15th November 2007, 3:46 PM
Aren't Crysis, Sim City Societies, and all those Guild Wars games PC exclusive?
So yeah ABF, here's the thing. This isn't new. I wouldn't jump to a conclusion of it being the entire replacement for the series. I think this is more of an off-shoot project. I myself won't be getting it, but it may make a good gift for casual gamers and the younger gamers that have trouble with more complex simulation games (such as me when I was a kid... couldn't build a city to save it's resident's lives...). I don't think it's terrible and I think there's an audience for it. I'm just not it. Another thing to consider is being able to make a city "any way you want" basically means they have to defy what actually works in the real world to allow that sort of freedom. The real world more or less requires most cities to be pretty much identical. You just can't have a city that's nothing but amusement parks but this is really not a simulation game so much as a customization sandbox. That's cool but it isn't what I'm into.
Really though, as I said this isn't new. Remember Sim Town? That was another, much older, simplification of Sim City. Again, also meant for the younger or more casual crowd. Didn't do too well actually, because back then I don't think there was much of a casual PC gaming crowd like there is today. There have always been simpler more accessible games competing with the more complex games. In the the case of simulations, I much prefer great complexity I can get lost in, so long as there's some good tutorials. Anyway, at the very least to make the distinction a little clear they should just have named it Sim Societies. Drop "city" out of there and it's roll as another spinoff becomes clear. Eh, oh well. It doesn't have a 5, and it's a totally different team, so that at least leaves an opening for another one later on. As it stands SC4 is my personal favorite in the series though.
So yeah ABF, here's the thing. This isn't new. I wouldn't jump to a conclusion of it being the entire replacement for the series. I think this is more of an off-shoot project. I myself won't be getting it, but it may make a good gift for casual gamers and the younger gamers that have trouble with more complex simulation games (such as me when I was a kid... couldn't build a city to save it's resident's lives...). I don't think it's terrible and I think there's an audience for it. I'm just not it. Another thing to consider is being able to make a city "any way you want" basically means they have to defy what actually works in the real world to allow that sort of freedom. The real world more or less requires most cities to be pretty much identical. You just can't have a city that's nothing but amusement parks but this is really not a simulation game so much as a customization sandbox. That's cool but it isn't what I'm into.
Really though, as I said this isn't new. Remember Sim Town? That was another, much older, simplification of Sim City. Again, also meant for the younger or more casual crowd. Didn't do too well actually, because back then I don't think there was much of a casual PC gaming crowd like there is today. There have always been simpler more accessible games competing with the more complex games. In the the case of simulations, I much prefer great complexity I can get lost in, so long as there's some good tutorials. Anyway, at the very least to make the distinction a little clear they should just have named it Sim Societies. Drop "city" out of there and it's roll as another spinoff becomes clear. Eh, oh well. It doesn't have a 5, and it's a totally different team, so that at least leaves an opening for another one later on. As it stands SC4 is my personal favorite in the series though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)