ADOPTION COMPARED! Sims 1 vs. Sims 2 vs. Sims 3 vs. Sims 4

[@PleasantSims]

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[@picklechungus]

The Sims 1 adoption makes it look like the adoption centre is overcrowded and they're giving away babies to random adults

[@PleasantSims]

I know!! They're just calling everyone in the phonebook to see who will take one of their hands! 😆

[@brickyy3106]

@@PleasantSims its like a dog LOL

[@vanyadolly]

It makes sense. The orphanages are over-crowded because of all the babies the social service lady has taken! I've lost more TS1 babies than I've kept.

[@Paidnotspaid420]

very accurate to real life

[@MsLikeyah64]

Not an Adoption MLM

[@Edood]

I'd say Sims 2 is the most realistic. The whole aspect of having enough money to properly bring a new child in, waiting for the next day, not being able to adopt anymore after getting children taken away, they getting back to the "orphanage", and so on.

[@ryqueezy6327]

In my opinion, The Sims 4 is the most realistic. You can adopt a child of your choice, which is actually kind of how real adoption works.

[@noobastronomy1606]

Sims 3 and 1 real silent rn

[@iamanti8367]

yeah, adoption is free in real world, so paying for it seems like you literally buying a child, lmao. it would be cool if the social worker came to check if you have a proper home for child (something similar to like when headmaster comes) + enough money leftover.

[@SecretAgentNein]

@@iamanti8367 Where is adoption free? I keep hearing about how expensive it is.

[@MsLikeyah64]

@@iamanti8367 That’s Foster care

[@terribleeyesshining]

I love the Sims 1, imagine if real adoption agencies just rang you and offered you a child 😂

[@PleasantSims]

Lol! That would be crazy!! I'd probably have a kid or two by now, though. 😆

[@prickhead]

Funny thing, if your family is a foster family in the USA, a lot of the time they will call you to see if you can take on a child that needs a foster home. Sometimes a lot of families end up adopting those children, too!

[@cicelyamelia]

@@prickhead but the family in that scenario has already said ‘yes we want to foster kids let us know thanks’

[@prickhead]

Yeah, I know, I didn't really feel like typing out the entire scenario of the adoption process, just thought it was kinda funny how it sorta happens like that in real life!

[@MzScarredBeauty]

@@PleasantSims Me too probably a house full.

[@dundee6402]

Fun fact about the Sims 2: adopted toddlers and children are randomly generated from CAS presets (and can thus suffer from first born syndrome too), but babies are bred from two randomly picked townies! That means they can have very interesting and unique genes and features.

[@glanni]

Ah yes, Marticore? :)

[@olivethegreat]

It’s the same for puppies and kittens! They are “bred” from strays in the neighborhood.

[@rockyme100]

My sister had a family in the Sims 2 but the parents died and the child was taking away. She then created a new sim in the same world and decided to adopt a child, she got the child her previous had lol

[@somegenerichandle]

Yeah I think youtuber marticore got into that.

[@Mskittenlover12]

@@rockyme100 Yeah the game usually does that if a household has had children taken away.

[@misstressfoxtail05]

Weird fact: If you look in the game code for sims 4, a child being taken away by the social worker is classified as a death.😬

[@LoriHorta]

Really? That's crazy. That explains why they can never be found.

[@Lex_Quinn]

This is why you have to use mods to not kill the child

[@rachelvmayhill]

This is exactly why I changed a setting in Mc Command center so that a child taken away is adopted by a random townie

[@alexbaeza3082]

@@rachelvmayhill How can you do that?? I have MCCC but can't seem to find that option

[@gubivitschwob1619]

@@rachelvmayhill how

[@hopelesschaotic]

I actually like the fact that you cannot name children in ts2, it's way more realistic! I think irl nobody would try to force a kid to change their name at age 8 or 9 :D

[@randomuser2427]

Kid: Hi mom I'm Miranda. Mom: Ew, no, you'll be named Tifa now. Kid: Why do you want to call me after a video game character instead of my real name? Mom: Look, *I* don't decide that. Kid: Who does it then? Mom: * looks at player * Not sure.

[@DaniParducci]

Well, I know that if you adopt a child, you cn legally change their name. I know of adopted children that usually come from a bad place and want a "fresh start" so their adoptive parents let them pick a new name. No one forces them to change their name, but a lot of them do get their names changed when they're adopted. In the Sims 3 you have the ability to create that type of story line, in which the child wants to change their name, and then picks a fun name or something like that haha

[@pupyfanatic44]

Very true, but it does happen. One of my best friends was adopted at 9 and her mom changed her name. She let her have some input on the name of course because she was old enough, but ultimately her mom did pick it out. I’ve also heard of older children actually picking out their new name after getting adopted

[@DaniParducci]

@@pupyfanatic44 I've only knew of children picking their own names. Didn't know a parent could just change it. But the case I know is of a girl who grew up in my country but had a foreign name that she didn't know how to pronounce and felt weird about it. Her adoptive parents couldn't pronounce it either, so they let her pick a name she liked that was more common here.

[@zeinab9222]

I have 2 uncles that were adopted around that age and they both had their names changed

[@fernandofffff]

In The Sims 1 if a straight couple kiss each other a bunch of times, they'll ask to have a baby. But if you do that with a gay or lesbian couple, they'll ask to adopt. :)

[@brickyy3106]

AWW THATS SO CUTE

[@randomuser2427]

That's how the flowers and the bees work y'all. Just kiss each other a lotta times and then you'll randomly get an offer to adopt a baby or it'll just pop into existence. Just like in real life! :D Trust me, I have an E in Biology. ;D

[@4O4Hime]

@@randomuser2427 That E, of course, stands for Excellent! :P

[@rbck8826]

@@randomuser2427 E in sweden is actually a good grade, only F is bad.

[@claireglover1391]

@@randomuser2427 yeah I don’t need to know that

[@tjg813]

I noticed in sims 3 that the adopted child isn’t just randomized, they are randomized from sims you have saved in your sim bin. I had made a wicked witch of the west once and saved her to the bin and forgot she was there. A few months later I did an adoption and got a green baby. I guess I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure that kid was the witches baby. That would explain why I sometimes got kids with pink hair too, if they were based off of sims I had saved.

[@PoptartParasol]

Ohh that makes a lot of sense now! I love how much information i learn the more i did into Sims 2 and 3. The best games ever imho

[@GodReadingCrafts]

That doesn't happen in a regular game, nraas mods do that. Without mods they unfortunately have the face one syndrome, which is just a problem with sims 3 in general 😔

[@cihojuda]

I never noticed that. Whenever my sims adopt the kids almost always have Default Sim Face. Once I got an alien kid though.

[@thelittleevilkid]

How is no one talking about Cindy being able to keep a Sims 1 family alive for 2 hours IN SPEED 3????????

[@taynahibanez9952]

RIGHT???

[@FonVegen]

Last time I tried adoption in Sims 3, the child ended up stuck underwater in a map corner. Did manage to fix that by teleporting them into the parents' apartment and had no further issues, but before that they spent a day at the bottom of the sea while I tried other solutions that proved futile.

[@SimsAllAround]

Say what???

[@FonVegen]

Oh, the child was fine and grew up alright. Never developed the wish to go swimming anywhere though, which is a bit odd. (Yes, the last part was a joke)

[@glanni]

@@FonVegen should have given them the hydrophobic trait lmao

[@PoptartParasol]

Sims 3 makes more logical sense for adoption. When you're an elder they deny you a child because (obviously) you are high risk of passing away and leaving the child on its own before it ages up Kinda sad but makes a lot of sense

[@merchantfan]

@@FonVegen Haha "Way dooooown below the ocean"

[@caiofariasrosa]

You know that your day will get better when Cindy's upload.

[@PleasantSims]

Aww, thanks so much!

[@xarzneimittel8220]

Literal my first thought when I saw the notification 💕💕💕

[@keg10609]

Hell yeah

[@SunYoungMii]

EXACLTY. I’m hooked at the moment. Love her videos and bubbly personality ✨

[@tomboyraider1015]

What a sweet comment 😊 It’s true!

[@TRamp94]

Let's not forget that in TS2 faimly sims can unlock the perk where you can beg the social worker not to take your kid away.

[@PleasantSims]

I love that perk! Thankfully, I've never had to use it!

[@HerHollyness]

Such a random perk though. I mean, what family Sim is going to neglect their children?

[@SimsAllAround]

@@HerHollyness Me: flashbacks to when I was 9 and didn't know leaving the kid by herself would get her taken away xD

[@TRamp94]

@@HerHollyness It happened to me by mistake and my sim wasn't a family sim, so I had to reload the game.

[@annelieseharrison9027]

I remember having to use that perk! The Nanny didn't show up to watch the kids, but luckily my sim got home just in time to save her kid!

[@kazukimanga]

Just a thought but imagine if a couple get their child taken away in TS2 and every time they make a baby naturally it gets taken away because they are flagged as bad parents. That would be rough.

[@mayaha200]

I love how Sims 2 and 3 did the adoption. it felt so real unlike the sims 4 that you can easily adobt even after your child can taken away.

[@MultiBluhme]

Do you know that in the sims 2 when you adopt a baby, the game selects two random townies to be its genetic parents? Marticore made a video about this. I think that's really cool and I like trying to guess who they are

[@miranda2421r]

The relationship discrepancy you found in the Sims 2 is due to the season: summer. The same happens if someone brings home a colleague/fellow student. Normally they start out with 20, in summer it's usually around 40.

[@sarasthoughts]

This is so strange and interesting!

[@abelhapedras]

summer loving, happened so fast...

[@Karenwood]

I remember playing the sims 3 and had a kid taken away by the social worker and when I called the adoption service again after some time had passed I got the same kid back that got taken away lmao that must be a rare occurrence

[@olczi7]

Lucky! Never happened to me :c

[@Alryeght]

I usually don't really have big story lines for my sims in sims 4 bc it's just too much make believe for me personally. But the one time I had a story planned out, I had a grandma living with her grandson, and wanted to adopt the boy with another household once the grandma died. Welp. She died and that boy just vanished into thin air. I never found that sim again. Really annoying.

[@evenstarlights1625]

I did something similar just that I wanted the mum to neglect the baby and just have it taken away so another pair of Sims can adopt it. Well the lil boy was never seen again. I'm still sad to this day. Not even in the family tree is any trace of him. I really don't like that!

[@leanzadoodles5354]

I always love it when Sims 1 is included. I know it lacks a lot of the features in the other games but that game is just so special to me I like it being revisited! ❤️

[@PleasantSims]

I totally agree!

[@callmeobsequious]

"This child isn't mine, but she COULD be for the low low price of §999.99 plus shipping and handling!"

[@onemackerel138]

My favourite is actually sims 2. I don't mind waiting (altho I don't have to, maybe I have a mod for it, can't remember), and not being able to name toddlers and children is pretty realistic. I mean, even if I could, I would feel bad taking away a child's name and identity from them, especially in a stressful situtation. Just imagine living your life for 4-5 years with one name, then waking up one day, you move to a completely unfamiliar place, "random strangers" are your family now, and even your name changes. It's a lot to take for a little kid

[@leontineketting97]

i feel that sims 2 was more likely realistic in my opinion, i remember that one time my sims got twins and i left the name as in baby boy and i was so frustrating i couldn't change his name till i discovered cheats lmao good old times :P (and you can't change appearances expect hair colours which is super realistic too, i wish i still had sims 2 though)

[@onemackerel138]

@@leontineketting97 oh my god, I would have been frustrated as hell too >< I left the names as "Baby Boy" "Baby Girl" a couple of times when I couldn't care less for the child, but it was in the sims 4

[@leontineketting97]

@@onemackerel138 ouch😱😂

[@LottisLibrary]

One time I adopted a kid in the sims 2 and forgot that I had to wait a day. My sim went to work at the same time the social worker showed up so the kid was home alone all day and got taken away again 😭😭😭

[@pupyfanatic44]

That happened to my sister once lol 😂

[@malintherese5008]

And, in the sims 2 when a baby is created when someone adopts, it uses the genes of two townies. So its interesting to see if you can recognise who the genetic parents are when the baby grows up

[@bethwaechter8927]

This explains the Koemi Tellerman and Benjamin Long genetics running around lmao

[@malintherese5008]

@@bethwaechter8927 Yep for example 😅

[@Trunksette]

Another thing I really like about sims 3 adoption is that it does fulfill the have a baby want! But only if you adopt a baby I believe.

[@HerHollyness]

Sims 2 is definitely the best version for me here. I actually really don’t like that you can change the name of a child-aged Sim in TS3 (and 4). IRL I don’t think you would/should change a child’s name unless they are too young to remember. I also don’t like that children who are taken away just disappear and don’t go into the adoption pool in TS3. TS4 is the worst though - I only found out a few months ago about the child just ‘poofing’ away through watching a GrayStillPlays video and I was appalled enough just by that. I had no idea they hadn’t programmed in a social worker (but really, I should have expected it). That game is so bad.

[@SanzuHaruchiyo-d8b]

I agree with you.

[@elif6908]

+++

[@Lexi_3457]

From what I understand there are no social workers in TS4 because, like burglars, they are too triggering.

[@dundee6402]

In the Sims 3, they don't disappear they just become regular townies. You still keep them in your relationships and family tree, and therefore invite them to parties and events later on. When they're children, you can even see them go to school. They can even later join back the household when they grow up to adults.

[@dundee6402]

@@Lexi_3457 Triggering how so? Gosh the sims 4 is made by wimps.

[@thebivi]

With MCCC, you have the option to have a child be adopted by a random family when taken away in the sims 4.

[@sarah0315-]

Your hair is looking very full, very chic and cute! Great video btw, I wish the sims 2 had the gender choice :(

[@PleasantSims]

I use this mod to allow gender choice and to adopt townies and teens: www.insimenator.org/index.php?topic=98514.0

[@userjoao]

sims 2 missed an oportunity to have an adoption scenario 😪

[@haruxsaru]

In my Sims 4 game I had a neglectful mom lose her toddler but he still was in the relationship panels for all the sims and could be invited to parties and stuff and when his teenager older sister aged up she was able to invite her little brother over and adopt him. So it’s possible not to completely lose a kid if they have relationships with other sims.

[@Wkterr]

In The Sims 1, homosexual couples would get the adoption prompt instead of the "Should we have a baby?" prompt that heterosexual couples get when engaging in romantic social activities (read: steaming hot kissing).

[@NateIsNotOkay]

That’s so wholesome!

[@JenMaxon]

I generally prefer TS2 because I like the lack of choice - they're adopting a child, not shopping for one. I feel like the lack of control respects the fact the child is a sim person in their own right. You know, as far as you can respect a fictional child.

[@AscendedDemon]

I'm not sure how true this is but I heard once that The Sims 4 apparently classifies a child being taken away as a death in the game's coding.

[@randomuser2427]

Oh god. Imagine getting your kid gets taken away and the game's like: "Welp, they're dead now, I guess."

[@mumamumamu9550]

One time in The Sims 4 I had a young couple with a kid, and when the parents died (I play randomising events. Trust me I was shooketh when I rolled death for both parents at the same time), the kid just vanished. I assumed she would be sent to one of her grandparents home or another relative, but no. The girl just disappeared. She was even erased from both family trees, as if she or her parents marriage never happened. The Sims 4 is a bummer.

[@Marticore]

I'm skeptical about The Sims 3 because sadly, without AwesomeMod, the kid will end up having a pudding face 99% of the time (which means all adopted kids have exactly the same face). The Sims 2 has the best system imo. Adoption doesn't cost anything, but you need to have some financial stability to be able to adopt. And re-adopting is super cool. Lack of gender choice might be a bummer, but you can always save right before the social worker comes and repeat the adoption to get different results (like with labor). Plus, I am IN LOVE with the fact that adopted babies are bred from existing townies, so babies always turn out to be the most unique looking, with mixed up appearances instead of just basic templates :D

[@flamingo2946]

The Sims 2's adoption system is my favourite of the bunch, although it's not perfect. I actually like having to wait a day for the social worker to come. I know people irl that have adopted (or tried to, at least), and it can be a very lengthy process (at least where I live). I imagine that day you have to wait is used to do background checks on the parents, do all the paperwork, etc. It's annoying, yes, but so is the real thing, lol. That's why I also like the money requirement and that they won't let sims who have had their children taken away adopt. I take it as the sim social services making sure they are giving the child to suitable parents. Something I really like about the sims 4's system is that you can choose from a "pool" of available children, which I find very realistic. Orphanages and such only have so many children, after all, so that's kinda realistic. I *really* dislike that you have to pay, though. That makes it seem you're buying the child, which sounds just awful. One thing I'm sad none of the games have is the option to adopt more than one child at once. I know people who, for example, adopted siblings so as not to separate them. That option would be nice on the sims 2, since children that have been taken away go to the "adoption bin". Though I suppose you can just adopt them one at the time.

[@ninarae3368]

in my sims 2 game, my sims adopted and i forgot. they went to work and the adoption woman put my baby outside in the snow and came back a few hours and took her back. i was so mad i couldn't adopt anymore lol.

[@chokyu419]

In TS2 I had my sim married to his sister, I just happened to forget that she was taken from the family previously...

[@MasterOfNinjas16]

"There's no social worker npc." There's nearly no npcs period. Also, the immediate adoption just goes to show that The Sims 4 lacks any and all consequences. I do like that kids went back into the adoption pool of The Sims 2. It allowed for fuller story telling. I remember I had a kid taken away from one sim and had her sister adopt the baby - sort of like trying to keep the child with some family member before adopting them out to someone else.

[@Roxie1255]

Even though it’s a mod I believe MCCC allows for neglected kids to not disappear into the grey area. You know where cars, improved babies, classic NPC and gameplay exists lol. I do hope that they expand on adoption for TS5. I’d love for it to be a little bit harder to adopt. Like sims who have the hates children trait shouldn’t be allowed to adopt. I wish we had orphanages where our sims could go and bond with potential children instead of picking them out of a catalog like they are objects. Just a little more realism and challenge.

[@tigurrflight]

I think I prefer not being able to name adopted toddlers/children since it would feel cruel to 'force' them to change their name at that age! Also like some other people mentioned, I love that babies are generated from the DNA of townies in the neighborhood in the Sims 2!! It makes it really fun to adopt lots of babies and find out who they end up looking like.....

[@coldcube1088]

I'm so glad Cindy's continuing this series. I was really afraid that she wouldn't because of the whole Sims 4 debacle. But I find that she keeps growing more and more into her own self. I really like that. Instead of following the extremes or the trends I feel that she's starting to find her own path. Wholesome content with a wholesome person. I love it.

[@PleasantSims]

Aww, thanks so much Eric!

[@TheMya1988]

I actually think it is more realistic to not be able to change the first name, other than a baby, because said child would already be familiar with their name. Also, I do think having 3k funds is definitely reasonable. What I would love to see in the future, an application process, perhaps similar to the Head Master scenario in Sims 2. I did not know about Sims 3 having a grace period to allow another adoption, I just assumed it was like Sims 2, and since I never had my Sims removed for neglect, I actually did not know that. Thank you!

[@LookItsTy]

I just want to say because of you I actually enjoy playing the Sims again. 😊💜 So thank you for that! Have a lovely day Cindy!

[@PleasantSims]

That's awesome! Thank you so much for watching!

[@missfefeloves]

Samee:)

[@neuroticly]

wait so in Sims 4 the kid sorta...dies either way through neglect or being vanished through being taken back. poor kiddo :( great video though since i never really touched on adoption while playing sims! this makes me want to do so now

[@kienchenk4223]

It has probably been mentioned before, but to prompt the adoption dialogue in TS1 you just need two adults kissing in front of the phone.

[@StoryGirl83]

I think the first time I adopted in The Sims 2 it was with the Oldies. I gave them two children one day after the next and then started adopting babies so that one they died, the oldest two could presumably take care of their younger siblings. I think I adopted five children for them, so Mary Sue ended up with a lot of siblings.

[@Nina-eh8tl]

In the sims4 adopting a cat is more complicated than adopting a child lmao; with the "this is a big responsibility " pop-up thingy which doesn't pop up when adopting a child

[@wes9000]

i’d love to see you compare the type of dishes we have in the 4 games 😊

[@PleasantSims]

Oh, great idea!!

[@demongoose666]

Fun fact: all adopted children (and also all randomly generated NPCs, and also the sims that move into the empty houses in your neighborhood) in the Sims 3 have the same face. It's the "default face" with all sliders set at 0.

[@jazmingalloway3172]

Really? I play with mods so I never noticed. I ain't got time for no default face 😂😂

[@JustSomeBridgeTroll333]

That reference to The Room made my day. XD

[@birgir5813]

Your hair looks a lot thicker now!! I'm so happy for you

[@UsulPrincess]

TS2 kids taken from bio parents can be a freaking nightmare. I almost always give up risky woo hoo babies from non-family Sims. If you do that too many times you can forget that a bio relative want to start dating them. 😖 My poor sim granddaughter went on a date with her much younger Oopsie uncle adopted by a different family.

[@vivalamew]

I just realized I've been playing the sims 3 daily since launch day 2009 and I have never once adopted a child :O LOL

[@RGSuperfan]

On the Sims 1, in French (my native language) the question that pop goes like "Est-ce une bonne idée d'adopter un enfant ?", that is to say "Is it a good idea to adopt a child? ". This translation sucked, because when I first had that phone call, I thought it was a general question. So, I said "yes", but actually I was not ready for a child and I was very surprised 😂😂😂

[@jordan.gjerde]

THIS is the Sims content I live for 🖤. I started playing sims 1 when it first came out, along with sims 2. Skipped sims 3 when I went to college and have been a sims 4 player since that was released. I have missed SO MUCH. Thank you for filling in literally EVERY GAP!

[@dwarfest]

When I was playing the Goth family in Sims 1 the adoption agency always rang on first day of playing, so I though it was a scripted event, and I always thought that Alexander was adopted (thus had no suspicions about him not looking anything like Mortimer). I didn't realize he was supposed to be Mortimer's bio son until I saw all the theories that he was secretly Goopy's child xD

[@BooDotBoo]

I like Sims 4 in the fact that you can choose which child you want, but beyond that, I like the Sims 2/3 process.

[@victastico291]

Sims 1! Would love to see you play more of the first game, it's the second best of all games to me

[@ruthphillips9276]

This is now becoming one of my fave sims channels, I love how much depth you go into and I find myself constantly watching them to cheer me up and bad days x

[@Viniciusvill]

With the MC Command Center mod, the child goes to another family right after they are taken away by the shiny particles, you need to enable this option in the mod settings.

[@sunberry_26]

I love how in the sims 2 we can open car doors and walk in and out of them instead of just dissapearing into the car like in the sims 3, they really need to bring this feature back one way or the other.

[@saintazepam]

These comparison videos are my favorite type of video you make! I didn't play the earlier iterations of the game so it's cool to learn :)

[@Satrina777]

I don't really mind not being able to name the adopted child in Sims 2, because in real life if I were an adoptive parent I wouldn't want to change say, my new 7 year old's name lol unless they want to pick something. If they're a baby they aren't conscious enough to know so in that case it would be different, and that's exactly what the Sims 2 mirrors, which I like.

[@MicahRion]

Ooh I love comparison videos. It’s such a nice trip down memory lane. (And I reminder of why I don’t play TS4 🙈)

[@lucym7843]

I’ve only had a child taken away once in 16 years of playing. That was in sims 2. I think sims 3 has the best adoption process. Though I never change the child’s name unless it’s a baby, it just seems wrong, I don’t want to erase their identity.😅

[@merchantfan]

It was Sims 1 for me back when you had no clue as to the stats for the baby. Poor Bob and Betty. I still do the "feed cuddle play diaper change" loop to this day out of learned fear.

[@dixiepeachie]

"Oh, hai Mark!" 😂😂😂😂 I DIED

[@Umishaii]

I remember when I neglected the school notes of one little sim in TS2 and the social worker took away all the childs (3) from the family!!! Gosh that almost broke my heart, luckyly i didn't save the game to prevent the event 😂

[@leontineketting97]

Oh god i remember that too, it was so frustrating😂😂😂

[@nicolareed]

Great video Cindy! Once when playing the Sims 4 my sims were getting married on a community lot and my toddler was taken away, I was devastated and thought she was gone forever but was surprised to find her in the manage households screen all alone in her own household, so I just added her back to my family. This was a few years ago and I don't know if it was a glitch or something they fixed recently.

[@Lummmlee]

I’d love to see a video in this series about the evolution of camera control through the sims series! Another great video Cindy, keep it up!!

[@PleasantSims]

Thanks for the idea!

[@idk_who2320]

In the Sims 1 the pizza usually takes an hour to arrive, But sometimes Freddy can get to your house eariler, if he does he starts bragging, whata nice detail!

[@CherylMcMinorrr]

Adoption in the Sims 2 is my favourite! I love to make babies, toddlers and children specifically for the “adoption pool”. I wish the system with the social worker worked the same in the later games.

[@Fiffi852]

One problem with TS2 adoption though - when the family ties are shattered the child could technically end up becoming romantically involved with a former family member 😬

[@dkphillips1654]

I agree that a child taken away should go back into adoption pool, even if the original adopting family cannot get them back. Then at least you could have another family take them in.

[@iamwarlock1292]

I like the Sims 2 adoption process and I don't mind waiting a day. If it happens I would like a specific gender for the kid, I save just before arrival of the Social Worker and if I'm not happy I do a do over. eg: my medieval neighbourhood has a druid household that only initiate boys into the mysteries. I liked the adoption process in the Sims 4 as well but I'm not keen on the game itself unfortunately. Great video - I love your comparisons!

[@mdsims9229]

I love this comparison videos. But sometimes is hard to keep the games separate It's the same franchise but not the same game. still If someone making a new life simulator watches this they can take notes and make something new and amazing. There's a lot to learn.

[@coriander1521]

This isn’t usually something that I see compared between the games! Honestly, I wish adoption could have been improved in all of the games, but that fact that it’s possible is still nice!

[@kaydwessie296]

Also I love how the children aren't named in Sims 2 only because usually if a sim is adopting a child it's because they got old but never found love, and I usually have no freakin inspiration for their kids' names

[@giomks9046]

"What else I'm gonna do with the Oldies?" Lmao I feel so nerd finding this funny

[@Khlonna]

LOVE these comparison videos! Very well done! Can't imagine how much research you have to do haha

[@rachelgilbert708]

Another comprehensive Sims franchise gameplay comparison?! Yessss!! One my favorite Pleasant Sims video series. In my personal opinion, you could never make too many of these videos. And as someone who started playing back in 2000, I find this content endlessly interesting. 😆

[@anotherplumbob]

To be honest I prefer TS2 system. A few days ago I was playing my Pleasantview save, and Nina just had Don’s baby. She died (because Michael Bachelor’s ghost scared her to death) and the baby was taken away by the social worker (as she was living alone with the kid). Thanks to TS2 system, Dina and Mortimer could adopt this baby. This wouldn’t have been possible in any other sim game unfortunately!

[@scottlemay3386]

My favorite is Sims 3 and 2. Sims 4 could be great if they made the changes you suggest. I like a bit of a household funds requirement instead with a price for the agency. Think it's realistic but not a gamechanger for me. It's super sad about homeless kids or just disappearing from game though 😳

[@chrismcdowellv9698]

I think the sims 2 adoption for babies are pretty cool cause it mixes the genetics of random townies.

[@Marticore]

Yes!!!

[@krmsnblsphmy]

Sims 2 is definitely my favourite. I think it's the most realistic. The one day wait reflective of how long it actually takes people IRL to adopt. The financial aspect of needing money in the bank to adopt. In real life older adoptees e.g. toddlers and kids would already have names and it would be disruptive to change them

[@MarcuzXD]

Cindy: "like little Mark, the demon boy" Me: 👁️👄👁️

[@digitalbrinjen3245]

Back, before I installed MC Command Center, I played a few 4 toddler challenges. The one where you set up the home and don't intervene, leaving the sims to raise the toddlers entirely on their own. In one household, an angelic toddler's hunger got too low and was taken away. That toddler didn't appear anywhere else and in the family tree, remained a toddler even after the other 3 toddlers aged up to child and teen. Looks like when children get taken, they're wiped from the game entirely.

[@mezmerized4lifejay654]

I always look forward to your Sims comparison videos 💙

[@PleasantSims]

Thank you!! 😊

[@Johanna77777-z]

There's an option in MC Command Center to have neglected children be adopted by random families. It's a must for me!

[@PleasantSims]

Yes! I will definitely have to set that up in my game!

[@cuteghost5368]

One day, in TS3 I adopted a child. Yeah nice, my Sim loved her. I decided "well I'm hungry. I'll leave it going while I make something to eat, it won't take more than 5 minutes." When I came back, the child was taken away because my Sim was too stupid to care for her on her own. WELP (I kinda closed the game without saving, entered the game again, and I got the child back because I saved the game before I went to eat)

[@kiradarkangel4563]

I mostly like Adoption in sims 2 cause I love having an orphanage and when kids get taken away from my Sims I can actually adopt them into my orphanage household and raise them there

[@c.syde65]

I should point out that if the adopted Sim is a child, then the first thing the adoptive parents will do is hug the adopted Sim. Though the adopted Sim may reject the hug if his/her lifetime relationship with the adoptive parent initiating the hug is below 16. Just something interesting that I thought is worth noting. The fact that Steffi Oldie is wearing the same colours as Coral Oldie reminds me of the time my CAS Sim Stacen Edwards adopted a computer generated orphan named Amin Edwards who looked nothing like his adoptive father, apart from the fact that they both had the same hairstyle. I always tended to have my Sims adopt children over babies and toddlers. Because they have more options available to them. Although in practice, they have one life stage less to develop all their skills. I found toddlers really annoying back in the day because they always cry when they are in the crib and their energy is full. And they are always asking for attention. Thankfully I discovered that having them build their charisma, logic, and creativity skills keeps them occupied when they aren't being potty trained, learning to walk or talk, or learning a nursery rhyme. I had no idea that the genetics of adopted babies would be randomised using the 'Make a Child' option instead of through normal Create a Sim like all other adopted Sims.

[@Hendrik_McSims]

Yay, another comparison! I love it so much!

[@PleasantSims]

Thank you!! 😊

[@trevie7589]

I think it would be cool if our sims could give their kids up for adoption, maybe even pick another sim couple to adopt it. Or even if we were able to adopt a sibling group and before adopting a social worker has to come and inspect the house to make sure there's enough bedrooms in the house and that everything is clean before your sim can have approval. I really wish they didn't just vanish

[@KatherineMoon616]

oh I learned the sims 4 adoption the hard way. I had a story building up where I made one of the siblings to be taken away so they can be adopted somewhere else and re-unite later. Well... needless to say my "whisked away" child was gone forever... ( I went through all in world and non world households) but then again it doesn't really matter when they don't even have memory system xD

[@vulcanwinter3053]

I remember playing the sims 2 when I was young, and when the adoption menu came up (baby, toddler, child) I took too long to decide what I wanted to adopt, and the game just chose randomly for me 😂 also gurl you lookin BEAUTIFUL today, as always!!

[@demonicpatron9871]

I'm so different in that I'd like harder requirements to adopt a child, maybe 5K in your funds and working beds for the children that they could send a social worker to check out the next day and if you have like really bad furniture and all the cheap appliances with half painted rooms, they could reject your application. That'd be so much cooler than in sims 4 where everything is so easy there is no incentive to do anything.

[@kevinlim0512]

when the toddler was taken away in 4, there was a negative impact on Summer's reputation as well!

[@PoptartParasol]

This was most likely a mod. She did not film without removing it as you can see when she tries to find the 'adopt' button. I have never seen a reputation message in Sims 4 as far as I've played it. Thats more of a Sims 3 thing

[@MagnumPatrol]

@@PoptartParasol reputation is also a sims 2 thing.

[@floydianlou]

@@PoptartParasol no, it comes from get famous. if you treat your children badly or get them taken away you get your reputation down and closer to bad reputation.

[@LunaRuna212]

I had it happen two times that whisked away children in the Sims 4 were automatically adopted into townie households, buuuut watching your video I guess that MC Command Centre might've made that happen. The first child got whisked away because it got stuck in some animation randomly and thus couldn't eat and when I noticed it, it was too late. The other child was adopted automatically because their NPC parent died, so the household had no adult or teen anymore who couldtake care of them.

[@sam127nct]

in the sims 4 i reconnected with a kid that was taken away when she was already a young adult, she was just walking around in the park and now she lives with us again