Rendakor
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Yea, I was really looking forward to that too since I loved Nile Online. There's one called Banished I'm looking forward to that should be out sometime in the next few months, but I was hoping for something nowish.
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Sjofn
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I hadn't heard of Banished, I'll have to keep an eye out for it!
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God Save the Horn Players
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schild
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That would be SimCity 2000.
Simcity 2000 LOOKED like future cities and had Arcologies and Microwave power plants, but beyond that your piping was still just shy of being Roman Aqueducts. |
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Trippy
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True.
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schild
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Fun fact: I have probably logged more hours in Simcity 2000 than any TWO games I've ever played put together.
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Kageru
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That would be SimCity 2000.
Last one I finished I think... 2050 might even be a good time to live in an environmentally sealed arcology. |
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luckton
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Hawkbit
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Well, that'll right the ship.
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Paelos
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The phrase too little too late doesn't seem to have enough gravitas for a fuckup like this.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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Reg
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I could have sworn that they said offline play was impossible because so much work was done in the cloud. This was shortly before an intrepid hacker showed that by commenting out two lines of code it'd run offline just fine.
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Samwise
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A modest  seems insufficient. |
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calapine
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Rise! (Sorry!)I have re-read the last 3 pages, but still can't remember if this game sucked because of all the gamebreaking bugs and connection issues or due to being fundamentally flawed. Or both at the same time. Put differently: Sim City Plus (=Standard + Expansion) is now €24,99 on Origin. Shall I buy it? 
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Rendakor
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I think it was both; I'm not sure to what degree the patches and expansion have fixed things, but I'd say anything more than $10 is a big waste of money.
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jakonovski
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For me the worst part and what ultimately broke the deal was the tiny city size. It was just impossible to do anything creative and the whole thing felt incredibly arbitrary.
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Hoax
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Ummm to answer the fundamentally flawed bits at launch the citizens would all get off work and drive to the nearest empty house, then the first one there would "go home" and all of them would drive to the next nearest house.
Cars only made right turns I think?
The whole thing was incredibly busted and bad. This game was shit for every reasons imaginable. You shouldn't pay $0 for it.
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jakonovski
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One more thing is that they banked a whole lot on the stupid multiplayer idea, but it didn't work. So you're stuck with an mp oriented infrastructure in a game that is unable to make use of it.
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Simond
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Put differently: Sim City Plus (=Standard + Expansion) is now €24,99 on Origin. Shall I buy it?  |
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Merusk
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I have re-read the last 3 pages, but still can't remember if this game sucked because of all the gamebreaking bugs and connection issues or due to being fundamentally flawed. Or both at the same time. Shall I buy it? No, don't buy. It was both bugs and DEEP errors in assumptions about gameplay and coding. The big 3 were just covered again by Hoax and Jakonovski. If you absolutely must play, then priate it. And I say that as someone who wouldn't care if the Pirate Bay founders went to prison because I'm staunchly anti-piracy. |
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Thrawn
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calapine
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Thanks all very much. I think the message here is clear.  And you guys are right too. With some (little) effort it shouldn't be too hard to find a better way to make use of ~ 33.80 USD. Altough, still. I really like the idea of a good SimCity. So much fun could have been had with that. Curse you you EA...  |
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Numtini
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Can you get the new Tropico for $30?
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Hutch
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Can you get the new Tropico for $30?
Tropico 5 is $39.99 on Steam. Today. So wait for the Summer Sale. Or the next Kalyspo sale. Or the next time EA publishes a city builder, fucks it up, and Steam puts all their city builders on sale in response  |
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Morat20
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Yeah, I'm holding off on Tropico 5 for when it's on sale too. :)
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Maledict
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I should be grateful for the launch of the latest Sim City, because that's what made me buy Tropico 4 thanks to Steam doing *exactly* that with their city builders... :)
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Khaldun
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The thing that still rankles me badly about this is that they used an idea that I think has real potential--autonomous agent AIs using something like a Maslow needs-hierarchy to structure their behavior--as a cover story for the horrible, dumb, lazy implementation of AI in the actual game.
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Hutch
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Thrawn
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But it's not a daily or flash deal yet!  |
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Hutch
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But it's not a daily or flash deal yet! Can we expect to see a better sale on this game? It was just released a month ago. |
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Thrawn
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But it's not a daily or flash deal yet! Can we expect to see a better sale on this game? It was just released a month ago. Kind of doubt it, but you never know. Although this review from Steam makes me doubtful about the game. If random guy it to be believed it's mostly just Tropico 4 but with LESS features. |
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Rendakor
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But it's not a daily or flash deal yet! Can we expect to see a better sale on this game? It was just released a month ago. Well, the rule is to wait until the end of the sale; it'll be 25% off the whole time, and it might go lower so no point in buying it now unless you can't wait a few weeks. |
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