As strong as the single player is in this game, I'm really intrigued how this co-operative multiplayer aspect is going to play out.
E3 Preview: SimCity (2013)
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The Glassbox engine sounds like an interesting new take on city-simulation. However, I highly doubt the game will be able to rival the amount of content released by the innovative SC4 modding community that has been active since 2003. That's nine years' worth of content, and they're still going strong.
In terms of city simulations we have also had the awful Cities XL and DRM hobbled, DLC'd to death Anno 2070 to tide us over as well.
I just hope they don't pull another Spore and make the game way more limited than what the preview promises.
I just hope they don't pull another Spore and make the game way more limited than what the preview promises.
The zoning change makes a lot of sense actually - Whenever I played Sim City 4 and I zoned up, I'd always suffer from massive congestion issues until I upgraded the roads too, and if I tried to upgrade the roads beforehand I'd be admonished by my advisory for incurring unnecessary costs. This sounds like a very intelligent streamlining decision to me, not to get hung up on the details too much though.
+1.Frankster said:
From time to time, I considered multiplayer Sim City, then quickly realize that was a bad idea.
My city. My world. Get off my lawn.
Sim City is what made me a gamer, way back with Sim City on the SNES.
Their comment about the zones being tied to street sizes makes me...nervous. While that specific detail alone is probably innocent enough... it may reflect a design philosophy that assumes too much on the player's behalf.
I want to be able to make mistakes. I want to be able to fail at my first city without deliberately trying to fail. I also want to have full creative control. Maybe, in my grander design plans, I want a highway going through a remote region and want to throw down some low density housing to add some color. Don't assume that just because I have a highway I want apartment towers.
The multiplayer aspect makes me...hesitant as well. I'm catching a faint waft of Zynga, where you need to have active and moderately skilled friends to be your neighbors if you want your own city to do well. All this online stuff points at little to no modibility. After they banned players who modded their Mass Effect 3 games just for some quality-of-life fixes to the single player that had no impact on multiplayer... I don't see any reason why this version would be anywhere near as modable as Sim City 4.
Their comment about the zones being tied to street sizes makes me...nervous. While that specific detail alone is probably innocent enough... it may reflect a design philosophy that assumes too much on the player's behalf.
I want to be able to make mistakes. I want to be able to fail at my first city without deliberately trying to fail. I also want to have full creative control. Maybe, in my grander design plans, I want a highway going through a remote region and want to throw down some low density housing to add some color. Don't assume that just because I have a highway I want apartment towers.
The multiplayer aspect makes me...hesitant as well. I'm catching a faint waft of Zynga, where you need to have active and moderately skilled friends to be your neighbors if you want your own city to do well. All this online stuff points at little to no modibility. After they banned players who modded their Mass Effect 3 games just for some quality-of-life fixes to the single player that had no impact on multiplayer... I don't see any reason why this version would be anywhere near as modable as Sim City 4.
Initial reaction: Awesome, I always loved Simcity. There's some great potential here.
Wait, I have to be always online to play SIMCITY? A game which has before always been completely single player?
Fuck you, EA. And fuck you to everyone who bought Diablo 3.
Wait, I have to be always online to play SIMCITY? A game which has before always been completely single player?
Fuck you, EA. And fuck you to everyone who bought Diablo 3.
Hey, I actually liked sim city societies.
Yeah, fuck you, general oppenion. Fuck you to hell.
[small]And I don't need to always be connected to the internet to play it...[/small]
But seriously, wtf EA? permanet for a game that will be used mostly by a single player driven community? Dafuq?
Yeah, fuck you, general oppenion. Fuck you to hell.
[small]And I don't need to always be connected to the internet to play it...[/small]
But seriously, wtf EA? permanet for a game that will be used mostly by a single player driven community? Dafuq?
Frankly I've never run into any problems with it. In terms go giving me access to my games when I want it's even better than Steam (none of that "game is not available" crap that Steam sometimes pulls). Also get the best download speeds compared to other services. I don't mind it at all.Frankster said:
Also, doing zoning by street size is completely stupid. Highways and large roads are the death of proper urban environments. Hoping they will put subways in.
That said I'm not going to deal with always-on DRM so this is a pass for me.
This looks like it has the mechanics we've wanted for a long time.
Then suddenly: You HAVE to be online to play - What is that about?!
I'm going to just cross my fingers and hope it all turns out alright.
Then suddenly: You HAVE to be online to play - What is that about?!
I'm going to just cross my fingers and hope it all turns out alright.
I hate to be hyperbolic but that's the same thing people have said to African American's before, during, and after the Civil Rights movement.kortin said:
"If you don't like it go back to Africa."
That's a remarkably stupid outlook on just about anything.
