Link It's been way too long since we last had a proper entry in this franchise. I think I've worn SC4 down to the bone, so here's hoping SC5 is a worthy installment!
Personally I blame EA for what happened to Spore. It started out as a pretty interesting concept until the evil ones decided it needed to be more kid friendly.
I gave CitiesXL a shot recently and it's a reasonable substitute to SimCity, but the way that game handles plots is a right pain. A proper SimCity game would be most welcome.
Yeah, it could be fun. They need to approach it as a real SimCity game, though, not as something similar to SimSocieties.
I've played XL too, and it just isn't as compelling as SimCity for some reason. I just plop stuff down, and then it looks pretty. It never really feels like I'm building anything.
Tho personally I preferred Sierra's old Pharaoh and Caesar games. All the fun of city building, with the extra bonus of having to gather resources and fight off barbarians.
There goes my private life for weeks.. in this case i'm lucky i don't have a gf currently because i'd become single shortly after. Sim City is one of the games i grew up with and i'm very happy to hear we're getting a state of the art Sim City to play.. definitely looking forward to it and if the reviews are not devastatingly bad i'll pre-order as soon as possible.
I want to have high hopes for this, but between EA having their nose in it and the Sim City Societies debacle, I fear I'd be setting myself up for severe disappointment. I hope I'm surprised.
Steam drove me away from contemporary PC games, but SimCity 5 may bring me back. I'm still playing SimCity 3000.
I think you may be the only person in existence I've heard utter those words. Most people consider Steam to be the saviour of PC gaming.
Nah, there's a few anti-Steam people over at CivFanatics. I don't like having to install third-party software, I don't like having to interact with the internet to activate or play a game, and I despise the new service model developers are so fond of.
Agreed, especially the internet part, I use cracks for games I get from Steam just to avoid them. SimCity 5 (or just SimCity) trailer http://mashable.com/2012/03/07/simcity-5-2013-launch/
You clearly have access to the internet now. Is it really that difficult to access the internet to activate a game? You can play offline after that.
Isn't Steam just the distribution method? Because I avoid certain publishers that tend to make me do things like those complaints (Ubisoft or EA), but I get indie games off Steam all the time, and I used to play them offline on my netbook as well.
^ Well, at least for Civ5, it looks like you can't play it without logging into Steam. And, not to be annoying or anything, but dang it -- I should not have to do that, just to play the fripping game! Okay, maybe to register it, sure, even to install it (*grumble*), but to play? That's just ridiculous, regardless of how easy/accessible the Internet is anymore. Cheers, -CM-
I'm well aware of the criticisms of online DRM, but that's not unique to Steam (or Origin, for that matter).
Not difficult, annoying and intrusive is more like it. I don't use Steam, but I have to have it installed to activate a game I bought in a store? no thanks.