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First Look at the New SimCity, Coming February 2013
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They simplified pipe laying? LAME
They could have added layers of complexity to compliment modern city planning, ie. alternate forms of transport. How about a gondola? Bicycle lanes?
Just looks like more of the same with worse graphics than sim 4.
I don't agree that simplified pipe laying is "lame" since really it was so useless in Simcity 4, where you had to simply draw a grid. There wasn't any "strategy" attached to pipes before. It's great that now the game do these stuff automatically.
However, I agree with the fact that they should have moved toward more variety in term of city development, try to give us alternative to the "American Sprawl Suburb" city planning and move to something more modern and organic, and the best way to do that would be to add a lot more strategy and complexity to the way you handle transportation. Having bike lanes, "rent-a-bike" system like BIXI in Montreal, being able to create bus lanes (and not just simple bus stops), same thing with Metro and trains. Even add some "prototype" transportation system that aren't really in service. Being able to build a city with smaller street, add the possibility to have residential buildings with commerce at street level.
Basically, add variety to the way you start and build your city.
There will hopefully be a change in enforcing multiplayer and same with always online. I think they have changed it on another major game because of the demands of customers.
I guess they made it smaller to try and get people to play more than one city at a time to get them to join them up and then again force multiplayer.
I'm looking forward to getting it!
I hope they improve a lot of things over the older games. When watching that video I saw a lot of things (like joining up to the major road thing) from City Life and Cities XL. But lets hope everything is great! I want more realistic tools to build with.
Looks great fun! I'm glad they've got rid of the laying pipes and electricity wires thing. That just got irritating.
The only thing that's bugging me is that it's Origin only right now. I'll never trust an EA download service, I've been burnt by them before. I also don't like physical copies. Maybe I'll have to pirate it until it becomes available on Steam. At least then the DRM thing won't be an issue!
The only thing that's bugging me is that it's Origin only right now. I'll never trust an EA download service, I've been burnt by them before. I also don't like physical copies. Maybe I'll have to pirate it until it becomes available on Steam. At least then the DRM thing won't be an issue!
I didn't mean they would use it to play games on work time LOL. I wondered if they used it as a town planning aid to sketch out possible layouts for new housing developments, business parks, etc. I guess not.
Hopefully EA won't a fool (not the word I really want to use) and release a version in which you can buy once and you can play on both PC and Mac.
DRM? Multi-player?
That's a big NO for the single game I'd have been willing to spend my money on.
I have NO interest in multi-player. NONE. One of the most important times to be able to crack open my MBPro and play a game, is on an airplane. With persistent DRM, that's out of the question.
This is NOT the development I've hoped for. I've hoped and hoped for an update that would run on a modern Mac... and am now so sorely disappointed.
That's a big NO for the single game I'd have been willing to spend my money on.
I have NO interest in multi-player. NONE. One of the most important times to be able to crack open my MBPro and play a game, is on an airplane. With persistent DRM, that's out of the question.
This is NOT the development I've hoped for. I've hoped and hoped for an update that would run on a modern Mac... and am now so sorely disappointed.
Man, I wish there was a way to play even the old SimTower on my Mac... Is there?
That's what I was thinking. Simplification is an improvement in my opinion. If I wanted to play an overly complicated sim building game I'd play Civilization.
There is Yoot Tower for iOS (basically the same thing by a guy who worked on SimTower).
If anyone is looking for a Wine wrapper for SimCity3000, PaulTheTall has one. You need the original Windows version of the game of course.
http://www.paulthetall.com/page39/page532/page567/index.html
http://www.paulthetall.com/page39/page532/page567/index.html
Can't wait for this. I'll have to buy 2 copies since the GF wants to play also lol.
Oh and I got SimTower (Yoot Tower) last night for the ipad and can't put it down!
Oh and I got SimTower (Yoot Tower) last night for the ipad and can't put it down!
Looks like a really great new version, and native on the Mac of course. I'll definitely buy it upon release, more than 15 years after last playing SimCity on my Quadra 605..!
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Well, if this is the case, forget what I said above. I do NOT want to play what is mainly a single-player game that should NOT require constant Internet connection.
EA, you'd better revisit this before releasing it!
