Yes, there are racoons and deer that... I don't really know if they've said if they actually DO anything (well, aside from the racoons getting into the trash and the deer maybe eating fruit/veggies out of your garden), but they're included! Will be nice to have the world seem a bit more lived in, I guess!
Ahaha. Don't worry, if I had somehow managed to get an insanely early copy of Pets, I would have TOLD YOU and offered to get you one if I could. XD So I have fake!horses (which, while nice to make the barn look lived in at the moment, each pose is its own object and I have, like, a billionty-eleven different poses installed and so scrolling through the Misc Objects section of Buy Mode is a real pain. Once I get REAL HORSES OMG I will get rid of the fake!horses from my game. Hooray!
Oh, thanks for the links.
I enjoy having new Sims stuff to read. IN RETURN.. a couple non-story Sims links that I have been using lately.
www.simprograms.com/That's where I go to get most of my Sims News. There are quite a few gameplay videos of Pets if you click through a few pages. Almost all are from Gamescom going on in Germany right now. Keep in mind in the videos there are some things not quite working apparently (a lot of horse interactions, for example, appear to drop/not work) because the version of the game there is a developer's build. But the videos can be interesting to watch (if not a bit frustrating, as you want the people to HOLD THE CAMERA STILL or ZOOM IN or STOP ZOOMING IN/OUT/MOVING THE IN-GAME CAMERA SO MUCH WE WANT TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING GOSH).
And Sims VIP has info, but more importantly their Pets Fact Sheet, which they keep pretty well updated.
simsvip.com/?p=1838PS - you know you're not supposed to spill things on your computer, right? You might like hard lemonade (yummy!) but computers, not so much!
OK, now onto some gameplay pictures. I actually just ordered Generations from Amazon (but, being all cheap, I selected free shipping... which normally isn't a problem because I am 2 hours from a distribution center and things normally arrive next day, buuuut it hasn't even shipped yet, so it's looking like I won't get it until mid/late next week, gah) and so I'm trying not to do TOO MUCH because I want to be able to test out Generations stuff when that gets here. But! I can give an introduction to my current family and such, since they'll be the ones I post about usually.
So, the family is the Legacy family (I R SO CREATIVE). In Sims 2, I had a legacy challenge family called the Legacy's who I got nearly to generation 20. When I got Sims 3, I had another Legacy family (who I said were the same family as my Sims 2 family, just several unknown generations down the line) and got them up to generation 6 before I lost them. This new Legacy family I consider related to THEM, just another few unknown generations down the line.
The family was started by Aurora Legacy (traits: virtuoso, hopeless romantic, bookworm, workaholic, loves the outdoors). She eventually reached the top of the music career (symphony branch). She married Lincoln (traits: green thumb, friendly, commitment issues, flirty, good sense of humor). Together they had one child, Bonnie.
This... is Bonnie. Yeah.
There we go. Bonnie (traits: coward, artistic, genius, loves the outdoors, hotheaded). She's unemployed because I use her to fish and collect rocks and gems. She has a big mouth with fat lips that she passed down to her children, gah. But she's not too bad looking if she keeps her mouth shut. XD
This is her husband, Abraham (traits: artistic, coward, easily impressed, couch potato, neurotic). He's a stay-at-home author and currently rakes in about $5000 a week in royalties. He pretty much sits at the computer and writes and watches tv to raise his fun because I am boring like that.
Bonnie and Abraham have three sons, plus an unknown child on the way (I was originally going to stop at the three kids, but she randomly came up with a want to have another kid when all three of the boys became teens, and since I want to test out Generations stuff, I decided to let her have another kid).
This is their oldest son, Colby.
Colby (traits: technophobe, artistic, brave, flirty). I admit to actually cheating and going into CAS to adjust his facial features when he first aged to teen because he looked.. kinda hideous with big chipmunk cheeks that he will probably end up passing down to his kids because he is the heir. XD I plan on having him be a stay-at-home artist, because apparently this family doesn't believe in holding traditional jobs.
This is the second born, Corbin (traits: athletic, born salesman, daredevil, genius). He is cute and has a huge nose. XD
And finally, youngest (for now) son, Colt (traits: eccentric, friendly, inappropriate, vehicle enthusiast).
Abraham, WTF are you doing?
Oh, and this is the family gnome, Markus, hanging out under the tree in the pasture. I actually have another 3 gnomes in Colby's inventory, but apparently in Generations the gnomes can.. reproduce and age and such.. so I am waiting for Generations to get here before I set them out.
Colt had just aged to teen, so he didn't have to go to school. So I sent him to the park, where he got into a game of football with someone. Colt, that is not how you catch a football, you wuss.
Well, stop being such a baby and CATCH it. It's not like the ball was thrown /that/ hard...
Wow. Just wow. Colt can't catch a football thrown by an old lady. Way to go, champ.
He even throws the ball like a little girl.
Jade Greenwood, meanwhile, pitches it like a baseball (aka: really, really fast).
Back to the house... after school, Colby's girlfriend (and future wife! because my sims get set up with their significant others when they are children because I say so), Bobbi Castor. Who is... thinking about Colby's brother. Oh dear.
I was trying to get a better picture of her. Ahaha. Their children will be.. special looking (especially if they inherit Colby's old chipmunk face).
Colby wanted to kiss her and she was all DENIED. He was sad.
Abraham feeling up Bonnie's not-much-of-a-bump-yet baby bump. D'aww.
Finally, a picture of Corbin skipping school to play chess by himself. Such a geeky goober.
WHY IS PETS NOT OUT YET WANT ANIMALS NEED PETS AHHHHH. D: