It's official that TS2 sold better than TS3... if you look on the Wikipedia page, at least.
Also, hate to sound like I don't know much, but... what's wrong with Pixar-esque stuff? I mean, is it personal preference, or is it that Pixarishness is annoying, or what?
I'm glad that the sims here seem to have quirkiness, though. I really missed that. I played TS3 for a bit to check out both the storytelling features and the gameplay, and I was rather disappointed with both, but both ties into the quirks and the facial expressions. I went back to TS2 and felt that even though some of the expressions were really exaggerated (the crying face, the shocked face), they had character to them. And I liked that. Still do.
As long as EA doesn't fudge anything up, and as long as the sims are really as good/expressive as they're hinting they are, this might be the best game yet in regards to the sims themselves (I'll count the gameplay/worldbuilding/storytelling as an entirely different entity).
But let's not get our hopes up *too* high until we see that trailer in June.
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