Kuuso on 6/3/2013 at 16:09
I have been oogling at the new Sim City for a while. I have a friend who is going to buy it and I would like to set up cities with him. I'm also interested in the supposed global market the cities are going to create. There's lot of buts though: Have to use Origin and it's always online (has fucked up the launch in North America already), the cities are small-ish in max-size and there's weird omissions like no subways.
Is there anyone here who has first-hand info on the game? I fear that it's not deep enough strategy-wise for me forgetting about the DRM bullshit.
Ulukai on 6/3/2013 at 17:17
I was in the Beta and although I can't comment on the DRM as of yet, it was the best Sim City I've played since Sim City 2000.
Hopefully, my copy will arrive on Friday (release date in the EU). Ordered a physical disc from Amazon, which was £10 cheaper than the digital download from Origin. Fuckers :D
You've got trams instead of subways. Rumour has it they'll increase the max city size at some stage, but they capped it because it has to run on "your dad's PC". What I'm most looking forwards to is the interaction with other cities in the same region (no real taster of this in the beta)
Eldron on 6/3/2013 at 18:21
Due to the game being very much built around coop they put the limit with the mindset that others will be viewing and interacting with your city, so the limit is hard choice and not a hard limit. (and this is sad)
It's likely that it's easy for them to release regions with bigger maps on them, it's not entirely likely that they want to do that yet.
Kuuso on 6/3/2013 at 18:45
So how good Coop and general multiplayer is will determine a lot. The ideas seems really good, but can regions work, especially if you're playing with randomers. My friend has a mac, so he'll have to wait for his version anyways, so I don't have to rush to buy this just yet.
Renzatic on 6/3/2013 at 23:18
Quote Posted by Eldron
Due to the game being very much built around coop they put the limit with the mindset that others will be viewing and interacting with your city, so the limit is hard choice and not a hard limit. (and this is sad)
It's likely that it's easy for them to release regions with bigger maps on them, it's not entirely likely that they want to do that yet.
That's the one biggest complaint I've seen about the game. You've got all these cool new features you can't do anything with because you've got only so much map space to play with. I think the max population you can currently reach is about 250,000 people, which means the huge, sprawling megacities you could build in the previous titles are a thing of the past. At least as the game exists right now.
icemann on 7/3/2013 at 00:53
If you can't build huge megacities then I don't see the point of it from a singleplayer perspective. The Super Nintendo version of the original is still my favorite of the lot, closely followed by Sim City 2000.
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http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkiypf7VZO1qzwqpx.gifdemagogue on 7/3/2013 at 02:07
I was reading people's building-reports for mega-cities in SimCity4 (or maybe societies; whichever is very moddable) an have been really impressed with a lot of them, especially that add custom buildings. But I haven't looked at the newest one.
EvaUnit02 on 7/3/2013 at 06:44
More like DRM City.
Part of the game's back-end run off EA's servers. So if those servers get shut off, the entire game goes with them. Have fun with that.
june gloom on 7/3/2013 at 07:54
back to cities xl then
faetal on 7/3/2013 at 09:40
Is cities XL any good? Have been eyeing them up for ages but didn't want a sub-standard Sim City.
