I've been playing since The Sims, so it was just a logical progression. I started playing the games originally when I was 7, because a girl at my after school care was going on about how awesome they were. Eleven years later and I'm still hooked!

oh, the shinies.
all of the shinies.

the game looked so much better than sims2. faces werent so blocky and unnaturally angular, the sky is a SKY and it CHANGES omgar, the open neighborhood looked amazing, the colors were so vivid yet so natural-looking...

just how SHINY everything was. im a very visual person, so this crap matters to me.
now i just cant go back to sims2. sims3 is way shinier. also, i cant handle not being able to pick out and customize my outfits/body shapes. /spoiled!