re: SimCity

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all the local files are stored on the server, too. not on your hard drive.

so guess what? people have already reported that the server has deleted their cities

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"Let's make sim city have good graphics. Then, we will totally frick the rest of the game."

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EA and Origin. I would expect absolutely nothing less.

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True.

So if I understand this right, you can only play this game if connected to the Internet?

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The REAL problem is the Glassbox.

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No it isn't, this is:

That's just it. Glassbox sounds amazing but we don't get to see it work without the training wheels.

When they announced the game I felt like they were almost solely focusing on glassbox. With that being the case, why did they cripple the game?

It just pisses me off that they focused on making the game easy to run (aka more players) rather than making it great.

I heard that the fate of your city is pretty much determined by your neigboring cities and the resources they provide, which is also run by another player online. Sooo, if they let their city go to shite then yours is done. Weak.

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I dont think the game is too easy, its just in the beta they made everything cheap so you could experience more of it in a shorter time period.

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I'm not saying its too easy, just that they took out some great components like the highways, regions, and larger tiles to make it run on one core. By making it run easier, they sorta dumbed the overall game down by default.

I agree though, by watering down glass box, they killed a ton of potential. I don't like the mod restriction either. That was the beauty of 4.

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Yeah..like diablo 3

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Never played that. But I really just don't like this trend of having to be constantly connected in order to play a game. What if I'm having Internet problems at home. Or, what if I go to my inlaws' place? They don't have wifi so I couldn't connect my laptop unless I had a long cord to wire myself directly into the network. Let me just play a game by myself, cut off from the rest of the world!

another ea abortion.

The game looks addicting, and the Glassbox engine is impressive. However, it looks as if the game is too much "sim" and not enough "city".

I'm rather agnostic with respect to the online DRM requirements, as it won't seem to affect me much. The microscopic size of the cities, however, does trouble me.

"SimCity" truly is a misnomer. "SimTown" or "SimVillage" would be more apt titles.

I finally got in and I don't know if I really like this game or really hate this game. The best way to put it is that the game got more real. Maxis traded away the artistic designing stuff and created a challenging game that almost demands you play by its rules. The left side of my brain is in as much glee as the right side of my brain is in agony.

City Size isn't a big problem, time on the other hand is. Cheetah speed moves horribly slow, and since you need money in your coffers to do everything, waiting for more money takes forever. If you make the most of your resource (ore, coal, oil) by the time you've spread your city among 1/2 - 3/4 of the zone you've been given, you will have enough money to be dreading expanding further.

As I leave this little review here, gaze upon my little city. It has grown to 1/4 of a million people, and is quickly running out of water, has no space for sewage, has oil wells sitting in the middle of it (go figure), has traffic that will never be solved (One of the things SC4 is 100% better for), and has such a criminal problem (mostly because of traffic) that it makes starting another city in the region a harder challenge than doing this one.


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