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Sock The Great posted:Isn't SimCity structured around depending on other, nearby, cities though? Are offline folks just supposed to build more satellite cities to support their main? I'm pretty sure this is how most people were playing the game, even in online mode. Otherwise people could claim adjacent plots and just abandon them, with no way to kick them out of the region, leaving you starved for whatever resources they had.
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Who is even playing Simcity in the year of our lord 2014.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:31
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I'm like Jeff in that every time I think of SimCity, my blood pressure shoots through the loving roof.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:37
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Hey Sim City 4 is still pretty great.
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Mordiceius posted:I'm like Jeff in that every time I think of SimCity, my blood pressure shoots through the loving roof.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:45
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Mutation posted:How the hell the game got away with a 3/5 score is beyond me. Didn't they assume some of the things would be fixed?
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Jan 13, 2014 19:49
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Mutation posted:How the hell the game got away with a 3/5 score is beyond me. Still better than that first Polygon review, which IIRC used the phrase 'near-perfect' 2-3 times while describing the game's simulation engine. And they got lucky that the Xbox One's DRM stuff was so ridiculous, because holy hell was that game a giant, hot mess on absolutely every single level.
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Jan 13, 2014 19:51
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Sock The Great posted:Isn't SimCity structured around depending on other, nearby, cities though? Are offline folks just supposed to build more satellite cities to support their main? Yeah, but playing solo has always been the most reliable way to play the game. If you try to play it with friends then you run the inevitable risk of someone getting bored and abandoning their cit(y/ies) before your region's great work can be completed -- and that will happen, because the game is too terrible to sustain the interests of more than one sane person for more than a couple of days.
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ovaries posted:Yeah, but playing solo has always been the most reliable way to play the game. If you try to play it with friends then you run the inevitable risk of someone getting bored and abandoning their cit(y/ies) before your region's great work can be completed -- and that will happen, because the game is too terrible to sustain the interests of more than one sane person for more than a couple of days. Also people have to play certain roles with their cities and someone might not want to make the lovely city that's just there for surplus power or police or whatever.
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Jan 13, 2014 20:19
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"Play your loving class" -Maxis 2013
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Mordiceius posted:I'm like Jeff in that every time I think of SimCity, my blood pressure shoots through the loving roof. Fortunately, I assume that's a pretty rare occurrence.
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muscles like this? posted:Also people have to play certain roles with their cities and someone might not want to make the lovely city that's just there for surplus power or police or whatever. Don't forget the part where you either have to play by yourself and micromanage a couple of cities, or only play with people you trust because if you let random strangers into your region they can make a lovely power/police city, then demolish it and completely gently caress you over. Good thing no one on the internet is an rear end in a top hat!
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Who is even playing Simcity in the year of our lord 2014. If you're talking about the 2013 title and not the series in general, YouTube LPers. They can't get enough of that steaming pile, apparently. Must get a lot of views?
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Jan 13, 2014 20:40
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The Ouya, Sim City and Xbone gave us the best gaming experiences of 2013 without having to spend a dime.
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Hakkesshu posted:In other trainwreck news, Maxis is adding an offline mode to SimCity. How loving crazy is the story of this dumb game quote:EA stated again and again after the game’s release that taking the game offline would require “significant engineering work” because so much of its simulation was happening in my butt. What a beautiful trainwreck this has been, looking forward to 2014. 
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:The Ouya, Sim City and Xbone gave us the best gaming experiences of 2013 without having to spend a dime. Unlike, say, bulletstorm. Swagger Dagger posted:At least modders can do it now without getting banned from Origin RoadCrewWorker fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Who is even playing Simcity in the year of our lord 2014. I think there's exactly one goon in the SC thread that unironically loves the game.
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Exquisite Dead Guy posted:If you're talking about the 2013 title and not the series in general, YouTube LPers. They can't get enough of that steaming pile, apparently. Must get a lot of views? Wait seriously?  And yeah I meant the 2013 title. gently caress I hate when publishers need to have the same loving title for all of their games (I'M LOOKING AT YOU NFS HOT PURSUIT AND MOST WANTED).
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Exquisite Dead Guy posted:If you're talking about the 2013 title and not the series in general, YouTube LPers. They can't get enough of that steaming pile, apparently. Must get a lot of views? Maybe I'm being cynical, but I always figured that a lot of that was EA slinging money their way in exchange for LP series, at least for the big 1 million + subscriber guys. LPers who are usually quick to point out flaws or complain about a game seem unusually positive and enthusiastic about it.
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uPen posted:
This is the game where you win if you kill yourself right? He's found his niche.
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:The Ouya, Sim City and Xbone gave us the best gaming experiences of 2013 without having to spend a dime. Don't forget Ride to Hell. Never forget Ride to Hell. I sure won't.
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Jan 13, 2014 22:47
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Ride to Hell was just some poo poo indie game, it's not nearly on the same scale as those others.
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uPen posted:
That is not Nidhogg.  That's Demon's Souls.
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CrushedB posted:That is not Nidhogg. Load our last souls lives on 
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Jan 13, 2014 22:51
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Nidhogg looks like one of those games thats only fun playing against people in the same room as you, like Samurai Gunn or Oprah. Vinny gotta play Kings Field instead of Demon's Souls, he already beat that.
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:Load our last souls lives on
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Manatee Cannon posted:Ride to Hell was just some poo poo indie game, it's not nearly on the same scale as those others. It's one thing to be a terrible game. It's another entirely to be a very long terrible game. The other ones were more angry making, while Ride to Hell was more of a "what were they thinking?" sort of bad.
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Ride to Hell is peanuts compared to EA's entire year, especially Battlefield.
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Overbite posted:Nidhogg looks like one of those games thats only fun playing against people in the same room as you, like Samurai Gunn or Oprah. Load our Last Souls can go on hiatus until DSII comes out! In March!
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Manatee Cannon posted:Ride to Hell was just some poo poo indie game, it's not nearly on the same scale as those others. It wasn't on the same scale but it was nevertheless a hilarious trainwreck. It was the best kind of bad because all of its faults were just flat-out funny to see, rather than poo poo like Battlefield where it was less hilarious and more just...kinda expected at this point. The game was also in development hell for a long while and was published by the same company that published Saints Row and Metro, so it's not like it was some no-name game by a company nobody had ever heard of. And it gave us one of the best Quick Looks of last year.
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I'm probably totally alone but I'm considering starting Sim City up now that it's going in offline. It's dumb, I'm dumb, but I like city building and lost my SC4 discs. 
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I think Jeff was spot-on when he said Ride to Hell looks like a GTA-style clone that was a terrible disaster someone decided to patch together into something resembling a Video Game and release what they had.
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dreffen posted:I'm probably totally alone but I'm considering starting Sim City up now that it's going in offline. It's dumb, I'm dumb, but I like city building and lost my SC4 discs. Do not purchase Sim City.
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Sim City 4 goes on sale on Steam very often. Just get that.
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Yeah I don't understand why you wouldn't just buy SC4 again. You know, since it's actually a good game and isn't fundamentally broken.
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CrushedB posted:That's Demon's Souls. Ohhh gawwwwd But it's gotta be Brad, right? Vinny's beaten it already. Unless Jeff wants a go 
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Sim City is a bad game even without the bullshit online stuff, just get 4 for a fraction of the price.
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:Do not purchase Sim City. Someone had already gotten it for me ages ago because they wanted me to play with them. So I didn't have to give EA my money! TheJoker138 posted:Sim City 4 goes on sale on Steam very often. Just get that. It never occurred to me that it would be on Steam, now I'll just go ahead and buy that. Screw waiting for the sale!
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Cannot Find Server posted:It wasn't on the same scale but it was nevertheless a hilarious trainwreck. It was the best kind of bad because all of its faults were just flat-out funny to see, rather than poo poo like Battlefield where it was less hilarious and more just...kinda expected at this point. The game was also in development hell for a long while and was published by the same company that published Saints Row and Metro, so it's not like it was some no-name game by a company nobody had ever heard of. And it gave us one of the best Quick Looks of last year. You could say the same about a lot of bad games. Hatune Miku was a pretty dumb game by a big publisher with a funny quick look but I wouldn't say it's the same as Sim City. A game like that or Battlefield comes with certain expectations, Ride to Hell does not. It wasn't even canceled post release!
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