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Topic: SimCity is back, gaming is dead, RIP gaming. (Read 211825 times)
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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eldaec
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Yeah, its  to me because of the fact they didn't have that in place already. Only the most backward vile places in the world have 'no right turn on red' laws! The fundamental problem with this statement is that civilised countries drive on the left, so turning right on red is fairly suicidal. |
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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So "inside corner turn on red" then. Unless some other civilization doesn't use red.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Mithas
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The fundamental problem with this statement is that civilised countries drive on the left, so turning right on red is fairly suicidal.
Which side of the street do they drive on in SimCity? |
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Hutch
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The client side.
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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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Merusk
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 Yeah, its to me because of the fact they didn't have that in place already. Only the most backward vile places in the world have 'no right turn on red' laws! The fundamental problem with this statement is that civilised countries drive on the left, so turning right on red is fairly suicidal. Yep. Shining bastions of sanity and forward-thinking like Thailand, Jamaca, India, Pakistan, Suriname and Trinidad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic#Left-hand_traffic 
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Fordel
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Who knew the history of Left vs Right roads was so fascinating.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Samwise
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When Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, he specifically called out the fact that Hell had so much traffic that everyone needed to pass to one side, like Rome on a busy day: On our right hand new misery I saw,
New pains, new executioners of wrath,
That swarming peopled the first chasm. Below
Were naked sinners. Hitherward they came,
Meeting our faces from the middle point,
With us beyond but with a larger stride.
E'en thus the Romans, when the year returns
Of Jubilee, with better speed to rid
The thronging multitudes, their means devise
For such as pass the bridge; that on one side
All front toward the castle, and approach
Saint Peter's fane, on th' other towards the mount. Something I think is interesting because it implies that at that time (at least where Dante was living) that arrangement was sufficiently unusual that it would need to be explained to the listener. |
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Lakov_Sanite
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I don't think people really how incredibly overpopulated humanity is, even compared to a couple hundred years ago.
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Phred
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Yeah, its to me because of the fact they didn't have that in place already. Only the most backward vile places in the world have 'no right turn on red' laws! The fundamental problem with this statement is that backward countries that had a hard time leaving the horse and buggy behind drive on the left, so turning right on red is fairly suicidal. FTFY |
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tazelbain
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Steam has Cities XL Platinum on sale for $10.20.
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"Me am play gods"
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Reg
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Has anyone tried this lately? Is it more or less working yet?
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Kageru
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Massive DLC pack that revives the game and wins over the remaining players with the new depth it offers... just kidding, it's EA after all. 9$ for "Airship" DLC. |
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CmdrSlack
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Steam has Sim City 4 on sale for $5.99 for the next 14 hours. I know this is not a Sim City 4 thread, but I know that this one is functional.
To stay vaguely on topic, has the latest version been rendered playable yet? Is it still a total castrafuck?
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Reg
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Actually, I read a recent new review on it (I forget where) and they said the launch problems were all fixed but it was still a crappy game because of the teeny tiny cities and the awful AI that had commuters driving around aimlessly and never getting home. So it looks like all the non-launch related problems are still there and that`s enough reason to make it worth avoiding.
So I guess this will remain the only SimCity game that I`ve refused to buy since the franchise started.
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K9
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Massive DLC pack that revives the game and wins over the remaining players with the new depth it offers... just kidding, it's EA after all. 9$ for "Airship" DLC. My immediate reaction to that; why the everloving fuck does Sim City need a 'balance designer'? Fire stations OP, nerf now please? Buff highways. |
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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How else do you keep those pesky other players from griefing people's cities?
Oh right, YOU DON'T MAKE IT A GODDAMN MMO, YOU CHUCKLEFUCKS!
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Baldrake
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I just picked this up on sale at Origin.
I'm finding it awfully fun. I've never played a Sim City before, so it's all new and exciting for me.
I don't mind the small cities. I like that you can build them out in a reasonable time, and if you want a larger experience, you can found your own region and build several specialized cities that cooperate economically.
And it works flawlessly. Whatever launch problems they had are now resolved.
DLC is not worth it, btw. Even the $10 I paid for DLC roll up was too much.
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CmdrSlack
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RISE!
This is on sale on Steam right now, seems to be a deluxe version. They made additional content for this?
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I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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Hutch
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RISE!
This is on sale on Steam right now, seems to be a deluxe version. They made additional content for this?
They did not. That sale is for Sim City 4, not the Sim City MMO that EA cluster-clustered earlier this year  |
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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CmdrSlack
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For some reason, I thought the clusterfuck was 4. Meh, I got it for five bucks.
Sounds like it might actually work, too.
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I traded in my fun blog for several legal blogs. Or, "blawgs," as the cutesy attorney blawgosphere likes to call 'em.
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Sir T
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Sim city 4 is a decent game. I had a bit of fun with it but all my cities were total failures as I suck at it and finally unleash Godzilla on them out of frustration.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Malakili
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I actually liked SimCity 4 also. It ran like total garbage when your city got big if I recall, but today's PCs can probably over power the lack of optimization.
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Reg
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Yeah, I got it when it was new and my pc didn`t have the juice to run it properly. Four or five years later I reinstalled the game on a more modern system and it was awesome.
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Bzalthek
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Unfortunately, this is still a game where no matter what I do, every advisor is shouting at me "The decisions you make are bad and you should feel bad!"
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"Pity hurricanes aren't actually caused by gays; I would take a shot in the mouth right now if it meant wiping out these chucklefucks." ~WayAbvPar
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Trouble
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On sale on Origin. It's 40% off ($23.99) or 30% off ($41.99) for the Plus Edition (includes Cities of Tomorrow).
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Reg
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EA will shut down the servers long before they reduce the price to a level low enough where people might actually buy this piece of crap.
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luckton
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EA will shut down the servers long before they reduce the price to a level low enough where people might actually buy this piece of crap.
That's really the rub in even buying it at this point. Plus rabble rabble Origin sucks rabble rabble. |
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Mithas
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I don't think I'd buy it unless it got down to $10.
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Paelos
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I don't think I'd buy it unless it got down to $10.
Its not worth it at any price. |
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naum
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I don't think I'd buy it unless it got down to $10.
Its not worth it at any price. Lost many nights of sleep on the original and SC2K incantations of this but nothing about the latest edition appeals to me whatsoever. |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Kageru
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I'd like to see a sim-city that allowed you to experiment with future cities rather than just reproducing 1950's America. And given the current environment 4 (and I assume 5) almost feels like a tragedy replacing a green field with coal plants and highways so you can get suburbia happening.
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Is a man not entitled to the hurf of his durf?
- Simond
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Trippy
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That would be SimCity 2000.
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Rendakor
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Are there any decent medieval city builders?
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"i can't be a star citizen. they won't even give me a star green card"
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Sjofn
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Tilted Mill was supposedly working on one but they announced it was going "on hiatus" back in October, so ... it's not looking good for ol' Medieval Mayor.
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God Save the Horn Players
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