Has this happened to anyone else?

[killerkenya]

I tried doing legacies but always got too frustrated. I would move the oldest kid out and get them started on their own life and be so caught in with them I would forget about their parents and younger siblings. Then it just got confusing when the sim's kid is a teen and yet their younger sibling is still a kid or something. I know that I will be able to focus more on my families in TS3, even though the goal of that game is not so family oriented like TS2. It'll still be nice. Every member of the family would still age, life would still go on.

I'm considering reinstalling Zoo Tycoon 2. But only if I can get my old save files from my laptop to the desktop, because I don't want to start over on all the missions and such.
I like strategy and simulation type games. Nothing too hardcore.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I think I'm ready for something different, but I never know what a game is going to be like and I'm scared to waste the money, haha. I figure fellow simmers will understand the genre I like.
[I also liked Black and White 1 and loved Black and White 2.]