you should replay the trilogy. there's no shortage of silly facial expressions and lack luster animations. You can argue that the animations haven't improved like the textures and lighting has, which highlights the problem more, but you can't act like they haven't been there and expect to be taken seriously.
The only time the graphics/animations have been jarring is when you first meet clown makeup face chick for me. Beyond that it's been normal and they're so few and far between that when you aren't watching a clip montage on youtube they barely register as your playing.
Is there some reason that makes people think of things in only extremes? I didn't say the old games' animation was great, I said it wasn't terrible. They register in every waking moment I'm talking to someone. ---
"Why are you always smiling?" "'Cause it's all so f***in' hysterical."