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I'm dumbfounded as to why people aren't more pumped up about Sim City 5. I find it hard to believe that smaller city sizes are enough to take away from the core gameplay mechanic that makes SC awesome - building a city and making it fucking awesome.
And I know I only have faith to go on, but I also find it hard to believe that they won't add huge cities as a DLC feature in the near future. There's too much demand for it. "GIANT CITIES ONLY $9.99!" I know it's lame but that's where games are headed. And fuck if I won't pay 9.99 for it anyway. If EA can make money off of it, they will implement it... and they can.
Plus, the interface is slick, the control of your city is far more nuanced than ever before, the graphics look great, and it's still the same core gameplay. I don't think SC5 will suffer the same fate as, say, D3, because the core game hasn't been dumbed down at all. People always ran water tubes and subways under their roads anyway, and now we have many many different road types which essential supplement the lost features of the past.
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On February 06 2013 10:31 Rybka wrote:
I'm dumbfounded as to why people aren't more pumped up about Sim City 5. I find it hard to believe that smaller city sizes are enough to take away from the core gameplay mechanic that makes SC awesome - building a city and making it fucking awesome.
And I know I only have faith to go on, but I also find it hard to believe that they won't add huge cities as a DLC feature in the near future. There's too much demand for it. "GIANT CITIES ONLY $9.99!" I know it's lame but that's where games are headed. And fuck if I won't pay 9.99 for it anyway. If EA can make money off of it, they will implement it... and they can.
Plus, the interface is slick, the control of your city is far more nuanced than ever before, the graphics look great, and it's still the same core gameplay. I don't think SC5 will suffer the same fate as, say, D3, because the core game hasn't been dumbed down at all. People always ran water tubes and subways under their roads anyway, and now we have many many different road types which essential supplement the lost features of the past.
Except you don't want subways under all your roads. That would be super expensive and wasteful, at least in SC3k and SC4.
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I'm excited for this game but uh the various new stuff doesn't supplement for the removal of highways, trains, and subways.
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On February 06 2013 10:44 Millitron wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 10:31 Rybka wrote:
I'm dumbfounded as to why people aren't more pumped up about Sim City 5. I find it hard to believe that smaller city sizes are enough to take away from the core gameplay mechanic that makes SC awesome - building a city and making it fucking awesome.
And I know I only have faith to go on, but I also find it hard to believe that they won't add huge cities as a DLC feature in the near future. There's too much demand for it. "GIANT CITIES ONLY $9.99!" I know it's lame but that's where games are headed. And fuck if I won't pay 9.99 for it anyway. If EA can make money off of it, they will implement it... and they can.
Plus, the interface is slick, the control of your city is far more nuanced than ever before, the graphics look great, and it's still the same core gameplay. I don't think SC5 will suffer the same fate as, say, D3, because the core game hasn't been dumbed down at all. People always ran water tubes and subways under their roads anyway, and now we have many many different road types which essential supplement the lost features of the past. Except you don't want subways under all your roads. That would be super expensive and wasteful, at least in SC3k and SC4.
What else do you do when you're ballin' with basically infinite income?
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SC4 made me depressed. Lousy people and their demands, its always traffic that's impossible to manage perfectly. But then when I get everything reasonably right no one moves in even if I give them all the fancy services and parks, so I have no income (breaking even) and I have to resort to crime. ARGH. And the only time I ever made a successful Simcity (in Simcity 2) it all got destroyed by a UFO invasion and I didn't have any backup save. I tried so hard  . I guess I'll have to remember that city forevermore as my only success. Anyway had to share my old memories 
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How the crap does one e-mail EA? I've been searching their website for a "feedback" mail address or something but theres nothing.
I wanna e-mail them explaining my disappointment with Simcity being origin only....
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On February 06 2013 10:46 skyR wrote:
I'm excited for this game but uh the various new stuff doesn't supplement for the removal of highways, trains, and subways.
hahahaha 
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On February 06 2013 10:31 Rybka wrote:
I'm dumbfounded as to why people aren't more pumped up about Sim City 5. I find it hard to believe that smaller city sizes are enough to take away from the core gameplay mechanic that makes SC awesome - building a city and making it fucking awesome.
And I know I only have faith to go on, but I also find it hard to believe that they won't add huge cities as a DLC feature in the near future. There's too much demand for it. "GIANT CITIES ONLY $9.99!" I know it's lame but that's where games are headed. And fuck if I won't pay 9.99 for it anyway. If EA can make money off of it, they will implement it... and they can.
Plus, the interface is slick, the control of your city is far more nuanced than ever before, the graphics look great, and it's still the same core gameplay. I don't think SC5 will suffer the same fate as, say, D3, because the core game hasn't been dumbed down at all. People always ran water tubes and subways under their roads anyway, and now we have many many different road types which essential supplement the lost features of the past.
My main issue with this game is the stupid Online-only bs. It's by far the most annoying type of DRM in existence. Screw their bullshit with "oh we can't calculate the complex interactions on your own PC but can in our cloud". What if I travel a lot and want to build a city to pass the time? What if i'm in the military and have little access to internet and lots of downtime? What if (god forbid) i live in a place with shitty or unstable internet? What if in 3-4 years EA shuts down the servers like they do with so many of their older games?
And on the smaller city thing, A reviewer on IGN was playing the game and he said he pretty much 'finished' his city in about 6 hrs and coz it's so small, has to move on and build a new one. Remember this guy who spent FOUR YEARS planning and building his perfect city in SimCity 3000? That kind of craziness won't exist with this one.
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On February 06 2013 10:46 skyR wrote:
removal of highways, trains, and subways.
what?
no public transit?
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On February 06 2013 17:39 TOCHMY wrote:
How the crap does one e-mail EA? I've been searching their website for a "feedback" mail address or something but theres nothing.
I wanna e-mail them explaining my disappointment with Simcity being origin only....
Wait, what? Origin only?
Fuck me. I've been a Sim City fan since I played the first one on the amiga 20 years back, but nothing will make me install Origin. Shame, really. I was really looking forward to this game.
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On February 09 2013 09:57 a176 wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 10:46 skyR wrote:
removal of highways, trains, and subways. what? no public transit?
Buses and LRTs. No subways or trains...
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I'm getting less and less optimistic about this game from what I'm hearing. Le sigh.
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Take it easy, people, trains and subways will be available as DLC for 10 dollars a week after launch!
plated.rawr: you don't have to install Origin to play it. You can pirate it That's what I'm going to do, and it will be the first game I've pirated for 5+ years!
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On February 09 2013 10:01 skyR wrote:Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 09:57 a176 wrote:On February 06 2013 10:46 skyR wrote:
removal of highways, trains, and subways. what? no public transit? Buses and LRTs. No subways or trains...
and no highway? what the hell kind of city doesnt have highways?
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There technically are inter-regional highways/train tracks that are already on the map at the beginning of city creation. You can build your city around them / use them to bring in tourists, as well as provide methods of transport between neighbouring city regions.
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On February 09 2013 05:19 skyR wrote:Beta coming back for another weekend (February 16th), signup at www.simcity.com/beta
24hr only and that they mark this as Beta is a fucking joke. The game is long gold, its just a stresstest for the servers and they failed hard in the first weekend.
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On March 07 2012 13:09 Dizmaul wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 13:06 Doraemon wrote:
SICK. i remember all those hours playing simcity 2000 and turning on natural disasters. hehe. will definitely look into this OHHHH MAN i totally forgot about those natural disasters hah. The alien was my favorite what a great game.
I loved SimCity 2000, but I wasn't fan of the new monster.
The one thing I liked about him that was really cool is that occasionally he'd build wind turbines randomly.
SC2000 was great because with an expansion tool (not sure if it was official or not) you could edit the sprites easily with what was essentially just a pixel editor (catered to the game). You could make trees red, your bulldozer tool appear like a little monster, or skyscrapers as piles of rubble (not that it makes much sense).
While I'm sure stuff like that is possible in the later games, I would assume it takes a ton of modeling work.
On February 09 2013 09:58 plated.rawr wrote:Show nested quote +On February 06 2013 17:39 TOCHMY wrote:
How the crap does one e-mail EA? I've been searching their website for a "feedback" mail address or something but theres nothing.
I wanna e-mail them explaining my disappointment with Simcity being origin only.... Wait, what? Origin only? Fuck me. I've been a Sim City fan since I played the first one on the amiga 20 years back, but nothing will make me install Origin. Shame, really. I was really looking forward to this game.
Eh... what's Origin? I'd guess some imitation of steam? I still have yet to install steam because of my dislike of the concept despite many good games running on it, so I definitely wouldn't be likely to install this "Origin"
Someone will probably just crack it eventually for solo play (depending how much it relies on internet)
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On February 10 2013 18:23 Xapti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 13:09 Dizmaul wrote:On March 07 2012 13:06 Doraemon wrote:
SICK. i remember all those hours playing simcity 2000 and turning on natural disasters. hehe. will definitely look into this OHHHH MAN i totally forgot about those natural disasters hah. The alien was my favorite what a great game. I loved SimCity 2000, but I wasn't fan of the new monster. The one thing I liked about him that was really cool is that occasionally he'd build wind turbines randomly. SC2000 was great because with an expansion tool (not sure if it was official or not) you could edit the sprites easily with what was essentially just a pixel editor (catered to the game). You could make trees red, your bulldozer tool appear like a little monster, or skyscrapers as piles of rubble (not that it makes much sense). While I'm sure stuff like that is possible in the later games, I would assume it takes a ton of modeling work. Show nested quote +On February 09 2013 09:58 plated.rawr wrote:On February 06 2013 17:39 TOCHMY wrote:
How the crap does one e-mail EA? I've been searching their website for a "feedback" mail address or something but theres nothing.
I wanna e-mail them explaining my disappointment with Simcity being origin only.... Wait, what? Origin only? Fuck me. I've been a Sim City fan since I played the first one on the amiga 20 years back, but nothing will make me install Origin. Shame, really. I was really looking forward to this game. Eh... what's Origin? I'd guess some imitation of steam? I still have yet to install steam because of my dislike of the concept despite many good games running on it, so I definitely wouldn't be likely to install this "Origin" Someone will probably just crack it eventually for solo play (depending how much it relies on internet)
It relies as much on the internet as Diablo 3
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Sorry, no SimCity 5 for me. Forced Origin and my money goes elsewhere. Fuck you EA, as always!
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