared to the sims 2 ones. I'd love to see a video on all the funny prank/scam calls from sims 2 compared to the sims 4 ones lol.

I bought an external DVD rom to play sims 2 and was actually really blown away at how well the graphics are still holding up in 2024. Honestly such a great game with such a legacy

At first I was like OMG how dare you but then I watched ur vid and I was like OMG you are so right , loving those details and attention sprinkled here & there