History YMMV / TheSims2

** The Free Time expansion adds some cool new items and the hobby system into the game. The problem is, once you Sim gets some hobby enthusiasm, 90% of their wants will roll up to be hobby-related. Have a new baby? Trying to get up the career ladder? Making a best friend? No aspiration points form those, because your wants are all "talk about hobby," "read hobby page in the newspaper," "practice hobby," etc.

** Hope you enjoy the gesturing in Bon Voyage because once you install it, that's all they'll do. Unless you get a mod.

** Put a stereo in, and you better get used to the music - because it's ''not'' turning off (unless you turn off Free Will) in the options menu, so they won't try to turn the blasted thing on again).

** Put a stereo in, and you better get used to the music - because it's ''not'' turning off.

** Pregnancy causes hunger and energy to deplete at such an acceleration that failure to juggle both adequately is quite likely to prove fatal unless you micromanage like crazy. (Giving birth is 100% safe in the Sims' world, but pregnancy cravings can be a literal killer.) Gets even worse with ''Nightlife'' installed, as you'll often find yourself in the extremely frustrating position of watching your pregnant Sim starve to death after she ([[MisterSeahorse or he]]) falls asleep face-down in a plate of food. Luckily, the pregnancy mechanic was overhauled comprehensively in ''The Sims 3'' to prevent this from happening.

** If you make your Sims very Neat in their personalty, they will always make their bed when they wake up and you can't stop them once they have started.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The premade characters are often subject to this, with any one character's personality running the full gamete of the personality scale.

** Put a stereo in, and you better get used to the music - because it's ''not'' turning off.

** Starting from Free Time,, Mr. Humble will give you a new computer. Always nice - but he does this for ''every family'' you create. Needless to say, mods were instantly created to disable this since the very high end computer messes up "rags to riches" scenarios.
** "It's raining!" "It's hailing!" "It's snowing!" Yes, we knew that it was raining and hailing... how many times do I have to get the "It's raining!" off of your task queue?

** Raise your hands if you know that ''mellifera'' is the second part of the ''Latin'' name for a family of honey bees. [[note]]Yep, the spell is technically a combination of pretentious Latin and ''real'' Latin[[/note]]

** Raise your hands if you know that ''mellifera'' is the second part of the ''Latin'' name for a family of honey bees.

** Raise your hands if you know that ''mellifera'' is the second and last part of the ''Latin'' name for the common honey bee.

** Raise your hands if you know that ''mellifera'' is the second part of the ''Latin'' family name of the western honey bee.

* ScrappyMechanic: Likely added to the "Ultimate edition"... but Mr. Humble will give you a new computer. Always nice - but he does this for ''every family'' you create.

* PolishedPort: Not only was the Mac version not discontinued like the Windows version was, it was also given a complete overhaul by being ported to the modern Mac OS X native Intel x64 architecture, given support for newer graphics cards, and even added 4K resolution support. It also comes bundled with every single expansion pack released to date, for a reasonable price of US$29.99. Windows users ''may'' get 4K resolution only by manually hacking about two dozen configuration files by hand, and even then the game has graphical glitches due to having no support for modern cards.

* PolishedPort: Not only was the Mac version not discontinued like the Windows version was, it was also given a complete overhaul by being ported to the modern Mac OS X native Intel x64 architecture, support for newer graphics cards, and even 4K resolution support. It also comes bundled with every single expansion pack released to date, for a reasonable price of US$29.99.

* NoBackwardsCompatibilityInTheFuture: Inverted - The Mac version will absolutely not run modern day Intel Macs that have been upgraded past Snow Leopard, due to being a [=PowerPC=] RISC binary and Apple dropping Rosetta from Lion onwards. Even with Rosetta the performance is questionable since it's not a native Intel x86 binary and thus requires a translation layer.

* FanDumb: Mac-using fans of the game were fuming at EA for not letting them in as part of the deal when they gave away the game free at the end of July 2014. Apparently most Mac users have forgotten that The Sims 2 was a [=PowerPC=] Mac era title and will no longer run on modern day Intel Macs (see ''No Backwards Compatibility In The Future below'').

** Put a computer in the house and the sims will always try and play it unless you have free will off. This gets ''very'' annoying when you try to make your sims stand out so they don't miss the school bus or the carpool... and they decide to go play the computer.

* NoBackwardsCompatibilityInTheFuture: Inverted - The Mac version will absolutely not run modern day Intel Macs that have been upgraded past Snow Leopard, due to being a [=PowerPC=] RISC binary and Apple dropping Rosetta from Lion onwards. Even with Rosetta the performance is questionable since it's not a native Intel x86 binary and thus requires a translation layer.

* NoBackwardsCompatibilityInTheFuture: Inverted - The Mac version will absolutely not run modern day Intel Macs that have been upgraded past Snow Leopard, due to being a [=PowerPC=] RISC binary and Lion dropping Rosetta from it's system. Even with Rosetta the performance is questionable since it's not a native Intel x86 binary and thus requires a translation layer.

* FanDumb: Mac users were fuming at EA for not letting them in as part of the deal when they gave away the game free at the end of July 2014. Apparently most Mac users have forgotten that The Sims 2 was a [=PowerPC=] Mac era title and will no longer run on modern day Intel Macs.

* FanDumb: Mac users were fuming at EA for not letting them in as part of the deal when they gave away the game free at the end of July 2014. Apparently most Mac users have forgotten that The Sims 2 was a PowerPC Mac era title and will no longer run on modern day Intel Macs.

* NoBackwardsCompatibilityInTheFuture: Inverted - The Mac version will absolutely not run modern day Intel Macs that have been upgraded past Snow Leopard, due to being a PowerPC RISC binary and Lion dropping Rosetta from it's system. Even with Rosetta the performance is questionable since it's not a native Intel x86 binary and thus requires a translation layer.

* GeniusBonus: When Sims play chess, they move the chess pieces appropriately.