What The Sims 2 Apartment Life feels like in 2023 

If I remember correctly, Apartment Life came with witches because it was the last pack for the Sims 2 and Maxis put out a survey asking what people wanted to see in the last pack. They promised they’d do their best, and shoved as much as they could into this pack. So it seems very random, witches in the city, but it’s actually kind of a symbol of how much Maxis loved the fans of their game. 😭🥰

You definitely can visit your apartment neighbors in Sims 2, because it is actually a good game haha. According to the wiki, there are some conditions to be met: 1.The neighbor must be on the lot 2.The daily relationship score between the neighbor and the knocking Sim must be at least 30 3. It must be between 6 AM and 10 PM. So you can't just invite yourself into stranger's places at any moment in time, cause ✨realism✨. Sims 4 could never lol

also, in The Sims 2 if you have a really good relationship with your neighbour, you can ask them to babysit your children!!

The Sims 2 is a good mixture of realism and fantasy. It was realistic enough to not get you out of an immersive fantasy world you have built. What is annoying with The Sims 4 is call a sim, and you can see that sim you are calling is walking down the street not even on their phone. Did you know in the Sims 2, when you call a child/teen or an adult at work, they will reject your call, and you won't see them walking around your lot. In the Sims 4, you see children walking around the neighborhood during school days/hours, like is every child/teen in the sims 4 cutting classes? Also in the Sims 2, if you lock the doors and your sims are inside the house and you decide to play another household, sims inside the locked doors won't be roaming around town. I'm sorry but for someone who says that the sims 4 is made out of love and passion is just naive. The sims 4 producers are lazy, it's not the budget. It's the fact that the Sims 2 made the effort to make that game an actual life simulator with a personality, while the gurus in the Sims 4 shameless call sims in their game "smarter sims". lol. "smarter sims" my ass.

I loved that if you had child sims in different apartments on the lot, they all got on the school bus in the morning and got home together at 3.

Sims 2 was the best, the chaos made it so much fun and unpredictable. I would believe they threw in random ukulele music to throw people off lol.

What i’d give for an updated Sims 2 remaster 😫

My favorite Sims2 cheat is when you're renting an apartment, make sure you have boolprop cheats on and shift-click the door to "rent furnished apartment" Same amount of rent but you get the fully EA furnished apartment that would be there for NPCs that move in!

Did you notice the gift is from "Mr. Humble"? That's Rod Humble, the executive producer of Life By You. He is a large portion of why TS2 was so phenomenal and why I basically signed on to get LBY early access the first day it was available. Also, why I wasn't upset at the delay because back in March of 2004, less than 1 week before announced release, TS2 was delayed by 6 months. Delay is a good thing when it produces a good game. Prudence looks like a Fennec Fox. You can use the collections folder to make it easier to have a cohesive theme. I don't tend to use them as I prefer eclectic build, but it's a great way to do it quickly. That is a "motorhead" build. Online dating started in the mid 90's, FYI. Her date (Blair?) is a "socialite," the AL townies with the most money. Woohoo isn't available until you hit a lifetime relationship (lower meter) of 75. It might be 70, but it has to be pretty high. TS2 aspirations are much more driving than TS4 aspirations. The way to get to know your neighbors is to have a building party. Otherwise, the landlord throughs a building get together every Saturday. I use Open For Business and own a community lot so I can meet a witch. Cooper is "Mr.Big" who comes with Nightlife. He's rich (75K). His female counterpart is the "Diva" who wears the tight, black floor length dress, black gloves and red scarf. Butlers don't live with you. You can keep the sound from coming through the wall by putting objects on all shared walls. Fuchs is pronounced "Fooks." Chemistry is not base game, it's Nightlife. But there is an unseen friendship chemistry in base game based on interests. In fact, that hidden chemistry goes back to TS1 base game. When a Sim reaches Max magical skill and Max alignment (either good or bad) there is a throne they can make. If they sit on the throne with their alignment, it raises all motives. If the sit on the throne of the wrong alignment, it reduces all motives and can kill your Sim. I think for a non witch or a neutral witch it has no effect. Sims' religion was first hinted at in TS1 with a downloadable family (the Hatfields) which talks about a higher power and really fleshed out in The Sims Medieval with churches of The Watcher. So, Fannie Mae is looking at you as her Watcher or diety.

i got bored of sims 4 about 2 years ago and went back to sims 2. absolutely the best choice i could've made. i still play sims 4 when new packs come out (no, i don't pay for them if you know what i mean) and i always get bored after 2 days. sims 2 on the other hand i can play all the time

The Sims 2 was honestly peak Sims/gaming content. I loved this game so much and I can't wait to play it again once I have a PC (I'm a Mac user and I refuse to pay for the App Store version without all the packs when the Ultimate Collection is sitting in my Origin). I do recall there being cheats to alt-place items and do quarter-tile placement and diagonal rotations, but they were kind of long and involved the word boolprop.

We still lack those spiral staircases in the Sims4..

It’s nice that you can visit the neighbors in the apartment without a loading screen unlike another game…

people forget that in the Sims 2 the entire town was the lot, so you could put a house anywhere. Sims three and Sims 4 do not behave the same way because each lot is a separate lot in the town.… I miss the Sims 2, that was so fun to play and so less buggy than Sims four is

Sims2 Apartment Life remains my absolute favorite expansion pack for any Sims series. I had a lot of fun with it.

This is what For Rent should have been, albeit with The Sims 4's building and Sim creation capabilities. Spiral staircases, visiting neighbours on the same lot by fading their apartment in and out, choosing bed frames and bed covers separately, having chaos and drama come to you without you always having to set it up, etc. The Sims 5 needs to take the best from each game, let go of the child-friendly limitations, reduce the money-grabbing and give players what they want from the get-go.

I LOVE when you actually play the game! It is so fun to watch. Thank you for sharing this.

All I want for sims 5 is for the sims 2 to be re-released with updated graphics and better build/buy mode. and it sucks knowing that EA would never do it.

The only thing EA ever did right was giving the Sims 2 collection for free if you already had the base.

I always loved apartments in the sims 2 and 3. I feel like I’m already set for disappointment with the sims 4 for rent pack lol

Sims 2 apartments got elevators that can skip floors like a skyscraper!! I can make a 15 story building with express elevator to reach sky lobby then take local elevator to the floor I want to go to Public spaces in the apartment also feels really alive If only sims can use balcony and terraces though

I am so glad that I still have all of the Sims 2 Game Packs in my closet. I am going back to the Sims 2 and mod it.

I find the Sims 4 difficult to build in as I'm so used to Sims 2 methods. I hate the way it constantly highlights an entire room when you just want to alter one wall.

Sims 2 is so chaotic and funny in a way Sims 4 wants to be so bad 😂

I've always said, TS2 had the BEST world editing and lot placement out of all the games!

Wow! I don’t even remember this pack 😆 it’s been ages! The sims 4 could never

my creepiest moment when i had made a country farmer family. i had the father cheat on his wife with the neighbor. he didnt want to and i made him anyways. the wife caught him. she didnt get angry at him, she was angry at me and staring right at me with a horrible look. she then came closer to the monitor, and threw a punch at me. i stopped the family and deleted the whole lot with the family. i never played them or that house again!

Yes. I play Sims 2 a lot and I built my own custom trailer park without having to use mods or anything. It is based.

It’s shocking seeing how fast the firefighters respond in Sims 2 compared to Sims 4 🤯

Sims 2 is the goat. Just needed some updates from 4 and it would’ve been immortal…

i felt the transition from sims1-2-3 went too fast and then sims4 is like wth, 10 yrs but cant match all of them

It killssss me when people knock build in sims 2 when they havent even tried the cheats, just turn off the grid with boolprops cheat and move objects on and you can place things anywhere. Bracket keys move objects up and down, with some tool mods too you can do whatever you can in the sims 4 really. Now i know sims 4 is better for build buy though.

Got the sims 2 apartment life yesterday at a second hand store and I’m only missing one sims 2 pack and then I’ll have all of them! I’ve been wanting the apartment life for ages but haven’t found it anywhere and I’m super happy I found it now! 😁 (I’m buying the cds if your wondering since I’m playing on my moms computer which is pretty old and has a cd adapter or whatever it’s called and I’ve always played it on cd for years)

Better then THE SIMS 4 FOR RENT FOR SURE 100%

Takes me back. I only had Sims 2 pets and apartment life expansion packs. Loved it! But a whole lot of cc, once I knew that cc was even a thing. 😂

I have not worked at getting sims 2 to work on my computer but I love there is a CC creator who has made the build buy from every pack and kit in the sims 4 to work in sims2

11:04 yeah, it's really annoying that they don't wanna hang out. You need to make a friendship with them, like maybe in the real life :D

Wow. I missed this era but this is vintage realness.

The nostalgia this brought today! I love watching the chaos you have unfold on your playthroughs!! Sims 2 was iconic and Sims 4 does not live up to it which is sad, although it does have a much larger scale processing power, being made so long ago at this point it can't live up to all the other open world ish games. On the up side thoroughly enjoyed this play through!!

This is art, this is beautiful, I love how Fanny Mae Jones looks like a Monster High character, Flanjelica Floofie has an amazing name And this game looks amazing and so so much better than Sims 4 lol

Those good old times when the sims games had funny gameplay...

19:02 Technically not accurate. The chemistry system is kind of like a basegame update, but because of how it works if you only have basegame or only have basegame and University, you won’t have the chemistry system. Sam if you only have basegame and stuff packs since they don’t have the code. It is included in the code of all other expansion packs, but you have to have at least one expansion pack Nightlife or later. There are a LOT of things I dislike about gaming today, especially the forced on line if you want to play most things, but the ability to make a basegame update actually basegame is nice.

This is making me so nostalgic for the sims 2!! I need to figure out how to get my computer to play this game

If the soms team made the sims 4 appearance with sims 2 gameplay omg it would be an unreal game I like you played sims all my life I didn't even get the sims 4 when it released because it wasn't finished... no pools... honestly sims 4 is the worst sims game and that includes sim city franchise too hahahahahahaha!!!!! And they killed it, I love your brutally honest reviews thank you for not being a snowflake like the rest of the influencers ❤

There's a cheat to place objects how you like. You first need to type boolprop moveobjects on and then boolprop snapobjectstogrid false. You can even type boolprop allow45degreeangleofrotation true to place objects diagonally for even more variety

I loved when you threw a party and have your Sim scope the room. They let you know who the were attacked to.

Fun fact: if your Sim writes a cookbook and puts it on the bookshelves, other Sims in the household can read it and increase their cooking skill.

He kept rejecting moving in because their Lifetime Relationship is too low (the bottom bar). It goes up based off how long your sim has known the other sim. I love the sims 2 so much.

I can’t with your videos, man. I open them and immediately star laughing at the names. You need to make this your part time job. Just generating hilarious names for characters for money. 😂

Sims 2 is so old, it's pre emo & proper Goth. Very fun gameplay! Playing since 2000, I still think Sims 2 has the best gameplay. I also miss stripper cakes.

If you lived where they filmed Deliverance, you'd know the difference between banjos and ukeleles. LOL

Sims 2 is so EPIC, i love this game to pieces 😍 Sims 4 is not a game, is just something shallow and annoying.

7 seconds in and YAY!!! It's work, I know, but she's worth it. I only play 2 and 3 on my laptop and they honestly run better than 4 with all that rando lag. 😂

One of the benefits about the sims 2 university too was that the wants and fears section was expanded after you graduated college. So it was beneficial to go to college to expand other jobs that you could only get with certain degrees and you could get more options for wants

I miss the Sims in 2 breaking the 4th wall. God I love that game lol

I mostly watched ur shorts and hot takes but the lets plays r relaxing while I build. Thoroughly enjoyed!

It was so fun to watch you play this pack! Great video 💜

You an get the bird cage but always leave it open so your bird is free to fly around your home 😍 It stays inside your home as long as it’s taken care of, if it’s neglected it leaves the house and doesn’t come back(which is better than it dying 😅)

The computer that came as a welcome gift was a special compiter. You were able to play sims 3 on that computer

3:28 Well it depends what kind of bird it is. My family used to have pet budgies when i was little and they had a big cage they lived in and that cage was outside on our porch in the garden, and we would sometimes let them fly around the inside of our house but we'd have to close all the windows. but one time, the cage was accidentally knocked over, which scared one of the budgies and caused her to fly away, and the sad thing is, budgies arent meant to live in the wild, they are meant to live in cages so they can be fed and they can have a good life, and be protected from the harsh environments, but since that budgie flew away she most likely died not long after.

I got the mac bundle a while back and was upset apartment life wasn’t part of it specifically for witches and apartments. The final packs for TS2/TS3 were mostly top tier content. I include TS3 only because Island Paradise and Into the Future actually work really well for me on an M2 mac now and TS3 is pretty smooth now.

Yay! Thank you for uploading this! 🫶

I love the Sims 2, it was my most played game when I was a teenager. I'm so happy to have it working on my laptop; it's nice to go back to it.

In the sims 2 you can enter cheats which essentially allow you to freely move objects in the sims 4! It’s just not as accessible as the sims 4, I love TS2.

So you actually can place objects flexibly in the sims 2. You need to input 2-3 cheats to do so. There's 1 chest for quarter tiles and another cheat for rotation!

Please make a series of playing sims 2! Omg its incredible~

So weird how everybody seems to struggle to get the Sims 2 to work. I never had any issues...same witg the Sims 3. No crashes, no major problems, even with all packs 😅

I only had the sims 2 pets when I was a kid (I really liked the pet shops) So I am happy to see some of the packs I never even knew I was missing out on as a kid.

YES BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Being funny is very different from being sadistic

This came just in time! I literally just downloaded Sims 2 apartment life for the first time since the 2000s.

Your let’s plays are always so chaotic and I love that

5:46 i belive they are called Romani, not Gepcy

OMG! The drama! I miss Sims 2

Satch this is your calling to start a sims 2 let’s play. I would literally DIE it would be so fun

“I just spent $5,000 on a date and I just shooed him away!!” 😂😂

i missed these gameplay videos of yours so much

There are cheats to place objects on half tiles and 45 angles. The 45 angles tho sometimes clip when sims use an object.

I never got to play Apartment Life. This was back in the day when I had to buy physical discs and I just couldn't get hold of it. Finally found one and the install code wasn't included. And then Sims 3 came out. It's nice to see what this pack actually has in it.

in sims 2 theres a build cheat called something like setquartertileplacement true or on and boolprop snapobjectstogrid false, you can place items like in sims 4 (you onlt cant rotate freely) some items wont work properly but most of them do

Love your videos

Should I be playing with the sims 2 more? The ultimate collection is looking pretty good rn.

For the witches, you can even visit their castle. Hope to see ur hilarious commentary about that.

I was worried he wasn’t gonna say “the sims 4 could never” 🥺🤣🤣

The sims 4 DOES have an expandable build mode catalogue by default!! I was playing one day and accidentally figured this out. I didn’t have any mods at the time so I was kinda in awe lol. I know most people don’t know about it but the sims 4 DOES have one… I genuinely can’t remember how to open it atm because it’s been a minute since I played. But If you look it up you can find the hot key. It’s so crazy.

You can introduce them in sims 4 by clicking under other sims in the friendly category and ask or talk about another sim. You also try to hook them up

OMG I MISS THE SIMS 2 PET BEDS🥺

I wasn't expecting the SatchOnSims extended cinematic universe lore

Now that you say that we don't have that many carpets, you know the next kits going to be a carpet kit woohoo! 😅

When i played sims 2 i always made me and my best friend. Whenever they became bffs and i would have my sim get in a relationship my bff would get jealous and accuse me of cheating

Ohhh the nostalgia 😢 ❤

I miss the sims 2. It was so great. I played it so so much. The Sims was my childhood and the sims 2 was my tween and teenage years lol I played sims 3 once and hated it and never played it again. Continued playing sims 2 until a few years ago when I finally switched to sims 4 lol

the sims 4 could never 😭

Would you be able to do a tutorial on how to download the Sims 2? My games start messing up and not starting up after Business expansion pack D: ahhh!

Calista Fuchs is actually the “homewrecker” of my town. She has a child with at least two different married/partnered men in town… including her BEST FRIEND!!! 🫣😫 She’s had her best friend’s husband farther at least 3 of her children! 💔💔 Calista Fuchs has been a known menace in my town & has historically taken her last name too seriously. 😬😭🤣🤣

TS4 build mode combined with TS2 everything else, now THAT is the dream sim game right there.

i love you doing lets plays sm tho

i’ve literally never played apartment life bc when i had windows i couldn’t get ts2 to work and now i just have a mac and aspyr was never given licensing for freetime or AL :( :( i LOVE living in apartments in the sims , but the sims 2 is my favorite.. i’ve considered literally buying a PC for the sole purpose of getting AL to work. sims 2 is still hella fun with the EPs that come with super collection tho!

You can tour the apts if you hold shift and click the door. There’s an animation for it too. I do think testing cheats needs to be on tho. Also it lets you rent the apt furnished if you hold shift too

For the whole video I was waiting you to enter into another flat and show the Sims 4 fans that in this game no loading screens 😂