I don’t know if anyone else here is a fan of the SimCity franchise (or any other city-building games), but EA/Maxis finally announced a sequel to SimCity 4 which they are simply calling SimCity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kztNWdhRdnw&feature=player_embedded
SC4 was released almost a decade ago. I for one am very happy to see this, as CitiesXL just doesn’t do it for me.
Thoughts?
I was glad to hear of the news of Simcity (5). It’s the first Simcity so far to include Multiplayer, which is a welcome addition. I also can’t wait to see the ‘Glassbox’ engine in action.
Simcity 4 was damn good, but was such a system hog, and was always crashing to desktop! Lets not even bother mentioning Societies, it was such a fail.
Cities XL is good, but there’s no need for the 2011/2012 editions, theyre’s nothing different.
I’m glad they’ve finally resurrected Simcity, cause nothing else really lives up to it.
I still play Simcity 3000 every now and then. It provides a decent amount of fun for a short while.
I can’t wait to see how Simcity 5 turns out, especially with the multiplayer addition. Maybe it will be a good replacement for Superpower 2.
I will be extremely disappoint when the game doesn’t perform well with large cities (population > 1mill.) Otherwise Sim City 5 has no point. What else would I do? Watch little cars and shit going from A to B in a small little village? I guess not.
If previews point to it being good, I may buy it day 1. I played the shit out of Sim City and Sim City 2000, but barely touched 3000, and didn’t give 4 enough time to get used to the changes from 2000. I hope EA allows it to go on Steam, but that’s wishful thinking. My Origin library is slowly growing, but I prefer to only have one Steam-like program running.
I was a huge fan of Sim City series back in the day, I liked SC4 a lot
Unless they remove the DRM and online activation requirements, I’ll have to skip this one.
I’m not a fan of Origin. It’s trying to copy of Uplay and various other game marketplaces, the only game marketplace that’s of any widespread use is Steam, I don’t know of anybody personally apart from you BahamutBBob that uses Uplay or Origin.
I really hope they do it on Steam.
O_o Wut?!
afterwars: there are a bunch of people here that have Origin accounts just for a few games (mostly BF3 and/or ME3) but I didn’t know Uplay was anything like Steam or Origin. (the games that I own that use it are on consoles, and I’ve done zero research on it for PC)
SC4 was great, though very buggy, crashed a lot especially with larger cities (which happened to be the most fun to play around with). I hope they retain the scale of SC4.
They better fucking exceed it.
I hardly touched Origin, except for BF3 beta. I didn’t buy BF3 because of Origin (Battlelog mainly).
Use it for ME3, but I cracked the exe so it’s usable apart from Origin.
I’ve been obsessed with Superpower 2 lately. I enjoy games like that. This is a similar experience in that you are a leader of a group of people and your decisions ultimately decide the fate of your populace.
every now and then I do have a desire to simulate a city, but I fear any city simulation created these days just won’t be based on/in economic realities.
I want to get excited about a sim city 5, but I fear the worst
Can’t fucking wait! The early alpha footage from GDC looked amazing, like a classic SimCity city simulation game. None of this Societies bollocks.
What about the millions of BF3 and ME3 players?
And it will be Origin only.
It’ll also require you to always be online.
i have been playing simcity 4 since it was released
https://steamcommunity.com/id/trunk_slamchest/screenshot/541797441646326803?tab=public
all im gonna say is they better not fuck this one up like they did with simcity societies
There seem to be conflicting reports about this.
The latest info seems to point towards and online check when you start the game, but if your net drops out later you can still keep playing.
Another thing a month ago said there would be no online DRM apart from Origin, so I’m really not sure what to think atm…
Loved SC 3000 never got into #4 though!
Anyone remember A-train?
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