CAM Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 One week to go, who plans on getting a copy? Cities are smaller but there are plenty of things to keep you busy with managing specialisations, citizen's needs and more importantly, fitting your city into a region with other players by sharing power, education, emergency services, etc whilst not polluting the hell out of your neighbours (or accepting their trash for money and giving it back to them as air pollution by burning it ). Edu Island anyone?
HMCTech Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Played the Beta but did not enjoy it nearly as much as 4.
Quackers Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I really like the look of it, but its not out on the Mac until later in the year I spent a lot of my life playing Sim City 2000/3000 but for somereason i could not gel with Sim City 4, infact i hate it. The maps do look small on Sim City 5 which is a little off putting but the fact you can have many smaller cities specialising in things will hopefully make up for it.
tmcd35 Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 It's annoying that decent versions of this and Civilization never make it to the console world! Haven't owned a proper PC for years and the macs/laptops I have had on occasion are never good enough to run any games properly I'm sure I've got SIM City 2000 on the Playstation or SNES lying around somewhere, it'd have to do for now I lost a lot of my life to Sim City 1 and Civilization 1 back in the Amiga days
andy_nic Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I use to like playing SIM city on SNES also have it on iPad, but will have to wait for the mac version to come out.
benjie Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 I am really looking forward to getting my hands on it! I got an invite to play in the first beta but unfortunatly I had to go do something else. Did not recieve an invite to the second beta. The videos I have seen it looks great!
sted Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 dosent it require you to always be on the internet and cost a silly amount of $$$ not sure i will bother prefer openttd to sim city 4 anyway
benjie Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Yes, you need a internet connection to play. It costs £34.95.
sted Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 Yes, you need a internet connection to play. It costs £34.95. im sure id heard nearer £65 but i dont see the need for internet seems a bit draconian to me
TechMonkey Posted February 28, 2013 Posted February 28, 2013 £65 is for the deluxe version. I think that has the London city set in it. You can buy it separately though for less than the Deluxe set. I'll possibly get it when it comes out on Mac, unless it turns out to be hideous.
CAM Posted February 28, 2013 Author Posted February 28, 2013 I got it £29 from Tesco with voucher codes. Seems reasonable to me, HUKD is always flashing up deals on new titles for canny gamers. Yes, it is online and it is a bit overkill if you are going single but region play is the real attraction at the end of the day! Even offline, the city still produces pollution and people movement which affects other players in your region. Example is above, another player buys your rubbish collection service, you burn the trash and generate electricity which is sold on to a third player's city. Everyone gets a bit of air pollution from your activities whilst you find yourself buying water and healthcare in return because you have polluted your water-table. The server uses online features to carry out the calculations for this city interaction.
CAM Posted February 28, 2013 Author Posted February 28, 2013 Hot UK Deals - Search Result Fanbois keep downvoting it out of protest though to make all the deals cold when they should be the opposite. Idiots are breaking the main purpose of the site.
Tsonga Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 It's annoying that decent versions of this and Civilization never make it to the console world! Haven't owned a proper PC for years and the macs/laptops I have had on occasion are never good enough to run any games properly I'm sure I've got SIM City 2000 on the Playstation or SNES lying around somewhere, it'd have to do for now I lost a lot of my life to Sim City 1 and Civilization 1 back in the Amiga days Oddly I have gone back to my PC gaming ways! The PS3 sits alone in the corner while I play CIV 5, bless it.
tmcd35 Posted March 1, 2013 Posted March 1, 2013 Oddly I have gone back to my PC gaming ways! The PS3 sits alone in the corner while I play CIV 5, bless it. Can't justify £500 just to play Civ5 (as much as I'd really love to) I'd have to endure the less spectacular Civ Revalutions instead, of dig out an old copy of Civ2.
CAM Posted March 4, 2013 Author Posted March 4, 2013 We have to wait until Friday, but only one more day until our US members get hold of it and can give us their previews. Hint hint. By the way, are we interested in starting a region?
synaesthesia Posted March 4, 2013 Posted March 4, 2013 Already got it, friend at EA gifted me a copy last night. Haven't installed or played yet - he might be a friend but EA can go hang. Might give it a go next week if I cba. I found 2000 just the right mix between simplicity, fun and realism and everything afterwards was just too much. I hear this one takes it back a notch so I may give it some time, if I can get round EA's lack of scruples.
HMCTech Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Nice rant about online DRM and being forced online at all times, no save files, servers shutting down when new release comes out and all other things to give a different opinion on this.
sted Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Nice rant about online DRM and being forced online at all times, no save files, servers shutting down when new release comes out and all other things to give a different opinion on this. thats one of the things that worries me server requires downloading a 1gb udpdate my internet is 1mb max so i need to leave pc on all night to get an update so i can play a game for 5 mins
TechMonkey Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 It's not going well apparently. 30 mins wait to join a server, even in the middle of the night before the masses woke up. Some that pre-ordered found their keys wouldn't unlock yet those that bought there and then would work. Total meltdown! Hurrah.
Rawns Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 EA are making a mess of most things these days and this sounds no different. The mussis likes the Sim City games, but after seeing on Origin that it's £45 for the standard game, £65 for the Deluxe edition, they can go and burn.
CAM Posted March 5, 2013 Author Posted March 5, 2013 That's why I am glad the UK is last on the release schedule. US can iron out the bugs for us. Though lets be honest, what online game hasn't had trouble in the first few days? WoW was plagued with problems for months but grew into one of the biggest games to ever be released. Yeah SimCity is a bit weird, it's a city simulator with MMO-style features in. I do think the anti-online crowd are going a bit far though. You cannot read anything without someone reciting the same thing again and again and again, with HUKD and Metacritic getting bombed by people who haven't even played it! There are a lot of reasons for online and how it works though: - Regional effects. If you are a bad neighbour and have high crime and high pollution, other cities in your region, likely your friends, will be affected by it. - Inter-city services. If your bad neighbour has high crime or high pollution, volunteer some Police or Garbage trucks to clean it up and earn some money in return. - Regional resource trade for city "wonders" which requires cities to contribute so many resources. - Global resource trade on the Global Market. You aren't playing one region, you are playing the entire world. If none of your neighbours have use for stockpiled resources you can buy/sell on the market. Important as a city may not have all the resources required. It's really easy to look at the game and go "Single player city simulator, no online needed." But I can see from the devs point of view for their reasoning behind an online service and I agree with it for once. I thought the same until I watched videos of the game and the recent Lets All Be Mayor series and there is so much interconnection between cities that even if you were able to go offline, you'd be missing out on a huge part of the game. This isn't the single player Simcity of past titles, it's a new genre of Massively Multiplayer Online City Simulator Game (MMOSCG?). For the record: Not an EA fanboy. Hate how they operate for the most part, but feel the community might be making a storm in a teacup over this one.
CHR1S Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 Didn't buy Diablo, wont be buying this. Maybe I'm getting weird as I'm ageing but I have spent more time (and had more enjoyment tbh) playing Mario Cart on the Wii with the OH recently than almost any game brought out in the last year or more, bar Saints Row. I love the Sim genre but this does not really appeal to me now its added the online element.
X-13 Posted March 6, 2013 Posted March 6, 2013 I can't wait until I start hearing about EVE levels of shenanigans from this...
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